New Jersey Institute of Technology is now ranked No. 9 in the country for its department of electrical and computer engineering, according to a U.S. News & World Report study of 2,165 universities worldwide.   NJIT's top-ten result in the U.S. section of the global ranking is a point of pride for Professor Durga Misra, department chairman since 2021. Misra joined the university in 1988 and said he is most proud of the department's research collaboration and student engagement. Misra's own research involves transistors and how to stop them from leaking electricity. It becomes more…

A research paper on metal carbides and nitrides is paying dividends for NJIT’s Meng-Qiang Zhao — eight years after it was published. For the fourth straight year, Zhao, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering at NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering, has made Clarivate’s list of Highly Cited Researchers. Why? Chiefly because peers continue to cite the paper, which introduced a faster and safer way to synthesize MXenes, a family of novel 2D transition metal carbides and nitrides, according to Zhao. MXenes are promising electrode materials for next generation energy…

New Jersey Institute of Technology is the top public university in the Northeast for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. The improvement reflects NJIT's and the Martin Tuchman School of Management's dedicated focus on the importance of training students to become innovators who can positively impact society. It includes a jump of three spots to No. 4 among all Northeast schools, and up four spots to No. 30 nationally. "It validates the changes that we've made to the program, because whenever you make an improvement to a…

Three student veterans at NJIT were among the first to be awarded a new scholarship administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship, named for the long-serving Massachusetts congresswoman and steadfast advocate for veterans, provides up to nine months of additional post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, up to $30,000. Recipients must be enrolled in a STEM degree program or seeking a teaching certificate. Jaime Esquilin majored in information technology (IT) and minored in management information systems, with plans to pursue his master’s in IT…

NJIT researchers have received a $620,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to advance our understanding of the way in which soot particles from combustion of fossil fuels are driving climate change in the Earth’s atmosphere. Associate Professor of Chemistry Alexei Khalizov and Associate Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering Gennady Gor will lead the project, “A Multiscale Model for Restructuring of Atmospheric Soot Particles”. Researchers say the new three-year project aims to improve ways of describing soot nanoparticles in atmospheric models, while advancing…

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rutgers, Princeton and Stevens Institute of Technology joined to present respective research projects and explore potential areas of collaboration related to climate change, planetary and human health that would benefit the population of New Jersey and beyond. Environmental scientists, engineers, experts and government officials were invited to present and speak on a wide variety of subjects related to climate change ranging from nuclear winter and flood mitigation, to measuring community resilience and nanotechnology strategies for agriculture. Also in…

Roberto Saenz, winner of the first-ever Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC) scholarship, wants to one day be an administrator at NASA and design his own spacecraft. Saenz, a first generation Mexican-American from Union City, N.J., is majoring in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in Applied Mathematics. He’s currently in his second year at NJIT after transferring from Passaic County Community College. Although he had the opportunity to study out of state, he selected to remain in New Jersey to be close to friends and family and because NJIT offers a rigorous engineering program…

Bloomberg Businessweek hosts Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec took their show on the road and across the river to NJIT’s campus for a live panel show on sustainability. The Green Energy and Climate Adaptation Panel featured Jonathan Menard, chief research officer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab; Dena Prastos, founder of Indigo River, an environmental consulting firm; and Dr. Som Mitra, distinguished professor of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT. Click here to listen to the panel The group discussed climate change initiatives and outlooks, which included topics such as nuclear…

NJIT’s fall Career Fair — its first in-person fair since the onset of the pandemic — set dual records for attendance, with more than 2,500 students and 233 companies participating. The companies, which spanned myriad sectors, included Verizon, Pfizer, Turner Construction, Reckitt, Accenture, Barclays, Merck, Marsh McLennan, L’Oréal, Bloomberg, Prudential Financial, Colgate-Palmolive and Johnson & Johnson. Collectively, they offered some 445 jobs, internships and cooperative educational experiences, according to NJIT’s Career Development Services, organizer of the event. So, the appeal…

Engineer Michel Boufadel, one of the world’s chief experts on oil spills and a frequent consultant on cleanups, is the winner of the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Award for 2022. Denis Blackmore, a mathematician who specialized in measuring and modeling changes in a range of dynamic systems, was honored posthumously with the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Lifetime Achievement Award. Atam Dhawan, NJIT’s interim provost, called the two awardees “path-breaking researchers” who are esteemed and influential in their respective fields, but also enthusiastic collaborators who…