Newark College of Engineering

Computing Grad Student Adapts Leading-Edge Tech for Drone and Robot Vision

Monday, May 23, 2022
If you can envision a future where robots need eyeglasses to accurately deliver packages and safely perform dangerous missions, then Craig Iaboni would be your local android optician. Until then, Iaboni is pursuing an M.S. in computer science at NJIT by coding new kinds of neural networks and using cutting-edge architectures to help electronic beings better see the world around them. Iaboni originally studied political science at Hofstra University but decided he prefered programming, so he transferred to a community college and then to NJIT, where he now shares his coding skills in a...

Eclectic NJIT Engineering Grad Will Andrews to Study International Development in Dublin

Thursday, May 19, 2022
The bachelor’s that Donald “Will” Andrews earned at New Jersey Institute of Technology is in industrial engineering, but his heart is in international development. The 2022 graduate’s interest in global issues traces back to high school, when he participated in the Model United Nations, and accelerated after his second year at NJIT, when he tackled a Humanity in Action Fellowship that examined democracy and pluralism in modern Germany in the context of the Holocaust. The summer 2020 fellowship was to take him to Berlin, but alas, COVID-19 shifted it to Zoom instead. Now, his sights are...

Senior Success: Published Researcher Marcos Molina to Pursue PhD at Princeton

Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Marcos Molina, a chemical engineer with a penchant for complicated algorithms, made a tough call when deciding among Ph.D. programs at several graduate Ivy League institutions. In the end, he chose to pursue theoretical and computational research at Princeton. “It allows me to be closer to family and friends, and I enjoyed the atmosphere when I visited,” said Molina, who has been a star researcher in Professor Gennady Gor’s research laboratory.  Gor recognized his potential even as a first-year student and Molina hit the ground running. His very first project led to what student...

NJIT's Class of 2022 Urged to Seize the Opportunities Presented by Crises

Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Crisis presents opportunity, and given the pandemic, war in Ukraine, structural racism, climate change and questions around the world’s supply of energy, food and water, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson called on the Class of 2022 at New Jersey Institute of Technology to take on such challenges with the goal of improving lives. “The possibilities before you are very great. The needs of humanity also are very great. And we are counting on you to help us meet them,” said Jackson, who has led RPI since 1999. “So, as you go about your lives and your careers, let...

Walking with Paralysis

Friday, May 13, 2022
Strapped into an exoskeleton, Damyane Evely strode heavily back and forth across a 15-foot platform, taking an occasional peek at a monitor on the wall to survey his progress — and to silently marvel. It had been more than 15 years since his spinal cord was compressed in a motorcycle accident, landing him in a wheelchair. He was relishing his verticality. Last December, Evely was the first person in the U.S. with a spinal cord injury to test the new, self-balancing Wandercraft Atalante, a third-generation exoskeleton with 12 degrees of freedom that is designed to more closely approximate...

Students Earn High Marks in a Return to Engineering Competitions

Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Students from NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering have earned first, second and third place recognitions across steel bridge, chemical car and concrete canoe events held for inter-institutional competition. The steel bridge regional competition made its return for the first time since COVID restrictions canceled the event in 2020 and 2021, and NJIT took home first place in the Metropolitan Region in the Construction Speed and Stiffness categories.  Team members include Kayden Bevando, Pedro Bandeira, Michael Brusca, Diego Cabrera, Vincent Campanella, Joel Florim, Thomas Hickey,...

Senior Success: Computer Engineer Suraj Ghumwala Joins U.S. Space Force

Thursday, May 5, 2022
Suraj Ghumwala will soon be the first cadet from NJIT's ROTC detachment commissioned into the U.S. Space Force. The computer engineering major from Rochelle Park said his childhood dream was to be an astronaut, and as the first person in his family born in the U.S. he felt a sense of service to the community, influenced by friends who also joined the military. Ghumwala chose NJIT because of its strong academics, affordability, commuting distance and diversity, and he truly felt a sense of belonging in his second semester when he switched from computer science to computer...

Leader of the House Sees STEM in Action at NJIT

Thursday, April 28, 2022
The Assistant Speaker of the House of Representatives visited New Jersey Institute of Technology to get a closer look at how STEM education and research fuels the economic mobility of the city, region and country. U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-MA-05, toured NJIT’s Makerspace — the largest in the state — and heard from the university’s president-elect, senior vice provost of research, deans and representatives of its engineering and business schools, and its director of experiential learning. Collectively, they explained how a blend of STEM education, research and entrepreneurship primes...

Mark Pothen, Mechanical Engineer, Working in Health Care

Monday, April 25, 2022
Techies call it the hands-on imperative — that the best learning is by doing — and the concept is something Mark Pothen, a mechanical engineering major, takes to heart. Pothen worked part-time this academic year as a business analyst for health care startup Axuall Inc., where he'll become an associate product manager after graduating from NJIT. Most engineers tell their story of growing up a tinkerer, whether it's electronics, Legos or just taking things apart to see how they work. Not so with Pothen, raised in diverse Teaneck, where his parents pushed him to study medicine and he...

NJIT-Designed Mobile Medical Unit Deployed In Queens to Tackle Rising COVID Cases

Monday, April 25, 2022
A mobile medical care unit (M2CU) designed for COVID testing and vaccination is now seeing patients in a part of Queens where the infection rate is more than twice as high as in the rest of the borough. This month, Governor Kathy Hochul, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Martin Tuchman of the Tuchman Foundation, Oya Tukel of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) Martin Tuchman School of Management, and the New York City Housing Authority unveiled the city’s first implementation of the M2CU in Astoria Houses.  The M2CU project was conceived in response to challenges to clinical...

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