Newark College of Engineering

Engineer Nick DeNichilo Creates Resilient Infrastructure for a Volatile Century

Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Nicholas DeNichilo ’73, M.S. ’78 marveled as a child at the construction equipment that brought buildings, bridges and highways to life before his eyes. Decades later, he still feels that magic. Comments such as “green energy is so exciting” regularly punctuate conversations about his daily work. As the president and CEO of engineering giant Mott MacDonald, North America, DeNichilo now takes on transportation, water and energy infrastructure projects made vastly more complex by resiliency problems such as climate change and earthquakes. In Los Angeles, for example, his firm is designing...

NJIT's Hydrogen-Powered Hy-Lander Wins the Poster Competition in the Chem-E-Car Finals

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
NJIT’s Chem-E-Car team, developers of the self-driving, hydrogen-powered Hy-Lander, won first place this past weekend for their poster in the championship round of the international student competition. In the poster round, judges look for in-depth knowledge of the car’s mechanisms from every team member, design uniqueness, which the Hy-Lander had in abundance, and major changes, rather than superficial tinkering, from previous models. The judges also scrutinize cars’ financing, as the contest imposes no limits on what the college teams can spend. The Hy-Lander crew...

An NJIT Engineering Team Wins an Edison Patent Award for Sustainability

Sunday, November 15, 2020
A team of NJIT engineers won a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award in the sustainability category from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for a resilient water treatment system that can run on waste heat or low-grade energy. The team was among 60 honorees at the Council’s virtual awards ceremony Friday night, themed “Transforming Hope into Action.”  Their system distills dirty or ocean water in a chamber that separates pure water from particles, such as salts or metals, through evaporation. It requires neither filters nor membranes, which degrade over time and...

Technology VIPs, Including an Internet Pioneer, Visit NJIT for Inspiration

Friday, October 30, 2020
TTI/Vanguard, a prestigious organization of technology industry executives who meet a few times each year to study and debate emerging innovations, chose to virtually visit New Jersey Institute of Technology this week for their latest intellectual retreat. The group's members, through exposure to wide swaths of cutting-edge technology research, advise their clients and employers about what directions to follow for commercialization and investment opportunities. The visit of 58 thought leaders from academia, corporations and government agencies — including Internet pioneer Leonard...

A Newly Minted NJIT Engineering Professor is Named a Fellow of the Academy of Optometry

Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Chang Yaramothu '13H MS '14 Ph.D. '17, a biomedical engineer who develops diagnostic and therapeutic devices for concussion-related vision disorders, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry just two months after joining the NJIT faculty as an assistant professor of engineering technology. As a postdoctoral researcher in engineer Tara Alvarez’s laboratory at NJIT, Yaramothu designed novel concussion diagnosis procedures using eye movements and virtual reality (VR) headsets in pediatric populations. He focuses on three metrics – the number of eye movements, balance and...

Three-Time NJIT Alum and Medtech Leader Robert C. Cohen Named New NJIT Board of Trustees Chair

Thursday, October 22, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is pleased to announce that Robert C. Cohen ’83, ’84, ’87, of Basking Ridge, NJ, has been appointed Chair of its Board of Trustees. Cohen succeeds Stephen P. DePalma ’72, who stepped down after a distinguished seven-year term.  Cohen has formed a close lasting connection with NJIT as a three-time alum and as an influential member of the university’s leadership, offering strategic guidance through his service on NJIT’s board since 2018, as well as on the Newark College of Engineering’s Board of Visitors and Alumni Association Board of...

Q&A with NJIT's BoT Chair and Stryker's President of Digital, Robotics, and Enabling Technologies

Friday, October 16, 2020
This month, three-time NJIT alum and new Board of Trustees Chair Robert C. Cohen ’83, ’84, ’87 was promoted to President of Digital, Robotics and Enabling Technologies at Stryker Corporation, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies, with facilities in N.J.  Alongside his longstanding connection to NJIT — serving on Newark College of Engineering’s Board of Visitors for over 10 years before joining the Board of Trustees in 2018 and becoming chair this year — Cohen has forged an exemplary career at the intersection of technology and medicine,...

New Admissions Option Will Increase Honors Student Enrollment

Friday, October 16, 2020
Albert Dorman Honors College welcomed more than 70 additional students this year as part of a new program called Dean's Scholars, designed to allow for a more robust honors education across campus. The program admits scholars from the College of Science and Liberal Arts, Hillier College of Architecture and Design, Martin Tuchman School of Management, Newark College of Engineering and Ying Wu College of Computing each year who desire the rigor of an honors education within their academic discipline. Dean's Scholars pursue a minimum of three honors-only courses within their degree-...

NJIT's Fall Career Fair Becomes a Fully Online Experience

Tuesday, September 15, 2020
The handshakes will be virtual at this fall’s career fair at NJIT. In fact, the entire fair will take place online via Handshake, the career networking platform that the university uses to match employers with students seeking jobs, internships and co-operative education opportunities.  More than 115 companies, government agencies and nonprofits are participating in the fair, which will take place Sept. 25 from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Among the participants are Facebook, Colgate-Palmolive, Merck, CenturyLink, the FBI, General Dynamics, Turner Construction, the New York State...

WELCOME BACK: As Students Return for the Fall, Campus Vibrancy Follows

Tuesday, September 1, 2020
As students converged on NJIT for the first day of the fall semester, they acknowledged the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, chief among them, of course, mask-wearing. Nevertheless, they relished the chance to resume classes and reconnect with friends. “It feels different but I appreciate it all because, at the end of the day, the goal is to just stay healthy,” said Emmanuel Odekunle, a biology major and student in the Albert Dorman Honors College. The challenge, he added, is to stay focused amid the necessary changes. Or as he put it, to “make sure that I don’t relent, that...

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