Newark College of Engineering

Sohail Mohammed '88, Tech-Savvy Judge, Helps Usher in COVID-Era Virtual Courtrooms

Tuesday, May 26, 2020
On March 15, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner suspended in-person proceedings in New Jersey Superior Court, giving the judiciary two days to prepare for virtual courtrooms. By that afternoon, Passaic County Superior Court Judge Sohail Mohammed, ’88, a former electrical engineer and technology enthusiast, had already established one in the basement of his house. His real work began the next day, however. In Zoom conferences with about 150 people, Mohammed began teaching fellow judges, law clerks and attorneys the mechanics of conducting cases by phone, tablet and videoconference – how to conduct...

Senior Success: Josh Gallic Launches Career at Valcor Engineering

Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Mechanical engineering student and Albert Dorman Honors Scholar Josh Gallic will graduate this semester and has a job offer from Valcor Engineering to be a junior design engineer. At his post, Josh will be designing valves for space missions. Josh had been introduced to Valcor Engineering through one of NJIT's Career Development Service career fairs and landed an internship during his junior year, and found the company and industry to be very exciting. Josh was also a member of NJIT's Baja SAE racing team. The Baja team designs, builds, and competes an off-road race car at competitions...

Students' Unique Platform for Face-Shield Production Hits Close to Home

Friday, May 15, 2020
For the students behind The CommonHealth Project — a collaborative, community-based initiative aimed at rallying volunteers for production and distribution of urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE) — the pandemic is deeply personal. Mark Pothen ’22, a mechanical engineering major at NJIT, for example, hears stories from his mother, a physician working on the front line at Mountainside Hospital. Adé Kolade ’23, an Honors scholar who is studying electrical engineering, is the son of a doctor and a public health nurse-turned nursing professor. And Ruth Fiore ’21, a biomedical...

Senior Success: Greg Tanis to Join L3Harris as a Systems Engineer

Wednesday, May 13, 2020
As a third-generation Highlander, mechanical engineering student and Albert Dorman Honors Scholar Greg Tanis looks forward to joining L3Harris as a systems engineer and takes a minute to reflect on his time at NJIT. Congratulations, Greg!  

Senior Success: The Skyline Soars on Engineer Niyam Shah's Horizon

Friday, May 8, 2020
For his senior capstone project, Niyam Shah went big: The civil engineering major and his teammates designed a 40-story commercial tower with a thick concrete core and X-patterned steel bracing for an empty lot on Manhattan’s building-jammed West Side. “The core supports the building, but the higher up you go, the more the building tilts, so we added steel to brace against wind forces,” said Shah, who is this year’s “Outstanding Senior” for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and a keen designer. The team chose a commercial building, with its 15-ft.-high ceilings,...

NJ Public Universities Join to Launch Initiative to 'Bring Students Home'

Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Ten public universities and colleges in New Jersey have joined forces and issued a call for the over 100,000 state residents who attend higher education institutions out-of-state to return home, enroll in New Jersey institutions, and help rebuild the state as part the New Jersey Scholar Corps program. The participating four-year institutions in the NJ Come Home Program are New Jersey Institute of Technology, Montclair State University, Rowan University, Kean University, New Jersey City University, Ramapo College, Stockton University, The College of New Jersey, Thomas Edison State...

Engineering Student Lands J&J Co-op, Named NJIT's Intern of the Year

Wednesday, April 29, 2020
When Jeremy Bedient was navigating Career Development Services’ (CDS) Spring 2019 Career Fair, seeking a co-op with Johnson & Johnson was nowhere on his radar. But at the moment he passed by the company’s supply-chain booth and saw there was no line, he figured “why not” and took advantage of the opportunity to network with the recruiter. They wound up engaging in a great conversation about Six Sigma, and Bedient was invited to interview for a spot later that week. With help in preparing for the meeting from his Alpha Kappa Psi brothers, he aced the interview and landed a six-month, newly...

May 5 Is Deadline for Ordering Commencement Regalia

Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Class of 2020 graduates have until this Tuesday, May 5, to order their Commencement regalia and have it shipped to them. Wearing Commencement regalia is necessary to participate in NJIT’s virtual Commencement ceremony, to be held Friday, June 12. Students are urged to visit the Commencement website for details on ordering Commencement regalia. The website provides additional important information, including the deadlines for students to submit the correct pronunciation of their name, as well as photos and videos. The website will be continually updated prior to Commencement.

NJIT 2020 Goldwater Scholar Class Among Largest In U.S.

Thursday, April 16, 2020
NJIT undergrads continue to earn the nation’s top academic honors, the latest being a new university record of four students named Goldwater Scholars this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The scholarship is recognized among the country’s most prestigious for STEM undergraduates pursuing research careers. This year’s NJIT Goldwater Scholar class, doubling last year’s total, is the largest from any academic institution in New Jersey and equals second-most across the nation, beating out universities such as Columbia University (3),...

With an NSF RAPID Grant, NJIT Engineers Build a New Model to Track COVID-19

Tuesday, April 14, 2020
A team of environmental engineers at NJIT is developing a new way to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, by combining advanced statistical methods with models that incorporate environmental conditions, such as wind speed, temperature and social distancing. To date, modelers are largely tracking the growth in the number of cases and adjusting their projections as the numbers change, attributing flattening curves, for example, to social measures. With funding from a National Science Foundation RAPID (Rapid Response Research) grant, the NJIT team is creating a model that...

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