Newark College of Engineering

NJIT's ChemE Students Aim for Diversity and Success, Dazzle on Both Scores

Tuesday, March 3, 2020
At the American Institute of Chemical Engineering’s (AIChE) inaugural ChemEsports Competition in Orlando last November, Alexander Olowniuk’s eyes were fixed on the bubbling chemicals in his team’s distillation tower, a cylindrical vessel used in plants to separate volatile liquids into their pure forms at high heat.   “If we had overheated the chemicals, they would have become overexcited and then failed to separate properly. Had we not monitored other disturbances in the process, our distillation tower could have spiraled out of control and the effects been near irreversible,”...

NJIT Helps Recruit Israeli Companies to Garden State for Tech Links

Friday, February 21, 2020
Choose New Jersey, a nonprofit organization advocating for business investments in the Garden State, included an NJIT representative in its delegation visit to Israel this month. The organization sent 16 representatives from academia, business and government to meet their peers and pitch New Jersey as a good choice for U.S. operations, particularly for high-technology companies and startups. They also visited in October 2018, but this year was the first time an NJIT representative went along. NJIT is represented on the Choose New Jersey board of directors by President Joel Bloom and...

NJIT Students Make Em' Laugh at Newark Improv Festival 2020

Friday, February 21, 2020
As the great improv comic Robin Williams once said, “You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” Newark audiences enjoyed plenty of unique and entertaining moments, sparked with that little bit of madness, during the city’s annual celebration of improv theater recently. The Rutgers/NJIT Theatre Arts Program in collaboration with the local arts-based organization, Express Newark, was involved in hosting the two-day 2020 Newark Improv Festival (NIF). Diverse troupes and performers from across the U.S. arrived in Newark to showcase their improvisational...

NJIT Researchers Ready Follow-Up Investigation Bound for Int'l Space Station

Thursday, February 20, 2020
NJIT researchers will look to continue a successful string of space-bound studies at the International Space Station (ISS) when a new payload of experimental samples launches to the station with the SpaceX CRS-20 commercial cargo resupply mission on Mar. 7.  NJIT’s Boris Khusid, professor of chemical and materials engineering, and Lou Kondic, Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics, will join researchers from NASA, New York University and Streamline Automation in conducting a set of experiments, titled “ACE-T-Ellipsoids”, at the ISS to explore the fundamental science of...

NJIT Salutes Its Students With a Week of Special Festivities

Monday, February 17, 2020
It’s here! Feb. 17-21 marks the annual Student Appreciation Week at NJIT. Dozens of activities, giveaways and events will take place across campus as part of the 2020 celebration. Here, many of NJIT’s schools, centers, offices and programs express their appreciation for the students of NJIT.   "University Admissions appreciates the positive ways our students contribute to the community at NJIT.” — Admissions "We appreciate the many diverse talents, the energy and the enthusiasm of our Honors students. They are wonderful ambassadors for our university, and they are ...

Love Is in the Air: Matches Made at NJIT

Friday, February 14, 2020
They all came to NJIT for their education, but wound up moving on with more than their degree. While some knew they had met “the one” during their time at the university, others came to this life-changing realization soon after graduating. In celebration of Valentine’s Day, these alumni couples share their stories of meeting and matrimony. Roseann George and Jaison Eapen: Surmounted Conflicting Schedules and Different States Roseann (née George) ’15 (electrical engineering) and Jaison Eapen ’13, ’14 M.S. (chemical engineering) met at a Rutgers University-Newark event and...

PSEG's Ralph Izzo Talks Climate Policy at NJIT

Thursday, February 13, 2020
Ralph Izzo ’10 HON, chairman, president and CEO of PSEG, New Jersey’s largest energy provider, argued at a forum on campus this week that the country’s climate policies are ineffectual and, in some instances, even counterproductive. “There is a lot of work to do, but we’re not moving in the right direction,” he told an audience of students and faculty at the Guttenberg Information Technology Center at a talk entitled, “Five Things to Tackle Climate Change.” He said, for example, that the country - and New Jersey in particular - is failing to “maximize the value of...

Makerspace Evolving With More Room, Additional Labs, New Training

Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Changes are afoot in the campus makerspace, with plans coming together for adding new equipment and laboratories, provisioning the 10,000-square-foot expansion and developing more kinds of training. The main space opened in December 2017, replacing an older facility known at various times as Campus Manufacturing Services or Factory of the Future. It now has three full-time employees and 10-15 student workers depending on requirements and schedules. Construction for the new section should be done by the end of this semester, with an opening to follow when more staff are hired. The new...

Over 200 Employers to Look for Talent at NJIT Spring Career Fair

Monday, February 10, 2020
Jobseekers, get ready. Some 220 employers are scheduled to attend NJIT’s Spring 2020 Career Fair, to be held Feb. 26 at the university’s Wellness and Events Center. Recruitment for internships, co-ops and full-time positions will be the name of the game at the biannual event, which typically draws thousands of students and alumni in search of jobs. For employers, NJIT career fairs offer a valuable opportunity to meet prospective talent in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as well as architecture, design and other hot fields. The Walsh Group, a fourth-generation, family-...

Bridging Arts and Community: NJIT Launches Hub for Creative Placemaking

Wednesday, February 5, 2020
NJIT has announced the launch of a new initiative dedicated to the growing professional practice of creative placemaking — a field that places arts and culture at the center of community, social and economic development.  The program — the NJIT Hub for Creative Placemaking — will serve as both a professional training center and collaborative platform for NJIT faculty and students to partner with arts organizations and local artists, community planners and citizens, civic leaders, philanthropists and others interested in leveraging the arts to help shape and revitalize physical public...

Pages