Newark College of Engineering

NJIT VentureLink Inventors Fortify Weak Links in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Friday, October 18, 2019
The surge in mail-order drug deliveries, amid rising temperatures and climate volatility, presents a growing challenge to the security of the pharmaceutical supply chain. Every time vaccine is subject to excessive heat or cold, for example, its potency may be diminished, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A single exposure to freezing temperatures can destroy a batch entirely. As can excessive heat. Earlier this year, a doctor in Australia reported to ABC News that she’d jettisoned an entire shipment of vaccines, including for meningitis, for the third year...

Entrepreneur Society Visits 10 Burgeoning Businesses in a Single Day

Tuesday, October 8, 2019
They headed out at 8 a.m. on a Friday in September for a whirlwind excursion of Manhattan-based startups, accelerators, incubators and venture capital firms. And after traversing the city, between midtown and downtown, they returned to NJIT at day’s end with a firsthand view and better understanding of the world of entrepreneurship. The group of 15 Highlanders — students from the university’s Martin Tuchman School of Management, Ying Wu College of Computing and Newark College of Engineering — were treated to tours and discussions during the trip, a first-of-its-kind for the Entrepreneur...

A Pioneer in Automation Receives NJIT's 2019 Excellence in Research Award

Friday, October 4, 2019
MengChu Zhou, a pioneer in automation science and engineering who optimizes systems, from manufacturing, to data centers, to transportation, to glean efficiencies and improve outcomes, is this year’s winner of NJIT’s Excellence in Research award. Zhou, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, uses Petri nets – mathematical models that track discrete events in distributed systems – plus the internet of things, big data analysis and machine learning to build smart systems. He is currently working on information and control flows in semiconductor manufacturing that will...

NJIT Planned Its First Computer Lab 65 Years Ago, Used for Dissertations

Monday, September 30, 2019
There were no digital computers at NJIT, known as Newark College of Engineering, in 1960. This was not a unique situation. Most computers in 1960 were room-sized beasts performing logic through vacuum tubes. A few companies made smaller machines, when small was a relative term meaning something about the size of a Mini Cooper. Large universities at that time might lease a mainframe, but most organizations including Newark College of Engineering instead purchased punch-card accounting systems for administrative use, along with mechanical terminals called teletypes to access...

Dealing a Therapeutic Counterblow to Traumatic Brain Injury

Thursday, September 26, 2019
A blow to the head or powerful shock wave on the battlefield can cause immediate, significant damage to a person’s skull and the tissue beneath it. But the trauma does not stop there. The impact sets off a chemical reaction in the brain that ravages neurons and the networks that supply them with nutrients and oxygen. It is the secondary effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI), which can lead to long-term cognitive, psychological and motor system damage, that piqued the interest of a team of NJIT biomedical engineers. To counter them, they are developing a therapy, to be injected at the...

Powering Up the Navajo Nation: Glenn Steiger '70, '87

Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Glenn Steiger ’70, '87 is helping the Navajo Nation see the light — literally. Steiger currently is the executive consultant for the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA), providing professional oversight to NTUA’s major generation, power supply and transmission initiatives. As project director for the Kayenta Solar Project in Arizona, he has played an integral role in the development, construction and operation of the Kayenta I and Kayenta II Solar Facilities. Kayenta I is the first utility-scale solar project on the Navajo Nation reservation or on any Indian reservation within the...

Top 100 National Intern Elijah Mathew Talks Summer with Stryker

Thursday, September 19, 2019
Mechanical engineering major, Elijah Mathew, spent his summer interning with Stryker. Through NJIT's career fair, Elijah found the operations intern position and has earned a spot on the Top 100 Intern list on nationalinternday.com.  

NJIT is Number 2 on College Factual's List of Best Civil Engineering Programs Nationwide

Tuesday, September 17, 2019
For the second year in a row, the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) program at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is ranked number two in the nation by College Factual, a data analytics and research company that focuses on outcomes. Only Georgia Tech is ranked higher on the list of 206 programs evaluated, while MIT is third. The university’s CEE program is ranked number one in the country for veterans, and in the top 20 for popularity and graduates’ earnings. In its 2020 report, the company described NJIT as “among your best bets if you're planning on studying...

Getting the Job: NJIT Students Share Their Career Fair Know-how

Monday, September 16, 2019
According to NJIT Career Development Services’ most recent annual report, almost one-fifth of undergrads from the Class of 2018 who reported full-time employment indicated an NJIT career fair as their source. That figure certainly demonstrates the value of students attending the fair, to both mingle with prospective employers and leave a lasting impression on recruiters. But vital to the mix in landing a position is preparedness. With the Fall 2019 Career Fair just around the corner — Wednesday, Oct. 2, at NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center — these Highlanders, who scored internships...

Already Distinguished, Twin Sisters Are Ready for Further Success at NJIT

Wednesday, September 11, 2019
One is studying computer science at NJIT, the other biomedical engineering, but they both join the university as Mayor’s Honors Scholars. Samara and Samantha Augustin — freshmen at Ying Wu College of Computing and Newark College of Engineering, respectively — are among the first recipients of the full scholarship, a partnership of NJIT, the city of Newark and the Newark Board of Education to create a pipeline between Newark Public Schools and NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College. Graduates of Science Park High School, the Augustins were involved there in a variety of extracurricular...

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