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 started…

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…

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 area…

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-owned…

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…

New Jersey Institute of Technology is one of the nation’s best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation and at an affordable price, according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company profiles NJIT in the recently published 2020 edition of its annual guide, The Best Value Colleges. In order to make the list, institutions must demonstrate a stellar academic program and affordability, and offer strong opportunities for career prospects after graduation. A return on an academic investment is a highly sought-after quality. “An NJIT…

As Newark races to replace thousands of lead-based pipes that feed drinking water into homes, the city faces another urgent challenge: stopping the heavy metal from leaching into the water supply while the massive remediation effort is underway. And that’s where NJIT’s environmental engineers come in. To mitigate exposure over the life of the project, which is expected to take up to 30 months, a research team is working with the city to develop and test chemical methods to prevent lead-shedding corrosion in as many as 18,000 service lines that stretch from the water main located under…

*As previously published in the Star-Ledger and nj.com As our civilization evolves, so do our expectations of technology. Together, they demonstrate how dramatic advances in robots, nanotechnology-enabled sensors and high-powered computing will continue to change and evolve our society. Importantly, many of these technologies, including smart robots, point-of-care devices and machine intelligence, will empower individuals to enjoy their lives more purposefully. Here is my list of new goalposts for the next decade in three spheres: health care, environmental sustainability and technology-…

The Department of Public Safety at NJIT has been ranked sixth nationwide for its campus safety initiatives. The recognition comes from Safe Campus, an independent organization that strives to improve the overall safety and security of U.S. college and university students, and annually rates campuses across the country for their safety measures. 2020 marks the third consecutive year that NJIT placed among the Top 25 of eligible U.S.-accredited higher-education institutions — 4,298 this time around. “It is both a privilege and an honor to be recognized for making a difference in student safety…

Durgamadhab Misra is the newest member of NJIT's Newark College of Engineering to become a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Misra won the prestigious award for his ongoing research on preventing transistors from leaking electrons. Every time a transistor leaks an electron, it wastes battery life or hurts performance. Specifically, Misra devoted the last 15 years of his career to studying the reliability of what engineers call high-k dielectrics. The term refers to a material's dielectric constant, which is a measure of its ability to insulate…