U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 rankings for “Best Online Programs” are out, and NJIT realized gains in four graduate-study areas: business, information technology (IT), engineering and MBA. The rankings are the result of extensive assessments over the past year of more than 1,600 online degree programs nationwide, the highest number evaluated to date. The university rose to No. 82 out of 174 online Master of Business programs and to No. 34 out of 58 online Master of IT programs. It also moved up among online Master of Engineering programs to No. 53 out of 94, offering distance-learning…

The NJIT-Stryker Alumni Club helped local high schools kick off the new season of First Robotics on January 4, 2020.  First Robotics is a national organization that creates the requirements for robotic designs for high school teams where they build a robot and go against other regional high schools in a challenge competition event.  Stryker is a now a Mid-Atlantic First Robotics regional sponsor.  Stryker is funding and mentoring two N.J. high school teams; International High School in Paterson and Science Park High School in Newark. The NJIT-Stryker Alumni Club will be leading…

Jan. 6, 2020 -- As part of SpaceX’s CRS-19 resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched Dec. 5, researchers from NASA, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and New York University (NYU) are set to begin a new scientific investigation to explore how a group of microscopic particles considered key “building blocks” for materials and products here on Earth, known as colloidal particles, behave and form in zero-gravity. The team’s experimental payload of colloidal samples, which officially docked at the station Dec. 8, will be used to study for the…

Vatsal Shah '08, M.S. '09, Ph.D. '14, a civil engineer with Mott MacDonald who oversees the design and construction of foundations – for wind and solar farms, wastewater treatment plants, tunnels and bridges, among others – in starkly diverse landscapes from the East Coast to Texas, is the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) “Young Engineer of the Year” for 2019. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions” to both the profession and the community. Shah’s swift rise in the field is best characterized by the distinctive energy mix that has fueled it: a scholar’s interest in…

A new two-year agreement between Ocean County College and New Jersey Institute of Technology allows OCC graduates to transfer directly into NJIT colleges. The agreement went into effect on October 4, 2019 and covers NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts; Newark College of Engineering; Martin Tuchman School of Management; and Ying Wu College of Computing. In a ceremony at Ocean County College today, NJIT Provost Fadi Deek said our relationship with OCC is a special one. "NJIT’s relationship with Ocean County College is among the earliest with community colleges in New Jersey. Renewing…

To say that third-year biomedical engineering major Juliana Yang is busy is an understatement. In addition to staying on top of her course work, the Albert Dorman Honors College student is director of public relations for the university’s Student Senate, academic chair of the Beta Eta Chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon and publications coordinator at the Office of Student Life. She also is a peer tutor in the Writing Center and steers the NJIT North American Disease Intervention (NADI), “a student health organization dedicated to raising awareness of hypertension and diabetes within the NJIT and…

Nirwan Ansari ’82, a pioneer in the field of communications whose research on telecoms networks formed part of the backbone for broadband access and later FIOS networks, has been named a 2019 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Ansari, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, joins 168 new fellows from across the globe, described by the academy as “prolific academic innovators" who collectively hold more than 3,500 issued U.S. patents.They include six recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology & Innovation or U.S. National Medal of Science…

Sagnik Basuray is developing a device the size of a dollar coin that will detect cancer biomarkers in patients in remission by sampling a tiny drop of blood with a dip stick. His sensor is groundbreaking not only in its simplicity, but also in its portability. It’s meant to be used at home. “Cancer patients in remission need to be kept informed at all times about the status of their disease, so a point-of-care test that they can administer themselves makes sense,” noted Basuray, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering. “We’re designing one that is non-invasive,…

NJIT Unveils State-of-the-Art Facility to Fabricate Nanoelectronic Devices and Sensors What: Ribbon-Cutting for NJIT’s Microfabrication Innovation Center, followed by a tour of the facility When: 11 a.m., December 5, 2019 Who: Speakers to include Joel Bloom, NJIT president; Robert Cohen, chair-elect of the Board of Trustees; Atam Dhawan, senior vice provost for research, Lisa Axe, chair of the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering; Pedro Moura, senior majoring in chemical and materials engineering Where: Microfabrication Innovation Center (outside of the entrance), followed by…

The call was put out to NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) this past spring and nine Dorman Scholars answered it. Their charge was to design and construct a tap-dance board for a handi-capable wheelchair user — a patient at Mount Sinai Health System in Manhattan who would be participating along with able-bodied dancers in the inaugural performance of the nonprofit, all-abilities dance troupe, Tap: On Tap. The performance was held at the hospital Oct. 25 in observance of World Stroke Day and National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The show incorporated the Tap Dancing…