Newark College of Engineering

60+ Educators, 24 Campers and 1 Astronaut: A Special NJIT Pre-College Day

Friday, July 27, 2018
July 19 was an especially busy day for NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP). Not only was CPCP overseeing its various summer offerings taking place across campus, it was also welcoming educators in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to a special forum that intertwined a bit with students attending the annual Bernard Harris Summer STEM Camp (BHSSC). Before the forum’s keynote speaker and camp namesake Dr. Bernard Harris — a former astronaut, CEO of the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) and CPCP Advisory Board member — stepped up to the podium, a foursome...

NJIT's 11th International Undergraduate Research Symposium

Friday, July 27, 2018
  Plants that absorb pernicious pollutants from the air itself? Ujjwala Rai ’19, a chemical engineering major, has spent the summer studying bacteria found in the root systems of plants that can remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs), industrial compounds emitted by ubiquitous products such as paints and fuels, into the atmosphere. To better understand how these bacteria can thrive in a variety of soil-less media, she has worked closely with professors from the College of Architecture and Design (CoAD) and the Department of Chemical Engineering. Anthony Yacoub ’19, an industrial...

NJIT-Led Research Team Records Blazing-Fast Changes of Metal Nanofilms

Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Traditionally, many engineers and developers of solar cell technology have turned to crystalline silicon — a tried and tested material absorber capable of efficiently converting solar radiation to electricity at just four times the thickness of a strand of hair. At up to a 100th the thickness of a hair strand, nano-thin metal films offer an even more cost-effective and flexible material alternative, holding promise in the future development of everything from solar power to sensor technology.  However, metal nanofilms are currently more complicated to use as material...

Honors College Debuts Program Promoting Undergraduate Research

Thursday, July 12, 2018
Chemical engineering major Jennifer Callaghan is spending her summer on the NJIT campus working to help define the next generation of ballistic materials. Laura Gould, an architecture student, is also at the university during the summer break, using Google Street View to study the correlation between urban infrastructure and the use and creation of sacred space in Italy. As NJIT researchers, as well as Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) scholars, both Gould and Callaghan are participating in the inaugural Honors Summer Research Institute. The eight-week program, launched in early June,...

Fiske Guide to "Best and Most Interesting" Colleges Features NJIT

Tuesday, July 10, 2018
NJIT, one of the few public polytechnic institutes in the Northeast, is once again included in the latest edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges — a subjective and selective reference tool that systematically reviews over 300 colleges in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. For more than 30 years, millions of students, parents, and guidance counselors have relied on the Fiske Guide to Colleges to present the best and most interesting schools during their college search. Compiled by former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske, the guide features select colleges based on a broad range...

NJIT Researchers Aim to Build Brain-Inspired Computing Systems

Friday, July 6, 2018
Two NJIT researchers, working with collaborators from the IBM Research Zurich Laboratory and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, have demonstrated a novel synaptic architecture that could lead to a new class of information processing systems inspired by the brain. The findings are an important step toward building more energy-efficient computing systems that also are capable of learning and adaptation in the real world. They were published in a paper in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers, Bipin Rajendran, an associate professor of electrical and computer...

Look Who's Back! Alumni Return to NJIT as Recruiters

Tuesday, July 3, 2018
The Spring 2018 Career Fair held this past February at NJIT’s new Wellness and Events Center (WEC) was alumna Whitney Randolph’s first time back on campus since she graduated from the university with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering in 2017. The reason for her visit was not to look for a job, but rather to find job candidates, as a recruiter for her employer, Getinge. Randolph is a production engineer at the global medical technology company. “Being on the other side…I was anxious, I was excited, I was nervous,” she said of the experience. “But being in the WEC was absolutely...

Who's Who? NJIT's Atam Dhawan!

Friday, June 29, 2018
Dr. Atam P. Dhawan, NJIT’s senior vice provost for research, received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who, the nearly 120-year-old publisher of biographies, for his leadership in the fields of engineering and higher education. The award recognizes people who have “achieved greatness” in their industry, excelling for at least 20 years. As a researcher, Dhawan, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT and a pioneer in the field of point-of-care technologies in healthcare, focuses on optical imaging devices....

NJIT Undergraduate Applications Jump 12 Percent Over Last Year

Monday, June 25, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is bucking an undergraduate admissions trend. While many universities are failing to hit recruitment targets and/or reducing their standards for admission due to sharp regional and national declines in the traditional college-aged population, NJIT has seen noteworthy growth this year in both applications and the average SAT score of those applicants. In fact, NJIT's applications for undergraduate admission for Fall of 2018 have grown 12% over last year (33% among out-of-state students) and the average SAT score for the incoming class...

A Gathering of Go-getters: NJIT Celebrates 2017-2018 Scholarship Recipients

Friday, June 15, 2018
The competition for scholarships and fellowships grows fiercer every year. Still, there’s good news: At NJIT, students are increasingly receiving notable awards that provide opportunities to do research, study abroad (both, in certain cases) and more. Just as the spring 2018 semester was coming to a close, a small reception was held in Eberhardt Hall to congratulate the university’s scholarship and fellowship recipients over the past year. While some have completed their assignments, others are either in the midst of or preparing for them. Here, we meet a few of the winners. Axel...

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