Newark College of Engineering

Celebrating NJIT's Women's Leadership and Employee Resource Group

Thursday, March 28, 2024
NJIT has established employee resource groups (ERG) that meet regularly and encourage faculty and staff to connect outside of their direct working relationships. This month, NJIT is celebrating its Women’s Leadership and Employee Resource Group and publishing an employee spotlight on one of its members: Miosotis Hernandez, assistant director for first year engineering programs in Newark College of Engineering. Can you introduce us to your ERG? MH: I am co-chair of the Women’s Leadership ERG and our mission is to offer a safe, confidential and supportive community that aims to make NJIT...

Young Minds Bring Health, Wellness Innovation to NJIT's eSTEM Challenge

Thursday, March 28, 2024
The excitement was palpable at NJIT’s fourth annual Elementary STEM Challenge (eSTEM) — an event that recently brought scores of 3rd-5th grade students to campus to show off tech innovations they’ve been designing for weeks to enhance health and wellness in their communities.  There was plenty of friendly competition at this year’s event, organized by NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) and Newark College of Engineering. More than 150 students from 28 teams presented at the university Campus Center, nearly doubling participation from last year. “We were so excited to have...

Chief Engineer of Port Authority NY/NJ Rizwan Baig Visits NJIT

Thursday, March 21, 2024
Rizwan Baig, chief engineer of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, visited NJIT to give a presentation on building the 21st-century transportation system. His talk, covering the architectural, design, construction and asset management aspects of the agency, highlighted the agency’s plan to revitalize infrastructure that is essential to economic growth and vitality. Baig is a transportation industry leader with over 35 years of extensive engineering leadership experience. In 1990, he began his career with the Port Authority as a junior engineer, and now serves as the chief...

Two NJIT Research Groups Awarded as Part of $1.2M EPA P3 Program

Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Two NJIT projects have been awarded as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Program. The $1.2 million program funded 16 different student-based projects throughout the country to research and develop innovative solutions that address environmental and public health challenges. The NJIT projects will tackle water quality and the detection of “forever chemicals” in the air.  Phosphorus removal, recovery and reuse Ph.D. student Lai Wei is working alongside principal investigators professors Lijie Zhang and Wen Zhang on...

Apple Highlights Stryker, an NJIT Alum's Medical Tech Group, for VisionPro App

Friday, March 15, 2024
Robert Cohen, a three-time New Jersey Institute of Technology alumnus and current chair of the university’s Board of Trustees, leads a digital, robotics and enabling technology division at medical technology firm Stryker Corp. that grabbed Apple’s attention this month for its work with the new VisionPro mixed-reality headset. VisionPro headsets put screens and software directly in front of a physician’s eyes. Stryker’s Vision Pro application is called MyMako. It lets surgeons plan and simulate pre-planning for robot-assisted knee replacement operations before they happen, and view the...

PhD Graduate Jorge Alberto Medina's Passion for Electronics Started in his Native Honduras

Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Jorge Alberto Medina '23 grew up with electronics. He recalls watching his dad disassemble and rebuild electronic equipment, and leafed through stacks of monthly electronics magazines as his light reading material. The exposure grew into a passion, and Medina set his sights on a journey that ultimately brought him to NJIT. In his native Honduras, Medina studied electrical engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras. He obtained his master's degree in Sweden at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, where he studied electrical engineering with an emphasis on...

$265K Awarded to NJIT Researchers Via New Jersey Health Foundation Grants

Thursday, February 29, 2024
Six NJIT researchers have secured grants in the latest round of funding provided by the New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF), which has increased its funding in both its Community Health, Social Services and Education Program, as well as its traditional research program this year. The $4 million round of funding brings the NJHF’s total to $70 million since the inception of its annual grant program. Researchers from NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering and College of Science and Liberal Arts make up the awardees, with projects spanning innovative bone regeneration processes to research on...

Ingenuity of NJIT's Budding Engineers Spotlighted at NCE Showcase

Friday, February 23, 2024
Recently, the ingenuity of Newark College of Engineering’s brightest first-year students was on full display at the 2024 NCE First Year Engineering Design Showcase. Forty-two teams featured in this year’s showcase to present a wide range of innovative engineering projects originating from their fall semester introductory engineering design course — from prosthetic limbs and exoskeleton knee braces built at NJIT’s Makerspace, to traffic light clocks for improving intersections on campus, temperature-controlled fans, home security systems and more. The friendly competition, which first...

US News Ranks NJIT Top 100 in Two Online Master's Programs

Wednesday, February 7, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology continues to be recognized nationally by U.S. News & World Report for its online master’s offerings in information technology, engineering and business. For 2024, NJIT earned two rankings inside the top 100: No. 31 for its online master’s in information technology and No. 61 for its online master’s in engineering. In addition, the university saw two other online programs make lists for the best in the U.S.: its master’s in business and its MBA. The national recognition reflects NJIT’s longstanding practice of offering students multiple options for...

NJIT Featured on Amazon Prime Video Series 'The College Tour en Español'

Tuesday, January 30, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology is featured in the premiere season of “The College Tour en Español,” a new series from Emmy-nominated producers, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Hosted by Lorena Segura, “The College Tour en Español” travels the country, showcasing colleges and universities through the unique lens of Spanish-speaking students on today's campuses. Each episode offers an intimate view of college life, allowing the entire Spanish-speaking population worldwide a chance to explore colleges. NJIT’s episode of "The College Tour" travels back to the Brick City —...

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