Newark College of Engineering

Dozens of teams of middle and high school students came to New Jersey Institute of Technology last week for a regional round of the annual New Jersey Science Olympiad hands-on learning competition. NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs, along with the university’s Newark College of Engineering, served as the event hosts for about 700 academically excited children. They competed in events spanning topics such as anatomy, ecology, engineering and technical writing. Max Randall, an 8th-grader from Montclair’s Glenfield Middle School, said this was his third year participating in the...

New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Professor Xianqin Wang has been honored by the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York with the 2023 Excellence in Catalysis Award. This recognition underscores Professor Wang's outstanding contributions to the field of catalysis and her dedication to advancing scientific knowledge. The Excellence in Catalysis Award celebrates individuals whose work has significantly impacted the field of catalysis and has demonstrated excellence in research, innovation and academic leadership. Catalysis is ubiquitous in chemical industries of all kinds, and it’s...

It has been close to 50 years since Bob Medina ’75 graduated from NJIT as an engineer, and when he looks back at his journey, he marvels at how NJIT gave him the tools to excel. In fact, he still has the slide rule he used in class, in the days before calculators were allowed and laptops existed. “I was the first in my family to attend college, and many of our students, 50 years later, are still first-generation students at NJIT,” said Medina. “And what that does is it allows somebody like me, first in their family to attend university, to be able to find a career. My father emigrated from...

Hundreds of students in NJIT’s introductory engineering course, Fundamentals of Engineering Design 101, are having a greater shared experience during the fall 2023 semester than any incoming class since the 1990s. Back then, Newark College of Engineering began customizing the FED syllabus for each major field. Chemical engineering students may have learned more about compounding and processing, while civil engineering students learned the basics of surveying and transportation systems. Now the FED sections are unifying once more. With so many fields of engineering sharing overlapping...