Newark College of Engineering

New Jersey Institute of Technology rose 13 spots to no. 88 among national universities in a ranking based on overall value, service and social mobility, as determined by the non-profit Washington Monthly magazine. The publication’s editors emphasized that such categories are important alternatives to traditional college rankings that tend to favor wealthy, private institutions. “Instead of rewarding schools for their prestige, wealth, and exclusivity … we give points to those that help non-wealthy students earn remunerative degrees, encourage students to vote and serve their country,...

Students in NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) summer offering saw first-hand what a career in STEM looks like thanks to Stryker opening its doors to its medical technology and manufacturing facility. Stryker showed off its half-million square-foot Mahwah campus and the innovation within developed by its engineers and technologists: new-material implants getting people back on their feet in hours instead of days, additive-manufacturing processes unlocking the full potential for design and its state-of-the art Mako surgical robot. “Students cannot fully appreciate science,...

A little-known R&D facility, operated by NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute with the U.S. Army Picatinny Arsenal for its primary client, is beginning to thrive one year after moving off-campus. The facility is called COMET — Collaborative Operationalized Manufacturing Engineering and Training — located about 30 miles northwest of NJIT’s Newark campus, close to Picatinny, which is the Army headquarters for conventional weapons development. COMET hosts students and faculty throughout the year, not just from NJIT but from various institutions, who all share civic and scientific...

*"Harvesting the Toxic Blooms of Summer" is part of NJIT's 2023 Research Magazine* Amid summer’s cornucopia, there is one proliferation that is universally dreaded: the toxic algae blooms that float on lakes and streams, killing fish, gobbling oxygen from the water and chasing away swimmers. Composed of tiny organisms such as single-cell phytoplankton, macroalgae and cyanobacteria, the phosphorescent blue-green clusters are impossible to miss, but difficult to capture. “Compared to weeds and other aquatic plants, microalgae are tiny – between 1 and 10 micrometers in width – and so...