Several new aeronautical opportunities will provide hands-on training for New Jersey Institute of Technology students who look to the sky. Starting this fall, NJIT will establish an official group of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary University Program, known as a flotilla. It will meet at Caldwell Airport and it's only the fifth air station out of 79 flotillas in the Auxiliary's first district, southern region, which covers metropolitan New York and beyond. Other campus initiatives are already underway, including construction of a flight simulation laboratory and development of a drone…

Increased computational power has dramatically improved climate modeling over the past several years, allowing scientists to better forecast long term climate evolution. Despite computers becoming faster and more efficient, cloud modeling was still a hazy prospect until a recent algorithmic improvement. In a study published by Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Ph.D. student Yassine Tissaoui from NJIT and collaborators, proposed a solution that balances computational resources with dynamic and precise cloud modeling — a notoriously difficult, yet crucial, aspect of…

Anjali Khushalani worked in her native India as a project manager and process manager before arriving at New Jersey Institute of Technology last fall to pursue a master’s in engineering management. Khushalani took an intensive route, concentrating on industrial engineering and earning her degree from NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering in just two semesters. And although her time on campus was relatively brief, she felt at home thanks to the university’s Office of Global Initiatives, some exceptional professors and clubs like the Association of Indian Students and Spectrum. Now, as she…

Environmental safety and corporate interests tend not to match, but engineers at NJIT and Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev found a way to filter dangerous nitrate from water while also reducing the energy needed to create industrial ammonia. The research, Electrified Membrane System for Chemical-Free Ammonia Production / Separation from Nitrate Containing Wastewater, is supported by $450,000 in funding from the U.S.-Israeli Binational Science Foundation. It's related to a wider effort of removing hazardous compounds from water, and to membrane fouling research, both developed…

Tiny particles in Earth’s atmosphere can have a big impact on climate. But understanding exactly how these aerosol particles form cloud drops and affect the absorption and scattering of sunlight is one of the biggest sources of uncertainty in climate models. Ogochukwu (Ogo) Enekwizu, a postdoctoral research associate in the Environmental and Climate Sciences Department at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, is trying to tame that complexity. “Our task is to mimic what happens in the atmosphere by making a cloud in the lab,” she said. Ogo’s research is focused…

By Deric Raymond and Perla Alay Cut, color, clarity and carat are the four Cs of the diamond industry. Aether, a new company producing lab-grown diamonds, is pushing to add one more — carbon origin. As the demand for sustainable and ethically sourced products continues to rise, the market for lab-grown diamonds has also grown. While Aether is one of several companies producing lab-grown diamonds, they are the leader in sustainability. Aether is the first carbon negative diamond company, a deeply personal goal for Aether’s chief technology officer and NJIT alumnus Anthony Ippolito. Ippolito…

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will receive more than $1 million for new initiatives that will bolster engineering education, as well as manufacturing and mechatronics apprenticeship training, under the federal spending bill signed by President Joe Biden. The $1.7 trillion spending package carves out $1.3 million for the two new NJIT initiatives. The community college pre-engineering network initiative will develop community college-serving programs to strengthen the pathway and readiness for traditionally underserved students to pursue a STEM degree. The advanced manufacturing…

Rajesh Davé, a problem-driven inventor whose groundbreaking methods for re-engineering tiny particles have fueled advances in drug formulations, delivery systems and manufacturing processes, is the 2022 winner of the prestigious Pharmaceutical Development, Discovery and Manufacturing Forum (PD2M) Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Davé, a distinguished professor of chemical and materials engineering at NJIT, was honored for his contributions to what is known as QbD: engineering approaches that enable drug design based on a deep understanding of the dozen…

NJIT and the National Academy of Construction (NAC), with the support from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine hosted a symposium to bring together members from the industry, government and academia to collectively work together to help students become much more productive when they enter the workforce and understand the concept of safety in their professions. Patrick Natale ’70, ’75, executive director of the United Engineering Foundation, member of the NAC and a member of NJIT's Board of Overseers, moderated the symposium, which is in its third leg of a cross-…