Engineering

Ayushi Sangoi, 23, a Newark, N.J., resident and researcher at New Jersey Institute of Technology has been named one of 2022’s MLH Top 50 – a list compiled each year by Major League Hacking (MLH) of the organization’s most inspiring community members. The recipients are recognized for their exceptional contributions to the tech ecosystem and STEM education. Sangoi stood out from other applicants for her unique road to becoming a prodigious hacker. A current Ph.D. candidate at the Vision and Neural Engineering Laboratory, she has earned a dual degree in biomedical engineering and...

Each year, dentists in the United States perform more than 15 million root canals on infected teeth, removing the inflamed pulp and filling the emptied canal with inert materials such as rubber and cement. What remains is a mineral shell in place of a living tooth. “Teeth lacking dental pulp are more vulnerable to cracking and can respond poorly to future bacterial infections and mechanical injuries. In particular, we’d prefer to avoid killing and removing a child’s permanent tooth that is still growing, but instead, help the roots thicken and lengthen,” said Vivek Kumar, a bioengineer at...

Strapped into an exoskeleton, Damyane Evely strode heavily back and forth across a 15-foot platform, taking an occasional peek at a monitor on the wall to survey his progress — and to silently marvel. It had been more than 15 years since his spinal cord was compressed in a motorcycle accident, landing him in a wheelchair. He was relishing his verticality. Last December, Evely was the first person in the U.S. with a spinal cord injury to test the new, self-balancing Wandercraft Atalante, a third-generation exoskeleton with 12 degrees of freedom that is designed to more closely approximate...

U.S. News & World Report has released its 2023 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools, with NJIT ranked among the best for graduate degree programs in engineering. The university slots in this year at No. 86 — up two positions from the prior year and 25 positions in the past eight years — and has been included on the distinguished list since 2003. The 2023 rankings mark the seventh consecutive year NJIT has appeared in the top 100. NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE), which has been providing engineering education for over 100 years, offers more than 30 master’s and Ph.D...