Engineering

NJIT's Hydrogen-Powered Hy-Lander Wins the Poster Competition in the Chem-E-Car Finals

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
NJIT’s Chem-E-Car team, developers of the self-driving, hydrogen-powered Hy-Lander, won first place this past weekend for their poster in the championship round of the international student competition. In the poster round, judges look for in-depth knowledge of the car’s mechanisms from every team member, design uniqueness, which the Hy-Lander had in abundance, and major changes, rather than superficial tinkering, from previous models. The judges also scrutinize cars’ financing, as the contest imposes no limits on what the college teams can spend. The Hy-Lander crew...

An NJIT Engineering Team Wins an Edison Patent Award for Sustainability

Sunday, November 15, 2020
A team of NJIT engineers won a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award in the sustainability category from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for a resilient water treatment system that can run on waste heat or low-grade energy. The team was among 60 honorees at the Council’s virtual awards ceremony Friday night, themed “Transforming Hope into Action.”  Their system distills dirty or ocean water in a chamber that separates pure water from particles, such as salts or metals, through evaporation. It requires neither filters nor membranes, which degrade over time and...

A Newly Minted NJIT Engineering Professor is Named a Fellow of the Academy of Optometry

Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Chang Yaramothu '13H MS '14 Ph.D. '17, a biomedical engineer who develops diagnostic and therapeutic devices for concussion-related vision disorders, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry just two months after joining the NJIT faculty as an assistant professor of engineering technology. As a postdoctoral researcher in engineer Tara Alvarez’s laboratory at NJIT, Yaramothu designed novel concussion diagnosis procedures using eye movements and virtual reality (VR) headsets in pediatric populations. He focuses on three metrics – the number of eye movements, balance and...

Model Cars With Human Drivers Take to the Streets of a Miniaturized Newark

Tuesday, July 28, 2020
In an NJIT robotics lab spilling over with 3D-printed parts, engineering students are gutting toy trucks, SUVs, sedans and two-door Mini Coopers and refitting them with custom-designed systems: laser-cut side mirrors, wheels that can parallel park and a braking system that employs algorithms to control an electric motor, thus enabling soft and hard breaking, idling and taxiing. Now tooling around Cong Wang’s Control Automation Robotics Lab, where they are guided by remote drivers at gaming-style steering wheel and pedal control stations, the cars will soon be deployed on the streets of a...

Senior Success: Rukayat Balogun's STEM Journey Takes Her to Facebook

Thursday, June 11, 2020
Since the end of March, Rukayat Balogun has been working remotely for Facebook as a site logistics analyst, overseeing staff that maintain the servers and the facility, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. She will move to the Atlanta area in July for this position, which came her way last fall when a fellow student in NJIT’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) introduced Balogun to a visiting Facebook recruiter. The company flew her down south for what turned out to be a series of video interviews, followed by a bit of a wait. “The interviews went well, but it was nerve-...

Senior Success: Coder Ayushi Sangoi is Also the Class of 2020's Outstanding Engineer

Wednesday, June 10, 2020
As it embarks on clinical trials at children’s hospitals across the country, a novel vision therapy device developed by NJIT engineers is generating streams of data on eye movements in need of rapid and precise analysis. Enter Ayushi Sangoi ’20*, coder par excellence, to the algorithmic rescue. As a senior capstone project, Sangoi and her teammates designed an automated eye movement analysis program called RETINAS to process the blinks, saccades (rapid, jerky motions) and vergent movements (coordinated action by both eyes to focus on near objects) the study participants produce....

Senior Success: Amid Pandemic, Soojin Kim Declares She's All In for Emergency Medicine

Monday, June 1, 2020
Footage of emergency room workers managing overflow crowds of gravely sick patients with deftness, humanity and visible emotion has been nightly, gut-wrenching viewing for millions of Americans over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. For senior Soojin Kim, those often-harrowing scenes prompted one thought: “I’m in.” “I wish I could have been a first-year resident going into one of those hospitals. To be able to help out so much, I gladly would have done it,” said Kim, a biomedical engineering major who heads to Rowan University’s Cooper Medical School this fall, where she plans to...

Senior Success: Josh Gallic Launches Career at Valcor Engineering

Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Mechanical engineering student and Albert Dorman Honors Scholar Josh Gallic will graduate this semester and has a job offer from Valcor Engineering to be a junior design engineer. At his post, Josh will be designing valves for space missions. Josh had been introduced to Valcor Engineering through one of NJIT's Career Development Service career fairs and landed an internship during his junior year, and found the company and industry to be very exciting. Josh was also a member of NJIT's Baja SAE racing team. The Baja team designs, builds, and competes an off-road race car at competitions...

Senior Success: Greg Tanis to Join L3Harris as a Systems Engineer

Wednesday, May 13, 2020
As a third-generation Highlander, mechanical engineering student and Albert Dorman Honors Scholar Greg Tanis looks forward to joining L3Harris as a systems engineer and takes a minute to reflect on his time at NJIT. Congratulations, Greg!  

Senior Success: The Skyline Soars on Engineer Niyam Shah's Horizon

Friday, May 8, 2020
For his senior capstone project, Niyam Shah went big: The civil engineering major and his teammates designed a 40-story commercial tower with a thick concrete core and X-patterned steel bracing for an empty lot on Manhattan’s building-jammed West Side. “The core supports the building, but the higher up you go, the more the building tilts, so we added steel to brace against wind forces,” said Shah, who is this year’s “Outstanding Senior” for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and a keen designer. The team chose a commercial building, with its 15-ft.-high ceilings,...

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