Aiming to propel discoveries made in university labs into everyday life, the new I-Corps Northeast Hub launched this week following its announcement last summer, as applications are now open for its first researcher training program. The 4-week program, in which researchers confront the challenges of creating successful startups and entrepreneurial ventures based on scientific and technological discoveries, kicks off Feb. 28 and runs through March 23 online. Funded with a 5-year grant from the National Science Foundation, the Hub brings together an initial eight of the region’s top…

The Board of Trustees of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Teik C. Lim as NJIT’s ninth president following a national search and a unanimous vote of the Board on January 5, 2022. President-elect Lim, who also will be appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, will begin his NJIT tenure on July 1, 2022. “The appointment of Dr. Lim as NJIT’s next president is the result of his emergence from an exceptionally talented pool of candidates,” said Robert Cohen, chair of NJIT’s Board of Trustees. “Teik has incredibly…

NJIT men's lacrosse redshirt junior Eric Sherman has been named one of nine America East Winter Presidential Scholar Athletes, the conference announced Wednesday afternoon. Sherman, a Cherry Hill native and Mechanical Engineering major with a 3.85 GPA., joined Faith Bonett (New Hampshire WBB), Lauren Brushingham (UMass Lowell Field Hockey), Lexi Doran (Hartford Women's Soccer), Carlos Morehouse (UAlbany Men's Soccer), Maia Perez (Hartford Women's Soccer), Bjarki Sturlaugsson (UAlbany Men's Soccer), Danielle Tedesco (UAlbany Volleyball), and Jack Valderrabano (Stony Brook Men's…

Her 20s have been a busy time for Dina Ayman: earning two degrees at NJIT in the same year, working at Intel and Microsoft, teaching at her alma mater and starting a consultancy dedicated to diversity and inclusion. Along the way, she achieved her dream of working at the intersection of engineering and technology, and became a role model for women interested in STEM. And now Forbes is recognizing all that, by naming her to its 2022 list of 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Technology. Ayman, a program manager at Microsoft, adjunct instructor at NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering and founder of…

A research paper on metal carbides and nitrides is paying dividends for NJIT’s Meng-Qiang Zhao — seven years after it was published. For the third straight year, Zhao, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering at NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering, has made Clarivate’s list of Highly Cited Researchers. Why? Chiefly because peers continue to cite the paper, which introduced a faster and safer way to synthesize MXenes, a family of novel 2D transition metal carbides and nitrides, according to Zhao. MXenes are promising electrode materials for next generation energy…

New Jersey Institute of Technology is among Minority Engineer magazine’s “Top 20 Universities” for 2021. The selection is based on a survey of the publication’s readers on the diversity of the curriculum, student body and faculty and the diversity and inclusivity of the learning environment. The readers are engineering students and professionals who identify as minorities. Other honorees this year include Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Minority Engineer’s recognition comes as NJIT works to expand its base of Hispanic and…

After a lengthy hiatus imposed by the pandemic, the Newark College of Engineering (NCE) community of faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends gathered on campus this fall to celebrate its own at the annual Salute to Engineering Excellence. “This is a homecoming for me,” said Nicholas DeNichilo ’73, M.S. ’78, summing up the powerful sentiment of the crowd assembled in the Campus Center atrium. DeNichilo, a vice co-chair of the NJIT Board of Trustees and the president and CEO of the Mott MacDonald Group, North America, was one of two recipients of the 2020 “NCE Outstanding Alumnus” award…

A game-changing gift from an NJIT alumnus and his family is providing the university’s industrial engineering students an indispensable opportunity: the experience of a small-scale version of a factory floor right here on campus. The newly created engineering lab will give students hands-on expertise in machining, process automation, process control inspection and quality control. At its center is a small-scale automated manufacturing system capable of converting raw materials into finished and inspected parts. “The industrial engineering program will never be the same after this,” said NCE…

As a newly retired trustee at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Peter Cistaro marvels at how the campus and curriculum developed during his 20 years on the board.  Also, as a 1968 graduate of NJIT, he’s grateful for the bachelor’s he earned in industrial engineering, which opened the door to a long and varied career at the Public Service Electric & Gas Company. That experience, which played to his strengths as a people person, informs his current calling as a deacon at Saint Peter the Apostle Church in Parsippany – a role he assumed after being ordained in 2009 – and as director…

Women’s ingenuity dots the human landscape, from the external fire escape, to the word processor, to the first dishwashing machine to replace scrubbers with water pressure, to Kevlar, the lightweight, but supremely strong fiber used in bulletproof vests. And yet statistics show that too few of their ideas successfully navigate the journey from concept to product. Indeed, some don’t make it over the early hurdles. Men with doctorates in STEM fields, for example, are nearly twice as likely to hold at least one patent as their female counterparts. Backed by a $1.25 million ADVANCE grant from…