For a pioneering invention that enables doctors to use light to look beneath the outer layer of the skin to detect diseases such as early-stage skin cancers, NJIT’s Atam Dhawan was tapped this year to receive one of IEEE’s preeminent honors, the Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBS) William J. Morlock Award. Established in 1960, the Morlock Award is given every two years to an inventor of original electronics techniques and concepts used to solve biomedical problems. However, Dhawan, a distinguished professor of electrical engineering and senior vice provost for research, is the…

New Jersey Institute of Technology ranked No. 1 in New Jersey and 14th nationally among public schools for early-career salaries, with young alumni bringing home just under $125,000 on average against just $7,600 in average debt, according to Forbes 2021 Top Colleges ranking. Statewide, only private schools with higher tuition ranked above NJIT for early career salaries. In overall rankings, NJIT is No. 89 among public colleges nationwide, Forbes stated. For this year’s rankings, Forbes significantly changed their calculation methods. They now more heavily emphasize alumni salaries and…

– No. 103 among National Universities, up 15 spots from last year – NJIT Ranks 46th among public universities – Reputation score up for second year in a row; tied for second nationally in reputation growth over the last four years – Top 100 Best Value School New Jersey Institute of Technology has risen 15 spots in the 2022 edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s Best National University Rankings. NJIT is ranked 103 out of nearly 400 schools on this list. NJIT also is ranked among the Top 50 Public Universities, coming in at No. 46. NJIT’s peer reputation score also increased over…

Facebook, Merck, Brown University, the University of Minnesota, Venture for America and the U.S. Air Force are among the destinations of standouts from the Class of 2021 at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Here’s a closer look at seven graduates.  Roberto Adamson: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule  The electrical engineering major from Costa Rica will pursue a master’s in the same discipline at ETH – a STEM powerhouse in Zurich, Switzerland – after studying abroad in France. Parth Agrawal: Venture For…

Xiaoyang Xu, a chemical and materials engineer at NJIT who specializes in nanomedicines, has secured a $1 million award from the Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation to develop the next generation of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines. Xu’s immediate goal is to improve protections against COVID-19. He is designing a nano-sized delivery vehicle for gene-based medications that can be stored much longer and at higher temperatures than the current mRNA shots deployed against the virus, including by freeze-drying. “More durable vaccines would be especially useful in rural and…

New Jersey Institute of Technology is in rarified air as it has been recognized as one of 200 colleges and universities named a Best Maker School in Higher Education by Make: magazine and Newsweek. Across the university, NJIT houses facilities that encourage engineers, architects, designers, and scientists to create and test ideas, put theory into practice, and quickly iterate to develop solutions. Most notably, NJIT boasts a 21,000 square foot Makerspace with over $3 million in state-of-the-art equipment ranging from industrial to small prototyping machines. It is the largest of its kind…

Society consumes too much energy. Industry takes an especially large slice of the energy pie, and Afrida Kabir, a process engineer and 2016 NJIT chemical engineering graduate, is heading to Finland to study technologies that would curb industry’s energy appetite. Kabir recently joined the Advanced Energy Solutions master’s program at Aalto University on a full-ride scholarship to study drying processes, methods, and designs to make drying more efficient and sustainable. “The drying process is nothing more than taking the liquid out of a product,” said Kabir. “What happens in the process is…

The NJIT community is mourning the loss this month of Bruno Gonçalves da Silva, an esteemed assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering who launched a new field of study for the university, energy geotechnology, which includes novel experimental investigations into the hydraulic fracturing of rocks. In his Geo-Resources and Geotechnical Laboratory (GGL), Gonçalves da Silva and his team focused on reducing the environmental impact and maximizing the financial potential of geothermal, as well as oil and gas, production, and better predicting and mitigating geotechnical-related…

C-3PO walked upright and spoke six million languages, but never did much with his hands beside gesticulate on the odds of surviving space battles.Such is the state of modern robotics and cyberintelligence, where a Boston Dynamics droid does backflips and Apple Siri maintains natural-language conversations, while precision manipulation of physical objects remains elusive, explained Cong Wang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology.Wang's plan to fix this involves a two-fingered robot, crowdsourcing, artificial intelligence and a…

In conjunction with the 2021 Summer Research Symposium, NJIT launched a campus chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), an organization founded in 2010 to recognize and promote academic technology and innovation and to encourage its translation into devices and services that benefit society. NJIT inducted 32 faculty members at the ceremony, as well as nine honorary members, including President Joel Bloom and Provost Fadi Deek. Chapter members must hold patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Atam Dhawan, senior vice provost for research, called the…