Four of NJIT's online graduate programs placed among the top 100 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities. While studying online became an important academic offering in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NJIT has long offered both fully online and partial, or hybrid, online degree programs as part of the university’s vision of a global campus. The publication ranked Highlander online master's degrees 27th-best for information technology, 56th for engineering, 91st for business generally and 100th for the Master's of Business Administration specifically…

There is no sustainable cure at present for osteoarthritis, the most common chronic musculoskeletal disorder of the joints. And while joint replacements are successful treatments for older patients with already reduced mobility, they hold less promise for younger patients, with failure in the long-term nearly guaranteed. Biomaterial engineers propose another solution: restoring the damaged tissue itself. “The gap between supply and demand for transplantable tissues and organs is continuously increasing,” says Murat Guvendiren, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering who…

Two pioneering researchers, Rajesh Davé, a distinguished professor of chemical and materials engineering, and MengChu Zhou, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, were recently elected fellows of National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Davé and Zhou join 173 other academic innovators, together representing 115 research universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes, in this year’s class of fellows. Collectively, the group holds more than 4,700 issued U.S. patents. Davé has 15 U.S. patents and Zhou has 14. Davé is a problem-driven inventor whose…

When Jeffrey Jude-Ibe ’20 flew to Dallas in September to begin work as a quality engineer at Texas Instruments, Kelvin Siebeng ’19, the person who put the semiconductor giant on his job-search horizon, picked him up at the airport. With 3 full-time offers from major corporations and another from the FBI at his choosing, Siebeng also cemented the deal. “Kelvin described TI as a company that reengineers itself constantly to meet the market’s demands. As an engineer, I like that idea of constantly learning and adapting,” he noted, adding that he’d highlighted other key considerations for a…

Students in a new NJIT course that delivers the experience of planning a business on campus appreciate the latitude that instructors give them to make decisions. “They guide you and respond to specific questions, but they won’t tell you exactly what to do and how,” said Marina Arrese ’21, a business major who’s part of a team in charge of finance and information systems for the class project. “They give you certain time, budget and operational constraints, but apart from that, you are free to—together with your team—make your own decisions and choose your own tools and methods.” Added…

Nicholas DeNichilo ’73, M.S. ’78 marveled as a child at the construction equipment that brought buildings, bridges and highways to life before his eyes. Decades later, he still feels that magic. Comments such as “green energy is so exciting” regularly punctuate conversations about his daily work. As the president and CEO of engineering giant Mott MacDonald, North America, DeNichilo now takes on transportation, water and energy infrastructure projects made vastly more complex by resiliency problems such as climate change and earthquakes. In Los Angeles, for example, his firm is designing and…

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…

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 need…

TTI/Vanguard, a prestigious organization of technology industry executives who meet a few times each year to study and debate emerging innovations, chose to virtually visit New Jersey Institute of Technology this week for their latest intellectual retreat. The group's members, through exposure to wide swaths of cutting-edge technology research, advise their clients and employers about what directions to follow for commercialization and investment opportunities. The visit of 58 thought leaders from academia, corporations and government agencies — including Internet pioneer Leonard Kleinrock…

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 neuronal…