Department of Biomedical Engineering

NJIT Engineers Muffle Invading Pathogens with a 'Molecular Mask'

Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Vaccines remain the gold standard of protection against dangerous pathogens, but take considerable time and vast resources to develop. Rapidly mutating viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 can blunt their effectiveness and even render them obsolete. To address these gaps, a multi-university team led by New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Vivek Kumar is developing a hydrogel therapy that acts as a first line of defense against viruses and other biological threats. The peptides that make up this gel prevent viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, from attaching to and entering cells. They...

NJIT Aims to Be an Innovation Nexus Under Its New Strategic Plan

Monday, April 8, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology aims to be a nexus of innovation that embraces new tech, commercializes groundbreaking research, leverages its diversity and tackles global environmental and socioeconomic challenges under a new strategic plan that extends through 2030. The plan, NJIT Makes An Innovation Nexus, identifies six priorities, spells out the university’s mission to be a leader in research, innovation and entrepreneurship, and reaffirms its core values, including collaboration, social responsibility, diversity and sustainability. The priorities define student and faculty...

Celebrating NJIT's Women's Leadership and Employee Resource Group

Thursday, March 28, 2024
NJIT has established employee resource groups (ERG) that meet regularly and encourage faculty and staff to connect outside of their direct working relationships. This month, NJIT is celebrating its Women’s Leadership and Employee Resource Group and publishing an employee spotlight on one of its members: Miosotis Hernandez, assistant director for first year engineering programs in Newark College of Engineering. Can you introduce us to your ERG? MH: I am co-chair of the Women’s Leadership ERG and our mission is to offer a safe, confidential and supportive community that aims to make NJIT...

$265K Awarded to NJIT Researchers Via New Jersey Health Foundation Grants

Thursday, February 29, 2024
Six NJIT researchers have secured grants in the latest round of funding provided by the New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF), which has increased its funding in both its Community Health, Social Services and Education Program, as well as its traditional research program this year. The $4 million round of funding brings the NJHF’s total to $70 million since the inception of its annual grant program. Researchers from NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering and College of Science and Liberal Arts make up the awardees, with projects spanning innovative bone regeneration processes to research on...

Ingenuity of NJIT's Budding Engineers Spotlighted at NCE Showcase

Friday, February 23, 2024
Recently, the ingenuity of Newark College of Engineering’s brightest first-year students was on full display at the 2024 NCE First Year Engineering Design Showcase. Forty-two teams featured in this year’s showcase to present a wide range of innovative engineering projects originating from their fall semester introductory engineering design course — from prosthetic limbs and exoskeleton knee braces built at NJIT’s Makerspace, to traffic light clocks for improving intersections on campus, temperature-controlled fans, home security systems and more. The friendly competition, which first...

First-Year Engineering Majors Bond in Classrooms and Rocket Flights

Thursday, November 30, 2023
Hundreds of students in NJIT’s introductory engineering course, Fundamentals of Engineering Design 101, are having a greater shared experience during the fall 2023 semester than any incoming class since the 1990s. Back then, Newark College of Engineering began customizing the FED syllabus for each major field. Chemical engineering students may have learned more about compounding and processing, while civil engineering students learned the basics of surveying and transportation systems. Now the FED sections are unifying once more. With so many fields of engineering sharing overlapping...

NJIT Rises to No. 86 Among National Universities in U.S. News Rankings

Monday, September 18, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s rise in national rankings continues, with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 86 among national universities for 2024 — a jump of 11 rungs from 2023. The latest ranking is indicative of a consistent trend over the past four years — as NJIT climbed from 118 to 103 to 97 and now 86 — and supports the findings of other publications that rate U.S. universities, including Money and The Wall Street Journal, which placed NJIT as the second-highest ranked public institution nationally. In key areas like student social mobility and...

Army Supports Summer Interns, Designing New Robots at NJIT Research Center

Thursday, August 31, 2023
A little-known R&D facility, operated by NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute with the U.S. Army Picatinny Arsenal for its primary client, is beginning to thrive one year after moving off-campus. The facility is called COMET — Collaborative Operationalized Manufacturing Engineering and Training — located about 30 miles northwest of NJIT’s Newark campus, close to Picatinny, which is the Army headquarters for conventional weapons development. COMET hosts students and faculty throughout the year, not just from NJIT but from various institutions, who all share civic and scientific...

NJIT Earns National Distinction for 'Best Value' From Niche

Thursday, August 31, 2023
Economic mobility was a new factor in Niche ranking New Jersey Institute of Technology No. 45 among all U.S. institutions for “Best Value,” reaffirming the university’s return on investment to its students and alumni. NJIT earned the No. 1 spot for “Best Value” among New Jersey public institutions. Niche, a college ranking and review platform, evaluated 4,048 public and private four-year colleges nationwide and developed separate lists for the best academics, value, food, dorms and college life. NJIT also received national accolades for its academic programs, earning “Best College”...

NJIT Showcases the Most Impactful Research and Innovation from Students

Monday, August 21, 2023
Stuti Mohan, a senior biomedical engineering student, was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2023 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium at NJIT. Her project sought to identify a non-invasive yet precise method to diagnose the tapping foot of a subject. Mohan’s research area in the Sensorimotor Quantification and Rehabilitation Lab (SQRL) is the ongoing pursuit of improving concussion management.  “Concussion management can be a pretty subjective process. We are leveraging objective approaches like sensorimotor quantification...

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