National Science Foundation Funds NJIT Professor Investigating Next-Gen Energy Storage

Friday, January 5th, 2024
From laptops to cars, society has come to rely on rechargeable batteries — and the demand is only growing. This surge means researchers are racing to figure out the most efficient ways to manage this type of energy storage. While current designs utilize microparticle-based technology, it’s insuffic...

An Engineer's Journey from NJIT Undergrad to Board Member and Mentor

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024
It has been close to 50 years since Bob Medina ’75 graduated from NJIT as an engineer, and when he looks back at his journey, he marvels at how NJIT gave him the tools to excel. In fact, he still has the slide rule he used in class, in the days before calculators were allowed and laptops existed. “...

New NJIT Committee Tackles Gender Imbalance in Faculty

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
A new committee aims to accelerate gender equity among faculty members at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The Women Faculty Advisory Committee, chaired by Nancy Steffen-Fluhr, will hold peer forums to examine key issues based on the testimony of junior faculty members. It also intends to poll wo...

First-Year Engineering Majors Bond in Classrooms and Rocket Flights

Thursday, November 30th, 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 m...

Exploring the Intricate World of Cellular Processes: A PhD's Path From Moscow to Princeton Via NJIT

Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
Alina Emeilianova worked right up to her Ph.D graduation ceremony. Appearing as first author in a paper in Langmuir, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Chemical Society, it is fitting that she snuck in one more notch of success in the twilight of her research career at New Jersey Inst...

Computing Resilience in an Era of Uncertainty

Monday, November 6th, 2023
In an era of frequent, powerful storms, fast-spreading wildfires and global pandemics, communities are discovering their vulnerabilities when they can least afford it. “We need to rethink what it means to be resilient. I use the boxing analogy ‘roll with the punches’: the ability to absorb the shock...

A Fly Fisherman Diagnoses Maladies on a Beloved River

Friday, November 3rd, 2023
Wading into a parched stretch of the Pequannock River, Taylor VanGrouw got a jarring reminder of the fragility of New Jersey’s smaller waterways: a brown trout stranded in a shallow pool, too lethargic to swim away as he approached. “As temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen levels decline, in the way ...

Record Number of Students Go One-on-One with Employers at NJIT's Career Fair

Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
A record number of students and alumni attended New Jersey Institute of Technology’s latest Career Fair — 3,300 — with some 240 companies looking to fill more than 1,000 jobs, internships and cooperative education experiences. The macro numbers were impressive — for the third straight fair — but it ...

NJIT Partners with NJEDA to Offer Certificates in Offshore Wind Work

Monday, October 23rd, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a $399,000 project to create two offshore wind graduate certificates. The funding approved in the MOU will establish two graduate certificates in wind power sys...

Engineering Professor Wins NSF Award for Nanoscale Research

Monday, October 23rd, 2023
Structural engineering is defined as the science of extremely large things — battleships, buildings, bridges — but there’s a new group of researchers, led by New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Fatemeh Ahmadpoor, working to understand the structural engineering of extremely tiny things. If a sheet ...