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Bringing Clean Water to an Andean Village 3,000 Miles from Newark

Friday, May 1st, 2026
A team of Engineers Without Borders students who designed a gravity-driven piping system to bring clean water to houses in a remote village in Ecuador is the 2025-2026 winner of the Outstanding Student Chapter Award, presented at the 28th annual Newark College of Engineering’s Salute to Engineering ...

On-the-Job Analytics That Help Construction Crews Avoid Injuries

Friday, May 1st, 2026
A Q&A with Mohammad Khalid, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineeringHow would you summarize your research?I focus on equipping the construction workforce with on-the-job data analytics and computational thinking. Designed for people without a background in computer science...

American Concrete Institute Elects NJIT Professor as Board Director

Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
Professional accolades started arriving early in the career of Matthew P. Adams, an associate professor of civil engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and co-director of the Materials and Structures Laboratory (MatSLab). In 2015, Adams was still working toward his Ph.D. when he wa...

NJIT, Hudson County Community College and Bricklayers Union Sign Letter of Intent to Develop Apprenticeship-to-Degree Pathway

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Hudson County Community College and the New Jersey Administrative District Council of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers signed a Letter of Intent on April 23 to develop a new academic and workforce development partnership designed to connect apprenticeship train...

NJIT Students Design Assistive Technology Prototypes in One-Day Makerspace Sprint

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
A one-day design sprint at NJIT challenged students to think like engineers, designers and problem-solvers for a wider range of users.At CADence: An Additive Design Jam, held April 18 in the NJIT Makerspace, six teams spent the day designing and prototyping assistive technology concepts aimed at imp...

NJIT's Newark College of Engineering ‘Salute’ Celebrates Excellence Across Alumni, Industry, Philanthropy and Student Achievement

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering brought together alumni, students, faculty, staff and industry partners for its 28th Annual Salute to Engineering Excellence, an evening that celebrated the people and partnerships helping shape the college’s future.Held April 16 at Stone House at Stirling Ridge,...

NJIT’s Goldwater Scholars Build Futures in Medicine, Environmental Research

Thursday, April 16th, 2026
Goldwater Scholarships, among the nation’s most prestigious honors for undergraduates pursuing STEM research careers, have been awarded to two NJIT juniors whose academic excellence, research experience and professional ambitions have already set them apart.This year’s recipients are Albert Dorman H...

Bloomberg Radio Broadcast at NJIT Spotlights University Expertise on PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’

Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
A live Bloomberg Radio broadcast from NJIT put the university’s environmental research into a much wider public conversation, as hosts Scarlet Fu and Paul Sweeney brought their weekday “Bloomberg Intelligence” program to campus and mixed NJIT faculty and researchers into the show’s regular coverage....

Dana Knox Research Showcase Highlights Student Research With Real-World Reach

Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
NJIT’s Dana Knox Research Showcase filled the Bloom Wellness and Events Center with student research spanning science, engineering, computing, management and the humanities. With poster presentations, two-minute elevator speeches and Board Day luncheon attendees moving through the event, the showcas...

The Whole System: How an NJIT Engineer Built a Career on Seeing Every Part of the Picture

Monday, April 13th, 2026
When Chris Wunderlich was finishing his final semester at New Jersey Institute of Technology, he had two job offers sitting in front of him. One was from Picatinny Arsenal, the U.S. Army's premier research and manufacturing hub for weapons systems, where he would have gone deep into warhead design. ...