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Alum and Retired Trustee at NJIT Reflects on the Road from Undergrad to PSEG Leader to Deacon

Friday, November 5th, 2021
As a newly retired trustee at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Peter Cistaro marvels at how the campus and curriculum developed during his 20 years on the board.  Also, as a 1968 graduate of NJIT, he’s grateful for the bachelor’s he earned in industrial engineering, which opened the door to ...

New Industrial Engineering Lab, Courtesy of Dieter Weissenrieder '76 and Family, Raises NJIT's Game

Friday, November 5th, 2021
A game-changing gift from an NJIT alumnus and his family is providing the university’s industrial engineering students an indispensable opportunity: the experience of a small-scale version of a factory floor right here on campus. The newly created engineering lab will give students hands-on expertis...

Newark College of Engineering Joyfully Celebrates a Pandemic-Delayed Salute to Excellence

Friday, November 5th, 2021
After a lengthy hiatus imposed by the pandemic, the Newark College of Engineering (NCE) community of faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends gathered on campus this fall to celebrate its own at the annual Salute to Engineering Excellence. “This is a homecoming for me,” said Nicholas DeNichilo ...

Minority Engineer Recognizes NJIT as a 'Top 20 University'

Friday, November 5th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology is among Minority Engineer magazine’s “Top 20 Universities” for 2021. The selection is based on a survey of the publication’s readers on the diversity of the curriculum, student body and faculty and the diversity and inclusivity of the learning environment. The rea...

NJIT-Led Team Wins a $1.25 Million Grant to Ensure Women Scholars Flourish as Inventors

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021
Women’s ingenuity dots the human landscape, from the external fire escape, to the word processor, to the first dishwashing machine to replace scrubbers with water pressure, to Kevlar, the lightweight, but supremely strong fiber used in bulletproof vests. And yet statistics show that too few of thei...

NJIT Student Bottle Rockets Soar Where No Highlander Has Gone Before

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
Mibrar Reza and Adam Tracy — following the spirit of Verne, von Braun, NASA and Musk — were the first-place winners of this semester's inaugural NJIT Makerspace Soda Bottle Rocket Competition, charting unexplored regions of Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium with water-powered flights of 227 and 25...

Student Wins Scholarship for Helping Reduce Electron Leakage in Blue LEDs

Thursday, October 28th, 2021
Andressa Marangon, a senior electrical and computer engineering major at New Jersey Institute of Technology, won a $1,000 scholarship from the IEEE Electron Devices Society for her role in improving the brightness and power consumption of blue LEDs that technologically lag behind their red and green...

NJIT a 'Best Global University' in US News & World Report Ranking

Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology is among the Best Global Universities identified by U.S. News and World Report in its eighth edition of the annual ranking. Only 271 U.S. universities made the 2022 list, which spans 91 countries in six continents. Globally, NJIT ranked in the top half of some...

Turbocharging the Internet Fulfillment Revolution

Monday, October 25th, 2021
Sanchoy Das recalls his first jaw-dropping view of an Amazon fulfillment warehouse in 2013. The word “explosive” came to mind. Gone were the single-product sections where boxes of diapers and paper towels were stacked next to each other in neat rows. Instead, these products were dispersed throug...

NJIT STEM Leadership Forum Inspires Educators to Bring 'Cutting-Edge STEM' into Classrooms

Friday, October 22nd, 2021
With students back in classrooms this fall, educators and superintendents across New Jersey were once again welcomed back to NJIT’s campus to network and discuss fresh ways they can enrich hands-on STEM learning in their schools at the university’s fifth annual STEM School Leadership Forum — “B...