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NJIT's Engineers Celebrate Homegrown Talent at the 20th Annual NCE Salute to Excellence

Friday, April 20th, 2018
With cherry blossoms at peak season, more than 200 members of the Newark College of Engineering (NCE) community gathered this week at Nanina’s in Branch Brook Park to pay tribute to their own – high-flying seniors setting off on careers, alumni who have already made their mark on the world, and prof...

NJIT Gives Back With Nearly 60,000 Hours of Community Service

Monday, April 16th, 2018
Volunteerism is a mainstay at NJIT, with students and faculty engaged in a range of initiatives to better the community. Such efforts, amounting to more than 59,000 hours of community service over the past year alone, have been recognized both nationally and locally.   The university has made t...

Fulbright Winner Brendan Dente Heads Off This Summer for a Two-Year Stint in the Netherlands

Friday, April 13th, 2018
Brendan Dente ’18, a chemical engineer with a talent for product design and a yen for travel, has won a Fulbright scholarship to spend the next two years earning a master’s degree at one of Europe’s major STEM hubs, the Technological University of Delft (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. He intends to ...

Fostering a Vision for The Weiss-Aug Group: Dieter Weissenrieder '76

Friday, April 13th, 2018
Dieter Weissenrieder emigrated from Germany in 1960 as a tool and die maker to work for his uncle’s tooling business. He quickly became the manager of the company, and after working for the family business for 10 years, the company was sold to a large firm. He then founded Weiss-Aug in 1972 with his...

Tara Alvarez is Named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Thursday, April 12th, 2018
Tara Alvarez, a professor of biomedical engineering who studies the links between visual disorders and the brain and develops novel devices to identify and treat them, has been named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Alvarez joined approximately 150 ...

Innovation Day 2018

Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
An interdisciplinary engineering team developing an enzyme-blocking drug designed to reduce levels of LDL, or “bad cholesterol,” was the winner of this year’s TechQuest challenge, announced this week at NJIT’s sixth annual Innovation Day. Senior Victoria Harbour, a chemical engineering major, and j...

Come Meet NJIT's Undergraduate Inventors

Monday, April 9th, 2018
Innovation Day is a showcase of cutting-edge, student-led research that includes inventions that improve lives, novel business ideas, computer games and fundamental scientific research. This year, nearly three dozen student projects – from mapping applications for the transportation industry, to hum...

Undergraduate Ecosystems: Engineering Tissues with 3D Printers

Thursday, April 5th, 2018
INSTRUCTIVE BIOMATERIALS AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING LABORATORY Despite significant efforts, the lack of organs and tissues for transplantation poses a major hurdle in medicine. The Instructive Biomaterials and Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (IBAM-Lab) develops novel approaches to address this ga...

Score! Soccer Alumna Accepted Into Women Athletes Business Network

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
“One of the things that I’m pretty passionate about is women being competitive and not having negative connotations around being competitive… I think that sometimes women don’t embrace that enough,” said Erika Taugher ’08, ’09, a star soccer alumna who earned a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering a...

NJIT Students Take No. 2 Spot in Health Care Competition

Monday, March 26th, 2018
Who better to develop ways to encourage young people to watch after their health than other young people? Such was the reasoning behind the first-ever Horizon BlueCross BlueShield of New Jersey’s (BCBSNJ) Health Care Transformation Challenge, conducted last year. The contest asked undergraduate stu...