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 n...

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 ju...

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 gap...

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...

Computer Technology Major Lands a Job at CISCO

Friday, March 23rd, 2018
This July, soon-to-be NJIT graduate Michael Bouzaglo will be happily settled in Raleigh, N.C., as an associate systems engineer (SE) for CISCO, a leader in the information technology (IT) and networking industry. He will receive training through the CISCO Sales Associate Program (CSAP) for his new r...

"Doing More with Less" Conference Explores Innovative Responses to Environmental Sustainability

Friday, March 16th, 2018
The Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will hold a one-day Women Designing the Future conference—“The Environment: Doing More with Less”—on Friday, March 23. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. in the university’s Campus Center Ballrooms A and B. Confere...

Leading T.Y. Lin International: Alvaro Piedrahita '73

Thursday, March 15th, 2018
For more than 40 years, in a career that has included awards and special recognition for innovative design and successful delivery of major infrastructure projects, Alvaro J. Piedrahita, P.E. has successfully led technical design professionals on multi-million dollar transportation infrastructure pr...