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NJIT's 2024 Master's and Doctoral Class Make Their Mark

Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology served up a full day of fanfare as its advanced degree graduates walked across the stage in the Wellness and Events Center in three commencement ceremonies on May 15. The 2024 class comprises more than 1,400 graduates and reflects the institution’s steady growth an...

NJIT Student Engineers Excel at Regionals, Advance to National Finals

Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) emerged triumphant at the recent American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Metropolitan Student Symposium, showcasing their engineering prowess and securing top positions across multiple competitions. Held at Stony Brook University from April 12-14, the sy...

MakeNJIT, in Second Year, Focuses on Infrastructure Hardware Hacks

Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
An all-freshman team, Rackify, was the top NJIT winner and third overall at this year’s MakeNJIT hardware hackathon, creating a smart bicycle rack that automatically locks your ride by activating an RFID reader and extending an arm through the spokes or frame. Rackify members Raghav Bharath, Prabha...

NJIT Computer Science and Engineering Experts Talk About 'Smart' Cities

Monday, April 22nd, 2024
Accomplished computer science and engineering professors at New Jersey Institute of Technology were among the featured speakers at a conference about creating “smart” cities that was organized by two centers of NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management: the Leir Research Institute and Hub for Creat...

NJIT Aims to Be an Innovation Nexus Under Its New Strategic Plan

Monday, April 8th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology aims to be a nexus of innovation that embraces new tech, commercializes groundbreaking research, leverages its diversity and tackles global environmental and socioeconomic challenges under a new strategic plan that extends through 2030. The plan, NJIT Makes An Inn...

Celebrating NJIT's Women's Leadership and Employee Resource Group

Thursday, March 28th, 2024
NJIT has established employee resource groups (ERG) that meet regularly and encourage faculty and staff to connect outside of their direct working relationships. This month, NJIT is celebrating its Women’s Leadership and Employee Resource Group and publishing an employee spotlight on one of its memb...

Chief Engineer of Port Authority NY/NJ Rizwan Baig Visits NJIT

Thursday, March 21st, 2024
Rizwan Baig, chief engineer of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, visited NJIT to give a presentation on building the 21st-century transportation system. His talk, covering the architectural, design, construction and asset management aspects of the agency, highlighted the agency’s plan t...

Two NJIT Research Groups Awarded as Part of $1.2M EPA P3 Program

Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Two NJIT projects have been awarded as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Program. The $1.2 million program funded 16 different student-based projects throughout the country to research and develop innovative solutions that address enviro...

PhD Graduate Jorge Alberto Medina's Passion for Electronics Started in his Native Honduras

Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
Jorge Alberto Medina '23 grew up with electronics. He recalls watching his dad disassemble and rebuild electronic equipment, and leafed through stacks of monthly electronics magazines as his light reading material. The exposure grew into a passion, and Medina set his sights on a journey that ultimat...

Ingenuity of NJIT's Budding Engineers Spotlighted at NCE Showcase

Friday, February 23rd, 2024
Recently, the ingenuity of Newark College of Engineering’s brightest first-year students was on full display at the 2024 NCE First Year Engineering Design Showcase. Forty-two teams featured in this year’s showcase to present a wide range of innovative engineering projects originating from their fal...