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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...

An Engineer's Journey from NJIT Undergrad to Board Member and Mentor

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024
It has been close to 50 years since Bob Medina ’75 graduated from NJIT as an engineer, and when he looks back at his journey, he marvels at how NJIT gave him the tools to excel. In fact, he still has the slide rule he used in class, in the days before calculators were allowed and laptops existed. “...

First-Year Engineering Majors Bond in Classrooms and Rocket Flights

Thursday, November 30th, 2023
Hundreds of students in NJIT’s introductory engineering course, Fundamentals of Engineering Design 101, are having a greater shared experience during the fall 2023 semester than any incoming class since the 1990s. Back then, Newark College of Engineering began customizing the FED syllabus for each ...

Computing Resilience in an Era of Uncertainty

Monday, November 6th, 2023
In an era of frequent, powerful storms, fast-spreading wildfires and global pandemics, communities are discovering their vulnerabilities when they can least afford it. “We need to rethink what it means to be resilient. I use the boxing analogy ‘roll with the punches’: the ability to absorb the shoc...

Record Number of Students Go One-on-One with Employers at NJIT's Career Fair

Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
A record number of students and alumni attended New Jersey Institute of Technology’s latest Career Fair — 3,300 — with some 240 companies looking to fill more than 1,000 jobs, internships and cooperative education experiences. The macro numbers were impressive — for the third straight fair — but it...

NJIT Dedicates Lobby of Popular Dorm to Family That Endows Scholarships

Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
The dedication of the lobby of the most popular residence hall at New Jersey Institute of Technology was truly a family affair. While accepting the recognition, Donald Dinallo, a builder whose company, Terminal Construction Corp. in Wood-Ridge, N.J., led the construction of Maple Hall, stood before...

NJIT Rises to No. 86 Among National Universities in U.S. News Rankings

Monday, September 18th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s rise in national rankings continues, with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 86 among national universities for 2024 — a jump of 11 rungs from 2023. The latest ranking is indicative of a consistent trend over the past four years — as NJIT climbed from...