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'Byte Into Hardware' is New Hackathon by Engineering Students, Coming to NJIT this Spring

Monday, February 27th, 2023
A new event on campus, Byte into Hardware, aims to remind us of the joy in exploring hacker culture's physical roots. The hardware hackathon will take place April 1-2 with themes focusing on accessibility and sustainability. Breadboards, microcontrollers and sensors will be everywhere, in contrast t...

NJIT Particle Engineer Ecevit Bilgili is Named an AIChE Fellow

Monday, February 20th, 2023
Ecevit Bilgili, a professor of chemical and materials engineering who boosts the therapeutic efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs through nanoengineering, while also lowering the cost to design and manufacture them, has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). In hi...

NJIT Alum's Company Dazzles Earth, Converts CO2 to Diamonds

Monday, February 13th, 2023
By Deric Raymond and Perla Alay Cut, color, clarity and carat are the four Cs of the diamond industry. Aether, a new company producing lab-grown diamonds, is pushing to add one more — carbon origin. As the demand for sustainable and ethically sourced products continues to rise, the market for lab-gr...

U.S. News & World Report Ranks NJIT Online Programs, Two in the Top 50 Nationally

Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
Two of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s online graduate programs placed among the top 50 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities, with another breaking into the top 100. NJIT was ranked No. 29 for its information technology programs, a two place jump from la...

NJIT Receives $1.3M in Federal Funding for Engineering and Manufacturing Initiatives

Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will receive more than $1 million for new initiatives that will bolster engineering education, as well as manufacturing and mechatronics apprenticeship training, under the federal spending bill signed by President Joe Biden. The $1.7 trillion spending packag...

NJIT's Davé is Tapped for a Top Award in Pharmaceutical Engineering

Tuesday, December 20th, 2022
Rajesh Davé, a problem-driven inventor whose groundbreaking methods for re-engineering tiny particles have fueled advances in drug formulations, delivery systems and manufacturing processes, is the 2022 winner of the prestigious Pharmaceutical Development, Discovery and Manufacturing Forum (PD2M) Aw...

NJIT Hosts Symposium on Boosting Safety Culture Into Undergraduate Education

Thursday, December 1st, 2022
NJIT and the National Academy of Construction (NAC), with the support from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine hosted a symposium to bring together members from the industry, government and academia to collectively work together to help students become much more productive wh...

For Fourth Straight Year, NJIT Professor Makes Global List of Highly Cited Researchers

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
A research paper on metal carbides and nitrides is paying dividends for NJIT’s Meng-Qiang Zhao — eight years after it was published. For the fourth straight year, Zhao, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering at NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering, has made Clarivate’s list of ...

NJIT Researchers Awarded $620k Grant to Study Climate Change Impact of Soot

Friday, November 4th, 2022
NJIT researchers have received a $620,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to advance our understanding of the way in which soot particles from combustion of fossil fuels are driving climate change in the Earth’s atmosphere. Associate Professor of Chemistry Alexei Khalizov and Associate Pr...

NJIT Research on Nanoporous Materials Would Make Electronics Stronger, Safer

Thursday, September 1st, 2022
Scientists at NJIT and in Germany are working to understand how ions congregate around nanoporous materials, which could lead to safety and reliability improvements for electronic components such as supercapacitors and microscopically tiny actuators. Nanoscale porous materials are used in everyday o...