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PSEG's Ralph Izzo Talks Climate Policy at NJIT

Thursday, February 13th, 2020
Ralph Izzo ’10 HON, chairman, president and CEO of PSEG, New Jersey’s largest energy provider, argued at a forum on campus this week that the country’s climate policies are ineffectual and, in some instances, even counterproductive. “There is a lot of work to do, but we’re not moving in t...

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT Among Top Schools with 'the Best ROI'

Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology is one of the nation’s best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation and at an affordable price, according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company profiles NJIT in the recently published 2020 edition of its an...

Engineering Prof. Misra Named IEEE Fellow, Stops Transistors From Leaking Energy

Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
Durgamadhab Misra is the newest member of NJIT's Newark College of Engineering to become a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Misra won the prestigious award for his ongoing research on preventing transistors from leaking electrons. Every time a transistor leaks...

Businessman, Entrepreneur and Agile Thought Leader: Donald J. Reifer '69

Thursday, January 2nd, 2020
Donald J. Reifer ’69 is recognized as an agile thought leader and a leading figure in the fields of software engineering and management. He has more than 40 years of management experience in industry, academia and government. He is skilled in program/project/product management, development...

Communication Networks Pioneer Nirwan Ansari is Named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Sunday, December 8th, 2019
Nirwan Ansari ’82, a pioneer in the field of communications whose research on telecoms networks formed part of the backbone for broadband access and later FIOS networks, has been named a 2019 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Ansari, a distinguished professor of electrical and comp...

NJIT Opens State-of-the-Art Nanoelectronics Fabrication Facility

Thursday, December 5th, 2019
Sagnik Basuray is developing a device the size of a dollar coin that will detect cancer biomarkers in patients in remission by sampling a tiny drop of blood with a dip stick. His sensor is groundbreaking not only in its simplicity, but also in its portability. It’s meant to be used at home. “Cancer...

NJIT VentureLink Inventors Fortify Weak Links in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Friday, October 18th, 2019
The surge in mail-order drug deliveries, amid rising temperatures and climate volatility, presents a growing challenge to the security of the pharmaceutical supply chain. Every time vaccine is subject to excessive heat or cold, for example, its potency may be diminished, according to the Centers for...

A Pioneer in Automation Receives NJIT's 2019 Excellence in Research Award

Friday, October 4th, 2019
MengChu Zhou, a pioneer in automation science and engineering who optimizes systems, from manufacturing, to data centers, to transportation, to glean efficiencies and improve outcomes, is this year’s winner of NJIT’s Excellence in Research award. Zhou, distinguished professor of electrical and comp...

NJIT Planned Its First Computer Lab 65 Years Ago, Used for Dissertations

Monday, September 30th, 2019
There were no digital computers at NJIT, known as Newark College of Engineering, in 1960. This was not a unique situation. Most computers in 1960 were room-sized beasts performing logic through vacuum tubes. A few companies made smaller machines, when small was a relative term meaning something abo...

NJIT's Bipin Rajendran is Named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors

Tuesday, August 13th, 2019
Bipin Rajendran, an engineer who develops computing systems that aim to match the efficiency seen in nature by studying the organizational principles of the brain, has been elected a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists and...