News

News & Events

These 3 NJIT Students Are Now 2019 Governor's STEM Scholars

Monday, February 11th, 2019
Every year, hundreds of high school and college students throughout the Garden State apply for the honor to be a Governor’s STEM Scholar. Slots are limited and the competition is steep. For 2019, three Highlanders have been chosen to wear the mantle: Ricardo Garcia, Yasmine Ghattas and Kevin Pember...

An Egyptian-American Engineer Does it Her Way. Intel Approves.

Friday, December 21st, 2018
For Dina Ayman’s parents, the road to medical school beckoned enticingly to their gifted daughter, a driven student with a love for math and science. The profession, they argued, would eagerly welcome a woman of her talents. But Ayman ’18, M.S. ’18, did not hear that call. And she resisted. “From t...

Electrical Engineering Program Earns "Best for Vets" 2019 Accolade

Monday, December 17th, 2018
College Factual, a leading source of higher education analytics and insights, has ranked NJIT in the top 10 percent of all schools in the nation when it comes to offering a quality education to veterans studying electrical engineering. NJIT’s electrical engineering program is ranked #27 out of...

East Coast Meets West Coast at Honors College Virtual Networking Event

Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
On a Wednesday afternoon, in a handful of rooms along the second-floor corridor of Albert Dorman Honors College, NJIT students and alumni networked, albeit not in person. The five participating alumni appeared on screen via Webex from the West Coast for the college’s Virtual Silicon Valley Networkin...

TEDxNJIT Event on November 8

Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host a TEDxNJIT event Nov. 8, 2018 in the Jim Wise Theatre on the NJIT campus and via an accompanying live simulcast available to viewers worldwide. The independently organized event, licensed by TED, is themed “ReFraming” and will featur...

Transforming Newark One Classroom, One Conversation, One Carrot at a Time

Sunday, September 9th, 2018
As towering cranes and forklifts shuttled brightly colored containers from ships to trucks in Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal last week, Cameron Bennett ’22 was also busy inside the port loading human-scale cargo to go back out to sea. Bennett, one of the 1065 freshmen to disperse across...

NJIT Researchers Aim to Build Brain-Inspired Computing Systems

Friday, July 6th, 2018
Two NJIT researchers, working with collaborators from the IBM Research Zurich Laboratory and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, have demonstrated a novel synaptic architecture that could lead to a new class of information processing systems inspired by the brain. The findings are an impo...

Who's Who? NJIT's Atam Dhawan!

Friday, June 29th, 2018
Dr. Atam P. Dhawan, NJIT’s senior vice provost for research, received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who, the nearly 120-year-old publisher of biographies, for his leadership in the fields of engineering and higher education. The award recognizes p...

NJIT's Online Master's Program in Electrical Engineering is Ranked 14th in the Country

Friday, June 8th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s online master’s program in electrical engineering now ranks 14th in the country, according to BestColleges.com The program, aimed at students looking to enhance technical, problem-solving and professional development skills, includes three specializations: commu...

NJIT Car Maven Takes on the American Solar Challenge, Then It's Off to Tesla

Friday, June 1st, 2018
Jason Murzello’s fascination with cars began in a fairly typical way – with his own matchbox set – but then veered into technology by way of video games such as “Need for Speed,” which allow budding aficionados to tinker with performance by switching out not only tires, but suspensions and engines...