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Alum and Retired Trustee at NJIT Reflects on the Road from Undergrad to PSEG Leader to Deacon

Friday, November 5th, 2021
As a newly retired trustee at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Peter Cistaro marvels at how the campus and curriculum developed during his 20 years on the board.  Also, as a 1968 graduate of NJIT, he’s grateful for the bachelor’s he earned in industrial engineering, which opened the door to...

New Industrial Engineering Lab, Courtesy of Dieter Weissenrieder '76 and Family, Raises NJIT's Game

Friday, November 5th, 2021
A game-changing gift from an NJIT alumnus and his family is providing the university’s industrial engineering students an indispensable opportunity: the experience of a small-scale version of a factory floor right here on campus. The newly created engineering lab will give students hands-on experti...

Newark College of Engineering Joyfully Celebrates a Pandemic-Delayed Salute to Excellence

Friday, November 5th, 2021
After a lengthy hiatus imposed by the pandemic, the Newark College of Engineering (NCE) community of faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends gathered on campus this fall to celebrate its own at the annual Salute to Engineering Excellence. “This is a homecoming for me,” said Nicholas DeNichilo ...

Minority Engineer Recognizes NJIT as a 'Top 20 University'

Friday, November 5th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology is among Minority Engineer magazine’s “Top 20 Universities” for 2021. The selection is based on a survey of the publication’s readers on the diversity of the curriculum, student body and faculty and the diversity and inclusivity of the learning environment. The re...

NJIT-Led Team Wins a $1.25 Million Grant to Ensure Women Scholars Flourish as Inventors

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021
Women’s ingenuity dots the human landscape, from the external fire escape, to the word processor, to the first dishwashing machine to replace scrubbers with water pressure, to Kevlar, the lightweight, but supremely strong fiber used in bulletproof vests. And yet statistics show that too few of thei...

Tobiloba Fashae Comes to NJIT For Industrial Design, Supercars and Yo-Yos

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021
Tobiloba Fashae knew he wanted to learn how to design the technology of the future while still attending Hunterdon Regional High School. At first, it was automotive engineering since he’s an avid fan of high-performance sports cars. During an isolated year of self-reflection in his senior year of hi...

NJIT Student Bottle Rockets Soar Where No Highlander Has Gone Before

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
Mibrar Reza and Adam Tracy — following the spirit of Verne, von Braun, NASA and Musk — were the first-place winners of this semester's inaugural NJIT Makerspace Soda Bottle Rocket Competition, charting unexplored regions of Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium with water-powered flights of 227 and 25...

White Scores Brace in 2-0 Win at Hartford in Finale, NJIT Clinches Spot in America East Tournament

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
NJIT fifth-year forward Rene White scored a brace in the Highlanders 2-0 win at Hartford in the regular season finale for both teams at Al-Marzook Field at Alumni Monday evening. With a win at Hartford and a UMass Lowell loss against New Hampshire, the Highlanders have clinched a spot in ...

Saylor, Magruder, Caputo Garner America East Accolades

Monday, November 1st, 2021
Three members of the NJIT women's soccer team have earned the distinction of being the first Highlanders to garner postseason awards from the America East Conference. Redshirt junior Molly Saylor, senior Siani Magruder, and freshman Caroline Caputo each picked up awards from the...

Streaming Data Analytics Has New Method Planned by NJIT, USC, Harvard

Monday, November 1st, 2021
E-commerce sites, military planners and streaming media providers all want to analyze multiple sources of live data as quickly as possible, a holy grail of data science which is about to become possible through new software called StreamWare, from researchers at Harvard University, New Jersey Instit...