Sometimes engineering school really can be fun. Just ask the six Newark College of Engineering undergrads who created and designed their own micro airplane. >>

The Microsoft 2011 Imagine Cup recently honored a smart phone application to eradicate world hunger developed by two NJIT graduate students.   >>

NJIT will be a unique contender in the upcoming April 16-17, 2011 P3 award competition on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.  >>

More than 50 NJIT students will compete at NJIT in a student Hackathon. See dozens of empty pizza boxes and soda cartons strewn throughout the Campus Center Ballroom as teams feverishly compete to build next-generation applications using SciVerse, a new search and discovery platform. >>

NJIT civil engineering students have for the fifth straight year taken first-place honors at the annual Metropolitan New York Region Steel Bridge Competition this past weekend. Some 25 students–including many seniors–will work past NJIT’s May 17, 2010 commencement to ready the 20-foot-long model steel bridge for the next step.  >>

For the eleventh time in the last 12 years, NJIT has taken first place in the prestigious ASME Student Sections Committee Contest (formerly the Ingersoll-Rand Contest) for District A, which includes all the major universities and colleges in the Northeast. The contest involves the writing of a comprehensive report that documents activities by the ASME Student Section.  >>

Since childhood, video games have fascinated NJIT adjunct professor D.J. Kehoe, a 28-year-old adjunct professor at NJIT and recent alumnus.   >>

More than 150 NJIT students will demonstrate their skills in video game development and competitive game play at the NJIT Game Development Expo on March 31, 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. in the Jim Wise Theatre. All are welcome to attend the event; the game development contest is for current NJIT students only. >>

New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) annual fall festival, known as NJIT Day, will feature student engineering contests, an electronic game exhibition, a battle of the bands, a barbecue, men’s and women’s soccer games, athletic games, a kid’s zone, a chili cook-off, an art exhibit on Newark’s former Pabst Brewery, a dinner show with mentalist Robert Channing and other events.   >>