NJIT's research program focuses on applied research in the most promising of emerging technologies, with emphasis on technology transfer and commercialization. Research at NJIT is organized around multi-disciplinary centers of excellence that encourage partnerships among various disciplines, as well as with other educational institutions, private enterprise and government agencies.

Applied Life Sciences

• Biomedical Engineering: Stem cell applications in tissue regeneration, vision and neural engineering, bioMEMS, motion analysis and rehabilitation engineering, biomaterials and biopolymers.
  
• Center for Applied Genomics: Development and application of DNA microarray technology.
• The Medical Device Concept Laboratory : Synthetic materials in biomedicine.

• Membrane and Separation Technologies: Micro- and nanoporous filters for medicine and pharmaceutical manufacture.
• ProjectFusion: Technologies to support SmartCampus, a mobile, wireless NJIT campus community system with applications to protect privacy and maintain security.
• Public Health Research Institute: Smallpox vaccine research, oncogenes,  toxic shock syndrome.
• The Vision and Neural Engineering Lab: Oculomotor dynamics, vergeance eye movements.

Architecture and Building Sciences

• Center for Architecture and Building Science Research: Educational facilities, health care and aging environments, developmental disablilities planning, historic preservation, housing and community development.
• Concrete Testing Laboratory: Reinforced and high-strength concretes.
• Imaging Laboratory: Computer-aided design in architecture.
  
  

Computing, Mathematics, and Telecommunications

• Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics: Mathematical biology, fluid dynamics, wave propagation.
• Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research: Multi-carrier systems, Turbo Coding techniques, ultra-wideband communications, MIMO systems.
• Collaborative Hypermedia Laboratory: Asynchronous learning systems, online communities, digital libraries.
• Cryptography & Telecommunication Laboratory: Cryptography, computer security and telecommunications networks.
• Data and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory: Data mining, bioinformations, computational biology.
• electronic Arts Habitat (eArtH): Multimedia, social computing, human-computer interaction.
• New Jersey Center for Wireless Networking and Internet Security: Intrusion detection, watermarking, mobile networks.

Environmental Science and Engineering

• York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science: Hazardous substance management, pollution remediation and prevention, sustainable manufacturing.
• Center for Airborne Organics: Detecting and tracing organic pollutants, preventing pollutant emissions. 
• Northeast Hazardous Substance Research Center: Hazardous substance handling, reduction, assessment and management.
• Geoenvironmental Engineering Laboratory: Solid waste management and disposal, environmental systems, waste water treatment, site remediation.
• Laboratory for Process and Field Analytical Chemistry: On-line process analysis, environmental monitoring, portable instruments for on-sire environmental measurement.
• Materials Characterization Laboratory: Elemental. organic and structural analysis.

Materials Science and Manufacturing

• Bearings and Bearing Lubrications Laboratory: Hydrodynamic, hydrostatic, rolling element bearings and novel designs of unique bearings.
• Computational Fluid Dynamics: Particulate flows, mixing enhancement, suppression/enhancement of turbulence, drag minimization, thermal management.
• Dynamic Systems and Control Laboratory: Design, control and integration of mechanical, robotic and electromechanical systems.
• Center for Manufacturing Systems: Advanced technology center with a dual mission of providing manufacturing support  for university research programs and offering design and manufacturing expertise to small and mid-size companies.
• Electro-hydrodynamics Laboratory: Sensors and separation devices for a wide variety of systems for environment monitoring, health care, and medical diagnostics
• Electronic Imaging Center:  Infrared filters, sensors and detectors utilizing terahertz radiation, carbon nanotubes.
• W.M. Keck Laboratory: Manipulation of liquid flows and the small particles/microorganisms they transport in  biological and biomedical technologies.
• Metal Combustion Laboratory: Propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics, and incendiaries.
• Microelectronics Fabrication Center: Application-specific integrated circuits, optical switches, pressure sensors, and MEMS for biomedical, biometrics, and microfluidics application.
• Microgravity Research Laboratory: High energy density additives to propellants and explosives, gas sensors, fuel cells, and ultra-hard material coatings
• New Jersey Center for Engineered Particulates: Tailored particle coatings for pharmaceuticals, food, cosmetics, ceramics, defense, electronics and specialty chemicals.
• New Jersey Center for Microflow Control: Fluidic devices, with a focus on miniaturized flows, and  miniaturized sensors and actuators. 
• Optical Science and Engineering: optoelectronics, environmental monitoring, industrial process monitoring and position control, and ultrafast optical and optoelectronic phenomena. 
• Polymer Processing Institute: Modification of polymers processing into special property products for the medical, health care, automotive, electronics, construction, and packaging industries
• Vincent A. Stabile Lab:  “Hands-on” training in solving practical problems using robotics for today’s automated manufacturing.
• Waterjet Technology Lab: Waterjet machining and cleaning applications.

Solar Physics

• Center for Solar Research: Solar optical astronomy, solar radiophysics, terrestrial science.
• Big Bear Solar Observatory: Solar observation, helioseismology.
• Owens Valley Solar Array: Transient energetic phenomena, coronal magnetic fields.
• The Frequency-Agile Solar Radiotelescope (FASR) Project: Nature and evolution of coronal magnetic fields, physics of solar flares, drivers of space weather, the quiet Sun.
• Global High-Resolution H-Alpha Network: Round-the-clock solar observation.
• Space Weather Project: Monitoring and forecasting solar activity that may affect Earth's climate and technologies.

Transportation

• International Intermodal Transportation Center: Freight transportation, brownfields and passenger transportation
• National Center for Transportation and Industrial Productivity: Freight movement at domestic and international gateways, global competitiveness, intermodal passenger and freight transportation systems.
• North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority: Maintaining and improving transportation systems.
• Transportation, Economic and Land Use System (TELUS): Computerized transportation planning and programming.