research

Faculty love to involve students in research and will provide opportunities to fit your interests and guide you in exploring entirely new ideas.

This 60kg ABB industrial robotic arm is the centerpiece of the Digital Fabrication Lab.  The robotic arm will expand the possibilities of teaching cutting-edge technologies used in design, architecture and the building industry.

The Motion Capture Lab is managed and located within the digital design program, but is used as a resource for students and faculty. Three Art + Design classes currently use the studio: Human Factors/Ergonomics, Video and Animation and Acting Fundamentals for Animators.

Students are working on projects using a unique combination of robotics and virtual reality for neurorehabilitation of people who have arm limitations resulting from a recent stroke.

Eric Nersesian, director of the VR Lab is working with Picatinny Arsenal’s ARDEC for VR training research and with NJIT’s Biomedical Vision Lab to use VR techniques in vision therapy.

NJIT alumnus Robert Cohen, a biomedical engineer, and entrepreneur specializes in orthopedic joint replacement implants that exploit the convergence of advanced materials, new fabrication methods and robotic-assisted surgery to maximize motion restoration.

Student Sam Kolawole '18 studies the development of the sensory cells called neuromasts in both forms of the cavefish.

Student Shaiza Ali is investigating the neural coding for vision in cave and surface fish in the Neuroecology of Unusual Animals Laboratory

Senior Emily Almeida is 3D bioprinting vascular networks using hydrogels.

Using a 3D bioplotter, Jorge Pereyra ’18 is creating wrinkle patterns on hydrogels – some wavy and random and some highly ordered hexagonals – which he then layers into a three-dimensional matrix to support cell growth.