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The Verizon 5G Smart Competition Presented a Challenge to Students. NJIT Had Solutions.

Monday, May 4th, 2026
Emerging partner Verizon Communications, Inc., has an interest in what NJIT, the largest polytechnic university in New Jersey with R1 status (highest level of research), can do to take their technology farther and faster than ever before.While several current projects are being conducted by faculty,...

Autonomous Model Car Design Wins Real-World Impact Award at NJIT AI Exploration Day

Monday, May 4th, 2026
Students won the Real World Impact award at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s spring 2026 Artificial Intelligence Exploration Day not for what they built, but for how they built it.The team of Bartek Broclawik, Matthew Sudol, Pola Szwaczka and Om Vaghasiya knew that autonomous vehicles are an est...

Senior Gira Abdou is a Project Engineer for New Jersey’s Newest State Park

Friday, May 1st, 2026
NJIT alumni and students are assisting with construction of New Jersey’s newest state park, a nine-mile greenway that will convert a former Norfolk Southern rail line into a linear state park spanning from Montclair to Jersey City in Essex and Hudson Counties. AECOM Tishman is the construction manag...

Optimizing Rain Gardens in a Flood-Prone City

Friday, May 1st, 2026
With nearly $1 million in state funding, NJIT’s Center for Natural Resources (CNR) is leading a team of engineers, modelers and construction designers who are developing rain gardens in public areas of flood-prone Paterson, N.J., such as parks, schools and community centers. The city’s many combined...

Bringing Clean Water to an Andean Village 3,000 Miles from Newark

Friday, May 1st, 2026
A team of Engineers Without Borders students who designed a gravity-driven piping system to bring clean water to houses in a remote village in Ecuador is the 2025-2026 winner of the Outstanding Student Chapter Award, presented at the 28th annual Newark College of Engineering’s Salute to Engineering ...

On-the-Job Analytics That Help Construction Crews Avoid Injuries

Friday, May 1st, 2026
A Q&A with Mohammad Khalid, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineeringHow would you summarize your research?I focus on equipping the construction workforce with on-the-job data analytics and computational thinking. Designed for people without a background in computer science, my ...

YWCC Research Earns Best Paper Awards at ACM CHI 2026

Friday, May 1st, 2026
Several Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) faculty members in the Department of Informatics and their student collaborators presented award-winning research papers at the ACM CHI 2026 conference in Barcelona, Spain during the month of April. The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI confere...

Bukunmi Odunlami - ECE PhD Student of the Month - May 2026

Friday, May 1st, 2026
Bukunmi Odunlami is a third-year Ph.D. student in the ECE department, advised by Dr. Marcos Netto. Before beginning his Ph.D., he worked for four years in industry as an electrical engineer, focusing on industrial power system installation and automation, including control panels and PLC systems. Hi...

NJIT Leaders Recognized Among BINJE’s Best Higher Education Honorees

Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Several New Jersey Institute of Technology leaders have been recognized in BINJE’s inaugural "BINJE’s Best: Higher Education" honorees list, a statewide package highlighting the people and programs shaping New Jersey’s higher education ecosystem.Published April 24, BINJE described the recognition as...

American Concrete Institute Elects NJIT Professor as Board Director

Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
Professional accolades started arriving early in the career of Matthew P. Adams, an associate professor of civil engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and co-director of the Materials and Structures Laboratory (MatSLab). In 2015, Adams was still working toward his Ph.D. when he wa...