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NJIT Students Continue Record-Breaking Rise in Prestigious Fellowships and Awards

Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
Students at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have again achieved an impressive amount of prestigious awards this year with 16 students earning nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships. Their achievement continues an NJIT run, with Highlanders amassing 47(and counting) of these aw...

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 es...

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 combine...

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 ...

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...

NJIT Students Design Assistive Technology Prototypes in One-Day Makerspace Sprint

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
A one-day design sprint at NJIT challenged students to think like engineers, designers and problem-solvers for a wider range of users. At CADence: An Additive Design Jam, held April 18 in the NJIT Makerspace, six teams spent the day designing and prototyping assistive technology concepts aimed at im...

Machine Learning and AI Help NJIT Researchers Understand Human Crowd Movement

Friday, April 17th, 2026
A dose of artificial intelligence is helping New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers make sense of how crowds and the individuals within them move around, leading to insights with applications in fields such as emergency management, pedestrian traffic planning, robotics, special effects and e...

NJIT’s Goldwater Scholars Build Futures in Medicine, Environmental Research

Thursday, April 16th, 2026
Goldwater Scholarships, among the nation’s most prestigious honors for undergraduates pursuing STEM research careers, have been awarded to two NJIT juniors whose academic excellence, research experience and professional ambitions have already set them apart. This year’s recipients are Albert Dorman ...