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 NCE Salute to Engineering Excellence -2008 Photos

NCE Salute to Engineering Excellence 2007 Photos 

May 16 2008 - NCE's End of Year BBQ

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Technical Seminars by
Dr. Jay  N. Meegoda and Dr. Krishna Reddy

NJIT Winners of the 2008 International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering

NEWARK, May 1, 2008—Giuseppe Di Benedetto and Micaela Caramellino, two doctoral students in NJIT’s graduate chemical engineering program, recently received recognition at a multi-university student poster event organized by the New Jersey section of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) for developing efficient and robust approaches to manufacture nano- and micro-sized drug particles. Their work is supported through grants from the Engineering Research Center on Structured Organic Particulate Systems sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

“In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has recognized that new technologies and methods must be developed to design, optimize, scale-up, and control processes involved in the manufacture of drug products,” said Piero Armenante, PhD, research advisor of both students and director of NJIT’s pharmaceutical engineering program. “One promising area of technological research is the development of novel methods to manufacture nano- and micro-size drug particles.  Such small particles offer the advantage of being more rapidly and efficiently taken up by the body because of their smaller size and increased surface area.”

Di Benedetto, who grew up in Newark but now lives in Little Falls, received the highest score of all participants by demonstrating how the equipment that he assembled, comprising pumps, small-scale reactors, tanks and other laboratory equipment, could make two small liquid streams collide, producing nano and micro-sized particles.  Prior to this competition Di Benedetto has presented his results at two sessions of the November 2007 meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE).  His work was also presented at the 2007 Biennial North American Mixing Forum Conference.

Caramellino of Nutley presented her research project, in which she explained how she used a high shear device to fragment micro particles.  Her research was also presented last November at the AIChE meeting.

Next fall, both students will travel to Boca Raton, all expenses paid, to compete in ISPE’s larger national competition.

2008 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Finalist

Sara Gatmir Motahari, a doctorial student in Electrical and Computer Engineering named a 2008 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship finalist.  She will receive an award of $1,000.  The Program Awards academic scholarships to outstanding undergraduate and graduate women who are completing degrees in computer science and related fields and who have demonstrated a commitment to advancing women in technology.

New Face in Civil Engineering

Black Enterprise Names Upcoming Pacesetter to Watch

 Treena Livingston Arinzeh, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been named one of 40 under 40 to watch in 2008.

Grand Opening of The Vincent A. Stabile Systems Engineering and Management Laboratories and Program

Thomas A. Edison Patent Award

Timothy N. Chang, Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at NJIT will receive the 2007 Thomas A. Edison Patent Award for this patent "Delivery of Metered Amounts of Liquid Materials".  the award, which will be presented at the Research & Development Council of New Jersey's Annual Dinner, recognizes and encourages the technological creativity and leadership of New Jersey's R&D community.

Thomas A. Edison Educator of the Year Award

Costas G. Gogos, Distinguished Research Professor in the Otto H. York Department of Chemical Engineering, will receive the 2007 Thomas A. Edison Educator of the Year Award. The award, which will be presented at the Research & Development Council of New Jersey's Annual Dinner, recognizes and encourages the technological creativity and leadership of New Jersey's R & D community.

Professors Win Best Paper Award

Professor Osvaldo Simeone and Professor Yeheskel Bar-Ness, jointly with prof. Spagnolini of Politecnico di Milano, Italy, have recently received two best paper awards at the international conferences "IEEE Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications conference" (June 17-20, 2007, Helsinki, Finland) for the paper "On pulse-coupled discrete-time phase locked loops for wireless networks" and "IEEE Conference on Wireless Rural and Emergency Communications" (Oct. 1-2, 2007, Rome, Italy) for the paper "A resilient synchronization algorithm for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks based on distributed discrete-time PLLs ". These awards were given in recognition for their work on distributed synchronization for wireless networks, where they pioneered the use of pulse-coupled phase-locked loops (PLLs) for the achievement of time synchronization in decentralized wireless scenarios. This research activity bridges the gap between the well-established field of PLL design in conventional point-to-point systems with the emerging field of distributed processing for ad hoc or sensor networks by addressing both the underlying theoretical framework and specific implementation issues such as security and resilience.