Engineering and Applied Science

Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics (CAMS)
Fosters and supports the application of advanced mathematical and statistical methods to scientific, engineering and management problems. The statistical consulting facility assists internal and external clients with problems in data analysis, time series, design of experiments and estimation and reliability theory. (973) 596-8465

Center for Membrane Technologies¹
The center focuses on research in new membrane structures, materials and devices, novel membrane-based processes and techniques and applications, development of membrane technologies for separations and other applications. NJIT leads an academic consortium whose other members include Rowan, Rutgers-New Brunswick and Stevens. Training of professionals, graduate and undergraduate students, developing new membrane technologies and their applications and transferring them to corporate partners are prime objectives of the center. (973) 596-8479

Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research
The center focuses on observational and theoretical astrophysics and operates the Big Bear Solar Observatory, at Big Bear Lake, California, and a dedicated array of solar radio telescopes at Owens Valley Radio Observatory, in Owens Valley, California. The facilities at both locations have the unique capacity to study the sun and its extended magnetic atmosphere simultaneously. (973) 596-3565

New Jersey Center for Engineered Particulates¹ 
The center focuses on fundamental and applied research in particle technology for industry and promotes technology development and transfer to industrial partners. The research thrust areas include particle storage and transport, particle and surface property modification (engineered particulate materials), particle segregation, mixing and separations, simulations and modeling. Undergraduate and graduate education and professional training complement the research. (973) 596-3352

New Jersey Center for Wireless Networking and Internet Security
New approaches and new software tools for integrated wireless and wired network management, including data and network security, are the goals of the newly established New Jersey Center for Wireless Networking and Internet Security. A partnership between NJIT's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Princeton University, the center is supported by a $2.6 million R&D Excellence Grant from New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. Its main objective is to provide optimized efficiency and security in the multimedia environment. Led by Atam Dhawan, professor and chair of electrical and computer engineering, the new center builds on NJIT's established strengths in wireless communication, signal processing, multimedia and networking. Other NJIT members of the center team include Associate Professors Constantine Manikopoulos and Yun-Qing Shi and Assistant Professors Symeon Papavassiliou and Sirin Tekinay, all of electrical and computer engineering. Center researchers are collaborating with leading organizations, including Panasonic, Prediction Systems, AT&T, the U.S. Army and Mitre Corp. (973)596-3524.

New Jersey Center for Microflow Control
Research at the New Jersey Center for Micro-Flow Control (MFC), an increasingly important technology, involves the manipulation of fluid --- gas or liquid --- flow fields by creating small disturbances in the flow.

The New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology R&D excellence program partially builds upon the work of the W.M. Keck Foundation Laboratory for Electro-Hydrodynamics of Suspensions, headed at NJIT by Nadine Aubry, F. Leslie and Mildred Jacobus Professor of mechanical engineering, professor of mathematics and chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, and Boris Khusid, associate professor of mechanical engineering. The laboratory is funded by a $500,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation. The New Jersey MFC Center is led by professor Aubry.

MFC technology has a wide range of applications, including devices for medical diagnosis and treatment, telecommunications, environmental remediation, chemical and materials processing. In collaboration with researchers from Princeton University and industrial partners, the NJIT center will focus on the development of new technologies such as miniaturized systems on a microchip for the characterization and manipulation of cells, bacteria, spores or other microscopic particles, and high-precision microprocessing tools using microjets.

With their collaborators from the City University of New York, the research team has also received funding from the U.S. Office of Naval Research to develop an electro-hydrodynamic technology for monitoring and cleaning contaminants from oils, lubricants and coolants and other fluids used in shipboard equipment. Many machine failures are caused by contamination of hydraulic fluids, coolants and other liquids with micron- or sub-micron-sized particles due to corrosion or aging of fluids, but mechanical filtering is ineffective for such fine debris. In contrast, a strong high-gradient AC electric field can be used to control and manipulate the motion and aggregation of particles in flowing liquids. The team is developing a field prototype of online filtering hardware and will test it aboard a naval ship. (973) 642-7268.

Environmental Engineering and Science

Otto H. York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science (CEES)
CEES is the home for many of NJIT's environmental centers, programs and initiatives. The $11 million center, containing $2.4 million in state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, is the first building in the nation especially constructed for cooperative public and private research in hazardous waste management. (973) 596-3233

Manufacturing

Center for Manufacturing Systems (CMS)¹
CMS is NJIT's focal point for industrial interaction in research, technology extension, education and training pertinent to manufacturing. Project work spans aspects of materials production, component part fabrication and automated assembly. (973) 596-2874

Polymer Engineering Center (PEC)
PEC seeks to advance the foundations of design and control of polymer production and part-fabrication technologies with facilities that include a production scale, multilayer co-extrusion line with thermoforming unit and extruders, injection molding machines, and test and characterization equipment. (973) 642-4582

Polymer Processing Institute (PPI)
PPI is a not-for-profit institute with special areas of expertise in the development of high-performance products and processes for advanced compounding, property characterization and computer modeling. PPI includes the professionally managed Characterization Lab, Computer Center and Process Lab, which contains a number of single- and twin-screw extruders and several injection machines along with downstream equipment. (973) 642-4582

Transportation

International Intermodal Transportation Center (IITC)
The institute conducts interdisciplinary research on the transportation needs of the public and private sectors. Affiliated centers include the National Center for Transportation and Industrial Productivity, which investigates methods for increasing productivity through transportation improvements and provides technical, administrative and fiscal management necessary to conduct research projects in the field of transportation (973) 596-3355; and the New Jersey Center for Transportation Information and Decision Engineering (TIDE) Center, a partnership of NJIT, Princeton and Rutgers that develops and markets technologies that will help individuals and commercial enterprises make better transportation-related decisions. (973) 642-7214.

New Jersey Transportation Planning Authority
The North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority is the federally authorized Metropolitan Planning Organization for 6 million people in the 13-county northern New Jersey region. Each year, the NJTPA oversees more than $2 billion in transportation improvement projects and provides a forum for interagency cooperation and public input into funding decisions. It also sponsors and conducts studies, assists county planning agencies and monitors compliance with national air quality goald. (973) 639-8400.

Electronics and Communications

Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research
The center promotes research on the theoretical and practical aspects of communications and signal processing in collaboration with government organizations and local industry with emphasis on wireless and personal communications. (973) 596-8474

Electronic Imaging Center
The center's research emphasizes novel diffractive methods in spectral filtering, which are combined with visible and infrared imaging systems. Of particular interest are applications of infrared imaging and radiometry with industrial and commercial partners. (973) 596-3538

Microelectronics Fabrication Center
Research focuses on advanced semiconductor and micromachined device design, simulation and fabrication. The center features a complete Class 10 cleanroom with 6-inch silicon wafer processing capability, one of only a few such university cleanrooms in the nation. Recent state-of-the-art equipment additions include wafer bonding and deep reactive etching tools. The center provides industry and university clients with technical support and prototype development in MEMS and/or CMOS technologies. (973) 596-5736

Architecture
Center for Architecture and Building Science Research
This applied research group investigates the building environment within a social and economic context. Major areas of study include housing, learning environments, healthcare and aging, disabilities, preservation technologies and the utilization of waste materials for construction and infrastructure. (973) 596-3097

Public Policy

Small Business Assistance
Center for Information Age Technology (CIAT)
CIAT provides impartial, professional computer-related assistance to government, education, non-profit and business organizations. The center assists with a wide range of projects such as assessment of current hardware and software, identification of systems requirements, vendor and package evaluation, implementation, training and Web site development. (973) 596-3035

Defense Procurement Technical Assistance Center
The center provides individualized marketing, contractual and technical assistance to businesses currently selling or seeking to sell goods/services to the federal, state or local government and prime contractors. (973) 596-5807

Enterprise Development Centers (EDC I, II & III)
EDC I,II and III operate technology-oriented small business incubators committed to the long-term economic vitality and growth of entrepreneurial ventures in New Jersey. EDC addresses problems inherent to these businesses and helps to commercialize companies' new products, processes and services. (973) 596-5740

New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc. (MEP)
MEP is a not-for-profit organization headquartered at NJIT that serves as a gateway for small to medium-sized manufacturers to access statewide services in the public and private sectors that address business, financial and technical issues essential to forming high-performance firms. (973) 642-7099

1. Supported by the N.J. Commission on Science and Technology
   
2. A National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center 
   
3. Supported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
   
4. Supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation 
   
5. Supported by the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection