Events and Resources

Summer Research Symposium

The 2023 NJIT Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation Symposium integrated with the Innovation Day. More than 150 undergraduate students will be presenting their summer research and innovation projects at the 2023 Summer Research Symposium. These students are from NJIT through NJIT URI programs and other top national universities through NSF REU sites grants, and the Heritage Institute of Technology, India.

McNair Achievement Program

The Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, awards grants to institutions of higher education for projects designed to provide underrepresented students with effective preparation for doctoral study.The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement program is a comprehensive one. It is designed to help low-income and first-generation or underrepresented students majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines to complete their bachelor's degree, and to enroll in post-baccalaureate degree programs, with the goal of obtaining doctoral degrees.

NAI-NJIT Chapter and Workshops

The  mission of the NJIT NAI Chapter is to recognize and promote inventions in translational research and technology development. In addition, the NJIT NAI Chapter activities would foster opportunities for faculty and student inventors to facilitate acquisition of intellectual property (IP) assets and learn entrepreneurial pathways from research and innovation to translation to market and commercialization.

NAI-NJIT Chapter Student Innovator and Inventor Club

The National Academy of Inventors® is a member organization comprising U.S. and international universities, and governmental and non-profit research institutes, with over 4,000 individual inventor members and Fellows spanning more than 250 institutions worldwide.

New Jersey Innovation Acceleration Center

The New Jersey Innovation Acceleration Center (NJIAC), a collaborative resource for entrepreneurs, is open for business at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. NJIT has a long history of technological research and the NJIAC is designed to bring those resources together with students, faculty and other entrepreneurs to create cutting edge innovation and empower bold ventures.  A key defining factor of the Center is the focus on helping ventures accelerate their development achieving time to market and time to profitability milestones.

Minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program 

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship minor is an 15 credit program that prepares non-business majors for careers in which they commercialize new ideas into new business ventures or create new business lines for existing ventures.  In addition to learning business fundamentals in accounting, economics, marketing, and management, students in this Minor learn how to create and finance new company, protect their intellectual property, and get to the right market on time.  Students also interact with entrepreneurs and work in NJIT’s business incubator: VentureLink.  In fact, many of our students create their companies before even graduating.

VentureLink

VentureLink is a community hub for technology companies at NJIT for Northern New Jersey. When a startup is pre-revenue, pre-legal formation, and pre-product market fit they need a place to get started. Established tech companies need a place to grow. VentureLink is where entrepreneurial skills are learned experientially. VentureLink operates within the NJIT campus, providing in-residence companies with weekly programming, workspace, and expert mentorship.

NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™)

The NSF I-Corps Site at NJIT training program consists of several self-paced learning modules that will introduce the teams to the Lean Startup Method. All team members will be expected to participate in the online Moodle based coursework.

NASA Summer Research Internships

NASA has internships in aerospace, chemical, environmental, materials, mechanical, civil, electrical, thermal, systems, optical, robotic and computer hardware and software engineering.  Engineers also work in the fields of composites, cryogenics, microelectronics, signal processing, high performance computing, and nanotechnology. 

For more information on national NASA programs, use these links to navigate the opportunities: NASA Internships, Fellowships, and Scholarships (NIFS). Or you can go through the Student Opportunity link. A single internship or fellowship application places students in the applicant pool for consideration by mentors for all NASA internships or fellowships. Visit the NASA Internship Home Page and scroll down to Frequently Asked Questions for more information.