Since 2024, the multi-million-dollar state and federally funded Rutgers Agrivoltaics Program (RAP) has been seeking to generate and harvest electricity by installing wind farms on actively farmed land.
Stepping Up to Discovery and Innovation
Rutgers School of Engineering is a national leader in discovery and innovation. Our expansive research program improves lives and advances technology through focused, transdisciplinary work. By collaborating with industry, government, and other partners, we create equitable solutions while contributing significantly to New Jersey's economic growth.
Engineering for the Future
Organized across ten engineering fields, Rutgers Engineering is uniquely positioned to address complex global challenges.
“Batteries power our lives and transform society,” says Glenn Amatucci, a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and director of the Energy Storage Research Group.
Rutgers’ interdisciplinary Master of Engineering degree in Energy Systems integrates technology and science with business, IT, public policy, and regulatory study.
Securing the Future through Defense and National Security
As the only public university in New Jersey offering an aerospace engineering degree, Rutgers Engineering provides a broad and multidisciplinary education in the fundamentals of aircraft and spacecraft design and boasts dedicated facilities to conduct dynamic research.
With a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant, Assistant Professor Steven Berg is seeking a way to enable sustained flight at VLEO (very low Earth orbit), the “no man’s land” between spaceflight and atmospheric flight.
According to Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor Rajiv Malhotra, additive manufacturing (AM) printers offer significant potential for in-field 3D printer fabrication by defense personnel.