Alumni News

February 16, 2017

NJIT Alum Named Partner at DMR Architects

NJIT alum Kurt Vierheilig ’99 has been named one of five new partners at DMR Architects, the fourth-largest architecture firm in New Jersey.
Central King Building
February 2, 2017

Helping to Make Written Words Matter at NJIT

Words have consequences. Whether spoken or written, the words we choose to use matter profoundly across the spectrum of our relationships with others. They matter from the very personal communication we share with those closest to us, to achieving success in school and the workplace, to engaging in social and political debate — hopefully debate that is civil and informed given the verbal tenor of our times.
January 19, 2016

Buildings and Meanings — Interpreting Cultural Expression in Architecture

  Buildings and Meanings — Interpreting Cultural Expression in Architecture Distinguished Professor Zeynep Çelik is an internationally honored interpreter — of buildings. Çelik, who has a joint appointment in NJIT’s New Jersey School of Architecture and the Department of History, is an architectural historian whose career has been dedicated to interpreting the meanings buildings communicate about the cultures that create them.
January 20, 2017

Graduate Openhouse

Join us for our Graduate Open House and find out how NJIT can help you advance your degree and career!  You will have the opportunity to: Meet the Admissions team and find out more about the graduate admissions process and requirements Learn more about the different graduate degree programs from our academic advisors Find out about our graduate certificate programs and online learning opportunities We have also added information sessions to the Graduate Open House which will provide you with a brief introduction to each of our colleges.
January 19, 2017

College Factual Ranks NJIT’s Information Systems Program Best in the Nation

College Factual, a leading source of college data analytics and insights, has ranked NJIT’s information systems program the best in the United States. 
Engineering Technology professor John Wiggins
January 19, 2017

The Grades Are In: Two Engineering Professors Earn an A+ for Teaching

There are top-notch teachers who expertly transmit what they know in class. But more influential still are the mentors who immerse their students so thoroughly in their subject matter they feel like they’ve lived it. Those experiences can be life-changing. Ronald Rockland, chairman of NJIT’s Department of Engineering Technology, and John Wiggins, a senior lecturer in the department and coordinator of the Construction Engineering Technology and Construction Management Technology programs, clearly belong to the latter category.
NJIT Professor Rajesh Dave and his former graduate student, alumnus Daniel To
January 17, 2017

NJIT Engineers Win an Edison Patent Award for Technology that Masks the Taste of Bitter Drugs

Rajesh Davé, distinguished professor of chemical, biological and pharmaceutical engineering, and two of his former graduate students, Maxx Capece and Daniel To, received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for developing a manufacturing process that masks the bitter tastes of medications while delivering them effectively to their targets in the body. The team of chemical engineers was honored for their “enabling technology” at the organization’s 37th Edison Patent Awards Ceremony on November 3. They were among 12 winners in 2016.
NJIT's Blast Lab
January 17, 2017

The Art of War: Engineering Protective Gear for 21st Century Soldiers

Battle-inflicted head injuries are as old as war itself, evidenced by the copper helmets worn by Bronze Age soldiers to deflect blows from spears and axes. Over the ensuing millennia, as weapons evolved, so did armor. Today, the powerful explosive devices of 21st century warfare have once again raised the stakes, prompting urgent calls to re-engineer protective gear.
January 16, 2017

NJIT Grad Talks Digital Design

Pixar has been entertaining millions for over two decades with brilliant work like “Toy Story,” “The Incredibles” and “Up.” The American film animation studio also continues to inspire budding animation artists, like 2016 graduate Mark Sanna, to create their own art and stories.
January 13, 2017

Influential Scholar

Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Information Systems, defined the electronic frontier with her groundbreaking research and prescient, award-winning books about the impact of virtual online communities and the potential of communicating through computers.
January 13, 2017

Course Spotlight: Behind the Scenes of the Incredible CoAD Superhero Studio

During the 2015 fall semester, there was a collective of interior, digital and industrial designers and architects holed up in the Idea Factory on the lower level of Cypress Hall creating the legends of tomorrow.
April 6, 2016

Mane Event

Twice a week at NJIT, on the third floor of the Central King Building, adjunct professor Patti O’Brien-Richardson teaches “HAIR: Culture, Politics and Technology,” a senior seminar offered by the humanities department in the College of Science & Liberal Arts.
NJIT distinguished alumnus Ying Wu '88
January 12, 2017

Distinguished Gentleman

Alumnus Ying Wu makes a name for himself at NJIT and beyond.
January 12, 2017

From Industrial Engineer to Career Coach: Carla G. Jones '94

<p>Carla Jones ’94 did not always envision herself in the career-coaching profession per se, but as an NJIT student she was continually involved in activities where she was helping someone or improving something. And looking back on her decision to study industrial engineering, she even chose a major closely connected to working with people to improve systems or processes.</p>
Casey Diekman
January 12, 2017

Delving Deeper into the Circadian Rhythms of Life

The circadian rhythms that harmonize our behavior with the daily cycle of light and dark, and with seasonal change, are among the most powerful physiological forces that we experience each day — forces that are experienced not only by other mammals, but also by many other living organisms.
Diverse Hands image
January 12, 2017

Is the Cooperative Economy Next in a Post-Consumer World?

For a significant part of the 20th century, the Manufacturing Economy generated unprecedented material prosperity in the United States. Then, as well-paying factory jobs migrated to corners of the world where labor is much less expensive, it was the Information Economy or the Service Economy that provided gainful employment and enabled the consumption underpinning our national and individual well-being.
January 11, 2017

Can-do Attitude

At NJIT, faculty and staff take great care to nurture students who are concerned about humanity.
January 11, 2017

A Dream Come True

Having grown exponentially over the last decade, the city of Newark continues to burgeon as a mecca of architectural rebirth, thanks in part to creatives like College of Architecture and Design (CoAD) alum Kyle Rendall ’07.
January 11, 2017

Prime Time

Contrary to popular belief, the world of interior design isn’t all pillow fluffing, couch shopping and paint sampling. “Sure, it’s a part of the job, but it goes far beyond that,” insists Elouie Gaspar. “I feel like anyone can decorate, but not everyone has the skills to design a space. We care about the infrastructure of the building. We care about plumbing. We care about electrical. It’s not just about does this couch go with this wall.” Destined for Design
College of Architecture and Design students spent a month in Italy learning how to cut stone.
January 11, 2017

All Abroad

The Digital Stone Project is a summer workshop offered by Italian stone-cutting company Garfagnana Innovazione. Students from NJIT, NYIT, Yale University, Bennington College and William Paterson University were selected by their respective faculty and brought to Garfagnana, Italy to work with the latest innovations in digital stone fabrication technologies. The students developed models using programs such as Rhinoceros, 3-D Studio Max, Zbrush and Cinema 4-D to be milled out by five axis robotic mills at facilities provided by Garfagnana Innovazione.

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