Newark College of Engineering

It was about five minutes after Robert Dresnack’s Water Resources Engineering class had begun when a septuagenarian poked his head into the room. Puzzled, the professor inquired, “May I help you?” In fact, he could. “I’m a student in this class,” replied Chris Antholis, then 72, who was six years into his quest to earn a Bachelor of Science in civil and environmental engineering. The required course, on the increasingly urgent topic of water supply planning, had not yet been scratched off his list. He quickly took a seat at an empty desk. A longtime building contractor who spent...

In a commencement speech that mixed humor and practicality, Student Senate President Mark Neubauer* described the road to success as navigable, if bumpy at times. As his classmates prepare to embark on it, he urged them to emulate the “traffic cones found on campus" and “be resilient.” “Being passionate about what you do is amazing. Being excited to change the world is fantastic. But passion alone will only get you so far,” he warned. “You can’t be passionate about all the dull, exhausting, and unpleasant things life will throw your way. But you can be resilient and keep on...

Meet the 2018 Gonfalon Carriers   Julia Garcia Gonfalon: Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) Major: Finance Hometown: Madrid, Spain Next up: Moving to Salt Lake City, Utah to work as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs Garcia, a former member of Spain’s national fencing team, chose NJIT in part for its Division 1 program, but quickly found her stride in NJIT’s emerging investment community. “I’ve always been obsessed with stocks. I was reading the financial pages by 10 or 11, which my parents thought was so odd! When I got here, I was ready to take...

Organic chemistry looms large – and sometimes ominously – on the horizon of many an ambitious student, constituting a make or break moment for some on the road to medical or scientific careers. For senior Clayton Powell*, “Orgo” turned out to be a game-changer that propelled him in a new direction entirely. Powell, who began at NJIT as a biomedical engineering major, became intrigued by the puzzle-like nature of chemistry in his tiny section of “Honors Orgo” sophomore year. The professor, William Skawinski, taught the course “exactly the way I like to learn – as a process, starting at the...