Newark College of Engineering

Score! Soccer Alumna Accepted Into Women Athletes Business Network

Wednesday, March 28, 2018
“One of the things that I’m pretty passionate about is women being competitive and not having negative connotations around being competitive… I think that sometimes women don’t embrace that enough,” said Erika Taugher ’08, ’09, a star soccer alumna who earned a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and a master’s in international business. “Being competitive, I think it gives you an advantage and I think it helps to motivate you… For me it gives me some fire, and that definitely applied on the soccer field and…at NJIT in terms of wanting to get top grades.” Taugher brings that same spirit...

NJIT Students Take No. 2 Spot in Health Care Competition

Monday, March 26, 2018
Who better to develop ways to encourage young people to watch after their health than other young people? Such was the reasoning behind the first-ever Horizon BlueCross BlueShield of New Jersey’s (BCBSNJ) Health Care Transformation Challenge, conducted last year. The contest asked undergraduate students attending a New Jersey higher-education institution to submit innovative marketing or technology ideas tied to one of three health care-related activities: shopping for health plans, getting preventive care or taking advantage of wellness benefits. Sixteen teams of two to four students from...

Computer Technology Major Lands a Job at CISCO

Friday, March 23, 2018
This July, soon-to-be NJIT graduate Michael Bouzaglo will be happily settled in Raleigh, N.C., as an associate systems engineer (SE) for CISCO, a leader in the information technology (IT) and networking industry. He will receive training through the CISCO Sales Associate Program (CSAP) for his new role — a hard-earned dream position for the computer technology major, who calls himself “a geek at heart.” “You don’t see CISCO products in your average Best Buy or Radio Shack or what have you…all of their products are sold from person to person [by CISCO representatives],” explained Bouzaglo...

"Doing More with Less" Conference Explores Innovative Responses to Environmental Sustainability

Friday, March 16, 2018
The Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will hold a one-day Women Designing the Future conference—“The Environment: Doing More with Less”—on Friday, March 23. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. in the university’s Campus Center Ballrooms A and B. Conference participants will have opportunities to interact with women scientists, government leaders, entrepreneurs and social justice activists as they outline the near-future challenges posed by accelerating climate change, including disaster preparedness and basic food and water security....

Leading T.Y. Lin International: Alvaro Piedrahita '73

Thursday, March 15, 2018
For more than 40 years, in a career that has included awards and special recognition for innovative design and successful delivery of major infrastructure projects, Alvaro J. Piedrahita, P.E. has successfully led technical design professionals on multi-million dollar transportation infrastructure projects for major airports, highways, bridges, transit and rail, and support facilities worldwide. Piedrahita has remained active in the development of large-scale projects, such as the design and construction of the New Northside Runway at Miami International Airport, his technical advisory role on...

Alumnus Robert Cohen Offers an Insider's View of the High-Tech World of Joint Replacement Surgery

Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Robert Cohen ’83, ’84, ’87, a biomedical engineer and entrepreneur who specializes in orthopedic joint replacement implants, years ago envisioned the convergence of advanced materials, new fabrication methods and robotic-assisted surgery to maximize motion restoration. In 2010, his New Jersey company, Pipeline Orthopedics, the developer of implants with porous metals designed to improve the fixation of device and bone, entered a strategic alliance with Mako Surgical Corp. in order to use Mako’s robotic systems in the operating room to help place its implants more precisely. During that same...

A Passion for Promoting STEM

Wednesday, March 14, 2018
As the Chief Information Officer at CDPHP, Neil Brandmaier is integrating IT with the business and developing scale, agility and new capabilities leveraging cloud computing. He is re-architecting CDPHP’s systems by shifting from B2B to B2C with micro-segmentation, enabling new risk sharing pricing models, supporting new healthcare delivery capabilities and improving the company's ability to manage medical expenses and population health. Brandmaier has been a member of the NCE Board of Visitors since its inception in 1992. He has raised funds for multiple STEM programs and is a founding...

5 NJIT Students Selected as 2018 Governor's STEM Scholars

Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Five NJIT students —  Ivan Mitevski, Kiera Nissen, Omar Qari, Priya Rajbabu and Michael Vitti — have been named 2018 Governor’s STEM Scholars, an honor that is providing them with unique opportunities to learn from and network with New Jersey STEM professionals, research organizations, academic institutions and state policymakers. They join their fellow scholars from universities, high schools and academies throughout New Jersey in attending STEM conferences and field trips, and in participating in a team-based research project. Established in 2013, the Governor’s STEM Scholars...

NJIT's Civil Engineering Program Ranked Top 10 in the U.S. by College Factual

Monday, March 5, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s civil engineering program now ranks among “the top 10 nationally”, according to the latest data published by College Factual. The rankings, which place NJIT’s civil engineering program at #9 and within the top 5 percent of all civil engineering programs offered in the U.S., reflect a scorecard-based assessment of data collected from more than 200 civil engineering programs nationwide. The site’s rankings system is weighted to take into account factors such as education quality, average earnings of graduates and accreditation, among other relevant...

NCE to Recognize Alumni, Faculty, Staff and Students at 20th Annual Salute to Excellence March 21

Thursday, March 1, 2018
Newark College of Engineering (NCE) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will celebrate its continued commitment to engineering education advancement at the 20th annual Salute to Engineering Excellence March 21, 2017, 6-9 p.m. at Nanina’s In the Park in Belleville, N.J. Proceeds from the event will benefit the NJIT Makerspace. “The Newark College of Engineering looks forward to hosting many of its alumni and friends. This is an opportunity for NCE to reflect on its positive impact on the lives of graduates, the community and the profession,” said NCE Dean Moshe Kam. “The event also...

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