Martin Tuchman School of Management

NJIT Aims to Be an Innovation Nexus Under Its New Strategic Plan

Monday, April 8, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology aims to be a nexus of innovation that embraces new tech, commercializes groundbreaking research, leverages its diversity and tackles global environmental and socioeconomic challenges under a new strategic plan that extends through 2030. The plan, NJIT Makes An Innovation Nexus, identifies six priorities, spells out the university’s mission to be a leader in research, innovation and entrepreneurship, and reaffirms its core values, including collaboration, social responsibility, diversity and sustainability. The priorities define student and faculty...

Sabremetricians Unite: Management School Adds Program in Sports Data Analytics

Monday, March 25, 2024
Numbers pervade athletics, from the major professional leagues to amateur levels to public betting, and now NJIT is getting into the game with an academic concentration in business and sports data analytics beginning in fall 2024. The concentration will be offered through Martin Tuchman School of Management, where undergraduates will learn the data science behind the multibillion-dollar industry, which is as big in metropolitan New York as anywhere in the world. North Jersey alone is home to five professional teams, horse racing at the Meadowlands and four Division I college programs,...

Apple Highlights Stryker, an NJIT Alum's Medical Tech Group, for VisionPro App

Friday, March 15, 2024
Robert Cohen, a three-time New Jersey Institute of Technology alumnus and current chair of the university’s Board of Trustees, leads a digital, robotics and enabling technology division at medical technology firm Stryker Corp. that grabbed Apple’s attention this month for its work with the new VisionPro mixed-reality headset. VisionPro headsets put screens and software directly in front of a physician’s eyes. Stryker’s Vision Pro application is called MyMako. It lets surgeons plan and simulate pre-planning for robot-assisted knee replacement operations before they happen, and view the...

NJIT Conference: How Can Artificial Intelligence Work for All of Us?

Thursday, March 14, 2024
What are the latest innovations around artificial intelligence, how will it change the way we work and what safeguards are needed to address systemic inequities? Data scientists, policy experts and the head of a state commission will examine these issues and more at “Intelligent Uses of Artificial Intelligence: Making Technology Work for All of Us,” an upcoming conference from the Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the New Jersey Equity in Commercialization Collective.  The participants will tackle the issues in three sessions, each with...

NJIT Leaders Recognized in 2024 Women in Business Influencer List

Friday, March 8, 2024
NJIT administrators, deans, alumni and board members are recognized in ROI-NJ’s 2024 list of influential Women in Business, which noted their impact in different sectors. These remarkable women exemplify NJIT's commitment to fostering leadership and innovation across diverse fields, further solidifying the university's impact on the state and beyond. Administrators, deans and a director Catherine Brennan, senior vice president for finance and chief financial officer, credited with revamping NJIT's budgeting process to be data-driven and identifying new revenue streams. Gabrielle...

NJIT Marketing Experts Measure Brain Waves and Skin Current to Predict Emotions

Friday, February 23, 2024
Machines still can’t think, but now they can validate your feelings, based on new research from New Jersey Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Jorge Fresneda. Fresneda started his career as a chemist and then became an expert in neuroanalytics. He studies how measurements of brain activity and skin conductance can predict a person’s emotions with high accuracy, and how such information can be used in fields such as entertainment, management, marketing and well-being. “Neuromarketing is a subfield within marketing that uses sensors for marketing purposes, to inform managers and...

Economics of Recycling: New Futures for Old Plastics

Tuesday, February 20, 2024
In the 1967 film “The Graduate,” the protagonist is advised by a family friend to pursue a career with a great future: “plastics.” Decades later, as waste from the now ubiquitous material fills landfills, leaches microparticles and clutters oceans, a growing number of students and professors are focused instead on ways to recycle and remediate it. On NJIT’s campus, the business of plastics is taking off in scientific and entrepreneurial circles. A law passed in 2022 by the New Jersey legislature requiring increasing use of recycled materials in beverage bottles, reaching 50% in 2044, is...

US News Ranks NJIT Top 100 in Two Online Master's Programs

Wednesday, February 7, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology continues to be recognized nationally by U.S. News & World Report for its online master’s offerings in information technology, engineering and business. For 2024, NJIT earned two rankings inside the top 100: No. 31 for its online master’s in information technology and No. 61 for its online master’s in engineering. In addition, the university saw two other online programs make lists for the best in the U.S.: its master’s in business and its MBA. The national recognition reflects NJIT’s longstanding practice of offering students multiple options for...

NJIT Featured on Amazon Prime Video Series 'The College Tour en Español'

Tuesday, January 30, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology is featured in the premiere season of “The College Tour en Español,” a new series from Emmy-nominated producers, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Hosted by Lorena Segura, “The College Tour en Español” travels the country, showcasing colleges and universities through the unique lens of Spanish-speaking students on today's campuses. Each episode offers an intimate view of college life, allowing the entire Spanish-speaking population worldwide a chance to explore colleges. NJIT’s episode of "The College Tour" travels back to the Brick City —...

Registration Open for NJIT's Spring Career Fair

Friday, January 19, 2024
NJIT’s spring career fair is right around the corner and registration is now open for students on the Handshake platform. Career Development Services biannual career fair has become one of the most anticipated events for students. The fall semester fair, held last September, was the largest-ever participation: 3,300 students and alumni and 240 companies packed into the WEC and Naimoli Center. The spring fair, now scheduled for March 4 from 11 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., is shaping up to be another packed house. Students are encouraged to register now for the upcoming fair and for pre-fair events...

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