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...

NJIT to Host Professional Communication and Interviewing Seminar for Engineers

Monday, March 19, 2018
Newark College of Engineering (NCE) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host a professional seminar on March 28 featuring industry speakers, a panel discussion and a networking session. Keynoting the seminar is Greg Sauter. Sauter has 30 years in the engineering industry and is the founder of Smart City Works, the world’s first business actuator—a new type of business accelerator that is tailored to each infrastructure startup. Moderating the discussion panel is Robert Cohen ’83, ’84, ’87, the vice president and general manager of the Global Research and Development...

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: Resolving Complex Fluid Flows

Monday, January 22, 2018
From large-scale weather or environmental disaster predictions and efficient design of vehicles and power generators, to understanding how bacteria propel themselves and how nutrients are delivered to different organs in our body at the cell level — researchers will need to find new ways of studying the complex flow of liquids, gases and plasmas that drive or characterize intricate climatic, transportation and biological systems. In his upcoming Technology and Society Forum presentation, Joseph Katz will demonstrate how today’s latest multidimensional high-speed flow visualization...

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