When Chidanand “Cid” Khode ’18 walked across the stage at graduation, he was able to check off a few things on his to-do list: make new friends, graduate with a degree in computer science and find a good job.  But his biggest accomplishment, he says, was honoring a personal commitment to leave a contribution to the next generation of Highlanders. “I’ve always wanted to give back to my college, to give back to people in general,”says Khode, who lives in Matawan and moved to the United States from India at 5 years old. His voluntary nature dates back to an AP computer science class he…

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) conferred 2,885 bachelor’s and doctoral degrees at the 102nd commencement ceremony May 15 at the Prudential Center in Newark. Dr. Leah Hope Jamieson, Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Engineering Education, and John A. Edwardson Dean Emerita of Engineering at Purdue University, received an honorary Doctor of Humane Science and delivered the commencement address in which she shared her perspective as a first-generation college student from Trenton, N.J. who attended graduate school at Princeton…

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 action. What’s been…

Born and raised in Newark’s West Ward, Jonathan Isaacs ’18 didn’t have to travel far to find the perfect college. “I chose NJIT because it has the dual benefit of being competitive as a university in the STEM industry, but also being affordable and providing a top-notch education for a decent price,” says Isaacs, who’s graduating from NJIT with a B.Arch. — and an architectural designer job at CallisonRTKL Architecture in New York City. “Going to school in my hometown was kind of exciting in the sense that I was familiar with my surroundings and able to stay connected to…

Congratulations to the Class of 2018! NJIT graduates are going places, from CallisonRTKL Architecture to Cisco Tech, Harvard to the Philippines, UBS Bank to Northern Regional Medical Examiner's Office and everywhere in between.  Take a look below to see where some of NJIT's seniors are going.    

NJIT graduates are going places! Some students are pursuing their Ph.D. at universities such as NYU, Stevens and Columbia. Some are joining companies like Verizon, Catalent Pharma Solutions and Tesla. Others are launching startups at the Watson Institute and pursuing studies overseas on a Fulbright Scholarship. A big congratulations to the entire NJIT Class of 2018.

MEDIA ADVISORY: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to Confer More than 3,100 Degrees at 102nd Commencement Exercises May 15, May 17 and May 18, 2018 Engineering Educator Dr. Leah Hope Jamieson to Deliver 2018 Commencement Address and Receive Honorary Doctor of Science                                                      …

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…

Four and a half years ago, Dylan Renaud was a senior in high school unsure about a lot of things, in particular about how — even if — he could attend a four-year college. Growing up in a family of six boys, he knew there were things he could always count on his parents for  — such as bandaging up a bleeding forehead from a sibling fight — but there were other things that he understood he could not rely on them for. Paying for college was one of them. One day in April, everything changed when Renaud received a piece of mail outlining that not only was he accepted at NJIT, but…

When Mark Quiles, a Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) finance and marketing major, graduates this December, he will continue full time on an entrepreneurial path that has already won him accolades. In 2016, Quiles launched League of Lifeguards, a company dedicated to improving water safety by recruiting and certifying lifeguards and matching them with jobs at pools, parties and other places and events involving swimming. He says League of Lifeguards has been able to protect more than 10,000 lives to date. This achievement, coupled with the company’s concept, recently earned Quiles…