Ying Wu College of Computing

A team of teachers in Morris and Essex counties, looking to do their part to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, has produced almost 500 face masks, 700 face shields and 1,400 ear guards, led by NJIT alumna Jessica Liatys of the class of 2010. Liatys teaches technology education at Chatham Middle School. She honed her STEM chops with a bachelor's degree in information technology, following that up with a master's in network security in 2016. She received permission from her district to take home two 3D printers and was soon joined by eight of her peers in Chatham, Livingston and...

A team of environmental engineers at NJIT is developing a new way to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, by combining advanced statistical methods with models that incorporate environmental conditions, such as wind speed, temperature and social distancing. To date, modelers are largely tracking the growth in the number of cases and adjusting their projections as the numbers change, attributing flattening curves, for example, to social measures. With funding from a National Science Foundation RAPID (Rapid Response Research) grant, the NJIT team is creating a model that...

From traditional classroom learning and accelerated programs to online and hybrid (combining online and face-to-face) instruction, graduate students at NJIT have a variety of options to earn advanced degrees. They also have a lot of choice, with 50+ master’s programs (including 15 fully online), 19 doctoral programs and 40 certificate programs representing an array of STEM disciplines. In this second of a two-part series, Sotirios G. Ziavras, vice provost for graduate studies, dean of the graduate faculty and professor of electrical and computer engineering, talks about some of NJIT’s...

They represent a sizable segment of NJIT’s student population — about a quarter — and come from around the country and the world to attend the university and acquire advanced skills to secure successful professional careers. Indeed, graduate students are pursuing degrees in a range of academic disciplines through a variety of instructional formats, from traditional classroom or face-to-face learning, to online and hybrid (combines online and face-to-face) learning. Also, many of NJIT’s undergraduate students are enrolled in accelerated programs to take advantage of course double-counting that...