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New Computer Science Elective Examines the History of Computing

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
A new course about the history of information systems will be offered by Ying Wu College of Computing this spring, where students will learn about everything from calculation methods of ancient and medieval times, through early visions of mechanical computer architecture in the Industrial Age, strai...

Freshman Wins Top Prize at HackNJIT, Zoo Theme Leads to Productive Apps

Monday, November 22nd, 2021
Students who developed software for game animation, package delivery, lecture transcription and wildlife sightings were all winners at HackNJIT this month. The event was almost back to normal this year, being in-person for NJIT students — complete with midnight snacks and impromptu 1:00 a.m. karaok...

Outside of Class, Cybersecurity Students Learn to Think Like the Enemy

Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
A group of NJIT students studying cybersecurity outside the classroom learned that it's educational to pretend to be the bad guys, in order to design stronger defenses against them. SIGMAL — Special Interest Group for Malware — is a section born last year within NJIT's chapter of the Association fo...

U.S. National Security Agency Recognizes NJIT Cyber Defense Education

Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
NJIT's Cybersecurity Research Center recently earned a National Center of Academic Excellence designation, recognizing the university's ability to train students in defending high-value computer networks. This designation, determined by the U.S. National Security Agency, covers 2021-2026 and indica...

Alum and Retired Trustee at NJIT Reflects on the Road from Undergrad to PSEG Leader to Deacon

Friday, November 5th, 2021
As a newly retired trustee at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Peter Cistaro marvels at how the campus and curriculum developed during his 20 years on the board. Also, as a 1968 graduate of NJIT, he’s grateful for the bachelor’s he earned in industrial engineering, which opened the door to a lo...

New Industrial Engineering Lab, Courtesy of Dieter Weissenrieder '76 and Family, Raises NJIT's Game

Friday, November 5th, 2021
A game-changing gift from an NJIT alumnus and his family is providing the university’s industrial engineering students an indispensable opportunity: the experience of a small-scale version of a factory floor right here on campus. The newly created engineering lab will give students hands-on experti...

Newark College of Engineering Joyfully Celebrates a Pandemic-Delayed Salute to Excellence

Friday, November 5th, 2021
After a lengthy hiatus imposed by the pandemic, the Newark College of Engineering (NCE) community of faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends gathered on campus this fall to celebrate its own at the annual Salute to Engineering Excellence. “This is a homecoming for me,” said Nicholas DeNichilo ...

Minority Engineer Recognizes NJIT as a 'Top 20 University'

Friday, November 5th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology is among Minority Engineer magazine’s “Top 20 Universities” for 2021. The selection is based on a survey of the publication’s readers on the diversity of the curriculum, student body and faculty and the diversity and inclusivity of the learning environment. The re...

NJIT-Led Team Wins a $1.25 Million Grant to Ensure Women Scholars Flourish as Inventors

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021
Women’s ingenuity dots the human landscape, from the external fire escape, to the word processor, to the first dishwashing machine to replace scrubbers with water pressure, to Kevlar, the lightweight, but supremely strong fiber used in bulletproof vests. And yet statistics show that too few of thei...

NJIT Student Bottle Rockets Soar Where No Highlander Has Gone Before

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
Mibrar Reza and Adam Tracy — following the spirit of Verne, von Braun, NASA and Musk — were the first-place winners of this semester's inaugural NJIT Makerspace Soda Bottle Rocket Competition, charting unexplored regions of Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium with water-powered flights of 227 and 25...