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New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a public research university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

in Newark

Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the largest city in the American state of New Jersey, and the seat of Essex County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Newark had a population of 277,140, maintaining its status as the largest municipality in New Jersey. It is the 68th largest city in the U.S...

, New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

. It is often also referred to as Newark College of Engineering (which was the official name of the university between 1919–1975).

NJIT is New Jersey's science and technology university. The school opened as the Newark Technical School in 1881 with 88 students. As of 2010, there are 8,840 students of which more than 1,450 live in one of the school's four dormitories. It is now home to the Newark College of Engineering, College of Architecture and Design, School of Management, Albert Dorman Honors College, College of Science and Liberal Arts, and College of Computing Sciences. The recently resigned president

President

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, Robert A. Altenkirch

Robert Altenkirch

Robert A. Altenkirch is the President of University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has yet to be inaugurated.-Life:Robert A. Altenkirch, is the current president of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He was formerly vice president for research at Mississippi State University and the seventh...

, was inaugurated on May 2, 2003. He succeeded Saul K. Fenster

Saul Fenster

Saul K. Fenster was the President of New Jersey Institute of Technology from 1978 until 2002.-Education:Fenster got his BS from City College of New York, MS from Columbia University and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan....

, who was named the university’s sixth president in 1978. On September 28, 2011, NJIT Trustees named Joel Bloom interim president.

NJIT offers 92 degree programs in 27 undergraduate (Bachelor of Science/Arts) majors and 30 graduate

Graduate school

A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...

(Masters and PhDs) specialties that include new courses in Video Game development

Game development

Game development is the software development process by which a video game is developed. Development is undertaken by a game developer, which may range from a single person to a large business. Mainstream games are normally funded by a publisher and take several years to develop. Indie games can...

.

The school offers the only NAAB-accredited bachelor's degree in architecture

Architecture

Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

in New Jersey

New Jersey

.

It also offers combined programs in medicine

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is the state-run health sciences institution of New Jersey, United States. It has eight distinct academic units...

and St. George's University

St. George's University

St. George’s University is an independent international university in Grenada, West Indies, offering degrees in medicine, veterinary medicine, public health, the health sciences, nursing, arts and sciences, and business....

in Grenada

Grenada

Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...

.

The university is known foremost for its research capabilities ranging from the fields of stem cell research to nanotechnology

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...

to solar physics and polymer science

Polymer science

Polymer science or macromolecular science is the subfield of materials science concerned with polymers, primarily synthetic polymers such as plastics...

. The school also specializes in the research of smart gun

Smart Gun

The Smart Gun or "Personalized Gun" is a concept gun that aims to reduce the misuse of guns by children/felons through the use of RFID chips or other proximity devices, fingerprint recognition, or magnetic rings...

technology, and has trademarked the term Virtual Classroom

E-learning

E-learning comprises all forms of electronically supported learning and teaching. The information and communication systems, whether networked learning or not, serve as specific media to implement the learning process...

and was the first to obtain then retain Yahoo!

Yahoo!

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's "Most Wired University" award.

NJIT is a participating Internet2

Internet2

Internet2 is an advanced not-for-profit US networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government....

member and held its first Internet2 Day in 2005.

NJIT is a member of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities

Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities is an American voluntary, non-profit association of public research universities, land-grant institutions, and state university systems. It has member campuses in all 50 states and the U.S. territories...

(see APLU members) which is the oldest higher education association in America.

History

The New Jersey Institute of Technology that we know today has a rich history with its beginnings developing from the industrial age. Like many of the port cities around the world, the Newark

Newark, New Jersey

, New Jersey

New Jersey

, of the late 19th century was a thriving industrial center. Its factories churned out thread

Yarn

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, metal

Metal

A metal , is an element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat. Metals are usually malleable and shiny, that is they reflect most of incident light...

s, paint

Paint

Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition which after application to a substrate in a thin layer is converted to an opaque solid film. One may also consider the digital mimicry thereof...

s and leather

Leather

Leather is a durable and flexible material created via the tanning of putrescible animal rawhide and skin, primarily cattlehide. It can be produced through different manufacturing processes, ranging from cottage industry to heavy industry.-Forms:...

goods. In Newark, Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial...

set the stage at his Ward Street factory for his later astounding achievements, and Edison rival Edward Weston

Edward Weston

Edward Henry Weston was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his forty-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of...

established the first factory in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

for commercial production of dynamo electric

Electrical generator

In electricity generation, an electric generator is a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy. A generator forces electric charge to flow through an external electrical circuit. It is analogous to a water pump, which causes water to flow...

machines.

At the height of this age of innovation, in 1881, an act of the New Jersey State Legislature essentially drew up a contest to determine which municipality would become home to the state's urgently needed technical school

Institute of technology

Institute of technology is a designation employed in a wide range of learning institutions awarding different types of degrees and operating often at variable levels of the educational system...

. The challenge was straightforward: the state would stake "at least $3,000 and not more than $5,000" and the municipality that matched the state's investment would earn the right to establish the new school.

The Newark Board of Trade, working jointly with the Newark City Council, launched a feverish campaign to win the new school. Dozens of the city's industrialists, along with other private citizens, eager for a work force resource in their home town, threw their support behind the fund-raiser. By 1884, the collaboration of the public and private sectors produced success. Newark Technical School was ready to open its doors.

The first 88 students, mostly evening students, attended classes in a rented building at 21 West Park Street. Soon the facility became inadequate to house an expanding student body. To meet the needs of the growing school, a second fund-raiser—the institution's first capital campaign—was launched to support the construction of a dedicated building for Newark Technical School. In 1886, under the leadership of the school's dynamic first director, Dr. Charles A. Colton, the cornerstone was laid at the intersection of High Street and Summit Place for the three-story building later to be named Weston Hall, in honor of the institution's early benefactor. A laboratory building, later to be called Colton Hall, was added to the campus in 1911.

Dr. Allan R. Cullimore led the institution from 1920 to 1949, transforming Newark Technical School into Newark College of Engineering. Campbell Hall was erected in 1925, but due to the Depression

Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...

and World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, only the former Newark Orphan Asylum, now Eberhardt Hall

Eberhardt Hall, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Eberhardt Hall, originally known as the Newark Orphan Asylum, is the oldest building at the New Jersey Institute of Technology . It is located at 323 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd in Newark, New Jersey in the University Heights section. Built in the 1856-57 its original purpose was to serve as the...

, was purchased and renovated by the college in the succeeding decades.

As of 1946, about 75% of the freshman class had served in the armed forces. Cullimore Hall was built in 1958 and two years later the old Weston Hall was razed and replaced with the current seven- story structure. Doctoral

Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...

level programs were introduced and six years later, in 1966, an 18 acres (7.3 ha), four building expansion was completed.

In 1975, with the addition of the New Jersey School of Architecture, the institution had evolved into a technological university, emphasizing a broad range of graduate and undergraduate degrees and dedication to significant research and public service. While Newark College of Engineering remains, a new university name—New Jersey Institute of Technology—was chosen to represent the institution's expanded mission.

The establishment of a residential campus and the opening of NJIT's first dormitory

Dormitory

A dormitory, often shortened to dorm, in the United States is a residence hall consisting of sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students...

(Redwood Hall) in 1979 began a period of steady growth that continues today under the 2005 Landscape Master Plan. Two new schools were established at the university during the 1980s, the College of Science and Liberal Arts in 1982 and the School of Industrial Management in 1988. The Albert Dorman Honors College was established in 1994, and the newest school, the College of Computing Sciences, was created in 2001. As of 2008 there are 4 residence halls on campus: Redwood Hall, Cypress Hall, Oak Hall, and Laurel Hall.

In 2003, the launch of the new Campus Center on the site of the former Hazell Hall centralized campus social events. Construction of a new Atrium

Atrium (architecture)

In modern architecture, an atrium is a large open space, often several stories high and having a glazed roof and/or large windows, often situated within a larger multistory building and often located immediately beyond the main entrance doors...

, Bookstore, Information Desk, Dining Hall, computer lab

Computer lab

A computer lab, also known as a computer suite or computer cluster is typically a room which contains many networked computers for public use...

, and new student organization offices continued into 2004. In 2005, a row of automobile chop shop

Chop shop

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s adjacent to campus were demolished. In 2006, construction of a new off-campus residence hall by American Campus Communities commenced in the chop shops' prior location. The new hall which opened in 2007 is dubbed the University Centre.

Also in 2005, Eberhardt Hall was fully renovated and re-inaugurated as the Alumni Center and the symbolic front door to the university. Its restored tower was the logo of the former Newark College of Engineering and was designed by Kevin Boyajian and Scott Nelson. A rebranding campaign with the current slogan

Slogan

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, "NJIT - New Jersey's Science and Technology University - The Edge in Knowledge", was launched to emphasize NJIT’s unique position as New Jersey

New Jersey

's preeminent science-and-technology-focused research university.

Recently, the school has changed its accredited management school into AACSB-accredited business school. The business school focuses on utilizing technology to serve business needs. The school benefits from its close location to New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

; the financial capital of the world. It is located 25 minutes from Wall Street

Wall Street

Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or...

. The school has also strong academic collaboration with Rutgers business school.

In 2009, the New Jersey School of Architecture was transformed into the College of Architecture and Design (CoAD). Within the college, the New Jersey School of Architecture continues, and it is joined by the newly-established School of Art + Design.

In June 2010, NJIT officially completed its purchase of the old Central High School

Central High School (Newark, New Jersey)

Central High School is a four-year public high school located in Newark, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Newark Public Schools.As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 862 students and 87.0 classroom teachers , for a student–teacher ratio of 9.9.The school was the...

building which sits in between NJIT and Rutgers-Newark

Rutgers-Newark

Rutgers University in Newark is one of three campuses of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the eighth oldest college in the United States and a member of the Association of American Universities...

campus. With the completion of the purchase, Summit Street (from Warren Street to New Street) would be totally converted into a pedestrian walkway from a public street. The existing old 'Central High School' building is earmarked to be extensively renovated, preserved and used as classrooms as per the Campus Master Plan which includes tearing down of Kupfrian Hall to create more greenery.

As of the fall of 2010, the university has 5,924 undergraduate students, 2,916 graduate students, over 10,000 continuing education

Continuing education

Continuing education is an all-encompassing term within a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada...

students, 416 full-time faculty, 88 adjuncts and over 44,000 alumni. The male-to-female student ratio is 4:1 and the student-to-faculty ratio is 13:1.http://www.njit.edu/about/fastfacts/

People

The average SAT score (math + verbal only) for enrolling freshmen is 1143. http://www.njit.edu/news/2009/2009-361.php

The average SAT score (math + verbal only) for enrolling freshmen to Honors College in 2008 is 1323 and a GPA of 3.65.http://honors.njit.edu/about/factsheet.php

The minimum SAT score (math + verbal only) for enrolling freshmen to the Accelerated BS/MD program (combined with University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is the state-run health sciences institution of New Jersey, United States. It has eight distinct academic units...

) is 1400. http://honors.njit.edu/admission/pre-health-law/premed-detail.php

Schools and Colleges within NJIT

Newark College of Engineering (NCE) http://engineering.njit.edu/
College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) http://csla.njit.edu/
College of Architecture and Design (CoAD) http://design.njit.edu/
School of Management
NJIT School of Management
The School of Management is the business school of New Jersey Institute of Technology , in Newark, New Jersey. It offers programs in finance, marketing, management information systems, international business, technological entrepreneurship, and corporate communications in conjunction with Rutgers...

(SOM) http://management.njit.edu/
Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) http://honors.njit.edu/
College of Computing Sciences (CCS) http://ccs.njit.edu/

Albert Dorman Honors College

Albert Dorman Honors College, NJIT’s Honors Institution was formed with an intention to help high achieving students perform to their full potential. Students in the Honors College have a chance to study and interact with other high achieving students as well as distinguished faculty members. Honors college students are not only backed by academic performance, but also by athletics or co-curricular participation. To join the Honors College, one must fulfill several minimum requirements starting with filling out the Honors application form available online at http://honors.njit.edu/docs/HonorsApp08.pdf. The Honors essay is the most important part of the application, where there is a chance to explain things that your statistical records cannot manifest.

Research

The university is known foremost for its research capabilities in many fields, especially nanotechnology

Nanotechnology

, solar physics

Solar physics

For the physics journal, see Solar Physics Solar physics is the study of our Sun. It is a branch of astrophysics that specializes in exploiting and explaining the detailed measurements that are possible only for our closest star...

, polymer science

Polymer science

Polymer science or macromolecular science is the subfield of materials science concerned with polymers, primarily synthetic polymers such as plastics...

, and the development of a smart gun

Smart Gun

technology [citation required]. The university research centers include the National Center for Transportation and Industrial Productivity and SmartCampus. The university hosts the Metro New York FIRST Robotics

First

First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one.First or 1st may also refer to:* First , minor summit below the Schwarzhorn in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland* First , mountain in Bernese Alps in Switzerland...

office. The university also hosts the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research which owns and operates the Big Bear Solar Observatory

Big Bear Solar Observatory

The Big Bear Solar Observatory is an astronomical telescopic observatory with main interests in studying the physics of the Sun. The instruments and telescopes of the observatory are designed and employed specifically for studying the activities and phenomena of our solar system's star...

, the world's largest solar observatory, located in Big Bear Lake

Big Bear Lake, California

Big Bear Lake is a city in San Bernardino County, California along the south shore of Big Bear Lake, located northeast of the city of San Bernardino. The population was 5,019 at the 2010 census, down from 5,438 at the 2000 census...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, and operates the Owens Valley Solar Array

Owens Valley Solar Array

The Owens Valley Solar Array is a astronomical radio telescope array with main interests in studying the physics of the Sun. The instruments of the observatory are designed and employed specifically for studying the activities and phenomena of our solar system's sun...

, near Bishop

Bishop, California

Bishop is a city in Inyo County, California, United States. Though Bishop is the only city and the largest populated place in Inyo County, the county seat is Independence. Bishop is located near the northern end of the Owens Valley, at an elevation of 4147 feet . The population was 3,879 at the...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

.

In the past, NJIT was home to the Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center,(CCCC), a premier research center for furthering the state of the art in Computer-mediated communication

Computer-mediated communication

Computer-mediated communication is defined as any communicative transaction that occurs through the use of two or more networked computers...

. The systems that resulted from this research are the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES), as well as the continuations: The Electronic Information Exchange System 2 (EIES2), and the Tailorable Electronic Information Exchange System (TEIES). One of the foremost developments of EIES was that of the Virtual Classroom (TM), a term coined by Dr. Starr Roxanne Hiltz

Starr Roxanne Hiltz

Starr Roxanne Hiltz is a retired Distinguished Professor of Information Science/Information Systems at New Jersey Institute of Technology...

. This was the first e-learning platform in the world, and was unique in that it evolved onto an existing communications system, rather than having a system created specifically for it. Their missions completed, the CCCC and EIES were terminated in the mid-90s.

The university currently operates a Class-10 cleanroom

Cleanroom

A cleanroom is an environment, typically used in manufacturing or scientific research, that has a low level of environmental pollutants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles and chemical vapors. More accurately, a cleanroom has a controlled level of contamination that is specified by...

and a Class-1000 cleanroom

Cleanroom

on campus for academic and research purposes including counter-bioterrorism

Bioterrorism

Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents. These agents are bacteria, viruses, or toxins, and may be in a naturally occurring or a human-modified form. For the use of this method in warfare, see biological warfare.-Definition:According to the...

research.

The university also maintains an advanced 67-node supercomputer cluster in its Mathematics Department for research purposes.

Student Senate

Purpose

The NJIT Student Senate is the only duly elected student body recognized by the university representing the full-time and part-time undergraduate students of the university. The Student Senate shall represent the desires, interests, and needs of the NJIT student body.

Duties/Objectives

To represent the undergraduate student body in all matters which do not exclusively belong to any other individual organization.
To promote activities and to establish administrative and financial controls over those activities which affect the student body at large.
To advise the operations of all Student Senate funded organizations with respect to individual student organizations and the student body.
To advocate and defend the inherent rights and responsibilities of students consistent with the principles of academic freedom.
To provide students with direct information of activities, policies and decisions affecting them while in attendance at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
To assist, to approve, and to charter the formation of all Student Senate affiliated organizations.

Executive Board

President
Vice President of Administration
Vice President of Student Affairs
Vice President of Finance

Treasurer
Corresponding Secretary
Recording Secretary

Committees

Elections
Judicial
Administration
Student Affairs
Finance

Athletics and School Spirit
Constitution
Public Relations
Senior Class

Members

Class Presidents
College Representatives
Major Representatives
Students-At-Large

Graduate Student Association

Purpose

The NJIT GSA is a student government organization that represents the interests of all graduate students in university affairs. The Graduate Student Association shall provide a structure through which graduate students work together to improve the quality of graduate student life.

Duties/Objectives

To represent and articulate the interests of the graduate students.
To promote communication between students, faculty, and administration.
To oversee the expenditure of graduate student association fees.
To promote and encourage the professional growth, social and cultural development, and academic excellence of students in the graduate programs of the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Executive Board

President
Vice President of Administration
Vice President of Public Relations

Secretary
Treasurer
Technology Officer

Committees

Clubs and Constitution
Finance
Activities Committee

Awards Committee
Campus Planning Committee
Graduate Student Research Day Committee

Members

Department Representatives
Alternate Department Representatives
Club Representative
Member Emeritus

Student organizations

Athletics

See also: Great West Conference and NJIT Highlanders

NJIT's sports teams are called the NJIT Highlanders. The school colors are red and white, with navy. NJIT's athletic teams compete in the NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

Division I (full membership officially 1 September 2009). The men's soccer team participates in the Atlantic Soccer Conference

Atlantic Soccer Conference

Atlantic Soccer Conference is a college athletic conference which only sponsors men's soccer. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I and its champion does not receive an automatic bid to the annual NCAA Men's Soccer Championship Tournament. It was founded in 2000 with nine colleges...

, the men's volleyball team plays in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association

Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association

The Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association is a college athletic conference whose member schools compete in men's volleyball. Its member institutions are located in the Northeast United States....

(EIVA) conference while the rest of the teams are part of the all-sports Great West Conference. The club-level ice hockey team plays in the Great Northeast Collegiate Hockey Conference

Great Northeast Collegiate Hockey Conference

class="infobox"The Great Northeast Collegiate Hockey Conference is an ACHA Division II ice hockey league based in the mid-atlantic region of the US. The GNCHC is made up of mid sized colleges and universities in PA, NJ, and NY.-Current Teams:...

.

The sports available at NJIT are:

Baseball (Men's only)
Basketball
Bowling (club-Level)
Cross Country
Fencing
Ice Hockey (club-level, participates in Great Northeast Collegiate Hockey Conference
Great Northeast Collegiate Hockey Conference
class="infobox"The Great Northeast Collegiate Hockey Conference is an ACHA Division II ice hockey league based in the mid-atlantic region of the US. The GNCHC is made up of mid sized colleges and universities in PA, NJ, and NY.-Current Teams:...

(ACHA
Acha
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Division II club hockey))
Soccer
Swimming (Men's only)
Tennis
Track & Field
Volleyball
Cheer Team

Honor societies

Alpha Phi Mu
Arnold Air Society
Arnold Air Society
The Arnold Air Society is a professional, honorary, service organization advocating the support of aerospace power. AAS is open to officer candidates in Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps and at the United States Air Force Academy , and is formally affiliated with the Air Force Association...
Chi Epsilon
Chi Epsilon
Chi Epsilon is the national civil engineering honor society in the United States. It honors engineering students who have exemplified the "principles of scholarship, character, practicality, and sociability...in the civil engineering profession." There are currently 136 chapters, of which 130...
Eta Kappa Nu
Eta Kappa Nu
Eta Kappa Nu is the electrical and computer engineering honor society of the IEEE, founded in October 1904 by Maurice L. Carr at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The organization currently has around 200 student chapters and about 3,000,000 members and is headquartered in Chicago,...
Omega Chi Epsilon
Omega Chi Epsilon
Omega Chi Epsilon is an American honor society for chemical engineering students. The first chapter was formed at the University of Illinois in 1931. The second chapter was formed at the Iowa State University in 1932. The organization is a member of the Association of College Honor...
Omicron Delta Kappa
Omicron Delta Kappa
Omicron Delta Kappa, or ΟΔΚ, also known as The Circle, or more commonly ODK, is a national leadership honor society. It was founded December 3, 1914, at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, by 15 student and faculty leaders. Chapters, known as Circles, are located on over 300...

Phi Eta Sigma
Phi Eta Sigma
Phi Eta Sigma is an American freshman honor society. Founded at the University of Illinois on March 22, 1923, is the oldest and largest freshman honor society and now has more than three hundred chapters throughout the United States and more than 1 million members.-Eligibility:Any first-year...
Pi Tau Sigma
Pi Tau Sigma
Pi Tau Sigma is an International Mechanical Engineering Honor Society. Pi Tau Sigma's core values are:*Integrity ,*Service , and...
Tau Alpha Phi
Tau Beta Pi
Tau Beta Pi
The Tau Beta Pi Association is the oldest engineering honor society in the United States and the second oldest collegiate honor society in America. It honors engineering students who have shown a history of academic achievement as well as a commitment to personal and professional integrity...
Upsilon Pi Epsilon
Upsilon Pi Epsilon
Upsilon Pi Epsilon : International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines, is the first and only existing one of its kind....

Fraternities

Alpha Phi Omega
Alpha Phi Omega
Alpha Phi Omega is the largest collegiate fraternity in the United States, with chapters at over 350 campuses, an active membership of approximately 17,000 students, and over 350,000 alumni members...
Alpha Rho Chi
Alpha Rho Chi
Alpha Rho Chi is a professional co-educational college fraternity for students studying architecture and related professions. The fraternity's name is derived from the first three letters of the Greek word for architecture, αρχιτεκτονική.-Founding:...
Alpha Sigma Phi
Alpha Sigma Phi
Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity is a social fraternity with 71 active chapters and 9 colonies. Founded at Yale in 1845, it is the 10th oldest fraternity in the United States....
Iota Phi Theta
Kappa Xi Kappa
Lambda Sigma Upsilon
Lambda Sigma Upsilon
Lambda Sigma Upsilon is a Latino oriented Greek letter intercollegiate fraternity founded on April 5, 1979 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey....
Phi Beta Sigma
Phi Beta Sigma
Phi Beta Sigma is a predominantly African-American fraternity which was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students. The founders A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse, and Charles I...
Phi Sigma Kappa
Phi Sigma Kappa
-Phi Sigma Kappa's Creed and Cardinal Principles:The 1934 Convention in Ann Arbor brought more changes for the fraternity. Brother Stewart W. Herman of Gettysburg wrote and presented the Creed, and Brother Ralph Watts of Massachusetts drafted and presented the Cardinal Principles.-World War II:The...

(colony)
Pi Kappa Phi
Pi Kappa Phi
Pi Kappa Phi is an American social fraternity. It was founded by Andrew Alexander Kroeg, Jr., Lawrence Harry Mixson, and Simon Fogarty, Jr. on December 10, 1904 at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina...
Psi Upsilon
Psi Upsilon
Psi Upsilon is the fifth oldest college fraternity in the United States, founded at Union College in 1833. It has chapters at colleges and universities throughout North America. For most of its history, Psi Upsilon, like most social fraternities, limited its membership to men only...
Sigma Lambda Beta
Sigma Lambda Beta
Sigma Lambda Beta is the largest Latino-based social fraternity established on cultural understanding and wisdom. Founded on April 4, 1986 at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, the organization is committed to create and expand multicultural leadership, promote academic excellence, advance...
Sigma Pi
Sigma Pi
Sigma Pi is an international college secret and social fraternity founded in 1897 at Vincennes University. Sigma Pi International fraternity currently has 127 chapters and 4 colonies in the United States and Canada and is headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee...
Tau Delta Phi
Tau Delta Phi
Tau Delta Phi is a national social fraternity founded on June 22, 1910 in New York City. Its members are known as Tau Delts. Since its inception, dozens of chapters have been founded and thousands of men initiated into its membership...
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Tau Kappa Epsilon is a college fraternity founded on January 10, 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University with chapters in the United States, and Canada, and affiliation with a German fraternity system known as the Corps of the Weinheimer Senioren Convent...
Theta Chi
Theta Chi
Theta Chi Fraternity is an international college fraternity. It was founded on April 10, 1856 as the Theta Chi Society, at Norwich University, Norwich, Vermont, U.S., and was the 21st of the 71 North-American Interfraternity Conference men's fraternities.-Founding and early years at Norwich:Theta...

Sororities

Alpha Sigma Tau
Alpha Sigma Tau
Alpha Sigma Tau is a national Panhellenic sorority founded on November 4, 1899, at Michigan State Normal College...
Delta Phi Epsilon
Delta Phi Epsilon (social)
Delta Phi Epsilon is an international sorority founded on March 17, 1917 at New York University Law School in New York City...
Lambda Tau Omega
Lambda Tau Omega
Lambda Tau Omega is a multicultural sorority founded in 1988 at Montclair State College, now known as Montclair State University, in Montclair, New Jersey. The sorority was founded by sixteen women who felt the need for a multicultural sorority at Montclair State College...
Sigma Psi Kappa

Residence life

Mission statement

"To collaborate with students, faculty and staff in providing residential services that support students' academic and personal development by fostering diverse, engaging and responsible learning communities."

Living on campus

Since 1978 students have been able to live on the NJIT campus. The Residence Life community consists of over 1450 graduate and undergraduate students.

There are four residence halls on the NJIT campus. Redwood Hall was the first constructed in 1978 followed by Cypress, Oak and Laurel halls. Each hall has a unique character with Cypress and Redwood being primarily freshman halls and Laurel and Oak designated upperclassmen halls.

A new almost-on-campus resident hall completed in 2007 known as 'University Center' (run by American Campus Communities

American Campus Communities

American Campus Communities Inc. is a university housing development company with its headquarters in Bee Cave, Texas, near Austin....

) just beside the InfoTech building also accommodates students from NJIT and neighboring Rutgers-Newark

Rutgers-Newark

, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is the state-run health sciences institution of New Jersey, United States. It has eight distinct academic units...

and Seton Hall University

Seton Hall University

Seton Hall University is a private Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States. Seton Hall is also the oldest and largest Catholic university in the...

.

Food services on campus are provided by Gourmet Dining Services or GDS. Taco Bell

Taco Bell

Taco Bell is an American chain of fast-food restaurants based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., which serves American-adapted Mexican food. Taco Bell serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, other specialty items, and a variety of "Value Menu" items...

, Spice Cafe, a salad shop (Leafs & Grains), coffee shop (Tech Café), sandwich shop (Part of Leafs & Grains) and a convenience store (The C-Store) are also all available on campus. GDS also operates The Highlander Club (also known as The Pub) on the third floor of the campus center. Here, students can order take-out food of different varieties such as burgers, wings, and personal pizzas. A special 21 and over section also offers alcohol for sale.

Noteworthy events on campus

Parts of Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

-winning television drama series The Sopranos
The Sopranos
The Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase that revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads...

were shot on the NJIT campus in 2005 after the completion of a $83.5-million campus makeover.

Traditions

The Tour de Tech is an annual campus bicycle
Bicycle
A bicycle, also known as a bike, pushbike or cycle, is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A person who rides a bicycle is called a cyclist, or bicyclist....

race.
Some still call the university by its earlier name, Newark College of Engineering (NCE). NCE is now one of the six colleges within the university.
NJIT students have been called NiJITs in the past (School catalogue of '78, P.45)
Beginning in 2004, NJIT Day has become an annual campus event taking place early October of each year where the families of students as well as alumni are invited to participate in the festivities.

Notable alumni

See List of New Jersey Institute of Technology alumni

Since its founding in 1881, tens of thousands of people have attended NJIT including more than 69,685 graduates who have earned degree/s from NJIT. Many alumni have gone on to pursue distinguished careers in many sectors.

The alumni list includes a winner of the National Medal of Technology

National Medal of Technology

The National Medal of Technology and Innovation is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development of new and important technology...

, 6 members of the National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering

The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...

, 3 Major Generals, 1 University President

Chancellor (education)

A chancellor or vice-chancellor is the chief executive of a university. Other titles are sometimes used, such as president or rector....

, 5 Dean

Dean (education)

In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...

s of schools and college

College

A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...

s, top management staffs at multi-national corporations

Multinational corporation

A multi national corporation or enterprise , is a corporation or an enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country. It can also be referred to as an international corporation...

(MNCs), politicians and professors at more than 50 universities

University

around the world.

Some notable alumni include A. Michael Noll

A. Michael Noll

A. Michael Noll is an American engineer, and professor emeritus at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He was a very early pioneer in digital computer art and 3D animation and tactile communication.- Biography :Noll has a B.S.E.E...

(Dean at USC, computer graphics pioneer), T.J. O'Malley

T.J. O'Malley

Thomas Joseph O'Malley , better known as T. J. O'Malley, was an Irish-American aerospace engineer who, as chief test conductor for the Convair division of General Dynamics, was responsible for pushing the button on February 20, 1962 launching the Mercury-Atlas 6 space flight carrying astronaut John...

(legendary NASA aerospace engineer), Ellen M. Pawlikowski

Ellen M. Pawlikowski

Maj. Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski is the Commander of Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. She is responsible for managing the Air Force's $2.2 billion science and technology program as well as additional customer funded research and development of $2.2 billion...

(2-star General), Wally Schirra

Wally Schirra

Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. was an American test pilot, United States Navy officer, and one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America's effort to put humans in space. He is the only person to fly in all of America's first three space programs...

(5th USA astronaut), John J. Mooney

John J. Mooney

John J. Mooney is an American chemical engineer who was co-inventor of the three-way catalytic converter, which has played a dramatic role in reducing pollution from motor vehicles since their introduction in the mid-1970s....

(winner of National Medal of Technology), Gerard Joseph Foschini (prominent telecommunications engineer/researcher), Beatrice Hicks

Beatrice Hicks

Beatrice Alice Hicks was an outstanding engineer, helping to found the Society of Women Engineers in 1950.Born in Orange, New Jersey, she attended Orange High School...

(founder of Society of Women Engineers) and Pierre Ramond

Pierre Ramond

Pierre Ramond is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida...

(Distinguished Professor at University of Florida).

Notable Faculty

See List of New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty

NJIT professors are among the best paid university professors in USA. A number of them are Fellow/s

Fellow

A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who are awarded...

(highest grade within their respective field/s of specialization) of academic and/or professional associations including Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...

(IEEE), American Society of Civil Engineers

American Society of Civil Engineers

The American Society of Civil Engineers is a professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. It is the oldest national engineering society in the United States. ASCE's vision is to have engineers positioned as global leaders who strive toward...

(ASCE), American Physical Society

American Physical Society

The American Physical Society is the world's second largest organization of physicists, behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than 20...

(APS), American Institute of Chemical Engineers

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers is a professional organization for chemical engineers.AIChE was established in 1908 with the purpose of establishing chemical engineers as a profession independent from chemists and mechanical engineers.As of 2010, AIChE had over 40,000 members,...

(AiCE), American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...

(AAAS), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics was founded by a small group of mathematicians from academia and industry who met in Philadelphia in 1951 to start an organization whose members would meet periodically to exchange ideas about the uses of mathematics in industry. This meeting led...

(SIAM), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering is an organization of biomedical engineers, which focuses on taking principles of engineering to and applying them to improve the medical and biological engineering fields...

(AiMBE), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is the professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA was founded in 1963 from the merger of two earlier societies: the American Rocket Society , founded in 1930 as the American Interplanetary Society , and the Institute...

(AIAA), American Geophysical Union

American Geophysical Union

The American Geophysical Union is a nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 50,000 members from over 135 countries. AGU's activities are focused on the organization and dissemination of scientific information in the interdisciplinary and international field of geophysics...

(AGU), Biomedical Engineering Society (BES), American Society of Mechanical Engineers

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering....

(ASME), American Institute of Architects

American Institute of Architects

The American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to support the architecture profession and improve its public image...

(AIA), Royal Society of Arts

Royal Society of Arts

The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce is a British multi-disciplinary institution, based in London. The name Royal Society of Arts is frequently used for brevity...

(RSA) and New York Academy of Art

New York Academy of Art

The New York Academy of Art or the Graduate School of Figurative Art is an American private, not-for-profit art university, located at 111 Franklin Street in the Manhattan borough of New York City.-Foundation:...

(NYAC).

The faculty list includes two members of the National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering

: Stewart D. Personick

Stewart D. Personick

Stewart D. Personick is a noted American researcher in optical communications.Personick graduated from the City College of New York with bachelor of electrical engineering degree...

and Louis J. Lanzerotti

Louis J. Lanzerotti

Louis John Lanzerotti is a research Professor of physics in the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey.-Education:...

(also serving as 1 of 24 members of the National Science Board

National Science Board

The National Science Board of the United States is composed of 25 members appointed by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate, representing the broad U.S. science and engineering community. The Board establishes the policies of the National Science Foundation within the framework...

at the United States National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...

Ranking

US News & World Report’s 2010 Annual Guide to America’s Best Colleges Today named NJIT 115th (Tier-1) overall in the National Universities category. It was also rated as the 7th most ethnically diversified university among universities in this category and as one of the best public national universities in the country. It was ranked by US News & World Report (2011) as 139th (Tier-1) overall and the 5th most ethnically diversified National University. It was ranked 138th among National Universities in 2012.
US News & World Report (2011) also ranked NJIT's Graduate School (Engineering) as 86th overall in the nation.
NJIT is ranked 11th in the nation (2009) for conferring bachelor’s degrees in engineering to African Americans, according to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.

The Oct. 17, 2006 issue of US News and World Report named NJIT’s program as 6th in the nation based on enrollment in ABET-accredited engineering schools and fifth in the nation based on the age of the program.

NJIT was ranked by Princeton Review as one of top 50 best value public colleges in 2009.

NJIT is currently ranked by Princeton Review as #5 in the Nation for Least Happy Students. In recent years, it has been ranked #1 in this category three times (2002–2005)

NJIT was ranked by Princeton Review in 2010 as one of the Best Northeastern Colleges, #7 in the nation for "Professors Get Low Marks", #8 for Least Accessible Professors, #11 for Dorms Like Dungeons and #1 Least Beautiful Campus.

Princeton Review (2010 Edition) ranked NJIT's AACSB-accredited School of Management among the 301 best business schools in USA.

NJIT's School of Management was ranked as an Excellent Business School (3-Palm rating and top 150 in USA) by Eduniversal
Eduniversal
Eduniversal is a French consulting company and a rating agency specialized in Higher Education. Founded in 1994, one of the main goals of Eduniversal is to provide a tool, for students all around the world, which provides information on the Best Business Schools, located in Eduniversal's 9...

.

NJIT was ranked 351-400th place university in the world by Times Higher Education in 2011-2012.

NJIT was ranked 434th out of around 20000 colleges and universities in the world by Webometrics
Webometrics
The science of webometrics tries to measure the World Wide Web to get knowledge about the number and types of hyperlinks, structure of the World Wide Web and usage patterns...

in Jan 2011.

NJIT was ranked 135th out of 662 universities in USA in R&D expenditures in 2007 by the National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...

(NSF).

NJIT is currently ranked (2007) by the Chronicle of Higher Education as #9 in Information Technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

/ Information Systems
Information systems
Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...

and #10 in Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

for faculty productivity.

NJIT was ranked among the top 100 world universities in Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

both in 2009 and in 2010 by Academic Ranking of World Universities
Academic Ranking of World Universities
The Academic Ranking of World Universities , commonly known as the Shanghai ranking, is a publication that was founded and compiled by the Shanghai Jiaotong University to rank universities globally. The rankings have been conducted since 2003 and updated annually...

(ARWU).

NJIT was ranked 1st for average amount paid to full time professors in the nation among public universities.

NJIT was ranked the 19th most popular National University in USA by US News and World Report 2010.

NJIT was ranked 499th overall and 132nd for its Engineering, Computing, and Technology Faculty in the world by High Impact Universities
High Impact Universities
Initially launched in September 2010, the High Impact Universities research performance index or RPI is an Australian initiative to benchmark the research performance of world's universities. The pilot project involved a study of over 1,000 universities and 5,000 faculties worldwide. Ranked results...

in 2010.

NOTE: The Princeton Review ranking statistics are based on the best 371 colleges of more than 2500 colleges in USA.

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