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Architecture To Marketing - Susana Holguin-Veras '06 On Finding Your Career Path

Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
Susana Holguin-Veras, Principal at TheoryCo. talks about how she discovered her career path by following her interests, using her strengths, and understanding architecture can be practiced in many ways.   

The Slice Girls Win Design Hackathon with Ready Set Wearables

Monday, September 21st, 2020
This story was submitted by Mat Schwartz, Elizabeth Spencer and written by Tracy MacDonald.  Sketch. Design. Build. Redesign. Rebuild.  This is the process three industrial designers used to win the Jersey City Hackathon this summer. The team consisted of Elizabeth Spencer, an industrial...

Charting Your Career Path with Expert Navigators at the Alumni Tea

Thursday, September 17th, 2020
Alumni Guests:  Cathrine Fahmy ‘17  Interior Design Cathrine Fahmy is a Lighting Designer in New York City at WSP USA, an engineering firm containing a Lighting Design Studio which serves all its east coast projects. Although Cathrine holds her BA in Interior Design from New Jersey Inst...

Acceleration & Deceleration: the 2020 IABSE Future of Design Symposium

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
This International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering symposium is for architects, engineers, urban planners and future focused students no matter your discipline. The line of inquiry is relevant to all; are changes in practice moving faster than changes in industry and how do we...

Simplified Structural Analysis and Design for Architects by Rima Taher

Friday, August 28th, 2020
New Editions of Books by Rima Taher: Simplified Structural Analysis and Design for Architects, Revised Second Edition (Copyright 2021 published by Cognella, Inc.) authored by Rima Taher covers the basics of structural analysis and design in clear, practical terms. The book clarifies compl...

Andy Bruno and John Vogt Named 2020 Institute for Public Architecture Fellows

Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
Pre/Post BQE Project Description We propose a study of pre-BQE Brooklyn to understand how best to fill the void left by a removed BQE, which will draw upon historical documents such as maps, contemporary accounts, oral histories, archival photographs, and films. This process will inform an ima...

Kathleen Nguyendon '19 Alumni Spotlight

Monday, August 24th, 2020
"I’ve been doing well as a UX Designer at Walmart technology working on AI & ML applications, designing chatbots & other AI related work.  Since I started my career a year ago, I’ve been to two conferences sponsored by Walmart, Big Design & Grace Hopper conference. Within the first...

Hillier College Logo Design by Bogdan Seredyak

Friday, August 21st, 2020
It was a very fruitful time during my 2007-2012 studies at what was then NJIT's CoAD. Before, the New Jersey School of Architecture was still growing and exploring new ways to engage with the latest computer and fabrication techniques. It was great to be a part of that process. I'd like to give a sp...

Hillier College Logo Designed by Fabio Castellano and Natalia Szabla

Friday, August 21st, 2020
We have had an interesting journey since graduating in 2016. Natalia and I both went into design jobs after graduating. In our free time we would collaborate together on design projects and after seeing that we have a good work relationship decided to start a studio. With no idea on how anything wo...

Hillier College Logo Design by Brian Novello

Friday, August 21st, 2020
NJIT alumnus Muhammad Alnakash and I are co-founders of CheckSET Review where we are reinventing Quality Assurance & Risk Management for developers, contractors, and architects through expert peer reviews. By proactively identifying errors and omissions embedded in contract documents, we help re...