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Upperclass Architecture Student Shows It's Never Too Late to Start Research

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
Sudiksha Sahu, a fourth-year architecture student at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, wanted to diversify her career options this past summer. Without prior research experience, Sahu took on the challenge to participate in the 2024 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation Sympo...

NJIT Center for Building Knowledge Partners with the Newark Public School District

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
One critical component of delivering quality education is the provision of optimal spaces for student learning. In July of 2024, Terra Meierdierck, energy and education program manager at the Center for Building Knowledge (CBK), a research center at NJIT's Hillier College of Architecture and Design,...

HCAD's Julio Garcia Figueroa's Quest to Merge Prefabrication, Energy Efficiency & Cultural Heritage

Thursday, August 8th, 2024
University Lecturer Julio Garcia Figueroa at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) looks forward to teaching his course on prefabricated architecture this semester, and in the future, hopes to create a study abroad program to take HCAD students to his native Mexico.  “First, wh...

10 Questions for NJIT's New Dean of Architecture and Design

Monday, July 1st, 2024
As interim dean of NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, Gabrielle Esperdy found ways to apply design thinking to the challenges of leading an academic college of more than 1,000 students. Now, as she starts her first month as dean, she realizes that her background prepared her well fo...

Senior Success: Industrial Designer Rebecca Warga Prepares to Take Her Knowledge to Luxembourg

Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
Industrial designer Rebecca Warga, a Bloomingdale, New Jersey native, will head to Luxembourg after graduation to work at ESMP, an experimental soft matter physics lab at the University of Luxembourg. “I've been working with them remotely this semester, and I took a short trip out there over winter...

Digital Designer Tejasi Thool Will Seek Master's in Medical Illustration After Time at NJIT

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
Tejasi Thool, a Hasbrouck, New Jersey native, looks forward to her next step in her career after completing her digital design studies at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design.  Her next move will be to get a master’s in medical illustration. “It’s lik...

Senior Success: Kenia Suarez Appreciates All the Opportunities She Received at HCAD from Day One

Friday, May 17th, 2024
One summer Kenia Suarez decided to visit NJIT. The Lima, Perú native wanted to find out how she could get accepted into NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design. Little did she know that after that first visit, her career and dreams would take off.  “I went to HCAD, and there were a f...

A Blend of Architecture and Engineering Helps NJIT Scholar Land in Project Management

Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
Following graduation from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Hilsson Angeles will start working at general contracting firm Burns & McDonnell as a construction coordinator. What helped him get there was a tremendous work ethic, which he inherited from his parents, and an interest in both archi...

Senior Success: Interior Designer Martina Hanna Shares Her Highlights at HCAD and NJIT

Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
When Martina Hanna ’24 started her studies at NJIT, she was a civil engineering major. But when the pandemic hit, she took a different route, one that was meant to be.  “I was just too scared to do it because I didn't have a portfolio,” Hanna explained the process of switching her major to int...

Hillier College Alumni, Student Work Featured in Annual Design Showcase Event

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
The Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) hosted its Design Showcase, the college’s flagship fundraising and networking event, which provides a chance for members of the Hillier College community to connect personally and professionally. This year’s event took place in the Jewel Box of O...