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Strategy for Instruction: NJIT Responds to the Pandemic in Forward-Thinking Fashion

Thursday, February 18th, 2021
Last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic began its inexorable march across the country, NJIT, along with higher education institutions nationwide, faced an unprecedented challenge: how to best move to fully remote instruction, both quickly and safely. Immediately, the university drew upon its technologic...

As NJIT Preps for Next Career Fair, Students Reflect on Finding the Right Match

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
Nearly 100 employers and more than 1,000 students are expected to participate in this month’s NJIT career fair, which remains online via the Handshake networking platform. Among the employers offering internships, co-operative educational opportunities and jobs at the Feb. 19 fair are Bristol Myers...

Game Jam Brings Design Skills to Techies, Tech Skills to Designers

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
Students who study computing teamed with those in digital design from Jan. 29-31 at Global Game Jam, a hackathon for video game development, which was virtual this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. About three dozen entrants spanning five teams completed the challenge to finish a game in ...

Minority Architects Organization Seeks New Student Leaders

Friday, February 5th, 2021
Student clubs come and go, but right now the Highlander chapter of NOMAS — National Organization of Minority Architecture Students — is being primed for a comeback, according to faculty advisor Mark Bess, a university lecturer in Hillier College of Architecture and Design since 2004. There are 80 c...

NJIT Research Partnership with BASF and United Way Taking Climate Action

Thursday, January 21st, 2021
Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building America Program, Christine Liaukus at the Center for Building Knowledge is heading a research team of Hillier College students, experts from BASF, industry contractors and the United Way. The project is called “Re-Side Right” and it’s testing the pe...

Interior Design Program, One Decade In, Has Alumni Mentors for Students

Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
NJIT's interior design program has new opportunities for students to learn career, leadership and life skills from alumni mentors, as its graduate population that started with the original class of 2012 expands, enters higher levels of their field and looks to give back. The idea evolved during the...

Pandemic Gives Architects New Challenges in Designing for Health Concerns

Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
Architects consider cost, design aesthetics, materials, uses and a host of other factors when planning new spaces, but now the COVID-19 pandemic is making occupant health another factor to consider. Designing in the context of current events and lifestyle changes is nothing new for architects, whet...

Interior/Digital Design Students Team Up on Coffee Shop Prototype

Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
The team of interior and digital design students who collaborated with students in the Tuchman school of management on the COCO Coffee Shop include Sandy Ghattas, Claritza Guerrero, Ahn Ly, Rua Elmosallamy, and Suzanne Hlinka.   "Our values are driven by the fact that both ends of the NJI...

Architecture Students Propose NJIT Master Plan, New Building Designs

Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
It is a long-standing practice within architecture studios to assign real-world projects to students as they develop the skills to build for the future. In a studio taught by Associate Professor Darius Sollohub, the reimagining of the Mueller Florist Supplies site continues this practice. Hillier C...

Hillier Design Professor Wins Awards for Augmented Reality Prototype

Monday, December 7th, 2020
Hannah Kum-Biocca, an assistant professor at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won two awards for an augmented reality project that she submitted to the EuroXR 2020 conference in Valencia, Spain. In her project, visitors to physical museums can wear a Microsoft Hololens headset to ...