For NJIT's Sam Carlos, Two Majors Weren't Enough, So He Made it Three

Friday, April 16th, 2021
New students often matriculate at NJIT with a handful of college credits, declaring themselves double majors or participating in joint bachelors-masters programs, but Metuchen's Samuel Carlos is raising the bar, having arrived in 2018 with an astonishing 103 college credits and an associate's degree...

Student's Web Design Startup Helps Local Businesses in Pandemic

Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic put an indefinite pause to how local bricks-and-mortar businesses serve their communities, an NJIT student and his friends stepped in to help small companies take the concept of shopping local online. Franklin Tan said his website development business, Tartan Technologies,...

Applications to Ying Wu College of Computing Increased 50% Since 2019

Monday, April 12th, 2021
Applications to study at Ying Wu College of Computing increased by 50% in the last two years. The college received 2,979 applicants this year which is also an increase of 19% from 2020. Computer science, human-computer interaction and web/information systems also experienced large increases as indiv...

NJIT Coding Team Advances for First Time, Divisional Round is April 22

Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
A team of NJIT computer science students will compete among some of the nation's best undergraduate coders in the divisional level of the International Collegiate Programming Contest on April 22, where top finishers in the U.S. Eastern division go to the North American championships, en route to the...

Institute for Data Science Aims to Democratize Supercomputing With NSF Grant

Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Ordinary people could soon have greater ability to analyze massive amounts of information, based on new algorithms and software tools being designed at NJIT, intended to simplify access to a programming interface from data scientists at the Department of Defense. It's relatively straightforward to a...

Grad Student Follows His Passions in Data Science, Dilruba, Hip-Hop Music

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Tejveer "T.J." Singh lives a double life that might be the envy of many other college students. By day, Singh is an unassuming data engineer, armed with an NJIT bachelor's degree in computer science and working from home in Milltown, N.J. for a San Francisco startup company, while also still enrolle...

Q&A with NJIT Alum Lorraine Nunes: My Journey from Brazil to Community College to NJIT to Accenture

Thursday, March 4th, 2021
Just two months after earning a bachelor’s at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Lorraine Nunes '20 landed her first big job, as a software architect analyst at Accenture. Nunes, who majored in business and information systems, graduated in December after transferring from Hudson County Community ...

Partnerships Flourish in Industrial Affiliates Program

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
As companies increasingly seek outside help to understand and implement emerging technologies such as data science and artificial intelligence, Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is playing an increasingly broader role in helping companies achieve this goal. YWCC does this through its Industrial Af...

Engineering Alum's Textbook Teaches Python With Real-World Examples

Monday, March 1st, 2021
NJIT alumna Dayrene Martinez, who earned her electrical engineering degree in 2018, recently published a textbook of Python computer programming after mastering the language as a systems engineer for defense contractor Raytheon. Martinez co-authored the 420-page book, Applied computational thinking ...

Six NJIT Honors College Students Named U.S. Fulbright Semifinalists

Monday, February 22nd, 2021
NJIT students have broken three university records so far this year in pursuit of Fulbright scholarships, submitting a historic high of 11 applications, followed by another milestone achievement – the elevation of six to the semifinal round, including a first-ever candidate for study in the U.K., on...