The symposium, set for December 5 (8:30 AM to 12:00 PM at the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center - Room 3720 on the NJIT campus), will feature NJIT President Saul K. Fenster, Ph.D, Congressman Robert Menendez, NJ DOT Commissioner James Weinstein, Assembly Majority Leader Paul DiGaetano, Assembly Minority Leader Joseph Doria, Jr. and other leaders from the public, private and non-profit sectors.

A 20 minute press conference will begin at 10:50 AM featuring remarks by Fenster, Menendez, Weinstein and Lazar Spasovic, Ph.D., Director of the IITC. A continental breakfast will be available throughout the morning.

NJIT is a public research university enrolling more than 8,800 bachelor's, master's and doctoral students in 80 degree programs through its five colleges: Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey School of Architecture, College of Science and Liberal Arts, the School of Management and the Albert Dorman Honors College. Research initiatives include transportation planning, manufacturing, microelectronics, multimedia, computer science, solar astrophysics, environmental engineering and science, and architecture and building science.

NJIT has been named for five consecutive years as one of the nation's Top 5 "most wired" universities, according to YAHOO! Internet Life magazine. U.S. News and World Report's 2000 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges ranked NJIT among the nation's top universities, and Money magazine's most recent issue of "Best College Buys" rated NJIT as the sixth best value among U.S. science and technology schools. In 1999, Mademoiselle ranked NJIT as the second most Internet-connected university in the nation.