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the semester break on January 22, 2002, this publication will issued bi-monthly. Please plan accordingly. The next issue is December 5, 2001. The deadline for submission is November 30, 2001 .
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State Employees Charitable Campaign Needs Your Support
Lucent Technologies Presents NJIT with Grant for the Albert Dorman Honors College REU Program
Dean Jonakait's Speech to NJIT Faculty
Math and Sciences Best Practices Showcase
New Jersey Institute of Technology Honors Alumni at Fall Celebration
Albert Dorman Honors College Expands
to Offer
Students a New Experience
Expansion funded by a $100,000 grant from Lucent Technologies
From left: Fadi Deek (CCS), Dawn John (Lucent, Campus Manager), Robert Friedman (CCS),
Rene Yandun ('01; Lucent), Joel Bloom (VP, Student Servies)
Information technology has been identified as one of the four economic growth areas of the State of New Jersey, the home of many of the world's most important communications, networking and other information technology companies, led by Lucent Technologies. New Jersey Institute of Technology offers a wide array of computing-related programs, including computer engineering, computer science, information systems, information technology and human computer interaction.
The Undergraduate Research Experience in Computing, funded by Lucent Technologies program, will facilitate the implementation of a research thread across the honors curricula in computing, culminating with either a research capstone in the form of a thesis or a hands-on experience in conjunction with an ongoing industry project. The funding will create a computing laboratory that will be the center of activity for the Albert Dorman Honors College Undergraduate Research Experience in Computing.
Funds from this project will be targeted to provide as the hardware, software and the communications infrastructure necessary for the implementation of a research experience laboratory for information technology students. The Lucent Technologies award augments the NJ I-TOWER project, a $2.5 million grant from the NJ Commission on Higher Education for the development of excellence in the information technology workforce, as well as other NJIT research initiatives.
The research experience project's goal is to create a learning laboratory, accessible to all computing students in the Albert Dorman Honors College and others students interested in an honors research experience during their last year of study. Faculty affiliated with the College of Computing Sciences will serve as mentors to graduating students while they conduct timely research and development. The projects will help increase the talent pool by ensuring that research is the culminating curricular experience at NJIT.
Fadi Deek and Robert Friedman serve as co-principal investigators and will provide oversight and direction to students and faculty. Deek, the associate dean of the College of Computing Sciences and an associate professor of information systems, will take the lead in the area of curricular development. Deek is also project director for NJ I-TOWER. His current research includes learning technologies, software engineering, programming environments, problem solving / cognition / learning theory, and computer science education. Friedman, research professor in the Information Technology Program, will oversee the area of technology development and research project administration. His current research includes computer mediated communication systems, asynchronous learning systems design, multimedia technologies, and communication theory.
The aim of this project is consistent with Lucent's needs, which include a demand for an excellent and sufficient technology workforce. Developing and retaining a high quality, high-tech workforce has been a complementary interest and goal of both NJIT and Lucent Technologies, which has the most NJIT students in their employ than any of the 51 colleges in the area. The project will increase the numbers and quality of this highly desirable labor force.back to top| Home`
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