September 28, 1998
Contents
President Outlines Challenges Ahead
Former Student Still Building A Career At NJIT
Fire Damages Residence Hall
Computing Services Working To Improve Service
Blazing Trails In Education
News From The Campaign Front
Annual Fall Awards Ceremony To Honor Alumni,
Faculty
Associate Vice President Named
Faculty Members Receive Promotions
EDC-Based Company Awarded $250,000 Contract
NJIT Welcomes Freshman Class Of 2002
Fall Enrollment Sets New Record
Admissions Office Schedules Recruiting Events
NJIT To Offer Joint Environmental Programs
A Reminder From Health Services
Workshop To Address Research Issues
Distance Learning Course Information On The Internet
Grant To Provide For Greater Access To Library Catalogs
ADMIN Disk Space Reminder
NJIT Community News Briefs
Seminars
Teleconference
Classifieds
Campus
Events Calendar
President Outlines Challenges Ahead
At this year's first meeting of the Committee on Academic Affairs, President Saul K. Fenster outlined a set of challenges for the coming year.As computing intensive career-oriented programs become more and more popular among students nationally, NJIT faces an ever increasing level of competition from institutions seeking to offer and expand programs similar to our own, both on campus and through internet-based distance learning formats. Competition requires us to work harder to make NJIT's outstanding programs better known to prospective students and the general public.
The State of New Jersey is introducing a new system of performance-based budgeting which will lead to another set of challenges for the state's public research universities.
"The extent to which this affects us in actual dollars is minimal for this fiscal year, but that will change over the next several years as the state moves toward a system of cost accountability measures when allocating funds," Fenster said. "We were among those institutions that first encouraged this practice and, now that we have it, we want to be sure that we benefit from it."
With that in mind, Fenster said, he has outlined an agenda for the upcoming year that will put new focus on student graduation rates and the implementation of an integrated and forward-reaching plan for high level computing.
Graduation rates are a key measure used by those who compile national rankings of colleges and universities. Increasingly, students, parents, and alumni are coming to rely upon those rankings as a measurement of their institutions. And while U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of colleges and universities states that NJIT's academic reputation has improved by 25 percent in the past year, the university has actually slipped in some of the magazine's other categories.
The university's computing plan addresses both the immediate and the long-term technology needs of this campus.
"There are 5,000 computers now on campus," said Fenster. "We can't possibly replace all of them at once. We need a program which replaces obsolete equipment and adds new equipment on a regular and ongoing basis, rather than being faced with a need to replace an unmanageable quantity of equipment in any one year."
These initiatives are set against a background of continued growth, Fenster said. The endowment has grown to almost $31 million, the amount of funded research is on the rise, and the number of Ph.D. candidates also is growing.
"So there are very positive indicators as we begin the academic year and approach the next millenium," Fenster said.
Former Student Still Building A Career At NJIT
There's definitely something special about Natasha Grant.She's young, just 25 years old, and she wears a hard hat to work.
As assistant superintendent for the Turner Construction Company, the former NJIT student (class of '96) is in charge of the renovation project now underway in Colton and Campbell halls, where she supervises crews.
"It's great," she said. "The field is definitely not typical for a woman, but I love it."
Growing up in Jamaica, Grant was practically weaned in the building industry. Often, she'd follow her stepfather, a civil engineer, to the construction sites where he worked. The experience enticed her to pursue an architecture degree at NJIT. After three years of studio and computer-aided design, she realized architecture was in her curriculum, but construction was in her heart. She switched majors to construction engineering technology and eventually landed an eight-week internship with the Turner Construction Company. The eight weeks turned into eight months and Turner hired her as a full-time field engineer after graduation in 1997.
"I was nervous my first day on the job because there were so many men," said Grant. "I just graduated and for the first time I was going to supervise people, and most of them were men older men. I was worried about having to supervise them. Nobody gave me a hard time, but I definitely got double looks."
To her delight, all of her work with Turner has involved NJIT campus construction projects. She has supervised small projects ranging from the student center to relocation and renovation of the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) facilities. She is currently working on the renovation of Colton and Campbell halls, but is most proud of her contributions to her old stomping grounds, the newly constructed School of Architecture building.
"I love doing this job because I'm at NJIT," said Grant, a former EOP student. "I'm here and seeing the campus improve. I definitely get more satisfaction here because I'm doing this work for my alma mater."
Each day, Grant arrives at NJIT before 7 a.m., answers questions, does some paper work and makes calls before the crews begin coming in. Then it's out to the sites, making sure a project is on time, on budget and up to quality.
"Sometimes on the job, when I walk in a room, the guys are cursing and talking about women," said Grant. "Then they immediately shut up. I think I kind of keep them on their toes a little bit. I keep them actually thinking about their job."
Most of Grant's work doesn't require physical labor. She is primarily a manager, but she is quick to lend a hand when needed.
"When I have to help out here or there, I do, but it's not usual," said Grant.
Although she sometimes faces physical constraints, Grant believes there are advantages to being a woman on the job site.
"I have the men's respect," she said. "I think personality has a lot to do with it".
Someday, Grant hopes to own her own construction company. For now, even though her boy friend isn't thrilled, she's perfectly happy working for Turner Construction at NJIT.
"My boy friend hates me working around all these guys, but I love it," she said. "I hang out with the guys and fit right in."
Fire Damages Residence Hall
A fire that apparently began in a wastebasket damaged a room on the second floor of Redwood Hall, Thursday, Sept. 10. Residence Life staff, the Department of Public Safety, and the Newark Fire Department evacuated the students quickly and safely when the fire detection alarms went off around 6:10 p.m.One student and four Public Safety officers were treated for smoke inhalation and was released from the hospital. Students were allowed to return to their rooms after 9:45 p.m. The students who lived in the room have been temporarily relocated while the room is being refurbished.
INFO: Office of Residence Life, ext. 3039.
Computing Services Working To Improve Service
As part of its ongoing effort to improve and expand services, NJIT's Division of Computing Services has been working throughout the summer to upgrade the campus's computing infrastructure. Improvements completed or underway include:· A new e-mail server and software has been obtained and will be implemented by mid-semester.More information will be forthcoming in future issues regarding these important developments. The executive director of computing services is Thomas Terry, terry@admin, ext. 2910. The departments that comprise the Division of Computing Services and their responsibilities are:· PCs in the PC Lab have been upgraded, with more memory, faster CPUs and larger monitors.
· The ADMIN system has been upgraded to be year 2000 compliant.
· A new, faster EIES/VC machine has been ordered.
· A new, faster News server with upgraded software will be installed.
· Training courses for the MS Office '97 suite and homepage creation have been offered.
· The STARS program was launched to help faculty expand their computer skills.
· Data lines have been installed in various campus buildings to provide faster Internet access and data transfer.
· A centralized Computing Help Desk has been established at ext. 2900.
- Academic Computing manages the PC labs, the Computing Help Desk, PC hardware and software installation and questions, and PC distribution, under the direction of Kenneth Danielsen, danielsen@admin, ext. 2904. Other units are the PC Store, managed by Betty Bittman, bittman@admin, ext. 2918, and the Computer Maintenance Facility for hardware repairs and software installation, managed by Joe Polyak, polyak@admin, ext. 2913.
- Telecommunications & Networks maintains and manages the voice and data networks, which include Novell & NT Servers, PBX Phone System and Audix Voicemail system, and provides consultation services to campus departments. The director is Rose Pagan, telecom@admin, ext. 5890.
- Engineering Computing manages specialized workstation computer systems including Megahertz, the SUN, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett-Packard. The director is David Perel, perel@admin, ext. 3356.
- Management Information Services manages Tesla and the ADMIN systems, including FRS, SIS, HRS, ADS and associated software, under the direction of David Ullman, ullman@admin, ext. 2915.
- Emerging Technologies/CCCC handles the EIES system, including the Virtual Classroom, the NJIT homepage on the World Wide Web and various other cutting-edge technology projects. Alan Leurck, leurck@admin, ext. 2933, is the director of this group.
- Center for Information Age Technology provides computer-related consulting and training for small businesses, governmental agencies, university departments and non-profit groups throughout the state. Mitch Darer, darer@admin, ext. 3174, is the CIAT director.
Blazing Trails In Education
Golgen Bengu, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering, likes to try new things.The products of her enthusiasm and tenacity are creative new approaches to engineering education. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), DARPA, and the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, she has been developing courseware that makes full use of NJIT's technological capabilities, incorporating video, audio, web links, communications capabilities, images, and interactive simulations and quizzes.
"I didn't start out to add a lot of bells and whistles to course materials; I set out to address some emerging educational needs," she said. "Technology was part of the solution."
Bengu explained a number of factors have come together in the last decade that have rendered the traditional engineering curriculum inadequate. Changes in environmental regulations demanded a greater curricular emphasis on environmental issues; the emergence of a global economy compelled students to work collaboratively, potentially at great distances; and the federal government's focus on technology as the nation's economic engine stimulated a move to stress manufacturing more heavily in the engineering curriculum.
"We also began to see a kind of information overload in the technological professions," Bengu said. "As faster and more powerful computers have created an explosion of scientific knowledge, the traditional way of teaching technological subjects faculty lecturing, students memorizing no longer works. We need tools that allow learning to be more self-directed. We need approaches that train students to solve problems and find information as they need it."
The development of a prototype learning tool that would meet all of these needs was undertaken by a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional team including Bengu, professor Barbara Kebbekus of NJIT's department of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Environmental Science, Dr. Dan Watts, of NJIT's environmental research center, and professors of chemistry and psychology at Rutgers, Princeton, Drexel and Iowa State. What evolved was the "Study Buddy," an intelligent learning system that teaches Fundamentals of Chemistry through real-life examples, using multimedia, Internet and interactive visualization tools.
Designed as a web site, the "Study Buddy" centers around four case studies involving air pollution, paint manufacture, ozone depletion and the manufacture of aspirin. An on-line textbook provides the science background, and video clips demonstrate basic chemical processes and lab skills. Although not designed to take the place of hands-on laboratory experience, a virtual lab component tracks students through experiment simulations. In one exercise, the student designates the type and proportion of ingredients for making paint, and the program feeds back an evaluation of the product based on quality, price, and environmental impact. Built-in self-tests and quizzes provide students with instant grading and explanations of correct answers as well as their rank among classmates.
Bengu says she chose the web as the medium for the "Study Buddy" rather than CD or videotape to allow maximum flexibility for updating and making changes.
Still in the testing stage, the "Study Buddy" is receiving good reviews from student focus groups. Pilot classes using the courseware are slated to begin next year at NJIT, Rutgers and Michigan Technological University.
Bengu used similar techniques to shape a senior engineering design project course that has been offered for the past two years. In addition to the web-based, multimedia course materials, this pilot class features a long-distance collaboration among students from NJIT, Cooper Union, Drexel, Ohio State and the University of Pennsylvania. Student teams are assigned various tasks related to design, manufacture, and assembly, as well as analyses of market potential, costs and potential profitability, and product liability.
A third project, the design of an interdisciplinary virtual laboratory
for engineering and architecture, recently received NSF funding. Bengu
will collaborate with Barry Jackson, associate professor of architecture;
with Edward Dauenheimer, professor of civil and environmental engineering;
and with Erv Bales, research professor of architecture, to develop a comprehensive
interdisciplinary laboratory course and environment for collaborative problem
solving for senior design students in civil engineering, mechanical engineering
and
architecture.
"Information technology gives us the power to create better educational tools," she said. "Students can learn at their own pace, in the format that works best for them. We can create collaborative learning experiences that are relevant to the workplace. Computers have provided us with the means to bring about a revolution in learning."
News From The Campaign Front
The university has received a $1 million pledge to establish scholarships to recruit student-athletes to NJIT.Campaign cabinet member Seymour "Zoom" Fleisher, '51, made the gift for scholarships in honor of himself and his late wife, Estelle, who shared his devotion to the university. The Fleishers have now given the university more than $1.4 million.
A second new scholarship will honor the memory of Morton A. Kreitchman,
'44, founder
of Valco Engineering Corporation, which specializes in fluid control
and pressure vessels. His widow, Lilyan, contributed $42,000 through the
Kreitchman Family Foundation to establish the Morton A. Kreitchman, '44,
Memorial Scholarship Fund. Students majoring in mechanical engineering
will be eligible for scholarships as well as summer internships at Valco
Engineering.
Annual Fall Awards Ceremony
To Honor Alumni, Faculty
Five distinguished alumni, all leaders in their fields, will receive NJIT's
Distinguished Alumni Medal for Outstanding Achievement at the annual Fall
Awards Ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 3:30 p.m., in the Hazell Center Ballroom.
Alumni honorees include:
- · Herbert A. Bernhard, '49, a litigation specialist and partner in the law firm of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP.
- · John D. McKenna, '68, a leader in the pollution control industry and chief executive officer of ETS, Inc., Air Technologies, Inc., and Christel Clear Technologies, Inc.
- · Vincent DeCaprio, '72, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Becton, Dickinson and Company.
- · Col. Ellen Pawlikowski, '78, chief of the Revolutionizing Training Division at Wright-Patterson Airforce Base, in Ohio.
- · Michael F. Smith, '78, founder and chief executive officer of M.F. Smith & Associates, a management, information technology, and training consulting firm.
- · Piero Armenante, professor of chemical engineering, will receive the Harlan J. Perlis Award for Research, for his work in the treatment of toxic and hazardous wastes.
- · Basil C. Baltzis, professor of chemical engineering, will receive the Robert Van Houten Award for Excellence in Teaching, selected by alumni who have graduated within the last 10 years.
- · Deran Hanesian, professor of chemical engineering, for lower division: undergraduate instruction.
- · John Federici, associate professor of physics, for upper division: undergraduate instruction.
- · Nirwan Ansari, professor of electrical engineering, for graduate instruction.
- · Slawomir Piatek, special lecturer in applied physics, for instruction by a special lecturer and/or program director.
- · Louis Poli, adjunct professor of physics, for instruction by an adjunct professor.
- · Firas Aljallad, teaching assistant in computer and information science, for instruction by a teaching assistant.
- · Vladislav Goldberg, distinguished professor of mathematics, for outstanding professional development by a tenured faculty member.
Associate Vice President Named
Gale Tenen Spak has been named associate vice president for continuing and distance education. Dr. Spak will serve as the senior manager for adult and education program development, marketing and delivery. Working with deans, academic chairs, faculty, administrative and research directors, she is responsible for strategic planning, resource and performance management, entrepreneurship and revenue generation.Spak came to NJIT in 1992 as the executive director of the Division of Continuing Professional Development Education (CPE). Under her leadership, enrollments have substantially increased in each CPE educational program. New public access and corporate extension sites have been opened, new corporate partnerships have been forged, and the New Jersey Department of Labor awarded several million dollars worth of on-the-premises customized training grants. Spak has also been instrumental in the integration of new educational technologies in Distance Learning delivery and new one-stop shopping approaches to serving students.
Faculty Members Receive Promotions
The Board of Trustees approved the promotion of 15 members of the NJIT faculty at a meeting, June 15.Promoted to professor were Ali Akansu, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Rajesh Dave, Mechanical Engineering; Karen Franck, School of Architecture; James Grow, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Environmental Science; Nuggehalli M. Ravindra, Physics; Frank Shih, Computer and Information Science; and Leslie Kanes Weisman, School of Architecture.
Promoted to associate professor with tenure were Lucian Fabiano, Engineering Technology; Cheryl Hile, Mathematical Sciences; Burt Kimmelman, Humanities and Social Sciences; Marvin Nakayama, Computer and Information Science; and Michael Siegel, Mathematical Sciences.
Faculty who received tenure without change in rank were Lev Krasnoperov, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Environmental Science; Jacob Savir, Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Marino Xanthos, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Environmental Science.
· Akansu has been on the faculty since 1987. He is co-director and one of the founding members of the New Jersey Center for Multimedia Research, a designated Research and Development Excellence Center of the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. His current research interests include signal theory, linear transform theory and algorithms, image-video compression, and signal processing techniques in digital communications. He has published extensively in refereed journals and conference proceedings and is currently working on an edited volume on multimedia and communication applications of transforms.
· Dave's main research interests are in the areas of particle technology and pattern recognition. His projects are funded through grants and contracts from federal and state agencies, as well as industrial companies. He is co-director of the Particle Processing Research Center, a New Jersey Research and Development Excellence Center of the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. He is active in editorial work, serving as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
· Franck's major research interests have been alternative forms of housing, changes in public housing, and the constraints and opportunities offered by concepts of building types. She has published two books, "New Households, Housing" and "Ordering Space: Types in Architecture and Design." A common theme in her writing is the relationship between architecture and social change. Her current book project, "Architecture Inside Out: A Gentle Manifesto," suggests a more transformative way for thinking about and creating architecture.
· Grow is the author of more than 35 published articles in journals and conference proceedings. In the past few years, he has helped obtain more than a $1 million in funding from various federal, state and industrial sources for his research in low temperature magnetism, solid-state physics, catalysis and chemical vapor deposition. He has been innovative in the use of computers in the classroom and laboratory, creating a 10 CD-ROM-based physical chemistry laboratory course with an introduction to statistics, which includes PowerPoint lectures, laboratory manuals, computer programs and video presentations.
· Ravindra's research interests include microelectronics, optoelectronics, process monitoring and control, temperature sensors and related topics. He has been the author or co-author of more than 100 refereed publications and has co-edited the book, "Transient Thermal Processing Techniques in Electronic Materials." He has been a principal or a co-principal investigator of contracts that have resulted in obtaining more than $1.6 million for research support at NJIT. In recent years, his group has focused on rapid thermal processing of silicon.
· Director of the Computer Vision Laboratory, Shih serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Systems Integration and as associate editor of the International Journal of Information Sciences Applications and the International Journal of Pattern Recognition. A recipient of a Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation, he investigates image processing, computer vision, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, expert systems, robotics, computer architecture, fuzzy logic and neural networks.
· Included in Weisman's pioneering design education is the co-founding of Sheltering Ourselves: A Women's Learning Exchange, an international educational forum on housing and community development for low-income women and their families. She also co-founded The Women's School of Planning and Architecture, a national summer program for women in the environmental design professions and trades. Weisman serves on the National Architectural Accrediting Board Schools Visitation Teams and has received numerous awards for public service and teaching excellence, including the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture National Creative Achievement Award. She is the author of 35 published works, including the award-winning book, titled "Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment," and co-editor of "The Sex of Architecture."
· Before joining NJIT, Fabiano worked in design engineering and engineering management at Bell Telephone Labs, GTE Labs, and ITT Corp. He has more than 25 years experience in the development of voice and data communication systems and has several patents associated with electronic voice and data switching systems. He has been instrumental in NJIT's achieving IEEE/TAC accreditation of the Electrical Engineering Technology program and is an active member of the American Society of Electrical Engineers and IEEE.
· Hile's research interests focus on the development of efficient computational electromagnetic methods that provide a fundamental understanding of ultrashort pulse propagation in nonlinear optical fibers and devices and microwave material processing systems. Several of her papers include "Numerical Solutions of Maxwell's Equation for Nonlinear Optical Pulse," published in the Journal of the Optical Society of America B, "Comparisons Between Numerical Solutions of Maxwell's Equations and an Extended Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation," published in Wave Motion, and "A Hybrid Method for Loaded Highly Resonant Single Mode Cavities," published in the Journal of Computational Physics.
· Kimmelman's fields of research are interdisciplinary medieval studies and 20th century poetry and philosophy. He also is a poet and has authored numerous articles, book chapters and reviews, and several books, including "The Winter Mind: William Bronk and American Letters," "The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona," and "Musaics."
· Nakayama is a recipient of an National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award. He is an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation. Nakayama's research interests include simulation and modeling, fault-tolerant computing, reliability theory, statistics, communication networks and applied probability.
· Siegel's research interests are in theoretical computational fluid dynamics, with a particular focus on moving boundary problems arising in such areas as two-phase fluid flow and crystal growth. Other areas of interest are vortex dynamics and interface problems arising in physiology. He has published 11 scientific articles in these areas and has spoken at a number of conferences. His work is currently supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
· Krasnoperov's research interests are in chemical kinetics and thermochemistry, laser kinetic spectroscopy, photochemistry, air pollutants destruction and separation, fundamental chemistry in corona discharge, reactions in supercritical fluids, kinetics and mechanism of heterogeneous reactions of catalytic hydrocarbon coupling and diamond chemical vapor deposition, non-equilibrium reactions and laser isotope separation. He has 57 peer-reviewed publications, two book chapters and more than 50 conference publications. He has been the principal or co-principal investigator of 16 research projects totaling more than $1.1 million.
· Before joining NJIT, Savir was a senior engineer/scientist for IBM. His research interests are in the testing field, where he published numerous papers and co-authored the text, "Built-In Test for VLSI: Pseudorandom Techniques." He has received numerous awards, among them four IBM Invention Achievement Awards, six IBM Publication Achievement Awards and four IBM Patent Application Awards.
· Xanthos is the director of the Center for Processing of Plastics Packaging at NJIT and director of research at the Polymer Processing Institute, with laboratories at NJIT and Stevens Institute of Technology. His current research interests are polymer blends and composites, polymer modification, reactive polymer processing, plastics recycling, plastics additives and polymer processing/structure/properties relationships. He serves as leader of the "Reengineered Materials from the Waste Stream" thrust area of the Multilifecycle Engineering Research Center program, currently sponsored by the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. Xanthos has authored or co-authored several books, including "Reactive Extrusion" and "How to Manage Plastics Waste."
EDC-Based Company Awarded $250,000 Contract
The Office of Naval Research has awarded the Electrox Corporation, a small business located in NJIT's Enterprise Development Centers (EDC), a $250,000 contract for the "Electronic Printing of Electronic Components and Electronic Wiring Systems."The current award is for one year, with options for second and third years, each to be funded at approximately $1 million. The contract will allow Electrox to expand its technology base to the "true printing of printed wiring boards and other electronic packaging applications," according to Robert Detig, founder and president of Electrox.
"The award is a result of our successful efforts in producing metal and glass toners and putting them on glass," said Detig. "We are close to achieving a generic manufacturing technology applicable to a number of industries."
NJIT Welcomes Freshman Class Of 2002
This year's freshman class includes students from nearby Newark, Kearny, and Clifton, and fromOregon, Illinois, and Florida. Three hundred and eighteen freshmen nearly 55 percent of the total class live on campus in Redwood and Cypress Halls. This is the largest number of freshmen ever to reside on campus.
Among the class, NJIT has seven valedictorians and six salutatorians. One hundred and twenty-three students were National Honor Society members at their high schools, and seven were recognized as National Merit Semifinalists or Commended Students. Many also were active in community service.
"Our freshmen tell us that they chose NJIT because of our strong academic reputation, the prospect of a good job upon graduation, low tuition and the scholarships they were awarded," said William Anderson, assistant vice president, enrollment planning.
One hundred and nineteen freshmen have enrolled in the Albert Dorman Honors College, which brings the total enrollment to 446. Nearly all of the students who qualified for New Jersey's Outstanding Student Recruitment Program scholarships chose to enroll in the Honors College.
Additional information about the freshman class of 2002 is included in the "Freshman Profile." available from the Office of University Admissions.
INFO: Denise Taylor, ext. 3301, or e-mail to taylord@ admin.njit.edu.
Fall Enrollment Sets New Record
Enrollment this semester is at 8,191 students, which sets yet another record for the fourth consecutive semester. Total enrollment includes 5,177 undergraduate students and 3,014 graduate students with 2,694 in master's degree programs and 320 in Ph.D. programs. Women represent 24 percent of the total student population. The overall distribution of degree candidates by college is: Newark College of Engineering, 51 percent; College of Science and Liberal Arts, 31 percent; School of Management, 10 percent; and School of Architecture, 8 percent. One thousand and fifteen students are taking courses on a non-degree (non-matriculated) basis.The departments with the largest number of degree candidates are Computer and Information Science with 1,807 students, Electrical and Computer Engineering with 1,233 students, Management with 659 students, Architecture with 567 students, and Mechanical Engineering with 480 students. Three hundred and twenty students attend NJIT at Mt. Laurel.
Admissions Office Schedules Recruiting Events
The Office of University Admissions announces the dates for its major recruiting events for 1998-1999. Mark your calendars for these very important events.- Fall Open House (Newark) Sunday, Oct. 25, 1998
- Fall Open House (Mt. Laurel) Sunday, Nov. 5, 1998
- Winter Open House (Newark) Sunday, Feb. 21, 1999
- Deans' Day (Newark) Sunday, April 11, 1999
INFO: Kathy Kelly, ext. 3301.
NJIT To Offer Joint Environmental Programs
NJIT will begin awarding baccalaureate, masters' and doctoral degrees in environmental science jointly with Rutgers-Newark. The new collaboration is designed to create a powerful concentration of faculty expertise in a program that will play a regional and national role in environmental science education and research, according to Gordon Lewandowski, chairman of NJIT's Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Environmental Science.Prior to this arrangement, NJIT offered the M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Science with considerable participation by Rutgers-Newark faculty. Rutgers-Newark awarded the B.A. in Environmental Science.
"This collaboration brings together a powerful combination of faculty expertise in the environmental area, combining the resources of NJIT's Department of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Environmental Science with the Department of Biological Sciences and Geology at Rutgers-Newark," Lewandowski said.
Additional faculty from NJIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences also are affiliated with the programs.
"We have one of the largest and most interdisciplinary faculty groups in any environmental program in the nation," said Lewandowski. "This provides considerable breadth of experience to students because the entire spectrum from problem delineation to problem solution is covered."
The programs are expected to provide an excellent opportunity to develop interdisciplinary research collaborations to attract federal, state and industrial funds. These new funding opportunities will build on the existing strengths of the Hazardous Substance Management Research Center at NJIT, as well as the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute at Rutgers-Newark.
A Reminder From Health Services
The State of New Jersey and NJIT require all to students submit proof of receiving two doses of measles vaccine and one dose each of rubella and mumps vaccine.The first dose should have been administered after a student's first birthday, the second dose administered after 1980. If official proof cannot be obtained, vaccination is necessary and doses must be administered one month apart. A tuberculosis test (PPD) also is required. A physician's clinical history of measles, mumps or rubella is not acceptable. If a student prefers, he or she can provide serologic evidence of immunity to measles, mumps and rubella with lab results.
Students whose records are incomplete at the end of the semester may have a hold placed on their registration. To check immunization status, students can access "View your MEDICAL Information" on the self-registration screen.
INFO: ext. 3621.
Workshop To Address Research Issues
An informative administrative workshop sponsored by the Office of Sponsored Programs and Grant and Contract Services will be conducted Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2:304:30 p.m., and Tuesday, Oct. 13, 9:3011:30 a.m., in Guttenberg Information Technologies Center 3730.The workshop will include presentations on research opportunities, pre-award and post-award research administration, and protection and evaluation of intellectual property.
The Oct. 7 workshop will emphasize issues of interest to faculty, while the Oct. 13 workshop will be directed toward administrators.
INFO: Adrienne Walker, ext. 3432.
Grant To Provide For Greater Access To Library Catalogs
NJIT computer users with a web browser on their PCs will soon be able to search the university's library catalog (NJNEER), as well as other z39.50 library catalogs from other research institutions.The Robert W. Van Houten Library received a New Jersey State Library grant of $29,348 of federal funds to purchase Data Research Associates (DRA) software and implement the web-based catalog and z39.50 access, the National Information Standards Organization requirement for electronic information retrieval. Z39.50 defines a standard way for two computers to communicate for the purpose of information retrieval.
Users also will be able to connect from a citation directly to some electronic resources, including formats such as multimedia files, in addition to just text. Users can search other libraries using the same familiar graphical user interface and commands.
A web browser client PC communicates with a Windows NT web server, which then translates and communicates this in z39.50 protocol to NJIT's catalog or any other. The Department of Management Information Systems (MIS) loads the web software onto an NT web server that MIS has available and loads the additional DRA software onto NJIT's current catalog NJNEER. Users will no longer have to rely solely on a telnet software program for catalog access, although this will still be available.
Distance Learning Course Information On The Internet
Distance Learning Welcome Information, including course profile, syllabus, computer connection instructions, textbook and video ordering information must be retrieved from the Distance Learning homepage, www.njit.edu/DL.Access to the Internet is necessary to register for any distance learning course. Internet access is available at the university computer lab in the Student Mall or the Van Houten Library.
INFO: 642-7015, dl@NJIT.edu.
ADMIN Disk Space Reminder
Computing Services reminds ADMIN users to review stored e-mails and delete them regularly. The ADMIN System has a limited amount of disk space, from which each user is allotted a portion for saving e-mails after they've been read. ADMIN does not automatically delete e-mails from the disk.Each user must go into the MAIL program and delete them regularly.Old e-mail should be deleted at least once a week to avoid exceeding disk quotas. A user who has exceeded his or her disk quota will not be able to send or receive any new e-mail until clear space is made available. Exceeded disk quotas also may prevent access to FRS, SIS, HRS or ADS.
If you are unsure how to delete old e-mails, go to the MAIL prompt in ADMIN and typeHELP MAIL, view the ADMIN mail user manual on the web at: http://www.njit.edu/CSD/Academic_Computing/Manuals/Admin /admin.html or request an ADMIN e-mail manual throughhelpme@admin.
INFO: E-mail helpme@admin.
Seminar
Friday, Sept. 25
Volume biomedical reactions will be the topic of a seminar sponsored by the Department of Mathematical Sciences, 11:30 a.m., in Cullimore Hall 611.David Edwards, of the University of Delaware, will present "Transport Effects in Surface-Volume Biochemical Reactions." Many reactions of biological interest occur between free-floating ligands and receptors embedded on a surface, such as a cell membrane. In order to measure the rate constants for such reactions, scientists must have an accurate mathematical model for the system. The most widely used model neglects transport effects entirely, but in certain measuring devices, transport plays an important role.
Asymptotic and singular perturbation methods are used to analyze the full convection-diffusion-reaction model of one such device. Linear and nonlinear integral equations result from the analysis; explicit and asymptotic solutions are constructed for physically realizable cases. Though results for measuring devices are important from an instrumentation point of view, true biological structures are more complicated. Some remarks on helical structures, which closely resemble DNA, also will be presented.
Teleconference
Monday, Sept. 28
An interactive teleconference on key steps to address sexual harassment appropriately and legally to protect everyone involved will be held 2-4 p.m., in Guttenberg Information Technologies Center 1400. The teleconference will be broadcast live from the University of Vermont's Distance Learning Network.Participants will learn:
· How the law defines sexual harassment.A representative from the Office of Legal and Employment Affairs will be available to discuss NJIT's policy and procedures, and to answer any questions.· What the current status of sexual harassment law is.
· How to make a complaint and establish a file.
· What the process is for choosing an investigator.
· How to conduct interviews with both the accuser and accused.
· How to form an investigative panel, weigh evidence and make a judgement.
INFO: Office of the Dean of Student Services, ext. 3466.
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