A Century of Public Service Through Engineering
Review of what the profession has accomplished during the last century, and what NCE and NCE graduates have achieved during the same period, provides a strong sense of how our discipline has advanced.
Milestones and Unique Facts About NCE
Edythe Rabbe became the first woman to graduate from NCE, with a degree in chemical engineering, in 1930.
NCE has more than 40,000 living alumni, including heads of global engineering firms.
In 1930, the college again received a new name: Newark College of Engineering (NCE).
1975 brought a new, and lasting, name — New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Newark Technical School’s first dedicated building was a three-story structure at High St. and Summit Pl. named Weston Hall in honor of an early benefactor.
NJIT opened a 10,000-sq.-ft. Makerspace in the GITC building in 2017.
The New Jersey Gamma chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the national honor engineering fraternity, was established at NCE in 1941.
Robert S. Dow ’69, a fencer, competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
With the arrival of the NCE Class of 1953, the female population of the school increased 100 percent, from three women to six.
Newark Technical School opened in 1885 with 88 students. In 1930, the college received a new name: Newark College of Engineering (NCE)
The School of Applied Engineering and TechnologyM was established in 2018.
In 1921, Shirley Dodman became the first woman admitted to NCE.
Walter Marty “Wally” Schirra Jr., an NCE student in the ’40s, flew the six-orbit, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, becoming the fifth American and ninth human to travel into space.
NCE established a Computer Science Departmentin 1969.
With the introduction of the 1945 G.I. Bill, enrollment in NCE soared to 6,000 students. More than half were veterans.
