Stories tagged with "civil engineering"
May 6, 2009
When he was a boy, growing up in Argentina, Diego de Veyga dreamed of one day studying in America, whose colleges, he believed, were the best in the world. In Argentina, he worked hard to master... read more!
April 13, 2009
Civil engineering students at NJIT are on a bridge-making roll.  For the fourth year in a row, a team of civil engineering students won the Metropolitan Region’s Steel Bridge... read more!
February 20, 2009
Hillary Thaon has a perfect GPA, five academic scholarships and a bright future ahead of her as a civil engineer.A freshman in the Albert Dorman Honors College, she’s a well-rounded student... read more!
February 12, 2009
Piotr Wiszowaty grew up on a farm in a Polish village. His parents owned a dairy farm and when Piotr was a boy, he’d help his father with the farm.  Piotr liked to help his father fix... read more!
December 5, 2008
The Ramos sisters, Kathya and Jennifer, always excelled academically. They both graduated from high school as class valedictorians.  During their junior and senior years in high school, they... read more!
October 1, 2008
When he was a senior in high school, Jonathan Gustafson was looking for a university that would offer him four things: a biomedical engineering major, his academic interest; a volleyball team,... read more!
April 16, 2008
When Indira Hernandez was in high school in Cuba, she and her classmates spent the afternoons working in the fields, helping the local farmers pick oranges, water potatoes and sow the fields.... read more!
May 24, 2007
Austin DeRogatis, a scholar athlete who excelled both academically and athletically at NJIT, has been accepted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the fall, he’ll begin a... read more!
March 22, 2007
Four years ago, Britain Materek earned a degree in economics. He liked economics well enough, but after he graduated, he realized what he loved best was civil engineering. So he enrolled at NJIT... read more!
February 27, 2007
Everyone told them not to do it.But they -- a team of college students -- did it anyway.They designed a model of a skyscraper that twisted.It’s an axiom of civil engineering that buildings... read more!