NJIT in the News

Fifteen high school/middle-school teams joined by College of Computing Sciences capstone teams will present the final deliverables of their real-world projects at the Summer 2009 Real World Connections Project Showcase and Awards Ceremony on August 6, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Enterprise Development Center 3.  

NJIT seniors Didem Cakiroglu and Ripa Patel presented the project they developed with teammate Alex Armas for RDE Systems at the tenth annual Spring 2009 CCS Capstone Showcase yesterday. The Capstone Program at NJIT matches interdisciplinary teams of senior students with clients from industry, government and university programs to develop customized software and database applications, to design and test devices, or to analyze and diagnose a variety of business problems.

Student teams will present their real-world projects at "Mission Impossible!," the tenth annual College of Computing Sciences (CCS) Spring 2009 Capstone Program Showcase on April 22, 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Atrium. Register online.

NJIT’s Capstone Showcase in Information Technology will feature teams of students detailing current or recent projects developed for regional corporate sponsors, non-profit organizations and student entrepreneurs.

High school students enrolled in NJIT's Real World Connections Summer Internship Program will be recognized for their achievements at an awards ceremony on August 7, 12:30-4 p.m. at the Enterprise Development Center 3, 211 Warren Street, Conference Room 407. Through the Capstone Open University Connections Program, students work in small project teams to solve real-world problems based on scenarios drawn from actual industry cases in a broad array of fields, including health, communications, sports, and entertainment.

A group of high school students who participated in the Capstone Real World Open University Connections program at NJIT presented their multi-year Global Microscope project accomplishments to NASA headquarters yesterday in Washington, DC. Through the CCS Capstone Open University Connections Program, middle-school and high school students work in small teams to solve  real-world problems based on scenarios drawn from actual industry cases in a variety of fields, including health, education, sports and entertainment.

Student teams will present their real-world projects at "Mission Impossible!," the eighth annual Spring 2008 College of Computing Sciences (CCS) Capstone Showcase on April 23, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. in the Campus Center Atrium.

NJIT will host the Spring 2008 CCS Capstone Sponsors Showcase on Feb. 6, 2:30-5:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Atrium. Featured sponsors include The Star-Ledger, CBS News, Saint Barnabas Health System, and many more.

More than 300 parents, children, students, corporate representatives and teachers crowded the NJIT Campus Center for NJIT’s Capstone Showcase in Information Technology. The program featured middle and high school student teams as well as NJIT freshmen. The students detailed current or recent projects developed for regional corporate sponsors.

NJIT’s Capstone Showcase in Information Technology will feature middle and high school student teams—as well as a freshman group—who will detail current or recent projects developed for regional corporate sponsors on Dec. 5, 1-5:30 p.m. in the NJIT  Campus Center.

The Capstone Open University will offer a web development training package during the month of October. Training sessions in PhP, Mysql, ASP.NET and Java script will be held on Oct. 10, 11, 17 and 18 in GITC Rm. 1400.

More than 40 projects developed by student teams, entrepreneurs and sponsors will be on display at the Spring 2006 Capstone Project Showcase on April 24, 12:30-5:30 p.m., in the Campus Center Ballroom.

NJIT's Capstone Open University, in collaboration with the New Jersey Chapter of the Open Web Application Security Project and Microsoft, will present the latest in open source web application security and Microsoft IT solutions at the "Open Source meets Microsoft @ NJIT" event on April 19, 5-9 p.m., GITC Building Rooms 3720, 3730 and 3740. The event is free of charge; participants must register online.

NJIT's Capstone Open University will offer a free crash course in Advanced PHP/MySQL on March 1, 7:30-9 p.m. in GITC 1100. Contact: Osama Eljabiri at 973-642-7123.

NJIT's College of Computing Sciences (CCS) received a donation on Jan. 30 from IMS Health, a pharmaceutical and healthcare consulting firm, to support the Senior Project Capstone Experience.  

NJIT's Capstone Open Unviersity will host the next meeting of the New Jersey Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) chapter on Jan. 30, 2006, 5:45-9 p.m., GITC Building, Rm. 3710. The NJ OWASP is a technical group that brings together technology professionals including application developers, database administrators and engineers. For more information, call 973-642-7123; e-mail tomb@accessitgroup.com.

The College of Computing Sciences will host a poster session event on November 30, 2004 to showcase the work of students in the Senior Project Capstone Program. The event, which will be held on the third floor of the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center from 12 noon to 3:30 p.m., will feature student team presentations of their work using posters and computer-assisted demonstrations. Corporate sponsors will also be in attendance. Contact: Serena Branson at ext. 5646 or via email at branson@njit.edu.