NJIT in the News

Have an idea for an iPhone application, but don’t know how to make it happen or can’t afford to take a course?  NJIT will offer free tuition for an online iPhone application development non-credit course. The 10-week online course will begin Oct. 19, 2009. An NJIT instructor will teach it and students who successfully complete it will receive three continuing education units from NJIT.

North Jersey Partners will offer free customized training in transportation and healthcare project management at NJIT on Thursday, Sept. 24 and Tuesday, Sept. 29 focusing on transportation and on Tuesday, Oct. 13 and Thursday, Oct.15 tailored to healthcare services. Workshops will be held from 9 a.m.-12 noon in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 3720. Each three-hour session will include an introduction to PMI^® methodologies in project management which will be linked to an actual case study. NJIT will award .3 CEU certificates for attending this program. Training will be provided by Kaizen Technologies in partnership with NJIT. Registration is required and seating is limited. To register, contact Gwendetta Scantling, NJIT’s Division of Continuing Professional Education at 973-596-3063 or scantlin@njit.edu. 

NJIT will break new ground this summer with a new and affordable graduate online tuition rate for out-of-state students. “The new tuition will make it possible for students anywhere in or outside the U.S. to study full or part-time at NJIT,” said Gale Tenen Spak, associate vice president of the Division of Continuing Professional Education.

Fascinated by gadgets? Then you won’t want to miss out on NJIT’s first online iPhone application development course. Offered by the Division of Continuing Professional Education, the 30-hour online course (conducted over 10 weeks) starts May 11, 2009. Registration will be open through May 10, 2009. The cost for the class is $1000.

The Continuing Professional Education division at NJIT is pleased to announce that the EmployME! Information Technology (IT) training program for adults (www.myemployme.org), has successfully placed more than 62 percent of the program’s graduates from its first full session. 

NJIT instructors will teach students to work in chemical protective clothing—better known as moon suits—on April 11, 12:30 p.m.-4 p.m., Room B35, NJIT Campus Center. The students (ages 18-23) are disadvantaged young adults from New Jersey's inner cities who have enrolled to turn around their lives.

How can New Jersey’s first responders and law-enforcement professionals stay abreast of knowledge vital for meeting the challenges of their work, including the threat of terrorism? The answer: NJIT is taking the “edge in knowledge” to them. The new academic certificate program, coordinated by NJIT’s Division of Continuing Professional Education, is bringing courses tailored to an organization’s specific needs directly to  companies and government agencies throughout NJ.

Looking for a venerable and well-respected online engineering program? Think of calling NJIT, home to one of the nation’s largest and best-respected online computing, engineering and technology programs. The Oct. 17, 2006 issue of US News and World Report singled out NJIT’s program as sixth in the nation based on enrollment in ABET-accredited engineering schools and fifth in the nation based on the age of the program.