Contact: Carla Anderson, Director of Public Relations (973) 596-3434
For Release: Immediate
Release Reference Number: 3378
NEWARK -- Some 1,200 students from high schools in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania are expected to attend Engineering Career Days, an event designed to introduce high school students to university-level engineering programs, at New Jersey Institute of Technology on December 3rd and 4th. Students Investigate Careers in Engineering at
New Jersey Institute of TechnologyRepresentatives from the six engineering disciplines taught at NJIT's Newark College of Engineering - Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Computer and Industrial engineering - will present demonstrations relating to their discipline. Each department will also offer separate informational sessions about their particular field.
Anyone interested in attending the event, or organizing a trip for high school students, should call NJIT's Newark College of Engineering at (973) 596-3222.
NJIT is a public research university enrolling nearly 8,200 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral students in 76 degree programs through its five colleges: Newark College of Engineering, School of Architecture, College of Science and Liberal Arts, the School of Management and the Albert Dorman Honors College. Research initiatives include manufacturing, microelectronics, multimedia, transportation, computer science, solar astrophysics, environmental engineering and science, and architecture and building science.
Yahoo! Internet Life magazine ranked NJIT the second "most wired" campus in the nation, U.S. News and World Report’s "1999 Annual Guide to America’s Best Colleges" ranked NJIT among the nation’s top universities, and Money magazine’s "Best College Buys 1998" rated NJIT as the sixth best value among U.S. science and technology schools and among the top 100 institutions overall.
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