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NEWARK, March 5--New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has appointed Joseph C. Muscari, executive vice president of Alcoa and group president of Asia and Latin America, to the NJIT Board of Overseers. The NJIT Board of Overseers works to give the university national and international recognition by supporting and encouraging research, establishing fellowships and scholarships and facilitating fund-raising for the benefit of the university’s academic programs. Joseph C. Muscari, who was born in Jersey City and currently lives in Manhattan, is a member of Alcoa’s Executive Council, the senior leadership group that provides strategic direction for the company. Muscari rose to these positions after spending more than 30 years with Alcoa. In the earlier part of his career, he worked as an industrial engineer with assignments in the company’s plants in New Kensington, PA, Massena, NY and Cleveland, OH. Later, he took on other assignments first as director of Alcoa’s information technology group, then as vice president of the Stolle Corporation, a diversified Alcoa business located in Sidney, Ohio and eventually stepping into the presidency of Alcoa Asia, Tokyo. In the latter position, he lived for five years with his family in Tokyo. He returned to the U.S. in 1997 as vice president of Audit with responsibility for creating an integrated system for audit processes and was subsequently named vice president, Environment, Health & Safety, Audit and Compliance for the company, a newly created position. Muscari holds a bachelor’s of science degree in industrial engineering from NJIT, an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, an honorary Doctor of Law from Salem-Teikyo University, Tokyo and is a member of two honorary engineering societies, Tau Beta Pi and Alpha Pi Mu. NJIT is a public, scientific and technological research university enrolling
more than 8,800 students. The university offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees to students
in 80 degree programs throughout its six colleges: Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey School
of Architecture, College of Science and Liberal Arts, School of Management, Albert Dorman Honors
College and College of Computing Sciences. The division of continuing professional education offers
adults eLearning, off campus degrees and short courses. Expertise and research initiatives include
architecture and building science, applied mathematics, biomedical engineering, environmental
engineering and science, information technology, manufacturing, materials, microelectronics,
multimedia, telecommunications, transportation and solar astrophysics. Yahoo! Internet
Life magazine cites NJIT as a "perennially most wired" university.
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