The Alumni Achievement Awards recognize alumni for their exceptional accomplishment in any field of endeavor which brings honor to NJIT. The endeavor need not have brought public acclaim, but may consist of important creative efforts; contributions to social, educational or technological progress; and/or distinguished leadership in the individual's chosen profession, industry or public service. Service to the university is not mandatory, but is desirable.
The GeNext Award recognizes Young alumni (ages 35 and younger) for their significant professional accomplishment in any field of endeavor which brings honor to NJIT. The endeavor need not have brought public acclaim, but may consist of important creative efforts; contributions to social, educational or technological progress; and/or distinguished leadership in the individual's chosen profession, industry or public service. Service to the university is not mandatory, but is desirable.
2025 ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT HONOREES:
Joseph Buga ’15
Angie Ogando ’02, ’11
Tony Pusillo ’75, ’77
Gunjan Samtani ’97, ’97
Anthony Shiao ’01, ’07
Sarabjit Singh ’02H, ’04
GENEXT AWARD
Alana Dudley ’17H
ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE:
Chang Yaramothu ’13, ’14, ‘17
2024 ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT HONOREES:
Kaustubh G. Joshi ’97H
Robert Kurkjian ’95
Darryl Riley ’83
Robert Zampolin ’81
Peng Zhao ’13
GENEXT AWARD
Anmol Mittal ’16H
ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE:
Dr. James Geller
2023 ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT HONOREES:
Brian Kiernan EE’70
Robert Medina CE ’75
Mark Gamba EET’82 Cert’96 EM’99
John Larkin ME’84
Virginia Mayo Policarpio COE’02 IT’04 EM’09
GENEXT AWARD
Jonathan Ferrer BS ID ‘02
2022 ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT HONOREES:
Lysa D. Banks ’05H
Angelo Del Russo ’82
Joseph Dominguez ’84
Alvaro J. Piedrahita ’73
GENEXT AWARD
Rashmi B. Ketha ’17H, ’18
ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE:
Darius Sollohub
2020 / 2021 ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT HONOREES:
Judy A. Donnelly MA ARCH ’97
Dr. Albert A. Dorman BS ME ’45, ’99 HON
Tomas Gregorio MBA ’08
Kalpesh G. Kapadia MSIE ’97
Donald J. Reifer BS EE ’69
GENEXT AWARD
Paula A. Gutierrez, MHA CPTC BA BIOL ’09
ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE:
Anthony Schuman
2010 Austin L. Alvarez ’68
2010 Benjamin P. D’Armiento ’48
2010 Arthur E. Hahn, Jr. ’69
2010 Edmund H. Hecht, PE ’56
2010 Walter H. Kraft, PE, ’62, ’65, ‘75
2010 Robert M. Zanzalari ’82
2010 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Joga Rao, Ph.D.
2011 Gurinder S. Ahluwalia ’90
2011 Stanley M. Barauskas ’61
2011 Martin F. Hammer ’80
2011 George F. Nechwort ’41
2011 Marjorie A. Perry ’05
2011 Robert E. Sommerlad ’60, ’63
2011 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Methi Wecharatana, Ph.D.
2012 Leon K. Baptiste ’91
2012 Peter A. Cistaro ’68
2012 Robert C. Cohen ’83, ’84, ’87
2012 Michael J. Corbo ’81
2012 Fabian Hurtado ’75
2012 Ying Wu ’88
2012 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Katia Passerini, Ph.D.
2013 Donald K. Blackman ‘76
2013 Edith A. Jeffrey ‘62
2013 Joseph T. Roman ’99
2013 Shimon (Bert) Schwarzschild ‘50
2013 Michael E. Smith ‘95
2013 Bennett Varghese ’96, ’96, '00
2013 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Dorairaja Raghu, Ph.D
2014 William E. S. Kaufman `73
2014 James A. Krucher `73
2014 Richard M. Maser `73
2014 George R. Olson `77
2014 James P. Redeker `77, `80
2014 Vatsal A. Shah `08, `09, `14 (GeNext)
2015 Paul Dreyer ’64
2015 Samer Hanini ’99
2015 Kiran Gill ’07
2015 Robert Gogal ’58
2015 Brian Nadzan ’85
2015 Steve Saperstein ’84
2015 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Gabrielle Esperdy, Ph.D.
2016 Ehsanollah Bayat '86
2016 Harry S. Ettlinger '50
2016 Heather McGee '93
2016 Ramon Gonzalez '09
2016 Bob Rossi '67
2017 Tom Bury '02, MS '02
2017 Colette L. Santasieri '89, Ph.D. '12
2017 Tommaso F. Scarfone '67
2017 Richard R. Schatzberg MS '93
2017 Karisa C. Schreck '04 (GeNext)
2017 Joseph G. Stanley '78, MS '85
2017 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Mohamed Mahgoub, PE, Ph.D.
2018 Kevin Carswell ’79
2018 Antonio Crincoli, PE ’86
2018 Jerome F. Gallagher, Jr. ’80
2018 Patrick J. Natale, PE, Dist.M.ASCE, FASAE, CAE ’70 ’75 M.S.
2018 GENEXT HONOREE: Karen Ekshian ’12
2018 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Dr. Andrew Sohn
2018 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SPECIAL CITATION: Laurence “Tony” Howell, Executive Director, Educational Opportunity Programs
2019 Michael Donnelly MMBA '02
2019 Kenneth M. Colao '77
2019 Samir Saini '97
2019 Philip L. Rinaldi '68, '77 M.S.
2019 GENEXT HONOREE: Aine O'Dwyer '08, '08 M.S.
2019 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE:Junmin Shih Ph.D.
2000 Aldo M. Caccamo '60
2000 Fredrick D. D'Alessio '70
2000 Charles P. Daniels, Jr. '81
2000 Louis J. Ippolito '62
2000 Thomas M. McCann '64
2000 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: David L. Hawk, Ph.D.
2001 Norma J. Clayton '81
2001 Ronald L. Panitch '62
2001 Paul C. Tinnirello '82
2001 Gene R. Tremblay '64
2001 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Deran Hanesian, Ph.D.*
2002 My E. Chung '74
2002 John E. Chamberlain '63, '67
2002 Stephen P. DePalma, PE '72
2002 Nancy B. Czesak Krenicki '79, '89
2002 Jeffrey J. Milanaik '80
2002 Amy A. Pappas '87
2002 Albert P. Scaglione '62
2002 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Fadi P. Deek, Ph.D. ’85, ’86, ’97
2003 Robert J. Ambrosi '73
2003 Peter A. Abruzzese, Esq. '64
2003 Frank J. Cassidy '69
2003 William L. Mendello '65, '70
2003 Veronica G. Pellizzi '84
2003 George J. Yohrling '69 *
2003 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Cheickna Sylla, Ph.D.
2004 James P. Dollive '73
2004 James W. Dunn '95
2004 John J. Mooney '60
2004 Thomas M. Myrick '84
2004 Paul A. Sarlo '92, '95
2004 Peggy M. Tomasula '80
2004 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Rajesh N. Davé, Ph.D.
2005 Theodore D. Cassera, PE '72
2005 Nicholas M. DeNichilo '73, '78
2005 Ian G. Durand '58
2005 Rakesh Kushwaha '89, '94
2005 Robert D. Polucki '66
2005 Scott V. Prisco '90
2005 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Rajiv Mehta
2006 C.Stephen Cordes '72
2006 Bernard M. Lubetkin '49, '52
2006 Rocco P. Palmieri '72, '77
2006 Louis A. Raimondi '59, '64
2006 Anita M. Rubino '83
2006 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: John R. Schuring, Jr., Ph.D.
2007 Heriberto 'Herby' Cabezas, Jr., Ph.D. '80
2007 Victor J. Ferlise. Esq. '67
2007 Kevin F. Gallagher '80
2007 Fred H. Kulhawy, Ph.D., P.E., G.E. '64, '66
2007 Michael P. McDermott '88
2007 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Bruce G. Bukiet, Ph.D.
2008 Robert L. Bowser, PLS, PP ‘58
2008 Robert Cozzarelli, AIA, PP ‘79
2008 Joseph Crecca ‘62
2008 Gerald J. Foschini, Ph.D. ‘61
2008 Frederick G. Steil ‘92
2008 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Timothy N. Chang, Ph.D.*
2009 Fadi P. Deek ’85, ’86, ‘97
2009 Eugene V. Dotter, Ph.D. '41 *
2009 Paul Eng-Wong '75, '80
2009 Earl Granville Jackson IV '99
2009 Lawrence I. Lerner '56
2009 Joseph P. McCann '68
2009 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Neil M. Maher, Ph.D.
1990 William S. Guttenberg '44 *
1990 Robert J. Knox '76, '77, '80 *
1990 Joseph V. Milo '39 *
1990 Pierre M. Ramond '65
1990 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Roy Cornely, Ph.D..
1991 Robert C. Kirkpatrick '63
1991 Victor Lindner '53 *
1991 Raymund E. O'Mara '63
1991 Leonard Rubin '44 *
1991 Frank J. Vecchiotti '43 *
1991 Thomas F. Walsh '61
1991 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Edip Niver, Ph.D.
1992 John E. Abate, Sc.D. '67
1992 John D. Casher '65
1992 E. Gail De Planque, Ph.D. '73 *
1992 Sherry Harris '78
1992 Morris A. Schwartz '48
1992 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Otto Badenhausen
1993 Marvin Adelberg, Ph.D. '50
1993 Robert G. Averill '62
1993 Rose A. Dios, Ph.D. '77
1993 James Esposito '67
1993 Alex Khowaylo '63, '69
1993 Irving Reingold '42
1993 John T. Wilner '34 *
1993 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Martin Katzen. Ph.D.*
1994 Eric J. Addeo, Ph.D. '64
1994 Jan L. Bishop '78
1994 Joseph A. Leary, Ph.D. '43 *
1994 A. Michael Noll '61
1994 Harold R. Raymond '87
1994 Stanley M. Welland, Ph.D. '64, '68, '70
1994 Otto H.York, Ph.D. H'93 *
1994 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Dana Knox, Ph.D.*
1995 Frank Cozzarelli, Jr., Esq. '49, '51
1995 William Garro, Jr. '62
1995 Melvin R. Green, PE '64, '67 *
1995 Henry M. Healey '63
1995 Kevin J. McDermott, Ph.D., PE '65
1995 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: John H. Olson ’60, ’66
1996 Daniel J. Carroll, Jr. '65
1996 Elizabeth Garcia '73
1996 Samuel Kandel '59 *
1996 Michael J. Pappas, Ph.D. '59
1996 Judea Pearl, Ph.D. '61
1996 John W. Seazholtz '59
1996 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Ian S. Fischer, Ph.D.
1997 John J. Bakum '66
1997 J. Richard Devlin '72
1997 Angelo Guastaferro '54
1997 Libby S. Hamilton Mazzone '77
1997 Raymond J. McGowan '64
1997 Arthur Silverman '39
1997 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Angelo Perna, Ph.D.*
1998 Herbert A. Bernhard, Esq. '49 *
1998 Vincent L. DeCaprio, Ph.D. '72
1998 John D. McKenna, Ph.D. '68
1998 Ellen M. Pawlikowski, Major Gen., Ph.D. '78
1998 Michael F. Smith '78
1998 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Basil C. Baltzis, Ph.D.
1999 Richard F. Bader '60
1999 Herbert M. Iris '51 *
1999 Beauford E. Henderson '61
1999 George M. Newcombe '69
1999 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Doris M. Sher
1980 Richard A. Jones '52 *
1980 Walter F. Kosonocky, Ph.D. '55 *
1980 Lester Z. Lieberman '51 *
1980 Rita Meyninger, Ph.D. '58
1980 Erwin C. Wackenhuth, Rev. '36 *
1980 Robert J. Winters '35 *
1980 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Richard C. Progelhof, Ph.D. ’58
1981 Frank P. Koczur '49
1981 John B. Opdyke '30 *
1981 Joseph J. Raymond '61
1981 Philip Sperber, Ph.D. '65 *
1981 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: C. Richard Hatch, Ph.D.
1982 Robert E. Anderson '39 *
1982 William J. Bigley, Jr., Ph.D. '62 *
1982 Wilbur J. Kupfrian '33, '35 *
1982 Virginia C. Sulzberger '62
1982 Alvin L. Zach, Jr. '62, '63
1982 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Warren H. Ball, Ph.D.*
1983 John T. Collins '65
1983 William R. Goble '72
1983 Gregory M. Moelter '41 *
1983 Thomas J. O'Malley '37 *
1983 R. Cynthia Pruett '55
1983 Edward W. Rogers '52
1983 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Lawrence J. Schmerzler ’56
1984 Frederick Abernathy, Ph.D. '51
1984 Hamilton V. Bowser, Sr., PE '52
1984 Jeffrey M. Cohen, Ph.D. '63 *
1984 Arthur Gregor '45
1984 Lewis T. Ladocsi, Ph.D. '65
1984 Robert E. Schmidt '68
1984 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Anthony Kahng*
1985 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Stanley S. Reisman
1986 Catherine M. Carver '74
1986 Anthony Di Giovanni '58 *
1986 Robert C. Harding '52
1986 Herbert Kramer '46, '47 *
1986 Alfred A. Slocum '67
1986 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: James Rigassio ’48*
1987 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Roman W. Voronka, Ph.D. ’62, ’64
1988 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Murray I. Lieb ’61, ’63
1989 Cecil H. Broadnax, Jr. '74
1989 F. Gordon Foster '44 *
1989 George A. Hazelrigg, Ph.D. '61
1989 Norman C. Pickering '36
1989 Richard C. Progelhof, Ph.D. '58
1989 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: John V. Droughton ’62
1970 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Herman A. Estrin, Ph.D.
1971 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE:Charles H. Duursema ’33*
1972 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Robert Dresnack, Ph.D.
1973 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE:Mauro Zambuto, Ph.D.*
1974 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE:John E. McCormick, Ph.D.*
1975 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE:Chung-Wei Chow
1976 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE:William J. Stack
1977 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE:Deran Hanesian, Ph.D.
1978 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Wayne I. Clements ’57*
1979 David S. Cohen '47
1979 Richard E. Disbrow '59 *
1979 Michael D. Lione '69
1979 Joseph L. Mazel '60
1979 John L. Zozzaro '64, '69
1979 ROBERT W. VAN HOUTEN AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Robert P. Kirchner ’62, ’64
