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48-658: NCE may stand for: Newark College of Engineering , a part of the New Jersey Institute of Technology New chemical entity , an investigational drug New Civil Engineer , the weekly magazine of the Institution of Civil Engineers Nigerian Certificate in Education Non-commercial educational radio broadcasting The IATA code for Nice Côte d'Azur Airport Normal curve equivalent ,

96-563: A Bachelor of Science program (four years, 124 credits), a Master of Science in management program (30 credits), and two Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs: One regular (48 credits; two years for full-time students, three or four years for part-time students) and the other an accelerated 18-month Executive MBA program for managers and professionals. MTSM also offers a PhD. degree in Business Data Science. Research areas include fintech, innovation management, and

144-468: A 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m ) Life Sciences and Engineering Center; a 10,000-square-foot (930 m ) Makerspace , and a parking garage with spaces for 933 cars. The admission criteria consists of: The average SAT score (math + verbal only) for enrolling freshmen in fall 2021 is 1307. The average SAT score (math + verbal only) for enrolling freshmen in the Honors College in fall 2021

192-677: A multi-faceted collaboration with its neighbor, Rutgers-Newark. The collaboration involves: the Rutgers and NJIT business schools; their federated departments of Biology and History; and the joint Theater Arts Program. In 2008 NJIT began a program with the Heritage Institute of Technology in West Bengal, India under which 20 students come to NJIT for summer internships. In 2009, the New Jersey School of Architecture

240-478: A row of automobile chop shops adjacent to campus were demolished. In 2006 construction of an near-campus residence hall by American Campus Communities began in the chop shops' location. The new hall, which opened in 2007, is dubbed the University Centre. In addition to NJIT students, it houses students from Rutgers-Newark, Seton Hall University and Rutgers Law School . Also in 2005, Eberhardt Hall

288-540: A statistical measure related to percentile rank The National Counselor Examination for Licensure and Certification of the National Board for Certified Counselors New Clee railway station , England; National Rail station code NCE. Northcote railway station , Melbourne Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title NCE . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

336-429: A student population that is 20.6% international, 20.2% Hispanic, 8.8% Black and 19.1% Asian (2022), NJIT is ranked among the most ethnically diverse national universities in the country. It has multiple study abroad options along with extensive co-op, internship, and service opportunities. Newark College of Engineering, which was established in 1919, is among the oldest and largest professional engineering schools in

384-533: Is 1496. The minimum SAT score (math + verbal only) for enrolling freshmen in the accelerated BS/MD program – run in combination with New Jersey Medical School (Rutgers) – is 1450. The male-to-female student ratio (2021) is about 2.57 to 1. The student-to-faculty ( FTE ) ratio (2021) is 17.1 to 1. Comprising five colleges and one school, the university is organized into 21 departments, three of which, Biological Sciences, History, and Theater Arts are federated with Rutgers-Newark whose campus abuts NJIT's. With

432-1077: Is a public research university in Newark, New Jersey , with a graduate-degree-granting satellite campus in Jersey City . Founded in 1881 with the support of local industrialists and inventors especially Edward Weston , NJIT opened as 'Newark Technical School' ('NTS') in 1885 with 88 students. As of fall 2022 the university enrolls 12,332 students from 92 countries, about 2,500 of whom live on its main campus in Newark's University Heights district. NJIT offers 51 undergraduate (Bachelor of Science/Arts) majors and 71 graduate (Masters and PhD) programs. Via its Honors College, it also offers professional programs in Healthcare and Law in collaboration with nearby institutions including Rutgers Medical School and Seton Hall Law School . Cross-registration with Rutgers University-Newark which borders its campus

480-838: Is also available in a pre-med option. In December 2019, the school opened a satellite site in Jersey City that focuses on financial technology training for those working in the financial industry on Wall Street and in Jersey City. The Martin Tuchman School of Management was established in 1988 and was accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business in 1997. It offers programs in finance , accounting , marketing , management information systems , international business , technological entrepreneurship , and corporate communications in conjunction with Rutgers University . Degrees available include

528-828: Is also available. NJIT is classified among the "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". It operates the Big Bear Solar Observatory , home of the Goode Solar Telescope ; the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (both in California); and a suite of automated observatories across Antarctica, South America and the US. NJIT is a member of the Sea grant and Space grant research consortia. It has participated in

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576-899: Is designated a National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cyber Defense Education through the 2020 academic year by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security . NJIT's Main Library, The Robert W. Van Houten Library, is in the Central Avenue Building, a facility for quiet and group study, researching, and browsing print and online sources. Since 1997 the Van Houten Information Commons has housed 120 computer workstations. The Barbara and Leonard Littman Library for Architecture and Design

624-762: Is in Big Bear Lake , California , and operates the Owens Valley Solar Array , near Bishop , California . NJIT was home to the Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center (CCCC), a research center that specialized in computer-mediated communication . The systems which resulted from this research are the Electronic Information Exchange System , as well as the continuations: The Electronic Information Exchange System 2 (EIES2), and

672-475: Is located in Weston Hall. It houses a core collection that includes print and electronic books, journals, maps, drawings, models, e-images, materials samples, and over 70,000 slides. Included among NJIT's information resources are the university's historical archive including items developed and manufactured by Edward Weston , a scientist, prolific inventor, and a founding member of the board of trustees of

720-538: The Martin Tuchman School of Management , focuses on utilizing technology to serve business needs. The school, which is an AACSB -accredited business school, benefits from its proximity to New York City and lower Jersey City aka, " Wall Street West ". Wall Street itself (lower Manhattan) is twenty-five minutes away via Newark Light Rail and the PATH system's Newark-World Trade Center line. NJIT has

768-565: The McNair Scholars Program since 1999. NJIT is a designated Asian American Native American Pacific Islander serving institution (AANAPISI) and a designated Hispanic-serving institution . The New Jersey Institute of Technology has a history dating back to the 19th century. Originally introduced from Essex County, New Jersey , on March 24, 1880, and revised with input from the Newark Board of Trade in 1881, an act of

816-538: The National Science Foundation (NSF) authority to initiate and support education, research, and extension by: Encouraging and developing programs consisting of instruction, practical demonstrations, publications, and otherwise, by sea grant colleges and other suitable institutes, laboratories, and public and private agencies through marine advisory programs with the object of imparting useful information to person currently employed or interested in

864-493: The New Jersey State Legislature drew up a contest to determine which municipality would become home to the state's urgently needed technical school . The challenge was straightforward: the state would stake "at least $ 3,000 and not more than $ 5,000" and the municipality that matched the state's investment would earn the right to establish the new school. The Newark Board of Trade, working jointly with

912-703: The Albert Dorman Honors College itself. A sixth dorm hall, Maple Hall, which accommodates 500 students opened in the fall of 2022. Sea Grant College The program was instituted in 1966 when Congress passed the National Sea Grant College Program Act . Sea Grant programs and colleges are not to be confused with land-grant colleges (a program instituted in 1862), space-grant colleges (instituted in 1988), or sun-grant colleges (instituted in 2003), although an institution may also be in one or more of

960-741: The CCCC and EIES were terminated in the mid-90s. The university currently operates a Class-10 cleanroom and a Class-1000 cleanroom on campus for academic and research purposes including counter- bioterrorism research. The university maintains an advanced 67-node supercomputer cluster in the Mathematics Department for research purposes. NJIT conducts cybersecurity research in a number of areas including cross-domain information sharing, data security and privacy, data mining for malware detection, geospatial information security, secure social networks, and secure cloud computing. The university

1008-675: The Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research is a world leader. A key agent in regional economic development, NJIT hosts VentureLink, formally the Enterprise Development Center (EDC), an on-campus business incubator that houses over 90 start-ups, and the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) which offers R&D services to business. The university has engaged in research in nanotechnology , solar-terrestrial physics , polymer science , and

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1056-546: The Newark City Council, launched a campaign to win the new school. Many of the city's industrialists, along with other private citizens, supported the fund-raiser. By 1884 the necessary funds were raised. Newark Technical School opened its doors in February 1885. The first 88 students, mostly evening students, attended classes in a rented building at 21 West Park Street. That facility soon became inadequate for

1104-518: The School of Architecture (SOA) and the School of Art and Design. The college offers undergraduate degrees in architecture, digital design, industrial design, and interior design as well as graduate degrees in architecture, infrastructure planning, and urban systems. HCAD is the only college at NJIT to have its own designated library. The library contains materials related to the majors offered in HCAD in

1152-607: The South having been offered the presidency of the University of Alabama in Huntsville . On January 9, 2012, NJIT Trustees named Joel Bloom president. In 2003, the opening of the new Campus Center on the site of the former Hazell Hall centralized campus social events. Construction of a new Atrium , Bookstore, Dining Hall, computer lab, Information Desk facility, and new student organization offices continued into 2004. In 2005

1200-545: The Tailorable Electronic Information Exchange System (TEIES) . One of the foremost developments of EIES was that of the "Virtual Classroom", a term coined by Dr. Starr Roxanne Hiltz in the context of Connected Education . This was the first e-learning platform in the world and was unique in that it evolved onto an existing communications system, rather than having a system created specifically for it. Their missions completed,

1248-545: The United States. It offers 13 undergraduate degree programs, 16 master's and 10 doctoral degree programs. Undergraduate enrollment is more than 2,500, and more than 1,100 are enrolled in graduate study. The faculty includes engineers and scholars who are widely recognized in their fields. An estimated one in four professional engineers in the State of New Jersey are NCE/NJIT alumni. The College of Science and Liberal Arts

1296-794: The advancement of technologies in the business domain including deep learning and distributed ledgers. MTSM hosts entrepreneurship programs for the regional community, including the NSF I-Corps, the New Venture Assistance Program, and the Greater Newark–Jersey City Regional Business Model Competition. NJIT's R&D expenditures were $ 142 million in 2017 and $ 162 million in 2018. Areas of focus include applied mathematics , materials science , biomedical engineering , cybersecurity , and solar-terrestrial physics – of which

1344-554: The development of a smart gun technology. The university research centers include the National Center for Transportation and Industrial Productivity and SmartCampus. The university hosts the Metro New York FIRST Robotics office. NJIT also hosts the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research which owns and operates the Big Bear Solar Observatory , one of the world's largest solar observatories which

1392-469: The form of periodicals, reference materials, rare books, visual materials, including architectural drawings, prints, postcards, and maps, digital databases, and a materials library. The college offers a pre-college summer program for high school students. The Computer Science department, part of the Ying Wu College of Computing Sciences, is the largest at NJIT, comprising more than one fifth of

1440-403: The growing number of students. A second fundraiser, the institution's first capital campaign, was launched to support the construction of a home for Newark Technical School. In 1886, under the leadership of the school's first director, Charles A. Colton , the cornerstone was laid at the intersection of High Street and Summit Place for a three-story building later to be named Weston Hall in honor of

1488-489: The institution's early benefactor. A laboratory building called Colton Hall was added to the campus in 1911. Allan Cullimore led the institution from 1920 to 1949 transforming Newark Technical School into Newark College of Engineering ( NCE ), a name change that was adopted in 1930. Campbell Hall was erected in 1925. Due to the Depression and World War II , only the former Newark Orphan Asylum, now Eberhardt Hall ,

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1536-420: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NCE&oldid=1223937128 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Newark College of Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology ( NJIT )

1584-508: The other programs concurrently with being a sea-grant institution. At a 1963 meeting of the American Fisheries Society, a University of Minnesota professor, Athelstan Spilhaus , first suggested the establishment of Sea Grant colleges in universities that wished to develop oceanic work. The name "Sea Grant" was chosen to draw a parallel with the land-grant college program that was funded by grants of western lands to

1632-399: The states by the 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 . Early in the legislative process, there was consideration of leases of offshore parcels of ocean and sea bottom to fund the program by John A. Knauss and bill sponsor Claiborne Pell much like the 1862 land grants, but that plan was eventually scrapped in favor of direct congressional appropriation for the program. The 1966 Act allowed

1680-459: The student population. It is also the largest computer science department among all research universities in the New York metropolitan area. The department offers a full range of degree programs in computer science (BA/BS, MS and PhD), in addition to emerging interdisciplinary programs: Telecommunication (MS), Bioinformatics (BS/MS), and Computing and Business (BS/MS). The Bioinformatics degree

1728-532: The university. Dr. Weston's collection of artifacts and rare books is housed in the Van Houten Library and is available to scholars interested in the history of science and technology. About 80% of NJIT students commute to campus. The Residence Life (on-campus) community currently includes a little over 2,500 students. There are six residence halls on the NJIT campus. Redwood Hall, constructed in 1978,

1776-521: The various fields related to the development of marine resources, the scientific community, and the general public. Signing of the 1966 Sea Grant College and Program Act into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson was on October 15, 1966, as Public Law 89-688. The only major subsequent change to the Sea Grant Act was with a 1970 Reorganization Plan, whereby the Office of Sea Grant was transferred from

1824-460: Was completed. With the addition of the New Jersey School of Architecture in 1973, the institution had evolved into a technological university, offering a widening range of graduate and undergraduate degrees and an increasing focus on research and public service. William Hazell , president at the time, decided the school's name should be changed to more clearly reflect its ongoing evolution. Alumni were solicited for suggestions. The winning suggestion

1872-490: Was converted into a pedestrian walkway. Since then the high school building was extensively renovated, preserved, and updated per the Campus Master Plan. Between 2016 and 2018, several facilities opened, including a 209,000-square-foot (19,400 m ) multi-purpose Wellness and Events Center , "The WEC", which features a retractable-seating arena that can accommodate 3,500 spectators or 4,000 event participants;

1920-481: Was enlarged and reorganized as the College of Architecture and Design (COAD). Within the college, the New Jersey School of Architecture continues, along with the newly established School of Art + Design. In June 2010, NJIT purchased the old Central High School building which is located between the NJIT and Rutgers–Newark campuses. With the completion of the purchase, Summit Street, from Warren Street to New Street,

1968-441: Was established in 1994, and the newest school, the College of Computing Sciences, was created in 2001. Also, three residential halls, Cypress, Oak, and Laurel which house about 1500 students in total, were placed in service in the 1990s. On May 2, 2003, Robert Altenkirch was inaugurated as president. He succeeded Saul Fenster who was named the university's sixth president in 1978. In September 2011 Altenkirch elected to return to

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2016-463: Was formed in 1982. It was originally known as the Third College having been preceded by Newark College of Engineering and the New Jersey School of Architecture. In 1986 its name was changed to the College of Science and Liberal Arts as a result of a more sharply defined mission and direction. The College of Science and Liberal Arts is located inside a building sharing the same name. The building

2064-575: Was fully renovated and re-inaugurated as the Alumni Center and the symbolic front door to the university. Its restored tower was the logo of the former Newark College of Engineering. A rebranding campaign with the current slogan, "NJIT – New Jersey's Science and Technology University – The Edge in Knowledge", was launched to emphasize NJIT's position as New Jersey's science-and-technology-focused public research university. NJIT's business school,

2112-625: Was originally named Cullimore Hall, and is still referred to as that by students. Growing steadily ever since, JHCSLA has spawned two of NJIT's colleges: the Albert Dorman Honors College, which evolved out of the Honors Program that was founded in JHCSLA in 1985, and the College of Computing Sciences, which developed out of JHCSLA's Computer and Information Science Department. Today the college consists of six academic departments: JHCSLA also houses: The College of Architecture and Design houses

2160-479: Was purchased and modestly renovated in the succeeding decades. Cullimore left an unpublished history of the institution dated 1955. In 1946, about 75% of the freshman class had served in the U. S. Armed Forces . Cullimore Hall was built in 1958 and two years later the old Weston Hall was razed and replaced with the current seven-story structure. Doctoral level programs were introduced in 1960. Six years later, in 1966, an 18-acre (7.3 ha), four-building expansion

2208-435: Was retained for NJIT's engineering school. The establishment of a residential campus and the opening of NJIT's first dormitory (Redwood Hall) in 1979 began a period of steady growth that continues today under an evolving Master Plan. Two new schools were established at the university during the 1980s, the College of Science and Liberal Arts in 1982 and the School of Industrial Management in 1988. The Albert Dorman Honors College

2256-458: Was submitted by Joseph M. Anderson '25. Anderson's suggestion, New Jersey Institute of Technology, emphasized the increasing scope of educational and research initiatives at the institution. The Board of Trustees approved the name change in September 1974. Newark College of Engineering officially became New Jersey Institute of Technology on January 1, 1975. The Newark College of Engineering name

2304-435: Was the first, followed by Cypress, Oak, and Laurel (constructed in 1997 and extended in 1999). Cypress and Redwood are primarily used for freshman students, while Laurel and Oak house upperclassmen. The fifth, Warren Street Village, which opened in the fall of 2013, provides housing for Dorman Honors College students and several Greek houses which together provide space for about 600 students. The Warren Street Village also houses

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