Leading Into The Future: President's Report 2019

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Letter from the President

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Leading into the Future: Research

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Leading into the Future: Education

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Leading into the Future: Community

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Fundraising

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Rankings and Recognition

10 Expenses 11 Revenues and Enrollment 12 Milestones

LEADING INTO THE FUTURE

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

NJIT’s

2019 annual report, Leading into the Future, is a celebration of our achievements, as well as a record of the advancements we have made over the past year.

In this annual report, you will read about NJIT’s remarkable progress toward completion of its previous strategic plan, 2020 Vision. NJIT students are succeeding at record levels, and we are continuously striving to maximize their educational experiences by incorporating real-world skills and cutting-edge instructional methods. We have greatly increased our institution’s capacity for research, innovation and entrepreneurship in recent years, and even more is envisioned for the near future. Initiatives such as VentureLink are helping faculty and students turn their research and ideas into commercial products. Additionally, the new Microfabrication Innovation Center promises opportunities for critical scientific breakthroughs.

As this publication goes to press, though, our individual and collective attention has turned toward the future and the uncertainties of what it holds for us in the near-term.

We are in the midst of a global pandemic and in the early stages of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak in the United States. Universities throughout much of the country have moved exclusively to online education; K-12 schools, in large part, have followed that same path; businesses are closing or encouraging massive numbers within the workforce to perform their duties remotely, if possible; entire cities and even nations are on lockdown; and we are a society that finds it necessary to stay away from one another (social distancing) in order to best care for one another. This is an uncertain and unnerving time, but we will defeat this virus by making the individual sacrifices necessary for the common good and through the power of scientific and technological innovation.

So, it is my hope that this publication will provide you with a reminder of not just what NJIT accomplished during 2019, but also with the confidence that we have the people, the ability and the will to prevail over our current circumstances and emerge stronger in the future. n Sincerely,

Joel S. Bloom President

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RESEARCH

University leaders, trustees, faculty and student researchers opened NJIT’s Microfabrication Innovation Center in December 2019. (From left): Lisa Axe, chair, Otto H. York Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering; ChairElect of the NJIT Board of Trustees Robert Cohen ’83, ’84, ’87, vice president, Global Research and Development, and chief technology officer, Stryker Orthopaedics; Marjorie A. Perry ’05, president and chief executive officer of MZM Construction & Management and chair, NJIT Board of Overseers; Joel S. Bloom, president of NJIT; Fadi P. Deek ’85, ’86, ’97, provost and senior executive vice president, NJIT; Atam P. Dhawan, senior vice provost for research, NJIT; Pedro Moura ’20; and Peter A. Cistaro ’68, NJIT Board of Trustees.

NJIT Opens State-of-the-Art Nanoelectronics Fabrication Facility

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t was with great fanfare that NJIT opened its newest research facility, the Microfabrication Innovation Center (MIC), where technologists will be able to create their own nano- and microelectronic sensors and microfluidic devices on campus.

Faculty and students will be able to

test, validate and translate innovative medical device and biosensor technologies to improve diagnosis and treatment of critical diseases and advance detection and remediation of pollutants.

Housed in the former Microelectronics Research Center, the MIC features a series of rooms where researchers will print their designs on silicon or plates of glass, fabricate and test them. Because the parts they are making are micro- and nanoscale, the rooms will be free of potentially contaminating particles larger than a micron. The highest-level cleanroom will be

limited to 100 1-micron particles in a cubic meter of air.

Other devices that will take shape in the facility include powerful diagnostic sensor systems, including electrochemical DNA sensors, that are miniaturized down to the size of a single molecule and a device that uses on-chip electrochemical mass spectrometry to elucidate protein structures and determine protein quantities. n

NJIT to Establish New Institute for Data Science

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ontinuing its mission to lead in computing technologies, NJIT announced in July that it will establish a new Institute for Data Science, focusing David Bader, distinguished on cutting-edge professor and director of the interdisciplinary Institute for Data Science research and development in all areas pertinent to digital data. The institute will bring existing research centers in big data, medical informatics and cybersecurity together with new research centers in data analytics and artificial intelligence, cutting across all NJIT colleges and schools, and conduct both basic and applied research.

The Institute for Data Science is directed

by Distinguished Professor David Bader. He recently joined NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing from Georgia Tech, where he was chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering within the College of Computing. n

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NJIT Conducts the Largest-Ever Simulation of the Deepwater Horizon Spill

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n a 600-ft.-long saltwater wave tank on the coast of New Jersey, a team of NJIT researchers conducted the largest-ever simulation of the Deepwater Horizon spill to determine more precisely where hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil dispersed following the drilling rig’s explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

Led by Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT’s Center for Natural Resources (CNR), the initial phase of the experiment involved releasing several thousand gallons of oil from a one-inch pipe dragged along the bottom of the tank in order to reproduce ocean current conditions.

His team’s research, conducted at the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Ohmsett facility at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Leonardo, N.J., was detailed in the article, “The perplexing physics of oil dispersants,” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In a second phase of the experiment, they applied dispersants to the oil as it shot into the tank to observe the effects on droplet formation and trajectory. Their goal is to glean insights they can apply to a variety of ocean-based oil releases. n njit.edu

(From left): A multi-layered view of solar spicules: observations of the corona from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, followed by images from NJIT’s Big Bear Solar Observatory of the chromosphere, photosphere and associated magnetic fields.

Images from NJIT Big Bear Solar Observatory Peel Away Layers of a Stellar Mystery

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n international team of scientists, including three researchers from NJIT, has shed new light on one of the central mysteries of solar physics: how energy from the Sun is transferred to the star’s upper atmosphere, heating it to 1 million degrees Fahrenheit and higher in some regions, temperatures that are vastly hotter than the Sun’s surface.

With new images from NJIT’s Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO), the researchers have revealed in groundbreaking, granular detail what appears to be a likely mechanism — jets of magnetized plasma known as spicules that spurt like geysers from the Sun’s upper atmosphere into the corona.

In a paper published in the journal Science, the team describes key features of jet-like spicules that are in solar terms small-scale plasma structures, between 200 and 500 kilometers wide, that erupt continuously across the Sun’s expanse. The researchers also, for the first time, show where and how the jets are generated and the paths they travel, at speeds of around 100 kilometers per second in some cases, into the corona.

Images captured in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectrum by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft were used to track the transportation of energy in the corona. These observations showed that it is also common for spicules to be heated

to typical coronal temperatures.

Invisible to the human eye except when it appears briefly as a fiery halo of plasma during a solar eclipse, the corona remains a puzzle even to scientists who study it closely. Beginning 1,300 miles from the star’s surface and extending millions more in every direction, it is more than a hundred times hotter than lower layers much closer to the fusion reactor at the Sun’s core.

Solving what astrophysicists call one of the greatest challenges for solar modeling — determining the physical mechanisms that heat the upper atmosphere — requires highresolution images that were not available until BBSO’s 1.6-meter telescope, the largest operating solar telescope in the world, began capturing images a decade ago.

Scientists at Big Bear have also captured the first high-resolution images, for example, of magnetic fields and plasma flows originating deep below the Sun’s surface, tracing the evolution of sunspots and magnetic flux ropes through the chromosphere before their dramatic appearance in the corona as flaring loops. n

Dealing a Therapeutic Counterblow to Traumatic Brain Injury

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blow to the head or powerful shock wave on the battlefield can cause immediate, significant damage to a person’s skull and the tissue beneath it. But the trauma does not stop there. The impact sets off a chemical reaction in the brain that ravages neurons and the networks that supply them with nutrients and oxygen.

It is the secondary effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI), which can lead to longterm cognitive, psychological and motor system damage, that piqued the interest

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of a team of NJIT biomedical engineers.

To counter them, they are developing a therapy, injected at the site of the injury, which shows early indications it can protect neurons and stimulate the regrowth of blood vessels in the damaged tissue.

The challenge is that brain cells don’t regenerate as well as other tissues, such as bone. There is presently no effective treatment for restoring damaged neurons.

The body’s protective mechanisms make it difficult to penetrate the blood-brain barrier, which hampers the delivery of medications.

The team’s treatment consists of a labcreated mimic of ependymin, a protein that protects neurons after injury, attached to a delivery platform — a strand of short proteins called peptides, contained in a hydrogel — that was developed by Vivek Kumar, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and director of NJIT’s

Biomaterial Drug Development, Discovery and Delivery Laboratory. After injection, the peptides in the hydrogel reassemble at the localized injury site into a nanofibrous scaffold that mimics extracellular matrix, the supporting structure for cells. These soft materials possess mechanical properties similar to brain tissue. They promote rapid infiltration by a variety of stem cells which act as precursors for regeneration and may also provide a biomimetic niche to protect them.

“The idea is to intervene at the right time and place to minimize or reverse damage.

We do this by generating new blood vessels in the area to restore oxygen exchange and by creating an environment in which neurons that have been damaged in the injury are supported and can thrive,” Kumar says. n

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NJIT@JerseyCity Officially Launched with Expectation of Rapid Growth (From left): Edward J. Bishof, Sr., senior vice president for finance and chief financial officer; Fadi P. Deek ’85, ’86, ’97, provost and senior executive vice president, NJIT; Craig Gotsman, dean of Ying Wu College of Computing, NJIT; Joel S. Bloom, president, NJIT; Jordan Hu ’89, founder/ chief executive officer, RiskVal Financial Solutions, LLC and member of the NJIT Board of Trustees; and Andrew P. Christ P.E. ’94, ’01, senior vice president for real estate development and capital operations, NJIT.

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JIT welcomed 35 data science students to its newly opened NJIT@ JerseyCity location in the fall semester, with a goal of doubling that number in the spring and reaching 500 students in three years, Ying Wu College of Computing Dean Craig Gotsman said at the ribboncutting ceremony held December 5 at the new location.

Gotsman said the current students are primarily working professionals in the finance and tech industries from companies located in Jersey City and also in New York City. Hudson County quickly became a technology hub following the September11

NJIT Signs Three Agreements to Collaborate with Chinese University

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eijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and NJIT are now partners in education. The institutions signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), as well as two other agreements involving NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), October 25 in Beijing. Joel S. Bloom, 4 2019 President’s Report

attacks and was bolstered again after Hurricane Sandy.

NJIT@JerseyCity currently offers a master’s degree in data science, as well as graduate certificates in big data and data mining, with plans to add a graduate certificate in data visualization in spring 2020. Non-credit data science accelerator programs are also expected to be offered in the spring. All current students are studying part-time, but Gotsman envisions the location will soon have options for full-time students. Future plans also include graduate programs in cybersecurity. n

NJIT president, and Jianyong Qiao, BUPT president, represented their respective universities, along with faculty and staff, at the signing.

The MOU, effective for five years from the signing date, covers multiple areas for potential collaboration between NJIT and BUPT. These include research partnerships, summer and study abroad programs and the exchange of students, faculty, scholars, staff, and teaching and academic materials and publications.

The first agreement with MTSM provides a path for master’s students in BUPT’s School of Economics and Management to

NJIT, Ocean County College Expand and Renew Transfer Agreement

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new two-year agreement between Ocean County College and New Jersey Institute of Technology allows OCC graduates to transfer directly into NJIT colleges. The agreement went into effect on October 4, 2019 and covers NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts, Newark College of Engineering, Martin Tuchman School of Management, and Ying Wu College of Computing.

To be admitted to NJIT, students from Ocean County College must be in good standing and have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.5. Students transferring into the computing college are required to have a minimum GPA of 2.8.

Administrators at both NJIT and Ocean County College said they expect students to complete their bachelor’s degree requirements within two and a half years of starting full-time study at NJIT. NJIT and OCC previously worked together, in 2016, to admit transfer students for selected majors. n

earn degrees from both BUPT and NJIT. A 1+1 program will enable students to come to NJIT for a year after one year of study at BUPT and, after completing the required curriculum, receive an M.S. in management from each university. Students can qualify for an M.S. from BUPT and an MBA from NJIT with one year of study at BUPT and one and a half years at NJIT. Under the second MTSM agreement, BUPT students (primarily undergraduates) will have the opportunity to take part in a 10- to 15-day program at NJIT offering IBM Blockchain training and visits to businesses in the New York/New Jersey area. These two programs are expected to help boost enrollment and promote both NJIT and the MTSM in China, the largest source of international students in the U.S. n njit.edu

J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design Launched with Historic Gift

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JIT has renamed its College of Architecture and Design for J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier to reflect the globally renowned architects’ historic donation to the university.

Their gift, the university’s largest ever, will enrich the architecture and design program in many ways: with scholarships that diversify the pool of talented architects entering the profession and funds for the technology that will advance it, to name just two.

The Hilliers, Princeton-based architects who built one of the country’s most comprehensive and successful practices with a mix of design skill, niche savvy, marketing acumen and old-fashioned attention to their clients’ needs, say it was NJIT’s technologyenhanced focus on the future that inspired their philanthropy.

In addition to their strong Princeton ties — Barbara Hillier also has a master’s degree from Princeton University and their former firm designed several buildings on that campus — the Hilliers have a longstanding connection with NJIT. For one, their firm designed all three versions of the School of Architecture, which was established in 1974. Later, the firm renovated another space to accommodate the rapidly expanding program, and then in the late 1990s, designed the modernist Weston Hall, the home of the school today. Both Robert Hillier and his father James, chief scientist at RCA and the developer of the first operating electron microscope in the world, have received honorary degrees from NJIT. Robert served as the first chairman of the Albert Dorman Honors College Board of Visitors and endowed a scholarship in honor of his first daughter, who died in a car crash in 1984.

Having watched NJIT and the city of Newark evolve over the past several decades, the Hilliers are enthusiastic about both. They look to architects trained at the university to play a role in shaping what they call a “Renaissance City,” while making key, life-improving connections for the people who live there now. n

NJIT Unveils New Jersey’s First Cyberpsychology Program

NJIT, UCC Launch Joint Academic Agreement

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nion County College (UCC) students pursuing an associate degree in either science or applied sciences are now able to seamlessly transfer into a variety of bachelor’s degree programs at NJIT. The two institutions signed a two-year academic agreement April 30, 2019, to provide UCC students with the opportunity to plan their total baccalaureate experience at the beginning of their college education.

The agreement also serves to facilitate the recruitment of students into programs offered by both NJIT and UCC. n

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JIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts now offers students a unique baccalaureate degree option in the emerging field of cyberpsychology. The new program — exploring the dynamics between modern technology and human psychology — is the first of its kind in New Jersey, and is the first academic program in the behavioral sciences to be offered at NJIT. The 120-credit degree program, now available for enrollment through the college’s Science, Technology and

Society B.S. degree program, involves a combination of traditional coursework in psychology, and study of basic concepts in computer science and information systems.

The program also features specialized cyberpsychology course electives that address modern psychological issues of today’s technology-driven world, ranging from the psychology of social networking and online gaming to issues of cybercrime and cyberbullying.

Along with preparation for graduate studies in the cognitive sciences, the program promises to offer aspiring psychologists in-depth study of topics such as “the significance of living a predominantly online life for our social lives, the psychological impact of the internet of things, therapeutic uses of technology, tools for countering malicious social engineering and other cybersecurity issues, gaming and its impact, and digital and electronic research methods.”

The new option also is geared toward students training in a range of growing career fields with increasing demand for expertise in human-computer interaction — from cybersecurity and law enforcement professionals, to app and game developers, to computer and information research scientists, to marketing research analysts. n 2019 President’s Report 5

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COMMUNITY

(From left): Lucia Rodriguez-Freire, assistant professor of environmental engineering; Taha Marhaba, chairman of NJIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Newark Mayor Ras Baraka; and David Smith of CDM Smith.

Getting the Lead out of Newark’s Drinking Water

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s Newark races to replace thousands of lead-based pipes that feed drinking water into homes, the city faces another urgent challenge: stopping the heavy metal from leaching into the water supply while the massive remediation effort is underway.

And that’s where NJIT’s environmental engineers come in. To mitigate exposure over the life of the project, which is expected to take up to 30 months, a research team is working with the city to develop and test chemical methods to prevent leadshedding corrosion in as many as 18,000 service lines that stretch from the water main located under streets into dwellings.

Lead in pipes can become soluble and transportable if oxidized by flowing water, particularly in aging infrastructure that dates back to the middle of the 20th century and earlier in some cities, including Newark. For 25 years, corrosion prevention in the city’s largest service

area, which draws water from reservoirs in the Pequannock River system, consisted of injecting a chemical, silicate, into the water supply. It formed a protective layer of material over the interior surface of the pipe to prevent lead from mobilizing. But testing determined that silicate was no longer effective.

Using X-ray diffraction analysis, the NJIT team assessed the composition of the corrosion in a service line and found that in addition to elemental lead, lead oxides were the compounds most present in the pipe scales. Scanning electron microscopy revealed iron, aluminum, silicon, magnesium and calcium deposits.

With a team of graduate students, Lucia Rodriguez-Freire, assistant professor of environmental engineering, launched a study this past summer of excavated service lines to determine the effectiveness of a new corrosion-control chemical with an

affinity for metal surfaces, orthophosphate, which was introduced into the water system last May. While widely used as a corrosion inhibitor in other water systems, where it has successfully stabilized lead, its introduction is not in and of itself an optimal solution, the researchers say.

Taking into account factors such as chemicals in the water, seasonal temperatures and weather conditions that increase runoff, the team will pinpoint the best treatment strategies as water conditions change, monitoring, for example, how pH and temperature affect leadleaching kinetics under variable doses of orthophosphate in water.

The team is setting up a lab on campus to continue testing for the presence of lead in excavated pipes and to determine how well orthophosphate is building up in the service lines to block corrosion, an electrochemical process. Team members, including engineering graduate students Boran Wang and Maedeh Soleimanifar, traveled last fall for training at the EPA’s Office for Research and Development in Cincinnati, which is currently the only lab in the country to perform these tests.

The engineers also will determine whether the chemicals should be injected at different points in the distribution system other than at the water treatment plant. n

NJIT Students Come Together to Collect Water for Newark Community

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purred through competition among student organizations, NJIT’s student senate started a water collection competition for the Newark community and challenged each other to try and collect the most bottled water.

In total, roughly 300 cases of water were collected throughout the competition over the course of several weeks. The Coptic Society collected the most, earning their club the $1,000 prize that is added to their budget.

The student senate calculated that over 1,000 gallons of water were donated through the NJIT community. n

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At the news conference (from left): Newark Public Schools Superintendent Roger Leon; Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka; and NJIT President Joel S. Bloom.

NJIT, Newark Mayor’s Office and Public Schools Announce Two New Initiatives to Grow STEM Pipeline

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olunteerism is a mainstay at NJIT, with students and faculty engaged in a range of initiatives to better the community. In building upon its close relationship with the city in which it resides, NJIT is partnering

with the City of Newark and the Newark Public Schools on two new initiatives.

The Mayor’s Honors Scholars Program at NJIT will create a pipeline from the Newark Public Schools to NJIT’s topranked Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC). Each year, NJIT will work with the Newark Public Schools to select three Mayor’s Honors Scholars for admission to ADHC. These students will receive full scholarships, as well as paid internships with the City of Newark during the summer months.

Additionally, the NJIT/Newark Math Success Initiative (MSI) will seek to dramatically increase, to a minimum of 600, the number of Newark residents who

enroll at NJIT for undergraduate education.

Administered on the NJIT campus, and beginning summer 2019 and continuing throughout the academic year, MSI will provide direct mathematics instruction and support to rising 12th-graders and mathematics-certified teachers from Central, Science Park, Technology and Malcolm X. Shabazz High Schools. The program, which will also offer counseling, tutoring and other college preparatory services to students, and mentoring, professional development and research activities to teachers, is designed to strengthen Newark high school students’ mathematics knowledge, skills and preparation for college work, so they are able to succeed as first-semester, first-year college freshmen taking MATH 111 Calculus at NJIT. Newark Public Schools will identify participating students and teachers. n

(From left): Abington Avenue School’s Yanielis Labrador, Juliana Martinez, Aime Mota and Mariela Echevarria.

Newark’s Girls Who Code Shine during City’s Inaugural Showcase at NJIT

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n December 12, 2019, a wave of enthusiasm for all-things code swept through NJIT, as nearly 350 girls from Newark Public School’s grades six-10 arrived on campus to take part in the city’s first-ever “Newark Public Schools Girls Who Code Showcase.” Highlighting the showcase were 26 of the city’s afterschool

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Girls Who Code clubs that each had the chance to present innovative coding-based projects they have worked on this year to a full crowd of judges and onlookers, all in the spirit of friendly competition.

The inaugural event, held during celebration of Computer Science Education Week’s official “Hour of Code,” also invited

keynote addresses at the Campus Center Ballroom from NJIT President Joel S. Bloom and New Jersey Assemblywomen Shavonda Sumter and Britnee Timberlake, as well as a welcome message from First Lady of New Jersey Tammy Murphy.

In a science-fair-style layout across the Campus Center’s second floor, girls of each Girls Who Code club held demos and were excited to talk with judges and event-goers about their projects, which were designed to solve problems in their local community. Their projects ranged from safe-space websites for students to connect with each other and share information about bullying and domestic issues, to technology education apps for the elderly, to video games designed to get kids into urban farming.

Oliver Street School won the grand prize for their web project, “Sustain‘able,” dedicated to promoting sustainable clothing — offering everything from facts related to the environmental impact of the “fast fashion” industry to recommendations on where to shop for fashion- and eco-conscious users. n 2019 President’s Report 7

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FUNDRAISING

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n fiscal year 2019, NJIT continued to reach new and unprecedented heights — as an academic and research powerhouse, as a catalyst of much-needed economic development, and as a preferred destination for talented students eager to receive a

world-class, career-relevant STEM education.

The university’s decidedly upward trajectory also garnered much deserved — and long overdue — recognition from a variety of corners last year. A few notable examples: •U .S. News & World Report ranked us in the top 100 among all national universities in 2019 — the highest ranking that NJIT has ever earned in the magazine’s annual “Best Colleges” publication.

• Forbes and The New York Times named us the #1 university in the entire nation for enabling students to achieve upward socioeconomic mobility.

• PayScale put us in the top 2% of all colleges and universities for return on investment.

• Princeton Review included the university among its “Best 384 Colleges” and identified us as a top college in the Northeast region.

• The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education classified NJIT as an R1 institution, making it one of just 131 universities in the nation – and one of just three in New Jersey — that boast the “highest research activity.”

These are truly impressive accolades, which reflect the untiring dedication, relentless hard work and outstanding accomplishments of our students, faculty and staff.

They also reflect the considerable time, talent and treasure that NJIT’s alumni and friends have invested in our students, faculty, programs and facilities. Indeed, 2019 was also a banner year on the fundraising front, as 5,929 donors contributed a total of just under $17 million to the university, established 33 new scholarships for deserving students, and helped push NJIT’s endowment past the $130 million mark. Among the gifts received last year was the single largest in the university’s history, which resulted in the naming of the J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design.

Just as important, a record number of NJIT alumni made a gift in support of their alma mater in 2019. These donations pushed the university’s alumni giving rate to 10.3% — more

FY 2019 Philanthropic Commitments to NJIT $1,000,000 or more Benjamin Aiello Chris P. Christie ’73* Compass Group North America Alfred J. Frungillo, Jr. Gourmet Dining Services LLC Barbara A. and J. Robert ’17 HON Hillier Donna and N. Eric Johanson ’65 Jacqueline C. Kane ’60* Sonia and Raymond J. ’64 McGowan $500,000 to $999,999 Joan and Albert A. ’45, ’99 HON Dorman Purdue Pharma L.P. Martin Tuchman ’62 $250,000 to $499,999 Leir Foundation, Inc. Sandra L. and John H. ’61, ’66 Olson Tuchman Foundation, Inc. $100,000 to $249,999 Automatic Data Processing Inc. Sharon Brockway Facebook Independent Alumni of NJIT JPMorgan Chase Brian G. Kiernan ’70 Thomas L. Maniscalco ’80 ’93 Concrete Industry Management (CIM) Krisha K. and James R. ’66 Pennino PepsiCo American Beverage Company Elaine A. and Lawrence A. ’65 Raia Alison B. and Steven B. ’84 Saperstein Sabine and Anthony R. ’60 Saporito Maribeth and W. Marcus Sheridan Teresa and Demetrios J. ’85 Stamatis US Didactic *deceased

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RANKINGS AND RECOGNITION

NJIT earned the distinction of being designated an “R1” RESEARCH UNIVERSITY by the Carnegie Classification®, which indicates the highest level of research activity. NJIT is one of only 131 universities nationally and just three in New Jersey to achieve this recognition.

NJIT Jumps into Top 100 for 2020 U.S. News College Rankings

NJIT Featured in The Princeton Review’s “Best 385 Colleges” Guide for 2020 Top 2% for Alumni Mid-Career Salary - PayScale.com

NJIT has continued its impressive climb up the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of colleges and universities by joining the top 100 National Universities for 2020. Now ranked #97 in the nation, NJIT has risen nearly 50 places during the last two years. NJIT also is ranked #41 overall on the publication’s “Best Value Schools” list and #43 overall among “Top Public Schools.” Additionally, NJIT is ranked within the top 100 undergraduate engineering programs in the nation.

NJIT has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, “The Best 385 Colleges,” a designation only 13% of America’s four-year colleges have earned. NJIT also received honors as a top college in the Northeast region and a Best Value college. NJIT also ranked No. 44 in the undergraduate game design ranking, according to The Princeton Review survey based on criteria that cover the quality of faculty, facilities and technology.

NJIT Jumps 83 Spots in Ranking by Wall Street Journal/ Times Higher Education n NJIT Named Among The Princeton Review’s Top 50 Undergraduate Schools for Entrepreneurship Studies n NJIT Ranks in Top 2% Nationwide in College Salary Report by PayScale n Online MBA Program at NJIT Ranked 7th in the Country n NJIT’s Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Program is #1 in New Jersey, #6 Nationally n NJIT Cited for Its Online Master’s in Management Program n NJIT Ranks First in NJ Colleges to Study Animation, Top 40 Nationally n Princeton Review Ranks NJIT a Top 50 School to Study Game Design n NJIT Named a Top Graduate School for Engineering by U.S. News & World Report n

For the second year in a row, the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) program at NJIT is ranked NUMBER TWO in the nation by College Factual.

NJIT Scores in Top 5 Percent in Ethnic Diversity Rankings njit.edu

College Factual, a leading source of data analytics and insights on college outcomes, has released its 2019 rankings for ethnic diversity, and NJIT scores in the top 5 percent of colleges whose student body represents a broad diversity. NJIT is ranked #109 out of 2,486 colleges and universities analyzed for ethnic diversity.

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FY 2019 EXPENSES $490,816

FY 2018-2019 (Dollars in Thousands)

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102,851

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External

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77,580

Internal

76,920

120,000

92,893

140,000 89,557

161,233

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Auxiliary Enterprises

142,154

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Depreciation & Change in Net Assets

160,000

88,700

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Scholarships & Fellowships

130,887

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Academic & Research

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FY 2019 RESOURCES $490,816

FY 2018-2019 (Dollars in Thousands)

109,440

106,754

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State & Other Grants

Federal Grants

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21,351

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NJIT TOTAL OPERATING RESOURCES VS. STATE APPROPRIATIONS

120,000 80,000 40,000

’06

’07

’08

9000 8000

’09

’11

’10

’13

’12

’17

’18

’19

6000 5000 4000

731

740

726

0

716

1000

716

2000

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’16

’15

7000

3000

(1) The $109,440M is comprised of $39,140M in base State support and $70,300M in State-funded employee benefits.

’14

8794

’05

8532

’04

8483

0

2724

Graduate

160,000

2891

Undergraduate

200,000

2963

Honors

280,000 240,000

8211

TOTAL ENROLLMENT BREAKDOWN

BY LEVEL

320,000

3016

$39,140 State Based Appropriation (1)

360,000

8008

$70,300 State Supported Fringe Benefits (1)

400,000

3317

$381,376 Tuition, Fees and other Resources

440,000

7550

FY 2018-2019 (Dollars in Thousands)

480,000

3096

TOTAL REVENUES: $490,816

718

LEADING INTO THE FUTURE

REVENUES AND ENROLLMENT

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2019 President’s Report 11

LEADING INTO THE FUTURE

MILESTONES

A Pioneer in Automation Receives NJIT’s 2019 Excellence in Research Award (From left): Marjorie A. Perry ’05, president and chief executive officer of MZM Construction & Management and chair, NJIT Board of Overseers; MengChu Zhou, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering; and Joel S. Bloom, president of NJIT.

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engChu Zhou, a pioneer in automation science and engineering who optimizes systems, from manufacturing and data centers to transportation, in order to glean efficiencies and improve outcomes, received NJIT’s 2019 Excellence in Research Award.

Zhou, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, uses Petri nets — mathematical models that track discrete events in distributed systems — plus the internet of things, big data analysis and machine learning to build smart systems. He is currently working on information and control flows in semiconductor manufacturing that will increase productivity with cost- and time-saving improvements, among others.

On the efficiency side, Zhou is exploring methods to realize net zero energy data centers, which require vast amounts of electricity to run their systems and to cool them, by accurately predicting the timing of tasks and scheduling them optimally to computing servers. He is also working with mechanical engineers on technology that would use inexpensive, highly-scalable heat sources to power potentially huge vacuum generators. Applications include water treatment facilities at hydraulic fracturing sites and tunnels for extremely high-speed trains. n

Oya Tukel Appointed Dean of Martin Tuchman School of Management

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JIT announced the appointment of Oya Tukel as dean of Martin Tuchman School of Management, effective July 1, 2019. Tukel received her Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering from the Middle East Technical University and her doctorate in decision and information sciences from the University of Florida.

Tukel is an effective administrator, researcher and educator with over 27 years of experience at Cleveland State University.

A professor of operations and supply chain management, her administrative experience spans the last 10 years as associate dean overseeing nine majors and over 2,100 students, department chair for supply chain management and finance, and director of graduate programs. n

NJIT Announces Appointment of New Dean for Hillier College of Architecture and Design

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fter an international search, NJIT announced the appointment of Dr. Branko Kolarevic as dean of the J. Robert and Barbara A. College of Architecture and Design, effective July 1, 2019. Kolarevic received his Diploma Engineer of Architecture degree from the University of Belgrade in 1986 and his Master of Architecture in design studies and doctorate in design from Harvard University in 1989 and 1993, respectively.

Kolarevic is an innovator, researcher and educator. He was one of the founding directors of the Laboratory for Integrative Design at the University of Calgary, where he held a Chair in Integrated Design from 2007 to 2016. He also has served in various administrative roles in Calgary, first as associate dean and then as co-director of the Computational Design Media program. n

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