Student Highlights

Student Recognitions

• Hayden Diaz Figueroa (B.S. ’23) earned the Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Scholarship (CySP), becoming the fifth New York Tech student to receive the award.

• Lincoln Dover (B.S. ’23), Robert Maksimowicz (B.S. ’23), and R obert Doxey (B.S. ’21, M.S. ’22) entered the NYSID CREATE Symposium (New York State Industries for the Disabled Creativity, Research, Engagement, and the Arts Transform Everyone). Their innovation to develop a way to standardize the process of cutting and gluing cardboard shipping materials to assist employees who are neurodiverse earned them fourth in the competition—the highest ranking for New York Tech to date.

• Mary Margarette Sanchez (B.S. ’23) earned second place in the undergraduate division in the Sigma Xi Research Showcase for her research on using convolutional neural networks to detect dysplastic cervical precancerous cells in Pap smears.

Professional Experience at Annual Conferences

Students members of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), and the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) were invited to attend their organizations’ annual conferences in 2022. In addition to important networking with industry professionals at some of the world’s leading companies, several students came back with internships and full-time work opportunities.

United Engineering Hosts First Hackathon

Spearheaded by members of SWE, the student-led club United Engineering hosted its firstever Hackathon event in April 2022 in which teams were challenged to code with a new programming language they hadn’t used before. Several CoECS faculty served as volunteer mentors and judges, and newly minted Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) President Austin Stietzel hosted a Minecraft mini event during lunchtime.

Programs of Distinction

#49 Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs (National - no doctorate)

U.S. News & World Report, 2022

#32 Top 50 Undergraduate Computer Science Degrees for International Students College Values Online