We have invited Honors alumni who are in professional careers in medicine, law, engineering, science, management and architecture to speak to NJIT students in a roundtable session about key skills they should have in order to be successful in their careers, and to recommend ways for them to acquire these skills prior to graduation. We are also inviting alumni who are currently in graduate or professional schools to help share their knowledge as well.

Climos is a newly-formed climate change research firm. Until this month, Dr. Leinen was the Assistant Director for Geosciences at the US National Science Foundation (NSF). Since 2000, Dr. Leinen has managed the Geosciences Directorate, the second largest at NSF, with an annual budget of $700M, which funds the majority of new publicly-funded academic research initiatives in ocean, atmospheric and earth science in the United States. Leinen also served as Vice Chair of the US Climate Change Science Program, the interagency program responsible for coordinating federal climate change scientific research. Biography

Climos states that “Our intent is to evaluate a number of promising natural processes to help mitigate climate change. Climos is a vocal advocate of regulation and action to aggressively reduce emissions, but we also realize that there are a large percentage of emissions that cannot be immediately addressed in this way. Particularly in the past year there has been an enormous increase in interest from citizens and major corporations to seriously explore how meaningful action can be taken to help them become fully carbon neutral." Climos is part of a new category of companies often referred to as “greentech” or “cleantech”.

Cosponsored by the NJIT Technology and Society Forum, by the Distinguished Lecture Series on Environmental Science, Engineering and Policy, and by the Murray Women’s Center.

Thursday,
March 1, 2007
Jim Wise Theater
7:00 PM

Fiorello!  A Musical by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock about New York City mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, a reform Republican who took on Tammany Hall

Directed by NJIT's own Bill Gile

The play will be followed by a conversation with the student directors. Students must attend both the play and the talk to receive honors credit. Students must purchase their own tickets at $5.00 each.

HONORS STUDENTS ONLY. You must sign up by Friday, February 16 by email to honors@njit.edu by Monday, March 26. Attendance may be limited.

Wednesday
March 14, 2007
(during Spring Break)

“Red Carpet Visit” assured

The FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center is the nation’s premier aviation research and development, and test and evaluation facility. The Technical Center serves as the national scientific test base for the FAA. Programs at the Technical Center include testing and evaluation in air traffic control, communications, navigation, airports, aircraft safety, and security. They also include long-range development of innovative aviation systems and concepts, development of new air traffic control equipment and software, and modification of existing systems and procedures. The Technical Center not only serves as a cornerstone for aviation advancements, but is also a key focal point for Homeland Security. You can learn more about some of the programs at the Technical Center by viewing videos at:  http://www.tc.faa.gov/TC_videos.html

Miniaturization and Moore’s law have enabled us to combine sensing, computation and wireless communication in integrated, low-power devices and to embed networks of these devices in the physical world, creating programmable, multi-modal, multi-scale, and multi-use observatories. Estrin will discuss how we are now applying these technical approaches to human as well as natural systems, in particular by exploring use of the installed base of image and acoustic sensors that we all carry around in our pockets or on our belts and cell phones.  

Ahmed Soliman, Senior Anchor and Producer for the daily world news on Bridges TV, nationally televised on various cable markets across the country and on DISH Network. Mr. Soliman is also an NJIT graduate and former Editor-in-Chief of The Vector. He recently interviewed the Foreign Minister of Pakistan about the war on terror.

Cosponsored by the Program in Communication, Department of Humanities

Prof. Wulf is also on leave from the University of Virginia, where he is University Professor and AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

A discussion of how the weaknesses in education at all levels is endangering America’s technological and research lead in the future. Some of Dr. Wulf's concerns include

• The dramatic decline in industry-based basic research.
• The flat-to-declining federal support of research in the physical sciences and engineering
• The increasingly short-term, risk-averse nature of the research that is supported.
• The discouraging effect on foreign students and scholars of our current visa policies, and its impact on our ability to get the world’s best and brightest to come to the US and contribute to our security and prosperity.
• The draconian proposals for handling of “deemed exports” in basic research, and their chilling impact on long-term basic research at universities.
• The rapid growth in the use of the category of “sensitive but unclassified” information, and its impact on the free flow of scientific information.

Cosponsored  by the NJIT Technology and Society Forum and by The Newark College of Engineering

Dr. James West has had a remarkable career. He has some 50 U.S. and 200 foreign patents. With his work he has revolutionized the telephone and recording industries. In 1964, while still working for Bell Laboratories, James West and his colleague, Gerhard Sessler, received patent N° 3,118,022 for the electroacoustic transducer, an electret microphone. “This microphone is now in virtually every telephone in the world, in all the hearing aids and in many portable tape recorders. The last estimate… suggested that over a billion electret microphones are produced worldwide per year….” Dr. West will be talking about Black heritage in technology mainly within the context of the twelve Black inductees into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Cosponsored by the Technology and Society Forum, by the Physics Department, and the EOP Program

For details on Prof. West's career, scientific and technological contributions, go to this article, which is the source of the quote above.

The Detention Project

This a multimedia performance piece created by Rutgers-Newark/NJIT students based on research, interviews and ethnographies they conducted on the  effects of immigrant detention in the United States. Adapted and directed by Rutgers-Newark faculty member Tim Raphael, the production features original music composed by noted jazz and electronics artist Guillermo E. Brown, and video by internationally renowned videographer and Rutgers-Newark faculty member Edin Velez.

The play will be followed by a conversation with the student directors. Students must attend both the play and the talk to receive honors credit. Students must purchase their own tickets at $5.00 each.

HONORS STUDENTS ONLY. You must sign up by Wednesday, April 7 by email to honors@njit.edu by Monday, March 26. Attendance may be limited.

Our host, a long-time Washington veteran who will get us inside legislative and executive-branch offices and set up meetings with top policy-makers. Also included may be a visit with NJIT alumni in the DC area.

Space is limited, so if you would like to sign up for the trip, please e-mail honors.njit.edu as soon as possible. Be sure to include the following in your e-mail: name, year, major, address, SS# and DOB (for the security check).  If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Dr. Dine.