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COMMENC EMENTC E R EMONY 2 0 1 0
May SeventeenthTwo Thousand and Ten
Prudential CenterNewark, New Jersey
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WELCOME
Welcome to the 2010 commencement ceremony ofNew Jersey Institute of Technology. The universityextends heartfelt congratulations to its graduates ontheir accomplishment and commends the familiesand friends who have helped them reach this mile-stone of academic achievement.
By definition, commencement means “to begin tobe.” As the members of the Class of 2010 begin tobe, we wish them every success, confident that theyhave been well prepared for a life of contribution inthe 21st century, to meet its challenges and embraceits myriad opportunities.
Well done!
Information in this program is compiled prior tofinal certification of candidates for graduation.Only the diploma and certified transcript of eachstudent are official documents which attest to thegranting of a degree.
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TO OUR GUESTS
Commencement, an age-old tradition, is a joyous yetsolemn event signifying years of study and sacrifice.
To preserve the appropriateness of this augustoccasion —
The audience should remain seated throughout theceremony and until the recessional is completed.
There will be no standing in the aisles at any timeduring the ceremony.
Guests are not permitted on the arena floor.
Any attendee requiring assistance should contactuniformed Prudential Center personnel.
Members of the audience are asked to turn off cellphones and other electronic devices.
Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.
UNIVERSITY CEREMONY
Class Crier Annacler Harris-Blevin ’10Senior Class President
Grand Marshal and Mace Bearer Jack Gentul, Dean of Students
Processional Gonfalon CarriersCandidates for Baccalaureate DegreesCandidates for Master’s DegreesCandidates for Doctoral DegreesDistinguished FacultyGolden HighlandersBagpiperHonored GuestsUniversity OfficialsPresidential PartyAFROTCDetachment 490 Color Guard
Presiding Robert A. Altenkirch, President
Presentation of Colors AFROTC
The National Anthem Newark Boys Chorus
Greetings Robert A. Altenkirch, President
Speaker Steven B. Saperstein ’84, PresidentNJIT Alumni Association
Speaker Annacler Harris-Blevin ’10
Presentation of Honorary Degrees KathleenWielkopolski, ChairBoard of Trustees
Ralph IzzoChairman of the Board, President andChief Executive OfficerPublic Service Enterprise Group,Incorporated
Leon G. Smith, MD,MACPPast ChairmanDepartment of MedicineSaint Michael’s Medical Center
The Honorable Kim GuadagnoLieutenant GovernorState of New Jersey
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MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 • 9:00 A.M.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
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Commencement Address The Honorable Kim GuadagnoLieutenant GovernorState of New Jersey
Interlude Newark Boys Chorus
Presiding Donald H. Sebastian, Senior Vice Presidentfor Research and Development
Presentation of Candidates Ronald S. Kane, Deanfor Doctoral Degrees Graduate Studies
Presentation of the Daniel A. Henderson, Chief Executive OfficerHashimoto Prize Phonetel
High GPA Award Presentation Donald H. Sebastian, Senior Vice President forResearch and Development
Presentation of Candidates for Baccalaureate Degrees
College of Architecture and Design Urs P. Gauchat, DeanCollege of Architecture and Design
John Cays, Associate DeanCollege of Architecture and Design
College of Science and Liberal Arts Fadi P. Deek, DeanCollege of Science and Liberal Arts
Robert S. Friedman, Associate ProfessorDepartment of Humanities
School of Management Robert English, Interim DeanSchool of Management
Shanthi GopalakrishnanAssociate Dean for AcademicsSchool of Management
College of Computing Sciences Narain Gehani, DeanCollege of Computing Sciences
Barry Cohen, Associate DeanCollege of Computing Sciences
Newark College of Engineering Sunil Saigal, DeanNewark College of Engineering
Fadi A. Karaa, Associate ProfessorDepartment of Civil and EnviromentalEngineering
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2004 • 1:30 P.M.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES: AFTERNOON CEREMONIES
Presentation of Candidates for Master’s Degrees
College of Architecture and Design Urs P. Gauchat, DeanCollege of Architecture and Design
John Cays, Associate DeanCollege of Architecture and Design
College of Science and Liberal Arts Fadi P. Deek, DeanCollege of Science and Liberal Arts
Robert S. Friedman, Associate ProfessorDepartment of Humanities
School of Management Robert English, Interim DeanSchool of Management
Shanthi GopalakrishnanAssociate Dean for AcademicsSchool of Management
College of Computing Sciences Narain Gehani, DeanCollege of Computing Sciences
Barry Cohen, Associate DeanCollege of Computing Sciences
Newark College of Engineering Sunil Saigal, DeanNewark College of Engineering
Fadi A. Karaa, Associate ProfessorDepartment of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering
Conferring of Degrees KathleenWielkopolski, ChairBoard of Trustees
Alma Mater
Recessional
Harp selections Odarka Polanskyj Stockert ’88
Listing of the Candidates for Doctoral Degrees begins on page 11.Listing of the Candidates for Master’s Degrees begins on page 26.Listing of the Candidates for Baccalaureate Degrees begins on page 36.
HONORARY DEGREES
By its charter, New Jersey Institute of Technologyis empowered to confer honorary degrees uponindividuals of distinguished achievement inrecognition of their personal and professionalaccomplishments and their contributions tosociety.
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THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS,HONORIS CAUSAPresented to
THE HONORABLE KIM GUADAGNOLIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, STATE OF NEW JERSEY
The Honorable Kim Guadagno was born in Waterloo, Iowa. As achild, she moved frequently throughout the country before callingNew Jersey her home. Her husband, Mike, grew up in MonmouthCounty, where they decided to raise their three boys, Kevin,Michael and Anderson.
After graduating from Ursinus College in 1980, and then AmericanUniversity law school in 1983, Guadagno began her public career asa federal prosecutor. She earned a reputation as being tough andindependent, qualities that proved valuable during her successfultenure on the Organized Crime and Racketeering Strike Force inBrooklyn, NY. After Guadagno married her husband, she moved toNew Jersey, where she took a position in the United StatesAttorney’s office in Newark. For her achievements, she was awardedthe United States Department of Justice’s highest honor on twoseparate occasions. After leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Guadagno went on to serve as anAssistant Attorney General in New Jersey.
As an Assistant Attorney General and the Deputy Director of the Division of Criminal Justice, shewas in charge of statewide criminal investigations with oversight of 300 prosecutors andinvestigators. After leaving office in 2001, Guadagno became an attorney in private practice, yetcontinued her commitment to public service. She served on the Monmouth Beach planning boardfor sixteen years and later as Commissioner in Monmouth Beach from 2005-2007.
In 2007, Guadagno became the 75th Sheriff of Monmouth County, and the county’s first womansheriff. As Sheriff, she pursued an aggressive agenda to fight crime, strengthen community outreach,and enact a series of innovative policies across a 650-member agency with a $65 million budget. Inaddition to these responsibilities, Guadagno also taught at Rutgers Law School-Newark from 2001through her election as Lieutenant Governor in 2009. She was sworn in as New Jersey’s firstLieutenant Governor on January 19, 2010.
In recognition of her public service as New Jersey’s first lieutenant governor, New Jersey Institute ofTechnology is pleased to confer the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, upon TheHonorable Kim Guadagno.
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THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SCIENCE,HONORIS CAUSAPresented to
RALPH IZZO, PHDCHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISE GROUP, INCORPORATED
Ralph Izzo, PhD has been chairman, president and chief executiveofficer of Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated (PSEG)since April 2007. He had served as president and chief operatingofficer of PSEG since October 2006 when he was also elected to theBoard of Directors. Earlier, he was president and chief operatingofficer of Public Service Electric and Gas Company. Since joiningPSE&G in 1992, Izzo was elected to several executive positionswithin PSEG’s family of companies. In these capacities, hebroadened his experience in the areas of general management,strategic planning and finance.
Dr. Izzo is a well-known leader within the utility industry, as wellas the public policy arena. His public policy experience includesservice as an American Physical Society Congressional ScienceFellow in the office of U.S. Senator Bill Bradley. He also served fouryears as a senior policy advisor in the Office of New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, specializing inenergy, science and technology.
Dr. Izzo’s career began as a research scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, performingnumerical simulations of fusion energy experiments. He has published or presented over 35 paperson magnetohydrodynamic modeling. Izzo received his bachelor of science and master of sciencedegrees in mechanical engineering and his doctor of philosophy degree in applied physics fromColumbia University. He also completed the requirements for a master of business administrationdegree with a concentration in finance from the Rutgers Graduate School of Management. He islisted in numerous editions of Who’s Who and has been the recipient of national fellowshipsand awards.
Dr. Izzo is chairman of the board for the Drumthwacket Foundation. He serves on the board ofdirectors for the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, the New Jersey Utilities Association, the EdisonElectric Institute (EEI), the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), The Center for Energy WorkforceDevelopment, and Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey.
In recognition of his outstanding professional achievements that have kept New Jersey on theforefront of energy sustainability, New Jersey Institute of Technology is pleased to confer the degreeof Doctor of Science, honoris causa, upon Ralph Izzo.
THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF DOCTOR OF SCIENCE,HONORIS CAUSAPresented to
LEON G. SMITH, MD, MACPPAST CHAIRMAN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE
SAINT MICHAEL’S MEDICAL CENTER
Dr. Leon G. Smith is an alumnus of Georgetown Medical School,Yale Medical School, and the National Institutes of Health. Heserved as chief of infectious diseases at Saint Michael’s MedicalCenter in Newark for 40 years before becoming chairman of thehospital’s Department of Medicine. He also has taught medicineand preventive medicine at the New Jersey Medical School.
He co-founded and participates in the Inter-City Infectious DiseaseRounds Group, which meets weekly at New York City/New Jerseyarea hospitals. Past president of the National Foundation forInfectious Disease, Dr. Smith has published extensively oninfectious diseases and has served on many committees of theInfectious Disease Society of America, which presented him withits Mentor Award for training more infectious disease fellows thananyone. He recently founded and funded the Infectious DiseaseHall of Fame at Saint Michael’s Medical Center.
Dr. Smith developed the first viral diagnostic laboratory in New Jersey, as well as HIV and hepatitis Cclinics at Saint Michael’s Medical Center. He has received numerous awards, including the ClaraBarton Award and the Best Doctors Award, and has served as a consultant to the Vatican. He co-chairs the Medical Society of New Jersey’s Bio-Terrorism Task Force and is a Master of the AmericanCollege of Physicians. Dr. Smith has continuously advised NJIT on medical education, and assistedNJIT to establish the accelerated pre-medical program with St. George’s University.
In recognition of his 45 years of dedication to the Newark community and the State of New Jersey asa physician and humanitarian, and for his support of the partnership between NJIT and St. George’sUniversity Medical School, New Jersey Institute of Technology is pleased to confer the degree ofDoctor of Science, honoris causa, upon Dr. Leon G. Smith.
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AWARD
THE HASHIMOTO PRIZEPresented to
SHUAI WANG ’10
Over a distinguished lifetime, Kazuo Hashimoto garnered more than 1000 patents and applicationsrelated to his invention of the telephone answering machine and other technical devices inelectronics and telecommunications. One hundred of these were awarded in the United States alone.
He was a recipient of Japan’s Medal of Honor, the Yellow Ribbon, and was one of the selectindividuals in his country esteemed as a Living National Treasure.
New Jersey Institute of Technology, in recognition of his extraordinary body of creative work and hisencouragement of invention, awarded him the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, at theseceremonies in 1994.
In May of 1995, the Hashimoto Endowment was established at NJIT through the generosity andvision of Dr. Hashimoto who found this university to provide an environment in which appliedresearch and scholarship flourish.
A key element of the endowment’s purpose is the annual award of the Hashimoto Prize to a doctoralcandidate in electrical or computer engineering who has demonstrated high achievement andpromise in the field.
New Jersey Institute of Technology is proud to announce the recipient of the Hashimoto Prize isShuai Wang, an outstanding scholar who has earned the degree of Doctor of Philosophy throughdistinguished scholarship and research in electrical and computer engineering.
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CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
APPLIED PHYSICS(Degree conferred jointly by NJIT and Rutgers-Newark, New Jersey)
† Peng GaoBS Applied Physics, Wuhan University, People’s Republic of ChinaMS Applied Physics, Wuhan University, People’s Republic of China
Dissertation:Probing the Complex Magnetic, Electronic and Structural Properties in Correlated Manganese Oxides
Advisor:Trevor A. Tyson, PhD
† Kangzhu GuoBS Applied Physics, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaME, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey
Dissertation:Gaussian Beam Diaphragm Fiber Optic Sensor
Advisor:Ken K. Chin, PhD
* Ivan PadronBS Applied Physics, University of Havana, Cuba
Dissertation:Integration of Electronic and Optical Techniques in the Design and Fabrication of Pressure Sensors
Advisors:Anthony Fiory, PhDNuggehalli Ravindra, PhD
† Sreeya SreevatsaBS Electronics and Communication Engineering, People’s Education Society Institute of Technology,Bangalore, IndiaMS Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark,New Jersey
Dissertation:Carbon Nanotube Electronic Structures as Anti-Corrosion Coatings
Advisor:Haim Grebel, PhD
† — August 2009 graduates*— January 2010 graduates
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* Changyi TanBS Astronomy, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of ChinaMS Plasma Physics, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing,People’s Republic of China
Dissertation:Relationship between Photospheric Magnetic Fields and Coronal Activities
Advisor:Haimin Wang, PhD
† Angelo P. VerdoniBS Applied Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado
Dissertation:High Resolution Solar Observations from First Principles to Applications
Advisor:Carsten Denker, PhD
BIOLOGY(Degree conferred jointly by NJIT and Rutgers-Newark, New Jersey)
* Jeff ChengBS Biochemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New YorkMS Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Bioinformatics Study of Altered Response to IFN-Γ Stimulation in Human Macrophage Subsequent toTB Infection
Advisors:Richard Pine, PhDMichael Recce, PhD
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING(Degree conferred jointly by NJIT and UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey)
Ajitha PatlollaBS Mechanical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, IndiaMS Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Novel Electrospun Composite Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering
Advisor:Treena Arinzeh, PhD
CANDIDATES FOR DOCTORAL DEGREES
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
† Shuli TengBS Chemical Engineering and Technology, Dalian University of Technology,People’s Republic of China
Dissertation:Investigation of the Dynamic Behavior of Particle Collisions and Size Attrition Mechanisms withinFluid Energy Mills
Advisors:Rajesh N. Dave, PhDCostas G. Gogos, PhD
* Qi ZhangBS Polymeric Materials and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, People’s Republic of ChinaMS Materials Processing Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology,People’s Republic of China
Dissertation:Investigation of Coating During Particulates Attrition in Fluid Energy Mill (FEM)
Advisors:Rajesh N. Dave, PhDCostas G. Gogos, PhD
Huiju LiuBE Mechanical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, People’s Republic of ChinaME Mechanical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, People’s Republic of China
Dissertation:Hot Melt Mixing/Extrusion and Dissolution of Drug (Indomethacin) in Acrylic Copolymer Matrices
Advisors:Costas G. Gogos, PhDMarino Xanthos, PhD
CHEMISTRY
Ornthida Sae-KhowBS Chemistry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, ThailandMS Chemistry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Dissertation:Microextraction Techniques Using Carbon Nanotubes as the Media
Advisor:Somenath Mitra, PhD
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CANDIDATES FOR DOCTORAL DEGREES
CIVIL ENGINEERING
* Kitae KimBS Civil Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, KoreaMS Transportation Planning and Engineering, Polytechnic University, New York
Dissertation:Optimal Train Control on Various Track Alignments Considering Speed and ScheduleAdherence Constraints
Advisor:Steven I-Jy Chien, PhD
* Joseph J. LifrieriBS Geology, City College of New York, New YorkMS Civil Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Inter-Relationship of Mechanical and Bio-Chemical Processes Governing the Settlement of MunicipalSolid Waste (MSW) Using the (C+H)/L Ratio
Advisor:Dorairaja Raghu, PhD
Yavuz Yusuf UlusoyBS Civil Engineering, University of Gaziantep, TurkeyMS Civil Engineering, University of Gaziantep, TurkeyMS Transportation Planning and Engineering, Polytechnic University, New York
Dissertation:Optimizing Integrated Service for a Transit Route with Heterogeneous Demand
Advisor:Steven I-Jy Chien, PhD
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Nitesh Bhicu GuindeBS Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Goa Engineering College, Goa University, IndiaMS Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Hardware Support for Real-Time Network Security and Packet Classification Using Field ProgrammableGate Arrays
Advisor:Sotirios G. Ziavras, PhD
* Shuai WangBS Computer Science, Nanjing University, People’s Republic of China
Dissertation:Soft-Error Resilient On-Chip Memory Structures
Advisor:Jie Hu, PhD
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CANDIDATES FOR DOCTORAL DEGREES
COMPUTER SCIENCE
* Satish ChikkagoudarBS Engineering in Computer Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad, IndiaMS Computer Science, California State University, Chico, California
Dissertation:Algorithms in Comparative Genomics
Advisor:Usman Roshan, PhD
Xinfa HuBE, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of ChinaME, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China
DissertationNew Data Structures, Models, and Algorithms for Real-time Resource Management
AdvisorJoseph Leung, PhD
† Pawel PlacekBS Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, PolandMS Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
Dissertation:Processing Techniques for Partial Tree-Pattern Queries on XML Data
Advisor:Dimitri Theodoratos, PhD
* Xiaoying WuBS Computer Science, Central South University, People’s Republic of ChinaMS Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dissertation:Semantics and Efficient Evaluation of Partial Tree-Pattern Queries on XML
Advisor:Dimitri Theodoratos, PhD
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
* Handan Agirman-TosunBS Electrical Engineering, Hacettepe, Ankara, TurkeyMS Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Dissertation:Generalized Discrete Fourier Transform with Non-Linear Phase: Theory and Design
Advisor:Ali N. Akansu, PhD
* Niu BoBS Electrical Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of ChinaMS Electrical Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China
Dissertation:Communications over Wireless Networks: Cooperation and Channel State Information Requirements
Advisor:Alexander M. Haimovich, PhD
Han-Yun ChangBS Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New JerseyMS Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York
Dissertation:Growth, Characterization and Device Application of Si/Ge Nano-Heterojunctions
Advisor:Leonid Tsybeskov, PhD
* Ehsan Haghani DogahehBS Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IranMS Communications Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Dissertation:Service Oriented Networking for Multimedia Applications in Broadband Wireless Networks
Advisor:Nirwan Ansari, PhD
* Hana GodrichBS Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, IsraelMS Electrical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Dissertation:Target Localization in MIMO Radar Systems
Advisor:Alexander M. Haimovich, PhD
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† Seon Woo LeeBS Electronics Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Republic of KoreaMS Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Electrical and Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotube Intra-Connects and Conductive Polymers
Advisor:Haim Grebel, PhD
* Sara Gatmir MotahariBS Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IranMS Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Dissertation:Inference Prevention in Ubiquitous Social Computing
Advisors:Quentin Jones, PhDSotirios Ziavras, PhD
* Pitipatana SakarindrBS Electrical Engineering, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, ThailandMS Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Adaptive Trust and Reputation System as a Security Service in Group Communications
Advisor:Nirwan Ansari, PhD
† Mohamed A. SalemBS Electrical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, EgyptMS Electrical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Dissertation:Practical Localized Waves Generation
Advisor:Edip Niver, PhD
* Miao ShiBS Electrical Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of ChinaMS Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dissertation:Advanced Classification of OFDM and MIMO Signals with Enhanced Second OrderCyclostationarity Detection
Advisor:Yeheskel Bar-Ness, PhD
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* Igor StanojevBS Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia and MontenegroMS Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Cooperative Retransmission Protocols in Fading Channels: Issues, Solutions and Applications
Advisor:Yeheskel Bar-Ness, PhD
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES(Degree conferred jointly by NJIT and Rutgers-Newark, New Jersey)
* Ronnachai TiyarattanachaiBS Environmental Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, ThailandMS Environmental Management, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Dissertation:Institutional Controls and Brownfield Redevelopment
Advisors:Nancy L. Jackson, PhDDaniel J. Watts, PhD
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
* Sun OlapiriyakulBS Mechanical Engineering, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University,Phathum, Thani, ThailandMS Industrial Engineering, San Jose State University, California
Dissertation:End-Of-Life Analysis of Nanotechnology Products
Advisor:Reggie J. Caudill, PhD
Mojisola K. OtegbeyeBS Industrial Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, NigeriaMS Engineering Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:The Floating Contract between Risk-Averse Supply Chain Partners in a Volatile CommodityPrice Environment
Advisor:Jian Yang, PhD
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* Randy A. ReaganBS Mechanical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New JerseyMS Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MichiganMBA, New York University, New York
Dissertation:Resource Assignment in Short Life Technology Intensive (SLTI) New Product Development (NPD)
Advisor:Sanchoy Das, PhD
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
* Madhavi M. ChakrabartyBS Civil Engineering, Maulana Azad College of Technology, Bhopal, IndiaMS Computer Application, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Dissertation:Understanding Cognitive Differences in Processing Competing Visualizations of Complex Systems
Advisor:David Mendonca, PhD
Fang ChuBS Computer Science, Tiajin University, People’s Republic of China
Dissertation:Variance Reduction Techniques for Estimating Quantiles and Value At-Risk
Advisor:Marvin Nakayama, PhD
Sukeshini GrandhiBS Mathematics, University of Madras, Madras Christian College, IndiaMS Mathematics, University of Madras, Madras Christian College, IndiaMBA, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Dissertation:Interpersonal Information Management in Communication Technology-A Relational Perspective
Advisor:Quentin Jones, PhD
* Kamolbhan OlapiriyakulBS Industrial Engineering, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University,Phathum, Thani, ThailandMBA, National Institute of Development Administration, Bangkok, Thailand
Dissertation:Virtual World Commerce Adoption (VWCA): A Case Study of Second Life Investigating the Impacts ofPerceived Affordances, Trust, and Need Satisfaction
Advisor:George Widmeyer, PhD
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* Maria M. PlummerBS Computer Science and Mathematics, University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, BarbadosMS Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Dissertation:Job Seeking and Job Application in Social Networking Sites: Predicting Job Seekers’ Behavioral Intentions
Advisor:Starr Roxanne Hiltz, PhD
† Faina R. PrivmanBS Computer and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaMS Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College, New York
Dissertation:In-Group /Out-Group Dynamics and Effectiveness in Partially Distributed Teams
Advisor:Starr Roxanne Hiltz, PhD
Connie Marie WhiteBS General Studies, Southeastern Louisiana University, LouisianaMS Teaching Mathematics, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Dissertation:A Dynamic Delphi System to Support Decision Making by Large Groups of Crisis Management Experts
Advisor:Murray Turoff, PhD
† Xiang YaoBS Computer Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Astronautics and Aeronautics,People’s Republic of ChinaMS Information Systems, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Design, Development and Evaluation of Collario, a Group Support System for CollaborativeScenario Creation
Advisor:Murray Turoff, PhD
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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Thelma G. ManningBS Chemical Engineering, University of Santo Thomas, Manila, PhilippinesMS Chemical Engineering, University of the Philippines, Manila, PhilippinesMS Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic University of New York, New York
Dissertation:Novel Micron- and Nano-Scale Energetic Materials for Advanced Gun Propulsion, Their MaterialProperties, and Their Effects on Ballistic Performance
Advisors:Zafar Iqbal, PhDBoris Khusid, PhD
Vishal Rajendra MehtaBE Metallurgy, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, IndiaMS Materials Science and Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Formation of Screen Printed Contacts on Multicrystalline Silicon (mc-Si) Solar Cells
Advisors:Nuggehalli M. Ravindra, PhDBhushan Sopori, PhD
* Sudhakar ShetBS Metallurgy, Materials Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, IndiaMS Materials Science and Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Oxide Semiconductors for PhotoelectrochemicalHydrogen Production
Advisor:Nuggehalli M. Ravindra, PhD
MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES(Degree conferred jointly by NJIT and Rutgers-Newark, New Jersey)
* Manmeet KaurBA Mathematics, Delhi University, IndiaMS Mathematics, Delhi University, IndiaMS Applied Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Perturbed Spherical Objects in Acoustic and Fluid Flow Fields
Advisor:Denis L. Blackmore, PhD
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* Bo RenBS Mathematics, Wuhan University, People’s Republic of ChinaMS Applied Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Modeling and Quasi-Monte Carlo Simulation of Risk in Credit Portfolios
Advisors:David J. Horntrop, PhDWilliam J. Morokoff, PhD
* Qiming WangBS Mathematics, Nanjing University, People’s Republic of ChinaMS Applied Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Nonlinear Evolution of Annular Layers and Liquid Threads in Electric Fields
Advisor:Demetrios T. Papageorgiou, PhD
† Ye YangBS Applied Mathematics, Tiajin University, People’s Republic of ChinaMS Applied Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Reduced Order Models for Fluid-Structure Interaction Systems by Mixed Finite Element Formulation
Advisor:Sheldon Wang, PhD
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Mahesh Anant KhanolkarBS Mechanical Engineering, Karnataka University, IndiaMS Mechanical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Constitutive Modeling of Glassy Shape Memory Polymers
Advisor:I. Joga Rao, PhD
† Sai Chaitanya NudurupatiBS Industrial Production Engineering, Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology, India
Dissertation:Electrohydrodynamic Manipulation of Multiphase Fluids
Advisor:Pushpendra Singh, PhD
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* Yazan Ahmad MannaBS Mechatronics Engineering, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, JordanMS Mechanical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Motion Coordination and Control in the Development of a Gait Rehabilitation System
Advisor:Zhiming Ji, PhD
* Chong PengBE Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei,People’s Republic of ChinaMS Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, People’s Republic of China
Dissertation:Optimal Synthesis of Planar Adjustable Mechanisms
Advisor:Rajpal S. Sodhi, PhD
Dawei WangBS Thermal Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Dongying, People’s Republic of ChinaMS Thermal Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan,People’s Republic of China
Dissertation:Transport Mechanisms and Modeling of Riser Reactor
Advisor:Chao Zhu, PhD
TRANSPORTATION
* Geraldine Kelly LeoneBS Computer Science, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New JerseyMS Aviation Science and Management, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University,Daytona Beach, Florida
Dissertation:Operating Characteristics of Passenger Screening Processes and the Development of a PacedInspection System
Advisors:Sanchoy Das, PhDRongfang Liu, PhD
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URBAN SYSTEMS(Degree conferred jointly by NJIT, UMDNJ and Rutgers-Newark, New Jersey)
† Japheth KaluyuBS Management, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, New JerseyMS Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Determinants of Risky Sexual Behaviors of Kenyan Immigrant Men in the U.S. and DuringVisits in Kenya
Advisor:Dula Pacquiao, PhD
* Sallie Ann PorterBS Nursing, Georgetown University, Washington, DCMS Parent-Child Nursing, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New JerseyPost-Masters Certificate/Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
Dissertation:Safe Haven Infant Protection: Incidence of Use and Characteristics of Surrendered Infants andRelinquishing Users
Advisor:Jeffrey R. Backstrand, PhD
Rubab Itrat QureshiBS Medicine and Surgery, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar University, Pakistan
Dissertation:Experiences of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Post-Partum Period in Urban and Suburban ImmigrantPakistani Women
Advisor:Jeffrey R. Backstrand, PhD
† Aditi SarkarBS, Calcutta University, Calcutta, IndiaMS Applied Physics, New York University, New YorkMArch, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Accessibility in Metropolitan Transportation Planning: Visualizing a GIS-Based Measure forCollaborative Planning
Advisor:Lyna Wiggins, PhD
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† Caryn Schneider YaacovBA Sociology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden, New JerseyMS Environmental Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, IsraelMS Urban and Regional Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, IsraelMS Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Dissertation:Dynamics of School Playground Use in Low-Income Neighborhoods: Four Case Studies fromNewark, New Jersey
Advisor:Maurie Cohen, PhD
Maria Beatriz YaburBFA, Institute for Advanced Studies in Fine Art, Armando Reveron in Sculpture, Caracas, VenezuelaMArch, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Dissertation:Noxious Odors in Residential Environments: Coping in Reactive and Proactive Ways in ThreeNew Jersey Communities
Advisor:Karen Franck, PhD
CANDIDATES FOR MASTER’S DEGREES
NEWARK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
BIOELECTRONICS
Yazan Ahmad Gharaibeh
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Sherif Abdel-Meseh* Yasser AliSuwah S. AmaraKatherine Susana Andrade
† Ghaith J. AndrowisGaurav Sunil BagweNaimisha Reddy BeeravoluSorav BhatiaBhumi Jagdishchandra BhattRakesh MukeshkumarBrahmbhatt
* Ravi T. BuddhdewAnirudh Anupam ChaturvediMohammad U. ChoudhryKevin CiszakAshley Marie CraigHarish Damodaran
*Meriam J. DawoodAndrew R. Feeney
*Maikel S. GaberaJames P. GillMelissa Antoinette GolobAlexander GoncharovRashi GrewalKhadidiatou GuiroJatin Ramesh JainNeha Mahendrakumar JainKaran Vijay JhaveriNikhil JoshiAmit Madhukar Kamble
† Sidharth Kapoor* Kohitij Kar* Seda Karamil† Swetha KarriAlekhya KaruturiNishanth KesireddyFederico A. Lazaro
*Mathew T. Long* Yen Chen Lu* Esther Sucharita Lucas* David McClish* Dhaval MehtaSandeepkumar MistryIan Mitchell
Piyush Sanjay ModakShilpa Nagendra
* Jaykumar Prakashbhai NaikMehran V. NaljayanAtul Narkhede
† Brooke Marie OdleQuam Olanrewaju Onigbanjo
* Vivian Chinelo OzokaDeep Siddhartha PandyaForum Bhadresh ParikhArif I. PatelBirva Bharatbhai PatelDhruv Yogesh PatelJayson Patel
* Kavita Patel*Mamta Yogesh Patel*Mehul N. PatelPankti Amrish PatelMatthew J. PfefferkornArchana ProdduturAndrew Joseph PskowskiAkshay Narendra Pujara
* Gregory N. Ranky* Carla A. ReforminaRobert F. RussoElizabeth C. Saharig-Romero
* Steven J. SeelmanAnushree B. Shah
* Daivratna MahendrakumarShahMark R. ShakerVishal Kumar SinghNiyati B. Soni
* Kavitha Subramanian* Priyanka Chandrakant TawareRosa E. TolentinoLori Ann TrofinoffDeepthi TumuluriEdward Duquesne Wardell
* Jon Edward Weimer* Yashasvi Reddy YeruvaJoshua Dean Young
† Joanna Ziarnik
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Oluwakemi O. AdeniranOsagie Basil AgbohAdamu Saiza BalatDaniel M. BisharaParag Hemant BorgaonkarDai T. ChauKeke Kingsley Enemchukwu
* Karthik EticalaLakxmi Gurumurthy
Kumud Kanneganti* Birva Khamar* Cenk Kutar* David Onsy Malaty*Maneesh MerwadeFestus Ekhor OmorogievaJignesh PatelMiraat Ajay Patel
* Prashant D. Patel* Bharathwaja RabindranVigneshRatan Rupchand Shah
* Joseph Michael Siarkowicz* Sapna SinghLijo M. Varughese
* Shashank Lakshman Vummidi
CIVIL ENGINEERING
* Hussein G. AhmedBrian C. AscoleseBenjamin Yaw AtsemDena A. BaskousMohamed Alaa BassiounyAlvin Bermudez
* Cherno E. Cham† Ethel Amy ChanSydney C. Chan
* Cesar A. Costales* Sopan B. DesaiSaid A. ElmaltJoshua FinkDennis Gurevits
* Vishnudat Hardial* Christopher A. Henrickson* Zahra JabiniAnthony L. JackmanJemima Elizabeth Johnson
† Mohammad A. Khan† Alyssa D. KrakeZuowei LiShaoliang LiuFrank J. MascoliKhalid R. Mateen
* Jon Henri MayerMariusz K. Mazur
* Ilunga P. Mulangu* Yadunandan Mysore Lokanath
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MASTER OF SCIENCE
†— August 2009 graduates*— January 2010 graduates
Cristian E. Nieto-FrancoChul Soo ParkAnukul Patel
† Vanita Patel* Oruba Nidal Rabie† Jonathan D. ReutherRaquel RomeroLokchandran SivasubramanianCunzhi SongJacquelyn Patricia TookmanianJulio Trivino-SteekKingsley Ugochukwu
* Robert W. VerrengiaManan J. Vyas
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
* Parth Dilipkumar AminRamy Ayad
† Tom T. Boney* Jonathan Robert Cameron* Andrew P. Hofmaier* Joseph Matthew LeskowitsNisharg Rajendra Patel
* Vikas PatelGiovanny PulidoUsman Raza RahmanAbhi Mandela RavivarmaSunil ShivamalluParijat ShuklaAmrutha SureshBhargav Bhagesh TrivediVignesh Viswanathan
* Chaoyi Wang
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Jyoti Kumar AgrawalSung Bo An
* Jimmy Anabwani† Matthew W. Bajor* Pavan KumarReddy Balannagari
* Krishna Chaitanya Balantrapu* Nandini NanjundeshwarBasappaRonak Hasmukhlal Bhatt
Pooja KailaschandraChandiwalRaghu Vamsi Chandrupatla
* Bo Chen* Puragundla NiranjanChoudharyAmitkumar HasmukbhaiChudasma
* Abhisheka DalalPatrick De Bella Jr.Kuntal DeshpandeAmar Annaji Dhore
* Seshu Kishore Dola* Enoch B. Dor* Nikhil DubbakaUzma Fathima
* Xiaosu Gao† Anish Goel*Michael Yilak Hailemariam* Suketu Dhirajlal HiraniIdongesit IdiongVibhu Jately
* Anupama JayateerthaYanal JijSreenath Kalikandan Sivadasan
* Dipti Satish Karkar† Kanwaljeet KaurNam Tae KimBrendan T. Kirby
* Revanth Kollipara* Vikas Raju Koppula* Jigar Ajay KothariSameer LatifSisi Li
* Ligeng Liao* Yu Liu* Henry B. Loo* Vilash Pappachen MadathilAshok MandadiMang MangNirosha Manthena
* Akash Mathur* Venkatesh Mekala* Peiyu Men* Neha Mittal* Vijay Babu MuddasaniNikhil Mukundan
* Palaniappan Muthukaruppan* Ramdas Sekhar Nair* Indus Kashi Nath*Michael J. NeubauerRaymond NganSanket Deepak Nikam
* Venkata Bhanu PrasadNuthakkiRamajayababu PachipalaYuan Pan
* Abhishek Ramanbhai Panchal† Bhavinkumar ManharbhaiPatel
* Harsh Ashwinbhai Patel* Hetal J. PatelNiki Dushyantkumar Patel
* Rajeshkumar B. PatelViresh Shantilal PatelPrayul Pankaj PorwalYanning QuBalachandar Rajamanickam
* Bindiya R. RanaAshish Ravindra RatnakarAldrin Kunal RegoSarah SamSertac SayinDolly Deepak Shah
* Di ShaoAbhinav Sharma
* Arun SharmaBhavin Hareshkumar Sharma
* Guang ShuGaurang Bipin bhai ShuklaHima Teja SiddaSamuel M. SiinoChetankumar BavachandbSohagiyaMahender Pal SoniSuraj SreekumarRahul Sreeram Babu Shankar
* Giancarlo Sunga* Kadir Tamkaya* Chintan T. Tandel* Atilla Tarcan* Venkata Sai Kiran TetaliGopal Thirumalai NarayananHardik D. Trivedi
† Gustavo M. Valdivia* Sumi Sara Varghese† Vandana VasudevaSudha VelamatiKarthy Sreekumary Venu
* Sharad Mohan VijalapuramBhuvaneshwari Vijayraghavan
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CANDIDATES FOR MASTER’S DEGREES
Shao-Yen WangXiaolu Wang
* Yingnan Wang† Nedime Pelin Yalcin† Jingyu Ye* Ji Zhang* Shenghao ZhangYifan Zhao
ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
Matthew Olubenga AinaTrina Yvette Anderson
* Shiva Harika ArekapudiJehoshaphat Olatunde Aribike
*Michelet Audige* Ayshvar BalasubramanyamRenzo E. Balcazar
† Liting BaoRaghavendra Keshav Baradwaj
† Marelis A. BernalAntoine Bernard Jr.
† Mark Austin BishopRalph Kwasi BoatengThomas Francis Brennan
* Katherin Briceno* Erika Brown* Selvyn BrownDaniel R. CallesJuan Miguel CallesAvnika Pradip Chacha
* Sushma ChandrashekarAshish Vijay Chauhan
* Rohit Chauhan† Youji ChenPedro Timoteo Da Silva
* Richard Della RovereParag Sumant DessaiKausik DeyJonce DimoskiZilong FengAristides E. Flores
† Chen Ge† Robert GenitoPaul M. Goldberg
* Brian S. Gould† Viviana Gutierrez* Ted HaoHuan He
* David Carlo Hernandez*Michael C. Hlinka* Peter Jablonski* Chulwon KangMartin Kotowski
Theodoros KouloumprisChristopher Joseph La RoccaAnna Lai
* Jonathan Jamar LewisAidan LiRui LiBohang LiuYang LiuFei LuoLi MaHasan Mahmood
* Christian Anthony Maier† James William McArthur*Mohammed SuleimanMohammedJoseph Frank MonacoKiran Vivek Muthal
* Varun Deelip OberoiChukwuemeka John-maryOdenigboSubash Allan Mark Oliveira
*Malaykumar D. PatelKevin L. Patterson
* Jennifer M. Peak† Davi G. Pereira* Angel Antonio Perez Jr.* Percy E. Perez† Mary Petronis* Kiran Sanjeeva Poojary† Jacqueline M. Quinn* Kanwal S. Rafiq* Jugal Rajesh Rathod† Abram (Arkadiy) ReitblatSi Wen RenCarolina Rivera de RozynskiMargarita RodriguezRuben Dario Rodriguez
* Edward F. Rodzen* Faran Negus RolingsonVercelis Jarilla SamaniegoMichael David Sassi
† Ang ShaDarshan Suresh ShahDhaval Arun Shah
† Maunank Raj ShahLei ShiHasan ShuaibLatha Singanamalli
* Anusha SinghFrancisco J. TaverasThadsigatta Srinivas Murthy
* Suchita Thakur* Balavignesh Thirumalainambi* George V. ThompsonXin TongGassimou Toure
Priscilla U. Ukpah† Melissa Maria ValouraJacqueline Velastegui
† Daniel B. ViceShaoyou WangYu Wang
† Amit Ramesh Warambhe*William T.WardReginald Earl Warren
* Kevin Scott WikerArtur WojcikXiaodong XingYiben ZhangFanjun Zhu
ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Douglas Michael Ray
ENVIRONMENTALENGINEERING
Sindhoor ChandrasenMaria Magdalena Colon
† Donald Ray Conger IIIBrian Crespi
* Neil GoldfineKritsada IntustitayakulRuihan KangYinghua LinChristopher David Mazur
* Gerald F. NichollsDuc V. Tran
† Shuangyi Zhang
HEALTHCARE SYSTEMSMANAGEMENT
Mahekkumar ChandrakantDesai
* Sarah P. FritzTanvi GandhiGar-Yee LaiNaheemot FehintolaOgunkunle
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
* Kelly Mercedes Alba* Babak Badri* Chen-Lun ChiuGrafton Zephaniah CupidEtiime Ebewo
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* Ravi Jayeshbhai GorAndre Higgins
* Christopher Imalla* Chaitanya Kumar KadiyalaAnoop KansalAkhilesh KrishnanandKulkarni
† Andrew B. Lombardino† Mayankkumar K.Mahadevwala
*Madhusudhan Mallareddy† Rahadames MatosVictor N. Mwangi
* Chaitanya Chandrakant NaikPriyanka Pakki
* Nikhil Ramesh Rane* Alok Max Cyril SaldanhaKaran Singh SianSivaram HariharanSubramaniam
* Gustavo J. Truyol* Suryaprakash Vegisetti* Kashyap Kamlesh VoraLevent Zerengok
INTERNET ENGINEERING
* Francis George Frederic† Anup KinkhabwalaSneha Koka
* Tuhina Sarkar
MANUFACTURING SYSTEMSENGINEERING
*Michael Gavin BradwayRushikkumar Kishorbhai RanaBrian Robert Seale
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
* Rutherford C. BestViktor Antonio Bohorquez
* Luis Enrique CardenasHernandezWei-Li Chuang
* Jose Fernando DelacruzSteve FariaSahil Goje
* Nithin Heeranandani* Cristian F. Jaramillo*Michael Howard Mardenfeld* Shiraz Munavar HussainJiYou NiEric W. O’Connor
* Gao PanJayneel Harish PandyaDeepak PatelKetankumar Balvantrai PatelKuntal Parbhu PatelVishagan RatnaswamyChintan Shirish ShahRoopak Shanmukhappa
* Dhaval Vasant ShrikhandeRamanpreet SinghSivakumar SivasubramonianDaniel Alexander Stonkus
* Ashwin TiwariJiayi TongSergey Virodov
† Luo Zuo
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY ANDHEALTH ENGINEERING† Shawn Alexander Edwards* Stephen Michael GrumDana Leslie HarrisSalil G. JosephMayeana N. KamaraWayne B. Latta
*Mary Shavonne MonrinvilleBeatriz SanchezMarshall Walker Jr.
PHARMACEUTICALENGINEERING
Evelyn A. ChangKetan DarjiAparna DuttYuyang FengSrikanth GuntupallyJie Ru HeJasdip KaurBen Morumbwa
* Fidelis Ogochukwu OkohPrashanth Palle
* Abhishek Hemantkumar PatelAniruddh H. PatelArpita M. Patel
* Ruchir Arvindbhai PatelSatish Vishnubhai PatelSmruti RagunathTayaba N. RanaJacqueline RiveraGeorge Basem SabatSalem SaykaliAmit Kashyap ShahSowmya Thanigaivelu
† Feyzi Murat TurkerArdian Ukmata
* Sylvia Nagib WasefDilanji Bhagya Wijayasekara
PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEMSMANAGEMENT
*Mbole EkaneyAmany ElswedySuman Subramania KrishnaKumar
* Kranthi Reddy Nimmanapalli* Syed Saad Rahman* Vasantha Devi Yalavarthi
POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS
* Jose Daniel Abi Karam Duran* Krunal H. Choksi*Mayur C. PatelArun Ramadass
* Udayachandran Santhakumar
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
* Vishal Maheshbhai AminSivakrishna AnnavaramVenkataVenkata UdaykiranBhamidipati
* Vitthal Shailen BhargavKeyur Dilip DeliwalaMina Youssef Hanna GadVarsha Madan Jain
* Apoorv Ranjan KhareVenkata Mahendra MajjiAalok Arvind Panchal
* Savankumar MaheshkumarPatel
* Kirthi Arjun Pucha* Senthil PuthaneriChittambalamSrinath ViswanathRamakrishnanCheng Shi
* Kaushik Vishwanatham
TRANSPORTATION
Harjit S. BalHema Bangalore AppeGowda
* Adiele EnyinniaNatasha RajaramAna Margarita SierraThomas L. Spencer
* Amutha VijayakumarKwadwo Yeboah-Acquah
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CANDIDATES FOR MASTER’S DEGREES
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
NEW JERSEY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
Albert BeteshCory S. ButlerJames Harry ChororosHae-An ChyunMatthew ColluraCharmee Hiteshkumar Donga
† Mirza Kamran Hasan* Deborah Kane
Steven R. KellerAlina Kurchenko
* Bryan Craig Lee Jr.Joshua A. Lindemans
* Anne Terese McTernan† Norman Richards MillerStacy MulrainMeagan Amanda OdellJoel I. OkpalaJason G. Ring
* Tim Rupp* Andriy ShulyarGurinderjit Singh
* Samu Szemerey* Anne Tonette Vasquez
MASTER IN INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING
Ruchita Acharya*Michael Thomas Adams* Chanda Dawadi
* Joseph A. DiNapoli IIIHyunsu S. LimRobin L.MurraySarahVivien DeLeon OllerRenuska Z. Papalexiou
* Robert D. PietrocolaDominick Antonio Rodriguez
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE
† Gary Charles Bielicka Jr.
CANDIDATES FOR MASTER’S DEGREES
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND LIBERAL ARTS
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
* Emmanuel Kersaint Jr.† Nemanja Nikitovic* Andrew PaikWei Song
† Jayson Eric Swanson† Shengbin Wang
APPLIED STATISTICS
Hao ChenSzu Chieh Fu
† Jingyue Ge* Harshani Herath* Thao Ho† Annat Katz* Xiaomu Li† Shiyu LinYang Liu
* Gavin LynchRahul Sharad PatilBryan M. PenczakZhiying Qiu
* Lucas Vata* Jing WangDeonca Williams
BIOLOGY(Degree conferred jointly by NJITand Rutgers-Newark)
Sandhya D. Bolikal* Jayshree Shantibhai Patel
CHEMISTRY
Parvathi Madhavi Catta† Jason Michael Hudzik* Jalpa Dipakkumar PandyaHemantbhai HasmukhbhaiPatelMayurbhai Ravikant Patel
* Silu ShengMegha ThakkarHao Wu
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICYSTUDIES
* Jason Alexander Allen* Julie Patricia ConklinJulissa MoralesPatrick Eric NunooArthur Lee Robinson
* Jay D. Thakkar
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE(Degree conferred jointly by NJITand Rutgers-Newark)
* Andrea R. Adams* Dylan Christo* Sharon Lynn Heller*William C. HomBrian Douglass Knight
* Jason Lonardo* Swetha Sree NallagulaJuliet Amauche Ogbonnaya
* Bina Pradyumanbhai Patel* Sharath Bhaskar Shashid Pillai* Bruce Benjamin Whitlock Ross† Dawn E. Slawsky
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY ANDINDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
* Robert E. Weissman
PROFESSIONAL ANDTECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
* Keith G. Brathwaite† Richard ChineryRegina Sofija Collins
† Kenneth J. KistlerYvonne M. Kita
† Roberto A. Leal* Catherine R. Racette* Sharon Thomas
MASTER OF SCIENCE
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CANDIDATES FOR MASTER’S DEGREES
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY
Deepesh Prasad AdiyatAtul Shyamsunder Agrawal
*Mateen AhmadMatthew F. Amato
* Priyanka Anand* Kennedy A.AsareMahmoud Shoukri Daoud AssafYouness AssassiBenjamin Ari Basch
* Kingsley K. Bayoh*Moaied I. BetamourKomal Dilip BhattCelia Elizabeth Boniface
* Jason C. BostJames M. Brogan
*Michael Busch Jr.* Chun-Hao ChangAnand Chaturvedi
*Meng-Wei Chen* Leena Chopra* Jodimir B. DaSilvaChirag Mahendra DattaniGina DeSalvo-Tilton
* Edward P. DumalaPaulinus C. Egu
† Edgardo H. Engracia Jr.*Michael O. FaloyinSteven Ford
* Fatoumata Gakou* VipulKumar Gandhi* Gilbert M. Gatchalian* Arnab GuptaBasile G. HalkiadakisGeorge HatziemanuelGeorge S. Hatzinas
*Michael IngegnoDhiraj K. Jadwani
† Diane Danuta JazwinskiScott Vincent Kain
* Rishi KatdareJeffrey E. LefkowitzBrian Daniel LigasInez Y. LintonKimler D. Livingston-WilliamsonChia-Wei Lu
* Ikhlaq A.Malik* Sudhir Vasant MaratheSharadValsan PalliathBrijesh Patel
* Hiral K. Patel* Jayeshkumar Gandalal PatelKinman Ashwin PatelRushi Prafulbhai Patel
* Sanjay R. Patel* Rakeshkumar BhikhubhaiRafaliyaSheldon Rajkumar
Srisai RangaraoChetan ChandrakantRanpuraJing RenJose Antonio RiveraArthur Steven RobertsonGabriel Rodriguez
* Danyse Latrice Ryan* Shamsul Kabir Saadi* Varshil Prakash Sanghavi* Francisco J. SantiagoKamal B. Shah
*Mihirkumar Kanubahi ShahVinay ShahPooja SharmaSherelle Elise SpriggsAmy A. SteedDevarajan SundaravaradanBrijesh Rajnikant SuratiOscar Adam Tapia
* Richard J. Uniacke† Keshav UppalJulio P.Valdez
* Piyush B.ViradiaVictor S.WahbaThomas S.WattJoanna Ziarnik
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MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MANAGEMENT
Jacob AgyemangCarlin M. AlcantaraAsim AliRosalind BestYi-Chia ChengIulia Simona DociJohn Farmer
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
* Yu-Hsiu Chuang
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Jennifer A. Jackson
† Peter Fiagbe* Gagandeep Singh Grewal* Priyanka GuptaLouis M. GuzzettiMary E. Ho
† Hung-Ming Hsieh*Manasi Sopan Joshi* Anupama Krishnaswami*Wei-Cheng Lin
Aarzoo Dipakbhai PatelMihir N. Patel
† Francis PaulWarut Raksil
* Erin M. ReynoldsAmy Joy Sabri
Nkenna Usuwa
Cindy Y. Osorio * Daniel A. Silva
CANDIDATES FOR MASTER’S DEGREES
COLLEGE OF COMPUTING SCIENCES
BIOINFORMATICS
* Aparna Agrawal* Deepika Ananda† Monika Bihan* Harish BondalapatiGreg Chen
* Hareesh Chennuru* Praveen Krishna DesuParas Garg
* Stephen J. GriesmerYoung Jae HurWasay M. HussainVishnu Vardhan Reddy KollaAditya Kumar Maddala
* Anusha MakineniAnkur MalhotraAnirudh Reddy Nagaram
* Soundarya Narra* Krishna Jayanth Rolla* Varun Mohan Segu* Shefali Setia* Dhaval Atulkumar ShahRaghav SharmaShikha ShikhaSampath Kumar Tadikonda
*Manoj ThotakuraJoanne Suiman Tse
* Anurag Verma
BUSINESS ANDINFORMATION SYSTEMS
Seshasai Maharshi AdibhatlaKshitiz Agnihotri* Henri J. Baptiste* Parevi Chirag BharwadJuan C. Garay* Robert L HallAlice Phyllis Haney* Jeff HwangJaime W. Lopez*Mauricio ParedesAnkur SainiMaulik Jitendra Shah* Yash ShahGanesh Kumar Suresh
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Srujana Adusumilli* Shashank Aggarwal*Muhammad TahauddinAhmad
† Thauseef AhmedElangovan AnbalahanMithila Eliza Aranha
* Keerthi Priya AraniJalaj Pushpaksen Asher
*Mina AzibChinmay Prakash Bapat
† Hossein Bazldjoo* Yagnesh Dattatraya Bhat† Swarnjit Singh BhatiaPrathyusha BoppanaNivya Boppanda
* Urvish Ravishankar BurmanRedentor J. Casanova
*Moumita Chakraborty* Soumyajit Chakraborty* Neha ChandakShruti Chandrashekar
† Kevin Shen ChangDipti ChauhanXi Chen
* Cesar Cheng-RoblesAshish Selvaraj Chettiar
* Kapil Chhabra* Kunal Choudhary† Paul Chun* Bhagwat Geetha Chundi* Andrew Naresh Errol Corea† Michael Cuzzo* Lokesh Kumar DahiyaBalamurugan Danasekaran
† Michael DeCaro* Chandni Jatin DesaiGunjan Shailan Desai
* Patrick Fay† W. L. Roshan FernandoKranthi GarneniFrancis C. Gatti IIIGanesh GnanachandranDivya Goli
* Rahul Choudary GonuguntlaAditi Gupta
* Hari Sandeep Gutta* Jay S. Hamilton
* Charles Henches† Konrad C. HolczerYi-Huan Hung
* Oche Emmanuel Idoko* Sachin JainKartik JayaprakashVibhooti M. Jogalekar
* Devarsh Saurabh JoshiRavi Arun JoshiVedavyas Kadudas
* Shrilata Kallurkar VenkateshJian-Luen Kao
* Radhika Kasukurthi* Pawanpreet Kaur* Puneet Kaur† Donald J. KehoeGanesh Shankar Khandare
* John R. Klauser* Siva Ram Koppireddy* Swetha Kova* Aleksey Koval† Vipul Suresh KshirsagarTrivikram Kulkarni
* I-Ming LeeYang Li
* Leng Chu LoMiguel LombaXiaochuan MaDeepti MadirajuAnushri Harish Mahajan
* Steve MardenfeldChristina Joyce MathewGaurang MavadiyaPadam Mehrotra
* Darpan Bhagwan MhatrePaulius MikalainisAbhishek Avinash Mirajkar
MASTER OF SCIENCE
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CANDIDATES FOR MASTER’S DEGREES
† Alain D. Monroy* Allyson Moran* Sanjay Muddam* Sindurathy Murugan† Deepak MuthukrishnanBharath NagarajSyed Muzamil Naqshbandi
† Denis Tambelah Nchinda* Gautam NyayapathiAlexander OnikMelanie Jasmine PaesNiraj Dhiren Parekh
* Birva Hasmukhbhai PatelKaiwal Haribhai Patel
*Monilraj Mohanbhai PatelRutvij Kirankumar Patel
† Pallav PatilMansi Ambadas Pedgaonkar
* Rimmel H. Pereira* Vineet Shailesh PhillipsLavanya PolepalliClarence S. Pratt
* Ping Qiu* Ashish Rajbar* Abraham D. Rosales* Alan Howard RothschildNikhil Royal
* Abhilasa Sarma* Ankur Ashwani SaxenaAkash S. Shah
* Hetal ShahMadhav Harkishan ShahNirav Jitendra ShahParth M. Shah
* Saurin Kaushik Shah† Sandesh Anil Shaha
Rajdev Sharma* Jwalant M. ShastriSandeep Ramratan SinghAditya SirpalMilan N. Sutaria
† Sudhir Talasila* Abhijit TikekarDmitri Tikhonov
* Vipul Sharadrao Uplenchwar* Trupti Govind Vaish* Robin K. VargheseNeelesh Vatsa
* Prabakaran VeluNishant Kuttan VeluthedathKamaljit Singh Virk
* Salman Saleem Virk* Jigar VoraTzu-Ming WangWei WangYiyi Wu
† Niannian YangQiji Yao
† Yang ZhangZhang Zhao
*Wei Zhou
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENTAND BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Andrew ChambersBernard Anthony Jones
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
* Elouafi Abdelhak† Bukola Akinfaderin† Ahmed A. Amin*Mark Joseph Arevalo* Purti Bajaj† Sandeep Kaur Bal† Shan S. Bala
* Devin Batra* Shelly BatraBindu Bharadwaj
* Rahul Bhat† Edward J. Biebel* Gregory P. CamarattaTyesha CarmenDev Cham
† Eugene Cho* Nitika ChoudharyRyszard ChrobakAnthony Louis Corio
* Schanel Patrice CrawfordMark CunninghamRoselin Daniel
† Jorge A. De La TorreUdesh R. De Silva
† Joelisio DosAnjosCelestino FranciscoVarsha Gore
* Sindhuri GuttaShannon Marie Hampton
* Aniket Manohar HerwadkarYige Huang
* James T. HuntAbraar HussainYomi IdrisKaiser IslamCherokee D. Jest-Allen
* Arsheel A. Khan† Michael Kim† Rahul Chandra KoneJanaki Krishnamurthy
* Damrong KruaysiriwongJie KuAshwin Kumar
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Reynold Cherian Kuriappurath† Ronald Godfrey MacauleyHimraj MahadeoJulia Anna Marlene MayerGilbert V. MolinaArfaa Mujeeb
* Annamalai Muthappan* Eric NersesianWilson Neyra
* Dennis Joseph O’ConnorTom OduorMartha J. PadillaHarshit J. Parikh
* Slavica Pepovska*Mercy Florence PeterWilliam Robert Piller
* Aseem Punchhi* Yanliang Qi
* Anup Raman* Jose Antonio Saafigueroa* Sohil Yogesh Sagar* Supriya Sahay* Nashid Anees Salahuddin* Payal Vinod SanghviSavitha SathyanarayanaPradip SavaliaJoshua Powers Sessions
* Ekta Shah† Parin R. Shah* Vinod Kumar Shanmugam* Rajat Satish Shetty† Prerana Shrestha* Peter Louis Simon† Deepender SinghPrat Tanapaisankit
* Jyun-Ze Tao* Aniket L. Thakor* Richard T. TuscanoPamela Ukpoma
* Ankit Y. Veragiwala
Vaibhav Ashok VichareSandeep VisveswaranIzumi WakamatsuChristopher DeEllis Wamble
*Manisha Wattal* Scott Christopher Williams* Brian WippichChui-Mei Wong
† Lei Xu* Ke Yang*Mo Yang* Gordon YeungNermin Yildiz
* Jungwoo YouChi Ho Yu
* Aulia A. Yusuf
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYADMINISTRATION ANDSECURITY
Timothy L. Gonzales
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INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM
MATERIALS SCIENCE ANDENGINEERING
* Qianqian Guan
Chao LiShangshangMu
MASTER OF SCIENCE
*WeiWang
CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREES
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
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CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREES
NEWARK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
JacquelinW.AbdelmalekJersey City
* Gutenberg D.AhimonMontvale
Mustafa H.AlqudahRutherford
Carlo T. BaylosisSummit
* Theresa L. BenonyUnion
MarkAndrew BirosNewark, DE
Joshua S.DelshadUnion
* Kathleen E.DeRosaEast Hampstead, NH
Kushal Gordhan DudhatNorth Bergen
† Navin DusejaEdison
Chinedu EzebuirohPiscataway
* Paola Fernandez-BricenoLong Branch
Rozalin Ramzi GrisJersey City
KetanMohan GujarathiBelleville
Stephen HrindoLinden
Crystal R. KaniaLivingston
* Bogumila SwietekGarfield
Mariya Shabbir TohfafaroshHackensack
Jimit JayeshVyasEdison
Aaron JacobWeyEast Brunswick
PeterWongNorth Brunswick
MariamM.YanniJersey City
* JumanahYasminOrange
Matthew S.YoussefBayonne
Adrian ZielinskiParamus
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Martina Abd-El-MassehBayonne
Khaldoon E.Abu-HakmehLyndhurst
Shivang B.AdhyaruBloomingdale
Ingy Ezzat AhmedNewark
Babajide Ayotola AkeredoluNewark
Andrea C.AlcaldeNewark
† Asif AlliKissimmee, FL
* Zohra KhanEastWindsor
* Ariel LippmanPassaic
Zubair Shabbir LokhandwalaBridgewater
JessicaMavadiaEdison
Khaja Adil MohiuddinBergenfield
Srihari MummidiEast Brunswick
MalihaMuneerJersey City
* Avani P. PandyaJersey City
Meet D. PatelJersey City
Steffen A. PharaiKearny
* Sung Ting PoCloster
Andrew P. RocheHillside
* Rimi SahuBelleville
JosephA. SassoAvenel
Munish ShahGalloway
Prachi ShahOld Bridge
* Bishoy SidhomEast Brunswick
Alan SinghWayne
Maciej SprychaWallington
† — August 2009 graduates* — January 2010 graduates
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Elijah AmarhNewark
AshishkumarManilal AminJersey City
Rasheid N.ArefPaterson
Carlo BadiolaUnion
Pablo BoteroParsippany
MaksimA. BurakhovichStaten Island, NY
Fabian CasteblancoSouth Plainfield
Shankha B. ChaudhuriParamus
Mara F. CrespoCarteret
Vinh Q.DangRoselle
Chetna Deepti EngineerJackson
Antoni GergesJersey City
MinaM.HannaBayonne
Chelise A.Hutchins-GraySouth Plainfield
SimonHuynhBridgewater
Fangzhou JinEdison
AlexVarghese JohnSpring Valley, NY
Razmenka LazoroskaGarfield
AlexanderMarkouToms River
RamyWilliamMarzoukJersey City
Monica AnnMaslowskiWayne
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Talal A.AbdallaJersey City
VincentM.AdamoMiddletown
† Bertha Solange AlfaroTotowa
Frank C.ArmstrongWaldwick
Muhammed S.AssalBelleville
* Maxemous G.AtallaJersey City
† Gary AubainLakewood
* Nizamettin AvciRutherford
MoradAwadClifton
Fred P. Beaudry IIISouth Amboy
Syed Ali Mohamed BilgramiGalloway
Jacqueline Sarah BunnerRaritan
John Francis CasellaHackettstown
David James ChewLafayette
Jean Junior DavilusEast Orange
* Emre DemirelHasbrouck Hts
Hitasha Ramesh DevnaniEdison
Kati R.DiRaimondoColonia
BryanM. EhnesRoselle Park
ShadyMassoudDayton
* TariqMoujtahidJersey City
Mayur BalkrishnaMundadaHackensack
RandyMurilloElizabeth
Sanga TekouMutahBelleville
SilvanaM.OrtizElizabeth
† Viral H. PanchalParlin
AnupV. PatelNewark
* Bhavita A. PatelJersey City
UrvishM. PatelJersey City
Nicholas Pasquale PersicoPlainsboro
Lekshmi Kandh PillaiWest Orange
Jonathan Raul RegoSpringfield
Fernando RivasNewark
Roger Oscar SaezPassaic
Paul J. SaporitoNewMilford
Nilay ShahDover
Deepika SinghEdison
* Sharon Rose ThigpenNewark
Gerardo TolentinoPlainfield
Edwin J.Walker Jr.New Brunswick
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XXX
Christopher Basim ElmasriJersey City
Omeed EntezarianHackensack
* Thomas P. FarinaNew Hyde Park, NY
* Anthony J. FelicettaPompton Lanes
Ross FloresBelleville
Christopher J. Forte-McRobbieSomerset
Manuel Fraga IIIKearny
Botamina B.GemianMilltown
* Samantha GonzalesClifton
* Michael GreendykNorth Haledon
Myles GuilfordEdison
† ChristopherMichael HannaAndover
* Chet R.HarriganBloomfield
† Alvaro HernandezNewark
* Phillip Robert InceUnion Beach
Asadullah JamaliNewark
Vanessa E. JorgeCarteret
Joseph C. JuzwinLanding
* Andrew J. KelemenMontvale
Piotr Krzysztof KurconHarrison
David LamNorthfield
* Navid RahmanPrinceton Junction
Ashley Jean RalstonNorth Plainfield
Marc K. RaoulNeptune
* Anis Khalaf RawashdehRutherford
† Juan D. RestrepoBergenfield
* Nelson R. RiveraNorth Bergen
Tiago F. RodriguesFords
Umar SaeedParlin
Faraz SafaieClifton
* Sorie SankohNorth Plainfield
JosephWilliam SantorelliBarnegat
* Michael TimkoWharton
* Daniela TolovGarfield
Peter D. TomosWallington
JoshuaW.TookerSecaucus
Tien TranBelleville
† JonathanMunsodValonesTeaneck
Tyler C.VandervalkLincoln Park
* PiotrWiszowatyBayonne
Matthew RichardYoungOaklyn
* Mark Lawrence Tandoc ZamoraSuccasunna
* AbrahamA. ZhininLodi
Mildort LaroseNeptune
Paul R. LathamNew Egypt
Christopher LaurentAsbury Park
Carlos A. LopezNorth Bergen
AsharMahmoodHasbrouck Heights
Jamal SadiqMahmudLawrenceville
† Daniel J.MarraffiniWashington Twsp
Dennis Michael McVeighRiver Edge
Kyrillos M.MesehaJersey City
Derek AungMoldauerEdison
CarlosManuel MorenoPerth Amboy
* Harvy E.MorenoRahway
* TimothyM.O’BrienStewartsville
* Sean O’KellySayreville
Nancy Elizabeth OliverGalloway
Bassey O.OnyileNorth Brunswick
Moises Ariel OrbePaterson
Omotayo OyelajaLinden
† Dominic S. PassanitaHaledon
Digant G. PatelIselin
Hiral K. PatelParsippany
Krupesh D. PatelPiscataway
Niraj S. PatelIselin
Raymond L. PersaudNewark
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COMPUTER ENGINEERING
* Oluwashina K.AlohunNewark
AtahanAtayWestWindsor
Marian NoemanAzizBayonne
* Duarte BarreiroHarrison
Luis Felipe BustamanteWest New York
† Steven Gerard CaputoWestWindsor
John DritsasCliffside Park
JamesWalter DuDaskoLakewood
Jaime A. FernandezBelleville
* Clifford HilaireElizabeth
Christopher JaegerStockholm
AjenM.KansaraHillsdale
* Tezveer Singh KharaUnion City
* Eric S. KratkyUnion
† Cesar A.MartinezKearny
Edrian S.NuguidOrange
Raul E.NunezHaledon
JeaninaM. PerezWest Orange
Brian G. PeytonMilford
Mario Antonio PinedaWest New York
† Walter Eduardo PiscoyaCliffwood
Daniel Armando ChavezClark
KeonA. ClintonSomerset
* Kevin A. CoelhoMountainside
† Mitul GhanshyambhaiContractorJersey City
† Jigarkumar K.DoshiEdison
Moetaz F. El-SafadiPaterson
Moses O. FamakinwaNewark
* Kevin FlynnBurlington
Justus O. IwuOrange
Muhammad Ijaz KhanJersey City
Lukasz K. KonikUnion
Darryl E. LewisSecaucus
ChristianMichael LigaWhiting
Michael Carlo LipariClifton
* Boyi LiuChicago, IL
* Tomislav LucinFairfield
Thanh K. LyWest Orange
† Piotr L.MachockiClifton
Devraj MahidaWarren
SalmanHaider NaqviKearny
Kerolos NashedJersey City
Eric J. RiveraRiver Vale
Maurice RualesClark
* Omair SaeedKenvil
† Enrique Saro-NunezWarren
* Jaskiran SinghSouth Orange
* Yadwinder SinghLittle Ferry
Khrizel Brual SolanoKenilworth
† Khizar SultanSan Francisco, CA
Marc-Ian O.VictorioBelleville
AvneeshVigIselin
* HangWuHarrison
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
AhmedM.AbdelghafarElizabeth
* Russell M.AdamsBoonton
James AkinleyeIrvington
Lee AndersonMidland Park
KevinM.ArgentieriMilford
† Emad-Ul AsarJersey City
Mehmet Nuri AyyildizLyndhurst
Parashar Shivashanker BhattMatawan
* Michael B. BoulusLyndhurst
Reniery CevallosLinden
John ChaletBloomfield
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CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREESCDEGREES
XXX
† Chadwick NgMetuchen
Pius Osadolor OhenhenNewark
* OluwaseunA.OlarinreClifton
† Amaka C.OnyemekeihiaNewark
* Devin Jan PantilianoRidgefield Park
† Mitesh D. PatelRoselle Park
Priya J. PatelRockaway
Rujul S. PatelIselin
Robert J. PickelRiver Edge
* Scott A. PospishilWayne
† Julio L. ProanoPrinceton
* Diego QuintanaBerkeley Heights
Alexis Gerardo Quintero CastroBelleville
Dhiran J. RanaPassaic
Danny RiveraNewark
* Anshu SinghBelleville
Saurabh SinghNorth Brunswick
† Malik Adeyinka TelufusiIrvington
* Dana TomaszewiczOld Bridge
* Kevin A.VlietToms River
WeiWangHarrison
Senuka C.WeerahandiEdison
Carol SinclairBloomfield
† Richard T. TuscanoPrinceton Junction
MichelleWestonEast Orange
Concrete Industry ManagementTechnology Option
Leean R.OramaNewark
Construction EngineeringTechnology Option†Tom EnyimahAnsahHillside
Steven Paul BarberaWayne
Andrew Joseph BizubLake Hiawatha
* Andrew John BlissRockaway
* Sean ButlerSouth River
Charles Joseph BycroftBayville
MatthewV.CalogeraOld Bridge
Peter Anthony CampisiFairfield
Ivan A. CaviesesEastWindsor
* Peter CeckoParlin
MarcolmWhite ColemanIrvington
John Daniel DiFilippoScotch Plains
* Georgette DuCasseNewark
† MeghanMarie ElsmanWarren
Vincent J. GervasoniHamilton
ENGINEERING SCIENCE
MohamedAfifiWest Paterson
*Edmond K.ArmahTrenton
* Vimal AsokanWayne
Baheer HalimNewark
Joshua HenryIrvington
* Syed N.HussainPiscataway
Kirti Mary JosephFishkill, NY
† Gail M.Mc LeanBen Lomond, CA
* Louis A. RodriguezClifton
* HirshVardhan SinghLinwood
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
Computer Technology Option
MohamedM.AbdallatifClifton
Thomas J.AllnattNewark
Kevin Brian BowdenOak Ridge
* Christopher Robert CarlsonOakland
Jeffrey Neal CuttinoNewark
Christopher EarleNewark
Kenechi EgbunaBoonton
Abdelfattah HammadPaterson
Patrice K. JagooMorristown
* GoranMilovanovicTrenton
Mary E. RhodesPassaic
* Adrian SapunxhiuPalisades Park
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* Ciara Nicole HallYardville
† Timothy T. JonesMetuchen
Michael JukusSouth Amboy
Victor J. LindoPaterson
Richard J. LindsayWest Orange
MiroslawMazurAvenel
* Richard GeorgeMcleanPlainfield
* Salvatore L.MinerviniWaldwick
† Kofi OseiHillside
* Anuj N. PatelJersey City
Kelton PredestinEast Orange
Amy Lynne RondenaPort Reading
Matthew R. SeptakMonroe Township
Michael O. SilvestreNewark
* Derek R. SmithSouth Plainfield
* AndresVanegasPerth Amboy
Juan DavidVillamil OsorioMiddlesex
† JacquyVincentIrvington
Construction ManagementTechnology Option
Allan B. BernoskyRoseland
* ArchanaVasudevan ChettyWhitehall, PA
Silvestre Antonio CompresBloomfield
† Michael CorreaCarteret
* AntonioMoises CorzoSuffern, NY
* Amitkumar Thakorbhai DesaiSouth River
* Cheick DiarraTeaneck
Christopher J. EbreoOld Bridge
† Vadim ErgardtSpringfield
* Maximino FerreiraMonroe, NY
* Richard HastrupRandolph
Horane HenryOrange
Mostafa N.HigaziUnion
Paterson Jean-BaptisteOrange
Juan C. JonElizabeth
Emmanuel LiensUnion
Vinskey LouissaintLinden
Arfan E.MughalJersey City
Bhavik R. PatelEdison
† Biren D. PatelSecaucus
Jay PatelJersey City
Vincent CalabresiBloomfield
* Jesus David CastanoMorristown
* Nicholas GambinoRaritan
* MarioM.GuglielmoCliffside Park
Dimith GuillaumeElizabeth
Jeff KinieryBranchburg
Sadia OsmanParlin
Mariusz PiskorzParlin
Obaid Ur RehmanNewark
George J. RodriguezStaten Island, NY
Blaese A. RomanoPittstown
Christopher J. SanFilippoWest Hempstead, NY
† Raymond Joseph Tintle IIINewMilford
Nicholas Francis ZakashefskiHillsborough
Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology Option
Francisco Javier AgreloKearny
Ronal E.AguirreJersey City
* StephenAkoAyangBaytown, TX
* VitorM.AntunesKearny
Robert AugustynowiczColonia
Jonel BoullNeptune
* Frank B. CaloMendham
† Jesse J. ChangRahway
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CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREESDEGREES
XXX
Krunal J. PatelEdison
† Pinkesh PatelEatontown
† Pratik D. PatelSecaucus
* Smitkumar PatelHackettstown
* Kiel Salvatore PerrecaDenville
Jo-AnnM.QuevedoLinden
Fayez RahmanPaterson
† Anees Ur. RehmanNorth Plainfield
Rana Tanzeelur RehmanHarrison
† Roger St. FortHillside
* Artur StefaniakBayonne
* RuelVillahermosaUnion
WaleedWarradWeehawken
Timothy JamesWiersielisNew Brunswick
Manufacturing EngineeringTechnology Option† GouthamDassWashington
Winston Junior StewartGarfield
Mechanical EngineeringTechnology Option
BryanAndersonAndover
* Pierre Claudel Bien-AimeElizabeth
James P. Brady IIIWoodbridge
* Bryan K. BrouhardBudd Lake
Robert Adrian ThomasNewark
Ajay D. ThumarParsippany
* Kevin D. TrangoneParsippany
Carl VictorVentricelliLincoln Park
* Christopher J.VesperBranchville
* Alfred Hidrai YeseabLodi
JiheonYoonKearny
Surveying EngineeringTechnology Option
David Paul AguannoParsippany
* Sachdeep S.AroraPennington
† Mark C. BonzaniLong Valley
* Philip R.DemberLawrenceville
† AnthonyM.DevizioVerona
Giancarlo FricanoBridgewater
Michael Patrick KippJackson
* Messan Denagnon KonouTallahassee, FL
Andrew P. KubiakProspect Park
* LisaMarie PetersonProspect Park
JohnW. StewartCaldwell
Doriann L. BuzzettaPequannock
* Alexander CannaraRoseland
GinoAldo CarbajalKearny
† Kevin F.Daniel Jr.Oak Ridge
* Paul Robert DeRosaHopatcong
* Richard D. FerreiraColonia
† Dmitriy GrinbergSouth River
† Marshall L.HillNewark
Andy E. InnocentWest Orange
Jason Robert JawidzikMonroe Twp.
* RyanM. JohnsonSparta
Ji Hwan JungKearny
Philip LopesLivingston
Paul MakaruchaRahway
* BrianMcPeekSussex
RolyMedoisNewark
Caleb DeanMillerWharton
BrianM.NovakChatham
* Andrew E.OttoSouth Orange
Ankit A. PatelUnion City
Jason Paul PeachPort Murray
Edward Rodolfo SanchezUnion
Gregory P. SchemanEastWindsor
Jamieson Robert SimmsParsippany
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* David Bruce SwansonPhillipsburg
ChristopherM. TrebiskyMerchantville
AbrahamA. ZhininLodi
Telecommunications ManagementTechnology Option
JohnAbrahamBergenfield
† Wilex Nicolas AmboiseOrange
Dariel Gonzalez RodriguezUnion City
Alex NelsonWest Orange
ENVIRONMENTALENGINEERING
Natasha A.MatrunichPittston, PA
* Emil M. TarifeBelleville
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Julia Melissa BricenoCarteret
Marsha ChangClifton
* Patrick R. CussenGreat Meadows
Dudly DenotBethlehem, PA
John R.DessejourWest Orange
Dicknery DiazKearny
* RohamDowlatyariCranbury
* Etiime EbewoAvenel
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
*Uyiosa A.AbusomwanNewark
HemeH.AdlyBayonne
Raphael O.Nnamdi AkinseteNewark
* Nicholas JohnAlmeriniNorth Haledon
PatrickM.AlvaradoTrenton
† Bryce Henry AnzelmoLincoln Park
Erwin ArmijosWest New York
Bevnoty AttiaJersey City
* Arvin AutarJersey City
ImranAzizNewark
Eric Azim BacchusJersey City
* Rojan BanmaliBloomfield
Wali Christopher BarkerIselin
* Daniel P. BasileFreehold
Giovanny A. BedoyaBloomfield
Gregory Allen BendlEast Orange
* Vernon BentzNorthfield
* Kyle R. BognatzHackensack
* Atul GautamEastWindsor
Annacler Harris-BlevinParisppany
SolomonHeberGarfield
Jonathan JamesNewark
Alireza KariminiaElmwood Park
Reehana KhanMaplewood
Andrew C.KimLivingston
* Patrick Joseph KoscielnyClifton
Ovril MaddanNewark
† Ivan R.MartiFlanders
* Eric JohnMattessichDemarest
Rishi MehraEdison
Nancy N.NesheiwatWashington
* Anchung T.NguyenJersey City
Bhavik N. PatelJersey City
* Hanisha K. PatelWood-Ridge
Steven RibeiroElizabeth
* David RodriguezNewark
* Pratik A. ShahGalloway
† Carlo TogononBloomfield
AshutoshMicheal XalxoBelleville
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XXX
* Peter S. BoutrosJersey City
† Allan J. CabatuanHillside
Steven CaetanoNewark
JosephA. CaiolaEdison
Konstantin ChausMarlboro
† Alexander G. ChiangHillsborough
RalphMichael ChieffoMiddletown
Philip A. ClarkHillside
* Christopher John CsekeyHillsborough
Jefferson A. CuadraWest New York
Jamar K.DavisElizabeth
* ShawnM.DenningCranford
Jason Thomas DiPasqualeNewMilford
† Leanne B.DonlonBlairstown
* Sarah Ruth DwightRed Bank
* Michael EiblingConvent Station
† Khaled Z. El-BannaCranbury
Rachid J. ElkikFort Lee
Farqan KamalHarrison
John KimGlen Rock
Eric David KnorrMercerville
* Chris KolodziejWayne
† Hassan A. KrishtDearborn, MI
† Peter Carroll LaskarisWest Orange
* Christopher Thomas LepageOakland
Bo LiEdison
* Hui LinHarrison
* Mark Robert ListBloomfield
Patrick Anastas LiveseyNorthfield
Agostinho Sousa LivresBridgewater
† Joaquim LopesBloomfield
* Thomas F. LorysLinden
* KareemA. LoutfyCarteret
Christopher P.MacraeRandolph
Constantin NicoaraMateiescuPrinceton Junction
* Luis Carlos McReaNorth Bergen
* Leonardo R.MeraBloomfield
† Steve FariaPerth Amboy
† Benjamin S. FisherBrookside
Lawrence Alexander FranciscoPassaic
* RolandoAlberto GarciaAntunezLanding
* Jason J. GarciaWest New York
† AmgadA.GhalyJersey City
* Jonathan Stephen GrazianoBoonton
* Kirk GreenhouseMiddletown
Madonna N.HannaLodi
Christopher J. HatkeGreen Pond
Daniel Thomas HeimallSouth Amboy
Daniel S.HenriquesPerth Amboy
MichaelWilliamHetheringtonPort Monmouth
Muhammed Ehsanul HoqueNewark
Katrina Rachel HornsteinDuluth, MN
† Frederick K.HuangBloomingdale
* Robert J. HughesBrick
† Sameer S. JaffriEast Brunswick
* Jaeick JangPalisades Park
Jesse B. JesusKearny
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MateuszMichalecElmwood Park
† Aren RienaldoMillanMontclair
* JonathanMissonellieNewton
KilvinMitchell Jr.Dunellen
Ric A.MombayColonia
† Charles JonathanMondaltoHillside
* Kevin GeorgeMulliganRockaway
Tina Nadia NarineWest Orange
Gbandi NikabouNewark
* Michael John NolanJersey City
* Kevin Amenya NyamangororaEast Orange
David Olayiwola OladiranNewark
Aniel PadrinoSayreville
Salvatore F. ParisiMatawan
Ankur R. PatelParsippany
Andrew SuozzoOld Bridge
* Dawid SzastGarfield
Keivan Daniel TayebDumont
Andrew C. TomaselloBerkeley Heights
* Temitope Joel TowolawiRidgefield Park
† Joseph P. TrollWest Milford
Itoro O.UkpehNewark
* Thomas R.VegaGarfield
Harsh KaushikVyasBloomfield
Beata J.WecColonia
Liard N.WestonNorth Brunswick
Jaquoia TerlaneWorrellIrvington
† James R.YeagerUnion
John P. ZawisaFair Lawn
† Bhavin A. PatelJersey City
† Deepak PatelIselin
† Denish A. PatelJersey City
* Daniel R. PattersonOakland
* Brian R. PetersonEast Brunswick
Irvin Fan PhamRandolph
Davorin PiljicClifton
Edwin O. PimentelBloomfield
Partheepan RajaratnamEdison
* DavidW. SamuelCarteret
† Carlos E. SanchezKearny
* AnthonyVincent SforzaRahway
Daniel Peter ShabaNorth Haledon
John P. SheridanManchester
† Mithilsinh SisodiaClifton
* David SongPalisades Park
† Daniel Alexander StonkusMonmouth Junction
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COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Taiwo Oluwatosin AdelaniNewark
WilsonAldahondoNewMilford
Sarah AlmukhtarRidgewood
Jaime AlvaradoCarteret
* AdamAmelchenkoPoint Pleasant Beach
Laura A.AsaibeneElmwood Park
Ali AslamNutley
Cory AttardoToms River
AngelenaMarie BadilloRoselle Park
† DenaA. BaskousAnchorage, AK
Gregory BassielyFreehold
Christina Ann BelleroBrick
* Christopher BrandPompton Lakes
Walter D. P. J. BrandtVienna
Eric Thomas BuckleyColonia
* Jose A. CamachoDayton
† Gregory CaponePaterson
Alexander John CarlsonSparta
Evangeline ChenFair Lawn
Richard J. CichonAvenel
Miguel A. ClarosVerona
Erin R. CollinsCalifon
GaudencioMartinezWest Orange
Jennifer S.MasottiSouth Salem, NY
Jason J.MattisonDover
* Nicole J.MirabelliPhillipsburg
Zachary C.MongioviKenilworth
TanzelaMonsoorNewark
Cynthia L.MontalvanRahway
Christopher D.MorellaMontvale
Joshua D.MurphyNewark
Ronald Joseph Nametko Jr.Manchester
† Maria Alekseevna NosovaWest Paterson
Brian Daniel NovelloRockaway
Raphael Kwame NyameOgoeToms River
Caitlin PalamaraSummit
Rafael I. ParedesElizabeth
Heli Pinillos GonzalezNewark
AgnieszkaM. PregowskaBridgewater
Anthony E. PrinciottaWestWindsor
† Alfio F. RaciteWoodbury
† Julian Junior RamosClifton
Carlos A. RodriguezHope Lawn
Andrew P. CoslowBayville
JustinM.CostaHazlet
Marco G. CusumanoCranford
* Eugene F.DassingCaldwell
Anirudh R.DhawanRandolph
Thomas Joseph DoresUnion
Kristi Leigh DrakePilesgrove
* Dominique I. DuroseauIrvington
William Logan EsareyTuckerton
* Julius R. EscalonAllendale
Christopher H. FranciscoNewark
Candido S. GudeStaten Island, NY
* Frank John GurdakCliffside Park
James C.HagelsteinLumberton
Kim Samantha HarrisRandolph
TinaM.HolmesNewark
* Majed I. IsamailLinden
Jihoon KimRutherford
* Aung Thu KyawWoodside, NY
Jacqueline LamMarlboro
* JamesMichael LopesElizabeth
Andrew L. LopezNewark
EnkelaMalellariLodi
AimeeMarianoNewMilford
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NEW JERSEY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREES
XXX
† Dominick Antonio RodriguezPrinceton
* Raquel RomeroBelleville
AlyssaMarie RoselliniTowaco
David J. RosenbaumWest Orange
† Erin Christine RossWayne
Fabian A. SaaNewark
ThomasWilliam SanquiniBrick
Jay TsaiHillsborough
* Adam F.ValenzuelaRidgefield Park
Ryan E.ValeseOcean
* JosephM.VivinoWayne
Hugh F.WetheredMontville
Christopher C.WhitleyPitman
Shawntel Marie YoungBrownington, VT
Jonathan Jacob SchaierFair Lawn
Jennifer L. SchmittRidgefield Park
StephenW. SchreyerEast Brunswick
* James Richard SchulenburgBasking Ridge
Peter J. SodermanParamus
Ryan Patrick SutherlandHarrisville, RI
AllanM. SylvesterHowell
JonathanM. TiongkoRochelle Park
Carmela Rosa TripodiMoonachie
Jair I. AlavaNewark
ChristopherM. BossaFreehold
† WalterW.ChitaAllendale
Carolyn CohenWhippany
Omar CorderoClifton
Alvaro DelgadoPaterson
* Lorin N.DiazGlassboro
† Ely DuranPassaic
* Lisa EdwardsEwing
* Nivien A. EltarraniMahwah
Alaine Anjelica FairweatherOcean
† HuyNguyen-DinhWest Hartford, CT
Loraine L.ObelloNewark
* Nelson Oswaldo ParadaBloomfield
Brian Edward PersaudJersey City
* Rachel F. PinnelasManalapan
† Pawel M. PregowskiBridgewater
Ray SalehBasking Ridge
* Matthew E. SassoNewark
* Cesar A. SerratoLinden
† AlesiaVictoria TrailStony Point, NY
* EmmaM.VinskiBridgewater
Dillon Andrew FernandoMonroe Township
Ivan O.GarciaHasbrouck Heights
Emily GranadenoNewark
† DesmondD.HayesLindenwold
Jonathan HincapiePaterson
AdnanHussainPaterson
Vasilios A. KalavrouziotisCherry Hill
Daniel R. KinsleyPearl River, NY
Zachary T. KnightOxford, PA
Michael R. LawsonLake Hiawatha
† Michael MudrykEastWindsor
Andres F.NaranjoBogota
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE
Brian E. BorjaAvenel
James Scott Miller Jr.Piscataway
Allen Brian CatbaganJersey City
Reina L. GonzalezNorth Bergen
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
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CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREES
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND LIBERAL ARTS
APPLIED PHYSICS(Degree conferred jointly by NJITand Rutgers-Newark)Matthew R.C.AlbanoLodi
† Christopher Jonathan DalyDumont
* David Alexander GamarraClifton
† Naomi HauserWest Orange
John F. King Jr.Milford, DE
* Dhvanit MehtaEdison
* MatthewMonacoWest Caldwell
David E. RodriguezHarrison
DavidW. SuttonMarlboro
BIOLOGY(Degree conferred jointly by NJITand Rutgers-Newark)
*AnnaM.CastroHillside
Freeha Zahid ChaudhriJersey City
Joseph HannaJersey City
Katelyn Elizabeth KrynskiMiddletown
Ling LinHarrison
Swathi ManchikantiEdison
Royce ThomasMathewSyosset, NY
BharathMittapalliParamus
Natasha PandyaHasbrouck Heights
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE(Degree conferred jointly by NJITand Rutgers-Newark)Joseph R. CorbettSouth River
* Carlos A. GarciaWest New York
* Janani RamkumarPlainsboro
Diana L. ReyesHarrison
MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
* Matthew R.C.AlbanoLodi
* Karina L.AliagaLodi
Michael J. BellanichSouth Amboy
Phillip Derek BowdenWyckoff
* Temitope J. BrothersonHackensack
PauloMiguel CarlosCarteret
Fatima S. ElgammalWayne
Steven ElliottNewark
† Brian EmmanuelKearny
† Nadia A.GriffithsEast Orange
Jiaying Kary HeKearny
Kyle J.McCarthyCollingswood
Samil Madhusudan PatelPiscataway
Katie PiekielskiAtco
Scott John RietzeNewark
Zehra S. SadiqMount Laurel
Bhakti H. ShahHighland, NY
Monali ShahRockville, MD
Kiran G. ThomasWest Caldwell
KanWangAtlantic City
CHEMISTRY
Janaki ChandawallaAvenel
Mavis DennisJersey City
Alexander GurvitsColonia
* Veronika KharivSmithville
Yanal MerzaProspect Park
* Raymond J. SchweikertLakewood
* Dhwaniben Pravinkumar ShahParsippany
COMMUNICATION
SandyY.AwadWest Paterson
Christian D. CarrilloNorth Plainfield
† Elizabeth ChangParsippany
* Michael J. FerrughelliBelleville
* Katherine Rada HepfingerMason ,OH
* Glennis Sherefer Ray-JordanJersey City
Jeffrey David SciuecheMorganville
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREES
XXX
BIOLOGY(Degree conferred jointly by NJITand Rutgers-Newark)IkennaY.AchebeIrvington
Meena AladdinWayne
WagdiW.AssarWallington
Alex BritoHillside
David A. CentrellaHawthorne
SameepYogesh ChandraniPlainsboro
Charles EliasWest Caldwell
Amir S. FakhrzadehEast Brunswick
Tanima GangopadhyayJersey City
EvelynM.GonzalesNewark
† Michelle Mary JacobCloster
Anoop G. JosephNutley
Jane L. KimNewark
Eric LinMarlboro
NidaMahmoodHamilton
HISTORY(Degree conferred jointly by NJITand Rutgers-Newark)MarkA.DulayPassaic
MarkA. EspinosaNewark
Samelin S. FenelusIrvington
Michael F. GeorgiEast Brunswick
Andrew John KaczurAvenel
Brian Patrick LordMiddletown
* Silvia M.MendesUnion
† Michael Shawn SullivanBellmawr
Hala A. TahaWatchung
Michael C.WoyceEast Rutherford
Angela G.YeungEdison
Susie MegallaEast Brunswick
DivyaMirchandaniRutherford
Trushna N.MistryEast Hanover
MohammadN.NajibClifton
Urvashi J. PanditKendall Park
† Ashley A. PathickalTeaneck
Aleena Syed SabzwariFranklin Park
Noor SalamWarren
Ammar F. SaymehOld Bridge
* Mira Bhargav ShahPiscataway
Prapti Dipak ShahNorth Brunswick
† Razina E. ShiliwalaEdison
Bicky C.VettichiraYonkers, NY
Carmela J. ZoccaliClifton
COMMUNICATION
OluwaseunAladeseNewark
Kathryn LeeWightonWarren
Catherine N.MorrisonBloomingdale
† Falak NazClifton
Aminur RahmanKearny
Sandeep SinghCarteret
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY ANDSOCIETY
Atira GeorgeTeaneck
Mamaille Maille MainaMontclair
Brittney E.WalshHarrison
* Toai Dinh TranRockaway
Henry TsangGuttenberg
John Emmanuel Limon UmaliJersey City
Robert PatrickVellaOcean
Maria G.VictorUnion City
† Victor S.WahbaNorth Bergen
JingYuanBasking Ridge
BACHELOR OF ARTS
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CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREES
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
†Akbar ShamoonAhmadHighland Park
Arnel E.AlerteEastWindsor
Kyle J.AlvarezWest Orange
Alexander AmayaCliffside Park
* Michael A.AmegashieNewark
* Jose A.ArroyoNewark
Dimitri Anthony AthansWoolwich
† Christopher J. BacqueUnion Beach
* Edmund S. BannerEdison
* Alison T. BaumlinMonroe Township
Daniel O. BautistaPhillipsburg
Gregg E. BeckettStaten Island, NY
CharlesW. BellHaleiwa, HI
† Adrian R. BenjaminEast Orange
Michael BentoElizabeth
Michael A. BernardoSaddle Brook
† Rosalind BestOrange
* Sybrina C. BlissettSouth Orange
Sleiman BoulosHackettstown
Audrey BrittonWest Orange
† Andrea ButlerEdison
† Quaison David CarterTeaneck
Tanima ChaturvediFreehold
Jay D. KshatriyaLodi
Christa L. LapinigJersey City
* AlanM. LaQuagliaBloomfield
Oneeka Shandel LarocqueBelleville
† Amy LimRutherford
* Johnny LiuWayne
Sijia LiuEast Brunswick
Samuel F. LombardiNewark
Moussoukoro LyJersey City
† JasonMaengCherry Hill
Erik PerMagnussonNewark
Karen J.MarquesNewark
Jennifer MarquezBloomfield
* Jaclyn Brett McCaffreyBronx, NY
* Matthew F.MelodyUnion
Scott R.MilewskiFanwood
Mehrvish P.MirzaEdison
Spiro J.MolfetasWaldwick
AntonioMontuoriBloomfield
Carla NarvaezNewark
Erastus K.NdiranguLincoln Park
Louis NotoGarfield
Kehinde O.OyelolaRoselle
TaiwoA.OyelolaRoselle
† Mei Hua ChenEgg Harbor Township
Cosmin Lucian ChiujdeaNewark
Robert E. ColonNetcong
* Parthiv K.DalalJersey City
Philip Joseph D’AmoreWest Orange
Grismarie EchevarriaNewark
* Ryan Leonard EngEast Brunswick
Vanessa EngRidgefield Park
StephenAndrew EricksonEmerson
Miguel FarinasRidgefield
Veronica Giannine FranciaClifton
* Shahida GarnerWest Orange
* GaryWayne GarrisLedgewood
Marco L. GasparKearny
Tejpal S. GrewalWarren
Clarily GuzmanPerth Amboy
† Khalil H.HamiltonJersey City
† James Jeungho HanEastWindsor
* Asher HashmiJersey City
* Christopher F.HulseIselin
Mohammed Elsayed IbraheimRoselle Park
Joshua JohnBayonne
† AnumKalimParlin
† David KimDemarest
* Elizabeth S. KreherEdison
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS
CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREES
XXX
Elizabeth PapanicolaouMontclair
† Christopher ParentiElizabeth
Darshan Kanti PatelPlainsboro
Kevin P. PatelSouth Plainfield
Mannan B. PatelVoorhees
† Carlos Eduardo PerezCranbury
Mark T. PerezTeaneck
Osvaldo PerezClifton
JeffreyWilliam E. Pierik-PagePlainfield
Cornelius Babatunde PopoolaNewark
Christopher D. RainesWest Orange
SoniaM. RealNewark
Daniel Herbert RichardsonJersey City
Anthony Barnes TunneroFlemington
Dhiraj VermaWarren
† Roger C.WangEast Brunswick
Gustav RagnarWarfvingNewark
* Herman F.WongHolmdel
Kevin Z. XiaoParsippany
MengchenYangHarrison
YuenYeeYeungKearny
SylviaVernaYoungNewark
Daniel James ZalinskyClark
Nathalie ZapataFair Lawn
* Xiaofei ZhaoMarietta, GA
Omar B. RimawiClifton
Brian L. RussellNewark
* FaizM. SafdarMount Laurel
Ashley A. SalazarSayreville
* Marie SamsonSpringfield
Gerard Hinlo SantaMariaJersey City
Erica Lynn SchultzWildomar, CA
† Christian J. SeesWayne
Gunjan S. ShahPiscataway
† Nilesh ShahJersey City
Christopher ShimMontville
Parandeep SinghNorth Brunswick
Mark SolonkovichNewMilford
Dasa StanimirovicNewark
† MonimeWanciqueIrvington
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MANAGEMENT
Lailiane Christie LouzadaNewark
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
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CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREES
COLLEGE OF COMPUTING SCIENCES
BIOINFORMATICS
* WasayM.HussainBergenfield
* Hajira Zia NaqviPine Brook
COMPUTER SCIENCE† Michael A. BarbosaNewark
† Sean Arthur BarstowFair Lawn
* Kunal BatraMorganville
† Michelle BeduPaterson
Nicholas R. BelottiRed Bank
BryanM. BenauroBrick
Steven Lewis BossieNorth Potomac, MD
Ronica S. BrisbonMaywood
* EdwardV. ChervenyakClark
Sahil ChoudharyWayne
† Erik A. CokeleyHightstown
Christopher L. CoraNewark
Kelli Jo CuriottoLincoln Park
Matthew GenbergWanaque
† KrishnaMurty GullapalliSuccasunna
* Vahid HamidullahUnion
* Raul E. RojasPaterson
Daniel Vincent RoseBergenfield
* Nelly H. SantosoSewaren
Kelly Kathleen SharpeOld Bridge
* Isaac SimRidgefield Park
David A. Smith IIBoonton
* MohamadNeal Marvin SugirinOld Bridge
Nicholas A.VelezMetuchen
Georgios N. ZavolasElizabeth
HUMAN COMPUTERINTERACTION(Degree conferred jointly by NJITand Rutgers-Newark)Kevin C.McMorrowNorwood
* Luis SuarezPerth Amboy
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Anthony JasonAliceaBayonne
† Sokol BedeniClifton
Ravi ChaudharyNewark
HichamDayjaJersey City
Shadi Shafik EltoukhyFarmingdale
Richard ArmandHeddyFranklin
Christopher HukushiBrick
Johmar JohnsonKearny
James KimFort Lee
Eric R. KoppelRutherford
JoshuaM.KotzClifton
* Jerry LinSpringfield
John LinShort Hills
* Alfred LombardiNorth Bergen
Anthony Robert LopezEast Rutherford
Jose Antonio Lozada GonzalezTrenton
* Michael JonMarks Jr.Browns Mills
JasonMartinToms River
* Nicole A.McKoyMatawan
Ricardo J.MercadoWest New York
Ryan JosephMetzgerToms River
† Daniel JohnMizerakGlen Burnie, MD
* Krishnapriya K.ModhColts Neck
† HakimAbdullahMohammedEdison
Christopher Robert OchsOcean Grove
Boney PatelNorth Bergen
Jason D. PearsonRockaway
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
XXX
Devon Carl FaceySouth Orange
James A.GrateWestfield
† Antonio GutierrezJersey City
† Anastasiya KrikunEdison
Kimberly L.MarkNorth Plainfield
Jason X.MeierPiscataway
Rohan NigamEdison
* Fiorella N. PezantesPerth Amboy
DamianAnthony ScottNewark
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
*Neil Edward AbadieSouth Amboy
Sharath S.AbrahamBogota
Edbert JohnAguilaClifton
† Jacob AgyemangNewark
* Michael AlfredoColonia
Tyler A.AutenMontville
† Drew BakkeRandolph
MauriceV. BestEast Orange
KevanM. BhattBelleville
* Jonathan R. BondocJersey City
† Daniel J. CamaroteMatawan
* Steve A.HogarthNeptune
David Charles HollOld Bridge
* JasonM. IannelliWashington Twp
Bilal KhanPompton Lakes
Marjan Hamid KhanNutley
† Charles D. KimEdison
* Adriaan KlaassenHoboken
* Sandra E. LafayetteNew Brunswick
Christopher E. LeeLincoln Park
Jeffrey Thomas LiuLivingston
Hector Lopez-SilveroNewark
* ThomasM.MarraffiniWashington Twp
Pinank N.MashruwalaNorth Brunswick
AlexanderMedinaPassaic
BrunoMendezKearny
Christopher A.MillerHawthorne
* Amber E.MorriseyFrisco, TX
Ryan Griffith NoonWyckoff
* Jose Luis Ortiz Jr.Irvington
Sahar OsmanParlin
† Michael Leonard PalumboRidgefield
* Jean C. CastroWest Orange
† Aaron Bolante CervasBelleville
Chuan-Wei ChangBridgewater
* Kok Jian CheahEast Brunswick
AbrahamChoEnglewood Cliffs
ChristopherWilliam ConnellyLake Hiawatha
* Christopher J. Conover IINewark
* JeremyAdamDamstromMaywood
* Jasmeen DhanoaLodi
† Brian Phillip DiefenbachCranbury
* KeithM. EppihimerMount Laurel
Jose L. EspinozaUnion City
Erica Anne FeldmanHillsborough
FilipeM. FerreiraUnion
Bryce D. FlorekHopatcong
* Brian Alexander ForgotsonClifton
Lilia Ibet GarayPaterson
Jaymin Piyush GoswamiJersey City
Sameer GovilMarlboro
Erica L. GugliemellaEdison
* Keith F. GuiraoElmwood Park
Glenn D.HanlonHopatcong
* Hansika HegdeOld Bridge
Kartheek A.HegdeOld Bridge
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CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREES
XXX
Paul L. ParadaWest Orange
Akash Dhiru PatelPennington
Kaushal PatelPine Brook
* Reginald Santera PiliHamilton
Jose Carlos RamirezWest Paterson
Davis H. RanaPassaic
* John RecineEdison
Robert Michael Reese IIMount Laurel
† James R. StumpSaddle Brook
* Brian SylvesterHowell
Robert John SzpilaFairfield
* Kostandinos TaburasFlemington
Andrew J. TolentinoGalloway
AaronAdamVanBlarcomAllendale
Kevin J.WagnonTinton Falls
† Prabhat Kiran ZutshiJersey City
* AnthonyM.RegoHackensack
* JosephM.RodriguezSpringfield
Adrian Jamil RogersPemberton
Vincent R. ScuorzoMarlboro
Luv K. ShahPiscataway
FormanMoore Shemeley IVDelran
* Vladimir SkorykHamilton
† Benjamin SmithNewark
Gary A. SmithMaplewood
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COMPUTER SCIENCE(Degree conferred jointly by NJITand Rutgers-Newark)
* JohnV. Bellone Jr.Tuckerton
* Ahmad F. FahmyClifton
† Imsuk KimFort Lee
Hyacinthe NkurunzizaPaterson
† Bharat SheladiaIselin
† RenonW. StewartClifton
RomelW.MontoyaBelleville
† Peter Busayo OderantiVauxhall
Shyam P.OzaBergenfield
Brian D. PiccoliLincoln Park
Tafari D.WalkerKenilworth
INFORMATION SYSTEMS(Degree conferred jointly by NJITand Rutgers-Newark)
* Peter M. BerndSwedesboro
* Dongho ChoiPrinceton
Francis Antredu CodjoeNorth Brunswick
* JohnM.GuirguisDayton
† Sherry Denise HamptonNewark
Matthew T. LuminosoUnion Beach
Felix AlbertoMontanezBayonne
JoaquinMontoyaLittle Falls
BACHELOR OF ARTS
ALBERT DORMAN HONORS COLLEGE SCHOLARS
Khaldoon E. Abu-HakmehUyiosa A. AbusomwanShivang B. AdhyaruBabajide Ayotola AkeredoluMeena AladdinOluwaseun AladeseMatthew R.C. AlbanoSarah AlmukhtarEric Azim BacchusCarlo BadiolaRojan BanmaliSteven Paul BarberaGregory BassielyKunal BatraMichael J. BellanichMark Andrew BirosAlex BritoJacqueline Sarah BunnerLuis Felipe BustamanteJoseph A. CaiolaFabian CasteblancoIvan A. CaviesesSameep Yogesh ChandraniSahil ChoudharyErin R. CollinsChristopher J. ConoverAndrew P. CoslowChristopher Jonathan DalyAnirudh R. DhawanKati R. DiRaimondoNavin DusejaBryan M. EhnesFatima S. ElgammalRachid J. ElkikSteven ElliottWilliam Logan EsareyChinedu EzebuirohAmir S. FakhrzadehErica Anne FeldmanMatthew GenbergMichael GreendykCandido S. GudeAlexander GurvitsVahid HamidullahGlenn D. Hanlon
Andrew P. RocheAdrian Jamil RogersDaniel Vincent RoseAlyssa Marie RoselliniZehra SadiqRimi SahuEnrique Saro-NunezJennifer L. SchmittBhakti H. ShahMonali ShahMunish ShahPrachi ShahAlan SinghDeepika SinghJaskiran SinghMithilsinh SisodiaMacie J. SprychaRyan Patrick SutherlandAleena Syed SabzwariMariya Shabbir TohfafaroshAndrew C. TomaselloHenry TsangJohn Emmanuel Limon UmaliTyler C. VandervalkBicky C. VettichiraAvneesh VigJoseph M. VivinoEdwin J. Walker Jr.Beata J. WecHugh F. WetheredAaron Jacob WeyChristopher C. WhitleyPiotr WiszowatyHerman F. WongPeter WongMichael C. WoyceHang WuMatthew S. YoussefAdrian Zielinski
Joseph HannaAnnacler Harris-BlevinRichard Armand HeddyHorane HenryMostafa N. HigaziClifford HilaireDavid Charles HollMuhammed Ehsanul HoqueKatrina Rachel HornsteinPhillip Robert InceJonathan JamesJesse B. JesusVanessa E. JorgeAnoop G. JosephJoseph C. JuzwinCrystal R. KaniaTezveer Singh KharaJane L. KimMichael R. LawsonEric LinJohn LinLing LinVinskey LouissaintKareem A. LoutfyNida MahmoodSwathi ManchikantiJennifer S. MasottiJessica MavadiaKyle J. McCarthySusie MegallaDivya MirchandaniAmber E. MorriseyCatherine N. MorrisonSalman Haider NaqviTina Nadia NarineLouis NotoBrian Daniel NovelloEdrian S. NuguidUrvashi J. PanditRafael I. ParedesKaushal PatelBrian R. PetersonSteffen A. PharaiKatie PiekielskiLekshmi Kandh PillaiAminur RahmanJonathan Raul RegoDiana L. Reyes
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HONORS DESIGNATION
Honors Scholar— graduate of the Albert Dorman Honors College
HONORS DESIGNATIONS
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Mohamed M. AbdallatifUyiosa A. AbusomwanDuarte BarreiroMichael J. BellanichLuis Felipe BustamanteReniery CevallosChristopher William ConnellyAmitkumar Thakorbhai DesaiJigarkumar K. DoshiMeghan Marie ElsmanKevin FlynnRolando Alberto Garcia AntunezJoseph HannaKatrina Rachel HornsteinMichelle Mary Jacob
Christopher Robert OchsLisa Marie PetersonLekshmi Kandh PillaiAdrian SapunxhiuBhakti H. ShahPrapti Dipak ShahJaskiran SinghMithilsinh SisodiaMariya Shabbir TohfafaroshAvneesh VigBeata J. WecAaron Jacob WeyHerman F. WongMatthew Richard YoungAdrian Zielinski
Jason Robert JawidzikAnoop G. JosephCrystal R. KaniaRazmenka LazoroskaChristian Michael LigaMichael Carlo LipariJeffrey Thomas LiuLailiane Christie LouzadaJessica MavadiaKyle J. McCarthySusie MegallaMatthew MonacoSanga Tekou MutahSalman Haider NaqviCarla NarvaezLouis NotoEdrian S. Nuguid
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MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Khaldoon E. Abu-HakmehFrancisco Javier AgreloDavid Paul AguannoBabajide Ayotola AkeredoluMeena AladdinOluwaseun AladeseBryce Henry AnzelmoFrank C. ArmstrongRobert AugustynowiczCarlo BadiolaGregory BassielyKunal BatraAlison T. BaumlinAndrew John BlissJames P. Brady IIIBryan K. BrouhardJoseph A. CaiolaDaniel J. CamaroteChristopher Robert CarlsonAllen Brian CatbaganDaniel Armando ChavezSilvestre Antonio CompresChristopher J. Conover IIMichael CorreaJefferson A. CuadraKati R. DiRaimondoRoham DowlatyariSarah Ruth DwightRachid J. ElkikSteven Elliott
Goran MilovanovicAmber E. MorriseyTariq MoujtahidBrian Daniel NovelloAniel PadrinoAkash Dhiru PatelBhavik R. PatelHiral K. PatelKaushal PatelKrunal J. PatelBrian R. PetersonKatie PiekielskiAminur RahmanAleena Syed SabzwariFaraz SafaieMatthew R. SeptakPrachi ShahJamieson Robert SimmsDeepika SinghArtur StefaniakDawid SzastAndrew C. TomaselloKevin D. TrangoneBicky C. VettichiraEdwin J. Walker Jr.Michael C. WoyceHang WuJumanah YasminJiheon Yoon
Vadim ErgardtWilliam Logan EsareyChinedu EzebuirohErica Anne FeldmanBryce D. FlorekMatthew GenbergMichael GreendykKrishna Murty GullapalliGlenn D. HanlonAnnacler Harris-BlevinHorane HenryMostafa N. HigaziMuhammed Ehsanul HoqueRobert J. HughesChristopher HukushiSyed N. HussainJesse B. JesusJoshua JohnMichael R. LawsonJohn LinLing LinAriel LippmanVinskey LouissaintKareem A. LoutfyErik Per MagnussonNida MahmoodJennifer S. MasottiBruno MendezMateusz MichalecCaleb Dean Miller
HONORS DESIGNATIONS
The following designations are based upon cumulative grade point averages achieved priorto the spring semester:summa cum laude— with highest praise magna cum laude— with great praise cum laude— with praisegrade point average 3.85 - 4.00 grade point average 3.65 - 3.84 grade point average 3.40 - 3.64
CUM LAUDE
Shivang B. AdhyaruHeme H. AdlyJacob AgyemangMatthew R.C. AlbanoKarina L. AliagaSarah AlmukhtarVitor M. AntunesMaxemous G. AtallaDimitri Anthony AthansEric Azim BacchusRojan BanmaliMichael A. BarbosaSokol BedeniMark Andrew BirosBrian E. BorjaPablo BoteroAlex BritoTemitope J. BrothersonFabian CasteblancoJean C. CastroSameep Yogesh ChandraniElizabeth ChangMarsha ChangShankha B. ChaudhuriCosmin Lucian ChiujdeaAbraham ChoDongho ChoiErin R. CollinsAndrew P. CoslowPhilip Joseph D’AmoreParthiv K. DalalJoshua S. DelshadPhilip R. DemberJasmeen DhanoaJohn Daniel DiFilippoNavin DusejaBryan M. EhnesFatima S. ElgammalCharles EliasStephen Andrew EricksonAmir S. FakhrzadehSteve FariaThomas P. FarinaRoss FloresVeronica Giannine FranciaLawrence Alexander FranciscoLilia Ibet Garay
Brian D. PiccoliReginald Santera PiliJo-Ann M. QuevedoAlexis Gerardo Quintero CastroJanani RamkumarAnthony M. RegoJonathan Raul RegoAnees Ur. RehmanAndrew P. RocheTiago F. RodriguesDominick Antonio RodriguezAdrian Jamil RogersDaniel Vincent RoseErin Christine RossZehra S. SadiqRoger Oscar SaezMarie SamsonEdward Rodolfo SanchezThomas William SanquiniPaul J. SaporitoDamian Anthony ScottForman Moore Shemeley IVCarol SinclairAlan SinghSandeep SinghMohamad Neal Marvin SugirinMichael TimkoRaymond Joseph Tintle IIIGerardo TolentinoDaniela TolovChristopher M. TrebiskyJay TsaiAnthony Barnes TunneroTyler C. VandervalkRuel VillahermosaJuan David Villamil OsorioJoseph M. VivinoVictor S. WahbaChristopher C. WhitleyTimothy James WiersielisPiotr WiszowatyPeter WongMengchen YangJing Yuan
Gary Wayne GarrisVincent J. GervasoniReina L. GonzalezCandido S. GudeAlexander GurvitsVahid HamidullahAbdelfattah HammadMadonna N. HannaMina M. HannaJiaying Kary HeRichard Armand HeddyHansika HegdeClifford HilaireSimon HuynhPhillip Robert InceTimothy T. JonesVanessa E. JorgeJoseph C. JuzwinAndrew J. KelemenTezveer Singh KharaVeronika KharivJames KimZachary T. KnightEric R. KoppelAnastasiya KrikunAndrew P. KubiakEric LinBoyi LiuAgostinho Sousa LivresAshar MahmoodMamaille Maille MainaEnkela MalellariSwathi ManchikantiKimberly L. MarkMiroslaw MazurKyrillos M. MesehaJames Scott Miller Jr.Bharath MittapalliCynthia L. MontalvanJoaquin MontoyaRomel W. MontoyaCatherine N. MorrisonTina Nadia NarineBrian M. NovakSilvana M. OrtizRafael I. ParedesDominic S. PassanitaBhavita A. PatelPinkesh PatelAshley A. PathickalJason Paul PeachFiorella N. Pezantes
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UNITED STATES AIR FORCE RESERVE CANDIDATE FOR COMMISSION
Daniel AmbrosePiero ArmenanteMichael A. BaltrushBasil BaltzisRobert BaratGolgen BenguMichael BieberAthanassios BladikasMarybeth BogerIsabel BraceroSylvana BritoBruce BukietMark BullockJames M. CalvinRong ChenNancy W. CoppolaRoy H. CornelyEugene DeessRichard W. EganRose FedericiAlexandra FileusAnthony Fiory
Elaine FrazierRichard GarberSol GlasteinJorge GolowaschRolanne HenryC.T. Thomas HsuWalid HubbiWilliam HunterDawn KlimovichBurt KimmelmanTalina KnoxLou KondicWalter KononKim KramerFrederick A. LittleNeil MaherMohamed MahgoubAlbert MartinezRobert MoranPriscilla NelsonCharles NievesGeorge W. OlsenBryan J. Pfister
Laramie PottsPaul RankyLynn RikerKaren RoachDaniel SalandJulian ScherAnthony W. SchumanJohn SchuringLaurent SimonCheickna SyllaGordon A. ThomasLeroy ThomasWilliam C. Van BuskirkZhi WeiGerald WhitmanJohn WigginsCyndi Wilson
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READERS
Janet BodnerCharles Brooks
John EganNorbert ElliotCarol Johnson
Robert LynchJerome Paris
MARSHALS
GONFALON CARRIERS
Newark College of EngineeringMaria Tohfafarosh
College of Architecture and DesignBrian Novello
College of Science and Liberal ArtsBhakti H. Shah
COMMISSION
Andrew Patrick Roche
School of ManagementLouis Noto
Albert Dorman Honors CollegeFatima Elgammal
College of Computing SciencesErica Feldman
AlumniSteven B. Saperstein ’84President, Alumni Associationof NJIT
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AWARDS
AWARDS EARNED FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN THEYEAR OF GRADUATION
American Council on Education NetworkScholarship for Undergraduate WomenMariya Tohfafarosh
Banerjee ScholarshipOvril Maddan
Bergmann ScholarshipOvril Maddan
Alvin Cohan ScholarshipAndrew Tomasello
Construction Roundtable ScholarshipBrian Novak
Dr. Allan R. Cullimore ScholarshipChristopher SanFilippo
Dendrite ScholarshipKimberly Mark
Frank L. Dimitri ScholarshipKyrillos Meseha
Dingler Foundation ScholarshipIkenna Achebe
Norma Eng-Wong Memorial ScholarshipKati DiRaimondo
EOP Mobil Engineers ScholarshipOvril Maddan
EOP Panasonic Annual ScholarshipIkenna AchebeOvril Maddan
Exxon-Mobil ScholarshipMavis Dennis
Dr. Saul K. Fenster Expectional StudentScholarshipSusie Megalla
Dr. Saul K. Fenster Innovation inDesign AwardGiancarlo Fricano
Greenberg Farrow ScholarshipCynthia Montalvan
Solaia Henderson ScholarshipJesse JesusAvneesh Vig
Hess Foundation Merit AwardEdwin Walker
Hopper ScholarshipJoseph Hanna
Gordon S. Kalley ScholarshipMarsha Change
Morton A. Kreitchman ScholarshipRobert J. Hughes
Madame Mau Outstanding Female EngineeringStudent Endowment AwardKate BoardmanLekshmi Pillai
McGowan Family ScholarshipLekshmi Pillai
Merek E & T ScholarshipDeepika Singh
Newark Bay ScholarshipIkenna Achebe
Newark College of EngineeringOutstanding Senior Award–Biomedical EngineeringMariya Tohfafarosh
Newark College of EngineeringOutstanding Senior Award–Civil & Environmental EngineeringMatthew Young
Newark College of EngineeringOutstanding Senior Award–Electrical & Computer EngineeringSalman Naqvi
Newark College of EngineeringOutstanding Senior Award–Engineering TechnologyVinskey Louissaint
Newark College of EngineeringOutstanding Senior Award–Mechanical & Industrial EngineeringPhong Pham
Newark College of EngineeringOutstanding Senior Award–Otto H. York Department of Chemical,Biological & Pharmaceutical EngineeringRazmenka Lazoroska
New Jersey Institute of TechnologyBoard of Overseers ScholarshipMariya Tohfafarosh
AWARDS
AWARDS EARNED FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN THEYEAR OF GRADUATIONNew Jersey Institute of TechnologyFaculty ScholarshipEric BacchusLuis F. BustamanteJoseph CaiolaKati DiRaimondoErica FeldmanJoseph HannKatrina Rachel HornsteinJesse JesusKimberly MarkSusie MegallaDivya MirchandaniZehra SadiqAndrew TomaselloJohn Umali
New Jersey Institute of TechnologyPresidential ScholarshipKatrina Rachel HornsteinTanzela MonsoorChristopher SanFilippoMariya TohfafaroshAvneesh Vig
New Jersey Outstanding ScholarsRecruitment Program ScholarshipErica Feldman
North Jersey American Institute ofChemical Engineers AwardPaul DupianoRandy MurilloLekshmi PillaiNicholas PersicoDeepika Singh
Omega Chi Epsilon Award–Chemical EngineeringRazmenka LazoroskaLekshmi Pillai
Otto H. York Department of Chemical,Biological & Pharmaceutical EngineeringDeepika Singh
William Paulus Jr. ScholarshipMarsha Chang
Pelson ScholarshipLuis F. Bustamante
Quasi Foundation ScholarshipIkenna AchebeHornae HenryAvneesh Vig
The Rosen Group Architecture DesignScholarshipCynthia Montalvan
Rufo Sanchez ScholarshipMarsha Chang
Saporito & Eckelmann Annual ScholarshipOvril Maddan
Schering-Plough ScholarshipKatrina Hornstein
Schoor DePalma & Canger GroupScholarshipKati DiRaimondo
Tartaglia Memorial ScholarshipJoseph Caiola
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GIFTS
IN RECOGNITION OF THE CLASS OF 2010
Proud parents, family and friends have recognized the accomplishments of individual membersof the Class of 2010. Gifts, in their honor, have been made to the university to provide supportfor future generations of graduates.
In honor of my sonOsagie Basil AgbohMagdalene Agboh
In honor of my sonOluwashina K. AlohunAdetutu Abdullah
In honor of my husbandGiovanny BedoyaLady G. Nunez
In honor of our sonCharles W. BellThe Bell Family
In honor of our sonAlexander M. CannaraKarmann & Lisa Cannara
In honor of our sonAlexander John CarlsonRon & Terry Carlson
In honor of our sonAllen Brian CatbaganMr. & Mrs. Danny Catbagan
In honor of my sonKevin CiszakJoanne Ciszak
In honor of our mom & wifeCarolyn CohenHutch, Kelly, Charlie, Matt, Sarah & Joe
In honor of my daughterDicknery DiazDinery DeHart
In honor of our sonAndrew Robert FeeneyCindy & Dan Feeney
In honor of our daughterErica Anne FeldmanThe Feldman Family
In honor of my sonRoss FloresRosalia Flores
In honor ofVincent J. GervasoniYour Family
In honor of our daughterRashi GrewalHarjeet & Kalwant Grewal
In honor of my wifeNirupama GuptaSurendra Kumar
In memory of the lateSmt. Shantr DevrSurendra Kumar
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In honor of our sonDavid Charles HollMr. & Mrs. Kevin Charles Holl
In honor of our sonPhilip LopesIsabel, Tony, & Mike Lopes
In honor of my sonJaime W. LópezElsa Lubina López
In of our son & brotherChristopher P. MacraeMom, Dad & Cori
In honor of our daughterAimee MarianoThe Family of Aimee Mariano
In honor of our sonEric NersesianMarie & Roy Nersesian
In honor of my husbandIvan PadrónElisandra Padrón
In honor of our cousinRafael I. ParedesMauricio, Luisa, Samuel & Sofia Paredes
In honor of our sonJamieson Robert SimmsMom & Doug
In honor of our sonJohn P. ZawisaGeorge & Adele Zawisa
In honor of our sonAdrian ZielinskiGrazyna & Wieslaw Zielinski
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IN RECOGNITION OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Members of the Class of 2010 have recognized the extraordinary people whose support hashelped them throughout their academic career. Gifts in their honor have been made to theuniversity to assist future students.
In honor of my momMagdalene AgbohOsagie Basil Agboh
In honor of my mom, grandfather & sisterCarmen Huancaya, Jose Huancaya, Zayda BalcazarRenzo E. Balcazar
In honor of my dad & momShivashanker & Bhanumati BhattParashar Bhatt
In honor of my husbandHarvey CohenCarolyn Cohen
In honor of my momMarie MooreDimith Guillaume
In honor of my wifeDelphine JonesBernard Anthony Jones
In honor of my fatherMuhammed Mushtaq MalikIkhlaq A. Malik
In honor of my mom, dad & brotherJanet, Michael & Casey McCarthyKyle J. McCarthy
In honor of my dadLetroy MedoisRoly Medois
In memory of momThe late Ruth MaruchaKevin A. Nyamangorora
In honor of my dadGeorge MaruchaKevin A. Nyamangorora
In honor of my wifeElisandra PadrónIvan Padrón
In honor of my mother & fatherElvira & Roberto RamirezJose Carlos Ramirez
In honor of my mom & dadHerman L. Richardson & Linda B. RichardsonDaniel H. Richardson
In honor of my momDingzhen FengXiaoying Wu
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Hon. Chris Christie (Ex-Officio)Governor of the State of New Jersey
Hon. Cory A. Booker (Ex-Officio)Mayor of the City of Newark
Kathleen Wielkopolski (Chair)Formerly of The Gale Company
Stephen P. DePalma, PE, ’72 (Vice Chair)Chairman and CEO (Ret.)Schoor DePalma, Inc.
Vincent L. DeCaprio ’72, PhD (Vice Chair)President (Ret.)Vyteris, Inc.
Philip K. BeachemPresidentNew Jersey Alliance for Action
Dennis M. BonePresidentVerizon New Jersey, Inc.
Peter A. Cistaro ’68Vice President (Ret.)Gas DeliveryPublic Service Electric andGas Company
Elizabeth (“Liz”) Garcia, PE, ’73Manager, Public AffairsInfineum USA, LP
Anthony J. Knapp Jr.Proprietor (formerly)Black Horse Restaurant Group
Mariel O’BrienAstronomy & Physics EducatorNewark Museum
Binay Sugla, PhDChairman and CEOMobile Matrix, Inc.
Derish M.WolffChairmanBerger Group Holdings, Inc.
BOARD OF OVERSEERS
Emil C. Herkert, PE, DEE (Chair)Chairman and CEO (Ret.)Hatch Mott MacDonaldInfrastructure and Environment
Charles R. Dees, Jr., PhD(President and COO of the Foundation)Vice President, University AdvancementNJIT
Henry A. Mauermeyer ’72, ’74(Assistant Treasurer and Secretary of the Board)Senior Vice President for Administration andTreasurer, NJIT
Robert A. Altenkirch, PhDPresident, NJIT
Richard S. Bowles III, PhDExecutive Vice President andChief Compliance OfficerMerck & Co., Inc.
Gabriel P. CaprioPresident and Chief Executive Officer (Ret.)Amalgamated Bank
Norma J. Clayton ’81Vice President of Learning,Training and DevelopmentThe Boeing Company
James J. Coleman, Jr., Esq.ChairmanInternational Matex Tank Terminals
Nicholas M. DeNichilo ’73, ’78President and COOHatch Mott MacDonald
Rodney L. Dickens ’85President, Allegheny PowerAllegheny Energy, Inc.
Carlos DominguezSenior Vice PresidentOffice of the Chairman and CEOCisco Systems, Inc.
Albert A. Dorman, FAIA ’45Founding Chairman (Ret.)AECOM Technology Corporation
Irwin Dorros, PhDConsultantDorros Associates
Jerome Drexler ’55, PhDChairman and President (Ret.)Drexler Technology Corporation
Caren L. Freyer-DeSouzaVice President, DirectorNew Jersey Governmental RelationsParsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc.
John J. Fumosa ’74Account ManagerSkanska USA
David C. GarfieldPresident (Ret.)Ingersoll-Rand Company
J. Robert Hillier, FAIAFounder, Hillier ArchitectureJ. Robert Hillier
Patrick J. McGowan ’88PresidentMcGowan Builders, Inc.
Raymond J. McGowan ’64Executive Vice President (Ret.)ExxonMobil Chemical Company
James G. MedeirosVice PresidentUnited Parcel Service
Vincent Naimoli ’62Chairman and CEOAnchor Industries InternationalChairman Emeritus/FounderTampa Bay Rays
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John J. NallinVice President (Ret.)United Parcel Service
George M. Newcombe ’69, Esq.PartnerSimpson Thacher & Bartlett
John H. Olson ’61, ’66Managing Director (Ret.)Northeast RegionMorgan Stanley
Veronica G. Pellizzi ’84Senior Vice PresidentBusiness SolutionsVerizon Communications
Robert D. Polucki ’66, Esq.Corporate Counsel and Secretary (Ret.)Ricoh Corporation
Louis E. PrezeauPresident and CEOCity National Bank of New Jersey
Teresa Truppi Prieto ’83General ManagerEngineered Coatings & Surface TechnologiesBASF Catalysts LLC
Thomas V. ReillyVice President and General ManagerTurner Construction Company
Philip L. Rinaldi ’68Private Equity InvestorPegasus Capital
John W. Seazholtz ’59Chairman of the BoardWestell Technologies
Donald H. Sebastian, PhDSenior Vice President forResearch and DevelopmentNJIT
Stephanie TonicSenior Vice PresidentWachovia Bank
Martin Tuchman ’62Chief Executive OfficerKingstone Capital 5
Michael A. WallExecutive Vice PresidentAccelerant Sales Group
Derish M.WolffChairmanBerger Group Holdings, Inc.
Victor A. Pelson (Emeritus)Senior Advisor (Ret.)UBS Warburg LLC
Joseph T. Welch III ’62 (Emeritus)Division President (Ret.)BD
UNIVERSITY OFFICERS
Robert A. Altenkirch, PhDPresident
Henry A. Mauermeyer ’72, ’74Senior Vice President for Administrationand Treasurer
Donald H. Sebastian, PhDSenior Vice President for Researchand Development
Joel Bloom, EdDVice President for Academic and Student Servicesand Dean, Albert Dorman Honors College
Charles R. Dees, Jr., PhDVice President for University Advancement
Theodore Johnson, PhDVice President for Human Resources andExecutive Director of Compliance, Trainingand Community Relations
Henry J. Ross, PhDChief of Staff, Office of the President
Holly Stern, JDGeneral Counsel
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HISTORY OF NJIT
The New Jersey Institute of Technology that weknow today has a rich history with its beginningsdeveloping from the industrial age. Like many ofthe port cities around the world, the Newark ofthe late 19th century was a thriving industrialcenter. Its factories churned out thread, metals,paints and leather goods. In Newark, ThomasEdison set the stage at his Ward Street factory forhis later astounding achievements, and Edisonrival EdwardWeston established the first factoryin the United States for commercial productionof dynamo electric machines.
On March 24, 1880, the Essex CountyAssemblyman in the state legislature introduced“An Act to Provide for the Establishment ofSchools of Industrial Education.” The NewarkBoard of Trade sponsored the bill. The Actestablished three schools of industrial educa-tion: one in Newark, one in Trenton, and one inHoboken. The first Board of Trustees met on July1, 1884. The Newark Technical School opened onMonday, February 9, 1885 with 88 students whoattended despite a terrible snowstorm.
The first class, mostly evening students, attendedclasses in a rented building at 21 West ParkStreet. Soon the facility became inadequate tohouse an expanding student body. To meet theneeds of the growing school, a second fund-raiser—the institution’s first capital cam-paign—was launched to support the construc-tion of a dedicated building for NewarkTechnical School. In 1886, under the leadershipof the school’s dynamic first director, Dr.Charles A. Colton, the cornerstone was laid atthe intersection of High Street and SummitPlace for the three-story building later to benamed Weston Hall in honor of the institu-tion’s early benefactor. A laboratory building,later to be called Colton Hall, was added to thecampus in 1913. Daniel Hodgdon served as thedirector of Newark Technical School from 1918to 1920.
Under Dr. Allan R. Cullimore, who led theinstitution from 1920 to 1949, the modestNewark Technical School was transformed intothe robust Newark College of Engineering.Campbell Hall was erected in 1925. During thelean years of the Depression and World War II,only the former Newark Orphan Asylum, nowEberhardt Hall, was purchased and renovatedby the college.
The post-war period was one of enormousactivity during which President Cullimore—liketoday’s post-Cold War university presidents—challenged the college to turn “war-time think-ing into peace-time thinking.” In 1946, about 75percent of the freshman class had served in thearmed forces. Robert W. Van Houten was actingpresident of NJIT from 1947 until 1950 whenthe board of trustees named him president.Cullimore Hall was built in 1958 and two yearslater the old Weston Hall was razed and replacedwith the current seven-story structure. Doctorallevel programs were introduced and six yearslater, in 1966, an 18-acre, four-building expan-sion was completed.William Hazell succeededDr. Van Houten as president of NJIT in 1970.
In 1973, with the addition of the New JerseySchool of Architecture, the institution hadevolved into a technological university, empha-sizing a broad range of graduate and under-graduate degrees and dedication to significantresearch and public service. A stronger-than-ever Newark College of Engineering remainedintact, but a new university name—New JerseyInstitute of Technology—signified the institu-tion’s expanded mission.
A broadened mission called for the creation ofa residential campus and the opening of NJIT’sfirst dormitory, Redwood Hall, in 1979 began aperiod of steady growth that continues today.Under the leadership of Saul K. Fenster, whoserved as president of NJIT from 1978 to 2002,two new schools were established at the univer-sity during the 1980s, the College of Scienceand Liberal Arts in 1982 and the School ofManagement in 1988. The Albert Dorman
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Honors College was established in 1994, andthe College of Computing Sciences was createdin 2001. In 2008, New Jersey School ofArchitecture was reconstituted as the College ofArchitecture and Design.
Today, with its four-pronged mission ofeducation, research, service and economicdevelopment, the university plays a critical rolein shaping New Jersey’s future. As a majorpublic technological university, NJIT is animportant conduit through which technologyflows into society.
University researchers seek new knowledge toimprove processes and products for industry.Through public and private partnerships andeconomic development efforts, the universityhelps to grow new business ventures that fuelthe economy. NJIT’s research program isamong the fastest-growing in the nation andranks among the top ten technological univer-sities in the nation for research expenditures.
The university’s extensive community outreachand economic development programs includethe Enterprise Development Center (EDC),New Jersey’s first and largest small-businessincubator—one of the top 25 in the nation—focusing on high-technology companies andminority-owned businesses.
NJIT has been designated a Center of AcademicExcellence in Information Assurance Educationby the National Security Agency.
As the state’s Homeland Security TechnologySystems Center, NJIT serves as a consultant fortechnology evaluation and develops prototypesof integrated homeland security systems fortesting, demonstration and training. The Centerfocuses on areas already identified by the federalgovernment as vitalto national security: intelli-gence and warning, border and transportationsecurity, protecting critical infrastructure and keyassets, emergency preparedness and response,and defending against catastrophic threats anddomestic counter-terrorism.
NJIT’s educational programs prepare studentsto be leaders in the technology-dependenteconomy of the 21st century. Our educationalprograms grow out of a century-long traditionof academic excellence, and our student body isone of the most diverse in the United States.Ninety-eight percent of NJIT’s full-time facultyhold the terminal degree for their field. Theuniversity’s faculty:student ratio is 1:13.
NJIT is ranked in the nation’s top tier of nationalresearch universities, according to the U.S. NewsandWorld Report’s 2009 Annual Guide toAmerica’s Best Colleges.U.S. News also namedNJIT the nation’s seventh most diverse institutionof higher education and 19th in the nation amongthe most popular national universities based onyield rate. According to Forbes.com,NJIT ranksamong the nation’s 25 “most connected” campuses.The Princeton Review named NJIT among thenation’s top 25 campuses for technology and as oneof the nation’smost environmentally responsiblecampuses. In a study by Academic Analytics,NJIT was tenth among research universitiesspecializing in science, technology, engineeringand math based on faculty scholarly productivity.In addition,Diverse Issues in Higher Educationranks NJIT among the nation’s leading schools forgraduating minority engineering and computerscience students.
NJIT’s goal for the next decade is to be recognizedas a top-ranked public research university, as anational leader in the education of underrepre-sented groups for the technological professions,and as a catalyst for a healthy New Jersey economy.
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TRADITION OF COMMENCEMENT
he pageantry and tradition of college anduniversity commencement ceremonies
originated more than 800 years ago in medievaluniversities of Europe.
These early universities were bodies or guilds ofstudents who took their name from the Latin worduniversitas,meaning a number of persons associat-ed into one guild or community. These guilds werededicated to the mastery of the arts and sciences.The master’s or doctoral degree denoted full mem-bership in the guild and admitted the recipient tothe practice of teaching. The bachelor’s degree, onthe other hand, originally indicated only that therecipient had entered a course of study leading tothe doctorate or master’s. Later, the baccalaureatecame to signify the completion of one level ofstudy preparatory to higher degrees.
The term “commencement,” which means begin-ning, originally referred to the occasion on whichthe student received the master’s degree and “com-menced” his career. Today, however, all levels ofdegrees are conferred at commencement.
Academic caps, gowns and hoods developed grad-ually from the long flowing robes that the teacherswore to protect themselves from the cold of themedieval buildings. As the scholars of the timewere usually clerics, their robes differed little fromthose used by the church orders. Slowly, certainstyles were designated for the universities, andthese, with minor modifications, are the costumesworn today. Hoods were originally fashioned afterthe monk’s cowl. The cap, with its tassels, evolvedfrom the skull caps of the scholar-monks. InFrance, where the degree system probably began,wearing the cap and gown marked the formaladmission of the student to the body of masters.
Today, academic regalia is standardized by theAmerican Intercollegiate Code.
In the United States it is traditional for academi-cians to wear the gown and hood of the universitywhere they received their highest degree.
The gowns of bachelor’s and master’s degree can-didates are usually without trimmings, whereasthose for the doctoral degree are faced down thefront with velvet and adorned with three velvetbars on the sleeves. The hood, a triangular fold ofcloth worn over the back of the gown, is faced withcolors which signify the field of study in which thedegree is earned. The colors of the lining are thoseof the college or university which granted thedegrees. The length of the hood increases witheach higher degree.
The cap may be the stiff-crown style (mortar-board), or the soft tam. The tassel for bachelor’sand master’s is black or color appropriate to themajor; those of doctor’s are black or golden. Thetassel is worn on the left side by those who havereceived a degree.
These colorful traditions culminate today in theacademic procession and the commencement cere-mony itself. They carry with them the splendorand majesty that is properly associated with such ahappy and important occasion and help remind usof the long tradition of higher education.
THE MACE
The mace, used today as a symbol of authority,also dates back to medieval times when it was usedfor an offensive weapon. Made wholly or partly ofmetal, and often spiked, it was used especially forbreaking armor.
In time, it became a staff borne by, carried before,or placed near a magistrate or other dignitary asan ensign of his authority.
The university’s mace is carried in the academicprocession, immediately preceding the undergradu-ate degree candidates. Presented as a class gift in theearly 1950’s, it is thirty inches in length and is markedat the head by the Bronze Seal of the university.
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THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDALLION
The use of medallions or large medals, as sym-bols of office and authority, is also a traditionstemming from medieval times.
The presidential medallion of the university isstruck in silver and bears the official universitySeal. It is worn about the neck by the presidentof the university on ceremonial occasions.
The medallion was presented to the university in1968 by the Alumni Association.
THE GONFALONS
Gonfalons, the insignia or symbols first used byprinces or states in medieval Italy, have in recenttimes become widely used by colleges of majoruniversities. The 1987 commencement ceremonymarked their first processional use by New JerseyInstitute of Technology. Each of the NJIT collegesis identified by its own symbol and by the year ofits establishment.
Newark College of Engineeringhas as its ensign a chess rook, anancient symbol associated withengineering and problem-solvingas well as an early device in her-aldry. It is shown on a field of aca-demic orange with the year 1919,as the date when degrees were firstauthorized for the college.
College of Architecture & Designcarries as its symbol a representa-tional column head, the classicdenotation of the discipline whichis used throughout the college. Itis shown on a field of blue violet,the academic color, and bears theyear designation of 1973.
College of Science and Liberal Artsis identified by a lamp, anothermedieval symbol, commonly seenas a source of intellectual, moraland spiritual illumination. Thewhite and gold of the bannerencompasses both arts and lettersand theoretic and applied aspects ofscience. The college was organizedas a degree-granting entity in 1982.
The American eagle in flight isthe pictorial representation ofthe School of Management,symbolizing vision, control andintegrity. Often depicted on coinageand currency, the eagle enjoys a his-torical tie to business and manage-ment and is shown against lightbrown, the academic color of itsdiscipline.
The Albert Dorman HonorsCollege, represented by a scroll,was established in 1994. Thecollege aims to inspire andprepare NJIT Honors Scholars tosucceed through the higheststandards of personal andacademic achievement.
The College of ComputingSciences is represented as a circleof five segments symbolizing com-puting as an academic disciplinethat connects and enriches alldisciplines. The light blue back-ground signifies computing as adistinct discipline in its own right,while the colors in the circle repre-sent the other academic disciplines.
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ENGINEERING
1973
ARCHITECTURE
1988
MANAGEMENT
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ALBERT DORMANHONORS COLLEGE
COMPUTINGSCIENCES
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SCIENCE &LIBERAL ARTS
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ALMA MATER
To Alma Mater fair and great,
our voices now we raise.
Our gratitude we demonstrate,
your steady voice we praise.
Your challenge on us never fails,
a world of knowledge calls.
In heart and mind,
our trust we’ll bind
to our NJIT.
We’ll hold your memory ever dear,
your spirit we’ll revere.
To you we’ll promise loyalty,
our own NJIT.
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