When Kaylin Wittmeyer first began applying to colleges, she didn’t have a single, narrow career path in mind. What she did know was that she loved animation, but she also loved math, physics, and the technical side of how things worked. Rather than choose between art and technology, she sought a place where both could coexist — and found that balance at NJIT.
Liliana Torres’s architecture has always been about people.
“The way I want my story to be told is through how everything I learned at NJIT continues to translate into my professional life — the values, the sense of responsibility, and the commitment to helping others never stopped at graduation,” she said.
Torres '17, '18 is an undergraduate and graduate alumna of the Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD), as well as a scholar of the Albert Dorman Honors College.
2026 marks the 20th
Leah-Marie Boake, Industrial Design ’26, and Albert Dorman Honor's College student, is distinguishing herself and the Industrial Design program at Hillier College with a nearly 12-month run of awards and recognitions.
When Conor McCann looks back on his journey from NJIT to becoming a project architect at DMR Architects, one word stands out — foundation.
It’s the same concept he applies to every project he touches: a structure is only as strong as the foundation beneath it. For McCann, that foundation was built during five formative years at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD), from 2015 to 2020.
A team of NJIT architecture and urban systems students has taken first place in the 2025 American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Setty Family Foundation Net Zero Energy Design Student Competition, one of the most competitive international student design challenges focused on sustainability and energy efficiency.
Beginning this semester, Mark Bess, undergraduate architecture coordinator and principal at Blackberry Studios, and Tom Ogorzalek, senior lecturer and partner at Continuum Design, LLC, will formally expand the career and professional development guidance they have long provided to upper-level architecture students.
When the FIFA World Cup kicks off next summer, all eyes will be on the 16 host cities across North America — especially East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the tournament’s final will be played at the 80,000-seat MetLife Stadium. But for Tatiana Florexil ’25, a recent graduate from New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD), the true potential of the World Cup lies beyond the stadium walls. It lives in the streets, parks and plazas of local communities.
Jessica Miller is the executive director at the Center for Community Systems at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design. She is also the executive director of the Environment Protection Agency’s Technical Assistance to Brownfield Communities Program in Regions 2 and 4 (NJIT TAB).
Glenn Goldman, director emeritus and professor of architecture and design at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, earned the prestigious 2025 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award, recognizing his outstanding contributions to teaching computer graphics and interactive techniques. Goldman was also inducted into the SIGGRAPH Academy.
