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Middle and high school students engage with STEM through remote TARGET summer program  The Academy at Rutgers for Girls in Engineering and Technology, or TARGET, has long been a popular summer program for middle and high school students eager to learn about careers in engineering through a variety of workshops, hands-on activities, labs, and projects. 

SoE faculty build on lessons learned to deliver impactful remote instruction this fall The coming fall semester at Rutgers University will combine a majority of remotely delivered with a limited number of in-person, on-campus classes. Lengthy deliberations that weighed state, national, and Rutgers’ own health experts’ predictions of continued spikes in COVID-19 cases against the university’s priority of safeguarding the health and well-being of its community led to this recently announced decision.

Distinguished professor of materials science and engineering (MSE) Lisa Klein has always been a trailblazer.   In 1973, she was the only woman to earn a bachelor’s degree at MIT in metallurgy. In 1977, six years after the School of Engineering accepted its first women students, she became its first female faculty member. Four years later, she was the first woman granted tenure in the School. In 1998, she was promoted to distinguished professor.  

Abundant Opportunities to Achieve For Rutgers Honors College student Priti Kantesaria, who graduated in May with a degree in industrial and systems engineering (ISE), Rutgers offered a world of opportunities. “Rutgers gives you the chance to become the person you want to be – as long as you’re willing to pursue it – and there are countless opportunities to do that here,” she says.