Chatham Students Hit Up NJIT For Engineering Career Day

CHATHAM, NJ - Fifteen Chatham High School students visited NJIT in Newark for their Engineering Career Day event on Dec. 6.

According to organizers, the purpose of this field trip was to provide high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to learn about six different engineering fields, including Biomedical Engineering, Chemical, Biological & Pharmaceutical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, and Engineering Technology.

Counselors Liz Tully-Cano and Cristina Lanzilotta accompanied the students.

“For many high school students with a career and/or academic interest in engineering, they usually have always had a natural pull towards analytical problem-solving, possibly loved and played with legos or puzzles as young children, and/or had an affinity for wanting to know how and why things work by taking them apart and putting them back together," Tully-Cano said. "The NJIT Engineering Career Day was an excellent opportunity for these types of students to take a closer look at various types of engineering and learn about the kind of work that is done in each field.”

During the field trip, CHS students were able to listen to mechanical engineering students describe how they have built cars and drones for competitions, and they observed experiments run by a chemical engineering professor.

Students also had some unique experiences as well: they visited a state-of-the-art Maker Space, and they watched concrete explode under pressure.

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