12 Notable alumni of New Jersey Institute of Technology
Updated: June 16, 2026 EliteDegrees
New Jersey Institute of Technology is ranked #706 in the world and #204 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from New Jersey Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with New Jersey Institute of Technology won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Charles Speziale
1948-1999 (aged 51)
scientist
Charles Gregory Speziale was an American scientist who had worked in NASA Langley Research Center and a former Professor in Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Massachusetts, US.
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2. Ned Thomson
1953-. (aged 73)
politician
actuary
Edward H. Thomson III is an American Republican Party politician who represented the 30th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly from August 24, 2017 to January 9, 2024. He replaced Dave Rible, who left office to serve as Director of the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Thomson had previously served as mayor of Wall Township. He...
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3. Bruce Jackson
1936-. (aged 90)
photographer
Bruce Jackson is an American folklorist, documentary filmmaker, writer, photographer. He is SUNY Distinguished Professor and the James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo. Jackson has edited or authored books published by major trade and university presses. He has also directed and produced five documentary films. He is an Associate Member of The Wooster Group (New...
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4. Bernice Falk Haydu
1920-2021 (aged 101)
aircraft pilot
Bernice "Bee" S. Falk Haydu was an American aviator and served as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) in World War II. Haydu remained active in aviation and remained an advocate for women pilots.
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5. T.J. O'Malley
1915-2009 (aged 94)
engineer
military flight engineer
Thomas Joseph O'Malley was an Irish-American aerospace engineer who, as chief test conductor for the Convair division of General Dynamics, was responsible for pushing the button on February 20, 1962, launching the Mercury-Atlas 6 space flight carrying astronaut John Glenn, the first American in orbit. Five years later, NASA asked North American Aviation to hire him as director of launch...
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6. Kenneth A. Gibson
1932-2019 (aged 87)
politician
Kenneth Allen Gibson was an American politician of the Democratic Party who was the 36th mayor of Newark, New Jersey from 1970 to 1986. He was the first African American mayor of a major city in the Northeastern United States.
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7. Ellen M. Pawlikowski
1956-. (aged 70)
military officer
Ellen Marie Pawlikowski is a retired four-star general of the United States Air Force. She last served as the commander of Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from June 8, 2015, to the end of July 2018, managing some 80,000 people and $60 billion in Air Force programs annually. Pawlikowski retired from the Air Force on September...
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8. Yuriy Tarnawsky
1934-2025 (aged 91)
writer
playwright
linguist
translator
poet
Yuriy Orest Ivanovych Tarnawsky was a Ukrainian-American writer and linguist, one of the founding members of the New York Group of Poets, a group of avant-garde Ukrainian diaspora writers, and co-founder and co-editor of the journal New Poetry, as well as member of the US innovative writers' collaborative Fiction Collective. He wrote fiction, poetry, plays, translations, and criticism in both...
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9. Wally Schirra
1923-2007 (aged 84)
autobiographer
businessperson
United States Naval Aviator
military flight engineer
test pilot
Walter Marty Schirra Jr. was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put humans into space. On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, in a spacecraft he nicknamed Sigma 7, becoming...
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10. Victor J. Stenger
1935-2014 (aged 79)
astronomer
university teacher
physicist
writer
philosopher
Victor John Stenger was an American particle physicist, philosopher, author, and religious skeptic.
11. Gerard J. Foschini
1940-2023 (aged 83)
inventor
Gerard Joseph Foschini, was an American telecommunications engineer who worked for Bell Laboratories from 1961 until his retirement. He died in September 2023. His research has covered many kinds of data communications, particularly wireless communications and optical communications. Foschini has also worked on point-to-point systems and networks.
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12. Moshe Kam
1955-. (aged 71)
engineer
researcher
Moshe Kam is an Israeli and American electrical engineer. He is an engineering educator serving as Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Newark College of Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Until August 2014 he served as the Robert G. Quinn Professor and department head of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel University. In 2011, he served concurrently...
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