NIOSH FELLOWSHIP: Tuition Waiver + Stipend

MS in Occupational Safety & Health Engineering (OSHE)

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

New Jersey Institute of Technology

NJIT’s MS OSHE program is a component of NY-NJ Education and Research Center (NY-NJ ERC). NJIT receives grant money from NIOSH to assist students in training to serve in the Safety Engineering field. The grant's overall objectives are: (1) To meet the needs of national and regional safety and health professionals by providing an adequate supply of qualified personnel to carry out the purposes of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (2) to promote research in the field of safety and health, and (3) to improve the knowledge of safety through collaboration among diverse safety related programs within and beyond NY-NJ ERC. 

NJIT offers five to six NIOSH fellowships based on the students’ academic record. A full fellowship pays for in-state tuition and a stipend. Fellowships are awarded for the entire program of the study, subject to student maintaining good academic standing, and continued NIOSH funding.  The fellowship comes with the following conditions. The student must

· be a full time matriculated student (9 credits or more per semester) in good academic standing in the MS OSHE program at NJIT

· be a citizen of the US or have filed a declaration of intent (e.g. Green Card)

· submit GRE general test score

· take IE 701 - Masters Thesis option

· take two ERC level courses - IE 681, and IE 682 as elective courses

· get involved in various ERC-wide activities, such as, ERC's Annual Scientific Conference, Annual Student Research Day, and ERC Historical Perspectives Tour

      Graduates or graduating students with BS degree in Engineering, Science and Technology, with GPA 2.8 or higher, and GRE scores 50 percentile or better are encouraged to apply for admission/transfer to the MS OSHE program at NJIT.  All new matriculated students in the MS OSHE program will automatically be considered for this award.  If interested, you are encouraged to contact:

A. K. Sengupta. Ph.D Associate Professor & Program Director of MS OSHE Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Room # GITC 2102 NJIT, Newark, NJ 07102 Email: sengupta@njit.edu

A. Bladikas. Ph.D Associate Professor & Graduate Advisor of Industrial Engineering Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Room # MEC 208 NJIT, Newark, NJ 07102 Email: bladikas@adm.njit.edu

MS OHSE program: The core subject areas are Ergonomics, Safety Engineering, Systems Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Legal Aspects of Safety, and Statistics. The program consists of 36 course credits. Non engineering undergraduates may be required to take additional bridge courses. MS OSHE program covers the application of engineering principles to the design and maintenance of workplaces in order to minimize potential hazards related to job performance.

Employment opportunities in the occupational safety and health field are ample. YOUR GUIDE TO A CAREER IN THE Occupational Safety, Health and Environmental Profession  and Career guide to safety profession prepared by the American Society of Safety Engineers, provide useful overview of the safety profession. Recent graduates of MS OSHE program are employed at all levels of government, insurance carriers, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, chemical, hospitals, universities, energy production, transit authorities, and defense industries in and around NJ. For those who wish to pursue university teaching or research, MS OSHE graduates are qualified for admission into doctoral programs.