New Jersey Institute of Technology

Osama Eljabiri has been with New Jersey Institute of Technology since 1999 teaching, advising and overseeing more than 15 undergraduate and graduate software engineering, requirements engineering, business process reengineering, MIS and Project Management courses. 

Mr. Eljabiri is currently a full time senior university lecturer in the College of Computing Sciences at NJIT. Mr. Eljabiri developed the CCS capstone program at NJIT in which he teaches and directs the senior project capstone courses, manages relationships with hundreds of industry customers and facilitates real world experiences for thousands of students including an entrepreneurial track to transform students’ innovative ideas into actual business. This is in addition to developing a research and development track, a university-wide multidisciplinary track and a teaching and advising track.

 

Over the last 6 years, Osama lead the capstone program to carry out more than 400 projects with more than 250 clients from Government to Fortune 500 companies to small businesses to research insitutions with a very high rate of success. Osama extended the program to include graduate students and high school students. In Fall 2007, Osama plans to include middle school students and community college students in the program. Furthermore, Osama evolved the program to be ambitious enough to include national and international collaborations with bussinesses and academic communities alike.  

Mr. Eljabiri designed and implemented an Open University program that offers peer-to–peer shared education network of networks which focuses on hot topics and experiences not usually covered through traditional college curriculum and practices.

As part of the open university expansion, Mr. Eljabiri developed a multi-year state-wide real world educational experience for high school students “real world connections” in partnership with many industry sponsors with emphasis on project-based education, learning by doing, personality development, knowledge enrichment, three –level mentorship, excitement and motivation. Mr. Eljabiri’s multidisciplinary university research courses resulted in success stories of undergraduate students having their research work published and presented in international conferences and journals.

 

On Nov 15th, 2007 Osama Eljabiri was named 2007 New Jersey Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. (See NJIT's presss release)

Addioinally, Osama has received many honors including the NJIT’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001, the College of Computing Sciences’ Excellence in Teaching Award in 2003 and was nominated recently for various major national and university-wide awards by the Provost, students, and university colleges and departments. Additionally, Mr. Eljabiri is the co-author of a book titled Strategic Software Engineering – An interdisciplinary approach and has published a number of refereed papers in several conferences and journals.

Prior to joining NJIT, Mr. Eljabiri held various executive management positions at a multinational corporation overseas where he led numerous business and IT-driven projects. Osama Eljabiri, who is a certified ISO internal auditor,  lead the IS09002 project to success while in the United Industrial Group Corp. in Jordan. While he was at UGIC, he trained freshmen students from Jordanian Universities on practical Business Process Reengineering (BPR) throughout coompany processes.His managerial experience has exposed him to real-world business problems and solution strategies that he brings into the classroom. Today, Osama  uses Six Sigma, ISO and BPR as part of US students training - including high school students.      

On Sep 5th,  2007, Osama received NJIT’s university-wide excellence in service award 

 

In the last two years, he received two national nominations for the “US professor of the year”. His latest nomination for the  "US Professor of the year" was on April 2007 from the Provost at NJIT.  (View Provost support letter here).  He was also nominated for the national Olympus Innovation Award in teaching by the R&D office at NJIT.

Osama’s work and the programs he developed were featured in 2007 in the Daily Record of Morris County in New Jersey, the Star Ledger of the state of New Jersey and in a recent interview at News12 NJ TV station. His work was included in many press releases and was featured numerous times at NJIT’s news room.

 

Osama is a member of the adviosry board  of Open Web Application Security Project OWASP  chapter for New Jersey and New York . He is also a member of the Business Advisory Council of the Employ ME! program that aims at creating effective learning experiences for people with disabilities. He is also a member of the teaching, learning and technology (TLT) university-wide committee at NJIT and a member of the Information Literacy university-wide committee at NJIT.

 

Mr. Eljabiri was listed in the International Who’s Who historical society of professionals and Who’s Who in America. Additionally, he is a member of Association for Information Systems, The American Association for University Professors., ACM, IEEE and New Jersey Institute of Technology Sigma Chapter Of Alpha Epsilon Lambda (AEL).

Mr. Eljabiri received his M.S. in Information Systems in 2001 from NJIT and an M.S. in Banking and Financial Sciences (majoring in information systems) in 1999 from the Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences in Jordan, ranking first with distinction. He is a PhD candidate in IS at NJIT maintaining a GPA of 4,0

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