CIM Newsletter Winter 2012

NEWARK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

Winter, 2012

“ Advancing the

Concrete Industry

by Degrees “

Inside this issue:

Volume 3 Issue 4

I would like to announce the organiza-

tion’s 6th Annual Wine Benefit Dinner

for the NJIT Concrete Industry Man-

agement Program on March 9th, 2013

at Valbella Restaurant in New York

City. This magnificent event will fea-

ture some of Manhattan’s most mouth-

watering food and a tasting of five diff-

CONCRETE INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM NEWS

NEWARK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Dr. Mohamed Mahgoub

CIM Program Director

Jamie Gentoso

NE Patrons Chairperson

1

Dr. Mohamed Mahgoub

&

Jamie Gentoso

Continued...

Anlee Orama

CIM Specialist

2

Industry Meetings

CIM NJIT Media

3

Industry Guest Speakers 4

Industry Socials 5

Special Events 6

CIm Fall Northeast

Patrons Meeting 7

CIM Travels 8

Upcoming Events

2013 CIM Auction at

World of Concrete

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I am thrilled to experience the contin-

ued growth of the CIM program in en-

rollment, industry involvement, and the

great support and increase in aware-

ness in the NJIIT community. The pro-

gram has tripled in 2.5 years from 22

to 66 students. The quality of the stu-

dents have also been inspiring moving

forward.

Internship and jobs appear on my

email inbox as well as by phone calls

nearly every other day. This great

blessing has been the source of our

continued statistic of 100 % job place-

ments. CIM students continue to work

arduously with our ACI NJIT Student

Chapter. Their hard work has helped

them achieve third place in the ACI

2012 Egg Protection Device Competi-

tion held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Our NSC accreditation visit on October

22, 2012 included the great efforts of

the NSC Board of Directors, Northeast

CIM Patrons, CIM Program Faculty and

Staff, NJIT Administration, CIM

Graduates and Students. The visit was

a success and yielded great feedback

from all parties all geared to the con-

tinuous improvement of the CIM pro-

gram.

Continued on Page 2…..

erent delicious wines from the West

Coast. Each year the event never fails to

dazzle or delight.

“Over the last five years, the NECIM has

raised over $400,000 to provide students

with scholarships and industry opportu-

nities”, said Larry Silvi, Wine Dinner

Event Chairman. “This year’s event

promises to deliver the same resources

to the Students in the program that need

it most.” Now in its sixth year at NJIT,

the program has grown significantly

among our fellow CIM programs

throughout the country. It is through the

efforts of both the Faculty and its Pa-

trons that we will strive to continue our

great success.

Continued on Page 2…...

Dr. Mahgoub, CIM Program Director

Jamie Gentoso, CIM Northeast Patrons Chairperson

This year’s event promises to once again be a who’s

who of industry participants as well as political deci-

sion makers. Last year Governor Corbett of Pennsyl-

vania attended and we are hoping to add Governor

Christie to the list of attendees in 2013.

This year we have attained a special rate at a gorgeous

boutique hotel in lower Manhattan, The Standard, giv-

ing guests an opportunity to spend a fantastic weekend

in The City! For more information about the benefit din-

ner, the program at NJIT, and/or how you might get

involved contact Bill Layton at [email protected] or

at 609-393-3352. You can also contact Anlee Orama at

[email protected] or 973-596-6067.

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Dr. Mahgoub, CIM Program Director (continued…)

I would like to thank all CIM students for their much

appreciated effort. I would also like to thank Mr. Anlee

Orama, CIM Specialist, for his tireless effort helping

this program gain new grounds every day. Also, I would

like to thank Dr. Ronald Rockland for his great and

continuous support and advice. Finally, I would like to

thank our NE Patrons Chairperson Jamie Gentoso,

Larry Silvi, Bill Layton, Mike Gentoso, and all our Pa-

trons for their great support and sincere effort. Without

all of these people, the CIM program would not be as

successful as it is today.

The NJIT CIM program continues to increase in en-

rolment heading into the new year. We have achieved an enrollment of 66 students and looking forward to

working with several potential students. Extensive

recruitment and marketing has substantially in-

creased the awareness among the NJIT community.

The CIM program has never been so far reaching at

NJIT and has become the talk of the university quite commonly. Internal transfers into CIM continues to

be the primary source for recruitment.

The CIM student ambassadors have contributed sig-

nificantly to the increase in enrollment. The students

take ownership of the program and are committed to

its growth and expansion. Some of our exceptional

students have taken the initiative to become present-ers for high school students in our NJIT Open House.

The results were remarkable with the energy created

among the visiting students listening to our CIM stu-

dent ambassadors character and professionalism af-

ter being in the program only for one year!

The program is on its way to further expand into the Northeast region and New England territories. I am

scheduled to attend the 14th Annual Northeast Precast

Concrete Association Winter Meeting in Portsmouth,

New Hampshire. Mr. Dave Dimmick, NEPCA President,

has welcomed the CIM program and looks forward to

becoming involved.

I would like to thank our Industry Patrons for their in-

valuable support for the program which ultimately will

sustain the higher demand in internships and full-time

jobs for our students.

October 14, 2012

NJ Engineering & Science Festival

December 7, 2012

NJIT Career Day

Jamie Gentoso, CIM Northeast Patrons Chairperson (continued…)

Northeast Patrons Committee

Anlee Orama, Recruitment & Marketing

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ACI Student Chapter President Featured on Cover of Concrete International

CIM student pictured: Andrew Canon

http://www.njit.edu/news/2012/2012-420.php

A Successful and Busy Semester for NJIT Students Enrolled in Concrete Industry Management (CIM) Program

http://www.njit.edu/news/2012/2012-

424.php

CIM Students Awarded 3rd Place at International Competition

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NJIT Professor Promotes Building Material of Millennium: Auto-clave Aerated Concrete

http://www.njit.edu/news/2012/2012-371.php

Industry Meetings

November 29, 2012

Scotch Plains, NJ

NJACI Dinner Meeting

December 5, 2012

Manhattan, NY

ICRI Metro NY Chapter Dinner

CIM NJIT Media Exposure

CIM Students Shine in the NJ ACI Chapter Dinner

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CIM National Steering Committee

October 18, 2012

Eugene Martineau , CIM NSC Ex-

ecutive Director

Eastern Concrete Materials Inc.

October 18, 2012

Mike Gentoso, President and Gen-

eral Manager of the Northeast Re-

gion

Industry Guest Speakers

Advanced Concrete Technologies

November 15, 2012

Max Hoene, President, and Jeff

West, Sales Engineer

Mapei

November 19, 2012

Monica Rourke, Concrete Restora-

tion Division

Titan America

November 20, 2012

Thomas Cerullo, Vice President and

General Manager, and Sherif Girgis,

Sales Representative and CIM 2010

Graduate

em[Power] Energy Group

November 26, 2012

Ryan Integlia, Executive Director

Sika Corporation

November 29, 2012

Karin Franz, Recruiting Manager

Intelligent Concrete

November 26, 2012

Jon Belkowitz , President

Industry guest speakers have been

highly enthusiastic to come and

speak to the CIM students about

their companies and the concrete

industry. In only three months eight

guest speakers have taken the time

to share their expertise in their field

and have contributed greatly to the

enhancement of the CIM core

courses and overall CIM program.

Even the Executive Director of the

CIM National Steering Committee

(NSC), Eugene Martineau, took the

offer of shedding his wisdom to a

group of CIM students while visiting

NJIT for the CIM Accreditation Visit

and Board of Directors Meeting.

Interested in establishing a field trip,

social, or becoming a guest speaker

for CIM students???

Please contact: [email protected]

or

[email protected]

http://blogs.njit.edu/cim/2010/11/12/cim-students-shine-in-the-nj-aci-chapter-dinner/


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County Concrete Corp.

October 10, 2012

John Post, VP of Sales & Market-

ing, and Nicholas Denicoli, Assis-

tant QC Manager and CIM Student

Industry Socials

Grace Construction Products

November 28, 2012

Ken Yuhas, District Sales Manager,

and Bob Perrier, QC Manager

Titan America

November 28, 2012

Thomas Cerullo, Vice President

and General Manager, Brooke

Perry, Human Resources, and

Sherif Girgis, Sales Representative

and CIM 2010 Graduate

Industry socials continue to be a wonderful experience for the CIM students as well as potential visiting students

and guests. The CIM NE Patrons Group have been involved more than ever in volunteering to come and share

their industry experience knowledge. Moreover, in this quarter two out of the three companies that hosted a social

brought along a current CIM student and a CIM graduate, currently employed at their company, to represent the

company along with their supervisors. This has been an invaluable experience for our current students, whom can

see firsthand the great opportunities awaiting them upon graduation and during their studies.


October 25, 2012

NJIT

Composite Flooring Research

Eleven CIM students participated in

a concrete pour (Composite Flooring

Research Project) that took place in

the Structures Laboratory in the

Architecture Building. Aside from

the Civil Engineering graduate stu-

dents, the CIM students were the

only undergraduate students pre-

sent. They arrived at 7 am and

worked until 1pm. They performed

quality control testing on the con-

crete delivered, students performing

tests hold ACI Level 1 Testing Certi-

fication, and also assisted with the

finishing of the concrete deck. Spe-

cial thanks goes to Frank Golon,

President of DWD Metro Construc-

tion Company., Dr. Hsu, Depart-

ment of Civil and Environmental

Engineering, Tom Rizzo from Tannis

Ready Mix for donating the con-

crete, Rivas Concrete Inc, and the

Local Union concrete finishers.

Photos:

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October 15, 2012

NJIT Cemen Tech Volumetric Mixer

CIM students had one of the great-

est experiences ever. They had an

opportunity to witness and receive

training on a state of the art Con-

crete Volumetric Mixer. Mike Rozga,

Regional Sales, and Kevin Smith,

Service Assistant, of Cemen Tech

Inc. has transported the brand new

$70,000 machine from Iowa for two

days in the heavy rain to NJIT Cam-

pus to teach our students free of

charge. Cemen Tech is the world’s

largest manufacturer of volumetric

concrete mixing systems. Volumet-

ric mixers are portable concrete

batch plants. This was a once in a

life time experience for the stu-

dents!!! Cemen Tech offered to

leave the machine at NJIT pending

utilization of the mixer for pervious

concrete research proposals.

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Fall Semester

NJIT

Concrete Research Project

CIM students participated in a joint

project with graduate students from

the Civil and Environmental Engi-

neering (CEE) Department . The pro-

ject is under the supervision of Dr.

Hsu Thomas and Dr. Pedro Munoz.

The project entailed the design and

construction of a two storey con-

crete house in the structural labora-

tory of the CEE department. The

floor of the house will be made of a

composite section (concrete and

steel) which is an NJIT patent. CEE

graduate students worked on the

design and the CIM students built

the CMU wall samples to be imple-

mented in the research.

Special Events


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December 6, 2012

NJIT

Once again the CIM Northeast Pa-

trons Group hosted the Fall 2012

Bi-Annual Northeast Concrete In-

dustry Management Patrons meet-

ing at the NJIT campus. This year’s

first patrons meeting attendance

included our distinguished CIM

Local Patrons, CIM graduates and

students, NJIT Administra-

tion, and special guests. We give

special thanks to Jamie Gentoso,

Chairperson of the NE Patrons for

managing this grand event and

coordinating the speakers.

CIM Fall Northeast Patrons Meeting

Larry Silvi, President of the Silvi

Group Companies, presented the

successful Wine Tasting Dinner

event and also honored the CIM

program on behalf of the NE local

Patrons with a check for 50 thou-

sand dollars matching their com-

mitment with the CIM National

Steering Committee. Also in atten-

dance was Mr. Bill Layton, Execu-

tive Director of New Jersey Con-

crete and Aggregate Associa-

tion and board member of the NE

Patrons committee. In this meet-

ing two of our CIM students, An-

drew Kelemen and Andrew Canon,

presented about their student pro-

ject and internship experience.

CIM Alumni, Michael Ciallella pre-

sented on his experiences as a CIM

student and current position at

BASF.

Congratulations to CIM students

Michelle Ghanime, Mohamed Mo-

hamed, Walter Cevallos, and Mat-

thew Valencia, whom were this

years CIM Scholarship recipients

honored in the meeting.

The success of the CIM program

could not have been possible with-

out the support of the NJIT ad-

ministration. We were honored to

have with us Dr. Ian Gatley, NJIT

Provost, Dr. Sunil Saigal, Dean of

the Newark College of Engineering,

Dr. Ronald Rockland, Chairman of

Engineering Technology, and Vin-

cent Lombardo, Development Di-

rector for NJIT. We would like to

give special thanks to Edna

Randolph, Assistant to Chair of

Engineering Technology, and

Marcia Eddings, Administrative

Assistant of Engineering Technol-

ogy for coordinating the event

preparations and food catering.

Once again we thank everyone that

made this extraordinary event pos-

sible and we look forward to seeing

each and every one of you includ-

ing many more in our next Patrons

meeting.

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CIM Travels

ACI Fall Convention

Toronto, Canada

October 21-22, 2012

ICRI Conference

Rancho Mirage, CA

December 7-9, 2012

The CIM program has traveled far

and wide throughout the years.

However, Dr. Mahgoub's trip to

China may have topped the CIM

sky miles record. D. Mahgoub was

invited to attend a conference in

China to speak about the CIM pro-

gram and aerated autoclave con-

crete. We have been connected with

the U.S division of Bo’ao Corpora-

tion, specializing in stone masonry

products and more in China and

currently extending their opera-

tions in the U.S. They have em-

braced the CIM program and have

expressed interest in providing in-

ternships to our students in the

future as well as opportunities

abroad.

China—US Bo’ao Manufac-

tured Stone Conference

Zhengzhou Henan, China

November 11-12, 2012

We are extremely pleased to an-

nounce that the NJIT ACI Student

Chapter has been awarded the third

place prize in the American Con-

crete Institute (ACI) Student Compe-

tition that took place in Toronto,

Ontario, Canada on October 21 and

22. NJIT was among 33 teams/

universities from all over the world.

The students spent months design-

ing and working on an Egg Protec-

tion Concrete Frame. This is the

highest ranking NJIT students have

been awarded in an international

concrete related competition. Texas

State University ACI Student Chap-

ter won the third place award in the

optional durability contest. CIM stu-

dents include Andrew Canon, Fa-

bian DeLaHoz, John Te, Evan Hoff,

Tyler Hanson, and Robert Gon-

calves. Brian Neves, Construction

Engineering Technology (CET) stu-

dent was also part of the ACI team.

Congratulations everyone!

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The NJIT CIM program once again

attended the International Concrete

Repair Institute (ICRI) bi-annual

conference. The event took place at

the Rancho Las Palmas Resort. It

was a great opportunity for the stu-

dent’s to network and meet new

people in the industry. ICRI even

invited the students on stage to say

a few words. We thank Dr. Tanya

Komas for coordinating our student

participation at the conferences as

well as the great support from ICRI.

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January 10-13, 3013 The Precast Show Indianapolis, Indiana

January 22, 2013 Northeast Precast Concrete As ssociation Conference Portsmouth, New Hampshire February 1, 2013

Sika Corporation Lab Visit Lyndhurst, NJ March 13-15, 2013 Concrete Décor Show Charlotte, North Carolina

March 6, 2013 Titan America Social NJIT March 20-22, 2013 ICRI Spring Convention

St. Pete Beach, Florida

April 14-18, 2013 ACI Convention Minneapolis, Minnesota

June ( TBD ) Texas State University San Marcos, Texas TBD Industry Field Visits

TBD Industry Guest Speakers

2012 Calendar of Upcoming Events

About

Newark College of Engineering

The Newark College of Engineering is

one of the oldest and largest profes-

sional engineering schools in the

United States. NCE offers 13 under-

graduate degree programs, 16 master’s

and 10 doctoral degree programs. Un-

dergraduate enrollment is more than

2,500, and more than 1,100 students

enrolled in graduate studies. The 150-

member faculty includes engineers and

scholars who are widely recognized in

their fields.

Dr. Mohamed Mahgoub

CIM Program Director

Dept. of Engineering Technology

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 973.596.6081

Mr. Anlee Orama

CIM Specialist

Dept. of Engineering Technology

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 973.596.6067

The Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program is seeking donations for their seventh annual auction to be

held at the World of Concrete. The auction is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 25 at the Las Vegas Convention

Center. The silent auction will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the live auction begins at 1 p.m. According to

Michael Philipps, Chairman of the CIM Auction Committee, “The proceeds from the 2013 Auction will benefit

the CIM National Steering Committee (NSC) and support the current CIM programs, the new Executive MBA

program, as well as help fund future program expansion.”

Organizers hope the 2013 Auction is even bigger than the 2012 Auction, which raised over $617,750. The

money raised from the CIM Auction will benefit the NSC and support the CIM programs at Middle Tennessee

State University, Arizona State University, New Jersey, Institute of Technology, Texas State University, and the

California State University—Chico. "The NSC was pleased that the 2012 World of Concrete Auction surpassed

the previous year's total proceeds by more than $100,000,” commented Philipps. “This is yet another example

of the high value the concrete industry places on the CIM program. The NSC appreciates the record number of

155 donated items and all the bidders that helped make last year's auction a huge success.

Those interested in making a donation should contact CIM Auction Committee Chairman Michael Phillips

at [email protected] or (713) 722-2969 .

You can also visit the CIM NSC Website Auction link here: www. ConcreteDegree.com/auction/index.html

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