At NJIT , Dr.Siginer contributed to the effort to obtain a major education initiative grant from the State of New Jersey and served as PI. The five year project was funded by the State for $1,3 million. The project focused on working with selected feeder high school and two year technical school counselors and science and math teachers as well as administrators to modify the curricula at the participating schools to make technical fields more attractive to high school seniors. A consortium of eight participating high schools including magnet schools was formed. Consortium partners included a large number of companies in New Jersey to provide internships to high schoolers during summers for technical training. As a result of these efforts and as one of the goals of the project several transfer agreements with the participating high schools and two-year technical schools were signed.

Dr. Siginer developed a new undergraduate fluid mechanics and heat transfer laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Auburn University. In conjunction with the laboratory, he introduced a new course (ME 415) entitled "Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer Laboratory" taught in the senior year. He also developed four new graduate courses, Advanced Fluid Mechanics I (ME640), Advanced Fluid Mechanics II (ME641), Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (ME645), Intermediate Fluid Mechanics (ME540) and Introduction to Continuum Mechanics (ME531) the first two regularly offered in the Fall and Winter quarters, respectively, starting from Fall 1988, and the others in alternate years. Dr. Siginer completely revamped the Graduate Fluid Mechanics course sequence in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University by introducing a new sequence, essentially made up of these courses, and considerably changed the undergraduate course sequence in fluid mechanics by modifying the syllabi and introducing one new course. He also was heavily involved in ABET related matters and was instrumental in the recent complete curriculum revision in 1996.

Student evaluations of Dr. Siginer in the classes taught by Dr. Siginer have been consistently excellent. The average of those questions in the questionnaire pertaining to the performance of Dr. Siginer have been consistently high in any evaluation in graduate and undergraduate classes alike. Anonymous student comments as well as evaluation sheets are on file. It was particularly gratifying to be awarded the Henry Charles Ratcliff Award (1983) for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Alabama, and the Birdsong Award (1990) and the Alumni Award (1992) for Excellence in Teaching at Auburn University, and to be nominated for the Burlington Faculty Achievement Award and the Alumni Teaching Award (1990) as a result of this consistently high performance.

Dr. Siginer has served and is serving as advisor to a total of nine M.S. and seven Ph.D. students.

Dr. Siginer advised a total of forty-eight undergraduate senior design projects between 1984-1996.

Dr. Siginer served as advisor to the Chi Chapter at Auburn of Pi Tau Sigma, the National Honorary Mechanical Engineering Society during the period 1/1/1994-12/31/1997. His tenure established a tradition of participating regularly in the National Convention held each year, and his fund raising efforts led to the recent establishment of two Pi Tau Sigma scholarships.

Dr. Siginer served as Chairman of the Committee developing the new curriculum to be implemented as part of the transition at Auburn from the quarter to the semester system.

Dr. Siginer taught a career total of 16 different courses.