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Forbes recently ranked Stevens third in return on investment in areas of research and devel-opment. The article made note of Techno-

genesis®, stressing that students and professors work through research and commercialization issues concurrently, “rather concentrating on research and letting someone else worry about how to make money from it.” In considering the rank-ings, Forbes took into account the Stevens spin-out PlasmaSol, which developed a way to decontami-nate buildings after a chemical or biological attack, which sold for $17.5 million in 2006 when it was acquired by Stryker Corporation.

“Those [Silicon Valley] companies were started after the students left Stanford,” President Raveché told Forbes. “Our students start companies here.”

PlasmaSol developed a technology that will allow Stryker to provide sterilization equipment for use in sterilizing certain of its MedSurg Equipment products.

The basic technology at the core of PlasmaSol Cor-poration is an invention by Stevens scientists, known as Capillary Discharge Non-Thermal Plasma.

The work to propagate large-volume cold plasmas began in earnest at Stevens in 1996. That year, Dr. Erich Kunhardt of the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, received a development grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. With his Stevens colleague Dr. Kurt Becker, Kunhardt went for a much sought-after goal: engineering dynamic plasma reactions in a non-vacuum environment. Their success translating particle theory to measurable results in the lab opened a whole new range of applications.

In 1999, three graduate students from Stevens co-founded PlasmaSol to commercialize the non-thermal plasma technology: Kurt Kovach, Seth A. Tropper and Richard Crowe, with the later

addition to the core team of Michael Epstein. Frank Shinneman joined the company several years later as CEO.

The PlasmaSol team conducted a marketability study of the technology’s environmental applica-tions and discovered very large market potential in several areas. Dr. George Korfiatis, University Provost and Vice President, and Dr. Christos Christodoulatos, Associate Provost for Academic Entrepreneurship, are also co-founders and tech-nology advisors.

Following an initial grant by the New Jersey Com-mission on Science and Technology, PlasmaSol won major contracts for decontaminative applica-tions from the US Army and NASA.

In addition, the Forbes article cited HydroGlobe, a Technogenesis environmental technology com-pany incubated at Stevens. The company produces patented products for the removal of heavy metals — including lead and arsenic — from water, and was sold to Graver Technologies, a filtration man-ufacturer, in 2004.

A patent from HydroGlobe was awarded the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award for Technol-ogy Transfer from the Research and Develop-ment Council of New Jersey. The original patent is owned by Stevens, which has given to HydroGlobe the rights of exclusive use of the technology.

HydroGlobe was founded in 2000 by three Stevens professors based on research conducted at the Center for Environmental Systems (CES), directed at that time by Dr. Christos Christodoulatos. In addition to Christodoulatos, the HydroGlobe founders include Dr. George P. Korfiatis (CES founding director) and Dr. Xiaoguang Meng,

Director of Technical and Academic Development at CES. The technologies are included in a series of patents obtained by the founders of the company. The merged business is run out of Graver Technologies’ facility in Glasgow, Del.

In September, Raveché appeared on “Power Lunch Europe” on CNBC World, where he discussed the importance of innovation in the US and why outsourcing is not a viable cost-saving solution in the long-run.

“The CEOs, I’m afraid, have taken the easy way out. We can manufacture a product in the US, a high-tech product, and the final price will be as competitive with China if we use innovation in every step of the process. And still pay $30 an hour in the US with health benefits. But we’ve given up. The easy way is: outsource your jobs to lower your costs and appear to be more profitable. But the fundamentals aren’t there because for the long-term, you’re not investing in R&D and you don’t have the new products and services in the pipeline to really drive the market,” said Raveché.

“We tell our students that if you’re just a good engi-neer or scientist, you can be outsourced. But if you know how to add value to your organization, then it’s less likely that you’ll be outsourced,” he said.

In addition, Raveché appeared on BBC World News, where he addressed the gap in innovation, and the fact that Asia, rather than other areas of the world, has taken the lead in research.

The emphasis on innovation, said Raveché, “has to come from both the private sector and the government from the very top and be a mindset. It can’t be a program. It has to be a national agenda, a national purpose.”

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Four professors at Stevens have been selected to receive the Bright Idea Award, sponsored by the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University and the NKPRO Foundation, the public policy research affiliate of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association (NJBIA).

The professors — Christine V. Bullen, Ann C. Mooney, Patricia J. Holahan and Peerasit Patanakul — are each being awarded for their respective

papers, all of which have placed within the top nine manuscripts from more than 125 publications.

The two organizations have compiled the Seventh Annual Volume of the Published Research Works of business faculty within New Jersey from 2007.

Professor Bullen received the Bright Idea Award in Information Technology for her paper, “Chang-ing IT skills: The impact of sourcing strategies

on in-house capability requirements.” Professor Patanakul received the Bright Idea Award in Project Management for his paper, “A decision support model for project manager assignments.” And Professors Holahan and Mooney have each received the Bright Idea Award in Conflict Resolution for their paper, “Don’t take it personally: Exploring cognitive conflict as a mediator of affective conflict.”

Four Stevens professors receive top Bright Idea Awards

Forbes ranks Stevens third in ROI in R&D

Stevens’ President Harold J. Raveché appeared on CNBC World and BBC World News to discuss the importance of innovation in a global economy.

We tell our students that if you’re just a good engineer or scientist, you can be outsourced. But if you know how to add value to your organization, then it’s less likely that you’ll be outsourced.”

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Stevens’ third ranked profile on the Forbes website.

Veteran technologist and pioneering researcher, Dr. Joseph Mitola, has been appointed Stevens’ Vice President for the Research Enterprise as well as a Distinguished Professor, holding a joint appoint-ment at the Schaefer

School of Engineering and Science and the School of Systems and Enterprises.

“Mitola’s experience in industry, government and academe, as well his pioneering contributions in research, are outstanding qualifications for this new position that has been created to advance the university’s recognition and standing among the world’s leading research universities,” said George P. Korfiatis, Provost and University VP.

As Vice President for the Research Enterprise, Professor Mitola will be responsible for promoting large-scale, cross-disciplinary research initiatives among Stevens’ diverse research centers, laborato-ries and contract research projects.

“Through Dr. Mitola’s leadership, the university’s recognition as a force in research will be promoted nationally and internationally, thereby providing added value for internal and external constituen-cies,” said Stevens’ President Harold. J. Raveché.

Vice President Mitola will promote such initia-tives in government agencies, as well as the private sector. He will be responsible for investments that advance the goals and objectives of the Institute’s Strategic Positioning Plan by working in close col-laboration with the academic deans, department directors, center directors and principal investigators.

Mitola is recognized inter-nationally for his formulation and groundbreaking research in software-defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio systems and technologies. In addition to having published the first technical paper on software radio architecture in 1991, Mitola has taught courses in software radio in the US, Europe and Asia.

As founding chair of the SDR Forum in 1996, he pioneered global innovation in SDR among industry, government, and academic research orga-nizations. Later, his 1999 Licentiate Thesis in Telein-formatics, coined the term “cognitive radio” for the integration of machine perception of RF, visual and speech domains with machine learning into SDR to make dynamic spectrum access technically viable.

His doctoral dissertation, Cognitive Radio (KTH, June 2000), created the first architecture for such autonomous radios, formulating the cog-

nition cycle on which the sensing and opportunis-tic use of radio spectrum whitespace is based.

In addition, Mitola serves on the Committee for Universal Radio Frequency Capabilities for the US Special Operations Command of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.

Before joining Stevens, Mitola served as Chief Scientist of the Department of Defense (DoD) Federally Funded R&D Center (FFRDC) for The MITRE Corporation, where he led program teams to invent novel solutions to critical DoD mission-shortfalls in telecommunications and information processing.

Between 2002 and 2005, he was on loan from MITRE to the US DoD to develop trustable cognitive systems for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as Special Assistant to the DARPA Director. From 1997 to 1999 he was founding Technical Director of Cryptologic Modeling and Simulation for the US DoD. Between 1994 and 1996, his MITRE role was General Systems Engineer for the US Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office where he led the creation of the congressionally mandated strategy and was responsible for the transition of billions of dollars of legacy sensors, communications, and information systems to low cost mission effective modernized tactical distributed processing networks. In 1993 he served as Special Technical Advisor to the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

Mitola is the recipient of many awards, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for

Exceptional Public Service (2005) and the Inaugural Recipient of the SDR Forum Industry Achievement Award (2002). He has also served as the Editor in Chief, of the Radio Communications Series IEEE Communications Magazine 1998–2003.

He is a lifetime member of the Armed Forces Com-munications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), the

Association of Old Crows (Electronic Defense), and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

He has published extensively in the area of cognitive radio and teleinformatics.

Mitola holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with Highest Honors from Northeastern University; a Master of Science degree in Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University; a Licentiate in Engineering; and Doctorate in Teleinformatics from The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm.

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Stevens has been awarded $1 million from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to support research and development into biomass conversion technol-ogies. The grant is one of six awarded by the DOE to various higher-education institutions to develop their advanced biofuels projects. In total, the DOE will invest up to $4.4 million in these university proj-ects for their research into how non-food feedstocks can be transformed into advanced biofuels.

The universities are required to invest an additional 20% of their own funding, which brings the entire investment into these six projects to $5.7 million.

Stevens will receive its $1 million over the course of three years. The project will be led and executed by the New Jersey Center for MicroChemical Systems (NJCMCS) in partnership with BASF Catalysts LLC.

NJCMCS is an academic research center that has been established at Stevens with state, federal and internal funding of over $12 million during the last five years. BASF Catalysts is a US-based company that has expertise in a broad range of catalyst and reactor design technologies.

With its award, Stevens plans to evaluate and demonstrate a novel microchannel reactor to reform pyrolysis oil into synthesis gas. The project intends to use the novel reactor and precisely controlled operating conditions to produce a high yield of synthesis gas using reduced energy.

The project abstract, Dual Layer Monolith ATR of Pyrolysis Oil for Distributed Synthesis Gas Production, was prepared and written by Professor Adeniyi Lawal of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. He is also the project’s principal investigator.

Other higher-education institutions selected for their projects are the University of Toledo, for its plans to simultaneously convert cellulose to sugar and fermentation to ethanol; Montana State Univer-sity, which will partner with Utah State University to evaluate the oil content of algae; the University of Georgia, which will evaluate cost-effective algae-biofuel production systems, along with using the abundance of litter from the poultry industry as a source of low-cost nutrients; the University of Maine, for its plans to determine the optimal yield and productivity of high-potential bacteria; and Georgia Tech Research Corporation, which will determine which models will best maximize syn-thesis gas yield from an optimized gasifier.

Stevens awarded $1 million for advanced biofuels research

Stevens’ Center for Maritime Systems began a project to strengthen the Early Warning Sys-tem (EWS) for Inundations in the Dominican

Republic. The project is focused on developing the technology of the DR’s EWS and providing the most up-to-date equipment to improve accuracy in detec-tion of hurricanes and prevent flooding on the island.

The genesis of the EWS effort began in 2007 when Dr. Harold J. Raveché, President of Stevens, was attending a meeting in the DR during which the topic of vast hurricane devastation came up. Dr. Raveché offered his help and asked Dr. Alan Blumberg, Director of Stevens’ Center for Maritime Systems, and Dr. Thomas O. Herrington, also of the Center, to see how Stevens could offer assistance. They began collaborative efforts with Janet Kunhardt at Stevens Institute of Technology International (SITI), and together they established important relationships with leaders and engineers in the DR to establish the program.

Blumberg received more assistance for promoting the EWS project when Eileen Parra, a Stevens Civil Engineering student and a native of the DR, joined the team. Parra moved to the US from the DR when she was six years old. She always had a love for math, and her uncle, a civil engineer in the DR, had inspired her to study civil engineering. During the summer of 2007, her uncle gave her an opportunity

for hands-on experience doing management work for the construction of Aurora del Sol Hotel in Santo Domingo, DR.

Since moving to the US, Parra has returned to visit her country every summer and always looked for ways to give back. She feels that working with the EWS is the opportunity she’s been waiting for. After familiarizing herself with the EWS project goals, she submit-ted a proposal to Stevens’ Tech-nogenesis® program to further the work in the DR. The pro-posal was accepted and Parra traveled to the DR to continue project development from June through August 2008.

“Hurricanes have always been a concern in the DR,” explained Parra, “but since the hurricanes in October and November of 2007, which took place during hurricane off-season, DR wanted to improve the method of monitoring hurricanes at all times.” Stevens’ assistance with improved technology and equipment will increase DR’s ability to detect hurricanes on time, even during hurricane off-season and all year long. As accuracy in detecting hurricanes improves, so will the efficiency of transmitting the message to DR natives who live in

both urban and rural areas. As a result, there will be increased prevention against hurricanes and flooding for the whole island.

Creating a more technological EWS will also increase employment opportunities in the DR and provide greater educational opportunities for engineers who will be involved with the EWS. Stevens plans to train Dominican engineers in the modeling and rehabilitation of the improved EWS and work jointly with them during the installation process. A mirror site to DR’s EWS, which will be located at Stevens’ Davidson Laboratory, will help oversee the work being done and serve as a back-up EWS if the DR’s system gets destroyed in a disaster.

“The people in the DR are very anxious and enthusiastic about this project and are impressed by what we can offer,” said Parra, “They believe it’s possible and they want to start right away. They are also very honest and open to receiving help.”

A proposal for technical advancement funding for the program was recently submitted by Stevens to the

United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) and a proposal will soon be submitted to USAID. “If this program is successful in the DR, it can be taken to other Caribbean countries,” said Blumberg.

Five years from now, Parra hopes to see the new EWS in the DR up and running. She predicts it will take about one year to receive funding for the project, two years for installation of the software and equipment and a few more years to achieve a good record of storm prediction.

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In addition, on July 11, Stevens held an inaugural ceremony to kick off the Department of Home-land Security-designated Center of Excellence in Port Security, to be known formally as the Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce.

The event was held in the atrium of the Babbio Center for Technology Management, and included remarks from Stevens’ President Harold J. Raveché; Dean of Engineering and Science, Michael S. Bruno; and Mr. Jay Cohen, Under Secretary, Science and Technology Directorate, US Department of Homeland Security, and Dr. Matthew Clark, Director, University Programs, US Department of Homeland Security. Attendees also were addressed by Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, and Congressmen Steven R. Rothman and Bill Pascrell, Jr.

“Today is about research and education, creativity and innovation, as we look for technological solutions to the complex issues facing our maritime systems,” said Bruno.

The Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce will focus on sensors, modeling and analysis to improve maritime domain awareness. The center will also address the question: can a marine transportations system be designed for the United States that is that is resilient to man-made and natural threats.

“Terrorism is real. The fact that 9-11 happened a few years ago should not diminish this issue. No political statement should understate it, nor overstate it. The reality, its significance, is true,” said Raveché.

“Terrorists and criminals will always take advantage of seams and anything we can do to minimize that is good for security and bad for the terrorists and criminals,” said Cohen.

The Institute will receive grants of up to $2 million per year for between four and six years to research these issues to better pro-tect the maritime industry.

“We learned so many things since 9-11 about the threats that are facing us and continue to face us, even today. That includes maritime threats, threats at our ports and goods shipped into our ports. So we’re very realistic, we’re not panicking, but this is a great occasion to use our academic intuitions to come up with new ways to protect our ports, to protect nuclear devices or other devices that can cause us harm,” said Congressman Steven R. Rothman.

Among academic partners represented at the event, Rutgers’ President Richard McCormick addressed the attendees regarding the importance of the center’s mission.

“Rutgers takes seriously… its mission of service to the state and nation,” said McCormick.

“We’re strongly committed to homeland security and to research and service in this particularly acute 21st century, demanding area.”

The center brings together a unique set of academic institutions and public and private sectors with diverse expertise and significant expertise in developing new knowledge, models, tools, policies and procedures,

and education/training methodologies related to global maritime security and coastal safety.

In addition to Rutgers, university partners include the University of Miami; the University of Puerto Rico; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Monmouth University. Non-university partners include JBC International; Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors; the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; the Pacific Basin Development Council; and the Nansen Environmental Remote Sensing Center.

The US Merchant Marine Academy’s Global Maritime and Transportation School is a federal partner in the endeavor.

Representatives from the non-university partners also spoke at the event. Bethann Rooney, Man-ager, Port Security, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Richard L. Canas, Director of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, both addressed the audience.

Stevens has been selected by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as one

of the first 23 National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAE-R). Stevens will hold this designation from 2008 to 2013. Universities designated as Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance (IA) Education and Centers of Academic Excellence in IA Research are eligible to apply for scholarships and grants through both the Federal and Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Programs. This designation will also lend itself to numerous opportunities for advanced research in the field, and is a testament to the outstanding IA research already being conducted here at Stevens.

This most recent designation builds on Stevens’ excellent history of being a National Security

Agency (NSA) Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance

Education for the academic years 2003 through 2006, and 2006 through 2009. The application process for the CAE-R designation

was led by Professors Susanne Wetzel and Sven Dietrich (Computer Science),

and their efforts were supported by Professor K.P. (Suba) Subbalakshmi from ECE.

Presentations were made to the designated centers on June 4, 2008 during an awards ceremony at the annual conference of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education.

The National Centers of Academic Excellence in IA Research Program was launched in September 2007 to address the need for robust IA technology, policy and practices that will enable our Nation to effectively prevent and respond to a catastrophic event. The vision for this program is to establish a process that will present opportunities for IA research centers to drill deeper into much needed solutions to securing the global information grid and provide NSA, DHS and other federal agencies with insight into academic IA programs that can support advanced academic research and development capabilities.

The National Security Agency and the Depart-ment of Homeland Security jointly sponsor the National Centers of Academic Excellence Pro-grams. This partnership was formed in April 2004, and responds to Priority III of the Presi-dent’s National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace of 2003. The President’s National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace refers to cyberspace as the nervous system of our Nation’s critical infrastructures, and indicates that the healthy functioning of cyberspace is essential to our economy and our national security. Securing cyberspace presents a difficult strategic challenge, and information assurance education is a critical component in successfully meeting that challenge.

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Professors Sven Dietrich and Susanne Wetzel (above) led the application process for Stevens’ designation as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research.

Opposite page: Representative Pascrell, Senator Lautenberg and Representative Rothman listen to opening remarks from Dean Michael S. Bruno, July 11, 2008.

T he class of 2008, one of Stevens’ largest, was addressed by New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine and Dr. Curtis R. Carlson, president and CEO of SRI International, at the university’s 136th undergraduate

ceremony. Both the governor and Dr. Carlson received Doctor of Engineering degrees, Honoris Causa.

“The continued preeminence of America and our economic well-being will be borne of your genera-tion’s ability to advance our understanding and appli-cation of science and technology,” said Corzine.

In 2005, Corzine announced his candidacy for the governorship of New Jersey, promising to bring the same business practices and integrity that helped him run Goldman Sachs to state government. He built his campaign around his comprehensive ethics proposal, revamping the state’s property tax system, building a stronger economy, and improving education and healthcare. Corzine was sworn in as New Jersey’s 54th Governor on January 17, 2006.

“Your experience at Stevens will put you at the front line of that. There is a host of examples of great suc-cess of your predecessors carrying that forward. From Colonel Stevens steam engine to its successor the internal combustion engine. From Kitty Hawk to the Apollo program. Even this very day a landing on Mars. From the telegraph to the internet, America has lead the advance with innovation and invention. We are people filled with creativity and a search for curiosity in all of our doings. I’m proud to recognize that New Jersey has been inextricably linked to those advances. You’ll hear that from Dr. Carlson in a few seconds. From Edison’s Menlo Park to the genius of Bell Labs to the super-think tank of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton — or right here at Stevens. America and New Jersey carried the mantle of the Industrial Revolution into the 20th century, and again we will carry the age of technology into the 21st,” Corzine said.

Carlson became president and CEO of SRI International in December 1998. Previously, he spent more than 20 years with Sarnoff Corporation, a wholly owned SRI subsidiary.

In 1973, Carlson joined RCA Laboratories, which became part of SRI in 1987 as Sarnoff Corporation. As head of Ventures and Licensing at Sar-noff, he helped found more than 12 new companies. He started and helped lead the high-definition television (HDTV) program that became the

US standard and in 1997 won an Emmy® Award for outstanding technical achievement for Sarnoff. Another team started and led by Carlson won an Emmy for Sarnoff in 2000 for a system that mea-sures broadcast image quality. In 2007, Carlson was named chairman of Sarnoff ’s Board of Directors.

“You’re graduating in an exciting time. We live in a world of unprecedented opportunity — a world of abundance. In the knowledge age, the age you’re in, there are no limits to growth,” said Carlson. “Unlike land and other physical resources, ideas and creativity are unlimited. But it is a world of abundance only for those who can see the opportunities in front of them and those who have the skills to take advantage of them. Without these skills it can seem like a world of scarcity. Fortunately, you are among that rare group with the required skills. For you, an exciting journey is just beginning.”

The Class of 2008 features not one but three students graduating with perfect 4.0 grade-point averages: Anthony Najem, Totowa, N.J., graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering degree with High Honors from the Chemical Engineering program in the Schaefer School of Engineering and Science; Kresti Pecani, Staten Island, N.Y., graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree with High Honors from the Chemical Biology program in the Schaefer School; and Amanda Rogers, Mahopac, N.Y.,

graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering degree with High Honors from the Chemical Engineering program, the Schaefer School. All three graduates addressed their peers during the ceremony.

Verizon Telecom President Virginia P. Ruesterholz, a Stevens alumna and Board of Trustees member, addressed the graduate commencement ceremony. She also received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree.

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Julia Howe ’01, daughter of Marc and Tsugiko Howe, is a true engineering entrepreneur.

Howe’s interest in engineering was sparked as a young girl when she received her first Capsella and Lego set from her grandfather, Wesley J. Howe ’43, who was a major influence in her life. Years later, Howe started a computer-programming hobby in her bedroom, which led her in the late 1980s and early 1990s into the underworld of dial-up BBSes (Bulletin Board Systems). By the mid-90s, Howe had started her own terminal-mode bulletin board system (Realm of Mirage BBS), which became part of Cyberwar Internet Service Provider. Howe even applied to Stevens Institute of Technology through the university’s BBS.

At Stevens, Howe began her studies as a Computer Science major, but later changed her major to Philosophy and Social Science, with the vision of preparing herself for a future of entrepreneurship. Howe’s work experience led her to game design, midi music and web development.

“At Stevens this was also my focus,” she explained, “until the required Humanities minor for Com-puter Science majors opened my eyes to Phi-losophy and Sociology. I felt my work experience would speak for itself and changing majors wasn’t a huge risk, given my ambitions. It was always in the back of my mind that I’d start my own company and work on what I loved — online games.”

Howe earned a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Social Science and minored in music while at Stevens. She also earned a graduate certificate in Project Management from the Howe School of Technology Management and is currently working toward a master’s degree. “Stevens has a very comprehensive project management curriculum,” said Howe. “Entrepreneurs and programmers alike would benefit from taking Project Management classes just to help them develop a sense for breaking complex, multidisciplinary jobs down and planning projects more strategically. The program at Stevens helped prepare me for the Project Management Professional/Proficiency Exam, and I passed on the first try.”

With a number of years of work experience and an energetic, entrepreneurial spirit, Howe has managed to create several start-up companies — Mnemosyne LLC, with projects including “Rubies of Eventide,” a massive, multiplayer RPG game; “Lolcattz” CCG, which is based on a popular message board meme; Fennecfoxes.com, which is home of “Aggrofox,” the web comic, the premiere source of information for owners and breeders and a genealogy application for tracking exotic pet fox bloodlines; and Hermit of the Mountain, a sci-fi set rental and design service.

Howe’s major challenge in keep-ing her companies in business has been finding the balance between market demand and development. “Unfortunately, you can’t just go to the market with a good idea and hope that the idea will sell itself,” said Howe. “As an entrepreneur, you have to maneuver creatively around the minefield of vaporware accusations, the ever-climbing technology curve, and keep every-one excited for what’s to come. That becomes a major exercise in community management.”

In the fall of 2005, Howe’s career took a turn when she auditioned for a role on the online sci-fi series Venus Rises and began working with Jason Birdsall, a graduate of the Full Sail School of the Record-ing Arts and director of the Venus Rises series. In 2006, she became Venus Rises’ webmistress and was subsequently promoted as the show’s production manager after earning her Project Management Professional Cer-tificate from Stevens. Currently, she coordinates actors for ADR (audio dialogue replacement) ses-sions, manages the schedule and deliverables for computer graphics, maintains the website, deco-rates sets, plans their convention presences and does the majority of marketing for Hermit of the Mountain and Venus Rises. Howe said, “It’s been a long road, but it’s highly rewarding to be on the edge of a budding sci-fi series.”

During the production of Venus Rises, Howe worked closely with several Stevens alumni including Arnand Kularajah (Starship concept and design, 3D modeling/animation), Damien Amores (lead male actor in Venus Rises Series1) and Michael Krupnick (lead male actor in the episode “Ikarus”). Other members of the Stevens community involved in the project include Robert Morris (practical effects engineer), Nicholas Muir (IT consultant), Peter Calderon (sound engineer) and the current members of WEXP, now rechristened SITtv.

In regards to her greatest successes thus far, Howe said, “I’d have to say that the fact that all those kids who were awkward or outcast in their respective high schools that called my BBS are still to this day my close friends, is a testament to my ability to create and sustain communities online, enriching

its members’ lives offline. ‘Rubies of Eventide’ is another example of a strong community, defying the commercial viability of a decade-old online game. Similarly, I hope that Venus Rises will attract a crowd that will shamelessly redefine what it means to be involved in a vidcast community.”

Aside from academics, Howe also participated in extra-curricular activities while at Stevens. She played on Ste-vens’ soccer and tennis teams, and she was a member of the Anime Club and served as vice president of the Gamers Club in 2001. Before coming to Ste-vens, Howe attended Ramapo

High School in Franklin Lakes, N.J., where she participated in the school’s Academic Decathlon, Inventors Forum, the basketball team and the track and field team.

Howe currently works as Community Marketing Manager for Vogster Entertainment, as Production Manager for Hermit of the Mountain and is the CEO of Mnemosyne LLC.

“My advice for women engineers is to have no fear,” said Howe. “You’re not alone! Making games is a multi-disciplinary endeavor, and it takes all types of people.

“Do a good job, and you’ll be aptly rewarded.”

Stevens, IIT Delhi and the University of Alabama jointly hosted US-India Day as part of a three-day conference on flexible enterprises that ran from June 14–16, 2008 at Stevens. US-India Day was held on

June 16 in the Babbio Center.

The workshop included representatives from leading US and Indian companies, and academics from the US and IIT Delhi, one of India’s leading technology schools. These participants discussed the opportunities and issues involved in US-India commerce. In addition, attendees focused on questions such as: How can US companies take advantage of business opportunities in India? How can Indian com-panies take advantage of business opportunities in the US? Other topics included outsourcing, freight transportation, virtual teams and managing across cultures.

“For some time now, Stevens has been privileged to have on its faculty scholars, who were born, and some educated as well, in India. So that culture, that tradition, has been evident in our faculty for quite some time. In addition, the student body, both undergraduate and graduate, includes men and women who were either born in India or whose parents were born in India. So we have very active Indian student associations, and the campus reflects many of the interests and cultures of India,” said Stevens’ President Harold J. Raveché.

“With our faculty now, and the Dean of the School of Systems and Enter-prises, we are getting increasingly more involved in India. For example, the School of Systems and Enterprises conducted a special workshop in systems engineering for the Indian Space Administration earlier this year. We are

entering into partnership agreements with Indian Universities and hope-fully also with companies based in India,” said Raveché, adding, “Being on the board of organizations in Asia, I get to see developments, and I’m very excited about the emerging economic and technological strengths of India.”

Speakers included Ambassador Neelam Deo, consul general, consulate general of India; Mark J. Riedy, attorney at law, Andrews Kurth LLP; Jack Lerer, president, IDT International; Ron Somers, president, US-India Business Council; Frank McDonough, president, New York Shipping Association,

Inc.; Charlie Gulotta, Strategic Global Sourcing, Infosys Technologies Limited; Mahesh Haryu, senior technology executive, Altria Corporate Services, Inc.; Brian D. Smith, partner and managing director, TPI.

“India-US relations have certainly become much more substantive, they’ve become much more intensive there is an increasing number of areas of cooperation and the interaction between the two countries has become more frequent. There are multi-layered exchanges between the political leadership, business and industry, the scientists, students and military personnel,” said Deo.

“The progress just in the last couple of years between us includes landmark agreements such as the Open Skies Agreement and the number of flights between India and the US have increased by a multiple of 10 times in the last two years. We have a new defense agreement, we have an energy and economic dialogue, we have a knowledge initiative in agriculture, we have new agreements in

science and technology. We have revitalized our earlier agreements in space, in the defense industry and in research and development. And these are all the elements that constitute modern economies, and those sectors of the economy that interact most between the US and India,” said Deo.

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Leaders are born, not made, right? Not according to Dr. Don Lombardi, Program Director of Healthcare Leadership and Man-agement at the Howe School of Technology Management.

Lombardi currently helms the Stevens Healthcare Educational Partnership (SHEP),

which during the summer received a $684,000 workforce development grant from the New Jersey Department of Labor. The objective of the program is to develop new leaders and managers for a consortium of four major New Jersey healthcare providers — the St. Barnabas Health Care System, the CentraState Medical System, Hoboken University Medical Center and Kessler Rehabilitation.

Why is such an initiative important? According to Lombardi, all it takes is a review of the Peter Principle, which, according to the 1968 book of the same name (by Dr. Laurence J. Peter), is defined as “a hierarchy [where] every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”

While The Peter Principle is a humorous take on what happens when people are promoted in the workforce, the principle has real validity, according to Lombardi, who notes that in healthcare, someone can be a great nurse or lab person, but when promoted to a team leader or manager, he or she is unprepared for the new responsibilities.

“If you look at these four great New Jersey healthcare organizations, they all share stellar professionals who are technically expert and are now getting promoted to management,” he says. “A lot of times, they aren’t afforded the opportunity to learn how to deal with challenging situations or the ‘art and science’ of people management. For example, a lab technician works in specific analysis and with equipment. In becoming a manager, he doesn’t have a precise manual and is dealing in an area that is far from being an exact science.”

Lombardi says the program will teach these new team leaders project management and computer skills, and perhaps more important, good management skills in the tradition of Peter Drucker and other great management thinkers — “getting things right,” he says, “as well as sound leadership, and doing the right things.”

For example, if a manager hires a bad employee, that could have ramifications throughout the institution for years to come. Instead of talking about why it’s important to hire good people, the Healthcare Partnership teaches managers how to hire good people.

“People already know that it’s important to hire well,” Lombardi says, “so we’re giving them real-

world, field-proven techniques to hire the best possible professionals for the benefit of everyone in our state.”

So, instead of these new managers asking for a potential employee’s qualifications or a list of strengths and weaknesses, the program teaches them to have the person discuss a recent mistake and how it was remedied. “If you hire someone who will be an excellent performer,” Lombardi says, “that will resonate strongly throughout the entire organization as well as its community.”

The grant will train more than 1,000 workers in courses that also include strategic planning, database use and management, enterprise resource planning, and business communication. The hospitals in the consortium will match the grant with $1,159,905 of their own resources.

Stevens will provide the training for new managers, support staff, direct patient care staff, clinical managers, medical practice managers and business service managers.

The objectives of this unique partnership are to provide statewide support for front-line and management development; develop new leaders and managers for the consortium participants; sup-port economic and community development; create long-term partnerships among New Jer-sey’s leaders in healthcare and Stevens; and develop a health-care education infrastructure.

Lombardi calls getting the grant “an incredible journey, as this truly is a vanguard partnership between the state; four of our best healthcare organizations; and our premier technology, business and engineering school.” When he heard that getting such a grant might be a possibility from a colleague, Sharen

Glennon of Stevens, he said it took him “two days to realize it was for real. The real catch was doing the paperwork for it,” he says, noting that it took 289 hours of preparation and grant-writing. “A couple of nights I was asking myself, ‘Why am I doing this?’”

Lombardi adds that Stevens is “the first one to do something like this within the state. It was a real education process for me to understand all of the information New Jersey needed, and it was an education for them, too. But I certainly give us all an ‘A+’ for making it happen, and our intent is to make all New Jerseyans that use these facilities the real winners.”

Lombardi notes that it’s a difficult economy for hospitals, as evidenced by the many that have closed throughout the state in the past couple of years. “We’ve really got a great start at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, and they’re thrilled to get this train-ing, which we’ve customized for them,” he says.

“When we initially presented how the grant will work, we did 14 sessions as ‘lunch-and-learns’

for hospital employees. Four-teen out of 14 times they clapped but then they asked — ‘hey, what’s the catch?’ They found it as hard to believe as I did. But they are now seeing it is as good as we’d hoped — for everyone.”

Customized training grants are matching grants awarded to New Jersey businesses to provide training to the company’s workforce in skills

specifically needed to increase productivity and marketability. The grants, awarded through the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, are funded through the Workforce Development Partnership Program.

Robert Harari, an Industry Assistant Professor in Stevens’ Music and Technology program, has incorporated his love for music into the study

of technology, enabling the Music and Technology program to grow rapidly. Music and Technology is a newly formed major that is dedicated to the study of music and its relation to science and technology. This program encourages students to take their interest and turn it into a career. Harari is a perfect match for the program: He has devoted his career to music and technology.

Harari received a music degree from New York University and his passion for music has been evident throughout his career. “It’s always been about the music,” said Harari. “I am a musician first, technician second.” His diverse background in both music and technology has captivated both audiences and the students he teaches.

“Rob is not just a Music Technology educator. He is also an amazing mentor. He goes out of his way to make sure his students have a thorough understanding of the course content and he makes his classes fun. I hear these comments from our students all the time,” said David Musial, Director of Music and Technology at Stevens.

Harari has been a recording engineer for 25 years and has professionally produced music for 15 years. As a child, he had an inclination toward technology, which remains a significant part of his life. During his childhood, Harari was a ham radio operator and built his own radio. In 1983, as an adult, he used a .dos code program to create music, and continues to use the latest hardware and software in his professional career.

Harari is multi-talented. He is a classically trained pianist and also plays the trumpet and percussion. He was the first sound designer for the New York City Tap Festival, and the festival was so successful that it became an annual event. His work with Tap dancers spans very high profile events with Gregory Hines all the way to Savion Glover. He had a part in designing the stage set for the Barbara Streisand millennium concert at the MGM in Las Vegas, Nevada in which Mr. Glover had a principal role.

A Hoboken resident since 1989, Harari has always enjoyed attending concerts at DeBaun Auditorium. While at DeBaun in 2005, Harari learned about the Music and Technology program. He had enjoyed working with students in the past, so he reached out to David Musial to see if he could offer his expertise to Stevens’ students as well.

Musial and Harari began working together to create a music program that offered students a foundation in technical skills while encouraging them to experiment with new creative ideas.

“I wrote the classes as I went along. Soon enough I had six intense courses that were enough for four semesters of sound recording, sound design and audio for post production,” Harari said.

Harari has his own recording facilities, known as HarariVille (www.harariville.com), where musicians have access to both Harari’s expertise and the latest digital technology. This is the key to making the courses offered in the Music and Technology program so unique.

“Recently I co-produced five songs with him in his amazing HarariVille Studios,” Musial said. “He brought in three Grammy®-award winning musi-cians and in a short time, he worked musical magic

and Bill Lewis, the client who wrote the main song, was in tears when he heard the recording. The power of well produced music!”

Harari’s studio has also been a classroom where students collaborate with the professional musicians and learn how to produce and record songs. “Through the courses, students come to class and we are able to use tracks of whatever sessions I had recently worked as source material for the students to learn through. Often times, those tracks were created by some of the most amazing musicians,” said Harari.

The Music and Technology program prides itself on its small classes, and encourages students to work closely with both faculty and their peers. The small classes enable students to work one-on-one with the musicians and technicians, providing a strong learning environment in which students can grow creatively.

Harari strongly believes that this method has improved student life. Recently, Stevens students have been working with other Stevens students. The Stevens string quartet has recorded in his studio. Harari has also worked very close with Castle Point Records, part of Stevens Multi-Media. Students who are interested in entering the music media field have the opportunity to produce CDs for exciting new bands.

Harari produced three of the songs on the first Castle Point Records album. Students worked with him on the recording, a collaboration that follows the Technogenesis model by creating an environment of enterprise and innovation.

“Rob is a musical engineering genius. Stevens is extremely fortunate to have him on our team,” says Musial. “He is one of the finest engineers and producers, and a true professional.”

Harari is currently in production on his next major label project to be released in 2009.

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Stevens partners with NJ hospitals to upgrade healthcare leadership and workplace skills

Stevens Healthcare Educational Partnership MembersThe Stevens Healthcare Educational Partnership (SHEP) will develop new leaders and managers for a consortium of four major New Jersey healthcare providers. These partners include:

•The Saint Barnabas Health Care System: Com-prised of six major medical centers; more than 22,000 employees; 32 medical organizations and 50 facilities across New Jersey, Saint Barna-bas is not only the state’s largest healthcare system, but is also the second largest employer in New Jersey of any kind.

•CentraState Healthcare System: CentraState is New Jersey’s fastest-growing healthcare system and a community provider of healthcare services of all kinds in the center of the state.

•Kessler Rehabilitation Services: Kessler is the major provider of rehabilitation services in New Jersey. Its reputation was recently enhanced by a New York Times cover article on its work in veterans’ and children’s rehabilitation.

•Hoboken University Medical Center: HUMC is the oldest hospital in continuous service in the state, and is Stevens’ “neigh-borhood” partner, as well as a vanguard leader in healthcare in Hudson County.

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It’s always been about the music. I am a musician first, technician second.” — Professor Robert Harari

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Two professors of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens have received funding for one year at $149,934 from the New Jersey Commission

on Science and Technology (NJCST) to establish the New Jersey Innovation Partnership Institute in Clean Energy Technology (IPI-CET) at Stevens. The main goal of the IPI-CET is to develop educational and training programs and curricula at various levels that are needed in response to rapidly increasing workforce challenges within the energy industry, providing expertise to Mechanical Engineering students specifically in the Nuclear Engineering field.

Mechanical Engineering Professors Hamid Hadim and Constantin Chassapis are the Co-Principal Investigators for the project. Chassapis is also Director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens.

“To address these challenges, creative solutions and effective strategies will be developed within the IPI-CET at Stevens as they relate to pipeline development, career awareness and outreach, development of effective educational programs, and entry-level skill development,” said Hadim.

As part of its main strategy for workforce education in support of talent development and economic growth, the New Jersey Governor’s Office of Economic Growth has identified clean energy technology as one of four targeted industry sectors that are key to the state’s future economic development. With the demand for electric power in New Jersey expected to increase by up to 40 percent by 2019, nuclear power is considered as the most viable large scale, clean energy source needed to meet future electric power needs and ensure meeting the state’s targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as recognized in the new state’s energy master plan.

“A large number of highly trained nuclear power engineering and technology graduates will be needed to replace close to 50 percent of nuclear professionals who are to retire within the next five years, as well as for expansion of nuclear power capacity projected within the near future,” said Chassapis. “In addition, there is a significant demand from the nuclear power industry for entry-level engineers and technicians who have acquired significant practical training and skills through exposure to real world nuclear power engineering and technology thus minimizing their need for further training as they enter the workforce.”

In response, Stevens will establish an Innova-tion Partnership Institute in Clean Energy Tech-nology, with its main focus on nuclear power education and training in this initial phase. As a critical component of the Institute, a strategic partnership has been forged, which includes Ste-vens, Bergen Community College, Public Service Electric & Gas Co., Erin Engineering Co., and PJM Interconnection.

The program is designed to respond to the educa-tional and workforce challenges mentioned above through four main components:

• Aprogramatthehighschoollevelthatwillprovide a (2+2+2) high school-community college-university pathway leading to a cer-tificate or undergraduate degree with con-centration in nuclear power engineering.

• A“Technician’sCertificate”programtobeoffered at Bergen Community College.

• A“NuclearPowerEngineeringConcentra-tion” for students pursuing the Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in mechanical engineering at Stevens.

• Acontinuingeducationprogramforwork-ing professionals interested in a career in nuclear power, combined with a licensure preparation program for working nuclear professionals interested in a “Nuclear Plant Operator” license.

The program will be designed to have a sub-stantial practice-oriented component using Ste-vens’ Cooperative Education (Co-op) program that is supported by a large industrial partnership. Stevens’ award-winning WebCampus program will be used to offer appropriate online courses to students during their co-op assignments as well as to working professionals that are interested in career change or advancement. The proposed pro-gram components will include competency-based course modules designed to provide participating students with the necessary fundamental knowl-edge, design experience, and “hands-on” practi-cal skills needed to meet next generation nuclear power workforce education and training needs.

The program will leverage from several edu-cational initiatives that are ongoing at Stevens. Among them, the New Jersey Alliance for Engi-neering Education (NJAEE) is an NSF-funded partnership that promotes the integration of prob-lem solving, innovation and inventiveness within main stream high school STEM curricula, while fostering the cross-fertilization of innovative teach-ing methods across K-12, college- and university-level education. This program is developing a model to increase the percentage of students pur-suing STEM careers and training via stimulating integrative curricular approach that combines tra-ditional science and mathematics teaching with engineering and technology education, innovation and problem solving, as well as critical workforce skills such as teamwork, critical thinking, analysis and information synthesis.

Deliverables for the program will include curri-cula and related educational and training material that will lead to an industry-recognized certificate or degree, and will be shared with the Institute partners, other companies in the energy industry as well as appropriate high schools, community col-leges and universities statewide and nationwide.

The expected outcomes from the proposed program will benefit Stevens’ industrial partners by providing them the opportunity to recruit co-op students within the program who can be trained and observed, and also to access to highly trained entry-level graduates and working professionals who will have acquired the skills needed to have a successful career in nuclear power technology.

Expected broader impacts include an increase in the pool of students and working professionals interested in pursuing a career related to nuclear power technology; preparation of students and working professionals for a successful career in nuclear power technology, and the demonstration of the program as a model for adoption at other institutions statewide and nationwide.

Dr. Christos Christodoulatos has been appointed to the position of Associate Provost for Academic Entrepreneurship. In this new capacity, Christodoulatos will work closely with the academic deans to advance the goals and objectives of the Technogenesis® environment at Stevens, and the other goals and objectives in the university’s Strategic Positioning Plan. He will mentor both regular and research faculty on issues of entrepreneurship, intellectual property, innovation, creativity and market value of research outcomes. He will also work closely with faculty and students to ensure the transformational success of the Technogenesis culture throughout the student body and undertake initiatives that instill in students both creative thinking and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Christodoulatos will promote and manage the creation of intellectual property and support faculty in developing and obtaining patents, develop and sustain a network of outside experts from industry, the private sector and government to assist in advancing Technogenesis at Stevens, and develop and execute a plan for enhancing the visibility of the Institute nationally and internationally with respect to cutting edge Technogenesis driven initiatives.

Technogenesis is the educational frontier, pioneered by Stevens Institute of Technology, where faculty, students and industry jointly nurture research concepts to commercialization and back to the classroom. It is more than technology transfer; it is part of the Stevens educational experience and creates a climate of innovation and enterprise across the campus.

Christodoulatos, formerly the Director of the Center for Environmental Systems, is an interna-tionally known researcher and brings a wealth of experience in the development of intellec-tual property. He was the co-founder of two of Stevens’ successful companies, HydroGlobe and PlasmaSol, and has worked with various faculty across departments and schools to promote Technogenesis. He holds a bachelor’s and mas-ter’s degree from the City College of the City University of New York in Chemical Engineering, and a doctoral degree from Stevens in Environ-mental Engineering.

An interdisciplinary team of professors from Stevens — Dr. Victor B. Lawrence, Dr. Hamid Hadim, Dr. Hong Man, Dr. Rainer

Martini and Dr. Bruce McNair — has been awarded $2.365 million to conduct research for a US ARMY Research, Development and Engineering Command-Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (RDECOM-ARDEC) National Small Arms Center (NSAC) Task Order Sub-Agreement (TOSA), titled “A Standalone/Networked Compact, Low Power, Image-fused, Multi-spectrum Sensor System for Target Acquisitions, Tracking and Fire Control.”

The research award will be dispersed in two phases: Phase I for a period of four months in the amount of $444,000 and Phase II for a period of 20 additional months in the amount of $1.921 million.

The Advanced Fire Control Technology Army Technology Objective (ATO) of NSAC seeks to demonstrate solutions that provide advanced fire control component technology that include more accurate range tracking and determination of moving targets, weight distribution, weight reduc-tion, power management, and power distribution for small arms thereby increasing the war fighter’s lethality and availability of small arms.

“In response to this need,” said Lawrence, who is also Associate Dean of the Schaefer School of Engineering & Science, “we are proposing to develop an image-fused multi-wavelength sensor system which combines target image information from different energy spectrums to produce a superior resultant image for visible display as well as target identification and range tracking.”

“The proposed project contains three major components,” said Hadim of Mechanical Engi-neering, “a multi-wavelength sensor subsystem, an imaging and computing subsystem, and system packaging.” The sensor subsystem is comprised of

a dual laser radar system (LIDAR), together with acoustic SONAR and forward looking infrared (FLIR) image acquisition technologies.

The FLIR system uses a miniature infrared focal plane array camera and, in combination with a broadband visible/near-IR video camera, can oper-ate in daylight or darkness to provide more detailed target acquisition and/or target identification. During night-time operation, the high-resolution FLIR imaging system, together with the high reso-lution near-IR would provide detail comparable to high resolution visible light systems. While various components of the target acquisition system are commercially available, e.g., FLIR imaging cam-eras and laser range finders, we are proposing to develop the next generation advanced miniature high resolution FLIR sensors, integrated with laser fire control and target acquisition systems. In addi-tion, our system will combine imaging techniques with acoustic Doppler range finding algorithms to provide superior performance.

Working together with the imaging and sensor suite, the system also includes a computing sub-system which can perform data fusion, visualiza-tion and target analysis tasks.

Packaging design of the proposed system will also be conducted while considering the extreme loading and harsh environmental conditions required by military small arms applications in which the system is to be operated.

Upon completion of the first phase, the basic concepts of the proposed multi-wavelength imaging fire control target acquisition system will be dem-onstrated. Upon completion of the second phase the various components of the proposed multi-wavelength imaging fire control target acquisition system and a prototype of the entire system will be demonstrated and validated in the laboratory to achieve Technology Readiness Level 4 (TRL 4).

Stevens team awarded $2.365 million to investigate a multi-spectrum sensor system for targeting, tracking and control

Christodoulatos appointed Associate Provost for Academic Entrepreneurship Chassapis and Hadim receive grant

from NJCST to establish NJ Innovation Partnership Institute in Clean-Energy Technology at Stevens

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Left to right: Dr. Hong Man, Dr. Rainer Martini, Dr. Bruce McNair, Dan Udovic, Dr. Victor B. Lawrence and Dr. Hamid Hadim.

Professors Constantin Chassapis (left) and Hamid Hadim.

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Stevens was named the winner of ECAC/Jostens Institution of the Year award, given annually to a college or university, encompassing NCAA Divisions I, II and III, that best combines outstanding athletic achievement with outstanding academic achievement. Stevens is in the company of Harvard, Princeton, Williams and Georgetown, all past Jostens Award winners.

Stevens’ President Harold J. Raveché, Vice President Maureen Weatherall and Director of Athletics Russ Rogers were on hand to accept the award in Albany, September 28, at the ECAC Convention Honors Dinner ceremony. Joining them were Associate Director of Athletics Michael Lippencott, Celine Cunningham and Assistant Director of Athletics Brian Granata.

The ECAC is the nation’s largest athletic and the only multi-divisional conference in the country with 321 Divisions I, II and III colleges and universities. The ECAC stretches from Maine to North Carolina and westerly to Illinois.

During the 2007–08 school year, a total of nine different Stevens teams were represented in the NCAA national or regional tournaments — men’s cross country, men’s fencing, men’s soccer, men’s swimming, men’s tennis, wrestling, women’s cross country, women’s fencing and women’s volleyball. For the second year in a row, the women’s volleyball team was New York Regional champions of the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the national quarterfinals. The Ducks finished with an overall record of 36-5 and a national ranking of No. 19 by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. The men’s soccer team reached the NCAA Tournament for the fifth-consecutive year, while the men’s tennis team made its second-straight appearance.

Stevens sent three individuals to the NCAA national tournament in their respective sports. Brandon MacWhinnie became the first All-American in Stevens’ wrestling history when he placed third in the country in the 174-lb. weight class. Lowden Charles reached the finals of the NCAA men’s fencing championship, which marks the first-ever foilist to do so through 64 years at Stevens. Evan Wilson also became the first All-American for the men’s swimming program as he finished 21st at the NCAA Championships in the 1,650-yard freestyle as a freshman.

Academically, Stevens produced eight CoSIDA/ ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District honorees in six different sports. Three student-athletes were named CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Americans: women’s soccer player Sara Roeder, and Michael Hoffman and John Hoffman of the men’s cross country team. Roeder and Michael Hoffman were both first team selections and Roeder was part of the women’s soccer team that won an NSCAA Academic Team Award for the fourth straight season.

In addition to the Jostens award, 2008 graduate Michael Hoffman received the ECAC Robins Scholar-Athlete Award for all of NCAA Division III. His brother John was present to accept the award. 2008 was the second-straight year a Stevens student was honored with the award as Scott Stoner received the award in 2007.

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