The President’s Report | 2009

National Centers of Research Excellence and Institutional HonorsThe excellence of Stevens’ academics, research and campus life experience resulted in a year of great progress for 2008.

This year, the university has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engi-neering, port security and information assurance.

Stevens launched its new Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) on November 24, 2008. The Department of Defense (DoD), awarded Stevens a five-year renewable contract to establish the SERC at its Hoboken, New Jersey campus. This is the nation’s only University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) focused on systems engineering research.

SERC will be responsible for systems engineering research that supports the development, integration, testing and sustainability of complex defense systems, enterprises and services. SERC will serve as the systems engineering research engine for the DoD and Intelligence Community. It will also offer systems engineering programs and workshops for DoD and IC employees and contractors. Along with Stevens and the University of Southern California as its principal collaborator, researchers from 16 universities and research centers throughout the United States will support the mission of SERC.

The US Department of Homeland Security selected Stevens as one of 11 univer-sities to serve as important partners for conducting

multi-disciplinary research and creating innovative learn-

ing environments for critical homeland secu-rity missions. On July 11, 2008, Stevens held an inaugural ceremony to kick off the Department of Homeland Security-designated Center of Excellence in Port Security, to be known formally as the Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce (CSR).

CSR will focus on sensors, modeling and analysis to improve maritime domain awareness, as well as marine transportation systems that are resilient to manmade and natural threats.

Stevens was also selected by the DoD as one of the first 23 National Centers of Academic Excel-lence in Information Assurance Research (CAE-R).

Stevens will hold this designation from 2008 to 2013. Universities designated as Centers of Aca-demic Excellence in Information Assurance (IA) Education and Cen-ters of Academic Excellence in IA Research are eligible to apply for scholarships and grants through both the Federal and Department of Defense Information Assur-ance 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 con-ducted here at Stevens.

Additionally, a Stevens Senior Design project was highlighted by Popular Science magazine in its September 2008 issue, “Generation Next — Radical Ideas from Today’s Young Geniuses.” Now alumni, Christopher Alexander, Brandon MacWhinnie, Michael Manzione, Sonal Pujji and Juan Rodriguez developed a proto-type of an unmanned, lightweight, maneu-verable and cost effective helicopter during their senior year at Stevens.

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Representative Pascrell, Senator Lautenberg and Representative Rothman listen to opening remarks from Dean Michael S. Bruno at the DHS inaugural ceremony July 11, 2008.

Dr. Harold J. RavechéPresident of Stevens Institute of Technology

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About the cover: The production of silicon microsystems (pictured) in Stevens’ new Clean Room facility, located in the Carnegie Laboratory building, adds a new element of high-technology research and development to the spectrum of activities at the university.

Stevens’ Green Efforts As concern for our impact on the environment continues to grow, Stevens has increased its green efforts in several ways.

With a two-year grant of $569,853 from the National Science Foundation, Stevens will develop an Environmental Entrepreneurship (E2) Program at Stevens. Dr. Lex McCusker, Dean of the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management, will serve as the project’s Principal Investigator. Co-Principal Investigators at Stevens are Dr. Thomas Lechler, Associate Professor of Technology Management, and Dr. Christos Christodoulatos, Professor and Director of the Center for Environmental Systems. Dr. Kurt Becker, of NYU Polytechnic University, will serve as the Principal Investigator for the sub-awardee institution.

A new Green Engineering minor has been approved in Stevens’ Charles V. Schaefer, Jr.

School of Engineering & Science, and is open to engineering undergraduates from all majors.

The Green Engineering minor consists of six courses and provides a two-course technical core — sustainable engineering and sustain-able energy. These courses are followed by two technical electives which can also pro-vide a sustainable engineering focus area. Two additional courses are intended to allow students to explore ethical, social, economic and political contextual issues associated with sustainability.

Large solar arrays are now installed atop two of the largest buildings at Stevens: The Schaefer Athletic Center and the Samuel C. Williams Library. The university is installing additional solar panels around its campus in an effort to reduce substantially its electric costs.

According to Hank Dobbelaar, Vice President of Facilities, the university’s ultimate goal is

to reduce its total electric consumption by 40 percent by the end of the decade with the use of solar power and other forms of sustainable energy.

He notes that Stevens has not had to lay out a single dollar for the infrastructure and installation of these systems, which will be paid for by a power purchase agreement. Such an agreement means that a developer installs the units for free, and then Stevens buys power from it at a much-reduced rate for 25 years, at which point Stevens will then own the system.

In addition, a Green Book Award is given out yearly by the directors of the Stevens Center for Science Writings, sponsored by Turner Construction. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, whose critiques of the environmental movement have provoked widespread reconsideration of its methods and goals, won the 2008 Green Book Award.

the university’s ultimate goal is to reduce its total electric consumption by 40 percent by the end of the decade with the use of solar power and other forms of sustainable energy.”

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an incredible journey to the final of the 2008 Division III Men’s Soccer Championship. Stevens advanced by Rennsalaer Polytechnic Institute, Rhode Island College, Johns Hopkins University, defending champ Middlebury College, and Amherst College before falling to Messiah College in the National Championship game.

The Stevens women’s soccer team claimed its second-straight ECAC Metro Championship with a 1-0 win over rival New York University. Senior Meghan Tennyson scored a goal in the fourth minute of action, and the Stevens midfield and defense was able to hold NYU offense at bay. With Stevens claiming its second ECAC Metro title, the Ducks concluded the 2008 season with an overall mark of 15-5-2.

The National Field Hockey Coaches Association announced its 2008 Longstretch/NFHCA All-Region teams, and three members of the Stevens Institute of Technology field hockey squad were named All-North Atlantic Region. Senior captains Hillary Paul and Allison Shields and junior Kara Borzillo were all named to the first-team. Stevens recently ended the best season in the program’s five-year history as the Ducks won the Empire 8, advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division III Field Hockey Champi-onship, and finished with an overall record of 19-4.

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Starting Salaries of StudentsStevens graduates continue to be in demand by employers, and their average starting salaries are higher than the national average. Stevens students are highly sought after by industry leaders, and following graduation, many receive multiple job offers.

63 percent of graduating students choose from more than one job offer.

10 percent of graduating students received four or more job offers.

24 percent of graduating students received three job offers.

29 percent of graduating students received two job offers.

The top employers of the Class of 2008 include Accenture, ADP, BAE Systems, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Fort Monmouth, Goldman Sachs, Hamilton Sundstrand, JPMorgan Chase, MarketAxess, NAVSEA, Picatinny Arsenal, Schering-Plough, Schiavone Construction, UBS Financial, and URS — Washington Division.

In addition, 11 percent of the Class of 2008 chose to continue their education at the following universities: Columbia University, Lehigh University, Rutgers Law School, Seton Hall Law School, Stevens Institute of Technology, Temple University Medical School, University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Because of the culture of entrepreneurship, creativity and technology leadership that Stevens students absorb, Stevens graduates are among the most in-demand and employable candidates for positions of leadership in industry, even in challenging times for the nation’s economy; indeed, they are more frequently recruited before graduation than at any time in Stevens’ history.

Stevens’ Scholar-Athlete

Stevens was selected as the recipient of the 2008 Jostens Institution of the Year award. The award is given annually to the Eastern

Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) institution that best exemplifies the highest standards of collegiate academic and athletic performance. Stevens joins the likes of past Division I winners Princeton University, Harvard University, University of Maryland–College Park and Georgetown University, and is the only technological university to win this award.

In addition to the Jostens award, 2008 graduate Michael Hoffman received the ECAC Robins Scholar-Athlete Award for all of NCAA Division III.

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.

In addition to ECAC honors, 2008 was a year or many records and accomplishments for Stevens’ athletic teams.

Stevens’ men’s indoor track and field team competed at the New York University Open Invitational, and the Ducks broke two school records at the meet. Senior Trevor Currie was the first Duck to turn in an Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference qualifying time. The 1600-meter medley relay squad of freshmen Greg McLeod and Rich Fox, junior John Sangiovanni, and sophomore Michael Pawalowski also set a new school record with a time of 3:46.25.

The National Soccer Coaches Association of America released its final national rankings, and the Stevens’ men’s soccer team closed the season as the No. 2 team in the country. The Ducks were the national runner-up after

Because of the culture of entrepreneurship, creativity and technology leadership that Stevens students absorb, Stevens graduates are among the most in-demand and employable candidates for positions of leadership…”

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Michael Hoffman ‘08 (right, with VP Maureen Weatherall and President Raveché) received the ECAC Robins Scholar-Athlete Award for all of NCAA Division III.

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The new NanoPhotonics Lab, under the directorship of Professor Stefan Strauf, adds a new dimension to Stevens’ Center for Controlled Quantum Systems, a joint effort by theorists and applications specialists working at the leading edge of modern physics. The lab focuses on novel, functional materials such as photonic crystals, semi-conductor quantum dots, and carbon nanotubes.

Recent AppointmentsDr. Christos Christodoula-tos has been appointed to the position of Associ-ate Provost for Academic Entrepreneurship.

In this new capacity, Christodoulatos will work closely with the aca-demic deans to advance the goals and objectives of the Technogenesis

environment at Stevens, and the other goals and objectives in the university’s Strategic Posi-tioning 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 Technogen-esis culture throughout the student body and undertake initiatives that instill in students both creative thinking and an entrepreneurial spirit.

In addition, Dr. Joseph Mitola III was appointed recently to the new posi-tion of Vice President for the Research Enterprise as well as a Distinguished Professor, holding a joint appointment at the Schaefer School of Engi-

neering and Science and the School of Systems and Enterprises.

Professor Mitola will be responsible for promot-ing large-scale, cross-disciplinary research initia-tives among Stevens’ diverse research centers, laboratories and contract research projects.

Vice President Mitola will promote such initiatives in government agencies, as well as the private sector. He will be responsible for

investments that advance the goals and objec-tives of the Strategic Positioning Plan by working in close collaboration with the academic deans, department directors, center directors and prin-cipal investigators.

Fred Regan was ap-pointed Vice President of Advancement, and will serve as the most senior fund raising executive at Stevens. Vice President Regan will lead the Office of Advancement and is responsible for the entire fund-raising staff and pro-

grams, including communications and relation-ship development with individual and corporate donors and prospects, as well as foundations.

Randy L. Greene, CPA, was appointed Vice President of Finance, CFO and Treasurer. Greene, who received his MBA in Accounting and Finance from the John-son Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, comes to Ste-vens with more than 25

years of professional experience in public, pri-vate and nonprofit organizations. Greene started his career in higher education at Cornell Uni-versity, where he held positions in accounting, financial affairs, treasury and sponsored research management, culminating in being the control-ler of Cornell’s Weill Medical College in New York City. Since 2000, Greene was the Assistant Vice President for Finance and University Controller at NYU, where he improved the systems, struc-tures and culture of the accounting and financial compliance operations of the university.

Strategic Positioning Plan

To compete effectively with our larger institutional counterparts, Stevens has sharply focused its education and research

efforts. The specific research thrust areas that have been defined by the Board of Trustees, the faculty and administration during the past two years include Nanotechnology and Multi-Scale Systems; Secure Systems; and Systems Engineering and Enterprise Systems. Each of these efforts spans many programs, departments and the constituent schools, constituting clusters of interdisciplinary enterprise.

To this end, we are guided by the three enabling platforms of the Strategic Positioning Plan (SPP):

•Cross-disciplinaryresearchrooted in strong individual faculty scholarship.

• Excellenceofundergraduateandmaster’s programs.

• Institutionalpoliciesandpracticesforexcellence in faculty teaching.

Entrepreneurial research communities are bound by a common purpose to achieve distinction while overcoming artificial boundaries. They are the cornerstone of the extended research enter-prise, supported as a top institutional priority.

Advanced research by communities of creative enterprise will place Stevens at the forefront in the areas of security technologies, systems and micro/nanotechnologies. These communities encourage multidisciplinary collaboration, drawing upon the greatest number of energetic and productive faculty members to achieve common goals.

SSE’s new Master’s Degree Program in Space Systems Engineering, directed by Dr. Wiley Larson, allows professionals working in government and private space-related enterprises to combine a robust technical education in space systems design and development, as well as key space system engineering processes and tools with a holistic understanding of systems engineering principles. This combination provides them with a unique advantage that is hard to come by anywhere else.

The program is one of the few of its kind currently being offered by a technological university in the US.

Dr. Christos Christodoulatos

Dr. Joseph Mitola III

Fred Regan

Randy L. Greene, CPA

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Commencement 2008Stevens was honored to have Dr. Curtis R. Carlson, president and CEO of SRI International, address the Class of 2008 at its 136th commencement cer-emony. Both Carlson and Governor Jon S. Corzine, who also addressed the graduates, received Doc-tor of Engineering degrees, Honoris Causa.

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.

Dr. Curtis R. Carlson

Governor Jon S. Corzine