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“Per aspera ad astra.”

[Through adversity to the stars]

Stevens Family Motto

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introMessage From the President 6Message From the Chairman 7

complex worldThe Paradox of Technology 10A Network That Reads Minds 13Quantum Leaps into New Realms of Photonics 15

secure worldA More Secure World 18Maritime Security Transforms Harbor into Lab 21

interconnected world An Interconnected World 24Online Learning Gets Personal 25Taming the Cognitive Cell Phone Jungle 27No Borders for Engineering Students with a Cause 28Engineering Turns on K-12 Students 29

small worldBig Benefits from a Small World 32Simple Machines Pave Way to Tomorrow’s Nanomachines 35Putting Nanotubes on the Scales 36New Research to Reduce Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and Implant Infection 37

entrepreneurial worldCompeting Successfully in Today’s Innovative Entrepreneurial World 40Majoring in Breadth 42Building Bridges Across the Hudson 44

a world of achievementA World of Achievement 48A Fine Ducks Season 50Provost & University Vice President George P. Korfiatis 55A Smooth Transition into Stevens’ World 56Christos Christodoulatos Appointed Associate

Provost for Academic Entrepreneurship 57

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Attila Radio2005

Capillary Discharge Non-Thermal Plasma,1999

PredatorVision System

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Hazeltine’s Neutrodyne Receiver

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Yacht America

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Stevens Circular Railroad Track, Castle Point,

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Modern Gantt Chart

Originated 1910-1915

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Chairman Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr.

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The Board of Trustees, along with the faculty and administration, has spent considerable time developing a Strategic Positioning Plan (SPP), the aim of which is to elevate Stevens’ posi-tion among the highly regarded technological research and educational institutions in the country.

The SPP is focused on three research thrust areas for the university,` each encompassing large, intersecting fields of academic endeavor, and dependent upon cross-disciplinary collabo-ration rooted in strong individual faculty schol-arship:

• Systems and enterprise management and architecture

This is an emerging academic discipline, combining important fields of science, engi-neering and technology management.

• Security – maritime, cyber, informa-tion and communications networks

Homeland security and the containment of global insurgency are important national pri-orities. The US needs to achieve continuous advances in innovative technologies to help combat terrorist threats.

• Multi-scale engineering, science and technologySignificant advances are anticipated in practical solutions to

humanity’s everyday needs. They include research in engineering, science and technology management at the micro- and nanoscale – for areas as diverse as pharmaceutical and biomedical products, engineered materials, alternative energy sources, agricultural bio-technology and safeguarding the world’s environmental resources.

Initiatives in all of these critically important areas have been under way and gaining momentum at Stevens. By focusing resources on cross-disciplinary communities for learning and research, Stevens will maximize its impact and make its presence felt.

The university’s underlying business indicators remain strong and have shown marked improvement. Undergraduate and gradu-ate enrollments have exceeded expectations, applications have increased substantially and the endowment has continued to appre-ciate substantially. On the operating side, i.e., while fiscal year 2006 met tuition revenue expectations and expenses were contained, there was an overall deficit, which was driven by a number of fac-tors, including a shortfall in miscellaneous revenue against budget, and, to a lesser extent, a change in an accounting principle.

It should be noted that fiscal year 2006 was the first year

for which Stevens adopted a much more detailed approach to budgeting and has signifi-cantly improved its budget-ing and forecasting practices, as reflected in the fiscal year 2008 budget.

Fiscal year 2007, as attest-ed by the audited financial report at the end of this doc-ument, shows a substantial surplus before depreciation, the most substantial surplus in recent years. The Trustees believe this turn of events is further evidence of the effec-tiveness of new financial prac-tices and controls that have been enacted and reinforced during the past several years.

A significant issue fac-ing Stevens is the size of the

endowment. Although the performance of the endowment has been competitive versus our national peer groups, the size of the endowment is too small. The Trustees and the President are in the process of studying the possibility of launching a significant cam-paign that will be focused primarily on doubling the endowment by the year 2012. This is a very ambitious goal and will require the financial support from all alumni.

The combination of academic, research and financial goals pres-ent some very imposing challenges. Establishing financial stability and significantly increasing the size of the endowment are key objec-tives that can only be accomplished through an integrated approach using all the resources of faculty, administration, trustees and alumni. It is critical to the future of Stevens.

Creating an environment where research and excellent edu-cational opportunities go hand in hand is equally challenging, but necessary if we are to attract both the student body and the faculty that will enhance the reputation and output of the university.

The Board of Trustees is fully committed to working with all the involved groups so that these goals are achieved in the next five-year period.

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President Harold J. Raveché

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The Stevens Institute of Technology combined Annual Report for Fiscal Years 2005-2007, which you now hold, is a significant testimonial to the continued strength and dyna-mism of a changing and growing university.

The increase of university-wide enrollment, the size of grad-uating classes, the pool of highly qualified undergraduate applica-tions, the number of doctoral research students and externally sponsored faculty research – all of these rising indices bode well for Stevens’ continued ascent among the nation’s leading research uni-versities. These gains are enabled and driven by the ever-increasing excellence of faculty scholarship, the academic achievements of the student body and efforts of the dedicated administrative staff who are committed to serving our academic community.

To further advance the standing of Stevens, and secure the underlying financials for the future, the university has under-taken the development and implementation of the Strategic Positioning Plan (SPP). The overarching goals of the plan to be realized are:

• To continue the gains in excellence of our undergraduate and master’s education;

• To grow sponsored research and doctoral education with emphasis on cross-disciplinary academics;

• To sustain strong management and financial controls;• To increase the endowment from its present value of

approximately $150 million as of June 30, 2007 toward $500 million; and

• To be recognized as one of the nation’s top research universities by funding agencies, corporations, foundations, prospective faculty and students, alumni and other academic institutions.

Success in meeting these challenges is based on the collec-tive success of different sectors of the Institute-wide commu-nity in achieving key objectives, such as building communities of research and creative enterprise among the faculty and

students. We must also grow externally sponsored faculty research from its pres-ent level of approximately $30 million to $50 million annually.

The university must also significantly increase alumni annual giving from its present level of approximately $2.5 million toward $4 million to $5 million by 2012, so that more scholarship support can be provided to those outstanding students seeking a Stevens education. Additionally, we must sustain the excellence of under-graduate and master’s programs, and attract a larger cadre of outstanding doc-toral research students.

Perhaps of most immediate impor-tance, we must prepare to launch a trans-formative endowment-building capital campaign with the committed participa-tion of alumni and other friends, to ensure that Stevens’ resources accrue healthily and competitively into the 21st century and beyond.

Further, with the strong endorsement of the Board of Trustees and faculty, a new academic leadership position has been created to ensure success in the SPP and fiscal manage-ment of university priorities. Dr. George P. Korfiatis was named Provost and University Vice President, the second most senior position of the Institute.

With input and guidance from a Faculty Task Force, as well as members of the Board of Trustees, a new academstructure has been established to further the ascent of the Institute through the SPP. The re-designation of the Schaefer School of Engineering & Science, the creation of the School of Systems & Enterprises and the College of Arts & Letters, and the contin-ued enhancement of the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management will align Stevens’ educational and research pri-orities with those of the SPP.

Most assuredly, as you review the pages that follow, you will come to appreciate that the foundations for future great-ness are already clearly defined at today’s Stevens Institute of Technology.

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A technology is conceived to simplify something – a repetitive task, a knotty problem, an idea no longer incomprehensible but not yet obvious.

However, new technologies by their nature increase the complexity of our world.

Dealing with this paradox is a crucial part of the Stevens mission.

Our university’s engineers, scientists, man-agers and students combine their individual strengths with those of partners in business and government to transform complex ideas into workable forms.

Stevens is well suited for the task, says President Harold J. Raveché, by “its rich legacy of broad-based education and the distinctive approach of Technogenesis, which integrates education, research and the launching of new businesses based on the intellectual property of the Institute in concert with external partners.”

Recently, this open and collaborative approach has produced important advances in security, biomedical engineering and com-munications.

Systems Engineering and Enterprise Architecture are Core Strengths

Stevens is renowned for its Systems Engineering and Enterprise Architecture, the largest graduate-level program in the

United States. Systems engineering is “a core strength and a key investment area in coming

years,” affirms Dr. George Korfiatis, Provost & University Vice President. Systems engineering brings together people with

multi-disciplinary skills and leverages those various disci-plines and skills to solve today’s multifaceted problems, explain Dr. Dinesh Verma, Professor and Dean of the School of Systems & Enterprises. “It’s where the aspects of science and manage-ment come together.”

With concerns about terrorism and the need for complex homeland security measures, “recognition of the need for sys-tems engineering has accelerated in last three to six years and we have positioned ourselves well to take advantage of it,” Verma adds.

Stevens starts early to educate students “about the con-cept of systems engineering so that boundaries evaporate,” says Beth McGrath, Director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE). “We want them to think about the life cycle of the system, from conception to demise. We try to get them to build a conceptual appreciation for this approach.”

These topics are more often addressed at the graduate level but “it’s important to start the process early” McGrath says. To that end, the Institute has revised the undergraduate engineer-ing degree.

Now in its second year, “students seem pleased with the changes,” says Keith Sheppard, Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Sciences. The changes have added flexibility and choice in core science requirements, “which helps students who are still exploring interests in dif-ferent engineering fields.”

For undergraduates to be able work in the real world they have to learn to ask ‘who are the stakeholders?’ They have to think along those lines, not just think of it as a project they’re working on,” says Lynn Insley, Director of Career Development.

Stevens Institute’s well-integrated approach pays off, Insley

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adds. “Stevens students are highly sought after. The best opportunities come to their doorstep because they are not just technically savvy; their soft skills are strong as well. We help them develop confidence and start them on the process of being successful. We take leadership seriously; we want them to have it.”

Computer Science Makes Strides

Cybersecurity has been one critical area of study in Computer Science in the past several years (see Secure World, page 16).

Another is Proof-Carrying Code (PCC), a technique that allows the safe execution of untrusted code. Adriana Compagnoni, an assistant professor of Computer Science, chaired the International Workshop on Proof-Carrying Code, which brought together lead-ers from academia and industry to promote the collaboration between those adapting PCC ideas to new industrial applications and experts in logic, type theory, programming languages, static analysis and compilers.

As phishing and pharming become more prevalent, research-ers at Stevens have taken steps to mitigate the risk posed by such online threats.

Susanne Wetzel, an Assistant Professor, and Liu Yang, a Research Scholar, both in the Stevens’ Department of Computer Science, presented their research findings at the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) eCrime Researchers Summit in Orlando, Fla.

The APWG joined with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Florida State University and the University of Central Florida to host its first-ever research summit. The confer-ence presented original, unpublished research results, as well

Dr. George P. Korfiatis, recently appointed Provost & University Vice President.

Clockwise from above: Dr. Lex McCusker, Dean of the Howe School of Technology Management; Professor Adriana Compagnioni; Professor Susanne Wetzel.

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as best practices in the area of online fraud. Participants also explored research gaps, opportunities and challenges, including the state-of-the-art with respect to forensic practices for inves-tigating scams based on phishing, pharming and crimeware. They also discussed innovative ideas related to eCrime mitigation efforts.

Wetzel and Yang presented findings from their paper, “Warkitting: The Drive-By Subversion of Wireless Routers,” writ-ten in collaboration with Alex Tsow, Visiting Research Associate, and Markus Jakobsson, Associate Director, CACR, both from Indiana University.

“In this paper, we introduce the notion of warkitting as the drive-by subversion of wireless home routers through unauthor-ized access by mobile WiFi clients,” said Wetzel. “Until recently, the perceived risk of wireless routers has centered on unauthor-ized network and bandwidth use. However, as we illustrate in this paper, the risks are far greater.

“Our analysis shows that it is possible in practice to carry out warkitting attacks with low-cost equipment widely available today,” she continued. “And the volume of credential theft pos-

sible through warkitting exceeds current estimates of credential theft due to phishing.”

By bringing together academics, law enforcement and IT Security practitioners, the summit facilitated collaborations between PIs and centers of research developing eCrime forensics, as well as eCrime countering technologies.

Howe School Handles Business/ Technology Balance

The Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management has matured as an internationally respected academy that effectively equips technology managers to lead and innovate in today’s complex business world.

A new dean was appointed from the ranks: Lex McCusker, former Acting Dean and Associate Dean for Administration at the Howe School. McCusker brings a long history of high-level technology management responsibilities and project oversight, principally in the field of telecommunications.

Professor Larry Bernstein shares his wealth of knowledge in software engineering gained during a distinguished career in high-tech industry. ST

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Dr. Victor Lawrence directs the Center for Intelligent Networked Systems.

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A Network that Reads Minds

Computer networks are getting smarter. They recognize new equipment, guide users through setup and help with security. Even a novice can install one at home, though it may take a few calls to the help line.

Yet today’s networks come nowhere near the vision of Victor Lawrence, Director of the Center for Intelligent Networked Systems (iNetS). iNetS’s goal is to embed intelligence at all levels of the network. This will give the network the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience.

By combining intelligence with sensors, Lawrence hopes to transform today’s networks into virtual butlers who anticipate their masters’ every command.

“Imagine a common task, like talking on the phone with all my direct reports,” Lawrence relates. “Today, the network will dial one number and then the next and the next.

“But suppose we make the network intelligent enough to provide real help. It could find each person, whether they were on their phones, radios or computers. It would ensure their devices are compatible and set up a conference call.

“It would recognize speech commands, provide instantaneous translation, sense facial expressions to express nuance and even take notes. When we hang up, the network would distribute minutes and action items and retrieve additional information.”

Like any intelligent entity, the network would manage itself. It could automatically reconfigure itself to keep traffic flowing in case of failure. It would monitor the world around it with cameras, acoustic monitors, and motion sensors. “These end-points will be intelligent and autonomous,” says Lawrence, “so an acoustic monitor will recognize your voice and a camera will track you so it can anticipate your needs.”

Could a virtual butler turn into an electronic spy? “These type of privacy issues are inherent with the level of intelligence and sharing we envision,” Lawrence warns. “But the technology is coming and we cannot uninvent it. Instead, we think we can use sensors and intelligence to provide more privacy and security, so no one can impersonate you on the network.”

Lawrence admits that researchers have only begun to scratch the surface of this bold vision. iNetS, for example, has several programs that to develop smart end-point sensors. One research group seeks to combine

video and infrared cameras into security systems that see in the dark and tell what someone has recently touched by its heat signature. Another group is investigating sensors that extend battery life by waking themselves up when they detect an event they should monitor.

Other researchers are looking at ways networks can inoculate themselves against unknown hacking threats by monitoring and prevent anomalies from spreading. Still others are developing cognitive radios that find unused frequencies in the radio spectrum for emergency use.

The ultimate goal of iNetS, says Lawrence, is to transform information into useful knowledge. “This will truly help networks improve education and healthcare, boost energy efficiency, enhance financial reliability, and secure and defend our civilization.

“We’re starting small,” says Lawrence, “but we think intelligent networks are going to evolve quickly.”

Dr. Victor Lawrence directs the Center for Intelligent Networked Systems.

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Quantum Leaps into New Realms of PhotonicsStefan Strauf, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Engineering Physics, along with colleagues from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Leiden University (Netherlands), has authored the article, “High-frequency single-photon source with polarization control,” the cover article of the December 2007 issue of Nature Photonics (www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v1/n12/abs/nphoton.2007.227.html).

The article reports on important advances in high-performance single-photon sources that bring such possibilities closer to reality. In particular, single photons can be used to implement absolutely secure optical communication, also known as Quantum Cryptography. With this new source, recording a single-photon signa-ture that took eight hours five years back can now be achieved on a millisecond time scale. This remarkable progress was achieved by developing a novel type of microcavity structure which strongly enhances the light extraction from the optically active material. Moreover, with the help of embedded electrical gates, the research-ers demonstrated suppression of unwanted dead-times in the emission process itself resulting in a net single photon generation rate of 100 MHz into an optical fiber.

“The traditional approach to generating single photons is to use weak laser pulses. To reach the single-photon level, you have to attenuate the light very strong-ly, limiting the efficiency of the device. Also, the photons emitted are governed by statistics. What we need is a high-efficiency source where we can generate photons one by one. Luckily, nature pro-vides a solution in the form of the two-level system, just like the one we use: self-assembled quantum dots,” said Strauf.

In his work, the quantum dots are in an optical microcavity. This is helpful for several reasons.

“The very high refractive index of most semiconductors means that light doesn’t want to get out;

it is trapped by total internal reflection. The cavity fun-nels the light in a very narrow output mode, an entirely geometrical collection-enhancement effect. A second phenomenon is the Purcell effect. When the quantum-dot emission is spatially and spectrally resonant with the cavity mode, the single-photon emission is increased, in our case by a factor of two to five,” he explained.

Strauf’s approach to approach to cavity design is somewhat unusual. But, his approach does offer advan-tages over more common cavity design.

“One common cavity design is the micropillar, cre-ated by etching through alternating layers of semicon-ductor to form a cylindrical structure with a diameter of one micrometre or less. Unfortunately the etching results in rough sidewalls that scatter light, which limits the time that the cavity contains a photon — as quantified by the Q-factor. So we thought, why not have a large device and confine the mode a different way?” said Strauf.

“At the University of California, Santa Barbara, where this research was performed, we built on exten-sive expertise in confining oxidetapers, which are used at present inside vertical-cavity lasers. In our single-photon sources such an oxide taper narrows down the optical-mode volume but does not introduce the scattering losses, giving a Q-factor as high as 50,000. The larger devices also have the advantage that they are not as brit-

tle as the pillars, making them more practical, and allowing us to attach electrical contacts,”

Strauf’s coauthors on the paper are Nick G. Stoltz (Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara); Matthew T. Rakher (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara); Larry A. Coldren (Materials Department and the ECE department, University of California, Santa Barbara); Pierre M. Petroff (Materials Department and the ECE depart-ment, University of California, Santa Barbara); and Dirk Bouwmeester (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara and Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, the Netherlands).

Stefan Strauf, Assistant Professor in the Physics and Engineering Physics depart-ment.

In May, 2006, student from the Business & Technology undergraduate degree pro-gram became the first to attend classes in the new Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. Center.

The Howe School’s progress has been noted. It was cited as among the “World’s Elite Research Institutions in Management of Technology” by the International Association for Management of Technology. And the school hosted the 2006 annual Technology Management Education Association (TMEDA) technology management workshop.

Stevens is quick to respond to industry needs with specialized programs that meet their needs, McCusker notes. The Howe School has begun offering a new master’s degree in pharmaceutical manufacturing to address the needs of engineers, technologists and scientists in the healthcare manufacturing industry (pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, personal care product manufacturers and related GMP-driven industries). In keeping with Stevens’ emphasis on bringing together diverse skills, the degree is supported by the School of Engineering and Science.

Stevens also has been awarded a two-year grant of $569,853 from the National Science Foundation. This grant will be used to develop an Environmental Entrepreneurship (E2) Program at Stevens. McCusker 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 Polytechnic University, will serve as the Principal investigator for the subawardee institution.

“This project aims to create and implement the Environmental Entrepreneurship Lab (E2-Lab) at Stevens to foster the rapid mar-ketplace realization of economically successful environmental innovations that are capable of being adopted by existing com-panies or serve as bases for creating new ventures,” said Lechler. “The E2-Lab will be an unconventional, novel and rapid vehicle for the transformation of scientific breakthroughs and technological advances into innovations in the area of environmental technolo-gies. By combining the technology push that characterizes conven-tional technology transfer routes with the market pull, the team expects to reduce the usual three- to four-year time frame for technology transfer to at most two years.”

“The E2-Lab is in the next phase in the evolution of the Stevens-wide Technogenesis® initiative designed to create a broad-based culture of academic entrepreneurship within the Institute,” said Christodoulatos.

Furthermore, McCusker said, a network of organizations contributing to the E2-Lab will be a crucial part of its successful implementation. “Beyond the initial funding stage,” he said, “it will be critical to maintain the participation of these partners. This will be accomplished by the long-term attributes of the E2-Lab, the creation of value for all participating parties resulting in an economically self-maintaining endeavor that becomes viable independent of government funding.”

According to the team, the E2-Lab intends to re-define the traditional university-industry technology transfer process and to create an unconventional entrepreneurial solution, the E2-Innovation-Transfer Process. Other perspectives and knowl-edge areas have to be integrated into the innovation process. One important component in a successful innovation process is the market knowledge that complements the scientific and technological knowledge. The traditional function and role of universities makes them unlikely sources of the required specific market related knowledge.

“The E2-Lab will be an interdisciplinary university-wide endeav-or,” said Christodoulatos. “It contains an educational component, in which students learn to be comfortable and productive in interdisci-plinary, entrepreneurial environments that address present needs in addition to becoming the next-generation thinkers.

“This award comes in recognition of Stevens’ commitment to Technogenesis over the last 10 years,” he concluded, “and it will catalyze the implementation of Academic Entrepreneurship across all Departments and Schools.”

The E2 Research Project Team: (l.-r.) Lechler, McCusker and Christodoulatos.

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Waves of ships transiting New York Harbor. Invisible waves of telecommunication moving through thousands of trans-mission points within line of sight of Castle Point.

These are daily concerns at Stevens. Now they are more impor-tant than ever.

Because of its location, its state-of-the-art facilities and its devoted researchers, Stevens has long been well positioned to address security challenges, notes President Raveché. Recent years have seen an expansion of this commitment, particu-larly in marine security and cybersecurity.

Maritime Security Lab Founded, Davidson Lab Completed

In partnership with the US Navy the university has established the Maritime Security Laboratory (MSL), based in the Center for Maritime Systems.

To demonstrate MSL’s unique role, a multi-disciplinary, inten-sive project on the detection and classification of moving under-water objects has been commissioned, using threat assessment algorithms, control algorithms, systems-level data management and fusion.

The $3-million renovation of the Center for Maritime Systems’ Davidson Laboratory high-speed towing tank is now complete. MSL Deputy Director Thomas Barnes describes the tank as “the most advanced of its kind in the world.” The tank is used to study wave action and to design ships. The renovation increases the size of world’s fastest high-speed towing tank from 12-feet wide and 6-feet deep to 16-feet wide and 8-feet deep, as well as enhancing its electronics and instrumentation. During the renovation groups from Stevens have traveled to other US tanks to conduct research.

The Davison Laboratory has received two welcome addi-tions:

A tow-carriage mounted, computer-controlled instrument that ●

superimposes unsteady motions on a towed model advancing at forward speed. The addition of the Planar Motion Mechanism (PMM) to the high-speed towing tank expands the scope of

model testing to include investigation of unsteady maneuvering effects. The Office of Naval Research awarded the lab - and Professor Raju Datla, Research Associate Professor in the Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering Department - a $500,000 grant for the instrumentation.

A new research vessel, the R/V ●

Savitsky, specifically outfitted for work in New York Harbor. The vessel contains

a 2,000-pound hydraulic A-Frame and a full suite of electronic navigation and communi-

cations instrumentation and can take measure-ments of currents, salinity, temperature and dissolved

oxygen. Professor Emeritus Dr. Daniel Savitsky, who has nearly 60 years experience at the laboratory, wished his namesake “at least as many years of productive research as I have been fortunate to have experienced at Stevens.”

All these changes “really put us in a tremendous position to integrate all the technology that has to do with maritime research,” on marine security, hurricane safety and environmen-tal dangers, says Dr. Alan F. Blumberg, Director of the Center for Maritime Systems.

Bruno and the university were honored with the Outstanding Partner Award by the Jersey Shore Partnership for research-ing and evaluating methods of shore protection, coastal storm monitoring and coastal hazard education and prevention. And Bruno, along with Blumberg and Stevens Trustee Dr. Stephen T. Boswell, were honored as Fellows by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Seniors Study Security

A number of senior design projects this year also focused on improving security:

One group of engineers created the Mobile Streaming Video, ●

a system that includes a camera and laptop, with Internet access, in police cars, with wireless connectivity and near real-time video streaming back to headquarters. The video gives dispatchers images of the scene so they can better assess a situation and decide whether assistance is needed.

Another group worked to improve emergency communication ●

between blood banks and locals agencies. The Emergency Communications system (ESC) project was a collaborative effort of students in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and the Business and Technology program.

Striving for Cybersecurity

Computers. Credit cards. Cell phones. Even car keys. So many things today contain information that needs to be kept secure. Stevens is responding to that burgeoning need with expanded research, programs and facilities.

A major sign of the university’s commitment is its decision to become one of just a handful of universities offering an undergraduate degree program in cybersecurity. The program provides a strong foundation in computer science, along with the traditional broad Stevens education, covering all components of security and cryptography. Other features are a privacy class and foundations in cryptography. The experi-mental venue for the program is a Cybersecurity Lab that is being built on the sixth floor of the new Babbio Center for Technology Management.

“While cryptographers strive to develop the best secu-rity solution possible, actual implementations of theoretical concepts often fail due to technological limitations, cost restraints and human factors that were not part of the initial design process,” says Computer Science Professor Susanne Wetzel. She explains that for a solution to be practical, “the end user must be able and willing to use it. From an eco-nomical point of view, a solution must provide a substantial monetary benefit to the customer. In order to allow for these complex issues to be better addressed, an education in cyber-security must integrate science, technology and management. In this regard, creating an undergraduate program allows us to be more comprehensive in our approach.

“I can see many exciting job opportunities resulting from this. Students will be sought after for jobs” in areas such as financial industries, health care and consulting, Wetzel adds. She believes the work in cybersecurity will lead students to appreciate other opportunities in the field of computer sci-ence.

Wetzel and fellow Computer Science Professor Rebecca Wright developed the new program with funding from the National Science Foundation. Stevens recognized the two, who collaborate on numerous projects, for their role as faculty members with the conferral of honorary degrees in Engineering.

Wetzel will co-chair the eCrime Researchers Summit (eCrime 2008), the world’s premier conference for basic and

A More Secure World

The renovated Davidson Lab testing tank (top); Dr. Alan F. Blumberg; Professor Subbalakshmi (r) and Professor R. Chandramouli attend a Disruptive Technologies Round Table.

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applied research in electronic crime studies. The conference, presented by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), will be 2006. APWG organized the inaugural eCrime Researchers Summit in Orlando with Florida State University, the National Center for Forensic Science at UCF and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and, last year, eCrime 2007 was programmed in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University ‘s CyLab and the CERT/CC’s Software Engineering Institute.

Professor K.P. (Suba) Subbalakshmi’s area of expertise is wireless network security. Subbalakshmi, an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Cyber Trust Program to study the fundamental trade-offs in wireless security, power consumption and error-resilient encryption code design.

Stevens enhanced its reputation for innovation with the addition of Dr. Victor B. Lawrence to the faculty as Batchelor Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering. In his new role,

Lawrence is leading an engineer-ing school effort “focused in the area of embedded intelligent networks, systems and devices - investigating applications that will provide us with security and improve the way we live, work and entertain ourselves,”

notes Korfiatis. Security is always a hot topic

at Stevens. Vice President Helena Wisniewski’s inaugural “Disruptive

Technologies Roundtable” featured “Ultra-Sensitive Sensors for Perimeter

Security and More,” specifically technologies that form the basis for the Technogenesis start-

up Castle Point Scientific, LLC. Attila Technologies, LLC, the Technogenesis company that provides continuous broadband-on-demand communication devices and services despite satu-rated airways, was the subject of another roundtable.

In recognition of all its achievements, Stevens was re-designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Information Assurance Education and Training Program, part of the National Security Agency (NSA), for academic years 2006-2009.

Maritime Security Transforms Harbor into Lab

The US Navy has a 200-year history of securing its ships and ports against threats from hostile nations. Since 9/11, though, its planners have increasingly worried about how to guard against the unconventional dangers posed by terrorists.

The new Maritime Security Lab exists to help the Navy identify and understand those perils. Its projects range from early detection of waterborne threats to models that predict how air and water currents would spread toxic chemicals or radioactive particles released from a bomb.

Maritime Security Lab Director Thomas Barnes rec-ognizes these issues better than most. As a former fighter pilot and ship commander, Barnes was intimately involved in ship security. As military liaison to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and later at Draper Laboratories, he was part of the search for new technologies to secure naval vessels and ports.

“I joined Stevens because its ocean engineering pro-gram and Davidson Laboratory have outstanding reputa-tions,” he relates. “Their understanding of the physics of water provides critical insights into many naval security problems.”

Equally important, because of its location, Stevens has easy access to New York Harbor. Its 240 miles of navigable water channels run past 1,000 miles of shore-line and 11 individual ports. It is a constantly evolving swirling mix of cool water currents, city heat and salty ocean air.

“It is one of the world’s most difficult waterways to model,” says Barnes. It has, in effect, become the Maritime Security Lab’s laboratory. “If you can model it, you can use those insights to model other ports, not only for homeland defense but to understand how oil spills spread or where storms are likely to cause flooding.”

Stevens has been studying the harbor for decades. “We have buoys that send back real-time information on depth, current, salinity, waves and wind direction,” says Barnes. “We have sophisticated models that use real-time data to forecast the environment. That was once only of interest to sailboat skippers. Now it is critical to national security.”

The Maritime Security Lab has received major grants to refine its modeling capability. The US Navy wants to use models to predict how local climate variations dissipate or concentrate gases or particles released by a bomb. It also hopes to model currents to determine where to set out

sensors to detect potential waterborne terrorists.Another program seeks to replace pulsed sonar

to identify underwater threats. “Even low-grade sonar disperses so much power that it can cause significant underwater environmental damage,” says Barnes. Stevens is developing safer passive acoustic sensors that achieve similar accuracy.

Another program is also working on low-frequency radar systems to pick out small and submerged objects, and models to analyze the behavior of watercraft to pin-point potential threats.

This year, the new Maritime Security Lab will fund nearly 60 faculty, researchers and graduate students. “Our goal,” says Barnes, “is to use Stevens’ harbor research infrastructure to fill the gap between laboratory proof-of-concept and system deployment.”

Capt. Tom Barnes in Davidson Lab.

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Stevens continues to forge strong links with scholars and schol-arly institutions around the globe. One striking indicator of its success is its award-winning online learning unit, WebCampus (www.webcampus.stevens.edu). The e-learning program has reached an impressive milestone, with more than 12,000 Web students from 43 states and 42 countries.

“This is a high water mark. For a small university it’s a giant achievement,” says Robert Ubell, the Founding Director of WebCampus, noting that in six years, it expanded from 23 students in three courses to more than 160 courses. That includes 15 entirely online master’s degrees and an MBA, as well as 34 management and technology graduate certifi-cates. The online programs paral-lel those offered on campus and at corporate sites.

WebCampus marked its 10,000-enrollment milestone with an autumn celebration at the school’s Babbio Center, featuring A. Frank Mayadas, program director of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, who noted that Stevens is “a national leader in online education.” Sloan has sup-ported WebCampus with nearly $1 million in grants since the program was first launched in 1994.

At the celebration, Gaius “Gus” Mount shared his perspective as an online student, work-ing to complete his graduate certificate in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Practices. Calling WebCampus “the cure for the common career cold,” he praised its “great reputation, broad course selection and great online continuing educational oppor-tunities.” Mount, a process controls metrology supervisor at ImClone Systems, is pursuing a Stevens master’s in Engineering Management, also online.

Ubell agrees that WebCampus is a boon to mid-level employ-ees who otherwise would not have time to enroll in career enhancing programs because of family and work obligations.

But, he says, it’s also the best kind of real-world work expe-rience. “One of Stevens’ strengths in online education is the intimate interaction among students and between students and faculty.”

“Virtual team instruction at WebCampus replicates what is already standard practice in global companies where people work across great distances,” Ubell reported. “Our students find virtual teams reflects the new style of business throughout the world.”

When the university approves a program, it is approved for delivery in all modes - in conventional classrooms as well as

online. Most WebCampus courses are taught by Stevens faculty. Students admitted to WebCampus grad-

uate programs must meet the same high standards as those accepted into pro-

grams on campus. Yet another sign of the suc-

cess of Stevens’ e-learning pro-gram is the honor bestowed on Professor Steven R. Savitz, who directs WebCampus’ gradu-ate technology management program. Savitz received what is billed as the world’s most prestigious distance-learning prizes from the US Distance

Learning Association (USDLA) for his three-year study showing

that once faculty gain deep experi-ence teaching online, student posi-

tive response increases substantially; in some cases leading students to call

their online experience better than face-to-face instruction. Savitz, Executive in Residence

in the Howe School, teaches online and mentors new online instructors.

Stevens Institute is also strengthening its ties to China on the ground and online, “carving a niche market in a country with huge potential demand for technology education and US degrees,” says John R. Bourne of the Sloan Consortium.

The Chinese Ministry of Education has just recently granted approval to Stevens’ master’s degree in Project Management, now being delivered in cooperation with Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing. CUFE is the principal academic route to top positions at the Chinese Ministry of Finance and at China’s leading banks.

Stevens also offers graduate programs in partnership with Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), one of China’s top engineering schools. Stevens’ programs in partnership

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Online Learning Gets Personal

When Stevens Institute of Technology rolled out its first online class in 1999, it attracted 24 students. “There were no live or recorded lectures, just online docu-ments,” recalls Robert Zotti, Director, Online Learning. “Everyone would log onto a bulletin board and the instructor would throw out questions on the things you read.”

A lot has changed since then. In fiscal year 2006, more than 150 Stevens instructors taught 2,680 stu-dents in 310 online classes, nearly all of them at the graduate level. Most students had day jobs with cor-porations and government agencies throughout New Jersey and around the globe.

In a world where people and businesses are con-stantly moving and changing, online learning has a lot to offer. Students rank convenience as the number one reason for taking online classes. “You don’t have to change your school even if you’re transferred,” says Zotti. “You can switch from face-to-face to online if your schedule changes or you’re traveling. You can take courses when you go out on maternity leave. That’s the beauty of the online concept; you can come in from wherever and join the classroom.”

The online classroom itself has evolved since 1999. In place of the old bulletin board, which stored notes and presentations, the new system provides real-time conferencing.

“Students can tune into live lectures with voice and visuals,” says Zotti. “Instructors can lecture, mark up slides and have live question and answer sessions. Student teams can also present their projects in real time. Everything is recorded, so students can replay a lecture if they miss class or need to review a point.”

Students get to work with top instructors. “All are either full-time or adjunct professors, and most have 20 to 25 years of experience in their field,” says Zotti. “While most teach on campus, we’re also able to tap the experience of the best talent from around the country.”

Zotti insists online programs are not stripped down classroom courses. “Our studies show the amount of time people spend on online classes is a bit more than on face-to-face courses,” he relates. “There’s lots of discussion, just like in a conventional class. And profes-sors tend to spend more time conducting online courses reading postings and getting into intensive discussions with students about assignments and feedback.”

Those close connections start during orientation week, when teachers phone students about the class. “Some people start out believing that online education is impersonal, you just log in and never see or talk to anyone,” says Zotti.

“We try to make it personal. The instructor calls you up, tells you what to expect, and maybe finds out some-thing about you. Many students probably wouldn’t finish the course or program if they felt disconnected.”

Online courses may never replace regular contact with professors and fellow students, yet they make it possible for many students to take advanced classes Thanks to new technology, today’s virtual classrooms engage students far more readily and personally than Stevens’ first online bulletin board.

Robert Zotti directs online learning at Stevens.

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with BIT have also been approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education. Other agreements have been concluded with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in Beijing. Stevens’ programs in China are regionally accredited in the US by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Stevens’ courses in China are delivered one-third online by Stevens’ faculty, another third Stevens’ faculty visiting China, and another third by Chinese faculty at the host institution. While Stevens provides instruction, not only in Beijing but online from Hoboken, Stevens’ partners provide classrooms, computers and marketing, as well as local faculty for one-third of the cur-riculum. All courses are taught in English.

“We believe that Stevens’ programs, using advanced tech-nologies and advanced ideas in management, have prepared our students at the highest global levels,” comments Ubell. “Our graduate programs have been recognized by international as well as by local companies in China.” Ubell manages Stevens’ education and training programs in China with Vice President Maureen Weatherall.

While students at Chinese institutions often do not get placed in careers that match their education and training, Stevens’ graduates from its China programs have all secured positions at Fortune 500 corporations and notable Chinese industries matching their talent. Some have been accepted to Ph.D. programs in Hoboken or other noted schools in China an elsewhere.

In addition to collaborating with institutions of higher learn-ing in mainland China, Stevens is forging links with academic communities in other parts of the globe:

In Taiwan, Stevens has signed an agreement with ●

several universities and research organizations. In the Dominican Republic, Stevens is offer- ●

ing a master’s of science in information sys-tems, a Master of Science in Computer Science and a Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering at a new facility in Santo Domingo. Also, Stevens, Universidad Central del Este and Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo have formed the Joint Center for Pharmaceutical Research in Santo Domingo for doctoral studies in Natural Products for novel antibiotic and anti-tumor drug discoveries.

Stevens and the Embedded Systems Institute of ●

The Netherlands have formalized an agreement of cooperation in the area of embedded-systems engineering research and education. Stevens and Tallaght Institute of Technology ●

in Dublin, Ireland, unveiled an innovative new initia-tive to create an International Center for Pharmaceutical Education (ICPE), which will provide a full range of technical education and training, granting degrees and qualifications to the pharmaceutical/healthcare indus-try worldwide. Stevens’ e-learning unit, WebCampus, will be delivering Tallaght’s courses online worldwide.

Stevens was awarded a $100,000 grant from the US ●

Agency for International Development as part of its Capacity Building for Training High Level IT Professionals in Bulgaria and South Eastern Europe program. The grant helps implement a joint Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) with the Sofia University in Bulgaria.

Once students from around the world make the connec-tion with Stevens, their desire for engagement often expands. Individuals may take online classes in their home countries and decide to enroll, says Jennifer Marsalis, Director of the International Student and Scholar Services. And “international students and alumni act as Stevens’ ambassadors back in their home country. People say, ‘my sister went here, my brother went here’” and want others to come also.

Stevens now has 740 international students on campus. Most are from India and China. “International students are drawn to Stevens’ great location, its sense of community and its renowned cooperative program,” Marsalis says. “Many interna-tional students who complete their masters’ here return to earn their Ph.Ds.”

Taming the Cognitive Cell Phone Jungle

Over the past decade, it has grown possible to hold wire-less conversations from all but the most extreme deserts and mountains. But today cell phones are also transmitting more and more data, from text, pictures, e-mail, and web-sites to music, videos and even credit card information.

That means trying to squeeze more data through a limited amount of radio frequency spectrum. So far, wire-less companies have found ways to maximize throughput. While voice requires continuous bandwidth to prevent unnatural pauses and breaks, engineers can break text, pictures and other digital information into chunks and transmit those segments whenever there’s some spare bandwidth.

The cracks in this approach are already showing. It takes only seconds to send a photograph to another cell phone when wireless traffic is low, but minutes when it is high. And traffic is exploding as more people subscribe to such digital services as on-demand music, video, e-mail and Internet.

Right now, cell phones have only one way to reach those services: brute force. In the digital jungle, they grab their share of the spectrum by boosting transmission power to drown out other cell phones. Since every other caller is doing the same thing, cell phones must roar even louder to be heard on the network.

Enter Cristina Comaniciu, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and an investigator in the revolutionary field of cognitive radio. She hopes to tame cell phones by teaching them to cooperate and share unused spectrum. This would not only help transmit more data, but do it faster while using less power.

“Cell phones use only a small band of the total radio spectrum,” Comaniciu explains. “Although much of the spectrum is already licensed for other uses, many bands - like television, pagers and citizens band radio - are underutilized. Cognitive radio distributes intelligence to each device on the network. This enables it to sense which bands are open and to change its parameters to transmit on unused spectrum.”

Imposing manners on the jungle is not a simple pro-cess. At any second, thousands or even tens of thousands of wireless devices will be vying for unused spectrum. How do we keep them from interfering with other devices?

What is the right balance of throughput, transmission delay, energy consumption and security?

“There are many protocols that favor one or several objectives, but no one has developed a way to optimize multiple objectives,” says Comaniciu. She hopes to do that by looking first at how different device layers - systems that control power, applications, and network interface - inter-fere with one another.

Comaniciu plans to use information on crosslayer interference to model cognitive networks and optimize the trade-offs between multiple objectives under differ-ent conditions. “By knowing which knobs to turn, we can design simpler, faster, and smarter algorithms for cognitive devices.”

The use of “devices” rather than “cell phones” is intentional. The same optimization algorithms used for cell phones can allow any networked device - from laptop com-puters and cell phones to homeland security sensors and communications systems - to share the wireless spectrum.

By taming the wireless jungle, Comaniciu hopes to help usher in a new era of information that is as ubiquitous as the air around us.

Savithri Ramu, a graduate student from Bangalore, India, takes advantage of wireless connectivity in the Babbio Center.

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Engineering Turns on K-12 Students

Groups of seventh graders hunch over tables at Quibbletown Middle School in Piscataway, N.J. A sub-dued murmur percolates through the classroom as they pick through gears, shafts, motors and wheels. Slowly, vehicles begin to take shape.

Referring to their original designs - pencil drawings of gear combinations - students mount motors and spin gears. When everything works, they rush their creations to teacher Ed Cohen so he can time the vehicles on a test track behind the lab bench. When gears jam or fail to spin, students revise their design.

“At the beginning of the year, they didn’t even understand that you had to connect the gears to trans-fer power from the motor,” says Cohen.

The class itself is as much an experiment as the students’ cars. It is a part of a pilot program to intro-duce K-12 students to engineering. Once, this type of curricula might have targeted the school’s brightest stu-dents. This class, however, aims at everyone, including girls and minorities now under-represented in college engineering classes and in the field as a whole.

“Some of them did not do well in regular science classes,” says Cohen. “But when they have a chance to learn by building and testing, they pay better attention and learn more.”

“We have seen all types of students respond favor-ably to engineering activities, from elementary through high school students, and from gifted and talented to English language learners and special education students,” said Beth McGrath, Director of the Stevens Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, which is spearheading a statewide initia-tive to expose all K-12 students to engineering. “The hands-on design, the opportunity for students to be creative and invent their own solution to a problem and the real world challenges are all key motivators for students.”

A project like the motorized car does more than teach the theory of mechanical advantage. It lets stu-dents apply the theory and math of gear ratios to a real challenge. Instead of test scores, students show what they have mastered by racing a car up an incline.

They also learn to continuously improve their designs while developing a deeper understanding of the scientific principles behind their operation. In other words, they learn the scientific and engineering process - theory, test, revise and test - as well as facts.

“Engineering design and problem solving help students look at the world and apply the science,

math and teamwork skills they learn in school,” says McGrath. “Students can use these skills throughout their lives, as workers, consumers and informed citizens who must make decisions about increasingly technical subjects.”

Founded in 1988 to improve K-12 science and math-ematics education, CIESE received one of the nation’s first grants to develop ways to use the Internet in K-12 education. Today, its educational websites attract more than 100,000 users from 35 countries.

The emphasis on engineering is more recent. It is part of a nationwide trend to interest more students in engineering and to promote technological literacy for all students, whether they pursue engineering careers or not. Hands-on engineering classes not only promote the value of engineering, but show how math and sci-ence relate to exciting, real-world challenges.

According to the Boston Museum of Science, a leader in engineering education and a CIESE partner, students who take engineering do better in science and mathematics and improve their problem-solving skills.

CIESE’s Engineering our Future New Jersey program is laying the groundwork to bring engineering to every school in the state. This starts with teaching teachers to teach engineering and developing curricula.

CIESE works with some of the best educational les-sons available. The Society of Automotive Engineers, for example, developed the vehicle kits used by Cohen’s class. The Boston Museum of Science’s elementary school curriculum helps students build water filters, windmills and other engineering solutions to real world problems that young children can relate to.

No Borders for Engineering Students with a Cause

A team of students, members of the Stevens chapter of Engineers without Borders, is making a connection with rural inhabitants in the Dominican Republic by design-ing a micro hydroelectric generator to provide electric-ity to an isolated community.

In May 2006, Stevens’ undergraduate students vis-ited several regions in the Dominican Republic to launch their senior design project. Near the city of Jarabacoa, they found clusters of houses lining a river through the mountains.

The average home “needs enough electricity for only one light bulb and an appliance,” says senior Chloe Weck, a mechanical engineering major. For most resi-dents, electricity is too expensive or not available at all. To provide electricity for the region, the team is design-ing a micro-hydroelectric generator using parts easily maintained and replaced locally.

“It’s cross-disciplinary,” Weck says. “One of the things we’ve stressed is that we need other people to become involved since the project has social and economic aspects as well.” Weck, a member of the team, works together with civil engineering student Greg Maietta and two other mechanical engineering majors, Nick Strand and Dave Velasco. Katie Weatherall, a Stevens’ business and technology junior is also part of the team.

The students flew first to Santo Domingo, where President Raveché was on hand to give them a tour of the city. They then visited Jarabacoa and other parts of the country.

The visit to the Dominican Republic “was culture shock,” says Weck.

“You prepare for it but it’s a shock. It’s poor but the people are wonderful.”

Founded in 2005, Stevens’ Engineers without Borders chapter (www.stevens.edu/ewb) has more than 20 stu-dent members with two faculty advisors, Professors Leslie Brunell and M.G. Prasad.

Kenneth L. Nilsen, Dean of Student Life, serves as the Administrative Advisor to the group. “Working with the students has been personally very educational and rewarding,” he says. “The students’ interest in changing the lives of an entire village is an example of how engi-neering can make a difference in this world.”

Photos courtesy Engineers Without Borders - Stevens

Students in Ed Cohen’s Piscataway, NJ, science class.

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Big advances in engineering are coming from small sources.Pioneering faculty and students at Stevens “are making

enormous contributions and are creating new knowledge in the frontiers of multiscale engineering. Research in carbon nanotubes, piezoelectric fibers, nonmaterial, enable photon sensors nanopowders for environmental applications, micro chemical reactors and nanobiomedical applications are a sample of the exciting work carried out in our laboratories,” says Dr. Korfiatis.

Research in this area “is a likely launch pad to a new tech-nological era,” says President Raveché, “because it focuses on perhaps the final engineering scales that people have yet to master.”

But the field is not yet well under-stood by the general public, and even by some popular sci-ence writers, who use the terms nano- and microtechnology interchangeably.

“Microtechnology typically refers to feature sizes on the order of one micron, whereas nanotech-nology refers to feature sizes on the order of a nanome-ter,” explains Dr. Frank Fisher. “To put that into perspec-tive: the width of a human hair is about 100 microns. In nan-otechnology, on the other hand, we’re interested in exploit-ing novel phenomena

that happen on the nanoscale. It’s a distinction between min-iaturization versus taking advantage of novel properties that are available below the microscale,” Fisher says.

Fisher knows whereof he speaks. He is an expert in the field; his primary research area is the mechanical modeling of polymer nanocomposites with a focus on carbon nanotube-reinforced polymers (NRPs). He heads the Nanomechanics and Nanomaterials Group of the Mechanical Engineering

Department, which studies the behavior of advanced mate-rial systems at the nanoscale. Particular material systems of interest include poly-mers and polymer nanocomposites, as well as thin film and piezoelectric mate-rials of interest in MEMS applications. The group’s research efforts include micro/n a n o m e c h a n i c s , processing-structure-properties of polymer nanocomposites, and piezoelectric approac-es for energy harvest-ing applications.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recognized Fisher for his work in nanotechnology and mutli-scale engineer-ing, awarding him a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant. Acquired in collaboration with Dr. Henry Du, Dr. Yong Shi and Dr. Zhenqi Zhu, the Nanoscale M a n i p u l a t i o n and Experimental

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Big Benefits from a Small WorldCharacterization I n s t r u m e n t (NMECI) will pro-vide nanometer-resolution, scan-ning electron microscope com-patible manipula-tion, and enabling critical nano-scale experimen-tal investigations spanning many key emerging nano/microtech-nology areas at Stevens. These will include nano-materials develop-ment/character-ization, nano/micro sensors and actuators and micro-chemical/mechanical systems.

Fisher says his group’s research efforts “will benefit great-ly from the NMECI’s controllable three-dimensional nanoscale manipulator and simultaneous visualization capabilities.”

Stevens received a research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the project, “Functional Polymers Modified Surfaces with Biofilm Sensitizing Ability.” Jun F. (James) Liang, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, will serve as the project’s Principal Investigator. their resistance to antimicrobial agents and the host immune system attacks. Bacteria living in biofilms can exhibit up to 1,000 time greater resistance to antibiotics than planktonic bacteria.

“As the widespread use of implants in the medical diag-nostics and therapies for persons with disabilities, implant caused infections now account for 80% of hospital infec-tions. Regardless what anti-biofilm methods are used, the success rates are very limited and biofilms will nevertheless form on implanted devices. In most cases, biofilm related infections can only be cured by a high cost and undesirable proc edu re through the removal of the implants. In this proj-ect, we propose to fight against biofilm from a new direction by directly dealing with formed biofilms. We will construct functional polymer modified surfaces that can prevent bac-terial adhesion and sensitize formed biofilms for antibiotic treatment,” said Liang.

Biofilm associated nosocomial (hospital acquired) infec-tion and disease is currently the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, behind only heart disease, cancer and stroke. Study of bacterial adhesion and biofilm sensitiz-ing mechanism on polymer modified surfaces will enrich our

knowledge about biofilm resistance and promote the research on infec-tious disease pre-vention.

The National S c i e n c e Foundation (NSF) has awarded an i n t e r d i s c i p l i n -ary team of five Stevens Institute of Technology researchers a four-year, $1 million grant to develop “smart,” se l f -assembl ing nano-biomateri-

als that can control whether bacteria will adhere to synthetic surfaces, allowing for carefully targeted control over micro-scopic processes that occur within the human body.

“Technically speaking, this project centers on the design and self-assembly of nanohydrogels that will either be adhe-sive to cells or repulsive to cells,” said Professor Matthew Libera, Principal Investigator on the project, which was fund-ed under the umbrella of the NSF’s Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT) initiative. “We are making families of dif-ferent polymer nanoparticles and developing new ways to coat these onto surfaces.”

“The real challenge is to create so-called differentially adhesive surfaces, ones that will be adhesive to certain types of cells in the body but which will simultaneously repel bac-teria.,” said Libera. “Practically speaking, successful develop-ment of these materials will enable us to create biomedical implants that are more resistant to infection and, hence, more able to do the job for which they were designed.”

Joining Libera as Co-Investigators in the NIRT project are Professor Woo Lee, who directs the New Jersey Center for MicroChemical Systems at Stevens; Professor Svetlana Sukhishvili of Stevens’ Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology; Professor Hongjun Wang of Stevens’ Department of Chemical, Biomedical & Materials Engineering; and Mercedes McKay of Stevens’ Center for Innovation in Engineering & Science Education, a highly respected K-12 outreach orga-nization, which will bring ideas and activities related to infection control and biomaterials into high-school chemistry and biology curricula as part of the NIRT project. “This is a great group of people with impressive abilities,” said Libera, “and they bring to the NIRT project a substantial portfolio of research related to developing infection-resistant biomateri-

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als and new ways to study how infection occurs on synthetic surfaces.”

The Stevens NIRT team held a kick-off meeting and presenta-tion about the research project in November. They were joined by Stevens Dean of Engineering & Science Michael Bruno, as well as Stryker Orthopaedics representatives Joseph Zitelli and Marc Long. Stryker has partnered with Stevens to pro-vide support through board participation and internship oppor-tunities for students at its manufacturing and corporate facility in Mahwah, N.J.

One exemplar of the success that Stevens has already achieved in nanotech-nology is HydroGlobe, Inc., a Technogenesis company incubated at the university. By applying nanomaterials to water treatment, HydroGlobe produces products for the removal of heavy metals - including lead and arsenic - from water. A patent from HydroGlobe won the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award for Technology Transfer from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey. The original patent is owned by Stevens, which has given to

HydroGlobe the rights of exclusive use of the technology.

Funding from the NSF for a SEM-compatible nano-manipulator and from the US Army TACOM-ARDEC for the development of a 500-square-foot Class 100 Clean Room for a Microdevices Laboratory in the Design and Manufacturing Institute (DMI) is pro-viding additional experimental capabili-ties to the group. DMI is an interdisciplinary center that integrates product design, mate-rials processing and manufacturing exper-tise with modern soft-ware and embedded systems technologies for defense and com-mercial applications.

Dr. Kishore Pochiraju, Director of DMI, notes that the institute is achieving success not only in its work with nanomaterials, but also with light-weight materials and materials that can withstand high temperatures in harsh environments. “We can simulate the performance of these materials after 20 or 40 years of aging.”

The light-weight materials can be used instead of metal, says Dr. Pochiraju, in places where “light is money.”

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Simple Machines Pave Way to Tomorrow’s Nanomachines For most people, “nanotechnology” evokes images of infinitesimally small machines. Yet today’s nanotech industry produces only very small particles or carbon tubes.

To see some of the world’s first true nanomachines, you would have to visit the laboratory of Yong Shi, an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering. Shi’s devices may not have gears, motors or switches, but they do have moving parts.

Shi calls the devices nanoelectromechanical systems, or NEMS. The acronym is similar to MEMS, or microelectrome-chanical systems. MEMS are microchip-scale machines with simple moving parts. They are used to trigger automobile air bags and antiskid systems, print high-quality photos and even project images on television screens.

MEMS parts - cantilevers, combs, diaphragms, proof masses - are measured in microns, or millionths of a meter. They are clearly visible under a microscope. NEMS parts are measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter. They are best viewed with an electron microscope.

Despite differences in scale, both NEMS and MEMS rely on integrated electrostatic, electromagnetic and piezoelec-tric sensors and actuators that respond to changes in physi-cal conditions. Shi often works with nanoscale piezoelectric sensors and actuators made of lead zirconium titanate (PZT),

which shows a strong piezoelectric effect. Apply voltage and it moves; move or deform it and it generates an electri-cal signal.

Using a process developed at Stevens, Shi creates a suspension containing PZT precursors, called a sol-gel, and spins it under a high-voltage electrical field. This yields PZT nanofibers and nanotubes with diameters ranging from 50 to 250 nanometers.

Applying current to the fibers turns them into nanoreso-nators that vibrate at a specific frequency. Shi then coats the nanofibers with antibodies that absorb specific antigens, proteins or other substances. When even a small number of antigens stick to the surface, the change in mass significant-ly alters the frequency at which the structure resonates.

“We can use this as a medical sensor to look for dis-ease,” says Shi. “MEMS resonators do the same thing, but nanoresonators are orders of magnitude more sensitive because it takes only a few molecules to change their fre-quency.” Shi is also developing nanosensors for hazardous industrial and chemical weapon gases based on nanofibers because of their unique high surface-to-volume ratio.

In addition to NEMS, Shi is also working on conventional MEMS. Among the most impressive is a MEMS switch. Like any other surface, the contact surfaces of MEMS switches are never flat but full of peaks and valleys called “asperi-ties.” After thousands of contact cycles, these asperities begin to fracture into particles that prevent good electrical

contact.Shi solves the problem

by building an undulated surface on one side of the switch. “By introduc-ing precisely controlled friction between the two contact surfaces, we can sweep away the fracture particles like a broom,” he explains. Such switch-es can be used in sat-ellite communication, radar systems and even cell phones to optimize the performance. Shi is also working on MEMS biological and medical devices.

Although these small devices are relatively sim-ple, they are a giant step on the road to true nano-machinery.Dr. Yong Shi develops the nanomachines of the future.

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Putting Nanotubes on the Scales

For decades, carbon fibers have reinforced polymer com-posites used for everything from aircraft and racing cars to wind turbine blades and golf clubs. Yet when engineers substitute another form of carbon, nanotubes, for fibers, they must rethink everything they thought they knew about composites.

“The problem has to do with scale,” says Frank Fisher, an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, whose research seeks to unravel how nanotubes behave in com-posites. Carbon nanotubes less than 100 nanometers in diameter - 1/10,000th the width of a human hair - behave very differently from thicker carbon fibers, he explains.

Like diamonds, nanotubes consist of precisely aligned carbon atoms. Such atomic-level perfection makes each nanotube orders of magnitude stronger and stiffer than carbon fibers, whose larger carbon layers contain frequent misalignments.

Some manufacturers have already put nanotubes to work. The addition of only one to two percent nanotubes reduces cracking dramatically in conventional composites. Once embedded in a composite, nanotubes form a maze of tiny barriers that stop cracks from spreading.

Unfortunately, dispersing nanotubes poses problems.

“Nanotubes have enormous surface area relative to their vol-ume, so surface effects dominate how they interact with other molecules,” says Fisher. Intermolecular forces that are hardly noticeable in larger fibers cause nanotubes to clump together. Nanotubes also bind to nearby polymers, making polymers too syrupy to flow freely around the fiber in a composite.

Chemists overcome these problems by modifying nan-otubes surfaces. Unfortunately, this changes nanotube behavior. “If nanotubes bond too loosely to the surrounding polymer, there’s no reinforcement,” says Fisher. “If they bond too tightly, the polymer becomes brittle and cracks.”

So how do researchers know which modification is just right? Like Goldilocks, they must laboriously sample each mixture. Or they can try modeling.

Unfortunately, Fisher explains, conventional composite models have two problems. First, they fail to capture the sur-face-dominated properties of nanotubes. Secondly, they make many assumptions because researchers have been unable to measure directly the properties of such small objects.

Fisher hopes to change that. Armed with a National Science Foundation major instrumentation grant, he is mak-ing direct measurements of nanotube properties. Eventually, the data will let him build more accurate models, instead of relying on trial-and-error experiments, to optimize composite properties.

To make the measurements, Fisher uses a nanoma-nipulator with four positioners that are precise within half a nanometer. When the positioner probe touches a nanotube, the nanotube’s surface attraction causes it to stick. Fisher cements the nanotube to the probe by decomposing carbon atoms around them in a vacuum chamber. He then attaches the other side of the nanotube to a second, springier probe.

“When we pull the two probes apart, the softer probe deflects like a fishing pole and measures the force,” says Fisher. “We can measure how far the nanotube stretches before it breaks. By comparing force with elongation, we can derive stress/strain curves.

“These types of experiments will even-tually enable us really to understand and model nanotubes so we can use them in a much wider range of applications,” Fisher concludes.

Dr. Frank Fisher’s research in nanotubes is funded by a major instrumentation grant from the NSF.

New Research to Reduce Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and Implant Infection

“Over the past 50 years, we’ve been putting man-made surfaces into the body to fix all sorts of problems associated with trauma, injury and disease. But these surfaces pro-vide a lovely place for bacteria to grow,” says Woo Young Lee, Director of the New Jersey Center for Microchemical Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Today, physicians use metals, ceramics and polymers to repair spinal injuries, drain cerebrospinal fluid and immobi-lize fractures, among many other clinical problems. These materials are also used for hip and knee implants. While the risk of infection is as low as 0.3 percent for hips and one percent for knees, the consequences of implant infec-tion are high.

“If you have an infection, the only solution is to remove and replace the implant,” explains Matthew Libera, Lee’s collaborator and Director of the Stevens Laboratory for Multiscale Imaging. “This substantially amplifies both the cost and the time for recovery.”

Together with Professors Svetlana Sukhishvili and Hongjun Wang, Lee and Libera are exploring several new implant-coating ideas to reduce implant infection. This is not easy, because these coatings must repel bacteria but still allow muscle and bone tissue to adhere. The research team just received an important $1-million grant from the National Science Foundation.

“Most implant infections are caused by bacteria living in biofilms,” says Lee, referring to plaque-like bacterial colonies. Biofilms grow on implants because the body’s blood supply cannot deliver enough antibiotics and white blood cells to suppress them.

The low levels of antibiotics that get through kill some but not all the bacteria. “As long as one cell survives, it can pass on its antibiotic-resistant genes,” says Lee. “This is a front line in the battle against antibiotic resistance.”

To tackle this problem, Lee’s group is developing a fast-er, more realistic and far less expensive method to screen future implant materials that will enable less dependence on antibiotics.

Using traditional approaches to optimize infection-resis-tant implant coatings could take years and cost as much as $300 million. “Developing new approaches is a real engineering challenge,” says Lee. Consequently, the team

is developing new microreactor technologies to rapidly assess coating combinations under realistic physiologic-like conditions.

“When cells are confined to a flat Petri dish, they grow differently than when they are unconstrained,” says Lee. Microreactors enable cells to grow in all three dimensions, so they develop the complex structures found in the body’s bone, muscle, and organ tissues.

“By creating a more realistic microenvironment, we can improve both the predictability and speed of screening procedures,” he says.

The results also come quickly. Each microreactor can contain an array of test sites that are rapidly screened by a variety of high-sensitivity analytical tests. Such rapid screening lets researchers quickly hone in on promising materials combinations and reduce the overall cost of coat-ing development.

The result will not only benefit those who receive implants, but everyone who worries about infection in a world that is very rapidly developing new and lethal strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Dr. Woo Lee is Director of the New Jersey Center for Micro-chemical Systems at Stevens.

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At Stevens, examples abound of students, professors and companies working togeth-er - researching, developing and launch-ing new businesses based on the intel-lectual property of the institute in con-cert with its external partners.

Dr. Vikki Hazelwood, a Professor in the Chemical, Biomedical & Materials Engineering Department, is expert at shepherding projects through the Technogenesis process. She brings together engineering researchers and clinical care providers to successfully move these projects “from bench top to bedside.”

Along the way, “I work with the students and make sure they collaborate with the physicians. Their worlds are so different, they have to learn to communicate,” she says.

One revolutionary product she has been working on with stu-dents eliminates unnecessary surgery by finding the overlooked source of back and neck pain. The product, which has been featured on CBS-TV, Eyewitness News and MedStar Network, is the basis for the Technogenesis start-up company, SPOC, LLC (formerly known as Team MECCo).

SPOC was formed by the Office of University Enterprise Development along with the technology inventors, Dr. Norman Marcus, a leading expert in the field of pain management, and students Jeckin Shah, Ryan Stellar and Daniel Silva.

SPOC was conceived at Stevens as a senior design project in Hazelwood’s bio-

medical senior design class. SPOC incorporates two technol-

ogies, one of clinical methodology and one of device technology, for a combined diagnostic package that allows for a revolution in the accuracy and precision of muscle pain diagno-

sis. The first is a diagnostic method developed by leaders in pain manage-

ment. Dr. Marcus’ patented version of this methodology allows for the diagnosis

of muscles in a dynamic, natural state to increase the precision of the diagnosis, while the

unique methodology provides isolation of the pain generator, increasing accuracy. The device was developed by

SPOC and incorporates leading technology for trans-cutaneous-electroneural stimulation, a safe, effective and proven way of stimulating muscle. The patented Dr. Marcus method and the SPOC device are inherently linked, a powerful innovation in the management of chronic pain.

The project has moved on to clinical trials, which is remark-able, Hazelwood says, because “we went into it in less than a year. Usually it takes two to five years. We had a good strategy. We had good cooperation with the physicians in developing the products, so here we are.”

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Technologies Roundtables.” Led by Dr. Helena Wisniewski, these roundtables examine exciting development technologies that are ready for commercialization or are the basis of a Technogenesis start-up company.

SPOC is just one of the Stevens speedy success stories that Hazelwood is involved with. A project that assists in the process of endotracheal intubation won the Senior Design Technogenesis Award, went immediately into trials, and a patent application has been filed.

Another project in the pipeline is the facemask removal tool, a special knife that slices through an injured football player’s face-mask more effectively than other tools. It can remove the facemask 30 to 45 seconds faster than the fastest tool available today, and it does so with substantially less movement to the head and neck than the “most careful” tool currently available, Hazelwood says.

Of course not all innovative projects are in the fields of biomed-icine or engineering. Two Business and Technology undergraduates took second place in the 2006 East Coast Student Entrepreneur Awards for their company, Sell Center LLC, a consignment opera-tion that assists businesses in selling items online.

Anthony Latona and Adam Morris created the profitable, customer-focused business that offers a physical relationship to the virtual marketplace. For a percentage of the sale price, Sell Center (www.sellcenter.net) takes care of all aspects of each sale. Every item is photographed, prepared for sale, listed and mar-keted globally online, and packaged and shipped to the buyer.

They also are making employment and training opportunities available to other Stevens students, and plan to offer Sell Center’s own e-commerce management software, supported by Laris.

The Women’s Lacrosse Skill Development and Training Device won first place in the Web Design Presentation category at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ regional competition.

Students built a mechanical arm that simulates a “draw” move in women’s lacrosse and allows a player to practice alone.

And the student team of Ali Saaemi and Manish Modi, from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, devised a lab-on-a-chip system to provide a microbial detector that can sense the presence of bacteria and other microbes.

Teaching How to Commercialize Technology

Stevens students can learn about the process of commercializing technology “from soup to nuts,” says Dr. Elliot Fishman, Industry Associate Professor of Management at the Howe School. The for-mer venture capitalist is teaching a pilot course on protecting and financing inventions, getting products out of the R&D lab, and realizing the economic value latent in early-state technology.

Students write a commercialization plan for real Technogenesis inventions coming out of Stevens’ labs.

“I believe Stevens is the first college in the country to system-atically teach students how to exploit the commercial value latent in early-stage technology,” Fishman says, noting that the course demonstrates the inter-school cooperation involved in teaching Technogenesis.

“PlasmaSol is the model for success,” he adds. “If we equip students with the skills and knowledge to spin out companies, and then every few years students participate in successful spin-outs like PlasmaSol, then I think the course will be a resounding success.”

The basic technology at the core of PlasmaSol Corporation is an invention by Stevens scientists, known as Capillary Discharge Non-Thermal Plasma. The company was acquired in December 2005 by Stryker Corporation for approximately $17.5 million.

“PlasmaSol is a Technogenesis success story, written at Stevens Institute of Technology,” agrees President Raveché.

Far left/near left: The Mars Rover, a Senior Design project; The Unmanned Chopper, a 2008 Senior Design Project from team members Christopher Alexander, Brandon MacWhinnie, Michael Manzione, Sonal Pujji and Juan Rodriguez. The team designed and fabricated an unmanned aerial vehicle to conduct surveillance missions. Above: A biomedical engineering Senior Design project. Right: The SPOC device was the subject of one of Stevens’ new “Disruptive Technologies Roundtables.”

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“In 1999, a group of Stevens’ faculty members and a team of grad students joined together and founded a company to com-mercialize a patented environmental technology invented at the Institute. Six years later, this company is recognized as a valuable technology asset by a major American corporation. Technology development from laboratory innovation to marketplace imple-mentation - that’s what we call Technogenesis.”

Clusters & Creativity

Dr. M. Hosein Fallah, an associate professor at the Howe School, studies how technology clusters can improve innovation. A tech-nology cluster is a geographical concentration of related firms - including competitors, suppliers, distributors and customers - usually around a scientific research center or university. These clusters offer increased levels of expertise, allow firms to draw on complementary skills, allow for economies of scale and enables the development of infrastructure and support services.

Fallah, former director of Network Planning and Systems Engineering at Bell Labs, has issued a report outlining how New Jersey can develop adopt clustering to turn around its declining telecommunications industry.

“Stevens is possibly the only institution with a focus on tele-communications management. This is an opportunity for Stevens to lead,” Fallah says.

Innovation and creativity are the watchwords of Technogenesis. The Howe School Alliance for Technology Management (HSATM) 2006 conference was devoted to the topic of creativity, as both the igniting spark of the process of innovation and the insights that move an idea along the innovation path from conception to commercialization.

“The genesis of innovation is a creative insight, one that excites the enterprise and stimulates it to undertake the process of imple-mentation to achieve economic value,” says HSATM Director Dr. Larry Gastwirt. “Where, however, does the concept come from, and how can an organization stimulate more and better ideas?

“There is a mystique around creativity. Some believe it is an abil-ity that only a few people have; others feel that it is a form of inspira-tion. Creativity in itself is a discipline, however, both in the sense of a scholarly study and a systematic approach to problem-solving,” he says. “There is a considerable body of research and theory around this topic, complemented by a great deal of practical experience about how to approach the discovery side of innovation.”

Mixing the Worlds of Music & Technology

Castle Point Records “has taught me so much that can’t be taught inside a classroom. You have to be there,” says Ken Bachor, a Music & Technology major and vice presi-dent of Stevens’ own record label.

Bachor and about 20 other Stevens students have been there - meeting with music industry executives and scout-ing for recording artists.Their entrepreneurial efforts have resulted in a com-pilation record, “Delusions of Grandeur,” fea-turing six artists. The CD is avail-able online at the Castle Point Records website http://www.ste-vensmultimedia.com/ and at retail stores.

Students traveled to clubs, listened to demo CDs and considered feedback from both students and others at clubs before choosing the bands for the compilation. They handled every step from art design to publicity.

“This album has been like our child that we’ve been nurturing,” Bachor says.

The beauty of the Music & Technology program is that it is truly academic, “yet involves the real world,” accord-ing to founding director David Musial, listing names of seasoned pros who work with the students such as Carlos Alomer, a guitarist who has worked with John Lennon, David Bowe, Iggy Pop and Duran Duran, and producer Rob Harari of HarariVille Studios.

The program goes far beyond traditional composition, theory and music history, Musial says. It “pushes music further, incorporating sound design and production, to a level where music and technology mingle to create the complex orchestrations of today’s society.

Majoring in Breadth

“Some call it ‘majoring in breadth,’” says Associate Dean Michael Pennotti, describing the System Design and Operational Effectiveness (SDOE) program he oversees in the School of Systems and Enterprises.

Systems engineering programs have been around for decades, but SDOE stretches their boundaries. “Most sys-tems engineering programs are specific to one domain, such as computers or industrial systems,” Pennotti says.

“We stress an interdisciplinary approach across a higher level, such as integrating computers and industrial systems. We also emphasize engineering for the entire lifecycle so products are sustainable after they reach the field.”

System designers like SDOE’s approach. From auto-mobiles to cell phones, today’s products are increasingly complex. Many combine mechanical, electronic, electri-cal, fluid, optical and other technologies. Engineers often design these subsystems independently of one another.

Problems arise when they put them together. The 1999 Mars Orbiter, for example, crashed because one navigation device used English measurements, the other, metric. Both worked fine, just not together.

“The data were correct, but not compatible,” Pennotti explains. “It was an integration problem. It is more likely a complex system will fail due to the unforeseen interac-tion between components than the failure of any single element.

“The role of the systems engineer is to ensure all the pieces work together. Engineers typically learn how to do this over 20 years of practice. We try to squeeze that experience into our courses.”

SDOE classes teach students about both engineer-ing and the external forces acting on engineers. “We force students to consider how new technologies disrupt markets, and how to look at the larger business and social context in which technologies compete,” Pennotti explains.

Pennotti remembers a student paper on digital pho-tography. While the first digital cameras took poor pic-tures, the technology now dominates the market. “The student saw the bigger picture, how technology created opportunities for companies that did not previously make cameras,” he recalls.

The heart of each SDOE class is a complex project that lets students apply what they have learned. “The key is finding the right balance,” says Pennotti. Assignments typically take 60 to 80 hours to complete over a 10-week

period. They should have enough substance to provide meaningful learning, but their details should not over-whelm students.”

A typical Pennotti favorite is the design of a bank ATM machine. It forces students to consider both mechanical and security systems as well as the flow of data through the system.

Stevens currently offers five SDOE graduate certificates as well as master’s and doctoral programs. The courses are given at universities, government agencies and corpora-tions around the world.

“What happens is that our instructors learn as much from their students as the students learn from us,” says Pennotti. “In every class at every new venue, we find more examples we can use in subsequent classes.”

Which sounds like the way to add even more breadth to a program already majoring in it.

Michael Pennotti

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Building Bridges Across the Hudson

From her offices in the Howe Center, Helena Wisniewski has an unobstructed view across the Hudson River to Manhattan. As Vice President of University Enterprise Development, her goal is to span that gulf. She seeks to link Stevens innovations with the New York investors and entrepreneurs who can transform them into new businesses.

“When it comes to Technogenesis, Stevens’ faculty and staff create the ‘techno’ part,” Wisniewski explains. “My job is to han-dle the ‘genesis,’ the creation of commercial products and business start-ups.”

Building on her own expe-rience as an industry execu-tive, government national security official and entrepreneur who founded, developed and sold her own company, Wisniewski helps Stevens start-ups grow. “We take them through the entire business process, from writing a business plan to finding the right management and seed money,” she says.

Wisniewski also develops exit strategies that maximize Stevens’ return on its technology spinoffs. In December 2004, she negotiated the first sale of a Stevens start-up, HydroGlobe, a developer of toxic metal water filters, to Graver Technologies for $5 million plus a royalty fee and ongoing royalties. In December 2005, she guided the $17.5-million acquisition of Stevens startup PlasmaSol Corp. by Stryker Corp. Stryker plans to use PlasmaSol’s cold plasma technology to sterilize medical devices.

For a technology to prove successful, says Wisniewski, it must have unique, patent-protected attributes that give it a competitive advantage. She has not waited patiently for such patents. Instead, she has gone out to proselytize among Stevens researchers.

“I visit researchers in their labs and learn about their bench models and prototypes,” she says. “I’ve tried to develop good

rapport with the faculty, encourage them to file invention disclosures, recognize people when they receive patents, and publicize successes like PlasmaSol and HydroGlobe. Most of all, I’ve made myself accessible to answer questions about com-mercialization and to provide development support.”

The campaign has paid off. Stevens now has well over 130 patent and provisional patent filings in its intellectual property portfolio, and the number of disclosures has doubled to 38 over the past year. “About one-third of the patents are already licensed in some way,” she notes. Patents with limited but useful applications are good candidates for licensing to established companies. Disruptive technologies with broader uses and larger markets are candidates for new Stevens busi-ness startups.

A good example of Technogenesis is SPOC LLC. It is com-mercializing a patent-pending medical device that diagnoses the exact muscle causing back and neck pain. The technol-ogy was developed by undergraduates as their senior design project.

“This is a true disruptive technology,” says Wisniewski. “The source of chronic neck and back pain is often misdi-

agnosed. Muscles, the most common cause of back pain, are often overlooked. Many patients spend money on treatment, medication and even surgery with no relief. SPOC will give physi-cians, physical therapists and even veterinarians a tool that will revolutionize how they diagnose and treat chronic pain.” SPOC’s product is undergoing clinical trials and has been featured on national TV. Wisniewski raised an initial $500,000 investment for the company and recruited a proven medical device executive to head the business.

The initial product of start-up Attila Technologies, LLC, responds to the Department of Homeland Security need for interoperable communications, so that emergency responders can to talk with one another anywhere, any time, even if their communications systems are not compatible. The system turns all available wireless networks - cellular, wireless, satellite - into a seamless broadband network for increased capacity, efficiency and reliability. It also provides two-way, real-time transmission of videos and pictures.

The company’s first product, the Intelligent Multi-Network Mobile Communicator, won the Federal Office Systems Exposition’s outstanding networking software award in 2006. The company is lead by the former president of AT&T Network Services.

A third business, Stevens Multi-Media, LLC, is a student-run music company. It has produced a CD whose songs will be available on iTunes and discovered a female vocalist who was later reviewed in Rolling Stone. “This is another perfect example of Technogenesis,” says Wisniewski. “The students get hands-on experience building a business that builds on their classroom experience while working with such mentors as the vice president of the Grammy awards.” Another new start-up, InStream Media, LLC, has the potential to transform advertis-ing in television and Internet and cell phone streaming videos. It is based on patent pending steganography techniques that embed advertising information into images. When viewers click on the image of a product, the system sends information about it to their e-mail or cell phone without disrupting the movie or performance. Several media providers have already expressed interest.

Additional businesses are in the works. These range from extremely precise optical sensors for border security to photo-graphic-quality security camera that work in darkness, snow and rain and can also detect chemical agents. Both have major market potential.

“We want to be known as the go-to university for innova-tive technologies and ideas,” Wisniewski concludes. “When investors or business people in New York ask where they can go for new technologies, we want them to say, ‘Why not go across the river?’”

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Stevens prepares students to enter today’s complex, interconnected world not just with theoretical class-room instruction but with hands-on professional work experience.

“Our expectation is that all students will have some pro-fessional, practical experience” through research opportunities, internships or participation in the cooperative education program before moving out into the world, says Joseph Stahley, Assistant Vice President for Student Development.

That expectation suits both stu-dents and employers. “Our students like the experience of figuring it out for them-selves. They become savvy. Experiential education acquired at industry sites gives students a frame reference that promotes the transition from adolescence to adulthood,” he says. “Companies like it too. Students’ résumés are tremen-dous.”

About 600 students and 150 employers are involved in the co-op program, in which students alternate semesters of full-time study with full-time professional work related to their majors and career goals. Many students are offered full-time employment with their co-op companies after graduation.

“We want students to develop capabilities for their entire life. The key is to give them experiences, to have them work with companies where they can learn and grow...not just one experience, but a number of internships and co-op experiences so they become clearer in their minds about what they want to do,” Stahley says.

Piotr Czerechowski shows just how well this emphasis on professional experience works. Czerechowski was selected as the 2006 New Jersey Cooperative Education and Internship Association’s Cooperative Education Student of the Year. By taking part in the co-op program, Czerechowski held three different jobs throughout his college experience. He worked with the Hip Team at Stryker Howmedica Osteonics, Picatinny Arsenal and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Czerechowski found that skills from one co-op job trans-ferred to the next and that the job at Picatinny Arsenal reaffirmed his decision to pursue a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Through the assistance of pro-fessional work associates and the

Stevens cooperative education staff, “I’ve earned a chance to live out my dream,” says Czerechowski. He graduated in May 2007 and planned to continue working for NASA upon earning his degree.

Graduation Milestone

Nicholas Iacoviello, the first vale-dictorian to emerge from The Howe

School’s groundbreaking Business & Technology program, also knows the value

of Stevens’ emphasis on professional experience. Iacoviello interned over several semesters for Citigroup,

most recently as a Citigroup Advanced Placement Program (CAPP) business analyst for Global Equities Technology. He also interned with Automatic Data Processing of Roseland, N.J. Following graduation Iacoviello planned to return to Citigroup full-time.

He received the Ann P. Neupauer Full Tuition Scholarship, and his name has appeared on the dean’s list in all semesters. He was a member of the ski and ice hockey clubs and partici-pated in intramural football.

On May 25, 2006, Iacoviello spoke at Stevens’ outdoor commencement ceremony. The 134th class - about 380 seniors and more than 900 graduate students - was the largest gradu-ating class to date.

Harriet Mayor Fulbright, who received an honorary doctor of philosophy in physics, also spoke at the undergraduate cer-emony. Her great-grandfather, Alfred Marshall Mayor, was the founder and first Director of the Stevens Physics department. In her address, Mayor Fulbright quoted her late husband, J. William Fulbright: “Our future is not in the stars but in our own minds and hearts. Creative leadership and liberal educa-tion, which in fact go together, are the first requirements for a hopeful future for humankind.”

The honorary degree recipients and speakers for the graduate ceremony were Hon. Albio Sires and Dr. Sheo Singh. Sires has been a representative to the New Jersey General Assembly since 2000;

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he served as the speaker of the assembly from 2002-2006 and was the first Hispanic to serve as New Jersey’s assembly speaker. Dr. Singh is a director and head of Natural Products Chemistry at Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, N.J.

Commencement 2007

Commencement 2007 witnessed the conferral of honorary doctoral degrees upon two compelling speakers: New Jersey State Senate President and former Governor Richard J. Codey, and Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, a Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker School of Management, who is chiefly renowned as the architect of the notion of “flow” in creativity.

“We have come to understand more clearly than ever how dependent human life and welfare are on other entities – the plankton in the sea, the forests of the Amazon, the subtle shifts in atmospheric temperature,” said Csíkszentmihályi. “And we are beginning to see how our actions in turn impact on these entities that are necessary for our survival.

“The realization of this mutual dependence, and of our crucial role in it, opens up enormous opportunities, as well as a heavy burden of responsibility for each one of us.

“Are we going to be part of the problem, or part of the solution?”

“At the same time that you applied to get here, there were many others who were not accepted; you were – you had a great opportunity, and now you have a great degree without question,” said Governor Codey. “Another thing you have are the things in life, the possibilities, that people before you did not.”

The Class of 2007 Valedictorian speaker was Jorge M. DaSilva. The son of Carlos and Maria F. DaSilva of Harrison,

N.J., the first-in-class student graduated with a bachelor’s degree Mechanical Engineering with

a minor in Economics. DaSilva also received a master’s degree in Systems Engineering and a

graduate certificate in Project Management.

Commencement 2008

The class of 2008 was addressed by New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine and Dr. Curtis

R. Carlson at Stevens’136th commencement cer-emony. Governor Corzine and Dr. Carlson, president

and CEO of SRI International, addressed one of Stevens’ largest graduating classes ever. Both the governor and Dr. Carlson received Doctor of Engineering degrees, Honoris Causa. The graduate ceremony, held later the same day, was addressed by Verizon Telecom President Virginia P. Ruesterholz, who is a Stevens alumna and Board of Trustees member. She also received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree.

Clockwise from top left: Harriet Fulbright; Professor Mihály Csikszentmihályi; New Jersey Governor John S. Corzine; Students assemble in the Canavan Arena for Convocation 2007.S

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A Fine Ducks Season

In the fall of 2007, Stevens joined the Empire 8 Athletic Conference. The Ducks competed for the first time as an Empire 8 field hockey member in the fall. As a full Member of the Conference, Stevens participated in all 22 con-ference sports, with the exception of football.

Empire 8 Commissioner Chuck Mitrano describes Stevens as “a perfect fit” for the Empire 8 family. “Stevens is a first-class university. They have an outstand-ing academic profile and field highly successful athletic

programs.” Director of Athletics Russell Rogers

returns the praise. “Empire 8 is one of the most well-established and respected NCAA Division III athletic conferences in the nation. Stevens is excited to join this outstanding group of institutions, and we look forward to the many special rela-tionships soon to form as a result of

our new affiliation.” Senior outfielder Tim Meehan is

a shining example of Stevens’ success in athletics. Meehan was named to the

ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America baseball first-team in the College Division by the

College Sports Information Directors of America and was

the first member of the baseball program to be named to the Academic All-America first-team.

He led the Ducks to the most wins in school his-tory with a 27-12 overall record and was named Skyline Conference Player of the Year. The Ducks’ all-time leader with 13 career home runs, Meehan ranks second in career hits, runs scored, total bases and RBIs at Stevens. He also owns the school single-season records for runs scored (50) and total bases (95), setting both marks in 2006. To top off his achievements, Meehan registered a 3.74 cumula-tive grade-point average. He graduated from Stevens with a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering as well as a master’s degree in Technology Management before mov-ing on to the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Stevens men’s soccer team ranked No. 10 in the final National Soccer Coaches Association of America Division

III poll. Senior Nick Gkionis and freshman Terrance Johnson were named to the All-Metro Region first-team. Gkionis also was named a first team All-American by the NSCAA and was named to the D3Kicks.com All-America third-team.

Senior Adam Sandt (baseball) and junior Dana Bacalla (tennis) received the Irvin “Buzz” Seymour Award for Male and Female Athlete of the Year for 2005-06.

Junior Heather Dean became the first Academic All-American in women’s soccer history at Stevens as she was selected to the NSCAA/adidas Women College Scholar All-America second-team in the college division.

The equestrian team earned its best ever showing as a team with a second-place overall finish at the All-Region Show at Briarwood Farm. The team also claimed reserved champion college honors for the first time in program his-tory.

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2006-2007 Stevens Athletic Highlights

• NINE TEAMS ADVANCED TO POST-SEASON PLAY Men’s soccer (NCAA Sweet 16) Women’s soccer (NCAA First Round) Women’s volleyball (NCAA Elite Eight) Women’s basketball (ECAC First Round)

Men’s basketball (NCAA Sweet 16) Men’s volleyball (Molten Tournament)

Men’s tennis (NCAA First Round) Men’s lacrosse (ECAC Metro Champions) Women’s lacrosse (ECAC Second Round)

• STEVENS WON FIVE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Men’s soccer - Skyline Women’s soccer - Skyline

Women’s volleyball - Skyline Men’s volleyball - NECVA Men’s tennis - Skyline

Other News• Lorrie Brabender was named an NCAA All-American in swimming.

• J.R. Oreskovich, Mark Bielicky and Josh Smith were named USILA All-Americans in men’s lacrosse.

• Scott Stoner (men’s volleyball was named the Division III ECAC Robbins Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

• Michael Schulte and Tomas Bochicchio were named AVCA All-Americans in men’s volleyball.

• Brandon MacWhinnie narrowly missed All-America status after qual-ifying for the NCAA Tournament in wrestling.

• Nick Gkionis was named a first-team All-American by the NSCAA.

• Dawn Herring and Melissa Rhode were named All-America honorable mentions by the AVCA.

• The total grade-point average for all varsity teams was approxi-mately 3.20.

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Previous page, left to right: Adam Sands; Tim Meehan; Katie Weatherall; Terrance Johnson Above: Heather Dean

Clockwise, from above left: David Zimmerman ‘90, Executive Director for the Center for the Performing Arts at DeBaun Auditorium; Actors from The Theater Group perform in a recent production of Seussical at the Center for the Performing Arts

Stevens students are achievers in performing arts as well as on the ath-letic field.

Involvement within the Center for the Performing Arts has grown by leaps and bounds, notes Executive Director David Zimmerman. Student membership in the con-cert band and the Off-Center Comedy Troupe both grew by 25 percent. Membership in the jazz band and choir increased slightly while the number of students taking music lessons doubled from the previous year.

Main stage productions have seen “a higher overall level of quality in performance and production values,”

Zimmerman says, aided by a new lighting board and new sprung dance floor. Quality pays off – overall attendance increased by 20 percent and box office receipts increased by 25 percent.

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Realignment: New Deans

Dr. James E. McClellan III was appointed Dean of the new College of Arts & Letters in the summer of 2007

Dean Dinesh Verma (l.) hosts a delegation of partners from the Federal Aviation Administration at the School of Systems & Enterprises

Provost & University Vice President: George P. Korfiatis

In December 2006, Dr. George P. Korfiatis was appoint-ed Provost and University Vice President of Stevens. The responsibilities of the office include academic strategy for all educational and research programs, all revenues and expenditures related to academics, oversight for alignment of the university’s revenues and expenses with priorities, nurturing the continuous growth of sponsored research, advancing the development of the research thrust areas and promoting the growth and success of the research centers.

“Stevens is a growing, constantly advancing technolog-ical university,” said Stevens’ President Harold J. Raveché. “Increased interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering, science and technology management, as well as enhanced multidisciplinary research centers to meet significant global needs, are priorities of the Institute. Such dynamism in education, research and technology development requires nurturing at the highest administrative levels - and sound

management for continuous growth and accomplishment. “I can think of no better proponent of Stevens’ vision

to provide this leadership than Dean George P. Korfiatis. He is an original architect of the Stevens environment for inte-grating education and research with external partnerships, known as Technogenesis. As a professor, research center director, dean and entrepreneur, he has exemplified the con-cept of creative inventiveness that the Stevens family helped to enshrine in our American culture when they founded the Institute.

“As Stevens continues to meet the challenges of an interdependent world, Provost and University Vice President Korfiatis will be responsible for ensuring the sustained ascent of the Institute’s academics and its high level of global academic engagement.”

Korfiatis served from 2002 as Dean of Stevens’ Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering. He served previously as the Founding Director of the Stevens Center for Environmental Systems, as well as holding the title of McLean Chair Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering.

Left to right: Dean McClellan, Dean McCusker, Provost Korfiatis, Dean Bruno and Dean Verma

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Christos Christodoulatos Appointed Associate Provost for Academic Entrepreneurship

Dr. Christos Christodoulatos recently was 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 objec-tives of the Technogenesis (r) environ-ment 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 initia-tives that instill in students both creative thinking and an entrepreneurial spirit.

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

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

Christodoulatos, formerly the Director of the Center for Environmental Systems, is an internationally known researcher and brings a wealth of experience in the

development of intellectual property. He was the co-founder of two of Stevens’ successful companies, HydroGlobe and PlasmaSol, and has worked with vari-ous faculty across departments and schools to promote Technogenesis. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the City College of the City University of New York in Chemical Engineering, and a doctoral degree from Stevens in Environmental Engineering.

Dr. Christos Christodoulatos, Associate Provost for Academic Entrepreneurship.

A Smooth Transition into Stevens’ World

Students are introduced to the riches of Stevens and the world nearby before their freshman classes even begin. In addition to a regular orientation program, the Institute offers exciting, optional Pre-Orientation opportunities. “Pre-O” allowed incoming students to experience:

City Life: A guid- ●

ed tour through Hoboken and various neigh-borhoods of New York City, with stops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History, and sam-plings of cuisine along the way.

Performing Arts: ●

Insights into the performing arts available at Stevens and in New York City, with seminars with profession-als to learn about the performing arts both on-stage and behind the scenes, plus a tour of Radio City Music Hall, a Broadway show, and immersion in acting, improvisation, music, dance and technical theater to put together a performance at DeBaun Auditorium.

Sports and Fitness: On-campus fitness seminars cover- ●

ing aspects of weight training, aerobic and anaero-bic training, a tour of Monument Park in Yankee Stadium and a visit to the Yogi Berra Museum; plus, students get a guided tour of Madison Square Garden and learn the engineering behind the games. An Outdoor Adventure: Four days and nights in the ●

High Peaks region of Adirondack State Park, New York, with opportunities for canoeing and camping, backpacking, mountain biking and rock climbing.

“Sharing an activity of common interest is a great way to make friends and get your college experience off to a good start,” says Joseph Stahley, Assistant Vice President for Student Development.

Orientation itself is a learning experience for upper-class-men as well as for freshmen. “Forty upper-class students serve as orientation leaders,” says Dean of Student Life Kenneth Nilsen. “They play a central role in welcoming new students, by making them feel a part of the Stevens community.”

“It’s part of Stevens’ emphasis on leadership,” says Jessica Blumberg ‘07, a senior literature major who headed up the program. “At a small school leaders have a chance to shine.” Plus, she says, “It’s fun to give back.”

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STEVENSINSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Castle Point on Hudson • Hoboken, NJ 07030

BOARD OF TRUSTEESStevens Institute of Technology is incorporated and chartered in the name of

“The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology.”

Officers of the Corporation

Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. Chairman

Kenneth W. DeBaun Vice Chairman

Steven Shulman Vice Chairman

Harold J. Raveché President

Randy L. Greene (Vice President of Finance) Treasurer

Mark Samolewicz (Vice President of Human Resources) Secretary

Diana Colombo (Executive Assistant to the President) Assistant Secretary

Frederick L. Bissinger Chairman Emeritus

Other Principal Officers of the Institute

Michael S. Bruno Dean of the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science

Christos Christodoulatos Vice President for University Enterprise Development

Henry P. Dobbelaar, Jr. Vice President for Facilities and Community Relations

Fred Regan Vice President for Advancement and University Communications

George P. Korfiatis Provost and University Vice President

James E. McClellan III Dean of the College of Arts and Letters

Lex McCusker Dean of the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management

Dinesh Verma Dean of the School of Systems & Enterprises

Maureen P. Weatherall Vice President for University Enrollment and Administration

VOTING MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRU STEES

Edward G. Amoroso ’86, M.S., ‘92 Ph.D., Vice President, Network Security, AT&T Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. ’66, B.E., M.B.A., ’01, HonDEng, Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus Stephen T. Boswell ’89, B.A., M.A., “89 Eng*Civil, ’91, Ph.D., P.E., President & CEO, Boswell Engineering Thomas A. Corcoran ’67, B.E., ’03, HonDEng, President & CEO, Gemini Air Cargo Philip P. Crowley ’71, B.S., J.D., Assistant General Counsel & Assistant Secretary, Johnson & Johnson Corp. Kenneth W. DeBaun ’49, M.E., ’95, HonDEng, President & CEO, The DeBaun World, Inc.Edward C. Eichhorn ’69, B.E., M.B.A., Alumni Trustee, President, Medilink Consulting Group David J. Farber ’56, M.E., ’61, M.S., ’99, HonDEng, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University School of Science Martin C. Fliesler ’65, B.E., J.D., Partner, Fliesler Meyer LLPAngie M. Hankins, ‘95, B.E., J.D., Attorney, Stroock and Stroock and Lavan

Katherine C. Hegmann, B.S., M.S., ’02, HonDEng., Global Integration Executive, India, IBM Corporation Edwin J. Hess ’55, M.E., M.B.A., Retired Senior Vice President, Exxon Corporation Robert J. Hoar ‘06, B.E., Alumni Trustee, Project Engineer, Hamilton SundstrandGeorge W. Johnston ’72 B.E., J.D., Vice President & Chief Patent Counsel, Hoffman-LaRocheMark LaRosa ’93, B.S., Alumni Trustee, Vice president of Sales, AngelsoftRonald P. LeBright ’55, M.E., Retired Senior Vice President/Chief Executive Officer Europe, ABB Lummus Crest, Inc. John J. LoPorto ’46, M.E., ’54, M.S., ’58, M.S., ’97, HonDEng., President, LoPorto Associates, Inc.Richard S. Magee 63, B.E., M.S., Sc.D, Alumni Trustee, ConsultantHarold J. Raveché, B.A., Ph.D., D.H.L., President, Stevens Institute of Technology Richard R. Roscitt ’73, B.E., M.B.A., Chairman & CEO, SMobile Systems, Inc.Virginia P. Ruesterholz ’83, B.E., M.S., President, Verizon TelecomJohn A. Schepisi, Esq., ’65, B.E., J.D., Founder, Schepisi & McLaughlin, P.A.

Steven Shulman ’62, M.E, ’63, M.S., ’02, HonDEng, Principal, The Hampton Group Richard F. Spanier ’61, B.S., ’62, M.S., ’68, Ph.D., Director and Chairman Emeritus, Rudolph Research Analytical Corporation James M. Walsh ’69, B.S., ’71, M.S., M.B.A., Managing Principal, Walsh Advisors, LLC Cardinal Warde ‘69, B.S., M.Phil., Ph.D., Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyChloe Beth Weck ’07, B.E., Alumni Trustee, Facilities Engineer, CB Richard Ellis Jerald M. Wigdortz ’69, B.S., M.S., M.B.A., Former Senior Managing Director, ABN AMRO Inc. Harold P. Wilmerding, B.A., Retired Senior Vice President, United States Trust Company of New York

EMERITUS TRUSTEE

(non-voting)Frederick L. Bissinger ’33, M.E., ’36, M.S., J.D., ’73, HonDEng., Retired President,Allied Chemical Corp.

Compiled by the Office of Development & University CommunicationsMarjorie H. Everitt, Vice President

Patrick A. Berzinski, Director, University Communications

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