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“With engineering, science and technology managementhaving a profound and growing impact in every area of modern life,

the national leadership role of Stevens Institute of Technologyis more important and more challenging than ever.”

A Report from President Harold J. RavechéFall 2006

Dear Colleague:

Per aspera ad astra – ‘Through adversity to thestars’ – is the motto shared by Stevens Institute ofTechnology and the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration, NASA, an agency whoseManned Spaceflight Center in Houston was oncedirected by a Stevens graduate, Aaron B. Cohen.

The Latin phrase could also serve as a secondarymotto for the entire American enterprise, from thenation’s founding (in which the “first family ofinvention in the US” – the Stevenses – played apivotal role), through territorial expansion, civil war,world war, nuclear standoff, the race to the moon,global engagement and the vexing struggle withglobal terrorism.

In all phases of the American story, historic out-comes were shaped first by the Stevens family, later by countless direct beneficiaries oftheir philanthropic legacy, affecting millions of lives for the better. And with each MayCommencement, the Institute graduates those knowledgeable and skillful leaders whoare capable of reaching the stars signified by our motto.

With engineering, science and technology management having a profound and grow-ing impact in every area of modern life – business, medicine, academe, politics, thearts, law and homeland security – the national leadership role of Stevens Institute ofTechnology is more important and more challenging than ever.

America’s global industrial competitiveness now rests on cultivating engineers and sci-entists who advance the frontiers of their fields with the highest levels of creativeinventiveness, and on managers who understand how to reap the full potential oftechnology for the growth of their business. Stevens is well prepared to help ournation meet these challenges with its rich legacy of broad-based education and thedistinctive approach of Technogenesis®, which integrates education, research and thelaunching of new businesses based on the intellectual property of the Institute, in con-cert with external partners.

In the past year, Stevens sold its second Technogenesis Company, PlasmaSolCorporation; we graduated our largest undergraduate and graduate classes in history;realized major successes in sponsored research; had a banner year in student athletics;and welcomed a stellar group of new teaching and research faculty.

The President’s Report 1

Dear Colleague:

Per aspera ad astra – ‘Through adversity to thestars’ – is the motto shared by Stevens Institute ofTechnology and the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration, NASA, an agency whoseManned Spaceflight Center in Houston was oncedirected by a Stevens graduate, Aaron B. Cohen.

The Latin phrase could also serve as a secondarymotto for the entire American enterprise, from thenation’s founding (in which the “first family ofinvention in the US” – the Stevenses – played apivotal role), through territorial expansion, civil war,world war, nuclear standoff, the race to the moon,global engagement and the vexing struggle withglobal terrorism.

In all phases of the American story, historic out-comes were shaped first by the Stevens family, later by countless direct beneficiaries oftheir philanthropic legacy, affecting millions of lives for the better. And with each MayCommencement, the Institute graduates those knowledgeable and skillful leaders whoare capable of reaching the stars signified by our motto.

With engineering, science and technology management having a profound and grow-ing impact in every area of modern life – business, medicine, academe, politics, thearts, law and homeland security – the national leadership role of Stevens Institute ofTechnology is more important and more challenging than ever.

America’s global industrial competitiveness now rests on cultivating engineers and sci-entists who advance the frontiers of their fields with the highest levels of creativeinventiveness, and on managers who understand how to reap the full potential oftechnology for the growth of their business. Stevens is well prepared to help ournation meet these challenges with its rich legacy of broad-based education and thedistinctive approach of Technogenesis®, which integrates education, research and thelaunching of new businesses based on the intellectual property of the Institute, in con-cert with external partners.

In the past year, Stevens sold its second Technogenesis Company, PlasmaSolCorporation; we graduated our largest undergraduate and graduate classes in history;realized major successes in sponsored research; had a banner year in student athletics;and welcomed a stellar group of new teaching and research faculty.

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As increasing attention is given tosecurity at the local, state and fed-eral levels, maritime security hascome into focus as one area whereimprovement is critical. In aresponse to this need, Stevens, inpartnership with the US Navy, hasestablished a research facilityfounded with an initial grant fromthe US Office of Naval Research.

Maritime security poses animmense challenge: The US mar-itime border consists of 95,000miles of shoreline and more than350 official ports of entry. The MSL

will address awareness of threats and vulnerabilities, preven-tion and protection against threats and the response topotential attacks.

Stevens is strongly positioned to address multiple areas ofmaritime security. The Institute has developed technical andpractical expertise in areas such as ocean engineering, wirelessnetworking, communications, computer science and decisionanalysis, all of which will be used to support the MSL.

“Stevens’ location on the Hudson River is a competitiveadvantage. It gives us access to a realistic environment thatallows to perform practical testing, measurements and

research in estuaries and environments with shallow water,high spatial and temporal variability, high turbidity, freshwater inflow, variable tides, strong currents, strong stratifica-tion, vessel traffic and limited shoreline access,” said Hady R.Salloum, Director of Technology Applications at MSL. “Thecombination of the expertise in various technical domainscoupled with the access to and knowledge of the realisticenvironment of the New York Harbor and the Hudson Rivermakes MSL a uniquely qualified national laboratory forresearch and technology for maritime security.”

The MSL gains additional strength from existing StevensCenters, including The Center for Maritime Systems, The NewYork Harbor Observing and Prediction Center; The Design andManufacturing Institute (DMI); The Wireless Network SecurityCenter (WiNSeC); The Center for Intelligent NetworkedSystems (iNetS); and The Center for Decision Technology(CDT).

To demonstrate a unique role for the MSL, a multi-disciplinary,intensive six-month project to run an experiment on thedetection and classification of moving underwater objects wascommissioned. This experiment is running in the maritimeenvironment of the New York Harbor, using threat assessmentalgorithms, control algorithms, systems-level data manage-ment and fusion, and addressing scenarios of concern to theNavy as well as other Departent of Defense and Departmentof Homeland Security agencies.

Throughout the past 70 years, the Davidson Laboratory hasbeen one of the world’s leading centers for research and edu-cation in the areas of Naval Architecture, Ocean Engineeringand Marine Environmental Engineering. During the past 18months, the lab’s famous Towing Tank, also known as Tank#3, has undergone a complete renovation. Everything, fromthe design of the tank to the installation of the wave makerand beach structures, has been redone. “The new towingtank will be the most advanced facility of its kind in theUnited States, providing Stevens with exciting new capabilitiesto perform both fundamental and hydrodynamic research,

and applied naval architecture and ocean design studies,”said Michael Bruno, Professor and Director of the Center forMaritime Systems.

“The significantly increased size of the tank will allow us tostudy ships, structures and ocean physics at much larger scalethan in the past,” said Bruno. A viewing area has been incor-porated near the center of the tank. The area’s glass win-dows, which span the full water column, enable flow visuali-zation studies of the test models and greatly enhance studiesof coastal waves and sediment transport.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and member of the National Academy of Engineering VictorLawrence, who is also an Associate Dean for Special Programs in The Schaefer School, has establishedthe Center for Intelligent Networked Systems, or iNetS, which will promote the next generation ofadvanced micro-robotics.

The Maritime Security Laboratory (MSL) was founded with funding from the Office of Naval Researchand will soon establish its facilities in The Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. Center. Dean of Engineering George P.Korfiatis serves as founding director; Center for Maritime Systems Director Michael S. Bruno is the prin-cipal investigator for the major research initiatives; and Electrical and Computer Engineering ProfessorBarry Bunin is a chief architect of the MSL infrastructure.

In a related area, the historic high-speed testing tank at the Center for Maritime Systems’ Davidson Labunderwent a major $4 Million renovation project that has created at Stevens the finest testing facility ofits kind in the world. The kick-off symposium to dedicate the reopened lab will take place in Decemberof this year.

Stevens’ newly established research center for IntelligentNetworked Systems (iNetS) will harness the strong compe-tence of Stevens and industrial facilities to research, invent,create and develop transformational technologies as well aspractical tools that have both industrial and consumer appli-cations. Many different user appliances will be embeddedwith intelligence and be enhanced and assisted by real-timesystems. Intelligent networks will provide media translations,protocol conversion, database integration and caching. Thecenter will pay particular attention to secure and robust infor-mation services and the use of embedded intelligent networksto further the objectives of US Homeland Security.

“We’re trying to look at ways in which we can make the bestuse of information and find out how it can aid us. Embeddedintelligence is perhaps one of the most important areas ofinformation and communications technology in this decade,”said Victor Lawrence, Associate Dean and Batchelor ChairProfessor of Engineering in The Schaefer School ofEngineering. “It’s used in everything from consumer electron-ics to industrial equipment, military systems and networks ofall sorts. And embedded intelligence is influencing almostevery aspect of our lives and bringing about changes in ourbusinesses, defense, society and the way we live, work andentertain ourselves.”

Under overall leadership from Lawrence, Stuart Tewksbury,Director of the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment, and Frank Fernandez, the Center for iNetSfocuses on six areas of research:

1. Network/information interoperability for secure multilevelsharing.

2. Engineered network systems,led by Professor Yu-Dong Yao.

3. Distributed cooperative systems’increased use of unmanned plat-forms (robotics), led by ProfessorHongbin Li.

4. Information gathering, under-standing and reduction/secure sur-veillance systems, led by ProfessorHong Man.

5. Information mining and analysis, led by Professor R.Chandramouli.

6. Network and information security and reliability/cybersecu-rity, led by Professor Manu Malek.

iNetS is an area of information and communications technolo-gy that will have a broad and profound effect in the 21st cen-tury. Embedded intelligence in devices and communicationsnetworks will help us gather information and make decisionsthat will improve effectiveness and productivity of govern-ment, businesses and households. They will make real-timedecisions ranging from the identity of possible terrorists in air-ports to the need to make purchases to re-stock a refrigerator.

“We will see intelligent computing simplify and enhance ourdaily lives in areas as diverse as energy sources, transportationsystems, communication and household maintenance,” saidLawrence. “It will create new markets, moving us from theinformation age to the knowledge age where we are able toobtain useful information. Our world will converge to form asingle universe of experience. We will be able to communicatewith anyone or anything at anytime and anywhere.”

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Professor Yu-Dong Yao

Hady R. Salloum

As increasing attention is given tosecurity at the local, state and fed-eral levels, maritime security hascome into focus as one area whereimprovement is critical. In aresponse to this need, Stevens, inpartnership with the US Navy, hasestablished a research facilityfounded with an initial grant fromthe US Office of Naval Research.

Maritime security poses animmense challenge: The US mar-itime border consists of 95,000miles of shoreline and more than350 official ports of entry. The MSL

will address awareness of threats and vulnerabilities, preven-tion and protection against threats and the response topotential attacks.

Stevens is strongly positioned to address multiple areas ofmaritime security. The Institute has developed technical andpractical expertise in areas such as ocean engineering, wirelessnetworking, communications, computer science and decisionanalysis, all of which will be used to support the MSL.

“Stevens’ location on the Hudson River is a competitiveadvantage. It gives us access to a realistic environment thatallows to perform practical testing, measurements and

research in estuaries and environments with shallow water,high spatial and temporal variability, high turbidity, freshwater inflow, variable tides, strong currents, strong stratifica-tion, vessel traffic and limited shoreline access,” said Hady R.Salloum, Director of Technology Applications at MSL. “Thecombination of the expertise in various technical domainscoupled with the access to and knowledge of the realisticenvironment of the New York Harbor and the Hudson Rivermakes MSL a uniquely qualified national laboratory forresearch and technology for maritime security.”

The MSL gains additional strength from existing StevensCenters, including The Center for Maritime Systems, The NewYork Harbor Observing and Prediction Center; The Design andManufacturing Institute (DMI); The Wireless Network SecurityCenter (WiNSeC); The Center for Intelligent NetworkedSystems (iNetS); and The Center for Decision Technology(CDT).

To demonstrate a unique role for the MSL, a multi-disciplinary,intensive six-month project to run an experiment on thedetection and classification of moving underwater objects wascommissioned. This experiment is running in the maritimeenvironment of the New York Harbor, using threat assessmentalgorithms, control algorithms, systems-level data manage-ment and fusion, and addressing scenarios of concern to theNavy as well as other Departent of Defense and Departmentof Homeland Security agencies.

Throughout the past 70 years, the Davidson Laboratory hasbeen one of the world’s leading centers for research and edu-cation in the areas of Naval Architecture, Ocean Engineeringand Marine Environmental Engineering. During the past 18months, the lab’s famous Towing Tank, also known as Tank#3, has undergone a complete renovation. Everything, fromthe design of the tank to the installation of the wave makerand beach structures, has been redone. “The new towingtank will be the most advanced facility of its kind in theUnited States, providing Stevens with exciting new capabilitiesto perform both fundamental and hydrodynamic research,

and applied naval architecture and ocean design studies,”said Michael Bruno, Professor and Director of the Center forMaritime Systems.

“The significantly increased size of the tank will allow us tostudy ships, structures and ocean physics at much larger scalethan in the past,” said Bruno. A viewing area has been incor-porated near the center of the tank. The area’s glass win-dows, which span the full water column, enable flow visuali-zation studies of the test models and greatly enhance studiesof coastal waves and sediment transport.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and member of the National Academy of Engineering VictorLawrence, who is also an Associate Dean for Special Programs in The Schaefer School, has establishedthe Center for Intelligent Networked Systems, or iNetS, which will promote the next generation ofadvanced micro-robotics.

The Maritime Security Laboratory (MSL) was founded with funding from the Office of Naval Researchand will soon establish its facilities in The Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. Center. Dean of Engineering George P.Korfiatis serves as founding director; Center for Maritime Systems Director Michael S. Bruno is the prin-cipal investigator for the major research initiatives; and Electrical and Computer Engineering ProfessorBarry Bunin is a chief architect of the MSL infrastructure.

In a related area, the historic high-speed testing tank at the Center for Maritime Systems’ Davidson Labunderwent a major $4 Million renovation project that has created at Stevens the finest testing facility ofits kind in the world. The kick-off symposium to dedicate the reopened lab will take place in Decemberof this year.

Stevens’ newly established research center for IntelligentNetworked Systems (iNetS) will harness the strong compe-tence of Stevens and industrial facilities to research, invent,create and develop transformational technologies as well aspractical tools that have both industrial and consumer appli-cations. Many different user appliances will be embeddedwith intelligence and be enhanced and assisted by real-timesystems. Intelligent networks will provide media translations,protocol conversion, database integration and caching. Thecenter will pay particular attention to secure and robust infor-mation services and the use of embedded intelligent networksto further the objectives of US Homeland Security.

“We’re trying to look at ways in which we can make the bestuse of information and find out how it can aid us. Embeddedintelligence is perhaps one of the most important areas ofinformation and communications technology in this decade,”said Victor Lawrence, Associate Dean and Batchelor ChairProfessor of Engineering in The Schaefer School ofEngineering. “It’s used in everything from consumer electron-ics to industrial equipment, military systems and networks ofall sorts. And embedded intelligence is influencing almostevery aspect of our lives and bringing about changes in ourbusinesses, defense, society and the way we live, work andentertain ourselves.”

Under overall leadership from Lawrence, Stuart Tewksbury,Director of the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment, and Frank Fernandez, the Center for iNetSfocuses on six areas of research:

1. Network/information interoperability for secure multilevelsharing.

2. Engineered network systems,led by Professor Yu-Dong Yao.

3. Distributed cooperative systems’increased use of unmanned plat-forms (robotics), led by ProfessorHongbin Li.

4. Information gathering, under-standing and reduction/secure sur-veillance systems, led by ProfessorHong Man.

5. Information mining and analysis, led by Professor R.Chandramouli.

6. Network and information security and reliability/cybersecu-rity, led by Professor Manu Malek.

iNetS is an area of information and communications technolo-gy that will have a broad and profound effect in the 21st cen-tury. Embedded intelligence in devices and communicationsnetworks will help us gather information and make decisionsthat will improve effectiveness and productivity of govern-ment, businesses and households. They will make real-timedecisions ranging from the identity of possible terrorists in air-ports to the need to make purchases to re-stock a refrigerator.

“We will see intelligent computing simplify and enhance ourdaily lives in areas as diverse as energy sources, transportationsystems, communication and household maintenance,” saidLawrence. “It will create new markets, moving us from theinformation age to the knowledge age where we are able toobtain useful information. Our world will converge to form asingle universe of experience. We will be able to communicatewith anyone or anything at anytime and anywhere.”

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Professor Yu-Dong Yao

Hady R. Salloum

Professor Frank Fisher, Assistant Professor of MechanicalEngineering, received a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)grant from the National Science Foundation to enhance theresearch and educational initiatives under way at Stevens inthe areas of nanotechnology and multi-scale engineering.

Acquired in collaboration with Professors Henry Du, YongShi and Zhenqi Zhu, the Nanoscale Manipulation andExperimental Characterization Instrument (NMECI) will providenanometer-resolution, scanning electron microscope compati-ble manipulation, enabling critical nanoscale experimentalinvestigations spanning many key emerging nano/microtech-nology areas at Stevens. These will include nanomaterialsdevelopment/characterization, nano/micro sensors and actua-tors, and micro-chemical/mechanical systems.

Professor Matthew Libera, Professor of MaterialsEngineering, also received a MRI grant from the NSF.

Libera’s team of Professors Henry Du and SvetlanaSukhishvili from Stevens, Patricia Soteropolous (PHRI/UMDNJ)and Treena Arinzeh (NJIT) obtained the Dip PenNanolithography System for Surface Nanofunctionalization(DPN) to research how individual cells behave when they stickto a surface. Such work may lead to new sensors that candetect trace quantities of harmful chemicals and new tools forbiomedical research and clinical diagnostics. DPN is amongthe newest and most advanced scientific tools for controllinghow the surfaces of materials interact with their surroundings,and can create patterns that are almost 1,000 times smallerthan those in state-of-the-art electronic devices like advancedcomputer chips. Furthermore, DPN can deposit as little as afew molecules at each point in the surface pattern, and thiscapability gives scientists and engineers impressive new con-trol over chemical reactions that occur at very specific pointson a surface.

After a spirited meeting with Professor Arthur Ritter,Stevens’ Director of Biomedical Engineering, Dr. ThomasHaher ’72 was determined to help create, as he put it, “thefinest Biomedical Engineering Laboratory in the country” atStevens. Together with his associates at Clinical EngineeringServices, Inc., Haher set out to program to provide generousdonations of in-kind biomed lab equipment and installationservices to Stevens. The plan was to facilitate a collaborativepartnership based in a comprehensive menu of biomechanicalstudies, while also offering enhanced training opportunitiesfor Stevens students. “By promoting work on real-time proj-ects and interaction with experts in the field,” said Haher,“this gift can only have a positive impact on accomplishingour shared goal of minimizing the gap between academiaand current industry needs.” Haher stands as a shining exam-ple of alumni who give back to Stevens by sharing theirexpertise and professional partnerships to benefit new gener-ations of students.

Interdisciplinary research in nanotechnology is going forward in nanomaterials, nanomachines, micro-chemical systems and nano/microbiology. Nanotechnology stands out as a likely launch pad to a newtechnological era, because it focuses on perhaps the final engineering scales that people have yet tomaster. Stevens is aggregating the expertise to meet the challenges of this new frontier.

Our Biomedical Engineering program is equipped with new labs and faculty, and with a growing, highlyenergized undergraduate constituency that is engaged in entrepreneurial research and activity withinthe field.

In an article published in the flagship newsletter of the SloanConsortium, Stevens’ WebCampus received high praise for itsChina Program, a unique initiative that offers graduatedegrees to dozens of Chinese students in Beijing. Accordingto John R. Bourne, Sloan-C executive director, Stevens is “avigorous entrepreneurial institution, engaged in many newforms of education, including online education and the off-shore education trade.” The Sloan Consortium is the nation’spremier online learning association.

Stevens’ courses in China are “delivered one-third online byStevens’ faculty, another third on-ground by Stevens’ facultyvisiting China, and another third by US-trained Chinese facul-ty at the host institution,” said Robert Ubell, Dean of OnlineLearning at Stevens, who manages Stevens’ education andtraining programs in China.

Since the program was launched three years ago, about adozen Stevens’ faculty have taught at Stevens partner institu-tions, Beijing Institute of Technology, one of China’s top engi-neering schools, and Central University of Finance Economics,the nation’s leading banking and finance school. Faculty whotravel to China provide intense education for a period of sev-eral weeks and then return to the US. While Stevens providesinstruction not only in Beijing but online from Hoboken, thehost provides infrastructure—classrooms, computers, andmarketing—as well as local faculty for a third of the curricu-lum. Thirty students have already received their mastersdegrees from Stevens at ceremonies conducted in Beijing. Allcourses are taught in English, whether by Stevens or partnerfaculty.

“Stevens has carved out a niche market in a country with ahuge potential demand for technology education and USdegrees,” concluded Bourne in his article in Sloan-C Views.

Also, in December, two of the nation’s prominent corporatelearning executives, Luther Tai of Consolidated EdisonCompany and Kee Meng Yeo of Johnson & Johnson, joinedthe Board of Directors of WebCampus.Stevens. The twoindustry leaders complement a notable group of current

board members, drawn from Fortune 500 companies as wellas from some of the country’s top universities.

Dr. Maureen Weatherall, VicePresident for UniversityEnrollment and AcademicServices, delivered a talk to agathering of global universitypresidents at an internationaleducation conference in Beijingin late 2005. Weatherall’s lecturewas given at the InternationalForum of University Presidents(IFUP-ICT 05), held in conjunctionwith the 50th anniversary of thefounding of Beijing University ofPosts and Telecommunications(BUPT). She reported on the aca-demic aims of Technogenesis, theStevens’ entrepreneurial approach to higher education.

Experts from Stevens and Tallaght Institute of Technology,Dublin, Ireland, in April delivered a joint international presen-tation at the Interphex 2006 Conference held at the JavitsCenter in New York City. The presentation unveiled a newand innovative initiative to create an International Center forPharmaceutical Education (ICPE), which will provide a fullrange of technical education and training, granting degreesand qualifications to the pharmaceutical/healthcare industryworldwide.

The presentation, “How a US and European EducationalPartnership Can Provide a Complete Range of Educationaland Training Qualifications to the Pharmaceutical/HealthcareIndustry Worldwide,” was delivered by Professor RichardBerkof, Distinguished Industry Professor of MechanicalEngineering and Director of the PharmaceuticalManufacturing Engineering Program, and Dr. Edwin Carey,Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the Tallaght Institute ofTechnology.

International outreach through partnerships with other academic institutions and multi-national compa-nies and industries is expanding Stevens’ global footprint and establishing our presence in higher educa-tion and research worldwide.

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Maureen Weatherall

Professor Frank Fisher, Assistant Professor of MechanicalEngineering, received a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)grant from the National Science Foundation to enhance theresearch and educational initiatives under way at Stevens inthe areas of nanotechnology and multi-scale engineering.

Acquired in collaboration with Professors Henry Du, YongShi and Zhenqi Zhu, the Nanoscale Manipulation andExperimental Characterization Instrument (NMECI) will providenanometer-resolution, scanning electron microscope compati-ble manipulation, enabling critical nanoscale experimentalinvestigations spanning many key emerging nano/microtech-nology areas at Stevens. These will include nanomaterialsdevelopment/characterization, nano/micro sensors and actua-tors, and micro-chemical/mechanical systems.

Professor Matthew Libera, Professor of MaterialsEngineering, also received a MRI grant from the NSF.

Libera’s team of Professors Henry Du and SvetlanaSukhishvili from Stevens, Patricia Soteropolous (PHRI/UMDNJ)and Treena Arinzeh (NJIT) obtained the Dip PenNanolithography System for Surface Nanofunctionalization(DPN) to research how individual cells behave when they stickto a surface. Such work may lead to new sensors that candetect trace quantities of harmful chemicals and new tools forbiomedical research and clinical diagnostics. DPN is amongthe newest and most advanced scientific tools for controllinghow the surfaces of materials interact with their surroundings,and can create patterns that are almost 1,000 times smallerthan those in state-of-the-art electronic devices like advancedcomputer chips. Furthermore, DPN can deposit as little as afew molecules at each point in the surface pattern, and thiscapability gives scientists and engineers impressive new con-trol over chemical reactions that occur at very specific pointson a surface.

After a spirited meeting with Professor Arthur Ritter,Stevens’ Director of Biomedical Engineering, Dr. ThomasHaher ’72 was determined to help create, as he put it, “thefinest Biomedical Engineering Laboratory in the country” atStevens. Together with his associates at Clinical EngineeringServices, Inc., Haher set out to program to provide generousdonations of in-kind biomed lab equipment and installationservices to Stevens. The plan was to facilitate a collaborativepartnership based in a comprehensive menu of biomechanicalstudies, while also offering enhanced training opportunitiesfor Stevens students. “By promoting work on real-time proj-ects and interaction with experts in the field,” said Haher,“this gift can only have a positive impact on accomplishingour shared goal of minimizing the gap between academiaand current industry needs.” Haher stands as a shining exam-ple of alumni who give back to Stevens by sharing theirexpertise and professional partnerships to benefit new gener-ations of students.

Interdisciplinary research in nanotechnology is going forward in nanomaterials, nanomachines, micro-chemical systems and nano/microbiology. Nanotechnology stands out as a likely launch pad to a newtechnological era, because it focuses on perhaps the final engineering scales that people have yet tomaster. Stevens is aggregating the expertise to meet the challenges of this new frontier.

Our Biomedical Engineering program is equipped with new labs and faculty, and with a growing, highlyenergized undergraduate constituency that is engaged in entrepreneurial research and activity withinthe field.

In an article published in the flagship newsletter of the SloanConsortium, Stevens’ WebCampus received high praise for itsChina Program, a unique initiative that offers graduatedegrees to dozens of Chinese students in Beijing. Accordingto John R. Bourne, Sloan-C executive director, Stevens is “avigorous entrepreneurial institution, engaged in many newforms of education, including online education and the off-shore education trade.” The Sloan Consortium is the nation’spremier online learning association.

Stevens’ courses in China are “delivered one-third online byStevens’ faculty, another third on-ground by Stevens’ facultyvisiting China, and another third by US-trained Chinese facul-ty at the host institution,” said Robert Ubell, Dean of OnlineLearning at Stevens, who manages Stevens’ education andtraining programs in China.

Since the program was launched three years ago, about adozen Stevens’ faculty have taught at Stevens partner institu-tions, Beijing Institute of Technology, one of China’s top engi-neering schools, and Central University of Finance Economics,the nation’s leading banking and finance school. Faculty whotravel to China provide intense education for a period of sev-eral weeks and then return to the US. While Stevens providesinstruction not only in Beijing but online from Hoboken, thehost provides infrastructure—classrooms, computers, andmarketing—as well as local faculty for a third of the curricu-lum. Thirty students have already received their mastersdegrees from Stevens at ceremonies conducted in Beijing. Allcourses are taught in English, whether by Stevens or partnerfaculty.

“Stevens has carved out a niche market in a country with ahuge potential demand for technology education and USdegrees,” concluded Bourne in his article in Sloan-C Views.

Also, in December, two of the nation’s prominent corporatelearning executives, Luther Tai of Consolidated EdisonCompany and Kee Meng Yeo of Johnson & Johnson, joinedthe Board of Directors of WebCampus.Stevens. The twoindustry leaders complement a notable group of current

board members, drawn from Fortune 500 companies as wellas from some of the country’s top universities.

Dr. Maureen Weatherall, VicePresident for UniversityEnrollment and AcademicServices, delivered a talk to agathering of global universitypresidents at an internationaleducation conference in Beijingin late 2005. Weatherall’s lecturewas given at the InternationalForum of University Presidents(IFUP-ICT 05), held in conjunctionwith the 50th anniversary of thefounding of Beijing University ofPosts and Telecommunications(BUPT). She reported on the aca-demic aims of Technogenesis, theStevens’ entrepreneurial approach to higher education.

Experts from Stevens and Tallaght Institute of Technology,Dublin, Ireland, in April delivered a joint international presen-tation at the Interphex 2006 Conference held at the JavitsCenter in New York City. The presentation unveiled a newand innovative initiative to create an International Center forPharmaceutical Education (ICPE), which will provide a fullrange of technical education and training, granting degreesand qualifications to the pharmaceutical/healthcare industryworldwide.

The presentation, “How a US and European EducationalPartnership Can Provide a Complete Range of Educationaland Training Qualifications to the Pharmaceutical/HealthcareIndustry Worldwide,” was delivered by Professor RichardBerkof, Distinguished Industry Professor of MechanicalEngineering and Director of the PharmaceuticalManufacturing Engineering Program, and Dr. Edwin Carey,Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the Tallaght Institute ofTechnology.

International outreach through partnerships with other academic institutions and multi-national compa-nies and industries is expanding Stevens’ global footprint and establishing our presence in higher educa-tion and research worldwide.

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Maureen Weatherall

Exemplifying the atmosphere of creative col-laboration at Stevens, Professors SusanneWetzel and Rebecca Wright have devel-oped a new interdisciplinary degree programin CyberSecurity with funding from theNational Science Foundation. The incomingclass of 2010 has six freshmen joining thisprogram; one sophomore has switched to theprogram as well. A number of incomingfreshmen reported that they applied toStevens specifically because of their interestin the new CyberSecurity degree.

This program will build Stevens’ capacity ininformation assurance and computer securityeducation. The program is structured to pro-

vide students with security expertise withinthe context of a broad education, preparingthem thoroughly for careers as informationassurance and computer security profession-als. Stevens is one of the few universitiesworldwide to offer such a CyberSecuritydegree program at the undergraduate level.

A cornerstone of the program is a hands-onCyberSecurity lab course that students take intheir senior year. The cybersecurity lab is cur-rently being designed and built in the newBabbio Center, with equipment grants fromCisco and SUN, as well as additional fundingfrom the National Science Foundation.

Our undergraduate program in CyberSecurity got off to a great start, thanks to Computer ScienceProfessors Susanne Wetzel and Rebecca Wright, who have won grants from Cisco, SUN Microsystems,and the National Science Foundation to establish the Stevens CyberSecurity Lab, which will be locatedin The Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. Center.

Stevens has been re-designated as a National Center ofAcademic Excellence in Information Assurance Education bythe National Information Assurance Education and TrainingProgram, part of the National Security Agency (NSA), for aca-demic years 2006-2009. Stevens was first recognized for thishonor in 2003, and now shares this distinction with onlyabout 50 other US universities. Professor Manu Malek,Director of the Graduate Certificate in CyberSecurity Programand Industry Professor in the Department of ComputerScience at Stevens, was again the coordinator of the applica-tion to NSA for this recognition.

In the area of Mathematical Cryptography, a multidisciplinaryeffort allied with global e-security firm GLESEC, brings togeth-er members of the Computer Science and MathematicalSciences Departments, as well as experts in Electrical andComputer Engineering, led by Professor Robert Gilman. Theconsortium seeks to mitigate security risks that organizationsface as they move strongly into e-business and the use of theInternet for communications, information sharing and particu-larly securing their assets. The group’s approach is based on

risk-management methodology to quantify risk, dealing withits dynamic nature and the justification for reducing itthrough technologies and services. Stevens alumnus SergioHeker, founder and CEO of GLESEC, was part of the originalteam that managed the National Science Foundation Network(NSFnet). The collaboration of cutting-edge industrial entre-preneurs with pioneering academic researchers is a modelthat will guarantee American technology leadership in thenew century.

Advanced work in secured systems, mathematical cryptography, decision-making systems and optimiza-tion, controlled quantum systems, and computer vision and visualization, distinguishes Stevens as anemerging leader in these areas.

As Dean of The Howe School, Dr. LexMcCusker brings a long history of high-leveltechnology management responsibilities andproject oversight, principally in the field oftelecommunications. He is an expert in thefields of operations and logistics; general man-agement and change management; strategicplanning, analysis and implementation; andorganizational development and communica-tions. Prior to joining Stevens in 2004,McCusker served as Professional Services VicePresident/General Manager at AT&TLaboratories. In this capacity, he oversaw day-to-day operations of the internal consultingpractice of 450 high-power technical profes-sionals, providing a wide range of consultingservices to the organization, spanning datamining, database marketing and analysis,process monitoring/alerting, web develop-ment, multi-media services, informationresearch services, software methods, prototyp-ing, configuration management and marketintelligence.

At AT&T Labs, McCusker also led a major newproduct realization initiative transitioning tech-nology and inventions from R&D labs intopotential profit-generating business units.

As the new Associate Dean for Research andAcademics at The Howe School, Dr. TimKoeller will be responsible for the overall aca-demic culture of the school and for leading itsefforts to create communities of research andcreative enterprise. He will also handle all day-to-day faculty issues, including faculty recruit-ment, evaluation and development, and willprovide guidance and direction to the overallHowe School research program. Finally,Koeller will also take on the responsibility fordirecting The Howe School’s doctoral pro-gram, including the improvement plan for theprogram that began this past academic year.

In February, The New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC) pre-sented “Wireless Evolution: Applications, Services andContent,” the first post-dedication expo at The BabbioCenter. The expo included more than 20 companies fromNew Jersey and New York exhibiting new wireless applica-tions, services and content that constitute the drivers of tele-com innovation in the Garden State region. New Jersey is in ahot spot of rapidly converging wireless, telecommunicationsand media industries. The expo covered topics such as mobilemultimedia and marketing, place shifting, social networks,location-based services, mobile video streaming and othertechnology and network developments.

The Howe School Alliance for Technology Management(HSATM) also held its annual conference at The Babbio Centeron June 7, examining the topic of The Creativity–InnovationConnection. The Conference focused on creativity as both the

igniting spark of the process of innovation and the insightsthat move an idea along the innovation path from conceptionto commercialization.

The national search for a new Dean of The Howe School of Technology Management, assisted by anexternal search firm and an interview committee of faculty and academic and administrative leadership,selected Dr. Lex McCusker, who had served as Acting Dean during the search process. Senior HoweSchool Professor, Dr. C. Timothy Koeller succeeds Dr. Ted Stohr, who served admirably as The HoweSchool’s Dean of Academics and Research.

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After its official dedication, October 7, 2005, The Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. Center hosted its first class ofstudents, from the Business & Technology undergraduate degree program, in May 2006. The BabbioCenter has rapidly become a popular facility for events and presentations.

Professor Wright Lex McCusker

Exemplifying the atmosphere of creative col-laboration at Stevens, Professors SusanneWetzel and Rebecca Wright have devel-oped a new interdisciplinary degree programin CyberSecurity with funding from theNational Science Foundation. The incomingclass of 2010 has six freshmen joining thisprogram; one sophomore has switched to theprogram as well. A number of incomingfreshmen reported that they applied toStevens specifically because of their interestin the new CyberSecurity degree.

This program will build Stevens’ capacity ininformation assurance and computer securityeducation. The program is structured to pro-

vide students with security expertise withinthe context of a broad education, preparingthem thoroughly for careers as informationassurance and computer security profession-als. Stevens is one of the few universitiesworldwide to offer such a CyberSecuritydegree program at the undergraduate level.

A cornerstone of the program is a hands-onCyberSecurity lab course that students take intheir senior year. The cybersecurity lab is cur-rently being designed and built in the newBabbio Center, with equipment grants fromCisco and SUN, as well as additional fundingfrom the National Science Foundation.

Our undergraduate program in CyberSecurity got off to a great start, thanks to Computer ScienceProfessors Susanne Wetzel and Rebecca Wright, who have won grants from Cisco, SUN Microsystems,and the National Science Foundation to establish the Stevens CyberSecurity Lab, which will be locatedin The Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. Center.

Stevens has been re-designated as a National Center ofAcademic Excellence in Information Assurance Education bythe National Information Assurance Education and TrainingProgram, part of the National Security Agency (NSA), for aca-demic years 2006-2009. Stevens was first recognized for thishonor in 2003, and now shares this distinction with onlyabout 50 other US universities. Professor Manu Malek,Director of the Graduate Certificate in CyberSecurity Programand Industry Professor in the Department of ComputerScience at Stevens, was again the coordinator of the applica-tion to NSA for this recognition.

In the area of Mathematical Cryptography, a multidisciplinaryeffort allied with global e-security firm GLESEC, brings togeth-er members of the Computer Science and MathematicalSciences Departments, as well as experts in Electrical andComputer Engineering, led by Professor Robert Gilman. Theconsortium seeks to mitigate security risks that organizationsface as they move strongly into e-business and the use of theInternet for communications, information sharing and particu-larly securing their assets. The group’s approach is based on

risk-management methodology to quantify risk, dealing withits dynamic nature and the justification for reducing itthrough technologies and services. Stevens alumnus SergioHeker, founder and CEO of GLESEC, was part of the originalteam that managed the National Science Foundation Network(NSFnet). The collaboration of cutting-edge industrial entre-preneurs with pioneering academic researchers is a modelthat will guarantee American technology leadership in thenew century.

Advanced work in secured systems, mathematical cryptography, decision-making systems and optimiza-tion, controlled quantum systems, and computer vision and visualization, distinguishes Stevens as anemerging leader in these areas.

As Dean of The Howe School, Dr. LexMcCusker brings a long history of high-leveltechnology management responsibilities andproject oversight, principally in the field oftelecommunications. He is an expert in thefields of operations and logistics; general man-agement and change management; strategicplanning, analysis and implementation; andorganizational development and communica-tions. Prior to joining Stevens in 2004,McCusker served as Professional Services VicePresident/General Manager at AT&TLaboratories. In this capacity, he oversaw day-to-day operations of the internal consultingpractice of 450 high-power technical profes-sionals, providing a wide range of consultingservices to the organization, spanning datamining, database marketing and analysis,process monitoring/alerting, web develop-ment, multi-media services, informationresearch services, software methods, prototyp-ing, configuration management and marketintelligence.

At AT&T Labs, McCusker also led a major newproduct realization initiative transitioning tech-nology and inventions from R&D labs intopotential profit-generating business units.

As the new Associate Dean for Research andAcademics at The Howe School, Dr. TimKoeller will be responsible for the overall aca-demic culture of the school and for leading itsefforts to create communities of research andcreative enterprise. He will also handle all day-to-day faculty issues, including faculty recruit-ment, evaluation and development, and willprovide guidance and direction to the overallHowe School research program. Finally,Koeller will also take on the responsibility fordirecting The Howe School’s doctoral pro-gram, including the improvement plan for theprogram that began this past academic year.

In February, The New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC) pre-sented “Wireless Evolution: Applications, Services andContent,” the first post-dedication expo at The BabbioCenter. The expo included more than 20 companies fromNew Jersey and New York exhibiting new wireless applica-tions, services and content that constitute the drivers of tele-com innovation in the Garden State region. New Jersey is in ahot spot of rapidly converging wireless, telecommunicationsand media industries. The expo covered topics such as mobilemultimedia and marketing, place shifting, social networks,location-based services, mobile video streaming and othertechnology and network developments.

The Howe School Alliance for Technology Management(HSATM) also held its annual conference at The Babbio Centeron June 7, examining the topic of The Creativity–InnovationConnection. The Conference focused on creativity as both the

igniting spark of the process of innovation and the insightsthat move an idea along the innovation path from conceptionto commercialization.

The national search for a new Dean of The Howe School of Technology Management, assisted by anexternal search firm and an interview committee of faculty and academic and administrative leadership,selected Dr. Lex McCusker, who had served as Acting Dean during the search process. Senior HoweSchool Professor, Dr. C. Timothy Koeller succeeds Dr. Ted Stohr, who served admirably as The HoweSchool’s Dean of Academics and Research.

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After its official dedication, October 7, 2005, The Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. Center hosted its first class ofstudents, from the Business & Technology undergraduate degree program, in May 2006. The BabbioCenter has rapidly become a popular facility for events and presentations.

Professor Wright Lex McCusker

In May, a group of seniors from Stevens presented their seniordesign project findings to officials from New York City’s Officeof Emergency Management (OEM) in a meeting held in TheBabbio Center. The presentation was the culmination of twosemesters of collaboration between the 17 seniors (11Business and Technology majors; six Electrical Engineeringmajors) and officials at the OEM. The students worked withthe OEM to improve their policies, procedures and internaloperations in the areas of organization, processes and tech-nology.

The students split into four teams to tackle various areas ofthe OEM’s structure. Of the Business and Technology majors,Pamela Dorsett, Jessica Pruzinsky and Kathy Wu workedon organizational issues; Karen Donnelly, Mary Claire

D’Elia, Malanka Misilo and Jennifer Palumbo handledprocesses; and Ed Bordet, Ian Gorham, Tim Akpinar andJiby Jacob were responsible for investigating data/informa-tion problems. The Electrical Engineering majors, Ali Afzal,Srikant Gupta, Stephanie LeBlanc, Rajarshi Nandy,Alexander Semidey and Carlos Vinasco, worked on a tech-nology plan for the city. At the conclusion of the student pre-sentations, OEM Commissioner Joe Bruno commended all thestudents and faculty involved. “The work you’ve done analyz-ing Watch Command is crucial to us,” he said. “You did agreat job and exactly what we wanted you to do. You’vegiven us a wake-up call and told us where the problems are.”

This year, Stevens will once again partner with the OEM toaddress potential areas for improvement.

The undergraduate Business & Technology program continues to yield a remarkable crop of highly tal-ented and self-motivated young leaders, and major industry has remained impressed with this uniquecohort, bringing them into their organizations at higher levels and salaries than the average undergrad-uate with a background in business or technology studies.

In September, Stevens welcomed the incoming class of 2010, one of Stevens’ largest incoming classes inrecent years, with approximately 530 students. The class of 2010 includes a large percentage of stu-dents from across the US, with 40 percent of the class coming from outside of New Jersey, as well asmany international students. This year, Stevens also welcomes its first international students from theDominican Republic.

In September, Stevens welcomed the incoming class of 2010,one of Stevens’ largest incoming classes in recent years, withapproximately 530 students. The class of 2010 includes alarge percentage of students from across the US, with 40 per-cent of the class coming from outside of New Jersey, as wellas many international students. This year, Stevens also wel-comes its first international students from the DominicanRepublic.

The entering class includes a large percentage of students inThe Schaefer School of Engineering, at 65 percent, with 25percent from The School of Sciences and Arts and 10 percentin The Howe School of Technology Management. In additionto an already demanding curriculum, approximately 60 mem-bers of the incoming class will take part in Stevens’ Scholarsprogram, which requires outstanding achievement on theSATs (this year saw a midrange of scores from 1430 to 1490)and a high grade point average. Overall, of those reporting aclass rank, 54 percent of the incoming class graduated in thetop 10 percent of their high school classes, up from 49 per-cent last year. The class of 2010 also averages an overall GPAof 3.7 on a 4.0 scale.

Stevens Athletics celebrated many individual and team suc-cesses during the 2005-2006 academic year. Six teamsadvanced to post-season play, including Men’s Soccer (NCAA

Sweet 16);Women’sSoccer (NCAASweet 16);Men’s Lacrosse(NCAA 2ndRound); Men’sVolleyball(Molten Final4); Women’sBasketball(ECAC);Women’sVolleyball(NCAA 2ndRound). FiveStevens teams

won conference cham-pionships: Men’sSoccer, Women’sSoccer, Men’s Lacrosse,Men’s Tennis andWomen’s Volleyball.

Individual honorsincluded PatrickDorywalski (Men'sVolleyball) being namedCoach of the Year, sixStevens athletes namedconference Players ofthe Year (Siena York-Carr, women's soccer;Tim Meehan, Baseball;Mark Bielicky, Men'sLacrosse; DanaBacalla, Women'sTennis; Dawn Herring,Women's Volleyball;Ricky Bawa, Men'sTennis) and fourStevens athletes namedconference Rookie ofthe Year (Salme Cook,Women's Soccer;Melanie Volk,Women's Volleyball; Chris Ford, Men's Lacrosse; KobeAttias, Men's Tennis). In addition, Women's Tennis coachSteve Gachko was named Coaching Staff of the Year.

Michael Schulte and Andrew Cranford were named first-team All-Americans in Men’s Volleyball; Tim Meehan wasnamed first-team Academic All-American in Baseball; MarkBielicky was named third-team All-American in Men’sLacrosse; and Heather Dean was named second-teamAcademic All-American in Women’s Soccer.

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Among the impressive technologies presented at this year’sSenior Design Projects Day was the MicroSpy BioChip™. Thestudent team of Ali Saaemi and Manish Modi, from theElectrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department,devised this lab-on-a-chip system created to provide a micro-bial detector that can sense the presence of bacteria andother microbes, with implications for detection of contami-nants in the air and in the food supply, from packaging all theway to the store shelf. Their project sponsors include theCenter for Applied Genomics (CAG), the Public HealthResearch Institute – Tuberculosis Center, and the StevensMicrostructure Research Center. Their faculty advisor wasProfessor Hong Man.

The Emergency Communications System (ECS) project teamworked to improve emergency communication between bloodbanks and local agencies. The ECS project was a collaborativeeffort from students from the ECE Department and theBusiness and Technology Program. ECE students ShamimAkhtar, Ravi Amin, Ndiritu Muriuki and Imtiazur Rahmanworked with Business and Technology students Joel Perez,Nick Mabunay, Sarah Quinn and Praveen Tanguturi (adoctoral candidate).

Design Day attendees were also able to try out the Women’sLacrosse Skill Development Training Device, from MechanicalEngineering students Neha Desai, Ryan Donovan, MikeFreeman, Robert Hoar, Thomas Presutti and Oliver Smith.The team’s device was designed to assist women lacrosseplayers in practicing their draw, a critical element of a lacrossegame. The training device takes the place of the player’sopponent, enabling her to improve her skill at the draw with-out the aid of another person. Their portable device hasadjustable skill levels, which help quicken a player’s reactiontime.

In May, a group of seniors from Stevens presented their seniordesign project findings to officials from New York City’s Officeof Emergency Management (OEM) in a meeting held in TheBabbio Center. The presentation was the culmination of twosemesters of collaboration between the 17 seniors (11Business and Technology majors; six Electrical Engineeringmajors) and officials at the OEM. The students worked withthe OEM to improve their policies, procedures and internaloperations in the areas of organization, processes and tech-nology.

The students split into four teams to tackle various areas ofthe OEM’s structure. Of the Business and Technology majors,Pamela Dorsett, Jessica Pruzinsky and Kathy Wu workedon organizational issues; Karen Donnelly, Mary Claire

D’Elia, Malanka Misilo and Jennifer Palumbo handledprocesses; and Ed Bordet, Ian Gorham, Tim Akpinar andJiby Jacob were responsible for investigating data/informa-tion problems. The Electrical Engineering majors, Ali Afzal,Srikant Gupta, Stephanie LeBlanc, Rajarshi Nandy,Alexander Semidey and Carlos Vinasco, worked on a tech-nology plan for the city. At the conclusion of the student pre-sentations, OEM Commissioner Joe Bruno commended all thestudents and faculty involved. “The work you’ve done analyz-ing Watch Command is crucial to us,” he said. “You did agreat job and exactly what we wanted you to do. You’vegiven us a wake-up call and told us where the problems are.”

This year, Stevens will once again partner with the OEM toaddress potential areas for improvement.

The undergraduate Business & Technology program continues to yield a remarkable crop of highly tal-ented and self-motivated young leaders, and major industry has remained impressed with this uniquecohort, bringing them into their organizations at higher levels and salaries than the average undergrad-uate with a background in business or technology studies.

In September, Stevens welcomed the incoming class of 2010, one of Stevens’ largest incoming classes inrecent years, with approximately 530 students. The class of 2010 includes a large percentage of stu-dents from across the US, with 40 percent of the class coming from outside of New Jersey, as well asmany international students. This year, Stevens also welcomes its first international students from theDominican Republic.

In September, Stevens welcomed the incoming class of 2010,one of Stevens’ largest incoming classes in recent years, withapproximately 530 students. The class of 2010 includes alarge percentage of students from across the US, with 40 per-cent of the class coming from outside of New Jersey, as wellas many international students. This year, Stevens also wel-comes its first international students from the DominicanRepublic.

The entering class includes a large percentage of students inThe Schaefer School of Engineering, at 65 percent, with 25percent from The School of Sciences and Arts and 10 percentin The Howe School of Technology Management. In additionto an already demanding curriculum, approximately 60 mem-bers of the incoming class will take part in Stevens’ Scholarsprogram, which requires outstanding achievement on theSATs (this year saw a midrange of scores from 1430 to 1490)and a high grade point average. Overall, of those reporting aclass rank, 54 percent of the incoming class graduated in thetop 10 percent of their high school classes, up from 49 per-cent last year. The class of 2010 also averages an overall GPAof 3.7 on a 4.0 scale.

Stevens Athletics celebrated many individual and team suc-cesses during the 2005-2006 academic year. Six teamsadvanced to post-season play, including Men’s Soccer (NCAA

Sweet 16);Women’sSoccer (NCAASweet 16);Men’s Lacrosse(NCAA 2ndRound); Men’sVolleyball(Molten Final4); Women’sBasketball(ECAC);Women’sVolleyball(NCAA 2ndRound). FiveStevens teams

won conference cham-pionships: Men’sSoccer, Women’sSoccer, Men’s Lacrosse,Men’s Tennis andWomen’s Volleyball.

Individual honorsincluded PatrickDorywalski (Men'sVolleyball) being namedCoach of the Year, sixStevens athletes namedconference Players ofthe Year (Siena York-Carr, women's soccer;Tim Meehan, Baseball;Mark Bielicky, Men'sLacrosse; DanaBacalla, Women'sTennis; Dawn Herring,Women's Volleyball;Ricky Bawa, Men'sTennis) and fourStevens athletes namedconference Rookie ofthe Year (Salme Cook,Women's Soccer;Melanie Volk,Women's Volleyball; Chris Ford, Men's Lacrosse; KobeAttias, Men's Tennis). In addition, Women's Tennis coachSteve Gachko was named Coaching Staff of the Year.

Michael Schulte and Andrew Cranford were named first-team All-Americans in Men’s Volleyball; Tim Meehan wasnamed first-team Academic All-American in Baseball; MarkBielicky was named third-team All-American in Men’sLacrosse; and Heather Dean was named second-teamAcademic All-American in Women’s Soccer.

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Among the impressive technologies presented at this year’sSenior Design Projects Day was the MicroSpy BioChip™. Thestudent team of Ali Saaemi and Manish Modi, from theElectrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department,devised this lab-on-a-chip system created to provide a micro-bial detector that can sense the presence of bacteria andother microbes, with implications for detection of contami-nants in the air and in the food supply, from packaging all theway to the store shelf. Their project sponsors include theCenter for Applied Genomics (CAG), the Public HealthResearch Institute – Tuberculosis Center, and the StevensMicrostructure Research Center. Their faculty advisor wasProfessor Hong Man.

The Emergency Communications System (ECS) project teamworked to improve emergency communication between bloodbanks and local agencies. The ECS project was a collaborativeeffort from students from the ECE Department and theBusiness and Technology Program. ECE students ShamimAkhtar, Ravi Amin, Ndiritu Muriuki and Imtiazur Rahmanworked with Business and Technology students Joel Perez,Nick Mabunay, Sarah Quinn and Praveen Tanguturi (adoctoral candidate).

Design Day attendees were also able to try out the Women’sLacrosse Skill Development Training Device, from MechanicalEngineering students Neha Desai, Ryan Donovan, MikeFreeman, Robert Hoar, Thomas Presutti and Oliver Smith.The team’s device was designed to assist women lacrosseplayers in practicing their draw, a critical element of a lacrossegame. The training device takes the place of the player’sopponent, enabling her to improve her skill at the draw with-out the aid of another person. Their portable device hasadjustable skill levels, which help quicken a player’s reactiontime.

The intention of the by-invitation roundtables is to provide aforum for networking and promoting interaction amongStevens, industry and the investment community, leading tojoint innovation and enterprise. Each month will focus on adifferent Stevens technology that either is ready for commer-cialization, or is the basis of a Technogenesis start-up compa-ny.

The inaugural June roundtable featured the topic, “Ultra-Sensitive Sensors for Perimeter Security and More,” specifical-ly technologies that form the basis for the StevensTechnogenesis start-up, Castle Point Scientific, LLC, formed byVP Wisniewski’s office in concert with the technology inven-tor, Physics Professor Hong-Liang Cui. Castle PointScientific’s mission is to commercialize technology developed

at Stevens for next-generation, fiber optic-based, ultra-sensi-tive sensing systems, which have demonstrated superior per-formance and promise to be a revolutionary approach for adiversity of sensor-based applications, including perimeter andborder security.

Other Disruptive Technologies Roundtables have consideredStevens Proof of Concept (SPOC), a company co-founded byStevens students and Dr. Norman Marcus, based on a stu-dent-designed biomedical device for the precise detection ofpain generation in muscle groups; and Attila Technologies, acompany that has produced a multi-spectrum radio that over-comes communications roadblocks among emergency first-responders.

Also, through negotiations conducted by VP Wisniewski’soffice, PlasmaSol Corporation, a Technogenesis companyfounded at Stevens, was acquired by Stryker Corporation in amerger that was concluded in December 2005. The cost ofthe transaction totaled approximately $17.5 million, includingan up-front cash payment, plus the assumption of certain lia-bilities by Stryker. PlasmaSol developed technology that willallow Stryker to provide sterilization equipment for use in ster-ilizing certain of its MedSurg Equipment products. This wasthe second sale of a Technogenesis company in two years, thefirst being HydroGlobe, an environmental technology compa-ny sold to Graver Corporation.

Eui-Hyeok (EH) Yang has joinedStevens as an Associate Professor in theMechanical Engineering Department.Previously he worked with NASA’s JetPropulsion Laboratory (JPL), where heinitiated the development of MEMSactuator-based adaptive optical devices.Yang also served as a senior member ofthe engineering staff and the task man-ager for several technology develop-ment projects at JPL in the area ofmicro- and nanotechnologies. He initi-ated and led the development of

MEMS-based deformable mirrors and actuators for futurelarge aperture telescopes, and also led the development ofMEMS-based piezoelectric valves for future micro-spacecraftapplications. His current research interests include all aspectsof microsensors/actuators, microfluidics, adaptive optics,micro/nano-energy conversion, and nano-manufacturing tech-nologies. Yang has published more than 90 papers in the fieldof MEMS, and has six patents issued or pending. He is amember of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of theIEEE Sensors Conference. He has served as a referee for sever-al archival journals, international conferences and proposalsand is a Senior Member of IEEE. In recognition of his excel-lence in advancing the use of MEMS-based actuators forspace applications, he received the Lew Allen Award forExcellence for 2003 at JPL. Yang received his Bachelor ofScience, Master of Science and doctoral degrees in theDepartment of Control and Instrumentation Engineering fromAjou University, Korea.

Svetlana Malinovskaia has joined theDepartment of Physics and EngineeringPhysics as a Research AssociateProfessor. Previously, Malinovskaiaworked as a Research Associate at theCenter for Ultrafast Optics at theUniversity of Michigan, where she wasa lecturer and FOCUS Fellow. She wasalso a visiting Research Scientist atITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center forAstrophysics, Harvard University.Malinovskaia is also the recipient ofnumerous honors, most recently receiv-

ing a Lecturer’s Professional Development grant. She is anassociate member of the Michigan Center for TheoreticalPhysics and a member of the Optical Society of America, theAmerican Chemical Society and the American Physical Society.Malinovskaia has been widely published and presented morethan a dozen invited talks. She received her Doctorate inTheoretical Physics from Novosibirsk State University andInstitute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion of RussianAcademy of Science, Russia. She holds a Master of Science inPhysics from Novosibirsk State University and a Bachelor ofScience from Krasnoyarsk State University, both in Russia.

Stefan Strauf has joined the Department of Physics andEngineering Physics as an Assistant Professor. He received hisDoctorate from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 2001,with his thesis titled, “Impurity luminescence of wide bandgap semiconductors.” After one year of post-doctoral work atthe University of Bremen, Strauf served as a ResearchAssociate at UC Santa Barbara, where he worked on photoniccrystal quantum dot lasers, cavity-QED with single quantumdots in micropillar and photonic crystal cavities, and coupledquantum dots.His research interests include experimentalsemiconductor nanophotonics, light-matter interactions inphotonic band gap structures and non-classical light sourcesfor quantum information science.

Ruth Bolotin Schwartz joins Stevens’ Department ofComputer Science as a Senior Teaching Professor. Schwartzholds a Doctorate in Business Administration from TempleUniversity; a Master of Science in Computer Science fromUniversity of California; and earned her Bachelor of Arts inLiberal Arts and Mathematics from Northwestern University.Previously, Schwartz lectured in the Department of ComputerScience at Indiana University South Bend and Virginia StateUniversity. She was an Associate Professor at Virginia StateUniversity and St. Joseph’s University. She is a member of theAssociation for Computing Machinery and INFORMS.

X. Frank Xu, Assistant Professor of Civil Environmental &Ocean Engineering at The Schaefer School, was named anEarly Career Principal Investigator, a highly competitive andprestigious award from the Office of Advanced ScientificComputing Research of the Office of Science, US Departmentof Energy (DOE).

Stevens alumna Kathryn Abel, Director of the EngineeringManagement Program at Stevens Institute of Technology, washonored with the Merl Baker Award at the 2006 AmericanSociety of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference andExposition. It is the second highest award from theEngineering Management Division of ASEE and annually hon-ors those who have performed exemplary service. Abelrecently finished her tenure as president of the EngineeringManagement Division, and in prior years she was also theprogram chairman as well as treasurer.

Professor Richard Reilly of The Howe School was appointedto a national advisory panel working with the InnovationCenter of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME).The panel will advise the NBME on procedures, processes andtools for assessing physician behavior.

Professor John V. Farr, Department Director, SystemsEngineering and Engineering Management, was nominated toserve on the Air Force Studies Board (AFSB) of the NationalAcademies.

Murray James Elder joins Stevens’ Department ofMathematical Sciences as an Assistant Professor. Elder will lec-ture and focus on research, and is also a member of theAlgebraic Cryptography Center. His research interests includegeneric complexity of combinatorial and group theoretic prob-lems, automata theory, geometric group theory, and problemsin stack-sorting and pattern-avoiding permutations. Elderholds a Doctor of Philosophy degree, a Master of Science anda Postgraduate Diploma in Mathematical Sciences, all fromThe University of Melbourne, Australia. He earned hisBachelor of Applied Science from LaTrobe University, Bendigo,Australia. Before coming to Stevens Elder served as a Lecturerin the Department of Mathematics and Applied Statistics,University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

Paul Rohmeyer joins Stevens as an Industry Professor, teach-ing graduate-level courses on Information SecurityManagement and Network Management as a faculty memberin The Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management.Rohmeyer has completed research in Information Security

Management and Business Continuity Planning, and was acontributing author in the book Guarding Your Business: AManagement Approach to Security. Rohmeyer is also a senior-level consultant with expertise in IT Management, ProjectManagement, Information Security and IT Audit. Prior to hisconsulting career he held positions as Director of StrategicBusiness Intelligence with AXA Financial Services and asDirector of IT Architecture Planning forBellcore. He also has held informationsystems audit and IT management posi-tions with Citicorp and American HomeProducts Corporation. Rohmeyer holdsa Bachelor of Arts degree in Economicsfrom Rutgers University, a MBA inFinance from St. Joseph’s University andMaster of Science and doctoral degreesin Information Management fromStevens.

Among Stevens’ new, distinguished and recognized faculty:

Dr. Helena S. Wisniewski, Vice President for University Research & Enterprise Development, in Juneorganized and hosted the first in a series of monthly “Disruptive Technologies Roundtables” at Stevens.

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Eui-Hyeok (EH) Yang

Svetlana Malinovskaia

Paul Rohmeyer

The intention of the by-invitation roundtables is to provide aforum for networking and promoting interaction amongStevens, industry and the investment community, leading tojoint innovation and enterprise. Each month will focus on adifferent Stevens technology that either is ready for commer-cialization, or is the basis of a Technogenesis start-up compa-ny.

The inaugural June roundtable featured the topic, “Ultra-Sensitive Sensors for Perimeter Security and More,” specifical-ly technologies that form the basis for the StevensTechnogenesis start-up, Castle Point Scientific, LLC, formed byVP Wisniewski’s office in concert with the technology inven-tor, Physics Professor Hong-Liang Cui. Castle PointScientific’s mission is to commercialize technology developed

at Stevens for next-generation, fiber optic-based, ultra-sensi-tive sensing systems, which have demonstrated superior per-formance and promise to be a revolutionary approach for adiversity of sensor-based applications, including perimeter andborder security.

Other Disruptive Technologies Roundtables have consideredStevens Proof of Concept (SPOC), a company co-founded byStevens students and Dr. Norman Marcus, based on a stu-dent-designed biomedical device for the precise detection ofpain generation in muscle groups; and Attila Technologies, acompany that has produced a multi-spectrum radio that over-comes communications roadblocks among emergency first-responders.

Also, through negotiations conducted by VP Wisniewski’soffice, PlasmaSol Corporation, a Technogenesis companyfounded at Stevens, was acquired by Stryker Corporation in amerger that was concluded in December 2005. The cost ofthe transaction totaled approximately $17.5 million, includingan up-front cash payment, plus the assumption of certain lia-bilities by Stryker. PlasmaSol developed technology that willallow Stryker to provide sterilization equipment for use in ster-ilizing certain of its MedSurg Equipment products. This wasthe second sale of a Technogenesis company in two years, thefirst being HydroGlobe, an environmental technology compa-ny sold to Graver Corporation.

Eui-Hyeok (EH) Yang has joinedStevens as an Associate Professor in theMechanical Engineering Department.Previously he worked with NASA’s JetPropulsion Laboratory (JPL), where heinitiated the development of MEMSactuator-based adaptive optical devices.Yang also served as a senior member ofthe engineering staff and the task man-ager for several technology develop-ment projects at JPL in the area ofmicro- and nanotechnologies. He initi-ated and led the development of

MEMS-based deformable mirrors and actuators for futurelarge aperture telescopes, and also led the development ofMEMS-based piezoelectric valves for future micro-spacecraftapplications. His current research interests include all aspectsof microsensors/actuators, microfluidics, adaptive optics,micro/nano-energy conversion, and nano-manufacturing tech-nologies. Yang has published more than 90 papers in the fieldof MEMS, and has six patents issued or pending. He is amember of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of theIEEE Sensors Conference. He has served as a referee for sever-al archival journals, international conferences and proposalsand is a Senior Member of IEEE. In recognition of his excel-lence in advancing the use of MEMS-based actuators forspace applications, he received the Lew Allen Award forExcellence for 2003 at JPL. Yang received his Bachelor ofScience, Master of Science and doctoral degrees in theDepartment of Control and Instrumentation Engineering fromAjou University, Korea.

Svetlana Malinovskaia has joined theDepartment of Physics and EngineeringPhysics as a Research AssociateProfessor. Previously, Malinovskaiaworked as a Research Associate at theCenter for Ultrafast Optics at theUniversity of Michigan, where she wasa lecturer and FOCUS Fellow. She wasalso a visiting Research Scientist atITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center forAstrophysics, Harvard University.Malinovskaia is also the recipient ofnumerous honors, most recently receiv-

ing a Lecturer’s Professional Development grant. She is anassociate member of the Michigan Center for TheoreticalPhysics and a member of the Optical Society of America, theAmerican Chemical Society and the American Physical Society.Malinovskaia has been widely published and presented morethan a dozen invited talks. She received her Doctorate inTheoretical Physics from Novosibirsk State University andInstitute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion of RussianAcademy of Science, Russia. She holds a Master of Science inPhysics from Novosibirsk State University and a Bachelor ofScience from Krasnoyarsk State University, both in Russia.

Stefan Strauf has joined the Department of Physics andEngineering Physics as an Assistant Professor. He received hisDoctorate from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 2001,with his thesis titled, “Impurity luminescence of wide bandgap semiconductors.” After one year of post-doctoral work atthe University of Bremen, Strauf served as a ResearchAssociate at UC Santa Barbara, where he worked on photoniccrystal quantum dot lasers, cavity-QED with single quantumdots in micropillar and photonic crystal cavities, and coupledquantum dots.His research interests include experimentalsemiconductor nanophotonics, light-matter interactions inphotonic band gap structures and non-classical light sourcesfor quantum information science.

Ruth Bolotin Schwartz joins Stevens’ Department ofComputer Science as a Senior Teaching Professor. Schwartzholds a Doctorate in Business Administration from TempleUniversity; a Master of Science in Computer Science fromUniversity of California; and earned her Bachelor of Arts inLiberal Arts and Mathematics from Northwestern University.Previously, Schwartz lectured in the Department of ComputerScience at Indiana University South Bend and Virginia StateUniversity. She was an Associate Professor at Virginia StateUniversity and St. Joseph’s University. She is a member of theAssociation for Computing Machinery and INFORMS.

X. Frank Xu, Assistant Professor of Civil Environmental &Ocean Engineering at The Schaefer School, was named anEarly Career Principal Investigator, a highly competitive andprestigious award from the Office of Advanced ScientificComputing Research of the Office of Science, US Departmentof Energy (DOE).

Stevens alumna Kathryn Abel, Director of the EngineeringManagement Program at Stevens Institute of Technology, washonored with the Merl Baker Award at the 2006 AmericanSociety of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference andExposition. It is the second highest award from theEngineering Management Division of ASEE and annually hon-ors those who have performed exemplary service. Abelrecently finished her tenure as president of the EngineeringManagement Division, and in prior years she was also theprogram chairman as well as treasurer.

Professor Richard Reilly of The Howe School was appointedto a national advisory panel working with the InnovationCenter of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME).The panel will advise the NBME on procedures, processes andtools for assessing physician behavior.

Professor John V. Farr, Department Director, SystemsEngineering and Engineering Management, was nominated toserve on the Air Force Studies Board (AFSB) of the NationalAcademies.

Murray James Elder joins Stevens’ Department ofMathematical Sciences as an Assistant Professor. Elder will lec-ture and focus on research, and is also a member of theAlgebraic Cryptography Center. His research interests includegeneric complexity of combinatorial and group theoretic prob-lems, automata theory, geometric group theory, and problemsin stack-sorting and pattern-avoiding permutations. Elderholds a Doctor of Philosophy degree, a Master of Science anda Postgraduate Diploma in Mathematical Sciences, all fromThe University of Melbourne, Australia. He earned hisBachelor of Applied Science from LaTrobe University, Bendigo,Australia. Before coming to Stevens Elder served as a Lecturerin the Department of Mathematics and Applied Statistics,University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

Paul Rohmeyer joins Stevens as an Industry Professor, teach-ing graduate-level courses on Information SecurityManagement and Network Management as a faculty memberin The Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management.Rohmeyer has completed research in Information Security

Management and Business Continuity Planning, and was acontributing author in the book Guarding Your Business: AManagement Approach to Security. Rohmeyer is also a senior-level consultant with expertise in IT Management, ProjectManagement, Information Security and IT Audit. Prior to hisconsulting career he held positions as Director of StrategicBusiness Intelligence with AXA Financial Services and asDirector of IT Architecture Planning forBellcore. He also has held informationsystems audit and IT management posi-tions with Citicorp and American HomeProducts Corporation. Rohmeyer holdsa Bachelor of Arts degree in Economicsfrom Rutgers University, a MBA inFinance from St. Joseph’s University andMaster of Science and doctoral degreesin Information Management fromStevens.

Among Stevens’ new, distinguished and recognized faculty:

Dr. Helena S. Wisniewski, Vice President for University Research & Enterprise Development, in Juneorganized and hosted the first in a series of monthly “Disruptive Technologies Roundtables” at Stevens.

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Eui-Hyeok (EH) Yang

Svetlana Malinovskaia

Paul Rohmeyer

Stevens Institute of Technology is a center for learning and research that encouragesthose who pass through its gates to reach for the stars, overcoming all challenges.Stevens graduates leaders in the creation and dissemination of knowledge that engen-ders new scientific discoveries and successful innovation in products, processes andbusinesses. Through its unique Technogenesis approach to research, innovation andthe commercialization of new technology solutions, Stevens envisions a revival of theentrepreneurial genius that made America the freest society and the greatest industrialpower on earth.

This compelling vision was shared and acted upon by the founding Stevens family.And now, as the Institute ascends higher among the nation’s leading research universi-ties, we collectively are building the foundation for long-term greatness. I am confi-dent that the entire Stevens Community, from senior alumni to recent graduates, sens-es the potential and the excitement inherent in the conquest of today’s challenges, onthe way to the incalculable promise of tomorrow.

I hope the message of the preceding pages has touched you with the spirit that drivesour great institution forward.

Sincerely,

Hal Raveché

Professor Adriana Compagnoni, an Associate Professor inthe Department of Computer Science, chaired theInternational Workshop on Proof-Carrying Code (PCC) inSeattle, August 2006. The workshop aim was to bring togeth-er people from academia and industry and promote the col-laboration between those adapting (PCC) ideas to new indus-trial applications, and experts in logic, type theory, program-ming languages, static analysis and compilers.

Julie Norris joined the Office ofSponsored Research as a consultant. Inthis role, Norris will work closely withStevens faculty on the construction ofgrant proposals for new and ongoingresearch projects across the spectrum ofthe university. Norris comes to Stevensafter a long career at the University ofHouston and the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology. Together, the financialoperations team will ensure effectivemanagement of the gains made duringa decade of rapid growth.

Dean of Engineering George P. Korfiatis announced theappointment of Ralph Giffin III as Director of Operations andLogistics for the prestigious System Design and OperationalEffectiveness (SDOE) program, which resides in Stevens’Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering

Management. Giffin comes to Stevens with more than 25years of experience in the US defense industry. He has heldnumerous senior and executive management positions andserved most recently as Vice President for Operations atLockheed Martin’s Simulation, Training and Support Division inOrlando, Fla.

The Office of Development and External Affairs welcomedtwo new members to its Major Gifts team, which is directedby Dawn Da Silva. Kristen Tegenborg comes to Stevens asAssistant Director of Major Gifts, having worked previouslywith the development team at St. Phillip’s Academy. She willoversee the administration of Stevens’ premier giving organi-zation, the Edwin A.Stevens Society, nowsome 540 membersstrong. MichelleSchleibaum joined theMajor Gifts team asAssistant Director for thearea of scholarship fund-raising and manage-ment. She had previouslyserved as AssistantDirector for Annual Support Programs. Also joiningDevelopment was Michael McGarry in the position ofDirector of Planned Giving. McGarry had most recentlyworked as a planned giving officer at Seton Hall University.

Recognizing the value of alternative energy systems, Stevenspartnered with SunEdison of Baltimore, Md., to implementtwo showcase roof installations of solar panels on the S.C.Williams Library and the Schaefer Athletic Center, two of thelarger facilities on the Stevens campus. SunEdison generouslydonated the entire cost to install the panels, including thebonding and maintenance costs for the next 25 years, allow-ing Stevens to use the solar energy produced at a locked-inrate of 9 cents per kilowatt hour for the next quarter-century.

In the current energy marketplace, power utilities can be

required to produce a percentage of electricity through alter-native energy resources. If a utility cannot produce suchpower itself, it has the option to buy it in the open market-place for a renewable energy credit, which is whereSunEdison expects to see benefits from the Stevens solarpanel installation. With demand remaining high for theseenergy credits and the supply low, Stevens and SunEdison’spartnership offers a forward-looking model for meetingAmerica’s energy needs.

The majority of the River Terrace Apartments were completed,following a year-long renovation of six early-20th centuryapartment buildings located at Sixth Street and River Terrace.The full residential complex will accommodate approximately150 undergraduate residents, providing much-needed spacefor this steadily growing population.

The administrative offices of The Howe School moved intofourth-floor accommodations at The Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr.Center. The fifth floor will soon be ready to accommodate theDepartment of Systems Engineering & EngineeringManagement. The sixth floor will shortly serve as the home ofStevens’ Maritime Security Laboratory, as well theCyberSecurity Laboratory and a Howe School center forresearch.

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Kristen Tegenborg & Michelle Schleibaum

Julie Norris

Stevens Institute of Technology is a center for learning and research that encouragesthose who pass through its gates to reach for the stars, overcoming all challenges.Stevens graduates leaders in the creation and dissemination of knowledge that engen-ders new scientific discoveries and successful innovation in products, processes andbusinesses. Through its unique Technogenesis approach to research, innovation andthe commercialization of new technology solutions, Stevens envisions a revival of theentrepreneurial genius that made America the freest society and the greatest industrialpower on earth.

This compelling vision was shared and acted upon by the founding Stevens family.And now, as the Institute ascends higher among the nation’s leading research universi-ties, we collectively are building the foundation for long-term greatness. I am confi-dent that the entire Stevens Community, from senior alumni to recent graduates, sens-es the potential and the excitement inherent in the conquest of today’s challenges, onthe way to the incalculable promise of tomorrow.

I hope the message of the preceding pages has touched you with the spirit that drivesour great institution forward.

Sincerely,

Hal Raveché

Professor Adriana Compagnoni, an Associate Professor inthe Department of Computer Science, chaired theInternational Workshop on Proof-Carrying Code (PCC) inSeattle, August 2006. The workshop aim was to bring togeth-er people from academia and industry and promote the col-laboration between those adapting (PCC) ideas to new indus-trial applications, and experts in logic, type theory, program-ming languages, static analysis and compilers.

Julie Norris joined the Office ofSponsored Research as a consultant. Inthis role, Norris will work closely withStevens faculty on the construction ofgrant proposals for new and ongoingresearch projects across the spectrum ofthe university. Norris comes to Stevensafter a long career at the University ofHouston and the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology. Together, the financialoperations team will ensure effectivemanagement of the gains made duringa decade of rapid growth.

Dean of Engineering George P. Korfiatis announced theappointment of Ralph Giffin III as Director of Operations andLogistics for the prestigious System Design and OperationalEffectiveness (SDOE) program, which resides in Stevens’Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering

Management. Giffin comes to Stevens with more than 25years of experience in the US defense industry. He has heldnumerous senior and executive management positions andserved most recently as Vice President for Operations atLockheed Martin’s Simulation, Training and Support Division inOrlando, Fla.

The Office of Development and External Affairs welcomedtwo new members to its Major Gifts team, which is directedby Dawn Da Silva. Kristen Tegenborg comes to Stevens asAssistant Director of Major Gifts, having worked previouslywith the development team at St. Phillip’s Academy. She willoversee the administration of Stevens’ premier giving organi-zation, the Edwin A.Stevens Society, nowsome 540 membersstrong. MichelleSchleibaum joined theMajor Gifts team asAssistant Director for thearea of scholarship fund-raising and manage-ment. She had previouslyserved as AssistantDirector for Annual Support Programs. Also joiningDevelopment was Michael McGarry in the position ofDirector of Planned Giving. McGarry had most recentlyworked as a planned giving officer at Seton Hall University.

Recognizing the value of alternative energy systems, Stevenspartnered with SunEdison of Baltimore, Md., to implementtwo showcase roof installations of solar panels on the S.C.Williams Library and the Schaefer Athletic Center, two of thelarger facilities on the Stevens campus. SunEdison generouslydonated the entire cost to install the panels, including thebonding and maintenance costs for the next 25 years, allow-ing Stevens to use the solar energy produced at a locked-inrate of 9 cents per kilowatt hour for the next quarter-century.

In the current energy marketplace, power utilities can be

required to produce a percentage of electricity through alter-native energy resources. If a utility cannot produce suchpower itself, it has the option to buy it in the open market-place for a renewable energy credit, which is whereSunEdison expects to see benefits from the Stevens solarpanel installation. With demand remaining high for theseenergy credits and the supply low, Stevens and SunEdison’spartnership offers a forward-looking model for meetingAmerica’s energy needs.

The majority of the River Terrace Apartments were completed,following a year-long renovation of six early-20th centuryapartment buildings located at Sixth Street and River Terrace.The full residential complex will accommodate approximately150 undergraduate residents, providing much-needed spacefor this steadily growing population.

The administrative offices of The Howe School moved intofourth-floor accommodations at The Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr.Center. The fifth floor will soon be ready to accommodate theDepartment of Systems Engineering & EngineeringManagement. The sixth floor will shortly serve as the home ofStevens’ Maritime Security Laboratory, as well theCyberSecurity Laboratory and a Howe School center forresearch.

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Kristen Tegenborg & Michelle Schleibaum

Julie Norris

Stevens Institute of TechnologyCastle Point on HudsonHoboken, NJ 07030-5991

www.stevens.edu

“With engineering, science and technology managementhaving a profound and growing impact in every area of modern life,

the national leadership role of Stevens Institute of Technologyis more important and more challenging than ever.”

A Report from President Harold J. RavechéFall 2006