Corporate and Foundation Relations

General info

Stevens partners with corporations, both large and small. This partnering is in the spirit of Technogenesis®, the university’s educational focus where faculty, students and colleagues in industry jointly nurture the process of conception, design, and marketplace realization of new technologies. Through the implementation of Technogenesis, Stevens embraces its history of innovation while aligning for the needs of the dynamic future.

Stevens Institute of Technology offers your corporation a responsive and flexible environment that provides a number of profitable partnerships to maximize bottom line impact. This creates many fruitful and diverse relationships with outstanding faculty, departments, students and research scientists to form and prosper. Every effort is made by the faculty and staff at Stevens to create meaningful partnerships that evolve with the changing needs of both partner corporations and the university over time.

We at Stevens look forward to working with you. The Institute is renowned for the innovative work done here in the past. Using this foundation, Stevens is dedicated to cultivating corporate relationships that provide tangible marketplace profitability.

Come to our campus and see the exciting research and innovations that thrive here!

Corporate Mission

Stevens faculty and administration strive to develop and steward relationships with corporations for mutually beneficial results and profitable marketplace realizations.

Collaboration between industry and Stevens is aligned to fit the needs of the corporation. The ultimate result of this relationship can be one or more of the following:

• A better-trained workforce
• A more efficient system or process
• A more profitable project management methodology
• A new technology with tangible marketplace potential

The possibilities are quite extensive. Call us to discuss how our resources can tackle tough challenges for your corporation.

Ways to partner with Stevens

The opportunities for collaborations between industry and Stevens are quite diverse. Corporate level initiatives offer the most profit impact and visibility — with lasting impact over many years, while academic level initiatives provide a more localized and current effect. Stevens routinely partners with corporations in endeavors that include the following.

Corporate level initiatives:

• Naming opportunities: Having a corporation put its name on a permanent part of Stevens solidifies a strong relationship between the two in the eyes of all who know, visit and interact with Stevens. What better way to support an institution that instills such high academic standards into graduates? There is no more solid way to make the corporation’s association with Stevens visible and tangible. This can only provide Stevens graduates, undeniably future leaders, with a visible incentive to hold the company in high regard and association for years to come. Numerous naming opportunities exist at Stevens, and they are well aligned to give your company exposure to an exclusive yet worldwide audience that will make positive associations with the company name and Stevens on a number of different levels. By naming a unique facility after the corporation, the corporation’s long-term relationship with Stevens is immediately and regularly evident to Stevens faculty, students, board of trustees and distinguished associates.
• Endowed professorship chairs: Endowed professorships are the highest honor for tenured faculty. The corporation and the professor who holds the chair share the prestige associated with the chair. Undeniably, endowed chairs are a means for attracting outstanding faculty and the star students who want to work with the honored professor. Stevens encourages the corporation that sponsors a professorship to develop a strong relationship with that individual. The mention of the chair’s name -- XYZ Corporation Distinguished Professor, for example -- is included as an integral part of the professor’s title.
• Program support: By supporting a particular program, a corporation can help enhance Stevens in a very tangible and visible way, thereby strengthening the departments affiliated with the program. The corporation’s involvement is evident to Stevens students, faculty, and alumni on a regular basis. Furthermore, the corporation’s involvement with a particular program helps solidify its most prominent areas of interest at Stevens. Program support also gives the corporation an opportunity to know future graduates who best fit the hiring interests of the company. The program itself can be cultivated to get company executives close to the students and the academic departments that perpetuate excellence in a particular industry.
• Research: Stevens offers dedicated world renown expertise to focus on a wide variety of research projects. To enable this type of projects and work, Stevens has state of the art laboratories and equipment that many corporations do not have internally. For this reason, Stevens is ideal for both long and short-term research projects that will help solve problems affecting a corporation’s bottom line.
• Curriculum development: By staying in close communication with Stevens faculty, a corporation can provide feedback on how applicable curriculum material is to the corporation’s needs and how well it prepares students for the challenges they will encounter as graduates in a particular industry. This input further enables Stevens graduates to maintain their reputation of being extremely well prepared for the challenges that their careers offer them. Stevens welcomes such curriculum input and uses it as one of many tools to continuously verify the alignment of coursework relative to the changing needs of the market.

Academic level initiatives:

• Undergraduate scholarships: Through scholarship support, a corporation can target prospective employees prior to competitive corporations and increase the likelihood of hiring these particular students through their appreciation and awareness of the company’s supportive efforts.
• Graduate fellowships: Corporations frequently donate funds to support the research of individual faculty members. Gifts to support a graduate student’s research are investments that encourage the interaction between faculty, students and corporations. To this end, graduate fellowships can be targeted to support the efforts of specific students or departments. As with scholarships, fellowship recipients are most appreciative of corporate support and historically seek employment from the corporation providing their fellowship.
• Student interaction with corporate representatives: Involvement with Stevens and support of the programs therein will lead to students at Stevens being increasingly aware of the corporation. These future graduates will be more inclined to interview and consider employment with companies they have personally had a positive experience with.
• Equipment: Donations of equipment can allow Stevens to expand research and teaching into targeted new areas. This expansion will increase the research services that can be provided. It also increases the likelihood of graduate and professor research expanding into areas that include the new equipment.

Contact

advancement@stevens.edu
201-216-5241