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Program Overview:
- Undergraduate summer entrepreneur and research opportunity in innovative design, research and/or business projects for a period of ten weeks.
- Students receive a maximum stipend of $3500. Students are expected to conduct 35 hours of research work per week.
- Students receive free on-campus housing.
Student Eligibility Requirements:
- Students are expected to conduct the research on-campus, on a full time basis under the direct supervision of a faculty or research staff member from Stevens.
- The minimum accepted overall cumulative GPA is 3.0 as of the Fall Semester 2011.
- Students must be full time Stevens undergraduates who will be registered as undergraduates for the Fall Semester 2012.
- Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged, but there must be a primary faculty advisor.
- Projects that continue into the school year are encouraged. (Continued funding from Technogenesis, however, is not guaranteed beyond the summer program schedule).
- Students are expected to work on their Stevens project full time, with no other employment or academic work.
- Stevens Scholars are not eligible if they have other research opportunities.
Selection Process:
- Faculty/Advisors submit research topics/projects (areas of work) to Technogenesis® (TG) school coordinators beginning March 2012. Projects may be submitted for distribution to the students up to a week before the proposal submission deadline, if necessary. (In the spirit of the Technogenesis® theme, faculty members should identify and emphasize projects that have the potential for commercial value and/or solve a customer need.)
- A list of topics/projects with corresponding faculty/advisors will be posted on the Technogenesis® website with a brief description of each.
- Students meet with the advisor who submitted the research topic/project that interests them.
- The student and the advisor discuss and develop a project plan suitable for that student. Alternatively, students, who desire to research a specific project not listed on the website, may seek out an advisor willing to oversee their research and develop a specific project plan for proposal submission.
Student Proposal Submission Process (Available as a Downloadable File Here)
- Once advisors have been identified, candidates should download, print, and review the proposal with faculty advisors.
- A hardcopy of the Proposal Submission should be signed by faculty advisors, and have a resume attached with a copy of Student ID and submitted to the Office of Academic Entrepreneurship.
- An Electronic record should also be provided to Sandra Furnbach at sandra.furnbach@stevens.edu.
Hard Copy Proposals must be submitted to: - David T. Peacock or Sandra Furnbach
Office of Academic Entrepreneurship (OAE) Room 210 - EAS Building
Student proposals can be submitted between dates, 7 March - 6 April 2011.
The deadline for submitting a proposal is: 5:00 PM, 6 April 2011. |
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- Faculty/Research staff members must rate their preferences of student proposals if they are sponsoring the submission of more than one student proposal. The ranking should be submitted no later than submission dead line (6 April). It is anticipated that no faculty member will supervise more than two student projects during the summer program.
- Faculty should not agree to more than three (3) submissions total in which they are listed as the advisor. If the faculty member receives request from more than three students, they must chose which proposals they will agree to sponsor.
- The Technogenesis® Summer Scholar Selection Committee (consisting of the coordinators from each school, Dr. Christos Christodoulatos and David Peacock) will meet periodically during the proposal submission period to review proposals. Key evaluation criteria include:
- Quality of the project
- Tie to Technogenesis
- Student's research and academic history
Student Acceptance & Administrative Processing:
- Students will be notified of acceptance by e-mail beginning 16 April 2012.
- Students should advise the Office of University Enterprise Development of their acceptance or rejection of the award no later than 27 April 2012.
- Administrative paperwork, including housing and payroll processing will begin 30 April 2012. A group meeting will be conducted at a date TBD.
Research Work Activity:
Summer research work activity can take place between the dates of 21 May through 10 August 2012.
Students must meet with their TG faculty research advisor to discuss their individual work schedule. The typical summer research work week is 7 hours per day, (9-5 with 1 hour lunch break), 5 days per week, (M-F). Students should discuss planned time off for vacation etc. Students are required to work a total of no more than 350 hours, limited to 35 hours per week, during the above period. Students will receive 6 equal bi-monthly payments of total stipend $3,500 beginning with May's payroll .
Summer academic course activity outside of the TG summer research program is not allowed.
Final Report & Ceremony with Poster Board Exhibition:
A final report documenting the research and results must be prepared by all summer scholars and submitted to David T. Peacock with copy to their faculty advisor. Final reports are due by 10 August 2012.
The program concludes with a final ceremony and poster board exhibition of the individual research projects. This event will be scheduled during the 1st or 2nd week of the Fall Semester 2012.
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