Stevens’ management program receives award
HOBOKEN, N.J. — The Master of Technology Management (MTM) Program in the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology won the Academic Leadership Award of the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM).
In October, the award and a plaque were presented to Dr. Donald N. Merino, professor of technology management and engineering management at Stevens, at the ASEM 20th annual meeting in Virginia.
"We were judged to be best in the class of similar graduate programs on two major criteria — academic excellence and academic leadership," Merino said.
Stevens’ MTM program is the first graduate program to receive this prestigious award, which was unanimously approved by the ASEM national board. Previously, this award has been given to only undergraduate programs. In fact, the Stevens undergraduate Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Management program (BEEM) was the first undergraduate program to receive the award in 1991.
The MTM program was developed as part of the Stevens Alliance for Technology Management (SATM) educational activities. The SATM is an education-industry alliance of high-tech companies and government research labs in the New Jersey area.
"The MTM program is very fortunate to have the SATM to champion the program as well as provide leadership," Merino said. "The group that deserves the majority of the credit for the program’s success is the dedicated faculty and executives-in-residence who teach and mentor the students."
SATM partners include AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Allied Signal, Best Foods, Pershing, Telcordia, U.S. Army Research Office, Department of Energy, Picatinny Arsenal Army Base, Bell Atlantic, and U.S. Army Communications, Electronics, and Command (CECOM – Ft. Monmouth, NJ).
For more information, the media may contact Merino at (201) 216-5504 or via e-mail at DMERINO@stevens.edu.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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