President Raveche speaks at AAAS Annual Meeting

HOBOKEN, N.J. — Stevens Institute of Technology President Harold J. Raveche is a featured speaker at this week’s 2000 Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The meeting, titled "Science in an Uncertain Millennium," is being held Feb. 17-22 in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Raveche’s remarks are part of the Friday morning symposium titled "Industry and Engineering: Can Universities Change Quickly Enough for the Innovation Economy?"

Raveche will talk about how and why organizations of all kinds will increasingly seek structured relationships and partnerships with universities in order to benefit from the universities’ know-how, programs and supportive environments. He will offer examples of ways Stevens Institute of Technology has successfully responded to such opportunities. Raveche is personally involved with many of these efforts. Some examples include:

Helping K-12 teachers make the best use of the Internet.

Stevens Institute of Technology has partnered with some 13,000 teachers in six states to instruct them in the best ways to use the Internet to teach math and science. This initiative is part of the efforts of Stevens’ Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education. The center develops hands-on courses on unique Internet applications for education. It is supported by more than $10 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Education. More information on this project is available at ciese.org.

Working with Bangladesh to remedy the country’s arsenic poisoning crisis.

Environmental engineers at Stevens have developed a low cost, easy-to-use method for filtering naturally occurring arsenic from drinking water. Currently Stevens is working on a plan with Bangladesh’s government to make the technology widely available. As many as 70 million people in Bangladesh are potentially impacted by naturally occurring arsenic in their drinking water, due to the millions of tube wells dug across the country in the last 20 years. The high level of arsenic in the water was not known when the wells were dug, but today the wells are the primary source for drinking water. More on this is at: Stevens presents remedy for Bangladesh’s drinking water crisis.

Partnering with business and industry to nurture new technologies for the marketplace.

Stevens Institute of Technology has embraced a new direction for its future in the new century. That new direction is called "Technogenesis." The word, trademarked by Stevens in 1999, is defined as "the educational frontier wherein faculty, students and colleagues in industry jointly nurture the process of conception, design and marketplace realization of new technologies." Through its commitment to Technogenesis, Stevens is increasingly partnering with business and industry to offer various kinds of research and development as well as to initiate joint product development that includes profit sharing. In addition, Stevens serves as a model for fostering economic development through initiatives such as its Technology Ventures Incubator, which assists potential entrepreneurs with starting their own companies. For more on these topics see: //www.stevens.edu/eci/research/index.html.

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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