President Raveche speaks out on television program

HOBOKEN, N.J. — While Stevens Institute of Technology teaches the fundamentals of technology, it does so today with a keen eye to how technology is imbedded in the new economy, according to Stevens’ President, Dr. Harold J. Raveche.

That’s why Stevens offers its students unique and intensive on-the-job experiences at the nation’s top technological companies while they are still in college, he says.

Raveche discussed Stevens’ educational role in the new economy recently on the Washington D.C.-based program White House Chronicle.

Students such as those who will begin Stevens’ groundbreaking new undergraduate degree in business and technology next fall will finish their degrees with a level of experience and evaluation unparalleled among their peers at other universities.

"Our students today must do practical projects while in a real business context — develop a product, a business plan, and show how to market and distribute it," said Raveche on the program. "This gives them real-life experience. And these projects will be evaluated by industry professionals, not by our faculty."

White House Chronicle is a weekly national television program produced in collaboration with Howard University Television, White House Weekly, and Stevens Institute of Technology. The program airs in Washington, D.C., Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at noon on Howard University Television’s Channel 32 and DC Cable 17. It reaches 500,000 viewers in the greater Washington area.

The program also is made available each weekend via satellite to more than 360 PBS television stations in the United States. Additionally, the GoodLife TV Network transmits White House Chronicle to its 1,450 cable systems, comprising 9 million subscribers in all 50 states. The program also may be viewed online at kingpublishing.com.

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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