Stevens and Navy Lakehurst sign education partnership
The partnership signing ceremony was held at Stevens’ Wesley J. Howe Center.
Dr. Harold J. Raveche, president of Stevens, as well as Stevens faculty, alumni and administrators, and officials from Navy Lakehurst were on hand for the signing.
The agreement provides a way for Stevens’ students and faculty to benefit from the experience, unique facilities, equipment and technologies available at Navy Lakehurst, the U.S. Navy base in New Jersey that includes the Naval Air Engineering Station and Naval Air Systems Command. Opportunities to work with technologies such as those in shipboard networking and aircraft carrier integration will add to the wealth of real-world experiences available to Stevens’ students. The agreement also creates a formal vehicle for information exchange between Stevens’ faculty and Navy Lakehurst.
The U.S. Navy will benefit from Stevens’ cutting-edge research, such as research in new environmental technologies and the latest software applications for design, development and production of parts. Stevens’ non-thermal plasma technology applications such as those licensed by PlasmaSol, a new company associated with Stevens, are expected to lead to environmentally sound practices that can be applied to maintaining Navy aircraft and reducing pollution. The Navy also expects to employ electromagnetic technology to the aircraft launching capabilities of carriers, thus improving significantly on the steam-powered launchers used today.
More information about Navy Lakehurst is available at its web site at www.lakehurst.navy.mil. Information about PlasmaSol is at www.plasmasol.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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