Peerasit Patanakul wins Bright Idea Award
Stevens professor is honored with award for the second time in two years
HOBOKEN, N.J. — Peerasit Patanakul , an Assistant Professor of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology, has been has won the 2009 Bright Idea Award for his paper, “A competency model for effectiveness in managing multiple projects.”
The paper was published in the Journal of High Technology Management, an Elsevier publication, and the award is sponsored by the New Jersey Policy Research Organization Foundation, the public policy research affiliate of the N.J. Business & Industry Association.
Patanakul joined Stevens in 2004 as a post doctorial fellow in the Howe School of Technology Management.
His paper was one of the top 10 manuscripts from more than 130 manuscripts in the business discipline in New Jersey. This is the second time Dr. Patanakul has received this recognition. Last year he won the 2008 Bright Idea Award in Project Management.
The award-winning paper this year proposes a list of competencies that multiple-project managers should possess organized as a competency model for effectiveness.
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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