Dr. Audrey Curtis, executive at AT&T and Lucent, to direct Telecommunications Management program

Stevens Institute of Technology has announced the appointment of Dr. Audrey Curtis as director of the Telecommunications Management program in the Howe School of Technology Management. She will also hold the title of Executive in Residence at the Howe School.

Curtis comes to Stevens with 26 years of experience in R&D and executive leadership positions at both Bell Labs (Lucent) and AT&T Labs. As an executive with these two leading telecommunications firms, Curtis was active in the commercialization of new technologies and services. She served as a manager of cutting-edge communications and networking technologies, in addition to holding leadership positions in pursuit of key high-level strategic initiatives. Curtis also has experience in joint venture planning and has worked in the global joint venture between AT&T and British Telecommunications. For the last year and a half she has been the Chief Technology Officer for a communications start-up firm, and continues in a consulting role with the company. Curtis holds a doctorate from New York University in experimental psychology and a master's degree in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Polytechnic University (formerly Brooklyn Polytechnic).

The Stevens Telecommunications Management program offers a Master of Science in Telecommunications Management to first-level and middle managers with strong technology applications backgrounds, especially those who are being fast-tracked into positions of greater responsibility by their employers. The program also supports full-time students pursuing Master of Science degrees, doctorates and graduate certificates. There are approximately 350 students enrolled the program currently.

Corporations sponsoring students include Verizon, Intel, Lucent, AT&T, Avaya and many other enterprises supporting their communications management employees. Within the past year, Stevens has extended this master's program through its distance learning division to Verizon-supported students located around the United States.

"This is an exciting initiative between Stevens Institute and Verizon, to meet Verizon's commitment to employee growth and development," says Dr. Charles Suffel, dean of the Graduate School at Stevens. "It provides a model for work with other corporations."

The Telecommunications Management program offers flexible delivery systems for busy professionals interested in career advancement, including:

• A Saturday program
• An on-line graduate certificate (four courses applicable to the master's degree)
• Selected corporate and off-campus locations 
• Part-time and full-time on-campus evenings

Further information may be obtained by contacting Linda Haberman at 201-216-8094, by emailing lhaberma@stevens.edu or by visiting the web www.stevens.edu/stm/ms-telecom.

Stevens Institute of Technology is a private university located on the bank of the Hudson River across from Manhattan. The Institute provides a rigorous, scholarly environment with strong cross-disciplinary links supporting world-class education, research and technical applications. Stevens has been an innovator in research that addresses real-world problems for more than 130 years, and continues this tradition through its new educational direction of Technogenesis®. Stevens enjoys an excellent reputation as a leader in transferring management technology to industry through its distinguished faculty and world-renowned alumni, including Frederick W. Taylor and Henry Gantt.

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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