Stevens joins government, science and technology leaders at TechTrends 2002 Conference & Expo, April 3-4, in Baltimore

Stevens Institute of Technology will be an exhibitor and presenter at the TechTrends 2002 Conference and Expo, titled "Leveraging Science and Technology Opportunities," April 3-4 in Baltimore. The TechTrends event is one of the largest of its kind, designed to provide participants with insights into the newest funding initiatives offered by government agencies, which award $80 billion annually in support of technology R&D efforts.

TechTrends is presented by the U.S. congressional delegations of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, which have united to form the SMART Congressional Caucus (Strengthening the Mid-Atlantic Region through Technology). The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), a Virginia-based group that represents the defense industry, also sponsors the conference.

Speaking at the conference's Defense Session from Stevens will be Jerry MacArthur Hultin, dean of Stevens Howe School of Technology Management. A former Under Secretary of the Navy, Hultin will participate in a panel led by Ohio Sen. Michael DeWine. The topic will be defense trends and technology. Also attending from the Howe School will be Dr. Jeffrey Nickerson, a professor in the Master of Science in Information Systems program. Nickerson is formerly a partner in the firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers and an expert in e-commerce.

Staffing Stevens' display booth will be several professionals from Stevens Office of Development and External Affairs.

Also among the Stevens delegation will be Dr. George Korfiatis, the director of the Center for Environmental Engineering in Stevens Schaefer School of Engineering. Korfiatis has patented a technology for removing naturally occurring arsenic from drinking water. The technology is being commercialized by the Stevens Technogenesis® company HydroGlobe LLC, for whom Korfiatis acts as technology advisor. The filtration system has been widely tested and implemented in both Bangladesh and in arsenic-troubled regions of the United States. HydroGlobe has also developed with Korfiatis and his team a number of processes for removal of industrial heavy metals from water. (Please visit hydroglobe.com for further information.)

Exhibiting separately will be PlasmaSol Corporation, another Stevens Technogenesis company whose non-thermal plasma technology applications include scalable devices for eliminating biochemical threats to the public. (Please visit www.plasmasol.com for further information.)

During the two-day event, numerous workshops will focus on a variety of cutting-edge biotechnology, defense, IT, transportation, environmental, energy, materials, and other areas. Several sessions will deal with homeland security issues such as bio-terrorism and chemical sensors, as well as the participating states' perspectives and homeland defense programs. A special presentation on the state of Russian science and technology will be sponsored by the U.S. Department of State on April 3.

"The Washington-Baltimore corridor boasts the second largest concentration of IT firms in the United States," says Gov. Parris Glendening of Maryland. "The NDIA's TechTrends 2002 Conference is truly a conducive setting to meet with the great minds of the Mid-Atlantic region."

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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