Stevens and Lockheed Martin are new partners in systems engineering and design

Stevens Institute of Technology and Lockheed Martin have created an innovative partnership to provide advanced instructional and research facilities for graduate students in the areas of complex system definition, design, development, and integration.

The relationship was cemented recently with the announcement that Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems (NE&SS)-Undersea Systems has donated a computer server and Collaborative Engineering Environment (CEE) and HIGHtideT software licenses valued at $350,000 to Stevens' Systems Integration Laboratory in the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering. Mr. Stephen Melicher, Director of Strategic Planning, Lockheed Martin NE&SS-Undersea Systems made the announcement.

Mr. Melicher will present the grant on the Stevens campus Monday, Nov. 11, during a presentational luncheon, 12 p.m-1 p.m. Press are welcome to attend. The luncheon will be held in the 4th Floor Skyline Room at the Wesley J. Howe Center, two blocks east of the intersection of Washington and 8th Streets in Hoboken. For directions and parking information please call the contact number at the top of this news release.

Under the partnership, Lockheed Martin will also provide hardware/software installation and training support to the faculty and graduate students. Dr. Dinesh Verma, associate dean and professor of Systems Engineering, serves as director of the Systems Integration.

"This grant is extremely beneficial to the school, and to our on-going partnership with an industry leader like Lockheed Martin. It is another example of industry partnerships under the Institute-wide Technogenesis Initiative," said Dr. George P. Korfiatis, dean of the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering. "The students in our systems integration laboratory will benefit greatly from this advanced technology through being exposed to a web-centric, distributed and collaborative research and development environment."

The school of engineering will use the new equipment for research and the development of web-based instructional materials utilizing multi-media content.

Source code to generate new applications in HIGHtideT product development will also be provided to Stevens. The HIGHtideä development system is a suite of applications for developing and delivering interactive web-based content. This tool set was originally designed for the development and presentation of Class 4 Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETM) used by the U.S. Department of Defense. The Lockheed Martin application has been used to create interactive content for a variety of systems, including undersea surveillance systems and the Virginia and Los Angeles class submarines.

"Lockheed Martin is extremely pleased to team up with Stevens in this exciting endeavor," commented John O'Neill, president of Lockheed Martin NE&SS-Undersea Systems. "Along with helping to provide students with a unique opportunity to learn how to operate in a complex, collaborative systems integration environment, this effort will prepare students for a competitive and dynamic job market with degrees from a university at the leading edge of systems engineering innovation."

CEE is a Web-centric information management environment that enables projects, teams, or organizations to share and manage product information throughout its life cycle. Services of the CEE include tools, integrated document vaulting, configuration management, workflow management, project management, and information processing systems. The CEE is revolutionizing the manner in which NE&SS-Undersea Systems conducts business from the pre-proposal phase, through development, delivery, and lifetime support, enabling the performance of geographically distributed both domestic and international teams.

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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