Stevens provides courses to National Security Agency in its advanced Systems Engineering Training Program

HOBOKEN, N.J. - Stevens Institute of Technology, along with two other universities, has been selected to provide program management and systems engineering training through the National Cryptologic School (NCS) of the National Security Agency (NSA).

The NSA has funded a research and development effort, called the Systems Engineering Training Program (SETP), and has selected Stevens to deliver a majority of the course instruction to the NSA workforce.

Stevens' President, Dr. Harold J. Raveche, celebrated the recognition of Stevens' System Design and Operational Effectiveness program (SDOE) by the NSA.

"The selection of Stevens' experts to provide six of nine professional graduate courses speaks volumes about the high regard in which our SDOE program is held at the highest levels of government," said Raveche.

"Several of our SETP courses underwent highly successful pilot testing in June, receiving extremely positive evaluations," said Dr. Dinesh Verma, director of the SDOE program in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at Stevens. "We look forward to the full launch of SETP in October."

In the current configuration of the SETP courses, a participant may take any combination of courses to receive "continuing education units" or CEUs. Participants may also audit all nine courses to receive a Systems Engineering Certificate issued jointly by Stevens and the NSA. However, by taking all nine courses plus one final course, a participant may obtain a full Master of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering.

"This joint effort by the NSA, Stevens and the other universities," said Dr. John Farr, director of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, "opens excellent new opportunities for the NSA workforce to benefit from the best in systems engineering curricula."

The NSA is the nation's cryptologic organization, encompassing the National Cryptologic School. It coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. information systems and produce foreign intelligence information.

Stevens Institute of Technology has also been designated by the NSA as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education for the period 2003-2006. Stevens shares this distinction with just 17 other universities throughout America

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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