Top executives join Stevens' new corporate advisory council

HOBOKEN , N.J. — Some of the nation’s most senior corporate executives met for the first time last month as members of Stevens Institute of Technology’s newly formed Corporate Advisory Council. Chaired by Thomson Learning CEO Ronald Schlosser, the council includes senior officers from Johnson & Johnson, Honeywell, AT&T, Con Edison, IBM and other Fortune 500 companies.

“Stevens has an honored tradition of working closely with local industry,” commented Stevens President Harold J. Raveche. “This distinguished group will help establish even stronger relations with corporate America to satisfy industry’s research and education needs.”

Stevens generated more than $33 million this year alone from company contributions to research, scholarships, education and training, among other activities. Stevens is already among the country’s top universities providing employee education and training to more than 50 of the nation’s most prominent companies, including Boeing, Verizon, and Lockheed Martin. The Institute expects the council to help further extend its corporate partnerships.

Stevens’ alumni serving on the council are Edward G. Amoroso, AT&T’s Chief Information Security Officer; Louis L. Rana, President and COO of Con Edison; Karan J. Sorensen, CIO for R&D at Johnson & Johnson; and Thomas A. Corcoran, CEO of Corcoran Enterprises. Other members include Katherine Hegmann, General Manager of Global Business Services at IBM; Raymond L. Stark, Technology Vice President at Honeywell; and Carol A. Vallone, former CEO and Chairman of WebCT.

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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