Over the past 140 years, the accomplishments of the students, faculty and alumni of Stevens Institute of Technology, inspired by our founding family, have continuously shaped the world around us. Now, as we look forward to the upcoming decades, Stevens’ focus on Research and Entrepreneurship will continue to provide the next generation of leaders with the skills necessary to tackle our society’s most important issues.
Please join us in celebrating this great tradition of 140 years of excellence at Stevens with our Third Annual Founder’s Day on February 17th at 1:30 p.m. in the Babbio Center Auditorium & Atrium.
As technology has continued to advance at an exponential rate, Stevens has remained at the forefront of innovation and development. Since Stevens’ inception, an emphasis on research and entrepreneurial skills has infused leaders of tomorrow with the ability to develop groundbreaking technology combined with the business savvy required to successfully introduce ideas into the marketplace.
We celebrate our 140th anniversary this year with Stevens Founder's Day 2010 and pay tribute to the pioneering members of our founding family along with those who demonstrate exceptional contributions to research and entrepreneurship that benefit both society and industry.
Notable Contributions and Key Advancements
- 1784 - Colonel John Stevens purchased land from the State of New Jersey which included in the present-day 55-acre campus of the college
- 1831 - Robert Livingston Stevens, along with his brother Edwin Augustus Stevens, established the first commercially successful railroad in the U.S. Thanks in part to business knowledge and technical genius with the invention of the T-Rail, they revolutionized the transportation industry.
- 1844 - John Cox Stevens, another member the founding Stevens family, became first Commodore New York Yacht Club.
- 1870 – Professor Robert H. Thurston became a pioneer in the U.S. with his introduction of the concept of a funded research center at an American Institution of higher learning. He introduced the “Mechanical Laboratory” and conducted indispensible research on material strengths and torsion testing involved with Steam Engines, the primary propulsion method of the time.
- 1905 - Alumnus Stewart Mott whose Weston-Mott Co. merged with the Buick Motor Company, made him the original partner in the creation of the General Motors Corporation.
- 1926 – Alumnus Alexander Calder was recognized as one of the most influential sculptors in modern art. As a pioneer in kinetic sculpture he developed three-dimensional objects in space which ultimately led to the invention of the mobile.
- 1995 – Alumnus Frederick Reines was credited with co-detection of the neutrino and the inner workings of stars which helped explain the existence of elements like copper, silver, platinum, and gold resulted in the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- 2000 – Hydroglobe, founded by Stevens faculty and alumni, delivered affordable water purification systems to the global marketplace with a patent for Metsorb™ technology. The company was also chosen to recieve the Thomas Alva Edison Award for its ability to work as a highly effective, low-cost absorbent for reduction of arsenic and a wide variety of heavy metals from ground and surface water.
- 2000 – PlasmaSol, a Technogenesis™ company developed by faculty and alumni, was named Environmental Company of the Year for 2000 by the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC).
- 2009 – Dr. Patrick E. White and Nicolas Girard were issued a patent for an apparatus that significantly improves the reliability and availability of wireless communications. Dr. K.P. Subbalakshmi in collaboration with graduate student Palak Amin received patent for a technology and process for extracting hidden data from a stego-image that has been subjected to scaling attacks. Dr. Mahmoud Wazne, in conjunction with Stevens Faculty, Dr. Dimitris Dermatas, Dr. Dilhan Kalyon, Dr. Xiaoguang Meng, and outside consultants at Honeywell Maria Kaouris, and John J. Morris received a patent for a method to treat, stabilize and control heave for chromium contaminated soils and chromite ore processing residues (COPR).
Looking Ahead
Stevens, now, highlights research efforts in the areas of Nanotechnology & Multi-scale Systems, Secure Systems, and Systems Engineering & Enterprise Management. There have been countless new contributions, ranging from nanoscale robots that can assist stroke victims, to security measures that help safeguard our ports, and entire systems that manage our most complex infrastructure.
Perhaps the most unique thing about Stevens is the entrepreneurial spirit among our faculty and students. With new programs we offer students the change to participate in a full business lifecycle, ranging from inception, to planning, to marketplace introduction. This environment has trickled into every classroom, laboratory and research center and encourages unique ideas resulting in companies like Attila Technologies and MyIdeaShare which tap the tremendous potential in our student body while offering significant technology solutions and continues the excellence established 140 years ago.
For more information, please contact Marta Cimillo at marta.quigley@stevens.edu |
