The Research Enterprise

David Monteiro '14 Awarded Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship: Standout Student Driven to Find Cure for Arthritis through Chemical Engineering Research

April 12, 2013

Stevens student David Monteiro ’14 was recently awarded a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, making him one of only 271 college undergraduate students who received the award nationally for the 2013-2014 academic year. The Goldwater Scholarship program supports academically-outstanding college sophomores or juniors who intend to pursue careers as scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Monteiro, the son of a computer engineer and a clinical researcher, is a Chemical Engineering major with a 3.99 grade point average and a noble lifelong goal – to eradicate arthritis and improve the quality of life of millions of people worldwide. “Arthritis is a major problem facing the world’s growing elderly [Read more...]

Dr. Guo speaks at the National Robotics Week in New York City

April 9, 2013

Dr. Guo speaks at the National Robotics Week in New York City on Cooperative Autonomous Mobile Robotics and Applications. See the web site at: http://nycroboticsweek.com/ [Read more...]

Ph.D. student Shuai Li attended NSF BECS workshop

January 24, 2013

Ph.D. student Shuai Li attended NSF Building Engineering Complex Systems (BECS) workshop in Arlington, VA. He presented a poster on Synchronizing Coupled Semiconductor Lasers Under General Coupling Topologies. See the web site at: http://math.gmu.edu/becs/ [Read more...]

Ph.D. dissertation defense by Wenlin Zhang

December 19, 2012

Wenlin Zhang has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on Consensus-based cooperative control with applications to robotic and communication systems. Congratulations Dr. Zhang! [Read more...]

Senior design group obtained a NASA grant to support robotics project

November 26, 2012

Senior design group obtained a grant from NASA New Jersey Space Grant Consortium to support their senior design project on Kinect iRobot Security Solution. The group members include: Richard Wismer, Isaac Cohen , Jeffrey Depinto , William Haupt , all from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. See the web site at: http://tiger.ece.stevens-tech.edu/12-13/13grp9/index.html [Read more...]

Nine Stevens Researchers Honored by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame

October 19, 2012

As has become habit in recent years, the Stevens community was incredibly well represented among honorees at the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame (NJIHoF). Four faculty members and five graduate students from the Schaefer School of Engineering and Science received awards at the 2012 ceremony, a black tie dinner held Oct. 18 at the W Hotel in Hoboken. Co-sponsored by Stevens, the NJIHoF is an annual event that honors scientists, engineers, inventors, entrepreneurs and organizations who have contributed to the state’s consistent leadership in innovation, promoting economic growth and improving the quality of life. Eighteen Stevens alumni are past winners at [Read more...]

Stevens and Weirton Area Port Authority Collaborate to Create Resilient Ports

October 15, 2012

Stevens researchers to create a resiliency plan to improve port security, efficiency, and profitability Artist Rendering of Terminal In today’s global economy, ports are more important than ever in the supply chain, with approximately 80% of the entire world’s freight transported through waterborne vessels, valued at $1 trillion per year. Maritime terminals serve as a connection between vessels and landside transportation where maintaining a high level of performance is integral not only to the economic wellbeing of the port itself, but the nation as a whole. The maritime supply network is very complex, involving the smooth interaction of various components and disruption [Read more...]

Maritime Researchers Prepare New York City and Boston for Flooding

October 15, 2012

In New York City and Boston alone, billions of dollars of urban infrastructure lie less than 4 meters above sea level, leaving the cities and its residents susceptible to coastal flooding and storm surges. Rising sea levels caused by climate change makes the two major metropolitan cities even more vulnerable. With support by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, researchers from Stevens Institute of Technology and Columbia University are developing plans for the cities to prepare and respond to coastal disasters. Dr. Alan Blumberg “Dr. Alan Blumberg and Dr. Philip Orton of the Stevens Center for Maritime Systems are collaborating with Dr. [Read more...]

Prof. Yi Guo received NSF grant

September 1, 2012

Prof. Yi Guo recieved NSF grant on Distributed heterogeneous ocean robots for detecting and monitoring oil plumes. The grant is effective September 1 , 2012 and expires August 31, 2015. [Read more...]

Stevens Researcher Wins Prestigious NSF Special Creativity Award

August 14, 2012

Dr. Svetlana Sukhishvili honored for innovative work on multilayer polymer films leading to next-generation coatings of prosthetic implants and medical devices Polymer coatings are used in common everyday products, from window tinting to prosthetics. Scientists are developing a new generation of multilayer coatings that greatly expand their potential. Dr. Svetlana Sukhishvili, professor of chemistry and co-director of the Nanotechnology Graduate Program at Stevens Institute of Technology has been awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) the illustrious Special Creativity Award to continue her cutting-edge research on multilayer polymer films, titled “Chain Dynamics and Layering within Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films.” Dr. Svetlana Sukhishvili “We are [Read more...]