Two Honorary Degrees:

Master of Engineering to Woo Young Lee                    Professor Woo Young Lee founded the New Jersey Center for MicroChemical Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology in September 2002 with internal, state and federal funding of more than $10 million, in partnership with New Jersey industries, including Bristol-Myers Squibb, FMC, Lucent-Bell Labs and U.S. Army-Picatinny. The vision behind the Center is to provide a nationally unique intellectual environment for exploring microreactor-enabled solutions to critical societal issues, such as national chemical security, energy efficiency, and infectious diseases through multi-institutional partnerships anchored by Stevens.

Professor Lee has taught Reactor Design and Transport Theory to undergraduate students in Chemical Engineering, and Solid State Diffusion and Phase Transformations to graduate students in Materials Engineering. He also served five years as Director of the Department of Chemical, Biomedical and Materials Engineering.

Prior to his arrival at Stevens, Woo was a Research Staff Member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He also served as a Research Scientist at United Technologies Research Center. Since 1998 he has acted as a Consultant to GE Aircraft Engines and Universal Energy Systems.

Woo is part of the research team, led by Professor Matt Libera, that in 2007 was awarded a four-year, $1 million Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team grant by the National Science Foundation. The goal is to develop “smart,” self-assembling nano-biomaterials that can control whether bacteria will adhere to synthetic surfaces, allowing for carefully targeted control over microscopic processes that occur within the human body. The research holds great promise for the future of prosthetic biomedical devices, and for a number of other health-related areas.

Woo also holds five patents, is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, and has co-authored a variety of published research papers in his field.He holds three academic degrees in Chemical Engineering, including a Doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree from Auburn University, and Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland.

Master of Engineering to Ralph Griffin III.

Ralph Giffin has more than 25 years of professional experience in executive leadership and management. Over the past two years Ralph has served as the Director of Administration and Business Operations and as a Distinguished Service Professor, teaching engineering management curriculum at the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens. His responsibilities included operational leadership and management of the School of Systems and Enterprises and teaching Graduate-level courses for the SDOE program, whose sponsors include IBM, Northrop Grumman, SAIC, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, L-3, Sandia National Labs, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, NASA, NSA, and FAA.

Prior to joining Stevens, Ralph has served at various positions in industry, the latest being as Vice President of Operations for Lockheed Martin in Orlando Florida. He also served as the senior Lockheed Martin procurement executive responsible for the global source selection of all maintenance and support equipment for the Joint Strike Fighter Program. He successfully led a number of company initiatives, including the expansion of lean manufacturing and six-sigma into the Lockheed Martin manufacturing and supplier base, the successful implementation of an Enterprise company IT system, and focused growth of a wholly-owned manufacturing business based in La Mesa, Mexico, where he served as the company’s Sole Administrator.

Ralph previously was responsible for Lockheed Martin’s Underwater Business Unit’s functional supportability organization with a division-wide charter, including supportability engineering and logistics planning.

Ralph served six years in the United States Naval Submarine Service. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s M&D Presidents Class program and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from George Mason University. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the National Business and Management Honor Society.

Currently at Stevens, Ralph is responsible for the coordination and enterprise building for all Master’s and Certificate Graduate Programs, including global outreach, online, on-campus and corporate programs. He works closely with the Academic Deans, Graduate Program Directors, the Office of Graduate Admissions and the Dean of Graduate Academics to streamline all aspects of Graduate Programs including strategy, implementation, delivery and enterprise development.