Excellence at Stevens

Employee Highlights

The Excellence Files provides a forum where contributing Stevens faculty and staff members share practical insights and reflections to reinforce our mindset of “excellence in all we do”. It is our hope that these thought-provoking articles will help to focus, engage, and align our employees with our mission, values, and strategic priorities. If you are interested in submitting an article, please contact Warren Petty ([email protected]) or Maria Ouckama ([email protected])

Vice President Petty discusses Staying Motivated

Excellence Files

Stevens Professor Hang Liu Awarded Four Grants Totaling $356,335

These awards will support seven Stevens master’s and Ph.D. students of electrical and computer engineering.

Read About Dr. Liu Grants

Hady Salloum Receives $3.3M Award to Develop Underwater Acoustic Sensor System

The award will allow Salloum and his team to continue the development of systems that can detect and monitor intruders on public waterways.

Johannes Weickenmeier Receives $837,467 as Part of a NIH-Funded Research Program Led by UC Davis to Examine the Link Between White Matter Lesions and Cognitive Decline

The project contributes to the understanding of the mechanistic origin of vascular damage causing white matter degeneration during brain aging.

Employee Excellence

Each year we acknowledge faculty and staff who are doing exceptional work in advancing our strategic goals in one of the categories outlined below:

Award Categories

Academic Year Service Anniversary

Awarded to those who have been working at Stevens in increments of 5 years

Strategic Plan Awards

Student Centricity

Student success is our highest priority. Employee consistently goes above and beyond what is required for a particular position. Employee displays the Stevens values of embracing innovation, diversity and technology as drivers for the inspiration, education and long-term success of our students.

Excellence In All We Do

Employee embraces the Stevens objective for excellence in all of their work.

Technology at Our Core

Our legacy is built on technology. Employee demonstrates technology innovation as a hallmark of our education, research, technology transfer, co-curricular or administrative operations.

Through Collaboration, Impact

Stevens seeks out and excels in partnerships that expand our reach and impact. Employee adds value to collaborative educational, research or community enterprises, across industry, government or educational domains.

Strengthened Reputation, Increased Prestige

Stevens must continue to build its reputation in education, research and service. Employee promotes the Stevens reputation and prestige through personal and collaborative efforts.

Transformative Teamwork

This award recognizes cross-functional, interdisciplinary, or intra-office/intra- departmental teams comprised of faculty and/or staff who have worked together in an exemplary manner on a project, process, initiative, or other significant effort that advances departmental goals, organizational goals, and/or the university’s mission and institutional vision.

Previous Award Recipients

AWARD	2019	2018
EXCELLENCE IN ALL WE DO	Frank Fisher Kimberly Barletta Dawn Forino-Garcia	Dr. Linda Thomas Amanda Mendez
STRENGTHENED REPUTATION, INCREASED PRESTIGE	Alex Wellerstein Philippos Mordohai	Giuseppe Ateniese
STUDENT CENTRICITY	Mary Beth Milas Veronica Montrose Brian Borowski	Jacquis Watters
TECHNOLOGY AT OUR CORE	Kendall Speten-Hansen	Andres Garcia
THROUGH COLLABORATION, IMPACT	Nydia Cruz Karla Medina Yuping Huang	Michael zur Muehlen
TRANSFORMATIVE TEAMWORK	Marcin Ceglinski Karen Peralta David Lee Matthew Rudolph Christopher Shemanski Julia Aitchison Danielle Maxson	Eric Rose Phillip Gehman Nathalie Waite Brown Tara Temple Kurtis Watkins Lauren Berlamino Ashley Martins

Excellence Testimonials

Stretch beyond the strict focus

Having students who are willing to stretch beyond their strict focus into the social sciences in particular and political science in general is really rewarding.

Lindsey Cormack | Director of the Stevens Diplomacy Lab

The drive to make a positive difference

I enjoy working here because I find this positive culture to be inspiring - a trait which motivates my academic and research pursuits.

Dr. Philip Odonkor | Assistant Professor

Stevens is more than an “engineering school.”

Stevens is more than an “engineering school.” When I tell them about the amazing research that’s being done here, 9 times out of 10, they will go to our website to learn more.