New leadership, a reorganized administrative structure and new initiatives have augmented research and innovation and entrepreneurship efforts at Stevens. Initial activities in Year 1 show promise for significant impact in the future.
Goal R1
Deploy policies that further empower and enable our faculty to innovate and conduct high quality research, produce high impact research publications, and develop and experiment with promising new teaching and learning approaches.
OWNERS: PROVOST GEORGE KORFIATIS, FACULTY SENATE, AND VICE PRESIDENT RANDY GREENE
A new organizational structure was created to strengthen Stevens’ research impact, headed by Vice Provost for Research Mo Dehghani. The preliminary FY15 budget includes an allocation of research support to academic units and principal investigators based on their success in securing research funding in prior years. Specific criteria and guidelines for administering this allocation are being developed.
Year 2: Develop and staff new organizational structure focused on research, with emphasis on scaled growth of research enterprise and achievement of strategic goals. Continue to develop infrastructure and systems to support research.
Goal R2
Stevens will design and construct an Innovation & Design Laboratory.
OWNERS: PROVOST GEORGE KORFIATIS AND VICE PRESIDENT ROBERT MAFFIA
A Year 2 goal, planning has begun to conceptualize the mission and facilities requirements of this research laboratory.
Year 2: Continue to develop the IDL concept.
Goal R3
The externally supported annual research expenditures per tenured and tenure-track (T/TT) STEM faculty will increase to $550,000 by 2022 from a baseline of $340,000 in 2011. Our externally funded annual research expenditures for non-STEM faculty (T/TT) will increase from $100,000 per T/TT in 2011 to $150,000 in 2022.
OWNER: PROVOST GEORGE KORFIATIS
This is a Year 2 goal. Since the strategic plan was adopted, research expenditures increased from $25.6 million in FY12 to $30.9 million in FY13. The Center for Complex Systems was established, as was the Center for Healthcare Innovation. In addition, in early Fall 2013, the Systems Engineering Research Center contract renewal, totaling $60 million over five years, was completed.
Year 2: Continue to develop infrastructure and strategies to support principal investigators in identifying and winning competitive awards.
Goal R4
Stevens will have an annual ratio of graduating Ph.D. students to T/TT faculty of at least 0.6. This represents a growth from the 2012 baseline of 0.4.
OWNER: PROVOST GEORGE KORFIATIS
This is a Year 2 priority. Work toward this goal has not started yet.
Goal R5
Stevens will have at least 6 designated national research centers from the current baseline of 3 in 2012.
OWNER: PROVOST GEORGE KORFIATIS
This is a Year 2 priority. Work toward this goal has not started yet.
Goal R6
A significant percentage of Stevens T/TT faculty will be serving in prestigious service positions, e.g., on national advisory boards, editorial boards and in positions of leadership within academic and industry associations.
OWNER: PROVOST GEORGE KORFIATIS
This is a Year 2 priority. Work toward this goal has not started yet.
Goal R7
We will conduct a review of the incentives and policies that would advance the engagement of faculty and students in entrepreneurial activities, including liberalizing our intellectual property (IP) policy.
OWNER: PROVOST GEORGE KORFIATIS
The Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship has been reorganized under a Vice Provost Christos Christodoulatos. Technology commercialization and IP management directors have been named, and an advisory board has been created. A process has been developed to identify opportunities for SBIRs, STTRs and industry contracts.
Year 2: Continue to develop infrastructure and processes to promote entrepreneurial activities.
Goal R8
We will achieve an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship on campus that includes innovators and entrepreneurs who see the value of associating themselves with Stevens.
OWNER: PROVOST GEORGE KORFIATIS
A Year 1 priority, this goal has been advanced through a series of activities managed by the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, including: the Innovation and Design Expo; the Scholl Lecture Series by Visiting Entrepreneurs; the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summer Scholars program; an I&E mentorship program; an updated Ph.D. curriculum; and others.