Latest News: Stevens is among Top 20 ‘Wired Colleges’ in the US

Stevens is named among The Princeton Review and PC Magazine’s Top 20 Wired Colleges 2007 – a top ranking that acknowledges Stevens’ national prowess in wired and wireless technology for students on campus.

“With graduate-level facilities and resources offered to undergrads,” writes PC Magazine in its January 2007 issue, “Stevens Institute in Hoboken, New Jersey, is a tech student’s dream-come-true. Stevens offers classes in robotics and cybersecurity, and the Computer and Console Gaming Society (C2GS) gives students a chance to kick back, interact and unwind.”

“Stevens’ inclusion among the Top 20 Wired Colleges demonstrates once again that Stevens is at the forefront of education that integrates the latest information technology and computer science acumen across the curriculum,” said Stevens President Harold J. Raveche. “Being on this leading edge means that Stevens graduates are exceptionally well prepared to thrive and flourish in the networked professional world.”

Being at the forefront in “connectedness” is not new for Stevens. “In 1982, Stevens was the first institution to require all undergraduates to own and use a personal computer,” said Eric Rosenberg, Associate Vice President for Technology and Information Services. “In the mid- 1980s, Stevens was one of the first universities to provide wired network access from all residence hall rooms to the campus network and the Internet.”

Today, Stevens is continuing to expand its network as part of new construction on campus. The university's Babbio Center for Technology Management, opened for classes in April 2006, adds to Stevens’ already robust wired and wireless campus network. This new signature headquarters for technology management education is thoroughly networked for both wired and wireless technology, making it a unique state-ofthe- art facility for leading-edge education in business and technology management. This connectedness has advanced further with the recent opening of the River Terrace Apartments, a thoroughly modern student residence complex located within a suite of completely restored and updated early twentieth-century brick and brownstone buildings, accessed through a fully networked, keyless swipe-card entry system that extends to each student’s individual room. – PB

Latest News: HydroGlobe patent wins Thomas Alva Edison Award

A patent from HydroGlobe, a Technogenesis environmental technology company incubated at Stevens, has won the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award for Technology Transfer from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey. The original patent is owned by Stevens, which has given to HydroGlobe the rights of exclusive use of the technology. HydroGlobe, which produces patented products for the removal of heavy metals – including lead and arsenic – from water, was acquired in 2004 by Graver Technologies, a leading manufacturer of filtration and separation products.

HydroGlobe was founded in 2000 by three Stevens professors based on research conducted at the Center for Environmental Systems (CES), directed by Dr. Christos Christodoulatos. In addition to Christodoulatos, the HydroGlobe founders include Dr. George P. Korfiatis (CES Founding Director and also Provost and University Vice President) and Dr. Xiaoguang Meng, Director of Technical and Academic Development at CES. The technologies are included in a series of patents obtained by the founders of the company. The merged business is run out of Graver Technologies’ facility in Glasgow, Del.

“The partnership with, and help from many areas within Stevens, including technical, marketing and finance, was instrumental in moving HydroGlobe heavy-metal removal technology to a commercial level. Equally, the experience interacting with the commercial world should help those involved from Stevens in future technology startup enterprises,” said John H. Schroeder, former CEO of HydroGlobe.

The award-winning patent, titled “Methods of Preparing a Surface-Activated Titanium Oxide Product and of Using Same in Water Treatment Process,” is known as Metsorb™, a highly effective, low-cost absorbent for reduction of arsenic and a wide variety of heavy metals from ground and surface water. The invention details a method for producing a surface-activated crystalline titanium oxide product having a high adsorptive capacity and high rate of adsorption with respect to dissolved contaminants. The invention further includes steps of preparing a titanium oxide precipitate from a mixture comprising a hydrolysable titanium compound.

“This award is an affirmation of the Technogenesis process of laboratory research leading to real-world applications of technology, meeting critical needs on a national and global scale,” said Dr. Helena S. Wisniewski, Stevens’ Vice President for Research and Enterprise Development. “Drs. Korfiatis, Meng and Christodoulatos are exemplars in their field in developing environmental solutions that have the potential to improve the lives of people across the globe. This is a true illustration of a Technogenesis outcome.” – SM

Latest News: Stevens and Embedded Systems Institute of The Netherlands sign Memorandum of Understanding

Dr. Korfiatis, Dr. Dinesh Verma, and Dr. H. Brinksma

In a signing ceremony at the New York Yacht Club, Stevens and The Embedded Systems Institute of The Netherlands formalized an agreement of cooperation in the area of embedded-systems engineering research and education.

The agreement was signed by Dr. George P. Korfiatis, Provost and University VP, and Dr. H. Brinksma, Scientific Director and Chair of The Embedded Systems Institute. The signing ceremony was attended by Dr. Harold J. Raveche, Stevens’ President, and Dr. Amandus Lunqvist, President of The Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

The agreement establishes a foundation for joint learning through exchange of knowledge in the area of architecting and engineering within the embedded systems domain. In addition, there will be cooperation between the two in programs for knowledge dissemination and joint research workshops and seminars.

“I am very confident that this strategic partnership with ESI will result in the creation of new knowledge and will advance the field of Systems Engineering,” said Korfiatis. “We are looking forward to what promises to be a very exciting, mutually beneficial collaboration.”

“Our institution is proud to be joined in transatlantic partnership with a great American technological university such as Stevens Institute of Technology,” said Brinksma.

The Embedded Systems Institute is Europe’s foremost leader in research of systems architecture and embedded systems. – PB