Stevens Institute of Technology's Professor David J. Cappelleri has recently been selected for the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 2011 Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium, held this year in Irvine, California on November 13-16.

Dr. Cappelleri is one of 65 young engineering educators participating in this NAE initiative to encourage cutting edge ...read more

Stevens PZT Nanofibers Published in Advanced Materials as Frontispiece.

Keeping tabs on the condition of our public infrastructure and high-performance materials is critical, but presents many challenges to existing technologies. A recent article by researchers from Stevens Institute of Technology, led by ...read more

Nanotechnology is poised to impact industries much as the microscale revolution transformed manufacturing in the 1970s, and college students are eager to gain the upper hand in this emerging field. With National Science Foundation (NSF) support, Stevens Institute of Technology is providing undergraduates with forward-looking experience on nanotechnology research and applications. A multi-disciplinary faculty team, led by ...read more

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a research grant to Dr. Eui-Hyeok (EH) Yang, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, to study the properties of graphene nanoribbons for use in infrared (IR) detectio ...read more

For more information please contact:

Dr. Eui-Hyeok Yang
Associate Professor
Carnegie
Room 201
Phone: 201.216.5574
Fax: 201.216.8315

eyang@stevens.edu

As an engineer at L'Oreal, Cassidy DeSchryver '11 uses her Mechanical Engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology to support Technical Packaging Development, but her job is about much more than diagrams and project management. In working with marketers, manufacturers, and designers to provide holistic guidance in product development, Cassidy sees her rol ...read more

To help engineers design longer-lasting high-performance plastics, Dr. Kishore Pochiraju, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, has co-edited a forthcoming book, Long-Term Durability of Polymeric Matrix Composites. T ...read more

The Ped-Aware Senior Design project, co-advised by Dr. Michael Zavlanos, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was featured in a recent issue of the trade publication, Traffic Technology International. Read the story here: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/956bceea#/956bceea/10

Dr. Eui-Hyeok (EH) Yang, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, has been announced as a recipient of a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grant for 2011. This highly competitive awar ...read more

This DURIP grant supports development of innovative anti-corrosion materials

With a fleet of ships and aircraft that work as hard as the sailors, pilots, and crew that operate them, the US Navy spends approximately $10-12 billion every year to fight corrosion on the hulls and bodies of these important vehicles. To support Office of Naval Research (ONR) development of hydrodynamically efficient and environmentally non-toxic anti-corrosion materials, ...read more

Dr. Marahelli G. Prasad, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Noise and Vibration Control Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology, received the 2011 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Student Section A ...read more

Dr. Frank Fisher, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, has recently been added to the Fulbright Specialist Roster as a candidate for grants to cooperate internationally on academic dev ...read more

Every day, concrete structures crack and erode prematurely due to Alkali Silica Reactivity (ASR), a chemical reaction that causes fissures in the material as it sets. Jon Belkowitz, a doctoral student at Stevens Institute of Technology, plans to put an end to this problem through his study of chemical reactions within concrete at the nanoscale. Taking advantage of Stevens nanostructure characterization to ...read more

Dr. Marahelli G. Prasad, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Noise and Vibration Control Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology, has been invited to be a guest editor for a special ...read more

Dr. Yang invited to give a talk at the joint AFOSR Electronics Review Meeting in Arlington, VA in May 2011. 

In tomorrow's classrooms, students will be encouraged to pull out their laptops and play games in class. Stevens Institute of Technology professors are leading the way in game-based learning with an innovative method for teaching Mechanical Engineering students about machine dynamics. They have developed an online laboratory in which students learn by interacting in a virtual environment, much like massively multiplayer online ga ...read more

Students at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed a novel device to aid surgeons in cutting through bone and bone substitutes in order to remove knee implants. Sponsored by Stryker Orthopaedics, the device is referred to as a "Primary Knee Component Removal System." The student design team also tied for first place in the Stevens 2011 Research and Entrepreneurship Day Student Elevator Pitch Competition, i ...read more

For more information please contact:

Ms. Sandra Furnbach
Programs Manager
Edwin A. Stevens Hall
Room 212
Phone: 201.216.8186
Fax: 201.216.8185

sfurnbac@stevens.edu

On April 27, the Center for Science Writings (CSW) at Stevens Institute of Technology presented its annual Green Book Award to leading climatologist Dr. James Hansen, for his 2010 book Storms of My Grandchildren. Following the award presentation by CSW Director John Horgan, Dr. Hansen tre ...read more

Sponsored by fivepm technology, Inc., a bicycle sharing Senior Design project has spawned into a business for three Mechanical Engineering students at Stevens Institute of Technology. The team of Ellyn Griggs, Angela Parriott, and Laura Jean Sneider developed SmartPedals, a cost-effective bicycle sharing system that eases the hassle of a commute and is good for the environment. The team's advisor was ...read more

Dr. E. H. Yang invited to give a talk at SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications, Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2011.

It is a little vehicle with a lot of potential. A multidisciplinary Senior Design team at Stevens Institute of Technology is designing an ASV, or Autonomous Surface Vehicle, to compete at the AUVSI Foundation and ONR's 4th International RoboBoat Competition, June 9-12, 2011 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This will be Stevens first ever entry into the competition. The RoboBoat competition challenges the vehicle to complete a number of tasks – such as navigate an aquatic obstacle course, sp ...read more

After working continuously since the fall semester, the Formula SAE Senior Design Team at Stevens Institute of Technology finally put their homegrown racecar to the test on a Sunday afternoon earlier this month. Starting in September with nothing but an empty chassis, the team has successfully put together a car that, as one team member says, "will make you reconsider your seatbelt habits."

The five dedicated ...read more

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in the past ten years there have been no advances in technology to reduce traffic accidents involving pedestrians. To address this major issue for New Jersey's urban areas, a Senior Design Team at Stevens Institute of Technology is working with the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJ DOT) to develop a novel traffic signal system that protects pedestrians without interrupting traffic flow.

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Seventeen students at Stevens Institute of Technology are participating in a multi-disciplinary design initiative, sponsored by the Department of Defense (DoD), that brings together the students' diverse skills to solve a real-world problem using systems engineering principles. This student team, one of fourteen in the nation producing innovative solutions for the DoD while simultaneousl ...read more

You might call these Stevens Institute of Technology students visionaries. A Senior Design team of David Barth, Johanna Heureaux, Brian Pilapil, Philip Ponce de Leon, and Ken Zhao, advised by Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Dr. Eui-Hyeok (EH) Yang, have created a biomedical implant for intraocular pr ...read more

The next technology to keep astronauts safe is just around the corner at Stevens Institute of Technology, where a Mechanical Engineering Senior Design team of Regina Pynn, Tom Lakatos, Matthew Edwards, and Michael Dambakly, advised by Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering ...read more

Flashing lights, sounds, and a ricocheting ball. It's not a game on a New Jersey boardwalk, but a toy with a positive purpose. Kevin Heaney, Rowena Lee, and Stephanie Miller, three Mechanical Engineering students at Stevens Institute of Technology, are using their ...read more

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Dr. Frank Fisher, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and co-director of the Nanotechnology Graduate Program at the Stevens Institute of Technology, has been named one of "the Nation's Top Mechanical Eng ...read more

Just two semesters old, the Stevens Institute of Technology Women in Pharmaceutical Industry Club is already having an impact on its members, providing tools and education to women preparing to enter the pharmaceutical industry. It is a place where essential job skills supplement rigorous classroom learning for women in the ...read more

Dr. Sven Esche, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, recently published a book chapter titled “...read more

For more information please contact:

Dr. Sven Esche
Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director
Edwin A. Stevens Hall
Room E-204
Phone: 201.216.5559
Fax: 201.216.8315

sesche@stevens.edu

Transporting payload could have a big payoff for a Stevens Institute of Technology senior design team competing at the 2011 Aero Design East challenge. The team is designing and building a specialized radio-controlled aircraft with high lift that is capable of short takeoff and landing (STOL). They will compete in the SAE Heavy Lift Aircraft Competition April 29-May 1, 2011 in Marietta, Georgia. Before that, t ...read more

Although Andy Moy '12 and Okeke F. Eberechi couldn't come from more different backgrounds, they share similar goals in studying Mechanical Engineering: each feels that the science and technology education offered at Stevens Institute of Technology is critically important to his country.

Andy, a fourth-year student in a five-year dual-degree program between Stevens and New York University, was convinced early on to get an education in a STEM—science, technology, engineering, and ma ...read more

Although Andy Moy '12 and Okeke F. Eberechi couldn't come from more different backgrounds, they share similar goals in studying Mechanical Engineering: each feels that the science and technology education offered at Stevens Institute of Technology is critically important to his country.

Andy, a fourth-year student in a five-year dual-degree program between Stevens and New York University, was convinced early on to get an education in a STEM—science, technology, engineering, and math—fi ...read more

An article by Stevens Institute of Technology researchers featured as the cover page of Applied Physics Letters Volume 98, Issue 7 represents a step forward in techniques for the arran ...read more

Stevens Institute of Technology Alum Mark Biamonte '01 has been named Chief of Systems Engineering for the Space Systems engineering division of Hamilton Sundstrand, part of United Technologies Corporation. In his new role, Biamonte will provide functional leadership to the systems engineering group. He will be responsible for driving efficiencies into the Systems Engineering disciplines through process align ...read more

In Dr. David Cappelleri's ME 551: Microprocessor Applications in Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology undergraduate students spend a semester learning about the properties and interactions of components that make up programmable machines. After months of lectures, labs, and extracurricular teamwork spent designing, acquiring parts, and building a robot, the students put t ...read more

Dr. Michael M. Zavlanos, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, is a recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CA ...read more

Since 2004, mechanical engineering graduate Dominique Gonzalez (B.E. `04, M.E. `10) has been a product engineer for Fisher-Price/Mattel in New York City.  True to the company’s mission of "Creating the Future of Play", she is specifically responsible for the production of some of the most popular, innovative toys on the market.  For the average consumer, it’s hard to imagine all ...read more

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, one of the most anticipated commercial planes in recent years, has been performing test flights out of Boeing's facility in Washington state and has recently completed its first international flights, making initial descents to hubs where the planes will board passengers a few years down the line.

Robert Hoar '06, Stevens Institute of Technology alumnus and engineer with Hamilton Sundstrand, a division of United Technologies headquartered in Windsor Locks, C ...read more

What does Mechanical Engineering have in common with the study of sea scorpion fossils? Combining the scientific study of fossils with mechanical engineering, a team of researchers could rewrite history with a paper that undermines the theory that these huge creatures were active predators. Their findings were recently ...read more