Stevens students are always working on exciting projects, and a select team of seven just completed one of particular interest to the Department of Defense. At a joint demonstration in November, the team successfully completed a mission to build a vehicle that could locate and disrupt a communications cable 40 feet underwater.

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As a youngster in Brazil fascinated with cars, Stevens student Patrick Penna ‘14 dreamed of contributing to research and development in the automotive industry. Approximately one decade, five standardized tests and two continents later, he is now realizing his dream as an intern helping to develop dual-clutch transmission technology at S.T.A., a production subsidiary of ...read more

The research team develops cost-effective, portable wide-spectrum infrared detection using graphene

Any object with a temperature above absolute zero emits infrared (IR) radiation, and the ability to detect IR light has profoundly expanded visual capabilities, allowing people to see at night and machines to sense motion. Just as visible light can be picked up by the sensor pixels of a common digital camera made from silicon, infrared radiation can be detected by the sensor pixels of an IR ...read more

Motion capture technology has revolutionized filmmaking and video games, animating fantastic characters with realistic movements. In 2010, the Microsoft Kinect, a peripheral for the Xbox 360, began capturing the movements of players, allowing them to control video game characters with their bodies.  The 2009 movie Avatar used large-volume motion capture and advanced methods of capturing facial expressions to allow director James Cameron to create one of the most simultaneously imaginative and imme ...read more

Low-friction, anti-corrosive research at Stevens promises durability and improved hydrodynamics for naval vessels

Natural surfaces of plants such as lotus leaves, the skin of marine animals, and the wings of insects have fascinated people throughout history because of their ability to repel water and stay clean in wet, muddy environments. Sometimes referred to as the Lotus Effect, this phenomenon means that water droplets on these surfaces tend not to compress o ...read more

Dr. Chang-Hwan Choi and Dr. Wei Xu Revise Scientific Understanding of Superhydrophobicity

Many natural surfaces repel water, allowing them to stay relatively dry and clean in wet, muddy environments. The most famous example is the lotus leaf, which has a complex surface architecture that prevents water and dirt from adhering, thus allowing it to remain clean in ponds, lakes and marshes. Materials scientists are reproducing this property in the surfaces they fabricate ...read more

Institute for Noise Control Engineering elects Dr. Marehalli Prasad as a Director

Though we may try to brush off the noisiness of modern life, it affects us in more ways than we realize, and Dr. Marehalli Prasad of Stevens Institute of Technology is working hard to ensure that the issue of noise control resounds above the din. Regular exposure to noise can have wide-ranging effects on ...read more

More than 1,600 fans have pledged more than $75,000 to support the development of a printed book of comics by Stevens student Katie Tiedrich, the under-the-radar Internet celebrity responsible for Awkward Zombie, a gaming humor web comic with a significant online following.

“My comic has gotten much more attention than I thought it would and that is really exciting for me,” said Tiedrich, a self-taught artist from Hasting ...read more

University Integrates M-Files into Advanced Validation Course for Pharmaceutical Students

M-Files Inc., the developer of M-Files flexible cloud and on-premise enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, today announced that the Stevens Institute of Technology, a New Jersey-based university specializing in engineering, science, systems and technology management, is utilizing the M-Files Electronic Document ...read more

Isaura “Isa” Guzman has two lifelong passions: basketball and helping others. When she graduates from Stevens this month with a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, No. 23 on the women’s basketball team will combine the two in a unique career opportunity that will take her halfway around the world. Guzman was selected among hundreds of applicants as one of two nationwide grantees for the 2012 Shooting Touch Sabbatical Program, also known as “The Basketball ...read more

Unmanned vessel innovations help to advance next-generation naval vessels

“Imagine a world where you could have a boat and just tell it where to go, [and it could arrive there] without any human input,” muses Edmund Hoffman, mechatronics engineer of the Stevens Institute of Technology Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) Senior Design Team. As part of their capstone senior project, the team ...read more

Paul Sammut (B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, 2009), a research engineer at Davidson Laboratory, spends his days in the facility’s wave tanks building innovative underwater vehicles. Sammut has more than enough smarts, knowledge, creativity and drive to lead some of the world’s most cutting edge marine and naval transportation research projects. What he doesn’t have – or didn’t until recently – was enough time to enjoy the typical leisurely morning routine ...read more

Emerging nanofiber technology establishes tiny, self-powering sensors and actuators with compelling commercial applications

Dr. Yong Shi of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology is a pioneer in the fabrication and control of Piezoelectric ...read more

Digital microfluidics creates a lab-on-a-chip, enabling portable at-home medical tests

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Dr. Eui-Hyeok Yang (PI) and Dr. Chang-Hwan Choi ...read more

Microrobots can help detect cancer cells and drive advancement toward microsurgical applications

In recognition of the enormous potential of his pioneering research and sustained excellence in teaching, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has honored Dr. David Cappelleri, Assistan ...read more

Doctoral Candidate Kyle Godin Receives Abe M. Zarem Award for Research Paper

Thanks to the development of microsatellites, universities and independents can now launch research craft for tens of thousands of dollars, rather than the multi-million dollar price tags of traditional launches. This new class of satellite is democratizing outer space exploration and offering NASA new opportunities to study ...read more