Grad Profiles - Stevens Engineering

Overview
Founded in 1870, Stevens is a pioneer in technical education and a highly regarded independent center of study and research accredited by MSACS, ABET, and CSAB. Total enrollment is approximately 9,600, and there are 220 full-time faculty members. A leader in integrating computers into engineering education, Stevens has excellent computing facilities and a campuswide computer network that greatly expands the capabilities of the entire college community.

There is an exceptionally diverse group of about 3,000 graduate students at Stevens, nearly 70 percent of whom are enrolled part-time.

The Location and Community
Stevens is located on the west bank of the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, a community that has undergone a remarkable renaissance and become a popular residential, recreational, and cultural center. The campus is 15 minutes from New York City by bus or subway. World-famous year-round resort areas and beaches are less than 2 hours away.

Programs of Study and Degree Requirements
Stevens Institute of Technology offers graduate programs of study in the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering leading to the degrees of Master of Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy in a broad range of engineering disciplines. These include chemical, biomedical, and materials engineering; civil, environmental, and ocean engineering; computer engineering; electrical engineering; mechanical engineering; and systems engineering and engineering management. Interdisciplinary programs in construction management, integrated product development, maritime systems, and telecommunications management and the degree of Engineer in chemical, civil, computer, electrical, and mechanical engineering are also offered. In addition, a broad range of graduate certificate programs are available for industrialists and practicing engineers.

The mission of the School of Engineering is to provide high-quality education beyond the undergraduate degree by promoting a rigorous and scholarly environment with strong cross-disciplinary links supporting world-class education, research, and technical applications. It strives to ensure the continual relevance of its programs and keeps the community keenly aware of national and international needs, developments, and trends in education, research, and technology.

The Master of Engineering program is intended to extend and broaden undergraduate education. Strong emphasis is placed on providing the flexibility required for responding to a rapidly changing technological environment. It requires 30 credits of approved course work with or without a thesis. The program may be completed in one year of full-time study or in longer periods of part-time study. The Engineer degree requires an additional 30 credits of course work beyond that required for the master's degree, including an in-depth design project.

The Ph.D. program in engineering is for students who are primarily interested in a research or teaching career. The program aims to prepare the students to make important contributions at the frontiers of their disciplines and is granted in recognition of superior academic preparation and creative scholarly research. A Ph.D. student must typically pass a qualifying examination at the beginning of the program and is formally admitted to candidacy after passing a comprehensive examination in a major field. The Ph.D. degree requires 60 credits beyond the master's degree (including a minimum of 30 thesis credits), and a candidate for the degree must complete and defend an acceptable dissertation.

Facilities & Resources
All departments have state-of-the-art research facilities. In addition, Stevens has developed "Industrial Alliances" (Steeples of Excellence), which strive to identify problems impacting U.S. competitiveness and develop solutions that industry can implement. Major areas of interdisciplinary research addressed by the Industrial Alliances include automated concurrent engineering, environmental and coastal engineering, highly filled materials technologies, the development of polymer processes, telecommunications, systems integration, the effective management of manufacturing, microchemical systems, and wireless network security.

The support services include the Stevens Computer Center, which has a six-processor minisupercomputer with extensive preprocessing and postprocessing capabilities; a fully networked academic infrastructure; and the Samuel C. Williams Library, which offers a wide range of information-gathering tools, such as an information-retrieval system of computer databases containing references to millions of documents and ensuring rapid delivery of engineering publications.

Expenses and Aid
Tuition for the academic year is $975 per credit, plus enrollment and technology fees of $150 per semester.

Financial Aid:
Assistantships, fellowships, scholarships, loan and deferred-payment plans, work-study, and employer tuition benefits are available to qualified students. Assistantships include nine-month academic-year stipends ranging from $15,120 to $17,720, plus remission of tuition and fees; recipients devote 20 hours per week to teaching or research.

Housing/Living Expenses:
Graduate housing is off campus and ranges from $3,700 to $6,800 per academic year. Stevens does not offer married student accommodation.

How to Apply / Application
An application, a transcript, two recommendations, and a $50 application fee should be filed with the office of the Dean of the Graduate School two to four weeks before the beginning of the semester for domestic applicants and two to four months before the beginning of the semester for international applicants. The fall semester begins in late August and the spring semester in mid-January. Registration should be completed about a week before the term opening.

Who to Contact
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Castle Point on Hudson
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey 07030

201-216-5105

Dan Gallagher
Dean of University Admissions
The Graduate School
Castle Point on Hudson
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey 07030

201-216-5234

School of Engineering web site

Graduate Programs and Research

• George P. Korfiatis, Dean of Engineering

• Chemical, Biomedical, and Materials Engineering. Dr. Henry Du, Director. Current research activities within the chemical, biomedical, and materials programs involve biologically active material, biochemical engineering, biomaterials design, cellular and tissue engineering, cell signaling, crystallization, electron microscopy and polymer interfaces, microchemical systems, nervous system regeneration and musculoskeletal system repair, polymer characterization and processing, rheology modeling processability and microstructure of filled materials, molecular scale and nanoscale surface functionalization, photonic sensing, high-temperature oxidation, processing of electronic and photonic materials, and surface science and engineering.

• Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering. Dr. Alan Blumberg, Director. Major research activities of the department are in the following three programs: Civil Engineering: analysis and optimization of structural systems, nonlinear dynamics and stochastic processes, flow-induced vibration, soil mechanics, and geoenvironmental engineering. Environmental Engineering: hydrolysis and biodegradation of explosives and rocket propellants, denitrification of high nitrite mixtures, nutrient recovery from inedible plant biomass for application in space, surface enhancement of industrial wastewater filtration media, transport and fate of nonaqueous liquids in saturated and unsaturated soils, in situ and ex situ contaminant removal, beneficial use of contaminated soils and industrial waste by-products, chemical fixation and immobilization in soils and sludges, management of contaminated dredged sediment, and development of leaching protocols; numerical and statistical modeling of contaminant fate and transport; activated sludge process; and bioregenerative life support systems. Ocean Engineering: analysis of beach erosion and evaluation of remedial alternatives, observation and analysis of ocean surface waves and currents and their interaction with coastal structures, marine craft hydrodynamics, numerical modeling and analysis, and applied oceanography.

• Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Stuart K. Tewksbury, Director. Faculty research areas include wireless communication systems, including future generation transceivers, secure wireless communications, multi-antenna approaches, software radio, and advanced signal processing algorithms for low-power and high-reliability applications; multimedia systems, including reliable transmission of multimedia information over unreliable networks, data compression coding for storage and transmission, information security, and information hiding/steganography; intelligent systems, including embedded systems, sensor-based systems, real-time systems, visual data analysis/understanding, sensor array intercommunications, ad hod networks, autonomous/mobile robot(s), custom digital circuits with VHDL/FPGAs, and microprocessor/digital signal processor cointegration; and systems-level research, including wireless system testbeds, cross-layer design for future generation network protocols, middleware for complex systems, secure networked systems, large-scale networked systems, reconfigurable systems, and microelectronic systems technologies.

• Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Constantin Chassapis, Director. Current areas of research include acoustical source characterization, noise control, duct acoustics; kinematic and dynamic characteristics of mechanisms, finite-element methods, modeling of biomechanical systems, composite materials, fracture mechanics; integrated product design, design for manufacturability, development of expert systems, computer-aided manufacturing; parameter sensitivity reduction in control systems, control of robot end effectors, studies on dynamic balancing; computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer, hydrodynamic stability, thermomechanical analysis of electronic systems, heat transfer in manufacturing processes, dynamic behavior of turbomachinery, stall characteristics of turbomachinery, aeroelastic tailoring of turbine/compressor blades; pharmaceutical manufacturing systems.

• Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. John V. Farr, Director. Major research activities of the department are in the following two programs: Engineering Management: Current research areas include new product development, innovative models for engineering management, life cycle costing, quality control, portfolio optimization, and total quality management. Systems Engineering: agile systems; design for system reliability, maintainability, and supportability; data mining; e-systems engineering; network centric systems; modeling and simulation; system architecture modeling and analysis; systems requirements definition; risk and decision analysis; and value chain enterprise systems.

• Center for Environmental Systems (CES). Dr. Christos Christodoulatos, Director. The Center for Environmental Systems is dedicated to applied, interdisciplinary research for the solution of pressing, real-world environmental problems. Through advanced knowledge and in-depth professional expertise, CEE is recognized as a leader in the development, evaluation, and implementation of new environmental technologies. CEE research specialties include physical, chemical, and biological waste treatment processes; soil and groundwater remediation; computer modeling of contaminant transport and fate in surface, coastal, and ground waters; ocean and estuary environmental hydrodynamic measurements; and commercial, industrial, and residential water conservation.

• Center for Maritime Systems (CMS). Dr. Michael S. Bruno, Director. The Center for Maritime Systems is a uniquely collaborative and multidisciplinary environment in which academic researchers and the maritime community work together to address the issues affecting the health, both economic and environmental, and the physical security of ports and waterways worldwide. The focus of the activities involves marine craft hydrodynamics, observing systems, environment modeling, acoustic detection, and port security and commerce (http://www.dl.stevens.edu). Today, the Center for Maritime Systems is housed in the Davidson Laboratory. The Davidson Laboratory, founded in 1935, is one of the largest and most renowned hydrodynamic and ocean engineering research facilities in the nation. It features a high-speed towing tank with a length of 313 feet, a width of 12 feet, and a variable water depth to 6 feet. A monorail-supported cable-drive carriage is capable of speeds up to 100 feet per second. The tank also contains a programmable wave maker capable of generating monochromatic and random wave fields, as well as several types of wave spectra.

• Center for MicroChemical Systems (CMCS). Dr. Woo Y. Lee, Director. At the New Jersey Center for MicroChemical Systems, frontiers are explored that are opened by breakthroughs in the understanding of the very small. Microchemical reactors, devices that are usually smaller than a millimeter (4/100 of an inch), permit the controlled production of minuscule quantities of substances (measured in nanoliters or 1/1,000,000,000 of a liter). Their tiny size makes it possible to run reactions safely and economically, sometimes in ways that are not possible in large-scale reactors. There are potential uses for these systems in medicine, energy production, research, and manufacturing. The faculty members have diverse and complementary educational backgrounds with broad interdisciplinary research exposure. Prospective students should visit the faculty members' Web pages to find out more about their research activities.

• Design and Manufacturing Institute (DMI). Dr. Kishore Pochiraju, Director. DMI is an interdisciplinary center focusing on the enhancement of performance and affordability of commercial and military products and systems. The center develops methodologies and tools for systems integration, collaborative product design, materials processing, and manufacturing. DMI's research has resulted in a knowledge-based engineering design system called the Automated Concurrent Engineering Software (ACES). ACES guides and optimizes product development from concept to operations stages and facilitates cost and performance trade-offs, manufacturability and reliability evaluations, and consideration of many aspects of product life cycle early on in the design process. DMI's funded projects include development of methodologies for rapid systems integration, techniques for evaluation of scalability and complexity of systems, platforms for embedded intelligence systems, design of advanced engineered materials with tailored microstructures and nanostructures, and design and control of flexible miniature robots. DMI is an 18,000-square-foot computer-integrated facility containing a fully equipped modern numerically controlled environment for machining, rapid prototyping, molding, and materials characterization.

• Highly Filled Materials Institute (HFMI). Dr. Dilhan M. Kalyon, Director. The center specializes in materials filled with solids at concentrations that approach the maximum packing fraction used in energetics, personal care, battery, ceramic, magnetic construction, and oil drilling industries. Capabilities include specialized source codes and experimental facilities, especially for extrusion processing, rheological analysis, microstructural distributions, and ultimate mechanical, electrical, and magnetic properties of highly filled materials.