- John Horgan
John Horgan is an American science journalist. Between 1986 and 1997 he was a senior writer at "Scientific American". He has written for many newspapers, including "The New York Times", "Time" and "Newsweek". His book "The End of Science", published in 1996, argues that science-- especially physics-- has exhausted its capacity for the groundbreaking innovation seen through the twentieth century.
- Charles Stewart Mott
Charles Stewart Mott was a US industrialist and philanthropist who was born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were John Coon Mott and Isabella Turnball Stewart. He began working for his father and uncle, Fred Mott who had purchsed a bicycle wheel making business (Weston-Mott Co.). After the death of his father, C. S. Mott was appointed superintendent of the company by his uncle. C. S. Mott moved to Flint, Michigan in 1905 in a merger with Buick.
- John Cox Stevens
Jon Cox Stevens, (1785-1857) is best known for founding and serving as the first Commodore of the New York Yacht Club as well as being a member of the "America" syndicate which won the first America's Cup trophy in 1851. He graduated from Columbia University in 1803. He was the sporting son in the family, building a series of yachts.
- Edwin Augustus Stevens
Edwin Augustus Stevens left a bequest which was used to establish Stevens Institute of Technology. He was born at Castle Point, Hoboken, New Jersey son of Colonel John Stevens III (1749-1838) and his wife Rachel née Cox. He died at Paris, France. His will left land adjoining his family estate, $150,000 for the erection of a building, and $500,000 as an endowment for the establishment of an "institution of learning".
- Robert Henry Thurston
Robert Henry Thurston was the first professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology (in 1871). There he established Stevens’ mechanical engineering curriculum. Historians credit Thurston with establishing the first US mechanical engineering laboratory for conducting funded research at an academic institution for higher learning. He was the first president (1880-82) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
- Charles Petzold
Charles Petzold (born February 2, 1953, New Brunswick, New Jersey) is an American programmer and technical author on Microsoft Windows applications. His surname is pronounced like "pet's old." He graduated with a Master of Science in Mathematics from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1975. Aside from writing books about Windows programming he has contributed to various magazines about computers.
- Eugene McDermott
Eugene McDermott (1899-1973) was a co-founder of Texas Instruments. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1919 with an M. E. degree. He received a masters in physics from Columbia University. His early work in petroleum exploration led to multiple papers and five patents. Along with Cecil Howard Green, H. B. Peacock, and J. E. Jonsson, he co-founded Texas Instruments in 1941. He was the Chairman of TI from 1951-1957, …
- Richard Herman
Richard Herman began serving as the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005, having previously served there since 1998 as Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs. Before coming to Illinois, he served as Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University.
- William W. Destler
William W. Destler is an American university professor and administrator. He will serve as the 9th president of Rochester Institute of Technology as of 1 July 2007, succeeding Albert J. Simone. Previously, Destler was provost and senior vice president for student affairs at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2001 to 2007. He also served as a professor of the college of electrical engineering, dean of the graduate school (1999-2001), …
- Igor Ansoff
Igor Ansoff (1918-July 14 2002) was an applied mathematician and business manager. He is known as the father of Strategic management. Ansoff was born in Vladivostok, Russia, in 1918. He emigrated to the United States with his family and attended New York City's Stuyvesant High School. Ansoff studied General Engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology and continued his education there, …
- John Stachel
John Stachel (born 1928) is an American physicist and philosopher of science. Stachel earned his PhD at Stevens Institute of Technology in Physics about a topic in General relativity in 1958. After holding different teaching positions at Lehigh University and University of Pittsburgh, he went 1964 to Boston University where he was professor of physics until his emiritation. In 1977, Stachel became the first editor of the Einstein Papers Project, …
- Lawrence Babbio Jr.
Lawrence Babbio, Jr. is the president and vice-chairman of the Verizon corporation. His responsibilities include management of domestic wireline business, information technology, procurement services, technology research, and long distance. He began his career in communication with New Jersey Bell Telephone in 1966, and has filled a variety of positions within both the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company as well as AT&T. He is also a director of the Hewlett-Packard Company.
- Harold Brown
Harold Brown was born on September 19, 1927, in New York City. He received three degrees, among them a Ph.D. (1949) in physics from Columbia University. Brown was a research scientist at the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, then at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, CA; he became director of the Lawrence lab in 1960. Brown was senior adviser at the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests (1958-1959).
- Gerard J. Foschini
Gerard J. Foschini, born in Jersey City, New Jersey is a telecommunications engineer who has worked for Bell Laboratories since 1961. His research has covered many kinds of data communications, particularly wireless communications and optical communications. Foschini has also worked on point-to-point systems and networks. Foschini received the B.S.E.E. degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, …
- Beatrice Hicks
Beatrice Alice Hicks (1919-1979) was a prominent woman engineer, helping to found the Society of Women Engineers in the 1950. Born in Orange, New Jersey she received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Newark College of Engineering in 1939, a master's degree in physics from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1949, a doctorate of science from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1958, …
- James M. Supplee
Dr. James M. Supplee is a physics professor at Drew University. He is also an adjunct professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Supplee was the first to discuss a particular phenomenon of special relativity in what is now known as Supplee's paradox.
- Joseph Rochefort
Captain Joseph John Rochefort (1898-1976) was an American Naval officer and cryptanalyst. Rochefort was a major figure in the U.S. Navy's cryptographic and intelligence operations from 1925 to 1947, except for a period during WWII. He headed the Navy's fledgling cryptanalytic organization in the 1920s and provided cryptographic support to the U.S. Fleet during World War II, leading to victory in the War in the Pacific. At the end of his Naval career (1942-1946), …
- Clifton C. Garvin
Clifton C. Garvin, Jr. (b. 1922-) is a native of Portsmouth, Virginia and graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1943 with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. After graduation he served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II in the Pacific theater for three years. He returned to VPI after his military service and received a Master's Degree from VPI in 1947.
- Frank D. Graham
Frank Duncan Graham (1875-19??) was a prolific and eloquent writer of the ever popular and frequently reprinted Audel's guides of various titles. Graham seemed to specialize, however, in subjects related to steam technology and other types of engines. A few of Graham's more epic works include his eight volume "Audel's Engineers and Mechanics Guide", 1921, which covered subjects as diverse as flying "aeroplanes" to steam engines and house wiring, …
- Irving Langmuir
Irving Langmuir (January 31, 1881 in Brooklyn, New York - August 16, 1957 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts) was an American chemist and physicist. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N. Lewis's cubical atom theory and Walther Kossel's chemical bonding theory, he outlined his "concentric theory of atomic structure".
- Robert Willmott
Robert Willmott steps into his second year as an assistant coach with the Stevens Institute of Technology cross country and track and field squads in 2007-08. Last season, he assisted the coaching staff in helping the Ducks to a second-place showing at the Skyline Conference meet as well as a first-place finish at the Highlander Invitational.
- John Marin
John Marin (December 23, 1870 - October 2, 1953) born in Rutherford, New Jersey was an early American modernist artist. Known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors
- Ken Zinchiak
Ken Zinchiak is in his third season as an assistant coach with the Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team in 2008. Last year, Zinchiak lent a hand to the coaching staff in guiding Stevens to the finals of the Skyline Conference Tournament, where they lost to eventual league champion, Manhattanville College. Then, in 2006, Zinchiak assisted in guiding the Ducks to a school-best 27-12 mark.
- David Ladd
David, a successful former entrepreneur, sits on the boards of Casabi, Inphi, LGC Wireless, LV Sensors, Pixim, Pure Networks, Sylantro Systems, T-RAM, TimeBridge and WaveSplitter. David's notable past investments include Orative (acquired by Cisco ). David was an early engineer at ROLM Corporation. After eight years at ROLM, he co-founded voice messaging company Opcom/VMX, which grew to a $100 million publicly held company.
- Virginia Ruesterholz
- Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder , the son and grandson of sculptors, first trained as an engineer at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He was self-taught as a sculptor. Exposure to the works of Joan Miro and the Surrealists in Paris in the late 1920s and early 1930s provided a liberating influence. From toy-like wire figures he evolved a style of suspended, wind driven abstract forms which he called "mobiles."
- Yu-Dong Yao
- Joe Stahley
Joe Stahley enters his fourth year as the head coach of the Stevens Institute of Technology men’s golf team in 2007-08. Last season, he guided the Ducks to a third-place finish at the Skyline Conference Championship and a fourth-place showing at the Empire 8 Golf Championship in the team’s first year as a varsity sport.
- Anthony Ziobro
Anthony Ziobro is entering his second season as an assistant coach with the Stevens Institute of Technology men’s basketball team in 2007-08. He is involved in numerous aspects of the program ranging from practice planning to scouting and game preparation. During his first season with the Ducks in 2006-07, Ziobro helped guide Stevens to a program-best 23-7 mark as well as a No. 1 ranking in the NCAA Atlantic Region.
- Aziza Hassan
Aziza Hassan enters her third season as an assistant coach for the Stevens Institute of Technology women’s fencing team in 2007-08. Last season, Hassan assisted the coaching staff in leading the Ducks to an 11-7 dual meet record. She also helped in sending five fencers to the first round of the NCAA Championships at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J.
- Meris Burton
Meris Burton enters her fourth season as an assistant coach with the Stevens Institute of Technology field hockey team in 2007. Last season, she helped guide Stevens to an 11-8 mark - the best record in the program’s three-year history. In her first three years with the Ducks, Burton has primarily worked with the goalkeepers as well as the offensive and defensive corner units.
- Joe Agnello
Joe Agnello enters his third season as an assistant coach for the Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team in 2008. He also serves as the program’s recruiting coordinator and assists with practice organization and game management.
- Patti Zwaan
Patti Zwaan Title: Head Coach
- Celine Cunningham
Celine Cunningham enters her sixth season as head coach of the Stevens Institute of Technology women’s lacrosse program in 2008. In her previous five years at the helm, Cunningham has recorded the 11th-best winning percentage (. 689) at Stevens, while sporting an impressive 62-28 record. She has also led the Ducks to three conference championships and four postseason appearances in that span.
- Meiko Boynton
Meiko Boynton enters her first season as a volunteer assistant coach for the Stevens Institute of Technology field hockey team in 2007. Prior to Stevens, Boynton coached at several different field hockey camps such as White Mountain Sports, nhQ, etc. She has also trained and prepared many players in the United States Field Hockey Association Futures program. As a player, Boynton was a four-year starter at the midfield and forward positions at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa.
- Fred Horowitz
Fred Horowitz , Chair An engineering graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology, Fred Horowitz retired in 2001 after a 34+ year career at ExxonMobil where he held a variety of management positions. His career involved extensive worldwide travel, including foreign residency in South America, Asia and the UK.
- Francesco Camilucci
- Jerry Luftman
Jerry Luftman Stevens Institute of Technology Jerry Luftman is the Executive Director of Graduate Information Systems Programs, and Distinguished Professor of Information Systems, at Stevens Institute of Technology. His career includes strategic positions in management, management consulting, information systems, and education.
- Harriet Mayor Fulbright
Ms. Fulbright has a BA from Radcliffe College and an MFA from the George Washington University. She has also received Honorary Degrees: a Doctorate in Law from the University of Scranton, Doctorates in Humane Letters from Long Island University and from the Bank Street College of Education, a Doctorate from Pace University, and a Doctorate in Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
- Nick Maselli
China-based Technical Professional with years of experience in: Engineering; Management; Technical Writing; Technical Editing; Current focus: Technical documentation editing; Mentoring Chinese Technical Writers, English Technical Writers, and Translators