ASEE Best Paper Award recognizes Stevens' promotion of systems concepts

“Engineering’s role in society, as well as its practice, will change dramatically in the 21st century,” said CIESE Director McGrath . “The design, operation, and maintenance of complex systems from those critical to homeland security and aviation, to information security, new product development, and environmental remediation, necessitates that engineers transcend discipline-specific boundaries to develop a systems perspective.”

“As outlined in this paper,” she continued, “we are working with our partners to develop materials that bring concepts and skills associated with global and systems engineering to secondary school students as part of a broader effort to increase the number who experience engineering and in so doing recognize engineering as a desirable path for their education and careers.”

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Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value. Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with about 400 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.

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