Stevens Institute of Technology
| Stevens Institute of Technology | |
|---|---|
| motto | Per aspera ad astra |
| founding | 1870 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Hoboken ( New Jersey ), United States |
| president | Nariman Farvardin |
| Students | 3,431 (undergraduate studies) / 3,498 (postgraduate studies) (2018) |
| Employee | 763 (2018) |
| Foundation assets | US $ 207 million (2018) |
| University sports | NCAA (Division III) , ECAC |
| Website | www.stevens.edu |
The Stevens Institute of Technology is located in Hoboken , New Jersey . It is one of the oldest technical universities in the United States and was the first college in the United States to be devoted to mechanical engineering.
The university is privately run.
At the university, in addition to various undergraduate degrees as Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Science , various Master’s degrees and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) can be obtained in the graduate program .
Faculties
The faculties are all based in the various buildings on the university campus at Castle Point in Hoboken. Individual parts of the university are also housed in the surrounding area.
- Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
- Wesley J. Howe School of Business
- School of Systems & Enterprises
- College of Arts & Letters
history
The university was founded in 1870 by the last will of Edwin A. Stevens , son of steamship and railroad pioneer John Stevens . Originally the university was geared towards mechanical engineering . The model of the university was the model of the German-speaking and French technical universities.
In 1982 it was the first university to require all new students to have a personal computer.
The current and seventh president of the university is Nariman Farvardin (* 1956).
Well-known graduates
- Harry Igor Ansoff , founder of strategic management
- Edward Tracy Birdsall , SAE co-founder
- Samuel Prescott Bush , grandfather or great-grandfather of the US presidents
- Alexander Calder , visual artist
- Peter Cooper-Hewitt , inventor of the mercury vapor lamp and the mercury vapor rectifier
- Alfred Fielding , the inventor of bubble wrap (bubble wrap)
- Gerard J. Foschini , communications engineer
- Henry Gantt , developer of the Gantt chart
- Beatrice Hicks , engineer and later co-founder and first president of the Society of Women Engineers
- Irving Langmuir , Nobel Prize Winner ( Nobel Prize in Chemistry )
- Eugene McDermott , co-founder of Texas Instruments
- Charles Stewart Mott , co-founder of General Motors and Buick
- Frederick Reines , Nobel Prize Winner ( Nobel Prize in Physics )
- Frederick Winslow Taylor , founder of scientific management theory
Web links
- Homepage (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.stevens.edu/about-stevens/stevens-history
- ↑ https://www.stevens.edu/about-stevens/leadership/office-president/president-nariman-farvardin
- ↑ a b Facts & Statistics. Stevens Institute of Technology, accessed June 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual Endowment Report - Fiscal year 2018. Stevens Institute of Technology, accessed June 16, 2019 .
| State universities |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey • New Jersey Institute of Technology • Rowan University • The College of New Jersey • Kean • Montclair State • New Jersey City • Ramapo • Richard Stockton • Thomas Edison State • William Paterson |
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| Private universities |
Bloomfield • Caldwell • Centenary • College of Saint Elizabeth • Drew • Fairleigh Dickinson • Felician • Georgian Court • Monmouth • Princeton • Rider • Saint Peter’s • Seton Hall • Stevens Institute of Technology |
Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 41.7 " N , 74 ° 1 ′ 26.2" W.