GREETING FROM THE DEAN:

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the SES Newsletter! I am excited to share all of the achievements and activities at our school through this monthly newsletter. I am deeply honored to have the privilege to serve as Dean of this school. Since joining Stevens on May 1, I have met many faculty, students and staff, and have been deeply impressed by the top talent, innovative spirit and top-notch research and educational programs here. I look forward to working with you all to build a stronger and more vibrant community, and elevating SES to an even greater level of excellence on the global stage as a prominent world-class school of engineering and science.

Have a great summer! — Jean Zu

SPOTLIGHT

Stevens Institute of Technology graduated more than 2,100 undergraduate and graduate students on May 24, 2017. The largest class in the university’s history, the graduates were encouraged by new SES Dean Jean Zu to “Dare to dream, dare to pursue your dream, and never give up your dream.” Read more

CS’s Susanne Wetzel was selected to serve as a program director for the National Science Foundation’s SaTC (Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace) program for a period of one year. Wetzel, who currently serves as head of Stevens’ undergraduate cybersecurity degree program, will assist in long-range planning and budget development for the next year at the SaTC offices in Washington, D.C.

ME’s EH Yang’s illustration for his paper on “Tungsten Disulfide Monolayers: Graphene-Assisted Antioxidation of Tungsten Disulfide Monolayers: Substrate and Electric-Field Effect” was featured in Advanced Materials, Volume 29 Issue 18.

CEOE’s Valentina Prigiobbe received a 2-year $110,000 grant from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund. It will allow a PhD student to work on her “Measuring and Modeling the Behavior of a Nanoparticle-Stabilized CO2-Foam in Porous Media” project.

ECE’s Yingying Chen and Yu-Dong Yao received a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense University Research Instrumentation Program. The grant will allow them to develop ad hoc mobile networks for military applications.

PEP’S Rainer Martini received a $290,000 grant from the New Jersey Department of Education. The grant will allow PEP to create localized training centers to educate local science teachers. This grant is a continuation of a program initiated by their previous grant.

JULY EVENTS

CEOE’s Julie Pullen was invited to speak the “Earth-system Processes in the Atlantic” workshop hosted by the Luso-American Development Foundation in the Azores, Portugal

07-13-2017

PEP’s Rainer Martini was invited to present at a National Science Foundation workshop on Free Space Optical Networks at MIT

07-25-2017

MS’s Xiaohu Li was invited to be a committee member for the IEEE Workshop on Reliability Modeling and Optimization in Prague, Czech Republic. He will also give an invited talk.

IN THE MEDIA

ENERGY.GOV - Power to the People: How Stevens is Helping Hoboken prepare for the next Superstorm Sandy

CBS NEWS - Stevens Professor Responds to President Trump’s Exit from Paris Climate Accord

THE TWO RIVER TIMES - Stevens Professor Reports at 15th Annual State of the Shore New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium

BIOTECHGATE.COM - Stevens to Showcase its Assets, Resources at BIO International 2017, the World’s Largest Biotechnology Conference

ME’s Marehalli Prasad is retiring. Prasad has been with Stevens for 37 years, where he taught classes on mechanical vibrations and engineering acoustics, conducted research and development with specialization in acoustics, noise control and vibration, and built the Noise Control Laboratory with an anechoic chamber and a reverberation chamber. Prasad was the only faculty member in the ME department dedicated to acoustics. He was also a faculty advisor for the ASME Student Section and an advisor for the Stevens chapter of Engineers Without Borders. In his spare time, Prasad led local student summer camps on culture, diversity and leadership. He even found time to produce, direct and stage plays and dance performances. His energy and enthusiasm will be missed.