HOBOKEN, N.J. — Stevens Institute of Technology’s American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) undergraduate chapter won the Founders Award for best chapter at the ASEM’s annual meeting and conference. The plaque will be awarded to Kathryn Abel, Director for Undergraduate Academics at Stevens, for her support of the chapter. Abel is also Regional Director of the Northeast section of ASEM. The ASEM provides engineering management solutions to leadership and management challenges to create and lead technical organizations and promotes the development and practice of the engineering management profession.
Also announced at the meeting were the winners of the Ted Eschenbach Award for best paper in the Engineering Management Journal, the quarterly ASEM journal. The award went to two Stevens authors, Sherwat Ibrahim and M. Hosein Fallah. Ibrahim received a doctorate in Technology Management from Stevens in 2005, and Fallah is Associate Professor of Technology Management at Stevens.
“As these awards show, Stevens is one of the leading societies in ASEM, and continues to provide national leadership and support to the field of engineering management,” said Donald Merino, Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at Stevens.
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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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