Stevens’ management program receives award
HOBOKEN, N.J. — The Master of Technology Management (MTM) Program in the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology won the Academic Leadership Award of the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM).
In October, the award and a plaque were presented to Dr. Donald N. Merino, professor of technology management and engineering management at Stevens, at the ASEM 20th annual meeting in Virginia.
"We were judged to be best in the class of similar graduate programs on two major criteria — academic excellence and academic leadership," Merino said.
Stevens’ MTM program is the first graduate program to receive this prestigious award, which was unanimously approved by the ASEM national board. Previously, this award has been given to only undergraduate programs. In fact, the Stevens undergraduate Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Management program (BEEM) was the first undergraduate program to receive the award in 1991.
The MTM program was developed as part of the Stevens Alliance for Technology Management (SATM) educational activities. The SATM is an education-industry alliance of high-tech companies and government research labs in the New Jersey area.
"The MTM program is very fortunate to have the SATM to champion the program as well as provide leadership," Merino said. "The group that deserves the majority of the credit for the program’s success is the dedicated faculty and executives-in-residence who teach and mentor the students."
SATM partners include AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Allied Signal, Best Foods, Pershing, Telcordia, U.S. Army Research Office, Department of Energy, Picatinny Arsenal Army Base, Bell Atlantic, and U.S. Army Communications, Electronics, and Command (CECOM – Ft. Monmouth, NJ).
For more information, the media may contact Merino at (201) 216-5504 or via e-mail at DMERINO@stevens.edu.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University TM , lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research. The University's students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.
Based in Hoboken, N.J. and with a location in Washington, D.C., Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts. Stevens has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engineering and port security research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,200 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with almost 450 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, governments and other universities around the world. Additional information may be obtained at www.stevens.edu and www.stevens.edu/press.
