Stevens and Navy Lakehurst sign education partnership
The partnership signing ceremony was held at Stevens’ Wesley J. Howe Center.
Dr. Harold J. Raveche, president of Stevens, as well as Stevens faculty, alumni and administrators, and officials from Navy Lakehurst were on hand for the signing.
The agreement provides a way for Stevens’ students and faculty to benefit from the experience, unique facilities, equipment and technologies available at Navy Lakehurst, the U.S. Navy base in New Jersey that includes the Naval Air Engineering Station and Naval Air Systems Command. Opportunities to work with technologies such as those in shipboard networking and aircraft carrier integration will add to the wealth of real-world experiences available to Stevens’ students. The agreement also creates a formal vehicle for information exchange between Stevens’ faculty and Navy Lakehurst.
The U.S. Navy will benefit from Stevens’ cutting-edge research, such as research in new environmental technologies and the latest software applications for design, development and production of parts. Stevens’ non-thermal plasma technology applications such as those licensed by PlasmaSol, a new company associated with Stevens, are expected to lead to environmentally sound practices that can be applied to maintaining Navy aircraft and reducing pollution. The Navy also expects to employ electromagnetic technology to the aircraft launching capabilities of carriers, thus improving significantly on the steam-powered launchers used today.
More information about Navy Lakehurst is available at its web site at www.lakehurst.navy.mil. Information about PlasmaSol is at www.plasmasol.com.
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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.
