Honoree for the Graduate Ceremony

An alumna of Stevens who has become a national public policy leader will receive an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree and speak to graduates at the graduate ceremony on May 25:

Dr. Elizabeth E. Bailey, one of Stevens Institute of Technology’s most illustrious alumnae (1966), is one of the country’s foremost public policy experts. She is frequently called upon for her expertise on the interface between business and government, and the deregulation of the airline industry. An accomplished member of academe, she is the Chair of the Department and John C. Hower Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bailey also served from 1983 to 1990 as dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration. A highly regarded authority in public policy, she is the former Commissioner and Vice Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board (1977-83) and a former Research Head for the Economic Research Department of Bell Laboratories (1973-77).

In addition, she is a trustee of the Brookings Institution and the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is the author of Economics Theory of Regulatory Constraint (D.C. Health, 1973), Deregulating the Airlines with David Graham and Daniel Kaplan (The MIT Press, 1985), and the editor of The Political Economy of Privatization and Deregulation with Janet Rothenberg Pack, (Edward Elgar, 1995).

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.