Stevens seniors win NJ Pharmaceutical Engineers Society design competition; will compete nationally
HOBOKEN,
N.J. - In early April, five seniors from Stevens Institute
of Technology won a design competition in the annual Student
Poster Contest held at the New Jersey Chapter meeting
of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers
(ISPE). The winning Stevens team will be privileged to
present their project, "Remotely Operated Stitching
Devices for Secure Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms,"
at the ISPE annual international fall conference held
in San Antonio, Texas.
The ISPE Student Chapter Advisor is Dr. Richard Berkof, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Engineering Program in Stevens' Schaefer School of Engineering.
"All student teams made excellent presentations to the NJ Chapter of the ISPE," said Berkof. "Special congratulations to our Stevens seniors who made the winning presentation."
The team consisted of five students: Rebecca Gonter and Joseph Grogan, who made the winning presentation on behalf of the team, which also included Eva Bica, George Collard and Dominique Gonzalez. The presentation was based on the team's Senior Design Project, a mechanical design and medical device project whose advisor is Professor Zhenqi Zhu of the Mechanical Engineering Department.
A representative of the team will travel this fall to the ISPE 2004 Annual conference to present the winning New Jersey project, October 24-28, at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio, Texas.
For more on Stevens' Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Engineering Program, please see the web page at www.stevens.edu/engineering/me/Graduate/pharma.html or contact Dr. Berkof at rberkof@stevens.edu.
About the
ISPE New Jersey Chapter
The New Jersey Chapter of the ISPE was established in
the mid 1980s to support the large concentration of pharmaceutical
manufacturers located within the metropolitan region.
Now entering its nineteenth year, the chapter looks proudly
at a number of innovative programs created locally that
are institutionalized as international ISPE programming;
these include Expanded Education, Student Chapters and
Vendor Night.
The New Jersey Chapter remains one of the largest chapters in the ISPE organization by serving the education, information and networking needs of the local pharmaceutical community. Monthly programming, newsletters and special interest groups provide regular opportunities for contact with other industry professionals.
For further information, please visit ispe.org.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University, 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 2,234 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with more than 400 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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