List of Stevens Institute of Technology alumni

Stevens Institute of Technology is a private university in Hoboken, New Jersey. Following are some of its notable alumni.

Art and architecture

Alexander Calder, M.E. 1919, creator of the Mobile and popularizer of that art form^[1]
Branson DeCou, a photographer known for his portrayal of "Dream Pictures", photographic slides accompanied by musical compositions
Edwin Augustus Stevens Jr., marine engineer, naval architect, and a founder of Cox & Stevens
Hobart Upjohn, architect, best known for designing several ecclesiastical and educational structures in New York and North Carolina

Business

Igor Ansoff, business manager and one of the fathers of strategic management
Lawrence Babbio, B.E. 1966, vice chairman and president of Verizon Communications, Domestic Telecom Group<re

Samuel P. Bush, 1884, steel and railroad executive, public servant, patriarch of Bush political family^[2]
Alex Cable, optical engineer and founder of the optical equipment manufacturer Thorlabs
Paul Aaron Langevin Doty, vice-president and general manager of the St. Paul Gas Light Co and president of St. Paul Trust and Savings Bank
Henry Gantt, M.S. 1902, developed the Gantt chart, an important project management tool^[3]
O. Milton Gossett, an advertising executive with Compton Advertising and Saatchi & Saatchi
John L. Hanigan, CEO of Genesco (1977-1981) and chairman (1977-1984)^[4]
Arthur H. Harper, President and chief executive officer of the Equipment Services Division of General Electric
Edward V. Hartford, founder and President of the Hartford Suspension Company who perfected the automobile shock absorber
Edwin J. Hess, Senior Vice President of Exxon
Sandeep Mathrani, M.E. 1983, real-estate executive and former CEO of WeWork
Eugene McDermott, M.E. 1953, founder, Texas Instruments
Charles Stewart Mott, M.E. 1882, co-founder of General Motors Corporation^[1]
Julianne Mweheire, a Ugandan management professional, accountant, and corporate executive
David S. Rose, entrepreneur and angel investor
Robert Crooks Stanley B.E. 1899, President and Chairman of the International Nickel Company, known for discovering the alloy Monel^[5]
Philip Dakin Wagoner, businessman who became chairman of the Underwood Typewriter Company

Education

Igor Ansoff, B.E. 1941, creator of the Ansoff Matrix, and founding dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
Allan Borodin, computer scientist and professor at the University of Toronto
Robert F. Boruch, Professor of Education and Statistics with the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
Richard Bronson, professor emeritus of mathematics at Fairleigh Dickinson University
Morgan Brooks, inventor, engineer, and academic
William W. Destler, B.S. 1968, former president of Rochester Institute of Technology
Howard Wilson Emmons, professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University
David J. Farber, B.E. 1956, currently a professor of Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon, inducted into the Pioneers Circle of the Internet Hall of Fame
Walter Gekelman, plasma physics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Herman, B.S. 1963, chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Alexander Crombie Humphreys, mechanical and consulting engineer and the 2nd President of Stevens Institute of Technology
Richard Ernest Kronauer, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, emeritus, at Harvard University
Edmund R. Malinowski, professor of chemistry
Fred Maryansk, President of Nevada State College
James H. Mulligan Jr., M.S. 1945, electrical engineer and dean and professor of electrical and computer engineering of University of California, Irvine^[6]
George Adam Pfeiffer, mathematician and instructor at Harvard University and Princeton University
Lingan S. Randolph, mechanical engineer, consulting engineer, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech
Jeffrey I. Seeman, historian of science, chemist, and Visiting Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Richmond
John Stachel, physicist and head of the Boston University Center for Einstein Studies
Zehev Tadmor, Israeli chemical engineer and president of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology^[7]
Cardinal Warde, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roger Wartell, former chair of the school of biology, part of the College of Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology,

Entertainment

Wyn Barnum and Ricky Dana, members of alternative rock band Phoneboy
Marques Brownlee, B.E. 2015, video producer, host, technology reviewer, Internet personality, and ultimate frisbee player on the New York Empire, best known for his technology-based YouTube channel, MKBHD who produces content under Top Gear and the Vox Media corporation^[8]
Will Morrissey, lyricist, vaudeville actor, playwright, and theatrical producer
Jay Weinberg, B.S. 2014, musician and former drummer for the heavy metal band Slipknot

Government and civil service

Peter Ashmun Ames, 1911, MI5 operative
Jed Babbin, B.E. 1970, former United States Deputy Undersecretary of Defense and author
Holly Bakke, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance
John A. Bensel, civil engineer and New York State Engineer and Surveyor
Walter Kidde, B.E. 1897, founder of Walter Kidde Constructors and served as New Jersey State Highway Commissioner^[9]

Military

William J. Snow, major general in the United States Army and Chief of Field Artillery.^{[citation needed]}
Joseph Rochefort, American naval officer and cryptanalyst

Politics

Leon Febres Cordero, M.E. 1953, President of Ecuador,^[1] 1984–1988
William C. Dodge, politician in New York City
Carmelo Garcia, New Jersey General Assembly
Greg Gianforte, B.E., M.S. 1983, former U.S. Representative for Montana, Governor of Montana, and founder of RightNow Technologies,^[10]
Thomas S. Hanson, Wisconsin State Assembly
Harold Harrison, 1892, Minnesota state legislator and businessman^[11]
Harold L. Nash, former mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut

Science

Mark Cardillo, chemist at The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Aaron Cohen, M.S. 1958, director of NASA, 1986–1993
Gerald Goertzel, B.E., theoretical physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and creator of the Goertzel algorithm
Alfred G. Mayer, marine biologist and zoologist
Frederick Reines, M.E. 1939, M.S. 1943, discoverer of the neutrino, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics^[1]
Linda Vigilant, a geneticist at the e Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Frederick Winslow Taylor, M.E. 1883, developer of scientific management methods and time-motion studies

Sports

C. Temple Emmet, sportman
Jon Denning, NASCAR driver
Chris Gavina, professional basketball coach
Al McGall, professional football and track and field coach

Technology and engineering

Edward G. Amoroso, computer security professional, entrepreneur, author, and educator
Walter Edwin Arnoldi, engineer mainly known for the Arnoldi iteration
Igor Bensen, B.E. 1940, founder of Bensen Aircraft
Lorinda Cherry, computer scientist and member of the original Unix Lab at Bell Labs
Mark Crispin, B.S. 1977, Inventor of IMAP
Frank J. Effenberger, B.E. 1988, PON technology development and standardization; fellow of IEEE, OSA and Huawei
Thelma Estrin, computer scientist and engineer who did pioneering work in the fields of expert systems and biomedical engineering
Joseph A. Falcon, mechanical engineer and business executive
Alfred Fielding, 1939, co-inventor of Bubble Wrap^[1]
Gerard Joseph Foschini, Ph.D. 1967, a prominent telecommunications engineer who is in the top 0.5% of most widely cited authors^[12]
Amber Gell, engineer, scientist, and program manager at Lockheed Martin
Alfred Wolcott Gibbs, a mechanical engineer and chief mechanical engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Louis A. Hazeltine, M.E., Sc. D., 1926, founder Hazeltine Corporation, inventor of the neutrodyne radio receiver^[1]
Augustus Moore Herring, aviation pioneer
Peter Cooper Hewitt, electrical engineer and inventor of the Mercury arc rectifier
Beatrice Hicks, M.S. 1949, founding president of the Society of Women Engineers and first woman engineer hired by Western Electric^[13]
Lawrence C. F. Horle, electrical engineer and chief engineer of the de Forest Radio Telephone and Telegraph Company
John White Howell, M.E., electrical engineer who furthered the development of the incandescent lamp, recipient of the 1924 Edison Medal, former president of the Edison Pioneers^[14]
John Iacono, computer scientist specializing in data structures, algorithms and computational geometry and one of the inventors of the tango tree
David Schenk Jacobus, mechanical engineer, head of the Engineering Department of Babcock & Wilcox, inventor, and educator
Carlos Katz, electrical engineer and researcher
Robert Thurston Kent, mechanical engineer, editor of Industrial Engineering and consultant, known as one of the foremen of scientific management
Béla G. Lipták, engineer consultant specializing in the fields of safety, automation, process control, optimization, and renewable energy
Frederick B. Llewellyn, electrical engineer Bell Telephone Laboratories
Herbert Merrick, mechanical engineer and inventor of beltweighers
Harold Mooz, systems engineer and business consultant
Chadwell O'Connor, B.E., inventor of the fluid-damped camera head, variations of which are used in most tripods to film motion
Charles Petzold, B.S., M.S. 1975, Computer programmer and author
Richard H. Rice, M.E. 1885; Hon. Ph.D. 1921, mechanical engineer and inventor
Rich Rosen, software developer
Jean Scholtz, computer scientist known for her contributions to human–computer interaction
Frederick Winslow Taylor, mechanical engineer
Charles Walton, M.E., electrical engineer and inventor of RFID^[15]

Writing and journalism

Joseph Bushnell Ames, 1901, novelist
William Raimond Baird, namesake of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities and publisher and editor of its early editions
L. Sprague de Camp, M.S., 1933, science fiction author, Lest Darkness Fall, The Wheels of If, The Great Monkey Trial, winner of the Hugo Award (1997)
Fred H. Colvin, M.E. Hon. 1944, journalist, author, and editor
Frank D. Graham, prolific writer of Audel's guides
Warren Hastings Miller, author and editor of the magazine Field & Stream
John A. Nagy, M.M.S. 1979, author on espionage and mutinies of the American Revolution
Richard Reeves, M.E. 1960, Emmy Award winner, syndicated columnist, author, television commentator^[1]
Robert Weinberg, an author whose work spans several genres including non-fiction, science fiction, horror, and comic books

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Notable Stevens Alumni" (PDF). Technical Leadership: Executive Education & Master's Program. Stevens Institute of Technology. Retrieved 21 May 2012.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Buckeye Steel hand signed by President George Bush's Great Grandfather, Samuel Prescott Bush 1927". Scripophily.net. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
^ Maskara, Shreya. "Remember the titans: Henry Gantt and his invaluable lessons for project managers; Henry Gantt, the founder of the eponymous Gantt chart, may very well have been the first project manager, and a genius at that too.", Qrius, June 30, 2018. Accessed February 19, 2020. "Gantt was born into a prosperous family in Maryland in 1861. After completing his education in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology (also the alma mater of his mentor, Frederick Taylor), Gantt later joined the Midvale Steel Company."
^ Heise, Kenan (July 3, 1996). "John L. Hanigan Headed Genesco And Brunswick". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
^ Robert C. Stanley, Industrialist, 74; Head of International Nickel, a Noted Metallurgist, Dies-- Discovered Monel Metal, The New York Times, February 13, 1951. Accessed June 28, 2022.
^ "Dr. James H. Mulligan, Jr". NAE Website. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
^ Dr. Zehev Tadmor, US-Israel Science & Technology Foundation. Accessed February 19, 2020. "He completed his doctorate at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey and after working for the Western Electric Company as Senior Research Engineer, joined the Technion Faculty of Chemical Engineering."
^ Marques Brownlee ’15, Stevens Institute of Technology. Accessed February 7, 2022. "The hits keep coming for web sensation Marques Brownlee, a novel entrepreneur who is mastering new media. Mr. Brownlee is the creator of MKBHD, a tech-themed YouTube channel that influences over six million subscribers."
^ "Village of Second River Belleville, NJ: Walter Kidde". Secondriver.blogspot.com. 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
^ "Greg Gianforte and Jeong Kim Announced as Stevens Institute of Technology's 2012 Commencement Speakers". Stevens Institute of Technology. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
^ Minnesota Legislators: Past & Present-Harold Harrison
^ AlcaTel – Lucents: Bell Labs Researchers' Papers Prove Fertile for Peers Archived 2006-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Beatrice A. Hicks M.S. '49 Hon. D.Eng. '78 Paved the Way for Women in STEM". Stevens 150th. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
^ "Stories For My Children, home page". Fabulousrocketeers.com. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
^ "Inventor of the Week: Archive". Web.mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2005-10-25. Retrieved 2012-09-29.

External links

Official website

[Notable_Alumni-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Notable Stevens Alumni" (PDF). Technical Leadership: Executive Education & Master's Program. Stevens Institute of Technology. Retrieved 21 May 2012.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[2] "Buckeye Steel hand signed by President George Bush's Great Grandfather, Samuel Prescott Bush 1927". Scripophily.net. Retrieved 2011-11-16.

[3] Maskara, Shreya. "Remember the titans: Henry Gantt and his invaluable lessons for project managers; Henry Gantt, the founder of the eponymous Gantt chart, may very well have been the first project manager, and a genius at that too.", Qrius, June 30, 2018. Accessed February 19, 2020. "Gantt was born into a prosperous family in Maryland in 1861. After completing his education in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology (also the alma mater of his mentor, Frederick Taylor), Gantt later joined the Midvale Steel Company."

[4] Heise, Kenan (July 3, 1996). "John L. Hanigan Headed Genesco And Brunswick". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 3 January 2018.

[5] Robert C. Stanley, Industrialist, 74; Head of International Nickel, a Noted Metallurgist, Dies-- Discovered Monel Metal, The New York Times, February 13, 1951. Accessed June 28, 2022.

[6] "Dr. James H. Mulligan, Jr". NAE Website. Retrieved 2022-07-29.

[7] Dr. Zehev Tadmor, US-Israel Science & Technology Foundation. Accessed February 19, 2020. "He completed his doctorate at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey and after working for the Western Electric Company as Senior Research Engineer, joined the Technion Faculty of Chemical Engineering."

[8] Marques Brownlee ’15, Stevens Institute of Technology. Accessed February 7, 2022. "The hits keep coming for web sensation Marques Brownlee, a novel entrepreneur who is mastering new media. Mr. Brownlee is the creator of MKBHD, a tech-themed YouTube channel that influences over six million subscribers."

[9] "Village of Second River Belleville, NJ: Walter Kidde". Secondriver.blogspot.com. 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2011-11-16.

[10] "Greg Gianforte and Jeong Kim Announced as Stevens Institute of Technology's 2012 Commencement Speakers". Stevens Institute of Technology. Retrieved 6 July 2012.

[11] Minnesota Legislators: Past & Present-Harold Harrison

[12] AlcaTel – Lucents: Bell Labs Researchers' Papers Prove Fertile for Peers Archived 2006-10-17 at the Wayback Machine

[13] "Beatrice A. Hicks M.S. '49 Hon. D.Eng. '78 Paved the Way for Women in STEM". Stevens 150th. Retrieved 2022-06-16.

[14] "Stories For My Children, home page". Fabulousrocketeers.com. Retrieved 2012-09-29.

[15] "Inventor of the Week: Archive". Web.mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2005-10-25. Retrieved 2012-09-29.

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