Stevens Institute of Technology: Admissions Blog

Alumnus, professor work together to fight obesity

Seth A. Tropper, past co-founder of the successful Stevens spin-off PlasmaSol and current CEO of Switch2Health (S2H), and Dr. S. Vincent Grasso, a Stevens Institute of Technology Adjunct Professor and Healthcare IT Management Advisory Board member, have joined forces to extend the value of the S2H product line. 

S2H’s proprietary sensor technology placed within a wrist-worn device will identify and quantify physical activity and this, coupled with a web-based rewards system, will motivate individuals of all ages to be physically active and lead a healthier lifestyle.

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President Raveché on Port Security

From Solutions for our Future:

Stevens Institute of Technology was awarded the responsibility of leading research and education in port security. This honor was the result of the impressive strength of Stevens and its university and industry partners, which include MIT, Rutgers University, the University of Miami, the University of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Monmouth University, and Lockheed Martin Corporation. The focus areas of the center's research include maritime domain awareness; space-based wide area surveillance; vessel detection, tracking, and monitoring; High Frequency Frequency radar for multiple applications; search and rescue; environmental monitoring; human and organizational factors influencing Marine Transportation System (MTS) security and coastal safety; resiliency; and MTS recovery and continuity of operations.

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Stevens Students Help Rising Tide

Over 80 students presented their work as part of the Senior Project Expo yesterday in the Schaefer Athletic Center on campus. And for their senior project, one group of students chose to help economically disadvantaged Hudson County residents get back on their feet.

Students in the Howe School of Technology Management teamed up to work with Jersey City-based Rising Tide Capital, a business training program for the poor.

"It was a project that we enjoyed doing, since it did have that level of community service, as well as a professional aspect," said Stevens student Johanna Zuleta. "Rising Tide gives these people a second chance to re-start their lives."

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Video: Senior Projects Expo 2008

Senior Project Expo Preview

This Wednesday, April 23, Stevens will hold its Senior Project Expo from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Some of this year's projects include:

BridgeNet: This project demonstrates a technology system that remotely detects strains in bridge-structures to head off bridge failure. (“Have you driven on the Pulaski Skyway recently?” asks one of the team, while illustrating the concept.) Team members include Tim Garner, Chris Falato, Ryan Marone and Vijay Jadav.

InStream Video: This team is studying ways to increase the disruptive marketplace impact of a start-up technology company with its origins at Stevens, InStream Media LLC. The company produces a technology that will revolutionize digital advertising by embedding messages in video media that are retrievable through a remote point-click system, which leaves the video being watched uninterrupted, but will deliver product information and promotional materials direct to one’s e-mail or computer hard drive. Team members include Lauren Buroojy, Dora Enright and Jean Matusiak.

Rising Tide Capital: This team is working with two 2003 Harvard grads to create the NY-Metro Region’s own version of Grameen Bank, originated in Bangladesh by Nobel-Prize winner Muhammed Yunus. Yunus invented the technique of MicroFinancing – lending money to businesses with no more than five workers, with amazing results among poverty-stricken populations. The two Harvard grads, Alex Forrester and Alfa Demmellash, have joined with a team of Stevens Business & Technology seniors to perfect the technology, finance infrastructure and business-plan aspects of Yunus’ concept. The team will demonstrate models of MicroLending as a powerful potential cure for poverty and dependency in the American inner city. Team members include Nicole Moldovan, Swati Agrawal, Catherine Kim, JoAnne Pojuner, Jennifer Ramirez, Timothy Williams and Johanne Zuleta.

Senior Design Expo, April 23

Undergraduate research is at the heart of a Stevens education. Our students have the opportunity to immerse themselves in applied research that can help solve some of society's most complex problems.

Here are a few recent examples:

• Kate Freed, '08, and her senior design team created a prototype of a device that would perform a non-invasive three dimensional screening for breast cancer. The team has received a provisional patent for their device and they are looking into applying for a full patent. Read more >>

• A hand-held biomedical device by SPOC ("Stevens Proof of Concept"), developed jointly by Stevens students and pain-management expert Dr. Norman Marcus, has just received FDA 510K clearance for manufacture and marketing as a clinical device. Read more >>

• The 2007 senior design team of Jorge DaSilva, Jay Peterson, Murat Kocak, and William Indoe (along with Professor Richard Berkof) have written an article in Pharmaceutical Engineering about their innovative Automatic Pill Bottle Opener. Read more >>

If innovations like these interest you, we encourage you to attend this year's Senior Design Exposition, which takes place Wednesday, April 23 from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at Canavan Arena in the Schaefer Athletic Center.

In the meantime, take a look at a video from last year's expo:

SPOC Receives FDA Clearance; Appears on TODAY Show

A hand-held biomedical device by SPOC ("Stevens Proof of Concept"), developed jointly by students at Stevens Institute of Technology and pain-management expert Dr. Norman Marcus, has just received FDA 510K clearance for manufacture and marketing as a clinical device.  Read more >>

The device was also recently featured on NBC's TODAY:

SPOC: A Technogenesis Story

SPOC, LLC -- a Technogenesis company formed by Stevens Institute of Technology students and faculty -- provides a medical device that identifies the true source of back and neck pain which is overlooked by conventional diagnosis: the muscle generating the pain. This overlooked source often leads to unnecessary surgery. Over 80% of Americans experience back pain and many undergo surgery that is not always successful. The problem is that muscles are most common cause of back pain, but physicians focus on the spine instead. Also, finding offending muscle is very difficult.

SPOC’s product provides the solution. It will greatly increase the accuracy with which muscle pain is diagnosed, and help eliminate unnecessary surgery and other medical treatment by locating the exact muscles that generates the pain.

SPOC was conceived at Stevens Institute of Technology as a senior design project in Professor Vikki Hazelwood’s Biomedical Senior Design class during the 2004-2005 school year.

Podcast: Louis Laucirica

Louis Laucirica, Associate Dean and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology:

 

Podcast: Keith Sheppard

Listen to an interview with Keith Sheppard, Associate Dean of Engineering of the Schaefer School of Engineering and Science at Stevens Institute of Technology: