SPRING 2004 VOLUME 2 ISSUE 2 SSOE CHARLES V. SCHAEFER, JR. SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2 Systems Integration Initiative at SSoE 4 Longstanding Partners: Stevens and Picatinny Arsenal 6 Stevens and NYU: A Thriving Academic Partnership 8 Students of Technogenesis 15 Stevens Intrepid Museum Partnership COLLABORATIONS, ALLIANCES & PARTNERSHIPS DEAN GEORGE P. KORFIATIS COLLABORATIONS, ALLIANCES AND PARTNERSHIPS are empowering success at the Schaefer School of Engineering. Our vision for the future is to bring our longstanding partnerships into higher levels of success while continuously cultivating new ones. Dear Friends and Colleagues, work together to provide a superb environment and I hope this issue of the SSoE InFocus finds you enriched opportunities for acquiring effective professional well. Our theme in this issue is academic collab- skills and a life-long love of learning. At another level, it orations. The academic community has often means reaching out to other academic institutions to been criticized for being ‘parochial’ and ‘stove- enhance research and teaching skills. It means partnering piped’ with respect to faculty collaborations. This with industry and alumni to provide enhanced opportunity criticism probably has its roots in the strong pro- for our students to be competitive in the workforce. fessional independence of faculty and the depart- Finally, it means reaching out to local, state and national mental structure inherent to academic organiza- audiences and professional societies to foster cooperation tions. Breaking this mold has not been easy but and to provide professional and personal service where we have come a long way over the past 15 years. needed." Prof. Arthur Ritter Today, at Stevens, the spirit of collaboration is "A GOOD academic partner is someone or some organiza- thriving at many levels. tion that teaches me something significant with scientific The words collaborations, alliances and partner- or technical value." Prof. Matthew Libera ships (CAPs) are used to describe relationships "It is when applications shape next generation research where complementary strengths are brought and vice-versa." Prof. R. Chandramouli together to realize mutual benefits and increase "An academic partnership is a mutually beneficial and impact. CAPs happen at various levels within and synergistic relationship from which can spring exciting amongst organizations and the level of strategic progress in research and education." Prof. Keith Sheppard intent varies. In this issue of InFocus, you will find examples of CAPs and the excitement that they pro- Collaborations, alliances and partnerships are empowering duce in our community. Some of them, like the part- success at the Schaefer School of Engineering. Our vision nership with Picatinny Arsenal, are multi-faceted for the future is to bring our longstanding partnerships into and longstanding. Others are more targeted and higher levels of success while continuously cultivating new short in duration. Regardless of the breadth of the ones. Incentives and rewards are put in place to promote CAP, a deep understanding of each other’s strategic clustering of individual faculty, collaborations between intent and core purpose is the recipe for success. departments, student teamwork and external alliances with industry, government and peer institutions. One of the I recently asked some of our faculty what an aca- most valuable outcomes of CAPs is the sharpening of the demic partnership means to them. Here are some relationship skills of our future leaders. Our success of the answers: depends on them. As always, I look forward to hearing "Academic partnership has several interrelated from you. meanings for me. I view academic partnership on several levels. First and foremost, at the institute Sincerely, level, it means the commitment and enthusiasm of faculty, students, staff and administration to VOLUME 2 ISSUE 2 CONTENTS SPRING 2004 FEATURES SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INITIATIVE AT SSoE: 2 Synergistic Execution of Research, Prototyping and Executive Education LONGSTANDING PARTNERS: 4 Stevens and Picatinny Arsenal STEVENS AND NYU: 6 A Thriving Academic Partnership INFOCUS SSOE SSoE Students 8 INFOCUS Students of Technogenesis Ducks Combine Excellence On and Off the Field 11 EXECUTIVE EDITOR Dean George P. Korfiatis CONSULTING EDITOR Patrick A. Berzinski MANAGING EDITOR Christine del Rosario SSoE Heritage 12 CONTRIBUTORS Patrick A. Berzinski Bill Cuming ’42 Dr. Richard B. Cole A Gift for Leadership, A Talent for Giving Emily Groce Beth McGrath Aimiende Negbenebor Dr. Kishore Pochiraju New Frontiers 14 Associate Dean Keith Sheppard The Atlantic Center: SSoE Partners with U.S. Naval Academy, Peter Stahley Lockheed Martin and British University Emma Sullivan Sykes PHOTOGRAPHERS Marta Curry Partnerships: Lessons from the Field Christine del Rosario Randolph Hoppe Stevens - Intrepid Museum Partnership 15 M. Kathleen Kelly Tracy King Elizabeth Raveché EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR Marta Quigley SSoE Faculty 16 GRAPHIC DESIGN KMG Graphic Design Studio New Arrivals www.soe.stevens.edu Faculty News © 2004 Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering CHARLES V. SCHAEFER, JR. SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SYSTEMSSYSTEMS INTEGRATIONINTEGRATION INITIATIVEINITIATIVE ATAT SSOE:SSOE: Synergistic Execution of Research, Prototyping, and Executive Education By Patrick A. Berzinski In a major initiative, the Schaefer School of Engineering is unifying the Design and Manufacturing Institute (DMI), a longstanding research center, with its unique executive education program, Systems Design and Operational Effectiveness (SDOE). The result- ing "Systems Integration Initiative" will provide national and international leadership in applied research and executive education in the conception, modeling, validation, operations, and management of modern complex systems. Systems Integration may be defined as systems," network-centric systems, and alliances. Among those successfully the model that focuses on the deploy- software/information intensive systems partnered with SDOE are the National ment-sustainment-retirement (life cycle) Security Agency, Lockheed Martin • Increasing complexities and competi- of a function or a capability satisfied by Corporation, the Air Force Center for tiveness in the aerospace and commer- a product or system. Focus is on logical Systems Engineering, the Defense cial market domains. and functional aspects of the system, Acquisition University, IBM Corporation, independent of its physical configura- Stevens’ response on the educational and ARDEC/Picatinny Arsenal. tion, e.g., Bill of Materials. side has been SDOE, directed by the DMI is an interdisciplinary center inte- Associate Dean for Executive Education Market leaders across multiple industry grating materials processing, product and Outreach, Dr. Dinesh Verma. SDOE domains (aerospace and defense, auto- design and manufacturing expertise has forged ongoing agreements with motive, telecom, IT, healthcare, etc.) are with simulation and modeling utilizing corporate and gov- increasingly evolving towards the busi- state-of-the-art computer software tech- ernmental partners ness model pertaining to systems inte- nology. DMI bridges the gap between to provide exclusive gration. This evolution is being driven by academic- and application-oriented systems-engineer- the following market pressures: research and development. DMI partners ing instruction to with industry and government to create • Increasing pressures with regard to their executives and practical solutions to product-design getting products to the market (agility) other employees. challenges that address cost, perform- and capabilities into the field This has cemented ance and productibility across the prod- a number of corpo- • Increasing conception of functionalities uct life cycle. Dr. Dinesh Verma rate/university 2 and capability that require "systems of "Our various activities are being consolidated into a Complex/network-centric system modeling and optimization at DMI will focused School of Engineering Initiative to allow the critical provide government and industry part- mass necessary for a significant scale up of our ners a means toward implementing oper- ationally effective systems design into programs," said Dean George Korfiatis. the workplace. Finally, the Systems Integration DMI's expertise spans students will be organized into four Laboratory (SIL) will provide a platform processing studies teams of five to work on five projects for advanced research in targeted areas. and modeling, com- over the course of this program. One petitive product devel- course will be delivered in each of the opment, multi-compo- four quarters in 2004. nent, multi-process "We are reorganizing to bring greater system design and formality to our operations," said optimization, life cycle Manoochehri, "and to put in place the analysis, material resources and the infrastructure for serv- Dr. Souran characterization and Manoochehri ing our growing number of clients in the testing, and rapid pro- most effective and customized way totyping and manufacturing. possible." In the new System Integration Initiative, "In the coming year," said Verma, "our Dr. Souran Manoochehri will assume focus will be on designing and launching research and technology development responsibility and has been appointed Associate Dean for Research & Technology at the Schaefer School of Lockheed Martin Corporation recently funded the SIL Lab to Engineering. DMI will gain a new director, foster research in domain independent