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 Branson DeCou, 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 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 toolMaskara, 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." O. Milton Gossett, advertising executive with Compton Advertising and Saatchi & Saatchi John L. Hanigan, CEO of Genesco (1977–1981) and chairman (1977–1984) 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. 1897, co-founder of General Motors Corporation Julianne Mweheire, 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 MonelRobert 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. Philip Dakin Wagoner, businessman, 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, 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 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 TechnologyDr. 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." 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-focused YouTube channelMarques 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." 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 U.S. 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
Military
Joseph Rochefort, naval officer and cryptanalyst
Politics
Leon Febres Cordero, M.E. 1953, president of Ecuador, 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, Thomas S. Hanson, Wisconsin State Assembly Harold Harrison, 1892, Minnesota state legislator and businessmanMinnesota Legislators: Past & Present-Harold Harrison
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 Linda Vigilant, geneticist at the 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 Jon Denning, NASCAR driver C. Temple Emmet, sportman 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 Charles Herbert Colvin, aeronautical engineer Charles H. Colvin, Early Aviation Designer, Dies 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 Gerard Joseph Foschini, Ph.D. 1967, prominent telecommunications engineer who is in the top 0.5% of most widely cited authorsAlcaTel – Lucents: Bell Labs Researchers' Papers Prove Fertile for Peers Amber Gell, engineer, scientist, and program manager at Lockheed Martin Alfred Wolcott Gibbs, 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 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 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 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 Ralph Hazlett Upson, aeronaut, pioneer aviation designer from the ZMC-2 metalclad airship to the X-20 Dyna-Soar, academic Charles Walton, M.E., electrical engineer and inventor of RFID Peter Zampardi, B.E., microwave engineer
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 Fred H. Colvin, M.E. Hon. 1944, journalist, author, and editor 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) 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