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. 1897, 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
• Charles Herbert Colvin, aeronautical engineer ^[12]
• 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 ^[13]
• 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 ^[14]
• 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 ^[15]
• 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 ^[16]

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

1. "Notable Stevens Alumni" (PDF). Technical Leadership: Executive Education & Master's Program. Stevens Institute of Technology. Retrieved May 21, 2012.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. "Buckeye Steel hand signed by President George Bush's Great Grandfather, Samuel Prescott Bush 1927". Scripophily.net. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
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 January 3, 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 July 29, 2022.
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. February 1, 2009. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
10. "Greg Gianforte and Jeong Kim Announced as Stevens Institute of Technology's 2012 Commencement Speakers". Stevens Institute of Technology. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
11. Minnesota Legislators: Past & Present-Harold Harrison
12. Charles H. Colvin, Early Aviation Designer, Dies
13. AlcaTel – Lucents: Bell Labs Researchers' Papers Prove Fertile for Peers Archived 2006-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
14. "Beatrice A. Hicks M.S. '49 Hon. D.Eng. '78 Paved the Way for Women in STEM". Stevens 150th. Retrieved June 16, 2022.
15. "Stories For My Children, home page". Fabulousrocketeers.com. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
16. "Inventor of the Week: Archive". Web.mit.edu. Archived from the original on October 25, 2005. Retrieved September 29, 2012.