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Following is a list of notable alumni of the
Stevens Institute of Technology .
Art and architecture
Business
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
Military
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
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
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"Notable Stevens Alumni" (PDF) . Technical Leadership: Executive Education & Master's Program . Stevens Institute of Technology. Retrieved 21 May 2012 . [
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"Buckeye Steel hand signed by President George Bush's Great Grandfather, Samuel Prescott Bush 1927" . Scripophily.net. Retrieved 2011-11-16 .
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"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 .
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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.
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"Dr. James H. Mulligan, Jr" . NAE Website . Retrieved 2022-07-29 .
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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."
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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."
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"Village of Second River Belleville, NJ: Walter Kidde" . Secondriver.blogspot.com. 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2011-11-16 .
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"Greg Gianforte and Jeong Kim Announced as Stevens Institute of Technology's 2012 Commencement Speakers" . Stevens Institute of Technology. Retrieved 6 July 2012 .
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Minnesota Legislators: Past & Present-Harold Harrison
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"Beatrice A. Hicks M.S. '49 Hon. D.Eng. '78 Paved the Way for Women in STEM" . Stevens 150th . Retrieved 2022-06-16 .
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