# 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
* 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
* 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
* O. Milton Gossett, an 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, 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
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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

## Military

* William J. Snow, major general in the United States Army and Chief of Field Artillery.
* Joseph Rochefort, American 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 businessman
* 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
* 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
* 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, a prominent telecommunications engineer who is in the top 0.5% of most widely cited authors
* 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
* 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
* Charles Walton, M.E., electrical engineer and inventor of RFID

## 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
* Robert Weinberg, an author whose work spans several genres including non-fiction, science fiction, horror, and comic books