The American Council on Education/Fidelity Investments Award for Institutional Transformation was given to Stevens in 2018. Stevens President Nariman Farvardin received the 2017 Academic Leadership Award from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. In 2016, the New Jersey R&D Council named Stevens President Nariman Farvardin Educator of the Year. Stevens took first place in the 2015 Solar Decathlon organized by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). The New Jersey Technology Council honored Stevens with the 2015 Knowledge is Power Award. The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), the nation's largest athletic conference, awarded Russell Rogers, director of athletics at Stevens Institute of Technology, a Division III Administrator of the Year in 2015. Stevens has been granted a new patent for his mass spectrometry method. The US Department of Defense granted Stevens' Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) a $60 million, five-year IDIQ contract. The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a grant to Stevens' Science and Technology Studies Program. Carnegie Corporation of New York provided funding for Stevens' Workshop on Nuclear Issues Education.