Stevens Institute of Technology is named for the distinguished family known as “America’s First Family of Inventors.” The Stevens family changed the face of American engineering forever, designing steamboats, locomotives, railroad tracks and a host of other technical innovations that powered a new nation. When inventor Edwin A. Stevens died in 1868, his will provided for the establishment of the university that now bears his family’s name. Two years later, in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology opened.

Over subsequent decades, Stevens grew by leaps and bounds, evolving from a relatively small four-year undergraduate college of engineering into a leading global technical institution with particular strengths in key fields such as defense, ocean engineering, management and finance. Today Stevens continues to grow, expanding enrollment, facilities and research programs in areas such as, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, complex systems and networks, data science, and resilience and sustainability.

Stevens Institute of Technology offers the following areas of expertise.

• Center for Environmental Systems
• Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
• Chemistry and Chemical Biology
• Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering
• Davidson Laboratory
• History
• Science Communication
• Science, Technology, and Society