Stevens To Open School To Study Meta IT Enterprises
- By Paul McCloskey
- 03/20/07
The Stevens Institute of Technology will open the School of Systems and Enterprises to study and educate students in the advanced information technology systems it said are increasingly driving the global economy.
Stevens administrators said they want the new school to probe the "continuous innovation of complex systems based in highly integrated advanced technologies" that drive the mega-economies of consumer electronics, finance and banking, transportation, and health care technology. Such "systems of systems" are the engine of the high-tech economy, Stevens administrators said in unveiling the project.
"The effective operation of business and government enterprises reliant on those systems is what keeps the global economy in motion, said Dr. Dinesh Verma, the Associate Dean for Outreach in the Schaefer School of Engineering at Stevens, who will be the founding Dean of the new school.
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Paul McCloskey is contributing editor of Syllabus.
