Stevens Institute of Technology

Stevens Institute of Technology is a private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey, on the Hudson River directly opposite lower Manhattan, founded in 1870 and one of the oldest technology-focused universities in the United States.斯蒂文斯理工学院（Stevens Institute of Technology）是位于美国新泽西州霍博肯、隔哈德逊河与曼哈顿下城相望的一所私立研究型大学，创办于 1870 年，是美国历史最悠久的理工科大学之一。

It was established through an 1868 bequest from Edwin Augustus Stevens, a member of an American family of inventors and engineers, and it opened with a single rigorous curriculum modelled on the European polytechnic schools of France and Germany.该校由美国发明家与工程师世家成员埃德温·奥古斯都·斯蒂文斯 1868 年的遗嘱捐赠而建，开学时仅设一门仿法国与德国欧洲理工院校模式的严格课程。

Stevens enrols about 4,200 undergraduates and about 4,200 graduate students, offers 35 undergraduate majors, and is placed 675th in the QS World University Rankings 2027 and in the 501 to 550 band of the Times Higher Education ranking.该校约有本科生 4200 人、研究生约 4200 人，开设 35 个本科专业，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列世界第 675 位，并在泰晤士高等教育排名中位于第 501 至 550 区间。

History

• In 1868 Edwin Augustus Stevens died and left a bequest for an institution of learning, comprising a city block of land, 150,000 dollars for a building and a 500,000-dollar endowment.1868 年，埃德温·奥古斯都·斯蒂文斯去世，遗嘱捐出一块城市街区的地产、15 万美元建楼款与 50 万美元基金，用于兴办一所学府。
• His will was executed by his widow Martha Bayard Stevens, who became a lifetime trustee, while her brother Samuel Bayard Dod served as the first president of the board of trustees from 1870 until his death in 1907.其遗嘱由遗孀玛莎·贝亚德·斯蒂文斯执行，她成为终身理事，其兄塞缪尔·贝亚德·多德则自 1870 年起任首任董事会主席直至 1907 年去世。
• The land the campus occupies was bought at public auction in 1784 by John Stevens, a Revolutionary War colonel who was the first Treasurer of New Jersey and is remembered as the father of American patent law.校园地块由约翰·斯蒂文斯于 1784 年在公开拍卖中购得，他是一位独立战争上校、新泽西首任司库，被誉为美国专利法之父。
• The institute opened in 1870 with a single curriculum grounded in scientific principles and the humanities, following the European polytechnic model rather than the shop schools common at the time.学院于 1870 年开学，仅设一门以科学原理与人文为基础的课程，仿照欧洲理工院校模式，而非当时常见的作坊式学校。
• Its first degree was the mechanical engineer, awarded alongside doctorates in mechanical engineering, chemistry and physics, which made Stevens one of the earliest doctorate-granting institutions in the United States.其首个学位为机械工程师学位，并授予机械工程、化学与物理博士学位，这使斯蒂文斯成为美国最早授予博士学位的机构之一。
• In 1880 Robert H. Thurston, a professor of mechanical engineering, was nominated the first president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which had been chartered on campus that year.1880 年，机械工程教授罗伯特·H·瑟斯顿获推举为美国机械工程师学会首任会长，该学会当年即在校园内注册成立。
• In 1900 the trustee and benefactor Andrew Carnegie offered 65,000 dollars for a new engineering workshop, the Carnegie Mechanical Laboratory, a fireproof building of steel frame and cement.1900 年，理事兼捐助人安德鲁·卡内基出资 6.5 万美元兴建新的工程车间卡内基机械实验室，这是一座钢框架与水泥结构的耐火建筑。
• In 1906 students created the honour system under President Alexander Crombie Humphreys, a moral and ethical code under which the accused are tried by their peers, the first such system at a technical school.1906 年，学生在校长亚历山大·克龙比·汉弗莱斯指导下创立荣誉制度，这是一套由同侪审判被指控者的道德与操守准则，为技术院校中首创。
• While the Carnegie Laboratory was being built, President Henry Morton planned a chemical laboratory that opened in 1906 as the Morton Memorial Laboratory of Chemistry, renamed in his honour after his death in 1902.在建造卡内基实验室期间，校长亨利·莫顿筹划了一座化学实验室，1906 年作为莫顿化学纪念实验室启用，并以 1902 年去世的莫顿之名命名。
• The William Hall Walker Gymnasium, notable for its elliptical form, was completed in 1916 and was designed in a classical revival style by the architects Ludlow and Peabody.以椭圆造型著称的威廉·霍尔·沃克体育馆于 1916 年建成，由建筑师勒德洛与皮博迪以古典复兴风格设计。
• The Middle States Commission on Higher Education has served as the institute's accrediting body since 1927, and in 1937 Stevens and Columbia were the first two engineering programmes accredited by ABET.中州高等教育委员会自 1927 年起担任该学院的认证机构，1937 年斯蒂文斯与哥伦比亚大学成为首批通过 ABET 认证的两个工程项目。
• During the Second World War the institute took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, a path to a Navy commission, and the Victory ship SS Stevens Victory was named in its honour and launched on 29 May 1945.二战期间，该学院参与「V-12 海军学院训练计划」，为学生开辟通往海军军官任命的途径；以该校命名的胜利轮「斯蒂文斯胜利号」于 1945 年 5 月 29 日下水。
• In 1959 the undergraduate engineering degree was renamed the Bachelor of Engineering to reflect the broad interdisciplinary curriculum, and the Castle Stevens mansion was replaced by a fourteen-storey administration building completed in 1962.1959 年，本科工程学位更名为工程学士，以体现其跨学科的广阔课程；斯蒂文斯城堡宅邸则由 1962 年建成的十四层行政大楼取代。
• Stevens admitted women to its graduate programmes for the first time in 1967 and to its undergraduate programmes in 1971, while the campus radio station WCPR has broadcast since 1961.该校 1967 年首次招收女性研究生、1971 年首次招收女性本科生；校园广播站 WCPR 则自 1961 年起播送。
• From 1968 to 1975 the 473-foot ship SS Stevens served as a floating dormitory for about 150 students, moored on the Hudson, the first collegiate floating residence in the country.1968 至 1975 年间，长 473 英尺的「斯蒂文斯号」船作为浮动宿舍为约 150 名学生提供住宿，停泊于哈德逊河上，是全国首个大学浮动宿舍。
• In 1982 Stevens became the first institution in the United States to require every incoming first-year undergraduate to purchase and use a personal computer, and it installed a campus-wide network around the same time.1982 年，斯蒂文斯成为美国首个要求全体本科新生购买并使用个人电脑的高校，并大约同时铺设了覆盖全校的计算机网络。
• The Charles V. Schaefer Jr. School of Engineering and Science acquired its name in 1996 after a four-year, 102-million-dollar fundraising campaign, and the School of Business was founded in 1997 as the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management.查尔斯·V·谢弗工程与科学学院于 1996 年在为期四年、募资 1.02 亿美元的筹款活动后命名；商学院则于 1997 年以「卫斯理·J·豪技术管理学院」之名创立。
• In 2007 the humanities faculty was reorganised as the College of Arts and Letters, renamed the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in July 2023 as part of a rebranding under the tagline "Inspired by Humanity, Powered by Technology".2007 年，人文学科重组为文理学院，2023 年 7 月更名为人文、艺术与社会科学学院，成为「人文启迪、科技驱动」品牌重塑的一部分。
• After a dispute with the New Jersey attorney general that was settled in January 2010, President Harold J. Raveché stepped down, and Nariman Farvardin became the institute's seventh president in July 2011.在与新泽西州总检察长的一场争议于 2010 年 1 月和解后，校长哈罗德·J·拉维奇卸任，纳里曼·法瓦尔丁于 2011 年 7 月出任第七任校长。
• The Gateway Academic Center, an 89,500-square-foot teaching and research building, opened in 2019, and the University Center Complex, the largest capital project in the institute's history at about 256 million dollars, opened in May 2022.建筑面积 8.95 万平方英尺的盖特威学术中心于 2019 年启用；而耗资约 2.56 亿美元、为校史最大基建项目的大学中心综合体则于 2022 年 5 月启用。
• In 2023 the institute created the College of Online and Professional Education, and in January 2026 its trustees approved a fifth academic school, the Stevens School of Computing, backed by 36 million dollars and due to launch in autumn 2026.2023 年，该校设立在线与专业教育学院；2026 年 1 月，董事会批准成立第五个学院——斯蒂文斯计算机学院，获 3600 万美元支持，定于 2026 年秋季启动。

Academics

• Stevens is composed of four academic schools, together with the College of Online and Professional Education established in 2023, and it offers degrees spanning engineering, science, business, computing and the liberal arts.斯蒂文斯由四个学术学院与 2023 年成立的在线与专业教育学院组成，开设覆盖工程、科学、商学、计算机与人文学科的学位项目。
• The institute offers 35 undergraduate majors and maintains a student-to-faculty ratio of about 11 to 1, with most of its programmes built around technology and applied science.该学院开设 35 个本科专业，师生比约为 11 比 1，其多数专业围绕技术与应用科学构建。
• At graduate level it offers 20 doctoral programmes plus three interdisciplinary doctorates, 58 master's programmes and 194 certificate programmes, including customised courses for corporations.在研究生层面，该校提供 20 个博士项目外加 3 个跨学科博士项目、58 个硕士项目与 194 个证书项目，还包括为企业量身定制的课程。
• Undergraduates can earn the Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts, while graduate students can pursue engineering, science, systems, management and liberal-arts degrees.本科生可获工程学士、理学学士或文学学士学位，研究生则可攻读工程、科学、系统、管理与人文艺术类学位。
• The Charles V. Schaefer Jr. School of Engineering and Science offers 15 bachelor's, 29 master's and 16 doctoral degrees across nine departments and, as of 2022, served about 5,100 students with 194 faculty.查尔斯·V·谢弗工程与科学学院在 9 个系中开设 15 个学士、29 个硕士与 16 个博士项目，截至 2022 年有约 5100 名学生与 194 名教师。
• The School of Business, accredited by AACSB in 2015, operates the Hanlon Financial Systems Center and co-leads the National Science Foundation centre CRAFT with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.商学院于 2015 年获 AACSB 认证，设有汉伦金融系统中心，并与伦斯勒理工学院共同牵头国家科学基金会资助的 CRAFT 研究中心。
• The School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences offers Bachelor of Arts degrees in literature, history, philosophy and the social sciences, as well as in music and technology and visual arts and technology.人文、艺术与社会科学学院开设文学、历史、哲学与社会科学文学士学位，以及音乐与技术、视觉艺术与技术等学位。
• Stevens is classified among R2 doctoral universities with high research activity, and it hosts two national Centers of Excellence designated by the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.斯蒂文斯被归类为研究活动活跃的 R2 级博士大学，并设有两个由美国国防部与国土安全部认定的国家级卓越中心。
• Its Center for Maritime Systems operates the Davidson Laboratory, which houses a 313-foot wave tank and is one of only two International Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks in the United States.其海洋系统中心下设戴维森实验室，拥有 313 英尺长的波浪水槽，是美国仅有的两处国际历史性机械工程地标之一。
• The institute runs a cooperative education programme, usually extending study from four to five years, in which about 30 per cent of undergraduates gain roughly 18 months of paid professional experience.该学院开设合作教育项目，通常将学制由四年延长至五年，约三成本科生可累计约 18 个月的有薪职业经历。
• Among the Class of 2021 the average accepted starting salary across all majors was 75,400 dollars, and 97 per cent of graduates secured their intended outcome within six months of graduation.在 2021 届毕业生中，各专业平均入职年薪为 7.54 万美元，97% 的毕业生在毕业六个月内实现了预期去向。
• The institute reported an endowment of 387.7 million dollars in fiscal year 2025, up from 319 million dollars in 2023, a rise supported by a major fundraising campaign.该校报告 2025 财年捐赠基金为 3.877 亿美元，高于 2023 年的 3.19 亿美元，这一增长得到一项大型筹款活动的支持。
• Stevens competes in national engineering competitions, and its SURE HOUSE entry won the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon in 2015, while its Ecohabit entry placed fourth in 2013.斯蒂文斯参加全国性工程竞赛，其「SURE HOUSE」项目在 2015 年美国能源部太阳能十项全能竞赛中夺冠，「Ecohabit」项目则在 2013 年获得第四名。
• Its classrooms and programmes draw students from 47 states and about 60 countries, and the institute runs a long-standing online education operation under the WebCampus brand.其课堂与项目吸引来自 47 个州与约 60 个国家的学生，该学院还长期以 WebCampus 品牌开展在线教育。
• Research at Stevens clusters around resilience engineering, artificial intelligence, quantum science, robotics, cybersecurity, healthcare and financial technology.斯蒂文斯的研究集中于韧性工程、人工智能、量子科学、机器人、网络安全、医疗与金融科技等领域。
• The institute maintains dual-degree and doctoral-consortium partnerships with neighbouring institutions, including membership of the Inter-University Engineering Doctoral Consortium in the New York area.该学院与周边院校保持双学位与博士联合培养合作，并加入纽约地区校际工程博士联盟。

Campus

• The 55-acre campus occupies Castle Point, the highest ground in Hoboken, and stretches along the Hudson River waterfront directly west of Manhattan.占地 55 英亩的校园坐落于霍博肯最高处城堡角，沿哈德逊河滨水区展开，位于曼哈顿正西。
• The campus comprises 43 academic, student and administrative buildings, and three of the 60-odd buildings associated with the university are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.校园由 43 座学术、学生与行政建筑组成，与该大学相关的 60 余座建筑中有三座列入《国家史迹名录》。
• Edwin A. Stevens Hall, the institute's original 1870 building, was designed by the architect Richard Upjohn in a High Victorian Gothic style and was added to the National Register in 1994.埃德温·A·斯蒂文斯楼是学院 1870 年的最初建筑，由建筑师理查德·厄普约翰以盛期维多利亚哥特式设计，1994 年列入《国家史迹名录》。
• A forty-foot spire was added to that hall for the institute's 125th anniversary and now serves as the university's logo, while the building houses the Schaefer School and a performing-arts space.为庆祝建院 125 周年，该楼顶加建了 40 英尺高的尖顶，如今成为大学校徽图案；楼内设有谢弗学院与一座表演艺术空间。
• Among its historic structures are the Carnegie Mechanical Laboratory of 1900, the Morton Memorial Laboratory of Chemistry of 1906 and the Walker Gymnasium of 1916, the last listed on the National Register in 2019.其历史建筑包括 1900 年的卡内基机械实验室、1906 年的莫顿化学纪念实验室与 1916 年的沃克体育馆，后者于 2019 年列入《国家史迹名录》。
• The 473-foot, 14,893-ton ship SS Stevens served as a floating dormitory from 1968 to 1975, and one of its six-ton anchors, placed by the Class of 1975, still stands on campus.长 473 英尺、重 14,893 吨的「斯蒂文斯号」于 1968 至 1975 年作为浮动宿舍使用，其 1975 届毕业生安放的一枚 6 吨铁锚至今仍立于校园。
• The University Center Complex, completed in 2022 at a cost of about 256 million dollars, consists of two residential towers of 19 and 21 storeys joined by a three-storey student centre.2022 年建成、耗资约 2.56 亿美元的大学中心综合体，由两座 19 层与 21 层的宿舍塔楼及连接其间的三层学生中心构成。
• The S.C. Williams Library holds special collections on Frederick Winslow Taylor, on Leonardo da Vinci, and artwork by Alexander Calder, who studied at the institute, alongside Stevens family papers.S.C.威廉姆斯图书馆藏有关于弗雷德里克·温斯洛·泰勒与列奥纳多·达·芬奇的特藏、曾在该校求学的亚历山大·考尔德的艺术作品，以及斯蒂文斯家族文献。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Stevens Institute of Technology is placed 675th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，斯蒂文斯理工学院位列世界第 675 位。 ^[1]
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place Stevens in the 501 to 550 band, a rise from its 501 to 600 band in 2026.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将斯蒂文斯列于第 501 至 550 区间，较其 2026 年的第 501 至 600 区间有所上升。
• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026 to 2027 the institute stands 1,158th in the world.在 2026 至 2027 年版《美国新闻与世界报道》最佳全球大学排名中，该学院位列世界第 1158 位。
• Stevens was not included in the main table of the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, which is compiled by ShanghaiRanking.斯蒂文斯未进入由上海软科编制的 2026 年世界大学学术排名主榜。
• OpenAlex attributes 23,351 works and 979,975 citations to the institute, reflecting a compact but research-intensive profile.OpenAlex 为该学院收录 23,351 篇成果、被引用 979,975 次，体现出其规模不大但研究密集的特点。
• PayScale's 2024 rankings placed Stevens 18th nationally for return on investment, and the Princeton Review ranked it 12th among private schools for career placement in 2024.PayScale 的 2024 年排名将斯蒂文斯列为全美投资回报率第 18 位，《普林斯顿评论》在 2024 年将其列为私立院校职业安置第 12 位。
• In its own national context it was ranked 76th among national universities by U.S. News in 2024 and 36th nationally by the Wall Street Journal in the same year.在美国国内语境中，《美国新闻与世界报道》2024 年将其列为全国性大学第 76 位，《华尔街日报》同年将其列为全美第 36 位。
• Two members of the Stevens community have won the Nobel Prize, Frederick Reines in physics and Irving Langmuir, who taught chemistry at the institute from 1906 to 1909.斯蒂文斯共同体中有两人获诺贝尔奖，即物理学奖得主弗雷德里克·莱因斯，以及 1906 至 1909 年在该校教授化学的欧文·朗缪尔。
• As an R2 research university with two federally designated national Centers of Excellence, Stevens maintains a reputation for applied defence, maritime and systems engineering.作为拥有两个联邦认定国家级卓越中心的 R2 研究型大学，斯蒂文斯在应用国防、海洋与系统工程领域享有声誉。

Student life

• The institute's motto is the Latin phrase "Per aspera ad astra", meaning through adversity to the stars, while its modern tagline is "Inspired by Humanity, Powered by Technology".该学院的校训是拉丁语「Per aspera ad astra」，意为「历经艰辛，直抵星辰」，其当代标语则是「人文启迪，科技驱动」。
• The honour system created in 1906 still operates, with a student-run Honor Board trying academic conduct cases and advising on university policy.1906 年创立的荣誉制度至今仍在运行，由学生组成的荣誉委员会审理学术行为案件并就学校政策提供建议。
• Student life includes chapters of 21 social and academic fraternities and sororities, and in 2014 about 22 per cent of students belonged to such organisations.学生生活包括 21 个社交与学术兄弟会与姐妹会，2014 年约 22% 的学生加入其中。
• The Stevens Ducks field 23 NCAA Division III teams and compete in the Middle Atlantic Conferences, with fencing organised through separate regional associations.斯蒂文斯「鸭子队」拥有 23 支 NCAA 三级联赛队伍，参加中大西洋联盟，击剑项目则通过地区性协会另行组织。
• WCPR Castle Point Radio, the campus station since 1961, holds over 10,000 vinyl records, one of the largest such collections in New Jersey, and broadcasts to the campus community.校园广播站 WCPR 城堡角电台自 1961 年运营，藏有逾 1 万张黑胶唱片，是新泽西同类收藏规模最大的之一，并向校园社区广播。
• Each spring the Innovation Expo, known to students as Senior Design Day or D-Day, showcases capstone projects from graduating seniors across every school and major.每年春季的创新博览会被学生称为「毕业设计日」或「D 日」，集中展示各学院各专业毕业生的顶点项目。
• The Student Government Association controls the allocation of the student activity fee, about 800,000 dollars per semester as of 2020, and the campus sits within a few minutes of Manhattan.学生会掌管学生活动费的分配，2020 年时每学期约 80 万美元；校园距离曼哈顿仅数分钟之遥。
• The Lore-El Center for Women's Leadership supports women at Stevens, whose undergraduate body was 34 per cent female in autumn 2025, and the dense urban setting of Hoboken shapes student life.洛尔-艾尔女性领导力中心为斯蒂文斯女性提供支持，2025 年秋季其本科生中女性占 34%；霍博肯高密度的城市环境塑造着学生的生活。

Notable people

• Edwin Augustus Stevens, the engineer and inventor whose 1868 bequest of land, a building fund and a 500,000-dollar endowment made the institute possible, gave the university its name.工程师与发明家埃德温·奥古斯都·斯蒂文斯 1868 年遗嘱捐赠地产、建楼款与 50 万美元基金，成就了这所学院，大学也以他命名。
• John Stevens, who bought the Castle Point land in 1784, was a Revolutionary War colonel, the first Treasurer of New Jersey and a pioneer of the steamboat and the locomotive.1784 年购得城堡角地块的约翰·斯蒂文斯是独立战争上校、新泽西首任司库，也是汽船与机车的先驱。
• Henry Morton was the institute's first president from 1870 and, in 1880, a driving force behind the founding of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on the campus.亨利·莫顿自 1870 年起任该学院首任校长，并于 1880 年推动美国机械工程师学会在校园内成立。
• Frederick Reines, who earned master's degrees at Stevens in 1939 and 1941, shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for the experimental detection of the neutrino.弗雷德里克·莱因斯于 1939 年与 1941 年在斯蒂文斯获得硕士学位，因实验探测中微子而分享 1995 年诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Irving Langmuir, who taught chemistry at Stevens from 1906 to 1909, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on surface chemistry.1906 至 1909 年在斯蒂文斯教授化学的欧文·朗缪尔，因表面化学研究荣获 1932 年诺贝尔化学奖。
• Alexander Calder, the sculptor and pioneer of kinetic art, studied mechanical engineering at Stevens and graduated in 1919 before turning to art.雕塑家、动态艺术先驱亚历山大·考尔德曾在斯蒂文斯学习机械工程，1919 年毕业，之后转向艺术创作。
• Henry Gantt, an engineer and management consultant remembered for the Gantt chart, was an alumnus of the institute and a figure in scientific management.以甘特图闻名的工程师与管理顾问亨利·甘特是该学院的校友，也是科学管理运动的代表人物。
• Robert H. Thurston, a professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens, was nominated in 1880 as the first president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.斯蒂文斯机械工程教授罗伯特·H·瑟斯顿于 1880 年获推举为美国机械工程师学会首任会长。
• Nariman Farvardin, an electrical engineer and former provost of the University of Maryland, has served as Stevens' seventh president since July 2011.电气工程师、曾任马里兰大学教务长的纳里曼·法瓦尔丁自 2011 年 7 月起担任斯蒂文斯第七任校长。
• Victor B. Lawrence, a professor at Stevens inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for digital signal processing in communications.斯蒂文斯教授维克托·B·劳伦斯入选美国发明家名人堂，并因在通信数字信号处理方面的贡献获得国家技术与创新奖章。