Notable Alumni of Stevens Institute of Technology

Sixto Durán-Ballén 1921–2016

Former President of Ecuador

Also attended: Columbia University in the City of New York, University of Wisconsin-Madison

León Febres-Cordero 1931–2008

35th President of Ecuador

Mechanical engineering · Attended until 1953

Greg Gianforte 1961–

25th Governor of Montana

Master of Science, Bachelor of Science · Class of 1983

Also attended: Montana State University

John McLean 1785–1861

US Supreme Court justice and Postmaster General

Child: Nathaniel McLean (Harvard University)

Joseph Rochefort 1900–1976

Naval officer and cryptanalyst at Midway

Aaron Cohen 1931–2010

Former NASA Deputy Administrator and Space Shuttle Program manager

Master of Science · Class of 1958

Also attended: Texas A & M University-College Station

Samuel P. Bush 1863–1948

Steel executive and patriarch of the Bush family

Father: James Smith Bush (Yale University, University of Rochester)

Child: Prescott Bush (Yale University)

Julianne Mweheire 1975–

Ugandan accountant and corporate executive

Frederick Reines 1918–1998

Physicist, 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics winner

Also attended: New York University

Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856–1915

Mechanical engineer known for industrial efficiency methods

Mechanical engineering · Attended until 1883

Henry Gantt 1861–1919

Mechanical engineer who created the Gantt chart

Also attended: Johns Hopkins University

Igor Ansoff 1918–2002

Applied mathematician, father of strategic management

Also attended: Brown University

Beatrice Hicks 1919–1979

Engineer and owner of Newark Controls Company

Master's degree · Physics

Also attended: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Thelma Estrin 1924–2014

Computer scientist and biomedical engineering pioneer

Also attended: CUNY--City College, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Spouse: Gerald Estrin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Child: Deborah Estrin (University of California-Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Peter Cooper Hewitt 1861–1921

Electrical engineer who invented the mercury-vapor lamp

Also attended: Columbia University in the City of New York

Father: Abram Stevens Hewitt (Columbia University in the City of New York)

Richard Easterlin 1926–2024

Economist known for the Easterlin paradox

Also attended: University of Pennsylvania

Charles Petzold 1953–

Programmer and Windows technical author

John White Howell 1857–1937

Electrical engineer who worked for Edison on incandescent lamps

John William Lieb 1860–1929

Electrical engineer, president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers

Augustus Moore Herring 1867–1926

Aviation pioneer

Alexander Calder 1898–1976

Sculptor known for mobiles and stabiles

Father: Alexander Stirling Calder (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)

L. Sprague de Camp 1907–2000

Author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction

Also attended: California Institute of Technology

Marques Brownlee 1993–

Tech reviewer and YouTuber known as MKBHD

Also attended: Johns Hopkins University

Jay Weinberg 1990–

Drummer, former member of Slipknot

Father: Max Weinberg (Seton Hall University, Adelphi University)