pard has had a leading role in the development of the undergraduate engineering curriculum at Stevens, including innovations in design education and initiatives to include entrepreneurship, sustainability and global competency for undergraduate students.
Prof. Christos Christodoulatos, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES)Dr. Christos Christodoulatos is Vice Provost for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Stevens Institute of Technology. The Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) has the mandate to modernize the technology transfer process and design educational and research programs that bring the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship into the classroom and the research laboratory. Dr. Christodoulatos is leading the implementation of academic entrepreneurship through the creation of innovative curricula and overseeing the commercialization of the Institute's intellectual property. He has been teaching and performing research since 1988 and has managed over a hundred and fifty major research projects exceeding $30M. Dr. Christodoulatos has developed and delivered entrepreneurship curricula and specialized innovation and entrepreneurship workshops for faculty, administration and technical entrepreneurs in Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. He is a founding member of two start-up companies for the commercialization of environmental technology. He holds several patents in water and air treatment technology and has authored over 150 articles in professional journals, conference proceedings, and handbooks. He has chaired a number of international conferences, he is a member of several professional organizations, a reviewer to several journals and serves as a consultant to government and private organizations. He holds a BE and ME in Chemical Engineering from City College of the City University of New York, and a Ph.D. Medical Device companies where she honed her expertise in commercial development and new product launches for medical devices. Her experience includes many years of clinical interface with surgeons and NY metro area hospitals, as well as successful business collaboration with senior decision makers of global medical device companies.In her earlier years, she served in product development and project management roles for chemical and biochemical process systems, i.e. capital equipment used to manufacture pharmaceuticals, medical products, and other specialty chemicals. Throughout her career, she has proven that she has tactical skills and expertise to match her unique and creative strategic insights.Since arriving at Stevens in 2004, Dr. Hazelwood has led a grass roots effort to create and implement an environment of excitement, creativity, and entrepreneurship among Biomedical Engineering researchers. She has created a lab for Translational Research in Medicine, which, in addition to having successfully launched a start-up company, has spawned several patents and patent applications, all of which have intimately engaged collaborative teams including physicians, industry experts, technical exper...