June 16, 2008  
Tod Schuck, SSE Doctoral Candidate, named winner of the INCOSE Student Chapter “Fly to the Netherlands” Paper Competition

The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Student Chapter at Stevens Institute of Technology announces Tod Schuck the winner of the “Fly to the Netherlands” paper competition. Mr. Schuck’s paper, entitled “An Extended Enterprise Architecture for a Network-Enabled, Effects-Based Approach for National Park Protection”, was selected best paper out of several entries, by a committee of School of Systems and Enterprises’ (SSE) faculty, staff, and INCOSE - Liberty Chapter representatives.
As winner of the competition, Mr. Schuck receives free travel and lodging to this year’s INCOSE Symposium being held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 16 – 20, 2008.
The competition, organized by Stevens INCOSE Student Chapter in association with the School of Systems and Enterprises and the INCOSE Liberty Chapter, was created to challenge the School’s PhD students, and to promote greater student involvement at the annual INCOSE Symposium.
Students competing in the paper competition were required to submit a ten page paper related to the theme of this year’s INCOSE conference, “Systems Engineering for the Planet.”
Mr. Schuck is a Systems Engineering Doctoral Candidate, and works as a Project Specialist Senior Staff for Tactical C2I Systems, Lockheed Martin MS2 in Moorestown, NJ. During his years at Lockheed, he has served as a manager for the Threat Informatics Group, as well as Lead Engineer for the development of ID architectures, algorithms, modeling and systems design.
He has received several publication awards to date, from the International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, the IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference Board, Lockheed Martin Author of the Year 2001, as well as the winner of Al Gore’s “Silver Hammer” Award for Extraordinary Effort for Changing the Way The Government Does Business for the NATO SeaSparrow Signal Data Processor.
Tod Schuck received a MS in Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology in 1994, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1989.

For more information, please contact:

Beth DeFares
Director of Education
EAS 209
Phone: 201.216.5362
Fax:
Email: bdefares@stevens.edu
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