The 2009 winner of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) Doctoral Fellowship at Stevens Institute of Technology is Engineering Management Graduate Student Ana Lisbeth Concho.  The award of full tuition and a stipend for the academic year 2009-2010 was based on Ms. Concho’s proposal on the development of screening strategies for container cargo, via the implementation of non-invasive technologies and operations research techniques that minimize the risk of allowing suspicious goods in the country through the Port-of-Entry while considering resources such as cost of inspection and labor.  

Ms. Concho's research will provide a comprehensive theory for quantitatively describing different inspection strategies as a decision model, as well as a set of evolutionary optimization algorithms when considering that different technologies with different characteristics can be used.

The I&E Doctoral Program aims to support research with a high chance of leading to transformational changes in its domain through innovation and science-driven disruptive technology development.  Research addressing relevant problems with broad scientific, technical and societal impact that also has potential market value is highly desirable as it promotes entrepreneurship and contributes significantly to advance Technogenesis.   This fellowship is sponsored by Stevens’ Office of Academic Entrepreneurship.