學院建有眾多優秀的研究中心,其中最著名的為三個國家優秀研究中心:The Center for Secure & Resilient (CSR) Maritime Commerce;Engineering Research Center (SERC);The Atlantic Center for the Innovative Design & Control of Small Ships (ACCESS),上一年度獲得價值2900萬美圓的資助研究機會。
斯蒂文斯理工學院下設四大學院:Scheafer School of Engineering and Science;School of System and Enterprises;Howe School of Technology Management;College of Arts and Letters.
School of Engineering and Science開設的項目有:計算機科學(CS)、電子工程(ECE)、生物醫藥工程、材料科學、土木工程、機械工程(ME)、環境海洋工程、物理學、數學、跨學科研究等。
School of System and Enterprises開設的項目有:金融工程(FE)、系統工程、工程管理、企業系統、基礎設施系統、空間系統工程、系統安全工程等。Howe School of Technology Management開設的項目有:信息系統(IS)、管理學、項目管理(PM)、通信管理、MBA、技術管理等。
College of Arts and Letters的碩士項目為:The Master of Arts in Technology,Policy,and Ethics。研究科技歷史、環境、政策、道德、旨在為人類科技進步探尋一條和諧平衡的發展之道。
Lawrence Babbio, B.E., 1966, vice chairman and president of VerizonCommunications, Domestic Telecom Group.
Igor Bensen, B.E. Mechanical Engineering, founder of Bensen Aircraft.
Samuel P. Bush, 1884, steel and railroad executive, public servant, patriarch of Bush political family
Alexander Calder, M.E., 1919, creator of the Mobile and popularizer of that art form
Fred H. Colvin, M.E. Hon., 1944, journalist, author, and editor in the fields of manufacturing, machine tools, etc.
James Corcoran, M.E., M.S., President and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Hiten Patel, M.S., Chairman and CEO, Collabera Inc
Leon Febres Cordero, M.E., 1953, President of Ecuador, 1984–1988
Mark Crispin, B.S., 1977, Inventor of IMAP
Nate Davis, B.E., President and COO - XM Satellite Radio; formerly COO of XO Communications
L. Sprague de Camp, M.S., 1933, science fiction author, Lest Darkness Fall , The Wheels of If, The Great Monkey Trial , winner of the Hugo Award (1997)
Alfred Fielding, 1939, Co-inventor of Bubble Wrap
Henry Gantt, developed the Gantt chart, an important project management tool
Louis A. Hazeltine, M.E., Sc. D., 1926, founder Hazeltine Corporation, inventor of the neutrodyne radio receiver
Richard Herman, B.S., 1963, Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Cooper Hewitt, electrical engineer and inventor of the Mercury arc rectifier
Walter Kidde, B.E., 1897, founder of Walter Kidde Constructors; oversaw the construction of Port Newark and Kearny, New Jersey's first traffic circle and the world's first cloverleaf interchange, the Pulaski Skyway; served as New Jersey State Highway Commissioner; founder of the Walter Kidde Company, maker of WWII safety equipment
Jonathan Lynch, CTO of Northern Power Systems in Vermont
John McLean, MD, B.S., 1960, developer of corneal transplant and founder of the Eye Bank for Sight Restoration
Charles Stewart Mott, M.E. 1882, co-founder of General Motors Corporation
Charles Petzold, B.S., M.S. 1975, Author, The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine 2008, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software 1999, Programming Windows 1988-1998
Richard Reeves, M.E., 1960, Emmy Award winner, syndicated columnist, author, television commentator
Frederick Reines, M.E., 1939, M.S. 1943, discoverer of the neutrino, 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics
Edwin Augustus Stevens, Jr., son of the school's founder.
Frederick Winslow Taylor, M.E., 1883, developer of scientific management methods and time-motion studies.