News and Events

The Rensselaer Engineering Ambassadors (EAs) are an assembly of highly motivated students focused on inspiring a younger audience to explore the role of engineers in society.
Dr. Esra Agca Aktunc is awarded as one of the Innovative Pedagogy Faculty Fellows for the enhancement and improvement of her summer ARCH course for 2024. The submissions were reviewed by the Teaching and Learning Collaboratory Board of RPI.
Azita Hirsa's Professional Achievements and Contributions Prof. Azita Hirsa was recently promoted to Senior Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Throughout her career at RPI, Azita has made significant contributions to the institution and the engineering field.
At the end of the Fall 2023 semester, the RPI IISE Student Chapter hosted a holiday party for all ISE students, faculty, and staff. The event had food catered by DeFazio’s Pizzeria, a gingerbread house building competition consisting of student and faculty teams, and a dessert bar featuring homemade baked goods brought by those that attended!
RPI’s ISE department hosted program managers from the Raymond University Research Program (https://lnkd.in/ee-CdV69

Institute News

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Hudson Valley Community College have welcomed the inaugural class of RPI-HVCC Semiconductor Scholars. Funded by the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, the Scholars program is one of many efforts in the Capital Region and around the country to prepare more students to enter the semiconductor industry. 
The RPI team is working toward a big dream: a rocket that reaches well beyond the Kármán Line — the point 330,000 feet above sea level that marks the end of Earth’s atmosphere and the beginning of outer space.
The RPI team is working toward a big dream: a rocket that reaches well beyond the Kármán Line — the point 330,000 feet above sea level that marks the end of Earth’s atmosphere and the beginning of outer space.
The RPI team is working toward a big dream: a rocket that reaches well beyond the Kármán Line — the point 330,000 feet above sea level that marks the end of Earth’s atmosphere and the beginning of outer space.
No birthday party is complete without ice cream.That’s why Stewart’s Shops is helping Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute kick off its bicentennial year with a new name for the store’s “Fireworks” ice cream flavor. The freshly dubbed “Quantum Freeze” will hit stores February 5, 2024.