A rover built by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students took third place in the Design Competition at the 27th annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC), and won the Rookie of the Year award. The Rensselaer Rock Raiders team includes students from the School of Science and School of Engineering, and has been competing since 2014, when the team entered the NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge.
Engineers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are about to start work on two large-scale collaborative projects aimed at increasing competitiveness and sustainability in steel and industrial gas manufacturing.
A research article written by a team including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Doug Swank has been chosen for APSselect, a collection showcasing some of the best recently published physiological research. Swank, an expert in muscle protein and contraction, is a professor of biological sciences and member of the Rensselaer Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies.
A team of students from the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer recently won a Best Performance Award for their performance during the second half of the Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Investment Challenge, an equity portfolio management competition.
For the second year in a row, Rensselaer has been named a finalist in the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) College Game Competition. The nominated game, Grave Shadows, was created this spring by students enrolled in a game development course taught by Rebekah Arcovitch, lecturer in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer.
Video games represent one of the largest and fastest-growing entertainment industries in the world. Newzoo analysts predicted that gamers across the globe would spend $137.9 billion on games in 2018. Beyond games, today’s interactive technology also helps shape how young people learn, drives national defense strategies via computer simulations, and assists training efforts in biomedicine, physical fitness, anti-terrorism, and much more. The highly regarded Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a leader in games studies and rankings released recently by Animation Career Review support that: The program was ranked No. 13 nationally on the list of top game design programs in the United States and No. 11 nationally among schools offering a bachelor of science degree in game design.
Civil and environmental engineers from across the globe will be invited to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on June 4 as Rensselaer continues to play an active role in innovative Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) research.
With support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, a team of researchers including Kevin Rose, assistant professor of biological sciences, will study the water resources of the Limpopo River Basin in southern Africa, considered one of the most biodiverse natural areas on the planet.
Jian Shi, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, is the 2019 winner of the Alfred H. Geisler Memorial Award. The award, given by the Eastern New York Chapter of ASM International, “recognizes an outstanding young materials scientist/engineer” from the chapter who has made significant contributions to the fields of education, research, or manufacturing, before the age of 40.
Daniel Gall, professor of materials science and engineering, has received the 2019 IBM Faculty Award, part of a competitive worldwide program aimed at fostering collaboration in research and promoting curriculum innovation. With the award, Gall receives $40,000 to support his work in the area of post-Cu metallization.