New Rensselaer Motorsport Vehicle Revealed Ahead of Competition

Students from Rensselaer Motorsport, the Formula SAE team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, unveiled the car they will be using to compete at Michigan International Speedway later this year. The vehicle, RM24, was completely designed and built by student team members. Team Leader Ryder Winans said they used advanced CAD and simulation software to design the […]

Lecture To Explore “Frontiers in Musical Interactive System Design & Aesthetics”

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host a lecture by McGill University’s Marcelo M. Wanderley titled “Frontiers in Musical Interactive System Design & Aesthetics” on April 5, 2019. The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 5, in Studio Beta at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center on the Rensselaer campus. The event is free and open to the general public.

Minoru Tomozawa To Deliver Prestigious American Ceramic Society Lecture

Minoru Tomozawa, professor of materials science and engineering, will deliver the American Ceramic Society’s 2019 Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture. This lecture has been delivered each year since 1933, and is named after the founder of the American Ceramic Society. Those nominated, and chosen, have gained national recognition in their field. Tomozawa will present his […]

Wei Ji to Receive Award for Excellence in Teaching

Wei Ji, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, has been awarded the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Graduate Faculty Teaching Award at the doctoral-level. The honor is in recognition of “excellence and creativity in the teaching of graduate students.” Ji will receive the award at the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting […]

Tweaking Freight Delivery Patterns May Have Significant Environmental Benefits

TROY, N.Y. — As online commerce drives up the number of deliveries being made each day throughout the country, relatively small changes in the timing and frequency of freight deliveries—such as switching the standard delivery window from day to night—may have significant environmental and economic benefits, according to experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Announces 2019 Commencement Honorands

TROY, N.Y. —Three leaders who have made transformative contributions to public health and other critical fields—Dr. John P. Holdren, Dr. Helene D. Gayle, and James J. Barba—will address graduates at the 2019 Commencement Ceremony at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on May 18, 2019.

New Curriculum Emphasizing Student Well-Being To Be Offered at Rensselaer

Last year, as the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute prepared to revamp the university’s core curriculum, students were surveyed about what course sequences they would be interested in. To the surprise of the department’s faculty and administrators, one of the most popular responses (just behind “artificial intelligence” and tied for second place with “game design”) was “well-being.”

Doctoral Student Receives Norbert J. Kreidl Award

Emily Aaldenberg, a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been chosen to receive the Norbert J. Kreidl Award for her contribution to understanding the origins of fast-surface stress relaxation in glass. The Norbert J. Kreidl Award for Young Scholars is awarded by the Glass & Optical […]

Luigi Vanfretti Elected to the Modelica Association

Luigi Vanfretti, associate professor of electrical engineering, has beenelected to the board of the North American Modelica User’s Group. The organization was “founded to support users within North America, and to promote the use of Modelica for engineering model development in the region.” Vanfretti was also recently elected to the Modelica Association. The nonprofit organization […]

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