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[6] [7] Lally offers a range of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs, with specializations in areas such as business analytics, management, entrepreneurship, and finance. The school places a strong emphasis on research and interdisciplinary collaboration, drawing on RPI's strengths in science, engineering, and technology to prepare ...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (/ r ɛ n s ə ˈ l ɪər /; RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, United States. It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere.
George Low, manager of NASA's Apollo 11 project; President of RPI (1976–1984); namesake of RPI's Low Center for Industrial Innovation; Hani Al-Mulki (MA, PhD), former Prime Minister of Jordan; John Olver (1958), Massachusetts State Representative (D) since 1991; Ely S. Parker, Civil War statesman, author of Appomattox Courthouse agreement
Are committed to graduate education through the doctorate; Give high priority to research; Award 50 or more doctoral degrees each year; Receive annually $40 million or more in federal support [2] The Carnegie Foundation reported that 59 institutions met these criteria in 1994. [3]
Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.She is the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, [1] and the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT in any field. [2]
Michael Shur (born November 13, 1942) is a Russian and American physicist and a professor of solid state electronics and electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Background [ edit ]
In 2012, Hahn moved to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a professor and became the head of the Biomedical Engineering Department in 2013. [7] His research focus at Rensselaer was on the application of systems concepts to the life sciences with a specific emphasis on the pathophysiology of autism. [8] [9] [10] [11]
Tahira Reid Smith was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. [2] Smith was born the only child and a first generation American to Jamaican immigrant parents. [2] When in the third grade, Smith won a youth poster contest where she first came up with the idea for her Double Dutch machine. [3]