News
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Rensselaer Professor Sandipan Mishra Receives NSF CAREER Award
Mechanical Engineering and Control Systems Expert Seeks To Boost the Reliability of Additive Manufacturing Technologies
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Rensselaer Professor Riccardo Bevilacqua Wins Young Investigator Award from U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research
Aerospace Engineer Will Build Experimental Satellite to Monitor Space Weather
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The College Life Series From Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Engineers Without Borders in Panama
Student Organization Working To Develop Sustainable Clean Water Collection and Purification System for Island Community.
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Professor X. George Xu Recognized for Leadership in Nuclear Engineering Research
Radiation expert X. George Xu, head of the Nuclear
Engineering Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has
been appointed to serve on the Radiation Advisory Committee of
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory
Board.
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Rotorcraft Expert Farhan Gandhi Joins Rensselaer as Redfern Professor of Engineering
Rotorcraft and adaptive structures expert Farhan Gandhi
recently joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as the
Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr. ’33 Professor of
Engineering.
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New $2.6 Million Study Uses Video Cards to Bring Effective, Inexpensive Supercomputing to Hospitals for Safer CT Scans.
Rensselaer nuclear engineering expert X. George Xu is
leading an interdisciplinary team of academic, medical, and
industrial researchers to develop new techniques for quickly
calculating the radiation dose a patient will receive from a CT
scan.
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Two Rensselaer Alumni Honored as Presidential Early Career Award Winners
Two Rensselaer graduates have been honored as recipients of
the national Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists
and Engineers.
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Batteries Made From World’s Thinnest Material Could Power Tomorrow’s Electric Cars
Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
made a sheet of paper from the world’s thinnest material,
graphene, and then zapped the paper with a laser or camera
flash to blemish it with countless cracks, pores, and other
imperfections.
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Rensselaer Co-Hosts Manufacturing Education Conference
his week, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
will co-host the 2012 Haas Technical Education Center (HTEC)
Manufacturing Conference. Now in its sixth year, the event is
attended by K-12 and university instructors from North America
and aims to strengthen manufacturing education.
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Miki Amitay Named the James L. Decker ’45 Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Aerospace engineering and fluid dynamics expert Michael
“Miki” Amitay this week was named the James L. Decker ’45
Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. An endowed professorship is among the highest
honors bestowed on a Rensselaer faculty member.
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Energy@Rensselaer: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Licenses Novel “Magnetohydrodynamics” Solar Power Technology
Rensselaer has announced the signing of an exclusive license
agreement with Concentrating Solar Power Utility for a new
solar power technology utilizing what is known as
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD).
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Experienced Academic and Administrative Leader Prabhat Hajela Named Provost of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Prabhat Hajela, an experienced academic and
administrative leader, has been appointed provost of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, effective July 1, 2012, it has been
announced by Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson.
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Rensselaer Students Build Sustainable Bedroom for Haitian Orphanage
Members of the student group Engineers for a Sustainable
World (ESW) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have been hard
at work transforming a used 20-foot steel shipping container
into a safe, comfortable, and transportable bedroom for
orphaned children in Haiti.
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Suvranu De to Lead Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Computational mechanics expert Suvranu De has been named the
new head of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and
Nuclear Engineering.
