News & Events
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) mechanical engineering alumna Clare Severance ’18 has been honored with a place on the 2025 Society of Manufacturing Engineers 30 Under 30 list.
Congratulations to Brendan McGrew (Mechanical Engineering '28, Navy ROTC scholarship Midshipman) who won first prize in the midshipmen and cadets category of the 2025 Chief of Naval Operations Naval History Essay Contest for his piece, Hollow Navy: A Defensive Force with Little to Defend. The essay is to be published by the U.S. Naval Institute. Brendan was honored at the award ceremony, jointly hosted by Naval History and Heritage Command and the U.S.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) officially cut the ribbon on its new Center for Smart Convergent Manufacturing Systems (CSCMS) during an all-day launch event on October 23, 2025.
Clare Severance ’18, B.S., was recently recognized as one of the honorees on the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ prestigious 30 Under 30 list. Clare, a senior Manufacturing engineer at Relativity Space, has played a key role in the Terran R next generation launch vehicle program since its launch. Clare also contributed to Relativity Space’s first launch vehicle, Terran 1, the world’s first 3D-printed rocket to reach launch.
Aerospace America published a feature article "U.S. Air Force awards grant for cislunar constellation to track spacecraft and debris” describing a new $1 million grant led by MANE Assistant Professor Sandeep Singh. The grant supports researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Texas A&M University to develop the algorithms that would enable such a constellation to operate unobstructed in the notoriously observation-resistant domain of cislunar space.
As nations and private companies prepare to ramp up the number of missions to the Moon, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Texas A&M University have secured a $1 million grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to develop a system to track and monitor resident space objects — including spacecraft, satellites and debris — moving through the vast cislunar space between the Earth and the Moon.
Congratulations to Professor Amir Hirsa, who will be the next chair of the Science Subcommittee for the International Space Station User Advisory Committee, at the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space. In this role, Professor Hirsa will lead a team to provide input and perspective about the management of ISS Nation
Congratulations to the DARPA team which was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM 2025) that took place in Stanford, CA recently. IWSHM is the top international conference on the topic of structural health monitoring and related areas.
Shaowu Pan, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has recently received two prestigious awards recognizing his work to solve some of engineering’s most difficult challenges.
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