News & Events
We are seeking highly motivated RPI undergraduate students to join the OASIS Initiative. These positions are paid hourly positions. We need two strong undergraduate programmers and one or two SWAP Onboarding and Community Coordinators. Please see the job posting (Part-Time Student Developers) and (SWAP Onboarding and Community Coordinators) for further information and for the link to apply.
Industrial & Systems Engineering and Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering hosted a joined talk Dr. Jeff Shamma on A Control-Theoretic Perspective on Game-Theoretic Learning. Students, faculty, and staff enjoyed the seminar along with engaging questions at the end. Thank you, Dr. Shamma, for visiting Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, we enjoyed having you here!
Learn about our master’s graduate programs at RPI: Industrial and Management Engineering (IME) and Systems Engineering and Technology Management (SETM).
This past weekend, the Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), in collaboration with the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), organized a “Six Sigma Green Belt (GB) and Healthcare Green Belt (HC-GB) Dual Certification” course. The event, held from Friday, September 18th to Sunday, September 20th, 2026, was open to RPI students, faculty, alumni, and community members.
John Nichols, PhD candidate '28, received the US Coast Guard Sector Western Alaska & US Arctic patches, presented by Prof Martha Grabowski, for assisting the US Coast Guard with modeling prioritized inspection schedules for Arctic bulk fuel facilities.
Understanding Participation of Competing Firms in Supply Chain Information Sharing Under Disruption
Share when coordination gains outweigh competitive exposure.
The framework of multi-agent game-theoretic learning explores how individual agent strategies evolve in response to the strategies of others. A central question is whether these evolving strategies converge to classical solution concepts, such as Nash equilibrium.
The ISE Department proudly welcomes 6 new Ph.D. students and 10 Master’s students for the Fall 2026 semester! To kick off the academic year, department faculty, staff, and current Ph.D. students gathered for a warm welcome reception to celebrate our growing community.
We are seeking a highly motivated RPI undergraduate or master's student to join a research project focused on developing optimization methods for collaborative school transportation planning. The position is available as a paid hourly research assistantship or for academic credit, depending on the student's interests and eligibility.
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Dr. Azita Hirsa proudly hosted PREFACE 2026 session introducing rising high school juniors and seniors to Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer.
Through presentations, videos, and interactive small-group activities, students explored how ISE brings together people, technology, data, and decision-making to solve real-world problems. The highly engaged students also learned about the many academic and career opportunities available through ISE.
