Industrial and Systems Engineering Department faculty and undergrad students greeted accepted incoming freshmen during the Accepted Student Celebration at RPI on Saturday, April 13.  Pictured here is Anna Zuniga, School of Engineering Dean - Shekhar Garde, a visiting family member and accepted incoming freshman, Olumide Bamigbaiye, Valerie Bubel, and Dr. Emily Liu.

Several Management Engineering Alumni were able to visit our department open house recently as part of RPI’s three-day quantum computing event. Pictured here is Dr. Esra Agca Aktunc, Dr. Yinan Wang, John Hendrick ’67 and ’69, Mike Gagas ’75, John Pfaff ’71, Dr. Emily Liu, Dr. Azita Hirsa, and grad student Giselle Gao.

Undergrad students and ISE faculty welcomed accepted students and their families recently to RPI as part of an Accepted Students Celebration.

Students in Dr. Nima Ahmadi's Discrete Event Simulation Modeling and Analysis course utilized the Rensselaer Augmented and Virtual Environment (RAVE) for a deep dive into virtual reality (VR) technology. Through VR, they focused on reviewing and inspecting healthcare simulation models in FlexSim, gaining valuable insight into complex systems. This immersive session was enhanced by viewing "The Founder," a film depicting the story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who leveraged the McDonald brothers' efficient food preparation system to build the global McDonald's franchise.

Vivian Rost-Nasshan, an Independent Senator and the Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee at RPI as part of the Student Senate, is currently running for Grand Marshal.  

Martha R. Grabowski is an alumna and longtime Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. She is also the McDevitt Distinguished Chair in Information Systems; Director of the Poland Center for Research and Teaching Innovation; and Professor and Director of the Information Systems program in the Madden College of Business & Economics at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York.

Yinan Wang was selected as the Panel Fellow in the 2023 cohort of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of CMMI Game Changer Academies for Advancing Research Innovation (CGCA). This is the annual program hosted by the NSF to promote the merit review process. Details of the panels are below:

CMMI’s Game Changer Academies (C-GCA) 

U.S. National Science Foundation 

Al Wallace, in his own words

Jen Pazour was on sabbatical in academic year 2022-2023 and awarded an International Excellence Fellowship from  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where she was able to collaborate with  IFL - Institut für Fördertechnik und Logistiksysteme, KIT.

A video about her sabbatical experience at KIT is available on YouTube. 

While global warming is leading to ever longer ice-free periods in the Arctic Ocean with concomitant increases in commercial shipping, the potential economic benefits of this activity must be weighed against the challenges of conducting maritime operations in a fragile ecosystem subject to extreme and unpredictable weather conditions, a lack of emergency support and response infrastructure (ERA), and the considerable cost and time required to mobilize if an accident occurs.