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Announcements
The ISE Department recently celebrated Mid Autumn Festival with our undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. The department listened to music, ate delicious snacks, and enjoyed each other’s company. We plan to have more cultural celebrations in the future!
The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering proudly celebrates Dr. Azita Hirsa, recipient of the Rensselaer Alumni Association (RAA) Teaching Award.
Established in 1994, the RAA Teaching Award honors faculty who demonstrate creative and innovative teaching, deep commitment to student success, and a lasting impact on the Rensselaer learning experience.
Alex Ngan from ZOLL Medical and an RPI Alum, recently was a guest speaker at Dr. Nima Ahmadi’s course, Human Performance Modeling and Support. The title of Alex’s talk was Leveraging Human Factors in Healthcare. Students enjoyed learning about how ZOLL Medical Acute Care Technology Division is developing medical devices such as ventilators, defibrillators, patient monitors, and AEDs.
RPI's Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) department is actively recruiting to fill several fully funded PhD positions in optimization, data science, manufacturing systems, supply chain and logistics.
To learn more, we encourage you to attend our webinar on November 7th, 2025, from 8:30am to 9:30am EST. All information session attendees will receive an application fee waiver.
Webinar registration
Please join ISE on Wednesday, October 15 at 10:00 AM in CII 3130 for a colloquium featuring Dr. Gustavo Angulo's research on Robust Admission Via Two-Stage Matching under Ranking Uncertainty!
Co-Terminal/Accelerated Master's Program
Information Session
All interested students are welcome!
Learn about the ISE master's programs:
Industrial and Management Engineering (IME)
Systems Engineering and Technology Management (SETM)
September 24, 2025
1-2pm ET
Students in Dr. Azita Hirsa’s STSO-4100 Professional Development – Technical Issues and Solutions took class on the road to Pat’s Barn for an afternoon of:
✅ Engineering ethics
✅ Effective communication
✅ Great food & even better conversation
Our amazing undergrads — the next generation of change-makers — brought the energy, ideas, and teamwork that made this session unforgettable.
Join The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on August 12 for a webinar on creating more resilient supply chains using the latest insights from the mathematical sciences. Speakers will discuss their work on optimizing supply chains, including ways to address drug shortages, improve military logistics, and leverage on-demand manufacturing. Dr. Jennifer Pazour will be one of the speakers.
The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is proud to announce that Dr. Jennifer Pazour has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), one of the highest honors awarded by the organization. This prestigious recognition reflects Dr. Pazour’s sustained contributions to research, education, service, and leadership within the field of industrial and systems engineering.
U.S. News & World Report identified Industrial Engineering #1 in Engineering jobs, #11 in STEM, and #19 overall.
RPI News
Event will showcase the future of manufacturing education, research, and career opportunities at the nation’s first technological university
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.
Todd Przybycien, Ph.D., professor of chemical and biological engineering at RPI, has been named head of RPI’s Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE). Under Przybycien’s leadership, the department will continue to drive innovation in sustainable biopharmaceutical manufacturing, metabolic and enzyme engineering, advanced materials development, transport processes, and process systems engineering.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has appointed Pingkun Yan, Ph.D., the P.K. Lashmet Career Development Chair Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at RPI, as head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
RPI scientists played a pivotal role in the development of a new manufacturing technique that could revolutionize infrared detection technology, potentially making thermal imaging devices cheaper, smaller, more accurate and far more affordable.
