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Announcements
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.
Dr. James P. Bailey represented RPI's Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025) from May 19-23 in Detroit, Michigan. AAMAS is the largest and most influential conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems. Dr. Bailey served as a senior program committee member for the conference, chaired a session on "Matching on Coalition Formation", and presented talks on strategic manipulation in voting and on strategic behavior in stable matching markets.
RPI’s Industrial and Systems Engineering Department was well represented at the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Annual Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia on May 31 to June 3, 2025. Students and faculty shared their research, increased their professional networks, and took home some awards and great experiences, including:
Interested in learning more about Industrial and Systems Engineering? Check out the videos on YouTube or the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) site. There is also information about job growth and pay scale on the IISE site.
Ph.D. Student Zulal Isler Ardic presented her poster teaser at the 2025 Mixed Integer Programming Workshop in Minneapolis, MN. Her poster entitled “New Optimization Approaches for Designing Experiments” showcased her research with Dr. Diego Moran Ramirez and Dr. Burak Kocuk.
Congratulations, Class of 2025! Pictured here is Lauren DeLeo and Katherine Cama in the front, Julia Pelletier just behind them, Cullen Sheridan in the middle back, and Julio Rodriguez behind Cullen on the right. We are proud of all our graduates!
The ISE Department recently held our dinner banquet with our graduating students and their families/friends at Pat’s Barn. Also attending were two of our Industry Advisory Council members, Richard Garrett and John Pfaff. Commencement awards were given, and we had a raffle for our graduates. We are very proud of our students!
RPI News
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.
Researchers at RPI’s schools of science and engineering are exploring new ways to manipulate matter with light to unlock a new generation of computer chips, photovoltaic cells and other advanced materials.
Nikhil Koratkar, Ph.D., the John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), one of the highest professional distinctions awarded by the world’s oldest chemical society.
