Welcome to Dr. Nima Ahmadi, Dr. James Bailey, and Dr. Yinan Wang!
Watch this video to learn more about our three new faculty members.
https://rpi.box.com/s/2pyanp1h46ndlcvb6iqh2wl6rjiyezu1
ISE News and Events
Rensselaer's Industrial and Systems Engineering Department will support a team of up to four ISE students to take part in the 9th Annual SHS Student Simulation Competition, in which students will solve a "real-world" healthcare situational case study using FlexSim's simulation software.
RPI community - please find the recording of today's session here
Dr. Yinan Wang recently received the Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Best Track Paper Award at the IISE Annual Conference. The paper was entitled WOOD: Wasserstein-based Out-of-Distribution Detection.”
https://news.rpi.edu/content/2022/05/31/eye-movement-tracking-glasses-are-used-evaluate-mental-stress-first-naturalistic
Institute News
Building on novel experiments with amyloid fibrils — a type of protein aggregate associated with diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s — a new set of experiments using serum albumins, the primary constituents of blood protein, was sent to the International Space Station (ISS) in March aboard SpaceX 27. This is the fourth time the experiment is being conducted on the ISS.
Two women leaders in science and engineering will be honored at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s 217th Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 20.
Dr. Marilyn Simons is co-founder and co-chair of the Simons Foundation, one of the most important philanthropic organizations funding research in basic science and mathematics in the United States.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF) launched a new higher education course to help address semiconductor industry education and workforce development needs. The course, Topics in Microelectronics Manufacturing, is targeted toward advanced undergraduates and early graduate students and has already attracted high enrollment. This course, co-taught by James Lu, curriculum chair of RPI’s electrical, computer, and systems engineering (ECSE) department, and a team of leading industry experts from GF, aims to introduce students to the state-of-the art chip manufacturing technologies and to amplify their interest in chips-centric careers.
G. Reid Wiseman, a 1997 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), is one of four astronauts selected to helm the first crewed moon mission in five decades. The historic Artemis II lunar flyby is set to take off in November 2024.
The grand opening of the Center for Engineering and Precision Medicine (CEPM), a partnership between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Icahn Mount Sinai), was held March 29, 2023 at the Hudson Research Center (HRC) at 619 West 54th Street.