Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( also in short RPI ) is a private technical university in Troy, New York with two other campuses in Hartford and Groton in Connecticut. The RPI is the oldest technical university in North America: It was on November 5th in 1824 by the scientist Amos Eaton and the politician, General Stephen Van Rensselaer III and philanthropist. founded as Rensselaer School.
The university is organized into six faculties: Architecture, Engineering, the Faculty of Humanities, Fine Arts and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Information Technology and Webwissenschaft, the Faculty of Business and a faculty for interdisciplinary science. In the academic year 2013-2014, the institute had about 7,000 students, could make the degrees in 65 degree programs.
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute named one of U.S. News & World Report in the top 50 universities in the United States and was dubbed in 2006 by Newsweek as a "new Ivy ". The American Society of Civil Engineers took the RPI in 2010 on the List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks.
Since 1999, Shirley Ann Jackson is the President of RPI.
Known teachers
- Henry Bradford Nason (1835-1895), chemist and geologist, a pupil of Robert Bunsen and Friedrich Wöhler
Known students
- Don L. Anderson ( born 1933), American geophysicist
- Jeffrey M. Friedman (born 1954 ), American molecular geneticist
- Marcian Edward Hoff ( born 1937 ), co-inventor of the microprocessor
- Joé Juneau ( born 1968 ), ice hockey player
- Robert Kennicutt (* 1951), astronomer
- Adam Oates (born 1962 ), ice hockey player and coach
- Ray Tomlinson ( born 1941 ), inventor of the e- mail