In the last few weeks of the Spring Semester, The Polytechnic met with professors across three schools to learn what the transition looked like department to department. What we found, broadly speaking, was that the Computer Science and ITWS departments seemed to have transitioned most easily, while studio and lab-type courses faced the brunt of the switch to online classes.
Many graduates will continue their studies after graduation and Rensselaer students in all areas of study, are landing good jobs.
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Thirty lines of computer code might have saved Air France flight 447, and 228 passengers and crew aboard.
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Peter Fox has been elected president of the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Federation.
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Rensselaer will join as a charter partner of Optum Labs, the collaborative research and innovation center founded by Optum and Mayo Clinic.
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New media pioneer Lev Manovich will present his most recent research on Big Data visualization at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20.
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MIT provost returns to alma mater RPI as next president
November 30, 2021 -The provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who completed his bachelor’s degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is returning to the New York school as its next president.
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RPI freshman improving natural disaster response through coding
November 5, 2018 -A freshman at RPI has found a way to improve natural disaster response and recovery through coding.
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How One University Wants to Teach Students to Use Data
April 6, 2018 -Data is an increasingly pervasive force in American life, with the power to shape perception and policy. And so it makes a certain amount of sense that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently adopted a new "data dexterity" requirement for its students, starting in fall 2019.