Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a large university in Troy, New York, near Albany, founded in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer, it is one of the oldest technical institutions in the United States. It has six schools: Architecture, Engineering Science, Humanities & Social Sciences, Information Technology, Management, and Science. RPI is a tech oriented university and all of the residence hall rooms have hard-wired high speed internet access. The current President of RPI is Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson. RPI also had the United States' first on-campus high-tech business incubator. Leik Myrabo is perhaps the institute's most notable current professor. RPI's unofficial mascot is the albino squirrel. The official nickname of the school's teams is the "Red Hawks", but many prefer the older nickname of "Engineers".

Notable alumni

\n*Dr. Allen B. Dumont (1924), perfected the cathode ray tube and is considered the "father of modern TV"\n*Bobby Farrelly, famous director, writer and producer of such films as "Shallow Hal" and "There's Something About Mary"\n*George W. G. Ferris (1881), inventor of the Ferris Wheel\n*Marcian Hoff (1958), the "father of the microprocessor"\n*George Low, manager at National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the Apollo 11 project that put the first person on the moon\n*Sheldon Roberts, member of the Traitorous Eight that created Silicon Valley\n*Washington Roebling (1857), the chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge\n*Paul Severino, founder of Wellfleet Communications, which merged with SynOptics Communications to become Bay Networks, now owned by Nortel\n*Raymond Tomlinson, invented network electronic mail and put the @ sign in e-mail

External links

• RPI website\n* Rensselaer Hartford website\nCategory:Universities and colleges in New York\nzh-cn:仁斯磊尓理工大学