Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a large university in Troy, New York, near Albany, founded in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer. It is the oldest technological university in North America.

It has five schools: Architecture, Engineering, Humanities & Social Sciences, Management, and Science. The Information Technology department, originally an independent, multidisciplinary department, has since been merged into the School of Science. RPI is a technology-oriented university; all of the residence hall rooms have hard-wired high speed internet access, and students can be found in the computer labs late in the night. RPI was recently ranked #1 for "most connected campus" by The Princeton Review. The current President of RPI is Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson. RPI also had the United States' first on-campus high-tech business incubator. Bruce Watson and Pulickel Ajayan, are among the most regarded researchers at RPI. RPI is also the professional home of David Musser, one of the primary inventors of the C++ Standard Template Library.

In the 2004-2005 academic year, RPI's enrollment includes 4,888 undergraduate and 1,291 graduate students. Base tuition for a full year of undergraduate attendance is $28,950 (not including room, board, or expenses).

The school features a competitive Division I ice hockey team, the Engineers, who won NCAA national titles in 1954 and 1985. The team plays a significant role in the campus' culture, drawing thousands of fans each week during the season. The team's popularity even sparked the tradition of the "hockey line", where students line up for season tickets months in advance of the on-sale date. The official nickname of some of the school's other Divison III teams was changed in 1995 from the Engineers to the Red Hawks. (In addition to hockey, the football, cross-country, tennis, and track and field teams all chose to retain the Engineers name.) RPI's unofficial mascot is the albino squirrel.

Table of contents

1 Notable alumni 2 RPI Songs 3 External links

Notable alumni

• Dr. Allen B. Dumont (1924), perfected the cathode ray tube and is considered the "father of modern TV"
• Bobby Farrelly, famous director, writer and producer of such films as "Shallow Hal" and "There's Something About Mary"
• George W. G. Ferris (1881), inventor of the Ferris Wheel
• Ivar Giaever (1964), shared the Nobel Prize in 1973 for experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively. Currently, Institute Professor of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• Marcian Hoff (1958), the "father of the microprocessor"
• Erik Jonsson (1922), former president of Texas Instruments Incorporated
• George Low, manager at National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the Apollo 11 project that put the first person on the moon
• Sheldon Roberts, member of the Traitorous Eight that created Silicon Valley
• Washington Roebling (1857), the chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge
• Paul Severino, founder of Wellfleet Communications, which merged with SynOptics Communications to become Bay Networks, now owned by Nortel
• Raymond Tomlinson, invented network electronic mail and put the @ sign in e-mail
• Sheldon Weinbaum, noted Biomedical Engineer, Elected to Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Sciences

RPI Songs

There are a number of songs commonly played and sung at various RPI events. Notable among them are:

• The Alma Mater (Here's to Old RPI) - sung at formal events such as commencement and convocation, also played by the Pep Band at Hockey games.
• Hail, Dear Old Rensselaer - the RPI fight song, played by the Pep Band during Hockey and Football games, especially when the teams score. (Most RPI students don't actually know the lyrics to this song).
• All We've Learned at Rensselaer - sung at the RPI commencement ceremonies by the Rensselyrics.

External links

• RPI website
• Rensselaer Hartford website
• RPI hockey team website
• Not The Rensselaer Wiki

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