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15 unusual facts about Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


Albert E. Powers

Albert E. Powers was the acting president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1887-88.

Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam

It is named for the town of Ash Fork, and for Francis H. Bainbridge, a civil engineer and graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), who was an engineer for ATSF.

Chris Terreri

He attended Providence College from 1982–1986, and was the MVP of the 1985 Hockey East postseason tournament following a 2–1 double overtime victory over top-seeded Boston College at the Providence Civic Center, and the MVP of the 1985 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship, despite a 2–1 loss in the championship game to RPI at Joe Louis Arena.

Cornell Club of New York

Membership in the Cornell Club is restricted to alumni, faculty, and students of the Ivy League institution Cornell University, as well as alumni of a short list of affiliated schools, such as Brown, Colgate, Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford, Tulane, and Wake Forest.

Edwin B. Crocker

He earned a degree in civil engineering at Rensselaer Institute in Troy, New York.

Frank Perkins Whitman

He was professor of physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, in 1880–1886, and from 1886 occupied the same position at the Western Reserve University.

Furkan Doğan

His father, Ahmet Doğan, who graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with an MBA in accounting, is an assistant professor of accounting at Erciyes University.

John Mariucci

Mariucci's best Gopher team would come in 1954-55 when Minnesota would advance all the way to the NCAA finals before losing to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 5-4 in overtime.

Mimeo, Inc

Stewart, Delbridge and Uyttendaele first met on the second floor of their freshman dormitory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Miya's

He has spoken at Google, Department of Agriculture, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Yale University, Wesleyan University, New York University, Peabody Museum and The Museum of the City of New York.

MobileNotifier

MobileNotifier was developed in conjunction with the Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Paddy Ryan

After opening a saloon in 1874, he caught the attention of the athletic director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Jim Killoran.

PlayNET

The PlayNet offices were initially located in the J Building on Peoples Avenue in Troy, NY part of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute incubator program.

University of Alabama College of Engineering

The university is the fourth oldest engineering institution in the United States, after the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Columbia University, and the University of Virginia.

William Geiger

William Geiger was the head football coach for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Engineers football team in 1908 and 1909.


Douglass Houghton

In 1829 Houghton entered the Rensselaer School at Troy, New York where, under the direction of Amos Eaton scientific training was emphasized, particularly in geology.

Inanimate Objects Party

The Inanimate Objects Party (IOP) is a joke political party at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, United States.

Innovation capitalist

The term Innovation Capitalist was coined by Prof. Satish Nambisan of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Prof.Mohanbir Sawhney of Northwestern University in their article in the Harvard Business Review in March 2007.

James Flaherty

Flaherty attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York State and later worked as a high school teacher in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

James Howard Kunstler

He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA, the APA, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Manuel Lima

Among these venues are TED Global, Lift, Ars Electronica, OFFF, Eyeo, Reboot, VizThink, IxDA Interaction, Royal Society of Arts, New York Public Library, TEDx Buenos Aires, Royal College of Art, Open University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Northeastern University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ENSAD Paris, University of Amsterdam, MediaLab Prado Madrid, Sheffield School of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon.

Marcia White

In 2008, White worked to keep the Philadelphia Orchestra at SPAC, often introducing performers such as pianist Yuja Wang and guests such as RPI president Shirley Ann Jackson.

Math Images Project

Starting in summer 2011, the program expanded to include Sweet Briar College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in addition to Swarthmore College and Drexel University.

National sports exchange

The company raised angel funding and operated out of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Business Incubator program, located in Troy, NY.

Robert H. Wentorf, Jr.

(May 28, 1926, West Bend, Wis. – April 3, 1997, Easton, N.Y.) was a staff scientist at General Electric Corporate Research and Development Laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y. and a professor of chemical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.

Scott Basiuk

He began his career in the year 2000, playing at college level for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

Tyler Hinman

After graduating from TASIS in 2002, Hinman returned to the United States to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology in 2006 and joined the Phi Mu Delta fraternity.