Chips and Society

Rensselaer prioritizes the social implications of research, and this can be seen in our approaches to education, ethics, diversity, and policy development.

Current Research:

  • Undergraduate engineering education and curriculum development
  • Technological innovation to drive industry creation, competitive shakeouts, and disruptive reshaping of industries; economics research to inform innovation policy, manufacturing cost reduction, and national and business competitiveness

Faculty

Nihat Baysal
Professor of Practice, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Expertise:
Molecular simulations, multiscale modeling, engineering education
Muhsin Celik
Professor of Practice, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Research Expertise:
Novel Devices and Integration. Workforce development.
Shekhar Garde
Dean of School of Engineering, Elaine and Jack S. Parker Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Expertise:
Molecular simulations, statistical mechanics, engineering education
Liping Huang
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Expertise:
Multiscale simulation, dielectrics, graduate education
Michael Hughes
Director of Faculty Development, Faculty Practitioner, Rensselaer at Work
Research Expertise:
Thermal radiation heat transfer, solar energy and solar cells, Monte Carlo simulations
Emily Liu
Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering and Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
Research Expertise:
In-situ scattering characterization, analytical methodology
Deborah McGuinness
Professor, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research Expertise:
Ontologies, Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs, Health and Life Science Informatics, Environmental Informatics
Oshani Seneviratne
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research Expertise:
Blockchain, decentralized learning systems, semantic web
Kenneth Simons
Associate Professor, Economics
Research Expertise:
Economics, innovation, manufacturing, cost, policy, patents
John Wen
Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Research Expertise:
Control systems (process, motion, thermal), robotics
Esther Wertz
Associate Professor, Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy
Research Expertise:
light-matter interactions, 2D materials, plasmonics
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