Martin A. Schmidt | |
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President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | |
Assumed office July 1, 2022 | |
Preceded by | Shirley Ann Jackson |
Personal details | |
Born | January 30,1960 |
Education | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Martin Arnold Schmidt (born January 1960) is the 19th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. [1] [2] Prior to this role,Schmidt was provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2014 to 2022. [3]
Schmidt earned his BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1981 and PhD from MIT in 1988. [4] His doctoral advisor was Stephen D. Senturia and his thesis was entitled "Microsensors for the measurement of shear forces in turbulent boundary layers". [5]
In 1988,Schmidt became a faculty member of the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. From 1999 to 2006,He was the director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at MIT. [6] In 2016,he was named the Ray and Maria Stata Professor at MIT. [7] Schmidt became an associate provost at MIT from 2008 and assumed the role of provost in 2014. [8]
He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991. [9] He was named as a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2004 for contributions to design and fabrication of microelectromechanical systems. [7]
His teaching and research work is in the field of micro- and nanofabrication technologies for sensors,actuators,and MEMS. [10] Schmidt has co-founded or co-invented the core technology of seven start-up companies. [3] [11]
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson,is an American physicist,and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics,and the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT in any field. She is also the second African American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a private research university in Troy,New York,with an additional campus in Hartford,Connecticut. A third campus in Groton,Connecticut,closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer and Amos Eaton for the "application of science to the common purposes of life" and is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere.
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson was an American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system,the precursor to the Internet,in 1971;It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET. Previously,mail could be sent only to others who used the same computer. To achieve this,he used the @ sign to separate the user name from the name of their machine,a scheme which has been used in email addresses ever since. The Internet Hall of Fame in its account of his work commented "Tomlinson's email program brought about a complete revolution,fundamentally changing the way people communicate." He is credited with the invention of the TCP three-way handshake which underlies HTTP and many other key Internet protocols.
James Alexander Hendler is an artificial intelligence researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,United States,and one of the originators of the Semantic Web. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Nariman Farvardin is an Iranian-American engineer and educator,currently serving as president of Stevens Institute of Technology,Hoboken,New Jersey. Formerly senior vice president for academic affairs,provost and acting president at the University of Maryland,College Park,he assumed office at Stevens on July 1,2011.
James Donald Meindl was director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center and the Marcus Nanotechnology Research Center and Pettit Chair Professor of Microelectronics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta,Georgia. He won the 2006 IEEE Medal of Honor "for pioneering contributions to microelectronics,including low power,biomedical,physical limits and on-chip interconnect networks.”
Roland Walter Schmitt was an American physicist,business executive and the sixteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Michael Shur is a Russian and American physicist and a professor of solid state electronics and electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The George M. Low Center for Industrial Innovation,otherwise known as the Low Center or CII,is an industry-funded research center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy,New York,US.
Don Millard is a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Prior to joining NSF,he was a faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the originator of the Mobile Studio Project. In 1999 he started thinking about a way to enable students to perform experiments anytime,anyplace—specifically those that use an oscilloscope,function generator,digital control,and some form of power supply. He started the Mobile Studio project by looking at commercially available solutions,which were prohibitively expensive;while choosing to involve students in bringing the project's vision to reality. Jason Coutermarsh,then a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI),joined the project in the summer of 2004 and they developed a complete functional input/output board (IOBoard) hardware/software prototype. With the support of several technology companies and the National Science Foundation,the Mobile Studio Project is now being utilized to enhance science,math,engineering and technology education around the world.
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James M. Tien, Ph.D.,DEng (h.c.),is distinguished professor and former dean of the University of Miami College of Engineering. He has worked previously at Bell Laboratories,Rand Corporation and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The history of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) spans nearly two hundred years beginning with its founding in 1824. RPI is the oldest continuously operating technological university in both the English-speaking world and the Americas. The Institute was the first to grant a civil engineering degree in the United States,in 1835. More recently,RPI also offered the first environmental engineering degree in the United States in 1961,and possibly the first ever undergraduate degree in video game design,in 2007.
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Sorab (Soli) K. Ghandhi was a professor Emeritus at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) known for his pioneering work in electrical engineering and microelectronics education,and in the research and development of Organometallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (OMVPE) for compound semiconductors. He was the recipient of the IEEE Education Award "For pioneering contributions to semiconductor and microelectronics education" in 2010.
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Daniel Douglas Sabin from Danvers,Massachusetts,USA was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for leadership in power quality database management and analysis software. He was a principal engineer with Electrotek Concepts when he was elevated to Fellow.
Thomas H. Lee was a Chinese-American electrical engineer and writer. He worked for General Electric for 30 years,where he developed the first practical vacuum interrupter and the silicon rectifier in the 1960s. In the 1980s he served as the Philip Sporn Professor of Energy Processing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-chaired the MIT Sloan School's Management of Technology program. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1975 and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2000. He was an IEEE Fellow and received the IEEE Haraden Pratt Award in 1983.
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