Design Lab at Rensselaer

At the end of the semester, we host a Design Showcase of our seniors and their capstone projects. Our 24 project teams shared a poster presentation of their work, engaging our visitors with an explanation of their work, the benefits to their clients and what things they learned about engineering and working as part of a team. Our partners provide support to the lab while engaging the students with meaningful technical challenges. Together, we help develop well rounded engineers ready to go forth into the workforce!

In addition, the Design Showcase featured a guest speaker, Brent Brunell '94, from GE Vernova Advanced Research at their Niskayuna, NY facility. Brent is the Technology Director for Digital and Electrical Systems which covers the technical strategy and R&D across artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, controls, cyber security, power electronics, and power systems. He directs a global team of researchers working to transform the energy landscape through close collaboration with GE Vernova businesses, government agencies, and academic partners.

Please enjoy these photos from the event, capturing our students and our guest speaker in action.

We are continually looking for new projects from industry partners. The Design Lab program supports seniors from the Electrical Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Systems Engineering departments. We form cross-functional teams, as we would do in industry or on a research team, to work on meaningful challenges. As we say at Rensselaer, "Why Not Change the World?"

For more information about the Design Lab, including supporting our students or proposing project ideas, please visit our website: https://designlab.rpi.edu.

We also invite you to view some of the videos on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA_aQLN-mc-eWDoegVcooyw/videos

This week the School of Engineering celebrated the opening of the Gene Haas Manufacturing Teaching & Learning Foundry, a shop facility in the Jonsson Engineering Center. This space is dedicated to educating the next generation of leaders and innovators in manufacturing through advanced, hands-on learning to go hand in hand with the theory and research opportunities shared by our students. The "ribbon cutting" (because it's a fabrication space, the ribbon was naturally a strip of metal!) event brought together the Mayor of Troy and representatives from the Gene Haas Foundation, RPI community, RPI alumni, industry partners, local educators, and community members to celebrate the opening of this innovative teaching and learning space. Congratulations to everyone for their hard work in bringing this transformation to completion!

The Design Lab also provides our students with hands-on experience. Our students work on challenging real world problems across a variety of technology areas and including multiple engineering disciplines.

We are continually looking for new projects from industry partners. The Design Lab program supports seniors from the Electrical Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Systems Engineering departments. We form cross-functional teams, as we would do in industry or on a research team, to work on meaningful challenges. As we say at Rensselaer, "Why Not Change the World?"

For more information about the Design Lab, including supporting our students, please visit our website: https://designlab.rpi.edu.

We also invite you to view some of the videos on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA_aQLN-mc-eWDoegVcooyw/videos