MSE News and Events
Prof. Liping Huang has been selected to became a fellow of the American Ceramics Society in recognition of her contributions to fundamental understanding of atomic structure and mechanical behavior of amorphous materials.
Professor Pawel Keblinski was named 2020 Materials Research Society Fellow for influential contributions to the development of computational methods leading to fundamental understanding of thermal transport in materials on nanometer length scales.
Ravishankar Sundararaman has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award from TMS. He will receive the award at the TMS Annual Meeting in San Diego on Feb 26, 2020.
Prof. Jian Shi authors a Nature news & views letter to express his viewpoint on a recent work published in Nature on the topic of strain engineering in unconventional semiconductors.
Prof. Edwin Fohtung, an expert in scattering and imaging techniques for nanoscale device materials, joins the MSE faculty starting in Fall 2019.
Institute News
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has announced the appointment of Zheyu Zhang, Ph.D., as the inaugural Richard P. Felak ’66 ’67G and Joan C. Felak Endowed Faculty Fellow in Electric Power Engineering.
RPI School of Engineering has named R. Helen Zha, Ph.D., as a Dean’s Faculty Fellow, recognizing her exceptional accomplishments in research, education, and service.
The Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, in partnership with the School of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), is proud to announce Mattheos Koffas, Ph.D., as the recipient of the inaugural Feltham ReEqu
RPI School of Engineering has named R. Helen Zha, Ph.D., as a Dean’s Faculty Fellow, recognizing her exceptional accomplishments in research, education, and service.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is proud to welcome the second cohort of Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) students to the Semiconductor Scholars Program, an initiative supported by NORDTECH DoD Microelectronics Hub.

Zheyu Zhang Appointed Richard P. Felak ’66 ’67G and Joan C. Felak Endowed Faculty Fellow in Electric Power Engineering at RPI
R. Helen Zha Named Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mattheos Koffas Receives Inaugural Feltham ReEquip Award to Advance Genome Editing Research
RPI Welcomes Second Cohort of HVCC Semiconductor Scholars Through NORDTECH Partnership