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Under Eaton, the Rensselaer School, renamed the Rensselaer Institute in 1832, was a small but vibrant center for technological research. The first civil engineering degrees in the United States were granted by the school in 1835, and many of the best remembered civil engineers of that time graduated from the school.
William Gurley (1839), and Lewis E. Gurley, brothers and founders of Gurley Precision Instruments. J. Erik Jonsson (1922), co-founder and former president of Texas Instruments Incorporated, and mayor of Dallas. William Mow (1959), founded apparel maker Bugle Boy in 1977. Nicholas T. Pinchuk Chairman & CEO of Snap-on.
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. [1] The Institute was the first to grant a civil engineering degree in the United States, in 1835.
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
WRPI (91.5 FM) is a non-commercial free-format college radio station run entirely by students attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and staffed by community members and students. WRPI broadcasts every day with an effective radiated power of 10,000 watts, serving listeners in Albany, eastern New York, western Massachusetts, Vermont, and ...
Altti Nykänen in 2023. The RPI Engineers men's ice hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college ice hockey program that represents Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The Engineers are a member of ECAC Hockey conference and play their home games at Houston Field House in Troy, New York.
Rensselaer at Work. Carnegie Building (Troy, New York) Template:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute presidents. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute songs. Rensselaer Society of Engineers. Rensselaer Technology Park. The Rensselaer Polytechnic.
RPI Engineers women's ice hockey players (7 P) Pages in category "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 452 total.