Corporate Support

National Grid is an international electricity and gas company based in the UK and northeastern US. We play a vital role in delivering gas and electricity to millions of people in a safe, reliable and efficient manner.

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, known as SABIC, is a Saudi Arabian multinational chemical manufacturing company, and a subsidiary of the state-owned petroleum and natural gas company Saudi Aramco. It is active in petrochemicals, chemicals, industrial polymers, fertilizers, and metals.

(RTX - formerly the United Technologies Corporation) has been the RPI Engineering Ambassador (EA) Premier Sponsor since the program's inception in 2011.
With this corporate partnership, RTX financially funds the program in exchange for the active promotion of their organization and access to potential EA undergraduates for employment opportunities.
Since this partnership was established, 80+ EAs have been employed at RTX/UTC for internships, Co-ops, and full-time employment.

Each year Stewarts Matching funds supports some aspect of the RPI Engineering Ambassador program. In 2016-2017 year, Stewarts has helped our program develop an afterschool STEM Club for a Charter school in South Troy, NY.

Dr. Sydell Perlmutter Gold was a pioneer for women in math and science, earning her Ph.D. in Theoretical Mathematics from the University of California, Berkley, in 1973 when she was already the mother of three. Gold was a senior system analyst in the Evaluation and Planning Division of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory from 1974 to 1980, then joined the National Security Council staff as a technical appointee, serving under Presidents Carter and Reagan. Returning to Lawrence Livermore, she was a laboratory representative contributing to the Department of Defense/Department of Energy Long-Range Planning Study for the nuclear weapons stockpile, and in 1982, was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air force for Strategic Systems and Arms Control.
In the 1990s, Gold was senior vice president and deputy manager of SAIC's Advanced Technology & Analysis sector and in 2000 she was awarded the Women in Aerospace Outstanding Achievement Award for her contributions supporting women in aerospace. Many thanks to her husband, Dr. Ted Gold for considering
the RPI Engineering Ambassador / St Raymond's Boy High School Arduino project.

MISSION Provide sustained exposure to diverse enrichment learning opportunities in STEM to under-resourced youth in the Schenectady community via comprehensive approaches that address and overcome barriers to academic, personal, and wellness development.

CURENT is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center that is jointly supported by NSF (National Science Foundation) and the DoE (Department of Energy). As a co-PI research university, Rensselaer has supported the efforts of broader impacts by funding the efforts of the RPI EAs to communicate the research and discoveries made through the CURENT research.

As the lead research university, Rensselaer has supported the efforts of broader impacts by funding the efforts of the RPI EAs to communicate the research and discoveries made through the LESA research.

Fotios Kopsaftopoulos

Kopsaftopoulos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering (MANE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) working on novel ideas related to the generic area of intelligent aerospace and mechanical systems.

Santiago Paternain

Paternain is an Assistant Professor at the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Univerisity of Pennsylvania where he also received his Ph.D. in Electrical in Systems Engineering under the supervision of Alejandro Ribeiro.

His research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and the control of dynamic systems.

Kristen Mills

Mills' research group hopes to resolve the contributions of cell- and tissue-scale mechanics and protein dysregulation in tumor initiation, growth, and metastasis. Their lab consists of an interdisciplinary team of mechanical, manufacturing, materials, and biomedical engineers as well as biophysicists and biologists. Together, they study the mechanical properties of soft biomaterials and tissues, which informs their engineering of in vitro three-dimensional matrix models. In particular, they use the models to investigate cell-matrix interactions and the biomechanics of tumor growth.

Jennifer Pazour

Dr. Jennifer Pazour’s research and teaching interests focus on the development and use of analytical models to guide decision making for supply chain and logistics challenges. Her research has made contributions to military logistics, distribution and transportation systems, healthcare logistics, on-demand supply chains, and peer-to-peer resource sharing systems.

Sandipan Mishra

Sandipan Mishra is the principle investigator of the Intelligent Systems, Automation and Control reearch group. Their research focuses on advanced modeling, identification, and control design for a broad range of applications, including micro/nanoscale additive manufacturing, adaptive optics, smart lighting systems, and intelligent buildings.

Samuel Johnson

Johnson Samuel’s Research Interests Lie At The Confluence Of Advanced Material Systems And Micro/nano-scale Manufacturing Processes. His Areas Of Work Include: Personalized Bone Surgery Techniques, Graphene-based Lubricants For Micro-machining, 3D Printing Of Hierarchical Fiber-reinforced Soft Composites, Novel 3D Printier For Surgeon Training, Ultrasonically-assisted Micro-machining Processes

Agung Julius

Professor Julius has sponsored Applications of Robotics: Path Finding Algorithms presentation and hands-on activity to help a pre-college audience understand the importance of mathematical concepts in today's technological world.