Thursday / December 18, 2025 at 2:00 pm How do we build a world from the detritus of a faltering society? How are we responsive to the environment, people, and objects around us? What are the ways that we can hold a more sacred relationship to one another?

Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2025 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Join us for an ECSE Seminar: "Accelerator Design and Programming for Evolvable Computing" with Prof. Zhiru Zhang from Cornell University. Abstract and speaker bio can be found at the event URL.

Date: Monday, November 17, 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Chi Epsilon in the national honor society for civil and environmental engineers at RPI. The initiates pledge to uphold the highest standards of scholarship, character, practicality and sociability. You must be invited to join but all are welcome to the ceremony.

November 14-15, 2025 Break Out ‘25 is a 2-day symposium celebrating the research, writing, and filmmaking of the 2025 UnionDocs UNDO Fellows. Join as we dive deep into the fellows’ evolving research with screenings, spirited dialogue, and shared inquiry! EMPAC / UNIONDOCS Symposium UnionDocs / The Undo Fellowship

Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Join the Women's Mentoring Program for our annual Thanksgiving Dinner on November 13, from 6pm to 8pm in the Sage Banquet Hall. Play games, meet fellow students, learn from our keynote speaker Dr. Azita Hirsa, and enjoy a delicious Thanksgiving meal! Undergraduate students, Graduate students, and faculty are all welcome to attend. Registration required. If you would like to attend, please fill out this form by November 5, 11:59 pm: https://forms.gle/Q4ZY9rRcCoTQkyYz9

Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Join us for an ECSE Master Practitioner Seminar: "Advantages and Disadvantages of Silicon Carbide Semiconductors for Power Electronic Systems" with Dr. Michael Schutten. Abstract and speaker bio can be found at the event URL.

Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM - Ali Tajer received a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, an M.A. in Statistics, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. During 2010-2012, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. He is currently a Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Vehicles That Feel What if we could change the shape of a vehicle—without moving parts—just by controlling how air flows around it? Prof. Amitay will introduce active flow control, a new technology that uses tiny devices to manage airflow and improve how vehicles perform. This approach can reduce drag, save fuel, and even replace traditional control surfaces like flaps or rudder. It is a simple idea with powerful potential for the future of air, ground, and underwater transportation.

Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - “A Non-Ergodic Ground Motion Model for the Groningen, Netherlands: Merging Physics-Based Simulations and Empirical Observations”. We present a new non-ergodic ground motion model (GMM) for the Groningen natural gas field in the Netherlands, aimed at improving the region's seismic hazard characterization. Non-ergodic GMMs offer the ability to reduce aleatory variability, which often controls the seismic hazard, especially at longer return periods. Further details provided at the seminar.

Date: Friday, November 7, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Alexei Bulazel currently serves as Special Assistant to the President & Senior Director for Cyber at the White House National Security Council (NSC), where he leads US government coordination of national security policy on cyber issues.