Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM - Join BMEGC, CBIS GPA, and CCPD for a Career Panel. Representatives from Applied BioPhysics, Taconic, and the New York State Department of Health will come to deliver a short talk on their career paths and answer audience questions. Come network with local professionals and ask questions about the hiring process, their career paths, and their fields. Refreshments at 2:30, event starts at 3pm.

Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM - “Recent results from the NASA PICTURE-D balloon mission to characterize exoplanetary systems”, Christopher Mendillo, UMass Lowell

The Mercer X Lab, in collaboration with the Future Semiconductor Transitions Program, is offering a remote Altium Designer certification course on Saturday, November 15th, 2025. The 6-8 hour long workshop begins at 10:00 a.m. EST. Click the Prepare for an Altium Workshop Mercer X Education Module to REGISTER or email sawyes@rpi.edu. Participants earn an official Altium Certificate and a Mercer XLab PCB Design Badge when completed. An optional design challenge follows the workshop!

Mercer X Take It, Break It, Make It 2025 edition is here! You (and your collaborators) can take apart and reconstruct, in your own innovative way, anything that helps you learn: electronic hardware, software, theoretical models. Show your creativity and depth of knowledge by reverse-engineering and then making something new! Fill out the 2025 Take It, Break It, Make It participation form by December 20th. Your video submission is due January 12th. Email sawyes@rpi.edu for more details.

Date: Monday, November 10, 2025 12:00 AM - Mon , December 1, 2025 12:00 PM - Students applying to the DoD S.M.A.R.T. Scholars program are encouraged to seek application assistance and review from the DoD on-campus support advisor. The program provides one-five years of salary and full tuition for undergraduate and graduate students with guaranteed work post-graduation. Send application drafts and/or questions to Betty Madigan madige@rpi.edu before the December 5th deadline.

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Join the So.CA alumni chapter for session on getting started with a career in software engineering and development. Learn what to expect "day to day" in this career path, the different potential roles, and how things are changing. This will largely be a Q&A session with some initial remarks up front. Jeffrey Wen ’13 and Linjing Wen ’13G will lead the session in partnership with members of the CCPD.

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Current students are invited to attend a virtual session on getting started with a career in software engineering and development sponsored by the alumni chapter of S. California. Join us and learn what to expect in this career path, the different potential roles (e.g. coding, testing, architecture, project management), and how things are changing. Jeffrey Wen ’13 (Computer & Systems Engineering) and Linjing Wen ’13 (MBA) will lead the session with members of the CCPD.

RPI R users are invited to the November 2025 meeting of RPIrates: The RPI R Users Group! Our topic for Weds, 12 Nov (6p, AE217) will be "LLMs and R: How Posit is Making it Easy!" In this session we'll review the many ways that Posit, the creators of RStudio, is supporting data analytics that tightly integrates popular LLMs. RPIrates is led by Dr. John S. Erickson, Dir. of Research Operations of the Rensselaer IDEA and Chief Instigator of RPIrates. Pizza and salad starts at 5:30p.

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM - The Association for Bridge Construction & Design welcomes all Civil & Environmental students to their November dinner meeting. This is a great way to network with local professionals. RSVP is required by 10/30/2025. See attached flyer for more information.