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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) officially cut the ribbon on its new Center for Smart Convergent Manufacturing Systems (CSCMS) during an all-day launch event on October 23, 2025. A New York State Center for Advanced Technology, CSCMS will redefine the very nature of manufacturing by combining robotics, artificial intelligence, advanced processing, and human ingenuity to create systems that think, adapt, and evolve alongside human operators.
RPI Launches Semiconductor CoLab to Advance Microelectronics Research and Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has launched the Semiconductor CoLab at NY Creates' Albany NanoTech Complex, establishing a dedicated 6,000-square-foot facility designed to advance semiconductor research and strengthen academic programming in microelectronics. The facility positions RPI as a key contributor to the nation's semiconductor research infrastructure.
Led by ECSE Professor Luigi Vanfretti, the group was hosted by AGILe's Dr. Reza Pourramezan and Dr. Rahul Kadavil. The AGILe team began by providing a comprehensive overview of the facility and its mission: to enable an affordable, reliable, and low-carbon future for the state's power grid.
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) announced the winners of a recent project call awarded through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech). The project call, Improvements in Manufacturing Productivity via Additive Capabilities and Techno-Economic Analysis 3.0 (IMPACT 3.0
ECSE welcomes multiple faculty members in fall 2025:
On Wednesday, July 16, a group of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff from the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department enjoyed a summer hike at Boehm
Professor Agung Julius's lab has received an NVIDIA Academic Research Grant to support a groundbreaking project titled Concept-based Foundation Models for Vision-Language-Action Planning & Reasoning. The research is based on the innovative work of ECSE Ph.D. student Yunshi Wen.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has been awarded two Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) grants from NYSTAR, the Division of Science, Technology and Innovation within Empire State Development (ESD), New York State’s chief economic development agency. The awards include funding to launch the new Center for Smart Convergent Manufacturing Systems (CSCMS) and to renew support for RPI’s long-established Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES).
Two RPI-HVCC Semiconductor Scholars, Katie Ziegler and Andrew Lee, together with the faculty advisor, Dr. Muhsin Celik, Professor of Practice in ECSE, were supported to attend the 2025 TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo at Austin, TX in June 9-11, 2025. Katie and Andrew just graduated from HVCC Engineering Science program in May 2025 and will start in RPI in Fall 2025 to finish their four-year college experiences. Katie will be in ECSE and Andrew will be in ISE.