Alumna Nayleth Ramirez `24, Systems Test Engineer at RTX, achieved another milestone, completing the Rensselaer at Work Masters in Systems Engineering and Technology Management, thanks to her supportive family, employer and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). Nayleth completed her graduate degree while working full time at the very start of her career, likely to inspire others to follow her lead.

With an RPI undergraduate degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Riley Benson landed a dream job at Northrop Grumman working as a test engineer for one the most technologically challenging projects in history - while creating his own chapter in professional development as a Rensselaer at Work systems engineering and technology management graduate student.

View this (25-minute) presentation that describes RPI’s one-month, online, project-based, non-credit course. Participants of this course are coached through their creation of a road map towards Smart Manufacturing operations excellence using CESMII’s Smart Manufacturing Acceleration Framework. In the end, an organization-specific presentation will be at hand, defining business objectives for critical areas, programs and initiatives required to support those objectives, and a realistic timeline to achieve the desired future state in Smart Manufacturing.

Aeronautical Engineer Sarah Rybacki from Sikorsky Aircraft, a Lockheed Martin company -completed her Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute last summer. RPI Professor of Practice Ernesto Gutierrez-Miravete, Sarah’s graduate program advisor, recommended Bonnie reach out to Sarah to hear about her experience in the program.  Here’s a summary of what she learned:

In a world filled with change, and at a company leading transformational change, Google’s Nathaniel Bowles is positioning himself not to stand passively by - but rather to actively sell change vertically to his management, laterally to his team, and outwardly to his clients.

Typically, when an Associate Director of Enterprise Supplier Quality at a major aerospace company is concerned about a supplier’s Quality Management System, the default would be to conduct an audit. However, with a limited travel budget and seven business units within Roberto Santiago’s team at Collins Aerospace - who all work with dozens of shared suppliers – Roberto discovered the audit was the problem, not the solution.

With a market capitalization of $100 billion and 174,000 employees, the success of Raytheon Technologies ultimately depends not on managerial intentions but on the thousands of individuals who take personal responsibility for driving the changes a successful merger requires. One of those individuals is David Brunato.

Kam Ng's children keep trying to persuade him to stop school and they have a point: the retired grandfather of two has been in one formal education program or another - almost without interruption - since arriving in the United States from Hong Kong at the age of 14. Kam explicitly credits his love of education for his remarkable, inspiring success, including his Master of Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer at Work.

One would expect that a high-profile Data Governance Risk Officer would have an undergraduate degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Economics, Management, and the like.

And yet, for Randy Gordon, Senior Vice President, Data Governance Risk Officer, majoring in cello led ultimately to a highly-visible, highly-responsible position with Citi at their headquarters in New York City, due in part to an advanced degree from Rensselaer at Work.

Until recently, Leandre Adifon moved fast and went big in his work. As Worldwide Vice President of Engineering for Otis Elevator, nearly everyone in the developed world has ridden in one of the more than 1,000,000 Gen2 elevators his team produced, accounting for billions of passenger rides every day.

For Dan Titus, Chief Executive Officer of HRP Associates, 2020 started with a bang. Like every company, HRP had to pivot and pivot fast. And then came the real pivot, not one of changing what they did but who they served and how they articulated what they were doing - a communications objective unlike any they had ever contemplated.

How Rensselaer Alumnus Roman Sobieri ensured millions had face masks when the pandemic struck and the global supply chain was disrupted.

Can we realistically and individually change the world?  Probably not, but Fred Keller, a Rensselaer at Work graduate is on a mission to change his community – Change Where You Are - and create a regional framework which could truly change the world.

When Gavin Molta decided to go for his third master’s degree — “more degrees than a thermometer,” his Site Lead jokes — he was admittedly attracted to the prestige of having a diploma from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), but what he didn’t expect was how practical his education would be.

As a Senior Technical Manager at Pratt & Whitney’s Modular Assembly group in North Berwick, Maine, Bobbi Coffin frequently asks engineers on her team to prioritize activities, while pointing out that “everything is a priority” is not an acceptable answer.

Every university likes to say that it is unique.  And then there is Rensselaer at Work.  We prefer to show that we are different and, true-to-form, we do it with data.

Rensselaer at Work was founded over 67 years ago to provide graduate and executive education to engineers and business leaders.

As a prospective student, Rijoy needed approval on a substantial project, executed concurrently with his graduate study to help Pratt & Whitney meet its quality requirements.

Courses are designed around the needs of mission-critical employees and the companies that depend on them.

With 6,478 active Alumni on LinkedIn, Rensselaer at Work graduates cover almost every conceivable industry in the world.

Over the years, thousands of working professionals have earned advanced degrees at Rensselaer at Work. 

Listen to organization leaders and workplace safety experts Dan Titus (‘01) and John Chen (’96) in a panel discussion moderated by Dean Aric Krause on the topic of COVID-19 and the Logistics of Safety at Work. The panelists will share their insights as we respond to audience questions and explore the results of a survey that professionals from across the US had completed.

Listen to Rensselaer at Work Dean Aric Krause, Ph.D., Professor Michael Hughes, and panelists Lon Blumenthal (’70), and Roman Sobieri (’98) discuss the complexity of supply chains today, challenges in the distributed ownership of these systems, and how firms can optimize results to maximize value and minimize cost.

Listen to Rensselaer at Work Dean Aric Krause, Ph.D., panelists Ravi Ravichandran, Ph.D., Aleks Lazarevic, Ph.D., and others discussing insights from an organization’s desired state in data analytics and reviewing a Rensselaer approach to decision making at every level.