School of Engineering

Support the next generation of leaders to solve the world’s hardest problems and shape the future.

GIVE TO ENGINEERING

Support 21st-century technological education, transformative research, and an exceptional student experience.

The RPI School of Engineering combines rigorous fundamentals with hands-on, experiential learning in world-class laboratories, maker spaces, and design studios. Our students learn by designing, building, testing, and innovating – preparing them to lead in a rapidly changing technological world.

Through deep partnerships with industry, pioneering research, and a culture of student-driven innovation, the School of Engineering is advancing solutions to society’s most pressing challenges in areas such as AI, quantum, chips and semiconductors, energy, human health, space, and more.

Your gift to the School of Engineering Dean’s Excellence Fund provides flexible support that enables innovation, expands opportunities for students and faculty, and strengthens the future of engineering at RPI.

Your Support Makes an Immediate Impact

  • Hands-On, Experiential Learning
    Support state-of-the-art laboratories, maker spaces, and design studios where students transform ideas into real-world solutions. From robotics and AI to sustainable energy and biomedical technologies, students gain practical experience that defines an RPI engineering education.
  • Unique Facilities and Advanced Technology
    Provide access to exceptional educational and research infrastructure, including advanced wind tunnels, nuclear reactor simulation facilities, semiconductor and manufacturing laboratories, and the first university-based IBM Quantum System One. These environments empower students and researchers to design, build, experiment, and innovate at the highest level.
  • Student-Driven Technical Clubs and Innovation 
    Fuel student organizations where creativity, leadership, and teamwork thrive. Groups such as the Mercer XLab, The Forge, the Rensselaer Rocket Society, Robotics Club, Engineering Ambassadors, and many others give students opportunities to tackle ambitious projects, to compete nationally, and to develop the skills that prepare them for leadership in industry and society.
  • Faculty Excellence
    Invest in recruiting, supporting, and retaining world-class faculty whose teaching, mentorship, and research shape the next generation of engineers and innovators. Flexible support helps launch new research programs, attract graduate students, and advance high-impact discoveries.
  • Dean’s Strategic Priorities and Emerging Opportunities
    Enable the School of Engineering to act boldly and strategically to advance new initiatives, to respond quickly to emerging opportunities, and to shape the future of engineering education and research in a rapidly evolving world.

Invest in the Future

For more than two centuries, RPI Engineers have advanced technologies that have transformed industries and improved lives. Today, as we enter our third century, the School of Engineering is preparing the next generation of leaders to solve the world’s hardest problems and shape the future.

Your support helps make that possible.

“The world today is complex and dynamic, facing profound global challenges. It needs RPI Engineers more than ever – brilliant, tireless, and deeply committed to making the world a better place.”

Shekhar Garde

Thomas R. Farino, Jr. ’67 and Patricia E. Farino Dean of Engineering