The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree is awarded from a department and represents the culmination of a significant amount of work, imagination, and perseverance by you. The degree is earned once your thesis advisor and doctoral committee agree that you have demonstrated independent thought and research, made original contributions to the fundamental knowledge in a given field, and have produced a substantial body of information in the form of a dissertation publishable in a refereed journal(s). The dissertation documents your research and is expected to be a scholarly work.
Rensselaer awards the doctor’s degree in recognition of high achievement in scholarship and independent investigation. The Ph.D., under the auspices of the Office of Graduate Education, is awarded when the dissertation is directed toward making an original contribution to fundamental knowledge in a particular field or in an interdisciplinary field. A dissertation that is scholarly, creative, original, and publishable may deal also with the relation of a discipline to educational problems and objectives within the field. The Doctor of Engineering degree, under the auspices of the Professional School of the School of Engineering, is awarded when the student proposes an engineering problem of substance and develops a solution to it in a creative and distinguished manner.
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School of Science - http://science.rpi.edu/
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Faculty – http://science.rpi.edu/faculty.html
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Department of Biology
- Molecular, Cell and Development Biology
- Neuroscience
- Biochemistry
- Biophysics
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Biology
- Ecology and Environmental Sciences
- Microbiology
- Structural Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells
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Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
- Chemistry
- Chemical Biology and Biochemistry
- Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
- Physical and Computational Chemistry
- Organic and Medicinal Chemistry
- Polymer and Materials Chemistry
- Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry.
- Biotechnology
- Nanotechnology
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Computer Science
- Algorithms and Theory
- Artificial Intelligence
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Science and Engineering
- Computer Vision, Graphics and, Robotics
- Data Mining and Machine and Computational Learning
- Database Systems
- Pervasive Computing and Networking
- Programming Languages and Software Engineering
- Security
- Semantic Web
- Social Networking
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Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Geology and Hydrogeology
- Inorganic
- Igneous Experimental Geochemistry Seismology
- Solid Earth Geophysics Isotopic
- Organic Geochemistry metamorphic Petrology
- Geochemistry Lithoshere Dynamics
- Tectonophysics Paleoceanography
- Micropaleontology Environmental
- Freshwater Geochemistry
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Information Technology & Web Science
- Database & intelligent Systems
- Management Information Systems
- Information Systems Engineering
- Software Design
- Networking
- Information Security
- Financial Engineering
- Human Computer Interaction
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Department of Mathematical Sciences
- Acoustics
- Applied Geometry
- Approximation Theory
- Bioinformatics
- Biomathematics
- Chemically-Reacting Flows
- Computational Logic
- Dynamical Systems
- Environmental Problems
- Fluid Dynamics
- Inverse Problems
- Machine Learning
- Math Education
- Mathematical Physics
- Multiphase Flows
- Nonlinear Materials
- Nonlinear Analysis
- Nonlinear Waves
- Operations Research and Mathematical Programming
- Optimization
- Perturbation Methods
- Scientifics Computing
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Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Optical Physics
- Biological Physics
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Particle Physics
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Research - http://eng.rpi.edu/soe/index.php/overview-of-research
Faculty - http://eng.rpi.edu/soe/index.php/faculty
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Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Biomechanics
- Biomaterials
- Tissue Engineering
- Imaging or Electrical Instrumentation
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Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Geotechnical
- Structural
- Transportation
- Environmental
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Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Advanced Materials
- Biochemical Engineering
- Biomedical Engineering
- Fluid Mechanics
- Drug Delivery
- Interfacial Phenomena.
- Mass Transport.
- Molecular Simulations
- Polymers
- Process Control, Design, and Optimization
- Separation and Bioseparation Processes
- Molecular Theromodynamics
- Systems Engineering
- Nanotechnology
- Systems Biology
- Transport Phenomena
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Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Decision Technologies for Adaptive Supply Chains
- Social Networks/Data Mining
- Soft Computing/Computational Optimization
- Maritime Safety Systems
- Bayesian Decision Systems
- Stochastic Process in Supply Chain
- Simulation Based Optimization
- Network Optimization
- Material Flow Logistics
- Database Systems
- Statistical Forecasting/Exploratory data Analysis
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Department of Electrical, Computer Systems Engineering
- Control, Robotics and Automation
- Communications, Information and Signals and Systems
- Computer Engineering, Hardware and Architecture
- Microelectronics, Photonics, VLSI, and Mixed-Signal Design
- Computer Networking
- Image Science: Computer Vision, Image Processing, and Geographic Information Science
- Energy Sources and Systems
- Plasma Science and Electromagnetics
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Department of Materials Science & Engineering
- Nanomaterials
- Materials Characterization
- Materials for Energy
- Electronic Materials
- Advanced Processing & Synthesis
- Computational Materials
- Metals
- Composites
- Corrosion / Electrochemical Materials
- Glasses / Ceramics
- Materials / Biology Interface
- Polymeric Materials
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Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
- Multiscale/Computational Modeling
- Nanostructured Materials and Properties
- Aerodynamics
- Propulsion
- Nuclear Physics / Nuclear Reactor.
- Design
- Advanced Nuclear Materials
- Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion
- Fluid Mechanics (Computational Theoretical, and Experimental)
- Medical Imaging, Health Physics
- Dynamics and Vibrations
- Manufacturing
- Fission Systems & Radiation Transport
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