The 19th President of RPI, Dr. Marty Schmidt, is a faculty member, and also a graduate, of the ECSE department. He returned to RPI a year ago to lead his alma mater. He sat down with the ECSE department head, John Wen, to share the story of his journey and thoughts for the future.
Dr. Martin Schmidt received his B.S. (1981) in Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1983 and 1988, respectively. He joined MIT as a faculty member in 1988 and served as Director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (1999-2006), Associate Provost (2008-2013), and Provost until 2022, when he returned to RPI as the 19th President and a Professor in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE). He sat with ECSE head John Wen for an interview on June 12, 2023. The following is an excerpt from the interview.
John Wen: Hi Marty, thank you for taking the time for this interview. You came to RPI in 1977 as a freshman and received your bachelor's degree in the ECSE Department in 1981. Could you describe a bit of your background, how did you decide on electrical engineering, and how did you decide on RPI?
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