D-Schools 2007

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute*

Troy, N.Y.

7,433 students, both grad and undergrad
Engineering and Design

Partnerships
Academic: Technical University (Denmark)
Business: RPI co-hosted a conference on design with IBM.
Top Employers: Accenture, Arcadi, Bank of America, BAE Systems, Boeing, Capital IQ, Cisco Systems, Citigroup, Deloitte Consulting, Exxon Mobil, FactSet Research Systems, GE, General Dynamics Electric Boat

Claim to Fame: Professor Burt Swersey holds 14 patents and recently won the Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award.

Signature Programs: Offering innovative undergraduate degrees in product design and business ethics and graduate courses in innovation and technology, RPI is a school for the inventors of the future. All of its programs combine engineering with business, the arts, and the social sciences, and students do projects for corporate sponsors in an interdisciplinary design lab called Inventor's Studio.