He designed nuclear weapo ns at Lawrence-Livermore National Labs, and he worked for the Minuteman Missile System at Edwards Air Force Base. Ray Bellem, chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Dayton. He spent 27 years in the Air Force, most of which was in research and development. He was the commander of the ROTC unit at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It means you'll always get the personal touch fro m your professors.
Small classes mean personal attention from faculty.
You can call them at home and ask them a question, and they know you by your first name. Our faculty are exclusively focused o n undergraduate education. They are heavily noted as teachers by international standards. In addition, they have ten hours per week of required student advising time in their offices. This is unprecedented.