Rensselaer Catalog
Named Professorships
Rensselaer has several professorships honoring individuals or institutions for whom they are named, as well as honoring those who occupy them.

These named professorships are listed below with their incumbents. Dates in parentheses indicate the year the professorship was established.

Ray Palmer Baker Distinguished Professorship (1997) Toh-Ming Lu
Irene and Robert Bozzone ’55 Assistant Professor of Management and Technology (1995) Shikhar Sarin
Warren H. Bruggeman ’46 and Pauline Urban Bruggeman Distinguished Associate Professor (1995) Phillip Phan
John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor of Engineering (1974) (vacant)
Margaret A. Darrin Distinguished Professor in Applied Mathematics (1981) (vacant)
James L. Decker ’45 Endowed Chair in Aerospace Vehicle Design (vacant)
Amos Eaton Professor of Computer Science (1991) Joseph E. Flaherty
Ford Foundation Professor of Mathematics (1967) Joyce R. McLaughlin
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Professor in the Technologies of Management (1969) Albert S. Paulson
Alma and H. Erwin Hale ’30 Teaching Professorship of Humanities and Social Sciences (1991) Linda L. Layne
Edward P. Hamilton Distinguished Educator (1975) Joseph G. Ecker
William Howard Hart Professor of Rational and Technical Mechanics (1883) George J. Dvorak
Wayne R. Hellman Chair (1996) Mark S. Rea
Edward E. Hood Jr. Professorship (1989) Richard T. Lahey Jr. ’64
John Tod Horton ’52 Professor of Materials Engineering (1971) Martin E. Glicksman ’57
Robert W. Hunt Professor of Metallurgical Engineering (1938) Richard W. Siegel
Institute Professor (1994) James W. Modestino
Institute Professor of Nuclear Engineering (1981) Don Steiner
Institute Professor of Science (1995) E. Bruce Watson
Institute Professor of Science (1988) Ivar Giaever ’64
Institute Professor of Science and Technology (1983) Daniel Berg
Howard P. Isermann ’42 Professor of Chemical Engineering Jonathan Dordick
Samuel A. Johnson ’37 and Elisabeth C. Johnson Professor in Engineering (1990) Mark S. Shephard
J. Erik Jonsson ’22 Distinguished Professor (1997) (vacant)
Kodak Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering (1991) James E. Kilduff
Louis Ellsworth Laflin Professor of English (1917) Merrill D. Whitburn
New York State Science and Technology Foundation Professor of Glass and Ceramics Science (1967) Robert H. Doremus
Niagara Mohawk Power Electronics Research Chair (1988) David A. Torrey
Elaine S. and Jack S. Parker Chair in Engineering (1991) (vacant)
Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr. ’33 Professor of Engineering (1981) Erhard Krempl
Eliza Ricketts Foundation Professor of Mathematics (1937) Donald A. Drew
Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts ’48 Chaired Professor in Solid State Electronics (1991) Michael S. Shur
Russell Sage Professor of Chemical Engineering (1938) William N. Gill
Philip Sporn Professor of Electric Power Engineering (1962) J. Keith Nelson
William Weightman Walker Professor of Chemistry (1905) (vacant)
William Weightman Walker Professor of Polymer Engineering (1905) Sanford S. Sternstein ’61
Cary L. Wellington Professor of the Management of Technology (1988) (vacant)
Dean R. Wellington ’83 Teaching Professorship in Management (1990) Robert A. Baron
Yamada Corporation Professor (2001) (vacant)
 

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