| 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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