Yaser Khalil Awarded Joseph J. Smith '45 Scholarship From Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute #RPI

2014 Jan 10

Yaser Khalil was one of nine engineering undergraduate students to be award the Joseph J. Smith Jr. '45 Scholarship during the 2013 Honors Convocation ceremony held Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Khalil studies Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer.

The annual ceremony honors Rensselaer students who exhibit an unquenchable delight in learning and who have achieved the highest levels of academic success. Reserved for transfer students joining Rensselaer from two-year colleges, the Joseph J. Smith Jr. '45 Scholarship recognizes individuals who were the most outstanding engineering science students at their previous schools.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is the nation's oldest technological research university. The university offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology, architecture, management, and the humanities and social sciences. Institute programs serve undergraduates, graduate students, and working professionals around the world. Rensselaer faculty are known for pre-eminence in research conducted in a wide range of fields, with particular emphasis in biotechnology, nanotechnology, computational science and engineering, and the media arts and technology. The Institute is well known for its success in the transfer of technology from the laboratory to the marketplace so that new discoveries and inventions benefit human life, protect the environment, and strengthen economic development.