Talk:Rensselaer Society of Engineers

Request for Information

- List the founding fathers
- Decide if the tiger is a symbol/mascot of the fraternity
- Figure the approximate total number of current and alumni members and list on the box in the top right

Let me add that I feel that the existence of the RSE public wiki is very important for several reasons. Mainly being that students and their parents look at this page a lot during rush. We've had several students tell us that their parents were strongly against Greek life, until they saw our page and that their son was interested in a legit fraternity. That being said, please make sure that anything you add here is appropriate. Feel free to have fun and be respectful. If you would like ideas for ways to make this page better, just look at other fraternities and copy what they've done. (JP) --Birddog165 (talk) 19:22, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Removed from notables

I have removed the following from the notables list because they lack proof of notability (either a Wikipedia article or sources). These individuals can be restored to the list if notability is confirmed. Rublamb (talk) 13:40, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

• Rev. John Ireland Tucker - Musician, early Rensselaer Trustee, long-time rector at the Church of the Holy Cross in Troy, New York, and the first honorary member.
• John Hampden Randolph - 1870 - professor of mechanical engineering at Louisiana State University and inventor of Randolph's Pea Vine Hay Rake, a popular machine with contemporary sugar planters.
• Charles G. Roebling - 1871 - Designed and invented an 80-ton wire rope machine and founded the town of Roebling, New Jersey
• John F. Alden - 1872 - Noted bridge designer known for the successful construction of the Driving Park Avenue Bridge in Rochester which others had twice attempted and failed. He also built the bridge over the Columbia River at Paseo, Washington, two large viaducts at Los Angeles, California, the upper suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, several bridges for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad, and other bridges throughout the country. The structural steelwork which he did for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 is also noteworthy.
• Lyman E. Cooley - 1874 - Appointed by President Grover Cleveland to the Deep Waterways Commission to negotiate an agreement between the U.S. and Canada regarding the creation of a waterway to allow ocean-going traffic between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. Proposed the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
• Souichiro Matsmoto - 1876 - Japanese student sent to Rensselaer after the Meiji Revolution for engineering education. Matsmoto later made significant contributions to civil engineering in Japan and later served as president of the Imperial Railways of Japan.
• Kaname Haraguchi - 1878 - Japanese student sent to Rensselaer after the Meiji Revolution for an engineering education. After returning to Japan he became chief engineer in Tokyo and designed many iron bridges there.
• Feramorz Little Young – 1879 – Son of Brigham Young and Lucy Decker. Railroad engineer and Mormon missionary to Mexico.
• Wilberforce Beecher Hammnond – 1879 – Inventor of an improved automatic sprinkler head
• Ernesto Joaquin Balbin - 1882 - Chief of the Cuban Lighthouse board and erection supervisor for the Colorados Reef Lighthouse on the Colorados Archipelago
• Francis H. Bainbridge - 1884 - Railway engineer and designer of the Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam, the first large steel dam in the world, and one of only three ever built in the United States
• John M. Lockhart - 1887 - Son of one of the founders of Standard Oil, Lockhart lived his life as a Pittsburgh financier, steel maker, and benefactor with a passion for anonymity.
• Eduardo Justo Chibás - 1888 - Prominent Cuban engineer and father of Eduardo Chibás
• Edwin S. Jarrett - 1889 - Founding officer of The Foundation Company, America's premier soils & foundation engineering firm of the early 20th Century. They designed and constructed the foundations for most of the tallest buildings in Manhattan (Trinity, Woolworth, Whitehall, Singer, Banker's Trust, and Municipal Buildings).
• Albert H. Millet - 1867 - designed and built the southern railroad in Ecuador, the custom house and waterworks of Guayaquil, and constructions on the Isthmus of Panama.
• Julio Larrinaga - 1869 - Noted Puerto Rican engineer and erecting engineer of the Arenas Bridge
• Othniel Foster Nichols - 1868 - builder of the Manhattan Bridge
• Lombard John Pozzi - 1967 - Renowned architect and preservationist of Rhode Island
• Frank Batteas - 1977 - NASA Research Pilot
• Don Nigbor - 1970 - Co-Founder of Benchmark Electronics
• Shortridge Hardesty - (Honorary) designer of the John P. Grace Memorial Bridge and 1940 Recipient of the Norman Medal
• Lester C. Higbee - 1912 - Brigadier General in the New York State National Guard
• Henry G. Taylor - 1913 - Rear Admiral US Navy during World War II
• Archibald D. Hunter - 1930 - Commodore in the Civil Engineer Corps, US Navy
• Clayton O. Dohrenwend – 1931 – Former Rensselaer graduate school head and vice president and provost
• Albert J. Fay - 1932 - Rear Admiral in the US Navy
• Horace B. Jones - 1932 - Rear Admiral in the US Navy