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Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute officials today announced a $250,000
fellowship gift commitment from Ajit Prabhu '98 in support
of the $1 billion Renaissance at Rensselaer Campaign. The
Ajit Prabhu '98 Fellowship will be added to the Rensselaer
endowment, and income from the gift will be used to provide
fellowship support directly to master's or doctoral degree
students, with first preference to those enrolled in the
biomedical engineering program. Additionally, Rensselaer and
Prabhu's company, QuEST, a leading provider of product
development and engineering solutions to major global
companies in the aerospace, automotive, energy, and
industrial products domains, have agreed to mutually promote
educational and research cooperation between the two
institutions through the signing of a formal memorandum of
understanding.
"Endowed fellowship funds and meaningful cooperative
arrangements such as we have forged with Ajit Prabhu and
QuEST are tangible investments in the future of science and
technology," said Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson.
"Ajit Prabhu understands that graduate fellowship support
such as he has provided will attract world-class students to
Rensselaer to work with faculty at the forefront of research
innovation in biotechnology, information technology, and the
interdisciplinary areas. As a result, these individuals will
become tomorrow's professors and research scientists,
inventors and innovators, leaders and entrepreneurs."
"Hailing from a small town in India, born and brought up in
a middle-class family, going to America for education in
itself was a dream. I have been fortunate to have met with
excellent faculty at Rensselaer, who have had a significant
impact on my current enterprises' success, through guidance
and support during QuEST's incubation period--especially my
adviser, Dr. John Brunski, for funding my research and his
constant encouragement to explore," said Ajit Prabhu, who is
CEO of QuEST. "I am pleased to create this opportunity for
future graduate students, because a global outlook and an
entrepreneurial spirit are alive and thriving at
Rensselaer."
With this gift commitment, Prabhu earns membership in
Rensselaer's Livingston W. Houston '13 Society of Patroons,
in recognition of those who have achieved lifetime support
of the Institute of $250,000 or more.
Prabhu earned a master's degree in biomedical engineering at
Rensselaer, a master's degree in mechanical engineering from
Old Dominion University, Virginia, and a bachelor's degree
in mechanical engineering from Karnataka University, India.
He earned the Young Investigator Award from the
International Association for Dental Research. A Six Sigma
Greenbelt certificate holder, Prabhu gained practical
experience at General Electric Company's Global Research and
Development Center in Schenectady, New York. Prabhu is now
the chief executive officer of QuEST, Inc., a global
engineering solutions provider with offices in the United
States, the United Kingdom, India, China, Italy, and Japan.
About the Renaissance at Rensselaer Campaign --
http://www.rpi.edu/campaign/index.html
About Rensselaer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is the
nation's oldest technological 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, information
technology, 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.
About QuEST
Founded in 1997, QuEST is a leading pure-play engineering
services firm providing product development and engineering
solutions to major global companies by establishing Global
Product Development (GPD) Centers, which support product
development activities for its customers' product lines.
QuEST's expertise ranges from concept design to drafting and
modeling, to analysis to product realization solutions in
the following domains: aerospace, automotive, energy,
industrial products and oil & gas. Using Six Sigma and ISO
processes, QuEST partners with many Fortune 500 companies to
provide better, faster and more cost-effective solutions to
its customers. QuEST has over 850 engineers across US, UK,
Italy, Germany, Japan, and India. For more information,
visit www.quest-global.com.
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