This week we honored two staff members: Jan Maneti, operations manager in mechanical engineering, was awarded the Student Impact Award and Kathy Ehrlich-Scheffer, director of Women in Engineering at RIT, was awarded the Making a Difference Award. Congrats Jan & Kathy! We appreciate all you do.

That's a wrap on Imagine RIT 2024! Thank you to everyone who attended! Our students, faculty, and staff worked hard to showcase fascinating exhibits. Congratulations to all!

Kate Gleason College of Engineering students build assistive devices for kids in wheelchairs adding modified skis to wheels. Imagine RIT #ImagineRIT

Did everyone get a minion? Some of our favorite people are making them in #RIT Am Print Center...thanks Jade Myers and Daniel Cormier! #ImagineRIT Kate Gleason College of Engineering

Demonstrating the principle of electrospinning with cotton candy is a big hit Imagine RIT Kate Gleason College of Engineering

Today’s featured exhibit, picked by Technically Speaking member Dominick Stanford, is the RIT Hot Wheelz Solar Vehicle Team!

“I am always interested in what the creativity and innovation of the engineering students here at RIT can bring to life.'

President David Munson announced today he will retire on June 30 2025, after eight years of working to make RIT the premier university in the nation at the intersection of technology, the arts and design. brnw.ch/21wJ5RL

Are you a current #RIT student and want free Tiger Bucks? Participate in the Scavenger Hunt at Imagine RIT! Find the first clue on the Imagine RIT website at 10 a.m. and happy hunting! #ImagineRIT
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Want a chance to win $100 Tiger Bucks just by checking out a few of our incredible exhibits? Join our Student Scavenger Hunt this Saturday at Imagine RIT! It's free to join and open to all RIT students! rit.edu/imagine/contes…

Explore 3D printing projects this Sat at Imagine RIT! Stop by the AMPrint Center for your chance to take home a 3D printed RIT Minion - a limited number will be available. Dr. Denis Cormier & his students have been working on a 3D printed light weight bicycle frame. #3Dprinting

.@_RITENGINEERING #mechanicalengineering #researcher Amy Engelbrecht-Wiggans has been awarded a 2024 U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her work on understanding fiber composite material performance, leading to enhanced durability and shelf life. #WomenOfRIT #MechE
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.Kate Gleason College of Engineering assistant professor Bing Yan will represent #RIT on TRANSFORMATIVE, a collaborative project among academia, industry, and national #research labs to improve how #solar #energy is integrated in the national energy grid. #WomenOfRIT
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I am excited and honored to be inducted as an #AIMBE fellow 2024. Special thanks to James Iatridis for nominating me and to my team at Kate Gleason College of Engineering for their passion in research. RIT AIMBE

Fourth-year Kate Gleason College of Engineering student Joshua Schwartz strives to make a difference and believes the Relay For Life on April 6-7 will be a one-of-a-kind event that brings many different pieces of #RIT together to support a compelling cause.
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Congratulations to Kate Gleason College of Engineering professor Karin Wuertz-Kozak on being inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (@AIMBE) College of Fellows. She has been recognized for her #research on disc disease. #RIT #WomenOfRIT
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Information-rich discussions and learning are only part of the classroom experience with Kate Gleason College of Engineering associate professor Dorin Patru. Patru values connections, authenticity, and humor, earning him a 2024 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching. brnw.ch/21wIHyl

.Kate Gleason College of Engineering fifth-year Mike Elrod 3D printed an electric #skateboard with high-quality carbon fiber infused filaments. After a co-op with Tesla, Elrod is taking his knowledge and experience to his dream company SpaceX! #engineer #RIT
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Congratulations to Stefan Preble and Gregory Howland on leading the 2024 AIM Photonics Rochester Education & Workforce Development Project for the third consecutive year! U.S. Air Force Materiel Command ✈️ Research Foundation Kate Gleason College of Engineering College of Science at RIT aimphotonics.com

The recent total solar #eclipse provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an Kate Gleason College of Engineering and @RITScience team to conduct tests on solar spectral irradiance. Data collected will detail the impact of decreased solar power. #Eclipse2024 #research
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Dr. Howland, Dr. Preble and colleagues from Air Force Research Lab - AFRL & Kate Gleason College of Engineering show that scalable visible-light silicon-nitride photonics waveguide splitter which could make stable, low-noise matter-based quantum computing systems more feasible
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