Imagine RIT
Exhibit Highlights
For the past decade RIT has worked to expand its research capabilities, enhancing opportunities for students and faculty while also advancing technology development in a number of disciplines.
RIT Engineers Reduce Reuse and Recycle
A number of researchers and engineers are working to advance methods for recycling and reusing materials while also enhancing product design to improve durability, environmental quality and reusability.
RIT’s METEOR Team Seeks “Final Frontier”
Today’s innovations in engineering and computer science have combined with the opening up of space for scientific and business purposes to allow many individuals and groups to enter ‘The Final Frontier.’
An increasing number of people are ditching their jobs back on Earth to make their living entirely online within Second Life’s virtual economy-making thousands of U.S. dollars selling designs, developing virtual property, or creating virtual market branches to offer real products.
Simulation Device Measures Impact of Smoking
RIT engineering students are assisting research that will enhance the understanding of the impacts of cigarette smoking. As part of a multidisciplinary senior design project, a student team developed and constructed a smoking simulation device, which will be used to model the impacts of smoking on individual organs.
RIT Students Learn the Art of Being Good Neighbors
Community service learning through the College of Liberal Arts’ partnership with the NorthEast Neighborhood Alliance will be showcased at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival May 3. Past projects will be on display, including the RIT-NENA summer learning communities involving the Greater Rochester Urban Bounty, as well as on-going community research projects.
RIT/NTID Student Uses Software and Laptop to “Get the Girl”
A self-described computer geek, Josh Allmann, 21, a computer science major at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, uses his passion for software and algorithms to help him score points with his girlfriend by creating poems in the style of her favorite poet.