Mentoring event for computer engineering students

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Computer engineering alumni will talk technology and careers at noon on Friday, Oct. 17, at a new Mentoring Network Roundtable program, part of this week’s Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend.

RIT helped launch many of its alumni’s distinguished careers. Several will be returning to campus during Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend to participate in a new networking event. RIT’s computer engineering department will host a mentoring roundtable event from noon to 1 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 17, in the College of Science Auditorium, Gosnell Hall, room 1250, with computer engineering alumni discussing how new graduates, mid-level and high-level executives manage career paths.

Computer engineering alumni Jamie Cole, Jim Remus, Sergey Katsev, Vinny Ferrer, Frank Jenner, Bill Cook, Chris Murphy, Joanne Macek and Jon Szymaniak will be among the roundtable guests, along with Nick Sardino, Paul Desanctis, Jeff Knorr and Evan Clark who will participate through video conferencing. Shanchieh Jay Yang, associate professor and department head of computer engineering in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering, will moderate the roundtable.

The event is free and open to students, faculty, alumni and family members.

“This first event is an opportunity to connect alumni at different points in their careers with our students, but it also marks the start for our alumni to continuously exchange their experience and advice with each other on the variety of career paths that have taken,” said Yang. “The Computer Engineering Alumni Mentoring Network is ‘for the alums, by the alums,’ enabling a lifeline mentoring network for RIT computer engineering alumni beyond their study at RIT.”

Yang has established a computer engineering LinkedIn private network to further connect current students with department alumni, and he will facilitate future events and mentoring opportunities. For more information about the roundtable or the LinkedIn network, contact Yang at jay.yang@rit.edu.