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Concrete canoes float—really. And bridges are more complicated to construct than putting up a few steel beams. Student-engineers who build both the unusual—yet attractive—canoes and complex bridge spans will display their designs at the 2019 Upstate New York Regional Student Conference taking place April 19-20 at RIT.

Mahany Welding Supply donated two gas metal arc welding cells and two gas tungsten arc welding cells to be used within an advanced manufacturing degree program in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology to provide needed workforce skills.

Sabina Ismailova ’13 created Education for All, a growing nonprofit organization for children with developmental disabilities in Kazakhstan.

Meet Dempsey King, a fourth-year civil engineering technology student, who is one of three RIT wrestlers who qualified for the 2019 NCAA Division III Championship tournament.

RIT’s “Packin’ Heat” student team was a spicy favorite at the 2018 Paperboard Packaging Student Design Challenge. The group of undergraduates took first place among 58 collegiate teams in the national design competition.

More than 60 students in the civil engineering technology program have participated in department organized (or independent) study abroad programs since 2010. We promote and encourage our students to learn professional skills while they travel to places like Ireland and Croatia.

More than 250 student projects, representing all nine colleges, were on display at the 27th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on Aug. 3 at RIT.

Shantinique Cowans ’18 was able to live on campus thanks to the M. Forrest and Robert Hurlbut Residence College Fund. Cowans is one example of how students are already benefiting from RIT’s $1 billion blended campaign.

The RIT Baja Racing team won its third and final competition of the season on Saturday, as well as the 2018 championship title against hundreds of other college teams from around the world.

Students from RIT’s College of Applied Science and Technology qualified for the testing round of NASA’s Micro-g NExT design challenge, a national competition to build equipment prototypes.