Fall 2011 Newsletter

Abby Berner Cantwell, Senior Academic Advisor

Co-lead an advisor training session with Bernadette Lynch, Director of Trio Student Support Services in September. The session focused on RIT’s Institute Policies and Procedures related to academic advising and student support

Thomas Hanney, Lecturer

Taught a class titled “Empowered Leadership and Effective Communication” at RIT Dubai in May. The class was for managers in the Ministry of Public Works and was part of the “Leadership for the 21st Century” program

Guy Johnson, Professor

Presented Mobile GIS in a Multidisciplinary Academic Center at the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference in held at the Vancouver Convention Centre, British Columbia, Vancouver. His paper was also published in the proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference

Sponsored the STEM summer camp for Urban League students, which was held at RIT. CMS grad student Christina Karas designed and taught the workshop during August

Samuel McQuade III, Professor

Was the keynote speaker at the 38th Annual Monroe County Office for the Aging 2011 Public Hearing. The title of the hearing was “An Intergenerational Fraud & Safety Summit” and was held September 13 at the RIT Inn and Conference Center

Thomas Moran, Professor

“Designing for Success” and “The Road to Excellence”, the first two volumes in Tom Moran’s series of e-books, “Writing for Success: An Engineer’s Guide” were published by IEEE-USA. In September, the first of these volumes was the most popular among IEEE-USA’s more than 100 titles. Moran’s earlier e-book, “Engineers Can Write – Thoughts on Writing from Contemporary Literary Engineers” was number six in popularity and won a Award of Merit from the Society for Technical Communication

James Myers, Director

The article “Kosova’s Household Energy Efficiency and Fuel Supplies,” authored with Brian H. Bowen (vice president for RIT Academic Affairs at the American University in Kosovo) and Agon Nixha (an American University in Kosovo student), was published in the International Journal of Energy Sector Management

Dr. Carol Romanowski, Professor

Presented at CISSE (The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education) in Fairborn, OH in June. The paper (authors are Rajendra K. Raj, Sumita Mishra, Carol J. Romanowski and Trudy M. Howles) was titled “CyberSecurity as General Education”

Rajendra Raj presented a paper at ASIA in June titled “A Holistic, Modular Approach to Infuse Cybersecurity into Undergraduate Programs”. Authors are Trudy Howles, Rajendra Raj, Carol Romanowski, Sumita Mishra

The article, “Performance in One-, Two-, and Three-dimensional Terminal Aiming Tasks,” co-authored with Hoffman and Drury, will be published in Ergonomics journal, published by Taylor & Francis