A unique feature of the Imaging and Photographic Technology program is that graduates complete at least two required Cooperative Ed
ion work blocks prior to graduation. This page is here to give you some insight as to where the students are completing current coop experiences and recent full-time positions.

If you are interested in possibly hiring a current student looking for a coop or paid intern position, a graduating student ready for full-time employment or a graduate who is looking for new opportunities, check out a website where several students have included information about their background and aspirations. Choose Imaging and Photo Technology Situations Wanted!. You can also obtain a PDF copy of the latest brochure of graduates.

Or, send an announcement to all Imaging and Photographic Technology students if you have potentially applicable positions available now or will possibly have one in the future. Just send mail to the program chair at andpph@rit.edu

Please forgive the preformatted nature of the rest of this page at this time. It is in the process of being improved!

The following students completed coops during the Summer of 2003:

Iris        Sprow       at Xerox, Webster, NY as a color engineer
Carl        Smith       at Imaging and Photo Tech Chemistry TA
Lisa        Bozek       at Rome AFB, Rome NY.
Jessica     D'Amico     at Center for Imaging Science at RIT
Jon         Lorang      at ETC at RIT
Jessica     Gehlhar     at ETC and Imaging and Photo Tech as Holography TA
Elizabeth   Martin      at Laboratory for Laser Energetics at UofR
Jeffrey     Detrick     at Delphi, in Kokomo, IN
Alistair    Neal        at Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM
Lindsay     Sargeant    at Space Telescope Science Institute, MD 
Matt        Swain       at FLEXcon in Spencer, MA 
Justin      Laird       at Harley Davidson, Milwaukee, WI
Anthony     Tanbakuchi  at Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY


... others also did a workblock but possibly did not register yet?

If you have not yet registered for a coop and but completed one this
Summer check on: registration info at bottom of page!
 

Bozek Lisa M Civ AFRL/IFEC Hi Andy, How is your summer going? I'm doing pretty well here in Rome, NY at the Airforce Research Laboratory. I've been going out on a couple of photo shoots lately to get some test images for their SecureStego program to find some bugs in it. I just got to work directly with U Texax San Antonio producing a test set of images embedded with different amounts of data for them.... Aparently my boss must trust me. I'm starting to think about what I want to do for co-op next year already... And a "real" job. I was wondering if you know of anything someone in this major could have to do with any automotive stuff. I know some people have worked for Harly Davidson so I was thinking maybe there would be jobs having to do with cars. Well, some important people are coming today so I'm kind of getting kicked out of my office. Bye for now, Lisa

  Jeff Detrick Hey Andy, Just wanted to drop you a line to tell you how things are going. I'm working with Delphi Delco Automotive Systems who is now an independent manufacturer no longer with GM and we are based out of Kokomo, Indiana, an hour north of Indianapolis.

Things are going good in Kokomo, I'm getting to work on lots of interesting projects and also go on some great trips. In fact the first Thursday I was here I was already on a two day trip to Michigan. On the Thursday we went to Milford to the GM Proving grounds for a review of a part we were proposing to GM and Friday we were in Dearborn, Michigan at Ford's headquarters. Also you will be happy to know; on the Milford trip one of the people at the meeting was JPHT's very own Ann-Marie (you can see her standing next to me in the photo). She is very cool and a really upbeat person. She graduated from the program some years back and is married and lives in El Paso I believe. We all got to hang out back a the hotel after the meeting and also at breakfast the next day before the team I was with had to go to Dearborn and Ann-Marie's team's flight departed back to Mexico. I can't really talk about what I saw at these places but let's just say for a car guy, I was in heaven!

In Dearborn we got to stop into the Automotive Hall of Fame, and look around at some of the cars that were considered turning points in automotive production. The only remaining Honda S800 is there along with a replica of the first Mercedes-Benz powered carriage that was ever produced. It was a really great experience and I learned a bunch of stuff that I never knew before at the museum.

The work that I do somewhat varies from day to day, but right now my main focus is on an instrument correlation project between three spectral radiometers that the TALC department has. The only problem is that our one Photo Research 705 died because of a circuit board failure, but we hope to have that back up and working in a week or so. The other piece of equipment that I have been getting familiar with is a Radiant Imaging ProMetric1400 Color. It a computer controlled Peltier cooled 14-bit CCD photometer, radiometer, and colorimeter that allows us to take an image of an HVAC unit or a radio to evaluate nighttime illumination and create 3D plots of basically anything we need to know in addition to doing defect analysis of the prototype.

How are things back in Rochester? Did you get any postcards from other co-op students? Hope everything is well and im looking forward to classes starting in the fall. Take care,

Jeff Detrick
Delphi Delco Automotive Systems
Appearance Technology - TALC/1639
jeffrey.m.detrick@delphi.com
Phone: 765 451-6750

  Matt Swain Hi Andy,I'll tell you, this co-op is so great for me. I am at FLEXcon in Spencer, MA (near Worcester) and I have been learning all about different films lately. Not photographic films, but films such as vinyl, polyester, polypropylene, and polyethylene. What this company does is purchase rolls of this stuff...and when I say rolls I mean 5000 lbs rolls of 19,000 ft of these materials. Then they coat them with different topcoats and adhesives according to application that their customers will be using them for. So....with all of this general information out of the way...i'll tell you how the major applies to our field.

I am working in product development and electronic printing. I am assigned labs which have been overwhelmingly developed due to customer complaints/complaint analysis. This is all happening while I am waiting for the start of my big project, which will be working with a prototype "leading brand" printer and running tests with our materials.

Sample application: We decide on using one of the aforementioned films and keep that as a constant. Then we look into which coatings are working with similar dye sublimation printers and I do the coatings in the wet lab.

Continuing...I run the material through the printer and run different tests on it to find out how promising it is. Sometimes it is just a matter of adding a cross-linker and sometimes the mixture needs other additives. They expect a lot of me and it is pushing me well.

I have been working on my own test pattern for the big printer project and it should be just what I need to get them the results. It includes all of the important colors from the Macbeth ColotChecker, a photographic quality image, pen alignment tests, color bleed tests, barcodes, grayscales, and resolution testing. I go to DOW this Thursday to tour their printing facilities (flexo and indigo processes) and run some tests on the prototype printer.

This is getting long so I will summarize extracurricular....sailing/fishing off of cape cod, chainsawing trees down/building nature trails around the house (14 acres to play with), camping, bars in Worcester (I've had better), golfing, and some photography included in all of those activities - - - naturally.

Phew....hope you are still awake and things are well with you. ---Matt Swain

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These are some companies where Tech students have completed coops in the past:

Jessica Boarman      Konica in NJ - remote minilab quality management
Jack Calcines        Eastman Kodak - electron microscopy
Krystyn Falkenstern  EI ETC in Boston
Ben Gershman         Pixel Physics, Rochester, NY
Joanne Gosselin      Pixel Physics, Rochester, NY
Conor Kelly          ASF in Austin, TX
Rose Klinger         dept coop with Bruce Kahn
Bianca Koscielski    LithoKrome in Columbus, GA making giclee prints and 
                     working on the Better Light program and scanner and 
                     talking to Michael Collette (the creator of the Better 
                     Light system) on nearly a daily basis.
Michelle Lavalette   Transportation Research Labs - Ohio
Tiana Lichtenau      Madison Photo in NJ
Logan Lindquist      Pixel Physics, Rochester, NY
Nicole Marousek      Fortune Magazine in NYC, working in the digital 
                     ad production dept.
Erin Murphy          Northtec in Philadelphia - Cosmetics Co.
Alicia Novi          Konica in NJ - remote minilab quality management
Andy Prasetio        Iris Graphics in MA as Chemistry Lab Technician, primary 
                     job is making test prints using hundreds of ink types.
Paul Reichert        NASA Langley LARSS program
Kerry Robarge        HP in Vancouver, WA
Zachary Schreiber    Camp Kingsmont in Stockbridge, MA teaching photography
Kim Sennett          ConsciousMedia.com in Old Town Alexandria, VA doing a 
                     bit of web development and some marketing.
Anthony Tanbakuchi   Mount Rushmore National Park - webmaster
Garrett Vanderover   Estee Lauder on Long Island trying to find a way to make 
                     lipstick match between the actual product and a computer monitor
Robert Waugh         Bruce Bennett Fine Art Printing here in Rochester
Meredith Whitaker    HP in Boise, ID
Joanne RIM           UofR / IDL programming
Anita Bauer          Foster Wheeler
Jason Peterson       Foster Wheeler
David Zwarg          Pixel Physics, Rochester, NY
Justin Laird         MuseumArchives in Seattle
Victor Trimarchi     MuseumArchives in Seattle
Liana Schuetz        going to school over summer
Mark Updegraff       NASA Glenn Research Cneter
Peter Tate           Polaroid Corporation in Cambridge, MA 
Vincent Reich        ?
Kristen Kelly        nursing her knee back into shape!
Astrida Rideout      ?

Full time employment reports have been received from the following
students who graduated in May 2000:

Karen Dirkse         Polaroid
Kirsa Upton          Xerox
Patrick Harrington   Xerox  - Color Operations Xerox in Webster
Ryan Carson          NASA/Analux in Cleveland
Sam Hill             grad school
Jason Babcock        grad school
Ellen Day            Key Systems in Victor near Rochester
Bret E. Harmen       Fuji/Hunt in NJ
Gennelle Quintana 
Christine Pierce     Titan Technologies in Atlanta, GA
David Zwarg          Pixel Physics
Mike Kern            own software business
Shannon Eddy         Eastman Kodak
Sarah Arnold         Image Permanence Institute
Scott Bogart         NIMA



Here is some feedback from students who were on coop last summer. News from
those on coop in 2001 are still to be received.

From: Nicole_Marousek@timeinc.com

Hi Andy,

I'm doing a double block at Fortune Magazine in NYC. I work in the digital ad
production dept.

All is well here. I am having a great time in NY. My parents live about an hour
outside of the city in Northern Westchester, so I am quite accustomed to the
"New York City" lifestyle :) The only thing I don't really like is the commute,
but hey, you have to deal with these things for free rent! Other than that,
everything is well. I really like my job here - lots of deadlines and
insanity...it's right up my ally.

It was good to hear from you, and I will see you in the fall!

-Nicole


From: Andy Prasetio 

Dear Andy,

HI, Sorry that I'm late in replying. I am doing my Co-op in Iris Graphics as 
a Chemistry Lab Technician. Primary job is making test prints using hundreds 
of ink types. I met several RIT graduates, including Dana Fokos ( IPT grad ). 
several already left the company.

See you again next quarter,
Andy Prasetio


From: David Zwarg 

Andy-

You got me right, I'm at Pixel Physics for the time being...I am still
waiting anxiously for some time on the water.  So if you are going to
bring your boat out for a weekend or evening, let me know.

CYA
dave


From: brk8873@ritvax.isc.rit.edu

Hey Andy,

Sorry, I've been really slack about my email since I got to Columbus, Georgia.
But here I am in Columbus which is about an hour and a half from Atlanta.  I'm
working for a company, called LithoKrome, which deals with creating giclee and
press lithographs of famous artists from all over the world.  They are also
responsible for printing Hallmark cards :)   

I really like it here and I'm learning A LOT!!  The people are so very nice, as
all the common thoughts of nice Southern folk would have it, and they are
treating me very well.  My boss, Mr. David Reynolds, is a graduate from the
applied photography program at RIT (I can't remember the grad year), and it's
fun hearing the stories about "the old days" at RIT from another '74 RIT grad,
Mr. Jim Macky, who, as it turns out, is from a town only 20 minutes from my
hometown in Maryland.  He works the big drum scanners in the Hallmark prepress
room.  

I'm currently working on the Better Light program and scanner and talking to
Michael Collette (the creator of the Better Light system) on nearly a daily
basis.  I'm currently scanning, spotting and restoring pieces of fine art which
eventually get turned into hundreds of thousands of lithographs. I'm
troubleshooting through applescript and visual basic code, and working on
profiling proofs of the art on Macs that have a mere 2 gigs of RAM alone!  

I have a lot more objectives set up for me in the near future and while I am
here, which include Research and Development of the latest technology in
digital photographic equipment, Color correcting the proofs of the art, and
learning how to be a Hallmark Press Operator (a job that has its due respect
for the level of difficulty it assumes).  

Well, that's all fer now!  I'll see you with a brand new Georgia peach accent
at RA training in mid-August!

Bianca

PS - regretfully, I am not sunburned.....yet....but it has reached over 110
degrees this whole week and Georgia is in a severe state of drought.  We're
back 15in. of much needed rain.  No free film, but free (and very old) photo
studio equipment. All that besides, everything else is just peachy!



From: Paul 
(Paul is working at teh NASA Langley Research Center in Hapton, VA)

Hey Andy,

I was talking to Rafaela Schwan today and she said that she ran into one of the
Professors in our department over the weekend. I guess she was at a conference
in Ohio. She coulden't remember who it was though, so I was just wondering who
it was.

I guess that she was handing out some information books about the LARSS
program. If you get a chance to look at it please do because about 95% of the
pictures in there are mine. I also got some work from last summer published in
the Summer 1999 issue of Technica magazine. The pictures aren't so great, but
it is kinda cool to have them published.

I also wanted to tell you that I am playing with a Hulcherama panoramic camera.
At first I couldn't get the camera's motor to work properly and after playing
with it for a while I figured out that the battery connection was really bad.
So they are going to get a new battery for the camera. Even though the motor
wasn't working properly, I was able to twist the camera around with my finger
and ended up getting some pretty good exposures.

Well, I guess I'd better get back to work because we are just sooooo busy down
here. 

Paul 



Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 23:05:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Anthony Tanbakuchi 

Andy,

Just wanted to let you know all is well at Mount Rushmore!  I am having a great
time here.  Not doing a ton of tech stuff, my primary duties are as a Park
Naturalist or Interpretive Park Ranger giving guided walks, talks and evening
programs (my last one last week has 2200 people in the audience).  We just
finished our fourth of july celebration, we has over 30,000 poeple here, we
had 71 trips made by a freight helicoptor to deliver fire works to the top of
the sculpture where they shot them off.  All day we had a lot of bands
including the United States Airforce Hartland of America Band.  I am having a
ton of fun here and loving the Black Hills of South Dakota,  there is a ton of
neat things to see and do here.

Hope ya all in Rochester are well

DoKtor Kuchi
(Anthony Tanbakuchi)

And here is a form you can fill out right now! if you'd like to offer an opportunity for an interview to an Imaging and Photographic Technology student. You can use it for either Coop or Full-time positions anywhere in the US, or even overseas.

This is a note intended for current students who need info about how to register with the Coop and Placement office as well as the RIT Registrar. You must register in both places!

If you forgot to register before taking the coop position and you are no longer in Rochester, you can register with the Coop and Placement office on line. Go to http://www.rit.edu/co-op/careers and click on "students and alumni", in the left hand column you will see "got a co-op job? register here" and the rest is up to you.

In terms of registering with the RIT registrar you can do that remotely as well exactly as you would normally register for a course, the course # is: 2076-499-01