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Catch The SpiRIT Learning at RIT Academics at RIT
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Success by design Of our many strengths, there’s one that really separates us from the crowd. You’ll get the finest career preparation at RIT, and you don’t have to take our word for it. One look at the employers lining up to hire our graduates says it all. And if your future includes full-time graduate study, you are in a good position to take advantage of RIT’s 70-plus graduate programs or pursue study at another leading university. In class and out, your education is designed to give you a competitive advantage when you graduate. You can gain an additional edge by combining your major with one of more than 80 minors that complement and broaden your experience.  You’ll gain a tremendous advantage through hands-on experience, which often stays with you longer than something you read or listen to. That’s why our programs stress the application of knowledge. Faculty members take every opportunity to demonstrate how you can relate what you learn to real-life situations. Just two examples follow. Students from our B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts have been working with professor James Winebrake, chair of the public policy department, to create a computer-based program that would help evaluate the impact of greenhouse gas emissions. Results of the five-year study, funded by the National Science Foundation, should influence car and light truck production for years to come. Computer engineering students in a course taught by professor Kenneth Hsu have designed and built innovative heart monitors. Using microcontroller hosts, the monitors output signals to a website that helps medical professionals scan for abnormalities and heart disease. The work of one student, William Farner, has secured him a co-op position with the project’s international industry partner, Freescale Semiconductor. In fact, over 450 examples of innovative teamwork were on display last spring at Imagine RIT, an annual festival that drew more than 17,000 awed, enlightened—sometimes astonished—spectators to campus. There are scores of other such team-based projects in every college at RIT.  The Wow Center at the annual Imagine RIT: Innovation & Creativity Festival Liberal Arts Foundation The education you receive at RIT is designed to last a lifetime. You’ll learn how to learn, how to adapt, how to communicate, and how to respond to whatever awaits you. This is possible because, regardless of your major, you’ll take a core curriculum in the liberal arts that includes courses in the humanities, social sciences, and writing, as well as a concentration or a minor. The communication skills and cultural awareness gained provide a foundation for the rest of your course work. |
