Imagine RIT

Innovation at RIT

The world is moving at warp speed.

RIT has an opportunity to make lives and society better. Innovation and creativity are the key ingredients, with technology and the arts stirring the formula for an extraordinary future.

We believe RIT can help lead this movement to improve our lives and make the world a better place. Faculty, staff and students have welcomed the opportunity to become a part of the innovation vision. An RIT education must prepare students to lead and participate in diverse teams that design and implement innovative solutions to vexing problems.

So what are we doing about it?

RIT has many wide-ranging initiatives in the works. We are already deep in planning our second Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. In terms of curriculum, we have teams looking at ways to integrate innovation and creativity into existing curricula. We have created an Innovation Curriculum Working Group to provide broad recommendations for how innovation and creativity can be hallmarks of the RIT curriculum portfolio.

We also plan to open a new Student Innovation Center in the spring. Construction is underway on a striking circular glass 10,000-square-foot building that will serve as a showcase and workspace for innovation-related, multidisciplinary projects and activities involving all programs and disciplines at RIT. The new center is expected to help spawn new technologies, innovative products and services, for-profit businesses and not-for-profit enterprises addressing societal challenges, and innovative works of art and scholarship.
In our quest to become a global “Innovation University,” we envision the center becoming one of the most visible and dynamic symbols of innovation at RIT.

Key Links

Here is a sample of innovation at RIT: