Congratulations to all KGCOE winning teams at Imagine RIT 2012!

President Destler's E-Dragster Challenge: First Place Winner, WE@RIT Hot Wheels Team

• Jodi Carville, Director, WE@RIT, Team Advisor
• Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Team Advisor
• Heather Beam, 4 th year Mechanical Engineering, Eastampton, NJ
• Sarah Brown, 1 st year Mechanical Engineering, Altoona, PA
• Maura Chmielowiec, 1 st year Mechanical. Engineering, Driver, Batavia, NY
• Natalie Ferrari, 5 th year Mechanical Engineering, Team Captain, Greensburg, PA
• Rachele Floeser, 1 st year Industrial Engineering, Pittsford, NY
• Camila Gomez Serrano, 1 st year Mechanical Engineering, Sammamish, WA
• Aurora (Rory) Kiehl, 4 th year Mechanical Engineering, Fairfax, VA
• Margurita Rincon, 2 nd year Mechanical Engineering, Tyler, TX
• Olivia Robertson, 2 nd year Electrical Engineering, Chesterland, OH

IEEE Student Design Competition-First Place Winning Team: The TigerBot

• Senior Design led by Dr. Ferat Sahin
• Jonathan J. Cormier, 5 th year Computer Engineering, North Hero, VT
• John W. Seybold, 5 th year Computer Engineering, Rochester, NY
• Kyle Backer, 5 th year Electrical Engineering, Oswego, NY
• Matthew DeCapua, 5 th year Electrical Engineering, Essex Junction, VT
• Michael Thomas, 5 th year Electrical Engineering, North Easton, MA
• Jeremy Jensen, 5 th year Mechanical Engineering, Penn Yan, NY
• Eric Walkama, 5 th year Mechanical Engineering, Newington, CT

ARM Student Design Contest Winner: Wandering Ambassador Team

• Senior Design led by Dr. Adriana Gomez (CE) and George Slack (EE)
• Praneeth Pulusani, 5th Computer Engineering, Iselin, NJ
• Sam Stats, 5 th year Mechanical Engineering, South Burlington, VT
• Sheena Mital, 5 th year Electrical Engineering, Lawrenceville, NJ
• Phillip Tatti, 5 th year Electrical Engineering, Mount Holly, NJ
• Derek Badon, 5th year Electrical Engineering, Pleasant Valley, NY
• Tony Lanza, 5 th year Electrical Engineering, Tonawanda, NY
• Dan Massar, 5 th year Electrical Engineering, Binghamton, NY

The ITT Exelis Award: Swarm of Tiny Autonomous Robots

• Robert LiVolsi, 5 th year Computer Engineering, Wallingford, CT
• Alex Karantz, 5 th year Computer Engineering, Windham, ME

Xerox Award: BioTelemetrix

• Cody Cziesler, 5 th year Computer Engineering, Chittenango, NY
• Nick Desaulniers, 5 th year Computer Engineering, Bristor, CT
• Nick Sereni, 5 th year Computer Engineering, Sanborton, NH

Paychex Award: Smart Refrigerator  

• Steven Strapp, 5 th year Computer Engineering, Bloomfield, NY
• Dustin Stroup, 5 th year Computer Engineering, Lewes, DE
• Ben Reeves, 5 th year Computer Engineering, Springfield, VT

The University of Washington has named Dean Harvey Palmer the R. Wells Moulton Distinguished Alumnus Award in Academia Dr. Palmer is recognized for his leadership of the Kate Gleason College of Engineering where he has been instrumental in initiating the PhD program in Microsystems engineering, and the chemical and biomedical undergraduate degree programs.

Dr. Margaret Bailey received the Edwina Award for Gender Diversity at the annual Women's Achievement Dinner on May 2 Dr. Bailey, professor of mechanical engineering and the founding member of the women in engineering program at RIT, has been a strong advocate for women and served as a mentor to both students and faculty.

Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE ( www.ieee.org ) Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the Association's most prestigious honors, elevation to IEEE Fellow. We are delighted to announce that the IEEE Board of Directors has elevated Professor Santosh Kurinec to IEEE Fellow for leadership in integrating innovative microelectronics research in engineering education .

Congratulations to Professor Andreas Savakis and his Imaging Science PhD advisee, Grigorios Tsagkatakis on their award for best paper at the 2010 Western New York Imaging Processing Workshop entitled, “A Framework for Object Class Recognition with No Visual Examples.”

RIT Formula Team Takes First in Individual and Overall Events in California

After several years of top five placements in international competitions, the Rochester Institute of Technology SAE Formula racecar team took first place overall among 81 teams in the 2009 Collegiate Design Series California event on June 20. This was the first time the RIT team placed first overall on American soil and swept the individual categories in the weekend competition including endurance, acceleration and skid pad events.

The Formula SAE events are annual student design competitions where college students design and build a small Formula-style racecar. Each student team designs, builds and tests a prototype then enters the racecar in national and international events against other college teams.

The RIT Formula team has consistently placed in the top 10 of its competitions throughout its 17 years. The team enters three competitions yearly with two in the United States and one overseas.

In May 2009, the RIT Formula team placed second overall at Michigan International Speedway in Detroit. The California competition is the group's second of the season. RIT will compete again Aug. 5-9 at the HockenhelmRing in Baden-Wurttenberg, Germany.

For more information go to:

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EFFORT@RIT

NSF Grant PI Team: Margaret Bailey (KGCOE), Stefi Baum (COS), Sharon Mason (GCCIS), Jacqueline Mozrall (KGCOE), Maureen Valentine (CAST)

The National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (IT) - Catalyst project, “Establishing the Foundation for Future Organizational Reform and Transformation @ RIT” (EFFORT@RIT) is a two-year study across five RIT colleges which include Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The PI team will analyze what factors women look for when seeking academic positions. The team in close collaboration with Human Resources will also look at how well RIT provides or does not provide for these factors by conducting a climate survey, objective data review, and benchmarking exercises. The goal of this institutional transformation catalyst project is to develop an evidence-based approach to indentify the barriers and address factors resulting in the under-representation of women in STEM faculty positions at RIT. Ultimately, the mission of the project is to increase the representation and advancement of women faculty in engineering and science at RIT.

The ADVANCE IT-Catalyst project will be led by a team of faculty with Margaret Bailey, Kate Gleason Chair and associate professor of mechanical engineering, as principal investigator; co-principal investigators on the team include Stefi Baum, Director of the Center for Imaging Science and professor (COS); Sharon Mason, Faculty Associate for Student Issues and associate professor (GCCIS); Jacqueline Mozrall, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department head and professor (KGCOE); and Maureen Valentine, Miller Professor and Vice Dean (CAST).

Through initiatives currently underway, from the Women in Engineering (WE@RIT) Program’s tremendous growth to President Destler’s launching of an Equity Scorecard program, RIT has gathered tremendous momentum to position itself for institutional change in regards to gender inclusiveness and equity within faculty ranks. The proposed NSF project will allow RIT to build upon this energy and accelerate the transformation process through careful data driven studies to better understand current position. This is the first year that NSF ADVANCE has funded the Institutional Transformation (IT) - Catalyst program and RIT is one of eleven universities from across the country to become an IT-Catalyst site.

Gender Diversity at KGCOE

At the Kate Gleason College of Engineering (KGCOE) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the only engineering college in the United States named in honor of a woman, young women are excited about engineering. 

Women at KGCOE are thriving, but that hasn't always been the case. At the beginning of the current decade, RIT's leadership recognized that although the college was named in honor of a woman, the percentage of enrolled women engineering students was below desired levels. In order to address this issue, Dean Harvey Palmer designated the inaugural Kate Gleason Endowed Chair position to attract a faculty member with an interest in improving gender diversity in engineering. When the chair's first appointee, Margaret Bailey, joined the faculty in 2003, she found a group of women, including Professors Jacqueline Mozrall and Elizabeth DeBartolo and Assistant Dean Margaret Anderson, who shared her passion and commitment to gender diversity. These women collaborated to form Women in Engineering at RIT—or WE@RIT ( we.rit.edu )—to increase the intensity with which KGCOE and RIT address issues related to gender.

WE@RIT aims to establish and enhance a “pipeline” of precollege and college programs that will ultimately increase the number of women engineers entering the workforce. Read more at:

http://www.aacu.org/ocww/volume37_2/feature.cfm?section=2 .

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