News

  • May 16, 2018

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    Formula SAE Racing opens season with Top-20 finish

    RIT Formula SAE Racing opened its season with a Top-20 finish at Michigan International Raceway. The team placed 16th overall in a field of 120 collegiate teams during Formula Student Michigan, the largest national collegiate design competition in North America.

  • May 15, 2018

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    Learn about product development, leadership programs

    Engineers, scientists, technical managers and other professionals looking to move into mid- and senior-level management positions in high-tech industries can attain the needed product development and leadership skills through programs offered at RIT.

  • May 14, 2018

    a Hexagonal pattern with words in them. Biggest text saying "machine learning".

    RIT hosts workshop on artificial intelligence

    RIT is presenting a three-day workshop about artificial intelligence and how the technology is being developed to advance industries such as manufacturing, security and heath care.

  • May 14, 2018

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    Design, engineering students exhibit at NYCxDESIGN

    Nearly 50 RIT students, faculty and staff from RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences and Kate Gleason College of Engineering are exhibiting a wide variety of projects at NYCxDESIGN—New York City’s annual celebration of design.

  • April 30, 2018

    Three Clockwyse team members hold up a large check while the CPSI director talks to a crowd about their first-prize accomplishment.

    Emergency mass notification clock wins STEAM contest

    A team of three computer engineering majors has developed a prototype for an emergency mass notification clock, which won the top prize and $5,000 in RIT’s first STEAM competition, sponsored by RIT’s Center for Public Safety Initiatives.

  • April 27, 2018

    Dhireesha Kudithipudi converses with a student in her office, a research poster hanging behind them.

    Professor named Technology Woman of the Year

    Dhireesha Kudithipudi, a computer engineering professor at RIT, was honored April 26 as the 2018 Technology Woman of the Year by Digital Rochester during a reception at Locust Hill Country Club.

  • April 19, 2018

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    Imagine RIT preview: Serious science in the sky

    RIT’s Space Exploration program will launch the High Altitude Balloon during the Imagine RIT festival as part of a mission to map vegetation density and orientation in the Finger Lakes region.