Faculty & Staff Directory

Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton
M.S., SUNY Clarkson

Campus Address:  Bldg. 70, 70-1337
Campus Telephone:  585-475-2005
Email:  mkamet@rit.edu

Research interests include: The formation kinetics of intermetallic within solders used in electronic assemblies. 

Martin K. Anselm, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology Department at RIT. He joined the department in the Fall of 2014. Martin has more than twelve years of industrial experience at Universal Instruments in electronics failure analysis and root cause analysis. In his last position at Universal Instruments he was the Manager of the AREA Consortium where he was responsible for managing a multimillion dollar research budget in electronics assembly materials, process and reliability. At RIT his research interests include solder joint reliability and advanced manufacturing process development for electronic assemblies. Since 2013, Martin has served on the Board of Directors for the Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) and chairs their Training Committee. He has been awarded the honor of Speaker of Distinction by that organization.

Education:

BS in Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, China, 1998

MS in Structural Engineering, Tianjin University, China, 2001

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006

Research Interests:
Soil-Structure Interaction in Bridges and Buildings, Constitutive Modeling of Infrastructure Materials, Finite Element Analysis, Soil Liquefaction, and Seismic Behavior of Bridges.

Amanda Bao, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety Department.  She joined RIT in 2010.  Prior to her position at RIT, she was a bridge structural engineer at Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. and Michael Baker Corporation.  She is a licensed professional engineer in Colorado, United States.  At RIT, she teaches structural engineering courses including structural analysis, dynamics, structural loads and systems, steel design, reinforced concrete design and timber design.  Her research interests include experimental and numerical modeling of infrastructure materials, soil-structure interaction, seismic behavior of bridges and soil liquefaction.  She is an active member in American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Ph.D., Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France

Miguel Bazdresch, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Electrical, Computer & Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department having joined RIT in August, 2012. Previously he was an associate professor at ITESO University, Mexico. His research interests include: digital communications, wireless communications, error-control coding, space-time coding and hardware implementation of communication algorithms. Bazdresch is an active member of IEEE.

Degrees/Credentials

2007 – M. Div. – St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry 
2001 – Ph.D. Human Resource Management – LaSalle University 
1993 – M.S. Packaging Science – Rochester Institute of Technology 
1976 – B.S. in Business Administration – SUNY Empire State College 

Current Role/Title/Years at RIT: Current Roles: Assistant Professor, Center Professional Development (CPD) and NTID Communication Trainer and Presenter, Lean Six Sigma Curriculum Program Developer and Instructor; Years at RIT: 19. 

Areas of Interest, Scholarly Work, Research—
2011 Co- authored journal article with Dr. Frank Johnston: “How Positive Psychology Addresses Anxiety and Stress in a Cultural Diverse Workforce,” at the American Psychological Association Conference in Washington, D.C.
2011 Co-presented with Dr. Frank Johnston at the New York State Psychological Association Conference “How Positive Psychology Addresses a Culturally Diverse Workforce” in NYC.  – This highly recognized presentation showed how performance issues can be solved for the culturally diverse worker by identifying the employee’s strengths, improving communication, and by instituting a Lean Six Sigma methodology.
2010 Published Training Manual System: Leadership Development Curriculum from the Ground Level – This train-the-trainer manual system assists employment agencies for transitioning ex-felons back into the workforce training them using 15 Lean Six Sigma problem–solving tools. 
2008 Published a Substance Abuse Article for a Monroe County Non-Profit Agency.
2001 – 1995 Published ten articles regarding Supply Chain Management in nationally recognized packaging trade magazines.
1994 Published Textbook Author: Packaging Sales: An Innovative Problem-Solving Approach – Top Ten Bestseller List on IOPP publishing.
Boards and Professional Affiliations—

• Rochester Leadership Institute Member
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt with a Concentration in Human Engineering
• Certified NYS OASAS Approved Educational Trainer and Provider #0522 for Workforce Development
• Authorized OSHA General Industry Outreach Trainer
• Educational Committee Member for the Rochester Area Group of Psychotherapists

Honors and Awards

• 2011 Rochester Institute of Technology’s Eisenhart Teaching Nomination – RIT’s highest teaching award
• American Management Association Trained Instructional Designer Certificate
• American Management Association Train – the – Trainer Certificate
• Keynote Speaker at the New York State Corrections Conference

Sean Bennett serves as Assistant Dean in the College of Applied Science and Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester New York.  He manages undergraduate academic affairs for approximately 2100 students in the College of Applied Science and Technology and supports advising service implementation.   Prior to joining the College of Applied Science and Technology, Sean Served as director of the RIT’s Multicultural Center for Academic Success where he was responsible for restructuring campuses cultural services to emphasize academic success. 

Sean has also served as Associate Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Pipeline Programs at Clarkson University where he reporting to the president of the university and served on the president’s cabinet. While serving as senior administrator at Clarkson University, Sean functioned as a liaison to corporate, foundation, and governmental partners providing several million dollars in support for women and minorities in Clarkson’s Science and Engineering focused programs.

Sean has deep personal and professional interest in education, at all levels, and was introduced to higher education via his role as a senior administrator in charter school management in Massachusetts and New York.  Sean has served as a certified k-12 educator and administrator in both NY and MA.  As a parent, Sean has served as  an elected representative on the School Based Planning Team of the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY where his son (Cameron) is a creative writing major.  Sean also has a 5 year old (Logan).

Prior to the transitioning to a career in education, Sean was employed by the Xerox Corporation where he gained engineering experience in both manufacturing and design.

Sean holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University, MEd in Education from the State University of New York at Brockport, an EdM in Administration Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University, and a Doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania.  Sean’s research interests include study of persistence in engineering programs and African American engineering student experiences. In his spare time, Sean is an avid motorcyclist who enjoys racing sport bikes (on the track) and completing his own motorcycle maintenance. 

Dr. Carle joined RIT in 1996 and is an Associate Professor and Program Director for MMET Undergraduate Studies in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology (MMET) Department in CET. Her research interests include development of laboratory experiments, characterization and uses of novel materials, and program assessment. Beth also serves as an ABET program evaluator

Research Interests include: Development of laboratory experiments, characterization and uses of novel materials, and program assessment.

Anthony Chirico is a lecturer in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology department. He has over 10 years of industry experience developing flight control actuation systems for aircraft, launch vehicles, and space docking systems. This includes development of a semi-autonomous mechanical actuator control system with position, velocity, and force control for a six degree of freedom space docking platform. His areas of expertise include control system design, mechatronics/robotics, and machine learning.

Research interests include: Recruitment and retention of female students in Engineering Technology is a major area of interest. Scholarly work involves the design and implementation of embedded systems, specifically with applications in the fields of power and energy and entertainment.

Current Role/Title/Years at RIT: Assistant Professor - 1 year

Previous Role: Adjunct Professor - 6 years
Digital Design Engineer - Harris RF Communications - 5 years
Integrated Circuit Design Engineer - Texas Instruments - 5 years

Areas of Interest, Scholarly Work, Research

Recruitment and retention of female students in Engineering Technology has been a major area of interest for me. I am a founding member and have remained actively involved in Women In Technology (WIT) at RIT. WIT is a group that was formed in 2003 to provide both social and academic support to female students enrolled in engineering technology disciplines. The objective of WIT is to help retain female engineering technology students with the ultimate goal of increasing the number of female graduates in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Civil, Electrical, Computer, Telecommunications and Packaging Science. Within WIT, I am the coordinator of the Girl Scouts in Technology Days offered three times per year on campus. This highly successful outreach program, aimed at girls in grades 4-7 attempts to show girls in this age group that science can be both interesting in fun and, most importantly, that females can be scientists and engineers. The Girls Scouts in Technology Days are currently being funded by a grant from the Rochester Area Community Foundation.

My scholarly work involves the design and implementation of embedded systems, specifically with applications in the fields of power and energy and entertainment.

The project I am currently working on is the hardware implementation, in an FPGA, of a Fourier Series Waveform Classification algorithm for Digital Signals.

I am also developing a set of modules that can be used to teach and integrated hardware/software approach in embedded systems. Each module includes lecture material, questions and a hands-on demonstration. The ultimate goal for this set of modules is to be published as a textbook.

Boards and Professional Affiliations

ASEE - American Society of Engineering Educators
WEPAN - Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network
NYSETA - New York State Engineering Technology Association

Research interests include: Ultra-Narrow Band Radar and Tomographic Imaging which involves many of the same topics that are fundamental to the college's ECTET Department's areas of distinction.

Steve M. Ciccarelli is an associate professor for Electrical Engineering Technology. He has been at RIT for seven years and previous to his current position, was an instructor of Electrical Engineering at RIT. His research area focuses on Ultra-Narrow Band Radar and Tomographic Imaging which involves many of the same topics that are fundamental to the Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department's areas of distinction. For example, RF/microwave component and subsystem level work, high-frequency circuit design and analysis as well as communication systems are all central to the concept of the "Smart Power Grid" being developed. In addition, Ciccarelli's research area offers additional challenges and opportunities in the areas of signal processing and system-level design, analysis and integration that are key to the technical side of entertainment engineering.

Some areas of real-life application for this technology are: RF sensors and networks for threat detection, ground penetrating radar for rescue and recovery, and high-resolution imaging systems for border security. This research requires a great deal of system-level design, analysis, and the integration of technologies including RF/MEMS and sensors. The spatial diversity requirement is likely to necessitate sensor networking and communications on a broad scale.

Additionally, Cicarelli is an active member in the following organizations:

• Electrical Interest Group Chair, The New York State Engineering Technology Association (NYSETA) (2007 - Present)
  
• The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), member (2003 - Present)
  
• Eta Kappa Nu, Life Member (inducted 1989)
  
• Tau Beta Pi, Life Member (inducted 1989)
  
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member (1987 - Present)
  
• The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), member (2002 - Present)
  
• Co-Chair, Microwave Theory and Techniques Society of the Rochester Section of IEEE (IEEE MTTS) (01/2004 - 2008)
  
• Acting Secretary, Microwave Theory and Techniques Society of the Rochester Section of IEEE (IEEE MTTS) (01/2003 - 12/2003)
  
• Chairman, Rochester Section IEEE (01/2002 - 12/2003)
  
• Vice-Chairman, Rochester Section IEEE (01/2001 - 12/2001)
  
• Secretary, Rochester Section IEEE (09/1999 - 12/2000)
  
• Technical Committee Member and Exhibits Chair, IEEE ASIC '97
  
• Technical Committee and Organizing Committee Member, IEEE ASIC '96

Ciccarelli's honors and awards include:

• The RIT Disability Services Certificate of Recognition - For commitment to equal access, and for demonstrating awareness
  and sensitivity in the course of serving R.I.T. students with disabilities
  (11/2004 and 11/2005)
  
• The IEEE Third Millennium Medal - In recognition and appreciation of valued services and outstanding contributions (2000)
  
• Rochester City School District Certificate of Appreciation - For Outstanding Contribution to the Educational Program at Edison Technical and Occupational Education Center (1996)

Research interests include: analog and digital circuit design and circuit design that supports the Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology (ECTET) department's area of interest in power and entertainment.

Richard Cliver is an associate professor in the Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department and has been at RIT for nine years. Previously, he was an assistant professor at RIT. Cliver's areas of interest include teaching, analog and digital circuit design and circuit design that supports the department's area of interest in power and entertainment. He has also completed the following scholarly work, most relating to pedagogy.

2009

• Making Circuit Theory Matter, ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference, Conference Proceedings.

2008

• Imagine RIT Innovation & Creativity Festival, presented Engaging Today's Freshman in Abstract Theory. Several students joined in the presentation, RIT, Rochester, NY.
• Digital Imaging Conference - Bringing the Pieces Together, poster session, Quick development of Functional Test Fixtures using Educational printed circuit boards, 2008 Kodak conference, Rochester, NY
• Tech Signs DVD series, presentation, Electronics and Circuit Analysis Overview, DVD disk #14, Deborah Makowski interpreter, funded by an NSF grant, NTID, Rochester, NY.
• MCC ELT Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), Electrical Engineering Technology Program Review Report, reviewed curriculum rigor in a special IAB sub-committee for MCC's Engineering and Technologies Dean.

2007

• Faculty Institute on Teaching and Learning (FITL), Presenter and Poster Session, Creating an Environment for Deeper Learning in Circuit Theory Laboratory, RIT, Rochester, NY.

2005

• NYSETA, Presentation, Getting to Know Your Students, RIT, Rochester, NY

2004

• Paper, ASEE, 2004-410, Freshman Orientation Activity, primary author Richard Cliver, presented at ASEE by Michael Eastman, contributors Jeffrey Lillie and Steven Ciccarelli, Rochester Institute of Technology

2003

• "Fiber Optics laboratory for EET Optoelectronic Minor" grant proposal to NSF and Agilent Technologies, not funded.
• Presenter, Kodak's Engineering Conference, Rochester, NY, Current Engineering: Finding the Root Cause to Manufacturing and Customer Problems.

2002

• "Opto-electronics Minor" grant proposal to NSF and Agilent Technologies, not funded.
• Speaker, American Society of Engineering Educators, Montreal Canada, National 2002 Conference, Using PowerPoint in Distance Learning Laboratories.

2001

• Speaker, New York State Engineering Technology Association, Buffalo State University Fall 2001 Conference, Comparative Analysis MicroSIM 2001 and Orcad (P-Spice).

Cliver is an active member of Technology Accreditation Commission (TAC) Commissioner and ABET accreditation team chair, Monroe Community College Industrial Advisory Board Member, and serves as a consultant for The Eastman Kodak Company and a senior design engineer. He is also a member of IEEE and ASEE.

Cliver has also been awarded the following honors:

• 2003: Recognition of Exceptional Performance, Graphic Communications Division, Kodak, for solving A/D latching problem when machine door was opened.
• 2002: Recipient of the "2002 Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Campus Leadership".
• 2000: Recognition of Exceptional Performance, Output System Division - Professional Imaging (OSD-PI), for solving Electrical hardware problems without assembly interruption.
• 1998: First CET professor to received "Excellence in Adjunct Teaching Award"

Research interests include: Development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative teaching methods and tools.

Harry G. Cooke, Ph.D., has been an associate professor in the Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety Department since 2005. His research interests include the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative teaching methods and tools; the use of numerical modeling methods for geotechnical design and construction and the investigation of innovative uses of ground improvement in geotechnical design and construction. Cooke is an active member of many professional organizations including the American Society of Civil Engineers, Geo-Institute, American Society for Engineering Education and American Concrete Pavement Association.

Elizabeth M. Dell is a Professor in the Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology and Packaging Science Department and also serves as the Undeclared Engineering Technology Program Chair. She has been teaching at RIT since 2006 and previously was the Materials Development and Product Design Engineer for Toyota, General Motors and Delphi.

Dell's research is focused on the characterization of biodegradable plastics, environmental considerations in materials selection for product design, characterization and failure analysis of polymer based products and materials. Additionally, she is very involved in the retention of 1st and 2nd year students, women and minorities; the development of effective teamwork skills in engineering education and outreach to K-12 students and educators. Dell is currently an active member of: Women in Technology (WIT) Steering Committee and Mentoring Chair, The American Society of Engineering Education, The Society of Plastics Engineers and The Bio-Environmental Polymer Society (BEPS).

Research interests include: Characterization of biodegradable plastics and environmental consideration in materials selection for production design.

Ph.D., Michigan State University ; M.S., B.S., Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia

Research interests include:  Packaging technologies based on plastic materials.  Bio-based plastics and composites. Nano-technologies applied to packaging systems. Microcellular plastics. Design of Experiments (DOE).

Carlos A. Diaz, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology/Packaging Science Department.  He joined RIT in July, 2012 and previously was a research associate in the School of Packaging Science at Michigan State University.  His research interests include packaging technologies based on plastic materials, bio-based plastics and composites, nano-technologies applied to packaging systems,  microcellular plastics and design of Experiments (DOE).  Diaz is an active member of the Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE); the Institute of Packaging Professionals (I0PP); and MSU Packaging Alumni Association.  He was the guest speaker at the Spring 2011 Packaging Seminar Series, School of Packaging, Michigan State University. “Microcellular PLA/Cellulosic Fiber Composites Foamed with Supercritical CO2 Through a Continuous Extrusion Process.”   He won Best Student Paper Award-SPE-ANTEC 2009, Vinyl Division C.A. Diaz and L.M. Matuana, and was awarded the best master thesis in the mechanical engineering department awarded by the alumni association of mechanical engineers, CIMANDES, May 2006, Bogotá, Colombia.

Todd Dunn is an associate professor in the Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety Department. He has been teaching at RIT for over 25 years. His research interests include studying evolving trends in construction cost estimating, scheduling, and project delivery systems along with their implications on undergraduate education. Dunn is the faculty advisor to the Associated General Contractors (AGC) student club and serves as RIT’s liaison to the Associated Schools of Construction (ASC).

Member of RIT faculty since 1996. Began as Assistant Professor in Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunications Engineering Technology. Most recently served as Department Chair of ECTET from 2005-2017 prior to taking on role of Associate Dean for Academic Programs & Continuous Improvement within CET in July 2017.

Research interests include: the culture of engineering education, equity in STEM education, constructivist teaching strategies, embedded computing systems, hardware-based algorithm implementation, and computer architecture.

Education
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum, Instruction, and the Science of Learning
Dissertation: The Journey from Engineering Educator to Engineering Education Researcher
Dissertation Committee: Randy K. Yerrick (Advisor), Mary B. McVee, Noemi Waight
Nominated for NARST Outstanding Doctoral Research Award, 2017

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Master of Science in Computer Science
Thesis: Development and Analysis of a Versatile, Reusable, High Speed DMA Controller for Custom Embedded Applications using the PCI Bus
Thesis Committee: George H. Zion (Advisor), Peter G. Anderson, James Heliotis
Served as graduate assistant, taught several laboratories and Digital Fundamentals lecture (September 1988-May 1990)

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering Technology, with Honors

Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center, VT
Associate in Applied Science Electrical Engineering Technology

Professional Society Memberships
National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) - member since 2015
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) - member since 2001
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - member since 2005
New York State Engineering Technology Association (NYSETA) - member since 1997

Recent Publications
Eastman, M. G., Christman, J., Zion, G. H. and Yerrick, R. (2017), To educate engineers or to engineer educators?: Exploring access to engineering careers. J Res Sci Teach. doi:10.1002/tea.21389

Eastman, M.G., Yerrick, R.K.; Learning to Engineer My Educational Experience, Paper presented at 2016 NARST Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, April 16, 2016. http://tinyurl.com/Eastman2016

Christman, J. W., Eastman, M. G., Zion, G. H., & Yerrick, R.; Filling the STEM Pipeline: Factors Influencing College Major Selection, NARST Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 14, 2015.

Gupta, S. K., & Johnson, D. P., & Eastman, M. G., & Amuso, V. J., & Morelli, J.;Transfer Student Pipeline to Engineering & Engineering Technology Programs Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://peer.asee.org/23207

Gupta, S.V., Amuso, V.J., Johnson, D.P. Eastman, M.G., Morelli, J.; “TiPi Scholars Program for Transfer Students from Two-Year Colleges” 2013 Paper presented at ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference. Best Paper Award.

Gupta, S.V.; Johnson D.P.; Morelli, J.; Eastman, M.G.; Amuso, V.J.; Persistence, Cooperative Employment, and Graduation Statistics of Transfer Scholars in Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs Paper presented at ASEE Annual Conference 2012

Grinberg, I; Land, R.E. Hall, T.; Lacroix, K. Macho, S. Eastman, M.G.; EET Nationally-Normed Assessment Exam: First Experiences and their Relations to ABET Outcomes; ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition 2011

Eastman, M.G.; Walker H.F.; “Ensuring Curriculum Integrity for Engineering Technology”, ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition 2011

Professional Affiliations
ASEE, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, NARST

Current interest: Online learning.

J. Grant Esler is certified in Industrial Hygiene, Safety and in Ergonomics. Upon graduating from the University of Michigan with a Master of Public Health degree in Industrial Hygiene he worked for nearly 30 years at Eastman Kodak Company as Industrial Hygiene Group Leader, Manager of Health, Safety and Environmental Training and Education, Business Unit HSE Manager, and Ergonomics Function Leader.  Since leaving Kodak he has worked as an individual health and safety consultant, powerplant Sr. EHS Spcialist for Duke Energy and Director of Health and Safety for a regional asbestos abatement and building demolition firm, Environmental Remediation Services Inc.  He has been active with the AIHA (American Industrial Hygiene Association) as Chair of the Training and Communication Methods technical committee and member of the Construction committee and the Ergonomics committee at the national level and President of the local section.  On many occasions he has spoken and conducted workshops for the AIHA on training management systems and health and safety metrics.

Research interests include: Open channel flow (turbulence characteristics) including effect of seepage and ice cover, two and three dimensional scour studies including scour by impinging jets and hydraulic model wave study of open and closed cell cable concrete block mats.

Abdullah Faruque, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management & Safety department at RIT. He teaches courses across-the-board in the civil engineering discipline (e.g., Statics, Strength of materials, structural analysis, hydraulics, soil mechanics, elementary structures, masonry structures, pre-stressed concrete, structural design-reinforced concrete, pavement design and more).

He is a registered professional engineer in Ontario, Canada, active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Faruque has international engineering experience and completed the design of various fast track projects in Malaysia and Bangladesh.

He has years of experience in civil and structural design of roads, reinforced concrete, pre-stressed concrete and deep foundation as per major international standards in the areas of industrial (petrochemical), medical college, hospitals, roads, bridges, factory buildings, luxury apartments and high-rise buildings. He also has experience in project planning, project co-ordination, project procurement and construction.

Faruque has done the experimental laboratory based research in the area of local scour by 2D, 3D and offset jets. He had also done extensive experimental laboratory based research works in the areas of turbulent open channel flow which includes flow over smooth and rough walls, the effect of seepage and ice cover. He continues to develop the capabilities at RIT for further bridge pier scour research and laboratory experiments. He has published numerous papers in prestigious journals and conference proceedings and presented his research in various international conferences.

Faruque developed the FE Civil Exam Review course for the students in the department of Civil Engineering Technology at RIT and has delivered it for a number of years. Because of a need within the community, he has now developed a separate version of the FE Civil Exam Review course for an audience of working professionals.

Edward (Ted) Ganster

M.S., B.S., Rochester Institute of Technology

Campus Address: Eastman Building Room 
Campus Telephone: 585-475-5069
Email: ejgism@rit.edu
Research interests include:  New technologies and practices used in the food and beverage industries. 

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Edward (Ted) Ganster is a lecturer in the Hospitality and Tourism Management Department in the School of International Hospitality and Service Innovation.  He has been teaching at RIT since 2007.  Previously he was an adjunct faculty member.  His research interests include exploring new technologies and practices used in the food and beverage industries.  Ganster is also an instructor at the New York Wine and Culinary Center.   

Robert D. Garrick, Ph.D., P.E. is a Professor and Acting Department chair in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology department. He has been at RIT since 2008. Previously, Garrick was a staff research engineer for Delphi Automotive working on mechanical and electronic throttle control (“drive by wire”). Garrick is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE). He also holds the following U.S. Patents:

US 6,167,867 - Throttle Lever Assembly, January 2, 2001
US 6,178,948 - Throttle Lever Assembly, January 30, 2001
US 6,454,242 - Modified Flow Throttle Bore, September 24, 2002
US 6,928,981 - Throttle Control for a Small Engine, August 16, 2005
US 6,962,138 - Throttle Control for a Small Engine, November 8, 2005
US 7,159,563 - Piezo Electronic Throttle Control Actuator, January 9, 2007
US 7,267,101 - Throttle Default System, September 11, 2007

Garrick has over 30 peer reviewed publications and has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, New York State, and Industry Partners. Research interests include: Improve Product Realization through the use of computer aided engineering (CAE) and Design for Manufacturability (DFM/DFA), Six Sigma (DFSS), and the Environment( DfE) tools, along with student learning, cooperative education, and student retention in Engineering Technology.

Research interests include: Improve Product Realization through the use of computer aided engineering and design for 'X' tools.

Dr.-Ing.,Technical University of Dortmund; M.E. and B.E., Tongji University.

Changfeng Ge, Ph.D., is a full Professor in the college's Packaging Science Department. He joined RIT in 2005 and has served as the founding director of the American Packaging Corporation Center for Packaging Innovation at RIT since 2008. Prior to joining RIT, Ge worked as the Technical Director for Pack Solutions Pte Ltd and Senior Engineer in Singapore Institute of Industrial Research. Ge is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Packaging Research, ASTM D10.13 Chairman and a board member of IAPRI.   
Ge’s primary research interest includes protective packaging, field measurement for lab simulation and the modeling of the package in distribution. His current research interest also focuses on developing new packaging materials to improve the barrier and mechanical properties.
Recent funded research projects

• Protective packaging for NASA’ EVA on the Moon- investigate the capabilities of foam cushioning materials to protect critical hardware used in Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on the lunar surface.
• Protective packaging for daguerreotype photographs- develop an archival storage and protection system for 4,500 daguerreotype photographs that  require protection against oxygen, moisture, UV light and abrasion.
• Real time measuring system- allows the user to immediately record the data such as shock, vibration, temperature/humidity, pressure and light on the package during the transportation and handling, with a Global Positioning System (GPS) location via a secured website or Android tablet.

Recent SCI Journal Publications

• Ge C, Devar G. Formation of Polyvinyl Alcohol film with graphene nanoplatelets and carbon black for electrostatic discharge protective packaging. Journal of Electrostatics 2017; 89: pp 52-57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.elstat.2017.07.004
• Ge C, Priyadarshini L,Cormier D, Liao P,Tuber J. A preliminary study of cushion properties of a 3D printed thermoplastic polyurethane Kelvin foam. Packaging Technology & Science. DOI: 10.1002/pts.2330. 2017
• Wang D, Ge C. Opening of Perforated Folding Cartons: From the Field to Testing. Packaging Technology & Science 2017; 30(8): 99/411-425. DOI: 10.1002/pts.2266.
• Bayus J. Ge C., Thorn B. A preliminary environmental assessment of foil and metallized film centered laminates. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2016;115: pp.31–41.
• Ge C., Popham J. A Review and Evaluation of Prediction Models of Gas Permeation for a Blended Flexible Packaging Film. Packaging Technology & Science 2016; 29(4-5): pp. 247-262. DOI: 10.1002/pts.2200.
• Ge C, Fortuna C, Lei K,Lu L-X. Neat EVOH and EVOH/LDPE blend centered three-layer co-extruded blown film without tie layers. Food Packaging and Shelf life 2016; 8: pp.33-40.
• Yuan L.,Lu L-X.,Tanl Y-L., Ge C. Weibull kinetic modeling and nutritional effects of high-hydrostatic-pressure sterilization of soft-packing boiled bamboo shoots. Food science and biotechnology 2016; 25(2): pp. 469-475.
• Ge C.,Lei K.,Aldi R. Barrier, mechanical, and thermal properties of the three-layered co-extruded blown polyethylene/ethylene–vinyl alcohol/low density polyethylene film without tie layers. Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials 2016. DOI: 10.1177/0892705715614059.
• Ge C., Cosgrove K. Preparation of PVOH coatings with graphene nanoplatelets for electrostatic discharge protective packaging. Journal of Electrostatics 2015. 77; pp.157-162.
• Ge C., Baxter L. Aldi R. Starch Foams Containing Biomass From the Second Generation Cellulosic Ethanol Production. Journal of Applied Polymer Science 2015. 132(18): pp.41940-41946.
• Han TT, Lu LX, Ge C. Development and Properties of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) and Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate Copolymer (EVA) Blend Antioxidant Active Packaging Films Containing Quercetin. Packaging Technology & Science 2015; 28(5):pp.415-423.
• Ge C., Huang HQ., Corner Foam Versus Flat Foam: An Experimental Comparison on Cushion Performance. Packaging Technology & Science 2015. 28(3); pp.217-225.DOI: 10.1002/pts.2098.
• Ge C., Cheng YJ.,Li B. Numerical Simulation and Experimental Study of the Heat Transition in a Foam Container. Journal of Cellular Plastics 2014, 50; pp. 15-36, .doi:10.1177/0021955X13503846.
• Ge C. and Aldi R. Effects of Aragonite Calcium Carbonate on Barrier and Mechanical Properties of a Three-Layer Co-extruded Blown Low-Density Polyethylene Film. Journal of Plastic Film and Sheet 2014; 30, pp.77-90. doi:10.1177/8756087913498402.
• Ge C. A Comparative Study Between Felted and Triaxial Compressed Polymer Foams on Cushion Performance. Journal of Cellular Plastics 2013;49(6), pp.521-533. doi: 10.1177/0021955X13503844.

Recent full Patent
Ge C. et al. Improved starch foams Using Specialized Lignin.US patent. February 27, 2017

Research Interests include: Developing curriculum and teaching courses in a growing department. Techniques for active learning include lectures, demonstrations, multimedia presentation, calculation practice sessions, computer and field laboratory sessions.

Joshua Goldowitz is a professor and the Undergraduate Program Coordinator for Environmental Management in the Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety Department. Goldowitz joined RIT in 1993 and previously worked for the H&A of New York in Rochester as a senior hydrogeologist/project manager. His research interests include developing curriculum and teaching courses in a growing department. Techniques for active learning include lectures, demonstrations, multimedia presentation, calculation practice sessions, computer and field laboratory sessions. Goldowitz is also President for the Hydro-Logic Corporation in Rochester, NY.

Capt Zachariah D. Gonyea is the Executive Officer, Directorate of Manpower, Personnel and Services, Headquarters Air Combat Command, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. He currently is responsible for coordinating with the Commander of Air Combat Command, Headquarters Staff, and twenty six Wings.  Additionally, he reviews and evaluates all staff packages for accuracy, while distributing the Director’s intent.

Capt Gonyea commissioned through Officer Training School in 2009 as a Personnel Officer.  Prior to his current position, the captain was the Deputy Chief, Readiness Branch, Directorate of Manpower, Personnel and Services, Headquarters Air Combat Command where he was responsible for managing the command’s Military Personnel Appropriations budget.

EDUCATION
2009 Officer Training School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2010 Air and Space Officer Basic Course, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2015 Masters of American History, American Public University.
2016 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.

ASSIGNMENTS
1.  November 2009–June 2012, Manpower Officer, 5th Manpower Requirements Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, OK.
2.  January 2012–June 2013, Chief, Customer Support, 72nd Force Support Squadron, Tinker AFB, OK.
3.  June 2013–June 2015, Deputy Chief, Readiness Branch, ACC, Langley AFB, VA.
4.  June 2015–Present, Executive Officer, ACC, Langley AFB, VA.

MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Joint Service Commendation Medal
Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster
Joint Service Achievement Medal
Joint Meritorious Unit Award
Meritorious Unit Award
Humanitarian Service Medal

EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION
Second Lieutenant October 27, 2009
First Lieutenant October 27, 2011
Captain October 27, 2013

(Current as of May 2016)

Daniel L. Goodwin, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus in the Packaging Science Department. He also serves as the Director of Research for Packaging Science. Goodwin joined RIT in 1975 and previously served as the Chair of the Packaging Science Department. His research is focused on packaging for distribution — research in field measurement, laboratory simulation of the transportation environment and performance testing of product/package systems. Goodwin is also interested in shock and vibration research — cushion performance, compression strength of shipping containers, fatigue damage boundary and dynamic stack resonance testing as well as packaging and the environment — source reduction, recovery technologies and package costs. He is an active member of the International Association of Packaging Research Institutes, the International Journal of Packaging Technology and Science, the American Society for Testing and Materials, the International Safe Transit Association and the Institute of Packaging Professionals.

Research Interests include: Packaging for distribution — research in field measurement, laboratory simulation of the transportation environment and performance testing of product/package systems.

Martin E. Gordon, PE is Professor in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology department. He has been teaching at RIT since 1995. Prior to joining RIT he was a Senior Project Engineer and Product Manager for Moog Inc. in East Aurora, NY.

Martin is a Registered Professional Engineer, Board Certified Forensic Engineer and Expert Witness specializing in Traffic Accident Reconstruction, Product Liability and Machinery Accidents. He is a Senior Member and President-Elect of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers. He has consulted or provided expert testimony in over 100 traffic accident and product liability cases. He is also past Chairman of the Western New York Section of SAE and is the Faculty Advisor for the RIT Baja SAE team

Research Interests: Improving highway safety for the deaf, hard-of –hearing and other special groups of highway users.

Martin holds US Patent 5429155 for a Cryogenic Fluid Coupling and is a past recipient of RIT's Provost's Excellence in Teaching Award.

Personal Website: people.rit.edu/megite

Research interests include: ISO 14001 implementation, embedding organizational and societal value in corporate environmental management systems, and investigating methods for incorporating social responsibility as a measure of organizational excellence

Lisa Greenwood is an assistant professor in the Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety Department. She has been at RIT since 2007 and was previously the International Environment, Health & Safety Standards Manager at United Technologies/Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division. Her research foci relate to embedding organizational and societal value in corporate environmental management systems, and investigating methods for incorporating social responsibility as a measure of organizational excellence. Greenwood represents RIT on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group(TAG) to ISO Technical Committee 207 on environmental management, chairs the US sub-TAG on environmental management systems, and serves as the lead U.S. delegate to ISO TC 207's subcommittee on environmental management systems

Dr. Greenwood is a certified sustainability associate under the International Society of Sustainability Professionals, and is a member of the Genesee Valley Chapter of Air & Waste Management Association and New York Water Environment Association. She was honored by the International Organization for Standardization in 2015 with the ISO Excellence Award; and by the American Society for Quality in 2014 and 2015 for outstanding achievement in standards development. Greenwood was the 2009 recipient of the RIT Exemplary Online Faculty Award.

Ph.D., Southern Illinois University
Campus Address: EAS: 01-4224
Office Telephone: 585-475-7104
Email: malar.h.raj@rit.edu
Research interests include:  Diversity: higher education and corporate america; equity and social justice issues in graduate employability, with special focus on first-generation graduates and digitized recruitment processes.

Malarvizhi (Malar) Hirudayaraj, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Service Systems Department.  She began her career at RIT in 2014 and previously was an instructor for the McNair Program at Southern Illinois University.  Her research interests include diversity: higher education and corporate America; equity and social justice issues in graduate employability, with special focus on first-generation graduates and digitized recruitment processes. Hirudayaraj is an active member of AHRD- Academy of Human Resource Development, ACTE-Association of Career & Technical Education, ASTD- American Society of Training and Development and SHRM- Society of Human Resource Management.  She has been awarded with the Chancellor’s Dissertation Research Award (2012), Workforce Education and Development Academic Excellence Award (2011& 2012), John Cone Student Scholar, ASTD (2011) and was selected and trained by United Nations (International Labor Organization) on Youth Development & Youth Employability.

Research interests include: Crash avoiding and autonomous vehicles, applications of smartphones apps for Intelligent Transportation Systems, IOT and medical devices, SmartGrid, and Maker-methods in education.

Clark Hochgraf, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department. He is also a co-founder of Fast Forward Recovery, LLC a technology company that helps people to recover more quickly from traumatic brain injuries such as stroke. 
He joined RIT in 2008 and was previously the Systems Engineering and Electrical Engineering Supervisor for General Motors Research and Development. As an engineer in industry, he worked on polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell vehicles, distributed power generation, and megawatt scale-inverters that controlled the grid voltage on the electric power system.
He is a certified MIT Master Trainer in Educational Mobile Computing and has trained NYC High school STEM teachers, college students, and community members to create smartphone apps.
He has served as an active member of several professional organizations including; the International Council on Systems Engineering Fingerlakes Chapter President, UL 1741 and UL 1778 Standards Technical Panel Member; IEEE p1547 Interconnection of Distributed Resources Standards Development Group Writing committee member; IEEE and ASEE. Hochgraf has been received awards including the Westinghouse Signature Award, the Grainger Outstanding Power Engineering Student Award and was a Teaching Assistant Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“I'm an engineer, educator, and tinkerer. A few years back I needed a touch interface for a project and became hooked on making smartphone apps using MIT App Inventor. Since then, I've used App Inventor to teach Making and Design Thinking to High school teachers, colleges students, and members of the community. (
Rochester’s-growing-options-making-your-own-apps) “

“My research goal is to shorten the time it takes to achieve a world where cars don’t crash. This involves both the application of technologies and the development of societal acceptance. Deployment of crash-less cars will enable significant reductions in energy consumption, human suffering, and material waste.”

Research interests include: Real Time Audio Collaboration (RTAC) and the feasibility, logistics and implementation of live recording sessions carried and delivered over IP networks.

Mark J. Indelicato is an associate professor in the Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department. He has been at RIT since 1989. Previously, he was a Business Systems Communications Engineer for NEC America. Currently, Indelicato is researching Real Time Audio Collaboration (RTAC) and the feasibility, logistics and implementation of live recording sessions carried and delivered over IP networks. Recording engineers and musicians would be in disparate locations anywhere in the world where they have access the commodity or Internet 2. It is the expectation that the commodity internet would not be the best choice for this application at this point. Research would begin using Internet 2.

Anomaly Detection for Music

Using the D-Transform Anomaly Detection/Classification (ADC) algorithm to profile sections of popular music, Indelicato will be studying consistencies and inconsistencies in digital music to determine if common traits that can be identified. Various parameters will be changed in order to determine statistical, repeatable factors that separate average and exceptional music.

He plans to show if there exists consistently observable characteristics of popular songs. The "hook" or clearly identifiable piece of hits songs will be analyzed using the D-Transform Anomaly/ Detection/Classification (ADC) algorithm of Chance Glenn, Ph.D. It will be determined if these characteristics are consistent within genres of music or across genres. The Top 10 songs in specific categories, according to Billboard, will be the source of our sample pool of music for this initial investigation. Once a robust set of profiles are developed, we will use Prof. Warren Koontz's clustering algorithm to determine if these profiles tend to "group." This will lead to a method to predict if music will be popular based on the proximity to established profiles of already accepted popular music.

Indelicato is an active member of IEEE, ASEE, ITERA, and AES.

Dan Johnson is a professor and the department chair of the Packaging Science Department. He has been at RIT for 18 years, as the Manufacturing Program Chair as well as the Director of the Manufacturing Management and Leadership program.

Research interests include: Production Operations, Process/Supply Chain Strategy, Integrated Process/Product/Technology Development, Design for Manufacturing and Assembly, Academic Operations Management, Facilities Planning, Logistics, Material Handling, Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System, Statistical Quality Control, Six Sigma, Anti-Counterfeiting Techniques in Manufacturing.

Personal Website: http://people.rit.edu/wpjiee

Research interests include: Legal/regulatory and engineering aspects of technology deployment (IP, products liability, municipal zoning/planning issues, etc.) with emphasis on wireless communication systems and RF/microwave passive components.

William P. Johnson, J.D.,  is a faculty member in the Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department. Johnson joined  RIT  in 1989 where he currently serves as Graduate Program Director for the MS Telecommunications Engineering Technology program.  Johnson is also a licensed attorney and counselor-at-law in the State of New York and a municipal consultant for wireless telecommunications site zoning. Before joining RIT,  Johnson was Vice President/Director of Engineering at Microwave Filter Company, East Syracuse, NY.   His work is focused on legal/regulatory and engineering aspects of technology deployment (IP, products liability, municipal zoning/planning issues, etc.) with emphasis on wireless communication systems and RF/microwave passive components. He is a an active member of the IEEE, New York State Bar Association, and New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Thomas Kausch is a senior lecturer in the Packaging Science Department. He is also the Manager of the department's Packaging Labs. Kausch has employed by RIT since 2007. He is primarily interested in package distribution research and testing. Kausch is an active member of the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP), Advisory Board, Past-Presidents and the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) Member, Cert. He is a Certified Packaging Laboratory Professional (CPLP), an IoPP Certified Packaging Professional (CPP), a Fellow - IoPP College of Fellows, holds nine U.S. Patents and four European Patents.

Research interests include: Package Distribution Research and Testing.

Research interests include:  Areas of hospitality and tourism management; experiential consumption and its fundamental interrelationships with the production of tourism and hospitality experiences.

Muhammet Kesgin, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Hospitality and Tourism Management Department.  Previously, he was a Ph.D. researcher and adjunct lecturer at Coventry University and Buckinghamshire New University.  His research interests focus broadly on the areas of hospitality and tourism management.  His principal research interests are in experiential consumption and its fundamental interrelationships with the production of tourism and hospitality experiences.  Kesgin is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom and the Academy of Marketing.  He has was awarded the Tourism Analysis Journal Best Paper Award at the 6th Int’l Conference on Services Management and won the Best Research Presentation Award at Buckinghamshire New University Research Colloquium.

Spencer Kim, Ph.D., is a member of the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology/Packaging Science Department. He is also the Associate Director for the American Packaging Corp. Center for Packaging Innovation, a role he has held since 2006 when he joined RIT. Previously, he was a senior engineer at L.G. Semicon, South Korea. Kim's research is focused on research and development in bio degradable plastics, bio degradable blended composites, and recycling plastics, materials characterization, engineering materials for design and process design and failure analysis. Kim is an active member of the American Society for Engineering Educators, the Society for Plastics Engineers (SPE), the Society for Biomaterials, serves as an adviser for the RIT Students' Chapter for SPE as well as a member on the Board of Directors for the Rochester Chapter of SPE.

Research Interests include: Research and development in bio degradable plastics, bio degradable blended composites, and recycling plastics, materials characterization, engineering materials for design and process design and failure analysis.

Research Interests include: The auditory depth control integrated with 3-D visual display, the perceptual process and the associated attributes that provide convincing immersive sound fields, the brain response to immersive sound field, and the training methods of faster acquisition of critical listening ability.

Sungyoung Kim, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department.  He joined RIT in August 2012 and was most previously a research associate for Yamaha Corporation in Hammamatsu, Japan.  Initiated from working experience of a broadcasting audio engineer, Kim studied interaction of capturing methods and musical contents and their influence on listener’s preference of multichannel-delivered sound fields during his Ph.D. study. Later Kim was invited to Yamaha Corporation to investigate various rendering methods for listeners’ enhanced auditory impressions. His recent interests cover the auditory depth control integrated with 3-D visual display, the perceptual process and the associated attributes that provide convincing immersive sound fields, the brain response to immersive sound field, and the training methods of faster acquisition of critical listening ability.  Kim is an active member of the Audio Engineering Society and was awarded the Japan Award in 2009 by the Japanese Audio Engineering Society.

Richard M. Lagiewski, Lecturer

Ph.D. Edinburgh Napier Univeristy; M.S., B.S., Rochester Institute of Technology

Campus Address: Eastman Building (#01) 4266  
Office Telephone: 585-475-2820
Email: rxlisr@rit.edu
Personal website:  http://www.rit.edu/cast/hsm/faculty.html
Research interests include: Destination development, resort management, tourism in transitional economies, organizational change and creating service competitiveness through creative practices.

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Rick M. Lagiewski, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Hospitality and Tourism Management Department in the School of International Hospitality and Service Innovation.  He has been teaching at RIT since 2001.  Lagiewski’s research and teaching interests include: destination development, resort management, tourism in transitional economies, organizational change and creating service competitiveness through creative practices. He led a project for the East West Institute on cross-border institution building for tourism between Bosnia, Montenegro and Croatia.  Over the last four year Lagiewski has been an active scholar in delivering papers at the European Council of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Educators (EuroCHRIE)conference in such locations at; Turkey, France, Greece and Dubai. Topics have ranged from issues relating to medical tourism, experiential marketing and public private efforts in tourism development. Work with students at the undergraduate level outside of teaching have revolved around special event planning such as; Professional Golf Association (PGA) Championship, Senior PGA Championship, and the International Disabled Sailors (IDS) Sailing Regatta.  Lagiewski also helped deliver E-commerce training throughout the three main wine regions in New York State.  These seminars were made possible by grants sponsored by the New York Wine and Grape Foundation. Lagiewski is a member of the Council of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Educators, the National Restaurant Association, Eta Sigma Delta International Hospitality Honor Society, Executive Board;   and the Vermont Travel Industry Conference (State Tourism Conference).  He has been a nominee for the RIT Board of Trustees Scholarship Award and was the 2008 CHRIE Marriott Faculty Intern.  Lagiewski’s was awarded a Professional Development Fellowship funded by the U.S. Department of State through the Research and Training for Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union Act - 2001-2002l  NYS/UUP Individual Development Award – summer 2000; Vermont Travel Industry Conference Scholarship Winner - December 1999; Nominated for the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching State University of New York - December 1997; Teaching and Technology Discovery Grant, State University of New York -1997

James H. Lee, Ph.D., joined the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology/Packaging Science Department in 2009 as an associate professor and the MMET Graduate Program Director. He joined RIT in 2007 as research faculty in the Golisano Institute for Sustainability. Lee's research interests are focused on natural gas fueled engine development, small aircraft engine development, and energy systems and fuel cell systems. Lee is an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Automobile Engineers and is a professional engineer registered in the state of New York. Lee is an Eisenhower Fellow for Transportation Studies.

Research interests include: Natural gas fueled engine development, small aircraft engine development, and energy systems and fuel cell systems.

William M. Leonard, is an associate professor in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology Department. He has been at RIT since 1997. His areas of interest and research focus on advanced product design, rapid development and product prototyping and innovative engine design. Leonard is an active member of ASME and ASEE.

Research interests include: advanced product design, rapid development and product prototyping and Innovative engine design.

Ph.D., University of Rochester.

Campus Address:  Golisano (Bldg #70) 70-1329   
Office Telephone: 585-475-6848
Email:_cllmet@rit.edu

Research interests include: Polymer formulation and materials selection; product development; shape memory polymers; polymer crystallization; polymer processing; failure analysis of polymers.

Christopher Lewis, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology Department at RIT.  He joined the university in 2014 and was previously a post-doctoral research assistant at the University of Rochester.   Lewis’ recent research has focused on the synthesis and characterization of advanced functional polymeric materials with potential use in shape memory and self-healing applications.  Most recently he has been working on the development of a novel, biodegradable shape memory polymer for use in biomedical applications.

Lewis also has several years of experience in the polymer field.  Most recently he worked as a Sr. Materials Engineer for Delphi Corporation where he was engaged in materials development and materials selection, failure analysis, polymer process development and product development activities for automotive powertrain applications.  He has also worked as a materials engineer at General Motors Corporation performing failure analysis of polymer exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells and as plastics manufacturing engineer at Tyco Electronics engaged in polymer processing, product and mold design, and material selection activities. 

Ti-Lin Liu is an associate professor in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology / Packaging Science Department. He has been teaching at RIT since 1987. Previously he was the Chair Professor of the Mechanics Department at Shanghai University of Technology. His areas of interest include finite element analysis with ALGOR, computer simulation with working model and Matlab/Simulink, numerical analysis, solid mechanics, heat transfer and system dynamics/vibration. Liu is an active member of the New York State Engineering Technology Association. He has been the recipient of teaching awards in China and was the sole recipient of the 2001 Annual Grant Reward from MSC Software Corporation, San Mateo, CA.

Research interests include: Finite element analysis with ALGOR, computer simulation with working model and Matlab/Simulink.

Campus Address: EAS 4254
Campus Telephone: 585-475-7257
Email: jxmisr@rit.edu
Research interests include: Knowledge construction in diverse classrooms and its relationship to individual creativity

Personal Website: http://people.rit.edu/dnmiee

Research interests include: Fiber-optic networks and communication systems, all-optical signal processing, photonics and opto-electronics, optical phenomenon, and nonlinear optics.

Drew N. Maywar, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department having joined the department in 2009. Previously, Maywar was a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories - Lucent Technologies and a Scientist at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics. At Bell Laboratories, he prototyped their next generation DWDM, 10-and-40-Gb/s, Raman-amplified fiber-optic transmission system and earned the Central Bell Labs Teamwork Award on return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying transmission. Maywar serves as an Overseas Editor for the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics and has earned several awards for research and education in Japan, including a Fulbright fellowship for laser-physics research and Japanese-culture study at Osaka University’s Institute of Laser Engineering, a "US-Japan Cooperative Agreement on Photonic Memory Devices" grant from the US National Science Foundation for research at the University of Tokyo, and the University of Rochester's Take-Five Scholarship for Japanese language and cultural studies at Nanzan University. He is the co-author of over 40 peer-reviewed journal papers in the fields of fiber-optic communication systems, all-optical signal processing, photonics and opto-electronics, optical phenomenon, and nonlinear optics. Within these fields, he has also received funding as Principal Investigator from both the US National Science Foundation and the US Naval Air Systems Command. Maywar holds two US patents on all-optical memory devices and has co-authored a book chapter on active optical resonators. Maywar is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Optical Society of America (OSA).

Research Interests include:computational modeling of nanoscale heat conduction (phonon transport).

Michael P. Medlar is a senior lecturer in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology Department. He joined RIT in 2010 and previously worked as an engineer at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory for almost eight years. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Engineering at RIT.

Lt Col Dizzy B. Murphy is the Commander, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, Detachment 538, based at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. His areas of responsibility include leading and supervising active duty cadre as well as graduate students and Detachment cadets from entry into the program until commissioning.  He also serves as the Professor of Aerospace Studies for the Institute.  
Lt Col Murphy was commissioned in 1997 through the Air Force ROTC program at Carnegie Mellon University.  A graduate of Undergraduate Space and Missile Training, he has held numerous missile crew, spacelift, instructor, inspector and staff positions at the squadron, wing, numbered air force and major command levels.  Prior to his current assignment, he was the Inspector General of the 100th Air Refueling Wing.

EDUCATION
1997 Bachelor of Science in Information Systems with a Minor in Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
2002 Master of Science in Information Systems, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, Arz.
2004 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB), Ala.
2007 Air Command and Staff College through correspondence
2014 Air War College through correspondence

ASSIGNMENTS
1. June 1997–April 1998, Student, Undergraduate Space and Missile Training, 392d Training Squadron, Vandenberg AFB, California.
2. April 1998–February 2000, ICBM Deputy Combat Crew Commander, 321st Missile Squadron, 90th Missile Wing, F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming.
3. February 2000–November 2000, ICBM Combat Crew Commander, 321st Missile Squadron, 90th Missile Wing, F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming.
4. November 2000–September 2001, Officer Code Controller, 90th Operations Support Squadron, 90th Missile Wing, F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming.
5. September 2001– March 2003, Range Control Officer, 2d Range Squadron, 30th Space Wing, Vandenberg AFB, California.
6. March 2003 – June 2004, Chief, Range Control Officer Training, 30th Operations Support Squadron, 30th Space Wing, Vandenberg, California.
7. June 2004–June 2005, Chief, Spacelift Commander Training, 30th Operations Support Squadron, 30th Space Wing, Vandenberg, California.
8. June 2005–June 2006, Operations Flight Commander, 17th Test Squadron, 30th Space Wing, Vandenberg AFB, California.
9. June 2006–February 2008, Exercises, Training and Joint Operations Officer, US Forces-Japan, Yokota AB, Japan.
10. February 2008 – August 2009 – Operations, Plans, Training and Non-Combatant Evacuation Ops Officer, US Forces-Japan, Yokota AB, Japan.
11. August 2009–July 2010, Chief, ICBM Command, Control and Communication Operations, Air Force Global Strike Command, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana.
12. July 2010–June 2011, Deputy Director of Staff, Air Force Global Strike Command, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana.
13. June 2011–June 2013, Chief, Inspector General Plans Branch, Air Force Global Strike Command, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana.
14. June 2013–June 2016, Inspector General, 100th Air Refueling Wing, RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom.
16. June 2016–Present, Commander, AFROTC Detachment 538, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.

MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters
AF Outstanding Unit Award with three oak leaf clusters
AF Organizational Excellence Award
Combat Readiness Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
Nuclear Deterrence Operations Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters

EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION
Second Lieutenant June 17, 1997
First Lieutenant June 17, 1999
Captain June 17, 2001
Major April 1, 2007
Lieutenant Colonel July 1, 2012                                                                                                                                        
(Current as of July 2016)

Ph.D., MMH, Cornell University; B.A., Madras University

Campus Address:  Eastman Building (#01) 4190
Office Telephone:  585-475-5222
Email:  kxnism@rit.edu
Research interests include:  Consumers’ evaluation of service, service innovation, and work and family role conflicts and its effects on hospital employees. 
 
Karthik Namasivayam, Ph.D., is the Chair of the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management.  He brings over 25 years of academic and professional experience in the industry to RIT, having joined the university in August, 2016.    Previously he served as the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs at Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne, Switzerland.  Namasivayam’s research interests include consumers’ evaluations of services, service innovation, and work and family role conflicts and its effects on hospitality employees.  His work has been published in many journals including Psychology & Marketing, International Journal of Services Management, International Journal of Hospitality Management and Cornell Quarterly.  Namasivayam is a member of the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education and Academy of Management. 

Ph.D., Case Western University
M.S. Computer Science; M.S. Applied Mathematics; Wiezmann Institute of Science, Israel

Campus Address: ENT-2110 Rm 2151          
Office Telephone: 585-475-52263
Email: janiee@rit.edu  or yossi.nygate@rit.edu      
Research interests include:  Big data in telecommunications, self-organizing networks, software defined networks and network functions virtualization and artificial intelligence.

Joseph (Yossi) Nygate, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Electrical, Computer & Telecommunications Engineering Techology Department.  He joined RIT in 2014 and previously was Vice President, Network Solutions and Business Develoment Amdocs.  His research interests are as follow:
Big Data in Telecommunications

• Closed loop Customer Experience Management
• Real-time correlation of network performance with customer experience
• Adoption of Yield Management techniques to maximizing service profitability

Self-Organizing Networks

• Dynamically determine capacity shortfalls, quality of service violations, geo-located coverage and neighbour relationships
• Autonomously improve spectral and equipment efficiency, maximize coverage and increase capacity
• Automate self-healing, load balancing and outage compensation processes
• Support real time optimization of the thousands of parameters that are modelled per network device e.g. configuration, routing, bandwidth, Quality of Service, frequency, power, angle and tilt, neighbour lists, handover parameters, etc.

Software Defined Networks and Network Functions Virtualization

• Developing new high speed control algorithms to provision customer services, manage and control network failures, guarantee end-to-end quality of service provide ultra-high speed selection of least (lower) cost paths and real-time traffic management and congestion control
• Manage and orchestrate switching elements, mobile network nodes and tunneling gateways

Artificial Intelligence

• Rule based expert systems to aggregate, correlate, and analyse real time alarms from telecommunication networks
• Reinforcement learning of methods used by technicians in resolving network outages

Dr. Jennifer O’Neil joined the Rochester Institute of Technology faculty in August 2016 as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Technology. She currently studies the spray formation of non-Newtonian liquids to increase the knowledge of flow physics processes and advance the fundamental understanding of fluid dynamics to improve analyses and designs utilizing these substances. Given the broad application of this work, she has completed numerous projects in the fields of aerospace, automotive, alternative energy, biomedical, and pharmaceutical. Dr. O’Neil has advised over 25 undergraduate researchers.

Dr. O’Neil’s current teaching interests include integrating problem- and project-based learning into core mechanical engineering courses to enhance student learning and motivation. Her primary focus being the entrepreneurial mindset. She has won awards for classroom teaching and has disseminated her results in international conferences and journals. She primarily teaches courses at the freshmen level and within the thermal-fluids sequence.

Dr. O’Neil holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.

Ph.D., M.S., University at Buffalo

Campus Address:  Bdg. 70 GOL 70-1373      
Office Telephone:  (585) 475-5726
Email:  sooiee@rit.edu
Research interests include:  Electric machine design and application, multifactor stress aging of insulation and dielectrics and pulsed power and energy systems. 

Shola Olabisi, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department, having joined RIT in 2014.  Previously he was an Electric Machine Design Engineer at GE Transportation.  His research is focused on electric machine design and application, multifactor stress aging of insulation and dielectrics and pulsed power and energy systems. 
Some of his scholarly works include:
[1] T. M. DiSanto, S. Olabisi, D. P. Muffoletto, et al., "Temporal Analysis of Exploding Film Burst
Phenomenon," Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 39, pp. 603-607, 2011.
[2] J. L. Zirnheld, S. Olabisi, K. Burke, T. M. Disanto, H. L. Moore, and H. Singh, "Electric Explosion of Aluminum
Metallized Film," Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 37, pp. 2378-2384, 2009.
Refereed Conference Proceedings Articles
[1] D.P. Muffoletto, C. Mandris, S. Olabisi, K. M. Burke, J. L. Zirnheld, H. L. Moore, H. Singh, and M. Sussmann,
"Design and analysis of a smart power management system for ultracapacitor-powered robotic platform," in
Power Modulation and High Voltage Conference (IPMHVC), 2010 IEEE International, 2010, pp. 646-646.
[2] A. Caulcrick, S. Olabisi, J. Zirnheld, H. Moore, H. Singh, "Geometrical effects on hold-off voltage in polystyrene
insulator," in Power Modulation and High Voltage Conference (IPMHVC), 2010 IEEE International, 2010, pp. 443-448.
Olabisi has been awarded the GE Above and Beyond Award Feb. 2013, Aug. & May 2012, Dec. 201l & Oct 2010; German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship (DAAD) Fall 2005 – Spring 2009; Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship Spring 2008; MOOG Fellowship Spring 2008; James W. and  Nancy A. McLernon Engineering Scholarship 2004 – 2005 and the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Scholar.  He is an active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honor Society);American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) and the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).

Research Interests include: Electronic design, servomechanism design, embedded systems design.

David Orlicki, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in the Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department having joined RIT in 2009. Previously he was an adjunct professor. His areas of interest include electronic design, servomechanism design and embedded systems design. He has won the Kodak Doctoral Award, is a member of the Eastman Kodak Inventors Hall of Fame—with over 20 US Patents—has won the Kodak Outstanding Innovation Award, Photographic Manufacturers Association Product of the Year Award and the MIT Electrical Engineering Teaching Assistant of the Year.

Michael J. Parthum, Sr., is an associate professor in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology department. His field of research for the past five years has been in MEMS (micro electrical mechanical systems) and charge injection technology. He is currently working on research projects in the fields of MEMS and RF-ID. Parthum has staff access to the SMFL's cleanroom where he is certified on 17 tools and super-user on 9 tools in the Fab. He has developed a new method for stress mitigation and enhanced strength in free standing MEMS structures (patents filed). Additionally, Parthum has developed a new method for temperature sensing in MEMS devices for RF-ID. His areas of interest include thin films / composite materials and glassy metals and he is also working developing and implementing Multi-Media based tools to enhance the students learning experience. This includes video presentations; web based contacts, and self-study to promote life-long learning. Parthum also has a strong interest in the Design for Life philosophy, in that with the limited resources that exist on this planet, plus the problems with disposal (landfill) and the costs of remanufacturing/recycling, greater focus should be made at the design phase of a project/product to consider the "useful life" of that product. He has also been working on advancements in motorcycle safety and the applications of Alternative Powered Vehicles. Published work includes Stress Mitigation in Thin Films and MEMS Devices; Enhanced Strength in Thin Films and MEMS Devices; Teaching and Tablets; using tablet computers in the classroom and Motorcycle Helmet Testing: Procedures and Helmet Technology.

Parthum is an active member ASME, ASEE, AMA and the Monroe county Chapter of ABATE.

Research Interests include:s customer service/patient satisfaction as well as program evaluation

Patricia Poteat, D.Ed., is a lecturer in the Department of Service Systems where she has served as adjunct faculty since 2004 specifically teaching graduate research methods and writing strategies. She served as the Program Director for the Bachelor of Science Degree in Health Services Administration at Bryant and Stratton College. Poteat has extensive experience working in the public and private sectors of health care. 

Her career spans serving in leadership roles in quality, compliance, and risk management in the Rochester community.  She worked at Lifetime Health Medical Group overseeing the quality, compliance, risk, patient satisfaction, and pay-for-performance programs. Prior to that, she worked at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield in the Medicare Compliance Department. She has had experience working with not-for-profit boards in her role as Director of the Community Technology Assessment Advisory Board (CTAAB). In addition, she worked at each of the major hospital systems over the tenure of her career in the quality/risk management department.

She is a member of American Evaluation Association (AEA); Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) and the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ). Poteat previously served on the former Seniorsfirst Board of Governors and Valley Manor Board of Governors.

Karen Proctor is a professor on the faculty in the Packaging Science Department. She has been at RIT since 1983. This includes tenure as chairs of both the graduate and undergraduate programs. Previously, Proctor was a packaging professional at both the Xerox and Amway Corporations. Additionally, she actively consults for various companies. Her areas of expertise include distribution, process control, sustainable packaging innovation, and packaging at the point of purchase. She has the distinction of developing and teaching the first packaging class designed for the RIT course titled Space Tourism. Karen spent the 1991 school year in Melbourne, Australia where she helped develop the first packaging degree program in Australia at the Victoria University. In 2007, she was a Visiting Professor in the Packaging Engineering Program at The State University of New Jersey-Rutgers, Biomedical Engineering. She also developed the RIT Packaging Science Executive Leader International program. In 2006 - 2007, Karen was on sabbatical at the Colgate-Palmolive Corporation as Director of Homecare Packaging and a member of the Colgate Sustainable Packaging Taskforce (August 2006 - July 2007). She was instrumental in the development of the Global Sustainable Packaging Strategy for Colgate-Palmolive. Her most recent developmental activities at include working with the RIT Golisano Institute for Sustainability (www.sustainability.rit.edu) to expand and develop packaging related research projects in sustainability. This includes two recent undergraduate research projects to utilize the Wal-Mart Scorecard to design more sustainable innovative packaging. In addition, she is consulting for a number of companies to meet the sustainability issues in packaging mandated by global retailers. Her goal in the Packaging Science Program is to enhance the educational environment of sustainable packaging innovation through the use of applied tools. Proctor is an active member of many packaging professional associations; American Society for Testing and Materials, Institute of Packaging Professionals, International Association of Packaging Research Institutions, International Safe Transit Association, National Institute of Packaging, Handling and Logistics Engineers, and Women in Packaging.

Currently, she is the Educational VP for International Safe Transit Association and is actively involved in the development of packaging standards to reflect "good sustainability practices" in the Wal-Mart supply chain: Sam's Club test procedure development program (www.ista.org/SamsClubProject.htm). Karen is a packaging sustainability advocate for designing "Just Right Packaging" to meet the supply chain requirements. Over her extensive career, Karen has received many honors and awards from her affiliations in professional organizations.

Research interests include: working with the RIT Golisano Institute for Sustainability (www.sustainability.rit.edu) to expand and develop packaging related research projects in sustainability.

B.A., Drake University, Des Moines IA
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Research Interests include: Developing micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) devices for mechanical, fluidic, and optical applications.

Alan D. Raisanen, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology/Packaging Science Department.  He joined RIT in 2001 and was most recently the Technical Director for RIT’s NYSTAR IT Collaboratory.  His research currently involves developing micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) devices for mechanical, fluidic, and optical applications. Some applications include micropumps for human-implantable drug delivery or analytical lab-on-a-chip devices, dielectric devices for harnessing light pressure to provide mechanical lift analogous to an airplane’s wing, mechanical optical devices to replace the natural human eye lens with an artificial implantable prosthesis that restores the natural accommodating (focusing) ability, and electromechanically-driven micromirrors that can be used to steer multiple optical beams for telecommunications, display, and spectroscopic imaging systems. In order to make these devices practical, I am also engaged in research to characterize the fundamental mechanical behaviors of the thin film materials used to fabricate these devices. I am also involved in materials processing and device fabrication of photovoltaics and nanomaterials, specifically in developing manufacturable processes and process flows for devices using these materials. Some of these materials are being used in collaborative RIT Nanopower Research Laboratory research in photovoltaics and Lithium battery technologies. Finally, I am developing new processing tool technologies (primarily plasma deposition and etching tools) that are necessary for fabricating micromechanical devices from silicon as well as other more exotic materials. These tools require extensive work in vacuum technology, machine design, robotics, welding and machining, making them ideal vehicles for self-contained co-op studies, senior design, and multidisciplinary design projects. 

S. Manian Ramkumar, Ph.D., Professor, Director of Center for Electronics; CET Interim Dean

Ph.D., Binghamton University; M.E., Rochester Institute of Technology; B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, India

Campus Address: Ross Building (#10) 1116
Campus Telephone: 585-475-5955
Email: smrmet@rit.edu
Research interests include:  Surface mount electronics packaging, automation, PLC controls and systems integration, web-based laboratory experimentation and control and robotics and automated systems. 

S. Manian Ramkumar, Ph.D., is a professor, and Interim Dean of the College of Applied Science & Technology (CET). Dr. Ramkumar’s work is focused on surface mount electronics packaging, automation, PLC controls and systems integration, web-based laboratory experimentation and control and robotics and automated systems.  His peer reviewing activity includes: 

• Microelectronics Reliability Journal
• IEEE Transactions in Electronics Packaging Manufacturing
• IEEE Transactions on Reliability
• Manufacturing Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
• Journal of Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (JASET)
• National Science Foundation (NSF) – Proposal Reviewer
• ASME – IDETC Conference

Editorial Activities:

• Associate Editor - IEEE Transactions in Electronics Packaging Manufacturing (2006 - Present)
• Penwell Publishing Group (SMT Magazine) (2007 - Present)

Surface Mount Technology Association

• Currently serves on the Nomination Committee for electing Board of Directors and also on the Technical Advisory Board and is President of SMTA Empire Chapter (NY State) and has served as Vice President of Technical Programs.   

Honors and Awards

• Nominated to the Board of Trustees Outstanding Scholarship Award by the Deans Council of the University (2008)
• Innovation in Teaching and Learning with Technology award for 2008
• Nominated for the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Systems Science and Industrial Engineering Department (2007)
• Nominated for RIT’s Principal Investigator Presidential Award from CET (2007)
• Nominated for the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Systems Science and Industrial Engineering Department (2007)
• Established a fully functional process and failure analysis laboratory valued at over $2,500,000 through industry donations
• Secured over $1,000,000 in grant funding for curriculum development, applied research and equipment, from federal agencies and professional societies (NSF, NASA and SME)
• Nominated for the Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching Award (3 years)
• Exceptional Scholar Award for excellence and leadership in the area of scholarship in CET. (May 2006)
• Served as an Endowed Chair for the College from 1997-2007
• Award of Commendation from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Region 4, for outstanding contributions to manufacturing and manufacturing engineering education, 1994.
• Second Place in the National Robotics Contest organized by SME, 1992 (Faculty Advisor for SME Student Chapter)
• Best Outgoing Mechanical Engineering Student Award for outstanding overall curricular and extra-curricular performance (1988)
• Best Mechanical Engineering Capstone Project Award (1988)

Dr. Brian S. Rice is an assistant professor in the Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology (MMET) department and he also teaches in the Biomedical Engineering (BIME) department at RIT.  He joined the MMET faculty in 2016 after working in applied research at Lockheed Martin, University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, and Eastman Kodak Company. At these companies he designed, analyzed and tested space-based optical satellites, robotically controlled manufacturing process for light-weight optics, elastohydrodynamic lubricated air bearings, control algorithms to maintain color-to-color registration for printing presses, light-weight mobile radar systems, and low-vibration mounts for hydrogen fuel pellets and methods to control the uniformity of the fuel’s ice-gas phase boundary for inertial confinement fusion experiments at cryogenic conditions.
Dr. Rice specializes in using Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) techniques to develop mathematical models that accurately predict empirical data of electromechanical systems and then applying optimization techniques to improve their design. His areas of expertise are the application of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to linear and nonlinear transient multi-physic problems using ANSYS, and the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations representing the feedback control of dynamic systems using Matlab/Simulink.
At RIT his research interests are focused on applying fluid-structure interactions (FSI) modeling techniques, and system dynamics and controls modeling techniques to biomedical systems; and active vibration and shape control of light-weight structures subjected to severe vibration and temperature environments.
Dr. Rice has taught a variety of college courses including graduate level Finite Elements; senior level: Dynamics and Control of Biomedical Systems, Advanced Mechanical Design, and Machine Design; and freshman/sophomore level: Fundamentals of Engineering, and Statics.
Refereed Publications:

• “Measurement of Young’s Modulus and Damping of Fibers at Cryogenic Temperatures,” Brian Rice, Joseph Quinzi, Lance Lund, Jeffrey Ulreich, Milton Shoup,  J. Cryogenics 63, pp. 43-48 (2014).
• “Predictive Models of Web-to-Roller Traction,”B. S. Rice and R. F. Gans, Trans. ASME, J. Tribology 127, pp. 180–189 (2005).
• “A Model for Determining the Asperity Engagement Height In Relation to Web Traction over Non-Vented Rollers,” B. S. Rice, S. Müftü, and K. A. Cole, Trans. ASME, J. Tribology 124, 584–594 (2002).

Patents:

• "Non-Marking Web Conveyance Roller and Method of Making Same," United States Patent number 6,884,205, April 2005. G. L. VanNoy, B. S. Rice, F. Ramos, D. C. Lioy at Eastman Kodak Company.
• "Corona Discharge Treatment Roller and Surface Finishing Process," United States Patent number 6,436,191, August 2002. A. M. Stewart and B. S. Rice at Eastman Kodak Company.
• "Process for Finishing the Surface of a Corona Discharge Treatment Roller," United States Patent number 6,423,259, July 2002. A. M. Stewart and B. S. Rice at Eastman Kodak Company.
• "Apparatus and Method for Aligning Webs," United States Patent number 6,192,955, February 2001. B. S. Rice at Eastman Kodak Company.
• "Corona Discharge Treatment Roller and Surface Finishing Process," United States Patent number 6,142,409, November 2000. A. M. Stewart and B. S. Rice at Eastman Kodak Company.
• "Apparatus and Method for Aligning Webs," United States Patent number 5,849,123, December 1998. B. S. Rice at Eastman Kodak Company.

Presentations:

• “Wrinkle-Free Conveyance in Nips,” B. S. Rice, presented at the Eighth International Conference on Web Handling, Stillwater, OK, June 2005.
• “A Two-Dimensional Model for Web-to-Roller Traction at Small Wrap Angles,” B. S. Rice and R. F. Gans, presented at the Seventh International Conference on Web Handling, Stillwater, OK, June 2003 (Best Paper Award).
• “A Simple Model to Predict Web-to-Roller Traction,” B. S. Rice and R. F. Gans, presented at the Seventh International Conference on Web Handling, Stillwater, OK, June 2003.
•  “An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Web Traction Over a Non-Vented Roller,” B. S. Rice, K. A. Cole, and S. Müftü, presented at the Eleventh Annual Symposium on Information Storage and Processing Systems, Santa Clara, CA, June 2000.
• “An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Web Traction Over a Non-Vented Roller,” B. S. Rice, K. A. Cole, and S. Müftü, presented at the Fifth International Conference on Web Handling, Stillwater, OK, June 1999.
• “Web Longitudinal Dynamics,” R. L. Walton and B. S. Rice, presented at the Fourth International Conference on Web Handling, Stillwater, OK, June 1997.

Research Interests include: The design, implementation and effectiveness of integrated environmental health and safety management systems in industry.

Joseph M. Rosenbeck is a Professor in the Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety Department. Previously, he was a Responsible Care Manager and an Environmental, Health and Safety Manager for Arch Chemicals Inc. and FMC Corp. Rosenbeck's research is focused on the design, implementation and effectiveness of integrated environmental health and safety management systems in industry. He is a board certified safety professional, and an active member of the American Society of Safety Engineers(ASSE).

Dr. Jennifer Schneider, CIH is the Eugene H. Fram Chair of Applied Critical Thinking in Academic Affairs and professor in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management & Safety at RIT. She founded and leads the cross university Collaboratory for Resiliency & Recovery @ RIT.Click here for Colloboratory for Resiliency and Recovery site Prior to RIT, Dr. Schneider was in corporate Environmental, Health & Safety for Kodak, Mobil and ITT/Goulds. She served on the local HAZMAT team, and comes from a family of first responders.

As the RIT Fram chair, Dr. Schneider leads a university wide, student focused initiative to develop critical thinking that encompasses over 600 courses annually, scholarship and multiple events. As a faculty, Dr. Schneider has developed and taught 12 courses and has chaired almost 100 graduate thesis/ projects and 75 senior projects. She enjoys mentoring students at all levels of learning and has earned awards for her engagement of students.

Research Interests include: multidimensional sustainability, stewardship of hazardous materials, critical infrastructure and disaster management through application of risk analysis and decision systems. She is an RIT Million Dollar PI, a Board of Trustees Scholar award winner (2014). She is extended faculty to the Golisano Institute of Sustainability at RIT, and associated faculty of the Imaging Products Laboratory of the Center for Imaging Science and the Laboratory for Environmental Computing and Decision-making.

Dr. Schneider is very involved in her professional community, and an abbreviated list follows: She serves on the US TAG 268 of the ISO 37101 standard. Dr. Schneider was appointed by Honorable NY Governor Andrew Cuomo to NY Respond Commission in 2012. She has served on the National Academy of Sciences, Offshore Windfarm Health and Safety Standards Committee (2012/3); OSHA Regional 2 Center Technical PI, Genesee Valley Safety Conference Executive Board Member (1997-) Treasurer (2009- 2017); Dr. Schneider is a 25 year diplomate of the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, (comprehensive practice, CP#7273), a member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, American Society of Safety Engineers, Air and Waste Management Association, Military Operations Research Society - Risk & Decision Systems (MORS), and the Great Lakes Hazard Coalition.

Michael Slifka is an Senior Lecturer in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology (MMET). He joined RIT in 2006 as a tutor in the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. He recently completed his M.S. in Educational Studies at the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education. His research interests focus on improving the teaching methods and environment in which engineering students are taught. Working to instill a passion in students to improve current products and technologies for better or new uses, he encourages the breaking of accepted paradigms for the creation of new standards, which will improve technology/product usability, function, and manufacturability. His students are encouraged to be innovative, “think outside the box”, and never accept things just because “it’s the way it’s always been done.”

Product design and manufacturing is another area of focus for Slifka. With over 30 years of interdisciplinary product design crossing industries such as consumer, medical instrumentation, automated manufacturing systems, military, aerospace, and heavy industry, his experience qualifies him as an outstanding resource for today's students. While working as a research consultant for an aerospace company, he has investigated new cooling technologies for use in electronic products. The goal of this work is to increase the ability to effectively cool today and tomorrow's high heat generation electronic/electrical systems, with the results being improved product designs for more effective, yet vastly, more efficient cooling systems.

Slifka is a member of RIT’s Innovation Council, which provides guidance to the Simone Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship in how to advance its core objective of promoting student multidisciplinary innovation and entrepreneurship projects.

He is also the faculty advisor to RIT’s Society of Manufacturing Student Chapter, in which students work to design and build automated manufacturing system projects. The student members select these projects. The chapter offers valuable and practical engineering experiences while learning current techniques in manufacturing through the interaction with current manufacturers.

Awarded grants include the RIT’s Provost’s Learning Innovation Grant and was Co-PI on a three-year $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) for a university-wide project under the Simone Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship in which the National Science Foundation selected RIT as one of 15 universities to become an I-Corps Site. The I-Corp program is designed to help convert STEM research into marketable products and services.

Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Campus Address: EAS 4242
Campus Telephone:  585-475-4293
Email:  tesdss@rit.edu
Research interests include:  Leadership development across various industries and organizations.

Torrence E. Sparkman, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Service Systems.  He joined RIT in 2014 and was previously a Visiting Associate Professor and Program Outreach Coordinator at the University of Houston.  Sparkman’s research interests are focused on exploring the boundaries of leadership development at the executive level primarily in non-profit, higher education and government organizations.  He is also interested in leadership development in multinational organizations.  Sparkman is an active member of the Academy of Human Resource Development and has been awarded numerous honors including Dissertation of the Year (2013) American Educational Research Association, Workplace Learning SZG.  “Understanding the Leadership Development of Executive Church Denomination Leasers:  A Phenomenal Approach,” and Synergy Fellowships (2010-2011) University of Illinois, Department of Education, Policy, Organization and Leadership.

Phillippa Thiuri, Ph.D., Lecturer, Department of Service Systems

Ph.D., Boston College, M.S., Harvard University
Campus Address:  EAS 4248
Campus Telephone:  585-475-6017
Email:  pxtdss@rit.edu

Research interests include: student mentorship, leadership development and advancement of entrepreneurship among underrepresented and minority populations, and innovation in the service sector.

 Phillippa Thiuri, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Department of Service Systems joining the department in fall 2016.   Previously she was the Senior Director of RIT’s Academic Support Center for five years.  Her research interests include student mentorship, leadership development and advancement of entrepreneurship among underrepresented and minority populations, and innovation in the service sector.  Thiuri serves on the board of the Women’s Foundation of Genesee Valley.

Dr. Linda A. Tolan manages curriculum, accreditation and assessment, student academic issues, student retention, and facilities. She is a tenured professor and teaches courses in human resources development, training and employee development, career theory and development, organizational development, human capital strategies, and strategic future thinking. Dr. Tolan has a Ph.D. in Leadership from Andrews University, an M.S. in Career and Human Resource Development from Rochester Institute of Technology, and B.S. in Management Science – Behavioral Science from SUNY-Geneseo. Dr. Tolan also holds certification (#38214) from the National Board of Certified Counselors.

Linda Underhill, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chair Department of Service Systems

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Certifications: Registered Dietitian

Campus Address: EAS 4182
Campus Telephone: 585-475-7359
Email: Linda.Underhill@rit.edu
Personal Website: http://www.rit.edu/cast/hsm/hsa
Research interests include:  NIH Stimulus Grant application jointly developed with RIT health alliance partner Rochester General Health Systems for Comparing Adult Non-pharmacologic Diabetes Interventions Participation.

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Linda Underhill, Ph.D., is the Chair of the Department of Service Systems in the School of International Hospitality and Service Innovation.
Underhill has been teaching at RIT since 1996.  Her research interests include a NIH Stimulus Grant application jointly developed with RIT health alliance partner Rochester General Health Systems for Comparing Adult Non-pharmacologic Diabetes Interventions Participation.  Her work’s focus is on the prevention of obesity/ diabetes for children through achieving healthy lifestyles and Healing Hospitality Innovation in the provision of health care services.   Additionally she is focused on the United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Services, Women and Infant and Children (WIC) training grant and research grant, Principal Investigator.  Underhill is currently involved with the following project:

Type II Diabetes Research Project

Joined the Rochester Area Diabetes Prevention Coalition, funded by the Center for Disease Control, for a regional intervention in the treatment of Type II diabetes found in the Hispanic population who live at or below the poverty level in this region. RIT’s nutrition researchers developed a nutrition intervention proposal for The Monroe Plan of Greater Rochester for at-risk clientele with Type II diabetes. Working with RIT Dietetic students, the team initiated the project, including development and administration of a needs assessment for the affected Hispanic population and development of nutritional intervention strategies for the Hispanic community in 2006.  As CEO of the Senior Health Alliance, Underhill secured New York State, Workforce Development, TANF grants from the NYS Department of Health and the New York State Department of Labor for Alliance members for approximately 4 million dollars.  She is an active member of Continuing Developmental Services, Rochester New York; Executive Committee, Board of Directors member affiliated with quality assurance, Seniorsfirst Board, Rochester New York, Executive committee, member of Valley Manor Board of Directors.  Underhill also belongs to the American Dietetic Association, Chicago, Illinois and the Genesee Dietetic Association, Rochester New York. 

In May of 2013, Lindsay Vallone joined the College of Applied Science and Technology as an Academic Advisor in Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunications Engineering Technology.

She is a great problem solver and thoroughly enjoys helping students navigate the waters of higher education. Lindsay started her career at RIT in the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships as a financial aid advisor in 2008.

Prior to joining the RIT team, she worked as a financial aid counselor at a small technical school in Indianapolis, Indiana. Lindsay is very much looking forward to her new role in student advising.

Larry Villasmil, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology/Packaging Science Department. He joined RIT in 2006 and previously taught and was a research assistant at Texas A&M. He also worked in industry as a rotating machinery senior engineer at PDVSA in Venezuela. Villasmil's research interests focus on computational fluid dynamics, turbulence modeling; rotor dynamics and turbomachinery and components design; industrial power generation and refrigeration; heat transfer and fluid power. He is also interested in conventional and alternative energy technologies, engineering education as well as ethics in engineering. Villasmil's work has been published and he has presented at numerous conferences including:

Schultz JW, Villasmil LA, "Reconciliation of Bernoulli's Equation in Channel Flow: An In-Depth Empirical and Numerical Approach", AC 2009-1584, ASEE Annual Conference, Austin, June 2009.

Villasmil LA, Childs DW, Chen HC, "Understanding Friction Factor Behavior in Liquid Annular Seals with Deliberately Roughened Surfaces, Roughness Geometric Characteristics Defining Flow Resistance", GT2006-91046, ASME Turbo Expo: Power for Land, Sea and Air, Barcelona, Spain, May 2006.

Villasmil LA, Chen HC, Childs DW, Evaluation of Near-wall Turbulence Models for Liquid Annular Seals with Roughened Walls, AIAA Journal, 2005; 43(10):2137-2146.

Villasmil LA, Chen HC, Childs DW, "Evaluation of Near-wall Turbulence Models for Liquid Annular Seals with Roughened Walls", AIAA-2003-3741, 33RD AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Orlando, Florida, June 2003.

Villasmil LA, Childs DW, Chen HC, Understanding Friction Factor Behavior in Liquid Annular Seals with Deliberately Roughened Surfaces, ASME Journal of Tribology, 2005; 127:213-222.

Villasmil LA, Childs DW, Chen H.C., "Understanding Friction Factor Behavior in Liquid Annular Seals with Deliberately Roughened Surfaces", AIAA-2003-5070, 39TH AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Huntsville, Alabama, July 2003.

He is an active member of many boards and professional affiliations including the Texas Board of Professional Engineers, AIAA, ASME, and ASEE. Villasmil has been a Peer Reviewer for ASME since 2004 and Tribology International since 2005. He is also the New York Iota Chapter Advisor for Tau Alpha Pi Society. For five consecutive years he was the recipient of the Ralph James Fellowship and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

Research interests include: Computational fluid dynamics and turbulence modeling, heat transfer and fluid power.

Research interests: environmental sustainability methods and practices, management of water resources, and wastewater treatment design and operations.

Gretchen Wainwright is a senior lecturer in the Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety Department, and the Undergraduate Program Chair for Civil Engineering Technology. Prior to joining RIT in 2011, she managed the Water Pollution Program at Xerox Corporation. Previous to that, Wainwright spent over 20 years as a wastewater treatment process engineer at Eastman Kodak, where she participated in the design and construction of three new WWTPs, and process improvements at several others. At RIT, she teaches courses in water and wastewater treatment, solid/hazardous waste management, hydraulics, and environmental sustainability. Wainwright is a Six Sigma Black Belt practitioner and a member of the New York State Water Environment Association.

Carol B. Whitlock, Ph.D., Professor Hospitality and Tourism Management;

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts; M.S., B.S., Pennsylvania State University
Certifications: Certified Dietitian Nutritionist, Registered Dietitian

Campus Address: Eastman Building (#01) 4236
Campus Telephone:  585-475-2353   
Email:  cbwism@rit.edu
Personal Website:  http://people.rit.edu/cbwism/
Research interests include:  Forging educational partnerships with industries to develop innovation and creativity skills in undergraduates. 

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Carol B. Whitlock, Ph.D., is a professor in the Hospitality and Tourism Management Department in the School of International Hospitality and Service Innovation. Whitlock has taught at RIT since 1972. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in food product development, food science, strategic environment of the food industry, food preparation, menu planning, sensory evaluation, nutrition, food processing and technology, food quality assurance, technologies in service systems, and global standards of food.  While at RIT, Whitlock has created 19 new courses and taught 14. 
She developed and taught (1999) the first online course to ACMT, the American College of Management and Technology, Croatia; class size 120 – 200 students.  She has also frequently served as chair of department curriculum revision:  developed new service management undergraduate core of courses, increased synergism and efficiencies between majors, facilitated granting of maximum credit to transfer students (1995); facilitated a major undergraduate curriculum revision (1988-89); developed competency-based curriculum (1985-86); developed graduate level Foods (1987) and Nutrition (1989) options curricula.  Whitlock also served as chair for the accreditation of the school (1990-93), and accreditation awarded to 2000.  She has also chaired or served on numerous Institute, college, and School committees, including:

• Institute Effective Teaching Committee, member, and Co-chair of the Eisenhart Colloquium on Best Practices in Teaching (2001-2003).
• Advisory Board, RIT’s Teaching and Learning Center (2004 - 2006),
• Member, RIT Strategic Planning Steering Committee and Co-chair, Task Force on Academic Programs and Curricula (1993-94).         
• Chair, Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching Award process (1998-2000).
• Member, CET college level strategic planning committee (1994-95).

Industry Partnerships for Innovation

•  Educational partnerships with industries to develop innovation and creativity skills in undergraduates. 

            Current and recent partners: 

• Dove Chocolate, division of Mars Candy Company, Master Foods
• Birdseye Vegetables, division of Allens Canning Co.
• Kraft Foods, coffee and crackers divisions
• Constellation Brands (wines, spirits, beer, water)
• Baldwin – Richardson Foods
• (others)
• Department of Labor grant 2007-2009; Advanced Food and Beverage Institute: Education to enhance international competitiveness of food industries.  Strategies for productivity in education of adults.

            Current partners:

• Wegmans Food Markets
• NY Wine and Culinary Center

• Innovative Technology Applications; some also are
  Nutrition Education/Information

• Application of technologies to food and hospitality industries, with emphasis on food imaging and marketing. 
• Digital Imaging and Web Site Marketing
  - Linwood Gardens, listed on NY State Registry of Historic Places
  http://www.linwoodgardens.org/   2004-present

                                                May, 2009 issue of Horticulture Magazine

• Digital image-based, touch screen menu for Henry’s, the student-run restaurant of the Hospitality and Service Management program. 
  - Images and nutritional information in multiple formats provided                         on a tablet-style, touch-screen computer.  (2002)
• “Information Station” and “Cuisine Machine,” interactive laser video disk/computer consumer information systems for supermarkets produced by InterAd Company of Rochester, NY. (1986-87)  
• Topics included Meats and Seafood preparation methods, nutritional information, and pairing with other foods.  Touch-screen format.

• Designing Undergraduate Curricula, in partnership with content professors.

• Effective international education, undergraduate level, in Hospitality and Service Management
• Undergraduate concentrations and minors: 
• Event Management
• Wine and Beverage Management
• Human Resource Management

           
Boards and Professional Affiliations:

• American Council on Science and Health, Board of Advisors (1984-present)
• Institute of Food Technologists:
• One of two persons nationally for media contact on food service issues (1987-1998)
• Appointed to IFT Expert Panel, Food Safety and Nutrition (1984-87).
• American Heart Association, New York State Affiliate:
• Consultant, P&C Supermarket consumer Nutrition Project (1980-84);
• Representative to New York State Nutrition Council (1977-82);
• Heart Health Education Committee (1981-82)
• American Heart Association, Genesee Valley Chapter:
• Member, Board of Directors (1976-84);
• Chair, Nutrition Committee (1975-83); consultant (1984-85); 
• Chair, Program Council (1979-80)
• Member, Heart Health Education Committee (1984-85)

Honors and Awards:

• Named as Eisenhart Outstanding Teacher (1986), RIT
• Bond Award Gold Medal for best research paper presented at the national conference of the American Oil Chemists’ Society,

Education:

BS in Civil Engineering, State University of NY at Buffalo, 1987.

MS in Professional Studies, RIT

Research interest:
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) applications in civil engineering and related fields; green building design, construction and operation, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).

Teresa Wolcott is a lecturer in the Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety Department. She joined RIT as an adjunct instructor in 2002 and became a full-time lecturer in 2010. Teresa is a member of the Board of Directors of Women in Technology at RIT, coordinates the civil engineering technology surveying program, and is a member of the faculty/student LEED team.

Research interests include: pedagogy, ecological engineering, sustainable systems, and critical infrastructure as it relates to storm water management and aqueous treatment systems.

Scott Wolcott is a professor in the Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety Department. He has been teaching at RIT since 1996. His teaching has focused on courses involving water resources and environmental engineering, and related software used in civil and environmental engineering. He is currently serving as CET’s Faculty Associate for Study Abroad Initiatives. Scott has organized several global efforts to RIT Croatia and with Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland.

Research interests are in the area of ecological engineering, sustainable infrastructure systems, and pedagogy. Prior to joining RIT, Wolcott was a Senior Civil/Environmental Engineer working for engineering consulting firms in Buffalo, New York. Wolcott is a member of the ASEE, the New York State Technology Educators Association and the American Water Works Association.

Research Interests include: Curriculum development and instruction for 9-12 pre-engineering and university freshman engineering technology students.

George H. Zion is a professor in the Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department and serves as Director of Project Lead the Way. Zion joined RIT in 1984 and prior to his current role, served as Program Chair for Computer Engineering Technology. His professional focus is curriculum development and instruction for 9-12 pre-engineering and university freshman engineering technology students. His teaching and scholarship focus is the pedagogy of teaching and learning with a primary interest in active-learning technique. Additionally, his technical interest is in the area of software development for embedded systems.