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Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety

RIT Racing and teams from Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, India and the United States will field race cars, built by student-engineers, and test them on a track that will challenge not only the durability of the cars but the problem-solving capabilities of the teams during the 2019 Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge June 6-9.

Five alumni from RIT’s College of Engineering Technology were honored with Rising Star awards during a campus reception last month. Given to alumni who graduated from CET within the past five to 10 years, the awardees were recognized for outstanding achievements early in their careers, for significant public service contributions and in helping to advance the careers of new professionals.

Meet Brady Smith, a fourth-year civil engineering technology student and captain of this year’s Concrete Canoe team.

Concrete canoes float—really. And bridges are more complicated to construct than putting up a few steel beams. Student-engineers who build both the unusual—yet attractive—canoes and complex bridge spans will display their designs at the 2019 Upstate New York Regional Student Conference taking place April 19-20 at RIT.

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Kimie Romeo, adjunct professor of environmental health.

Meet Dempsey King, a fourth-year civil engineering technology student, who is one of three RIT wrestlers who qualified for the 2019 NCAA Division III Championship tournament.

Students at RIT are learning about risk management and planning even before entering the workplace through a new series of systems-based educational tools integrating community and enterprise risk and sustainability management.

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Enid Cardinal, senior sustainability advisor to the president, and Kimie Romeo, adjunct professor of environmental management.

RIT is welcoming diverse prospective faculty from across the country to explore teaching and post-doctoral opportunities at the university this week as part of the annual Future Faculty Career Exploration Program.

More than 60 students in the civil engineering technology program have participated in department organized (or independent) study abroad programs since 2010. We promote and encourage our students to learn professional skills while they travel to places like Ireland and Croatia.

Oren Cohn, RIT Ambulance chief of operations, was honored as EMS Provider of the Year by the National Collegiate EMS Foundation. Cohn was recognized for his leadership role with the all-volunteer campus ambulance team.

For the second year in a row, RIT civil engineering technology undergraduates took top placements at the annual Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) Region I student construction management competition.