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Club sports are a big part of student life at the university. Every year, about 2,000 students are involved with the nearly 50 different club sports. For many, it scratches that competitive itch. For others, it’s a chance to try something new, find a community, and stay active.

Two civil engineering technology graduates from 2008 have returned to the RIT campus, this time, to use their knowledge to help build the Music Performance Theater set to open next spring.

As a business team leader at the company’s Pennsylvania plant, Trauger oversees operations on the cab-over line, where the refuse collection trucks are assembled, with a focus on safety, quality, and delivery.

Two RIT faculty members are building a comprehensive workforce development program in manufacturing for veterans and under-employed individuals to provide the needed skills-based training in electronics assembly.

Bioengineer cites a study about the effects of increased electric truck weights on the road co-authored by Zilin Bian, assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety.

A multidisciplinary team of students and faculty continued an RIT tradition of participating in Canstruction Rochester by making EVE from WALL-E out of more than 2,400 canned goods.

Self-healing materials are being developed by RIT researchers to further improve additive manufacturing, specifically 3D-printed products, to make them stronger and more resilient.

Four RIT alumni and former student-athletes have turned locker-room bonds and an entrepreneurial drive into a growing company.

At the Undergraduate Research Symposium, RIT students share research in artificial intelligence, sustainability, health sciences, and other areas that is helping to solve global challenges.
 

Aayush Kulkarni is participating in the International Visiting Research Student Program through RIT Global, which offers students from around the world the opportunity to collaborate with distinguished faculty-researchers from RIT.

ASCE speaks to concrete canoe team club captain Leah Mestayer, a third-year civil engineering technology student, and Lois Furioso, team adviser and adjunct faculty member, about earning RIT's highest placement at the Upstate New York-Canada Student Conference in nearly two decades.

RIT students Mathew Kiptum Kipruto and Afrid Shaik talk with WhatTheyThink about the value of participating in student chapter presentations at the recent TAGA Next-Gen Conference.