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RIT's Gear Research Consortium Welcomes Allison Transmission

Allison Transmission Logo RIT and the Gear Research Laboratory welcome Allison Transmission as a new member of the RIT's Gear Research Consortium. Allison Transmission is the world’s largest manufacturer of fully automatic transmissions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles and is a leader in hybrid-propulsion systems for city buses. Allison Transmission’s products are specified by more than 300 of the world's leading vehicle manufacturers and are used in a wide range of market sectors including bus, fire, construction, distribution, defense, and specialty applications.

Allison was founded in 1915 in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the company's global headquarters is still located. Allison Transmission has regional offices all over the world and manufacturing facilities in Indianapolis, Chennai, India, and Szentgotthárd, Hungary.

EGILE joins the RIT's Gear Research Consortium

Egile Driven by Precision Logo RIT and the Gear Research Laboratory welcome EGILE and its HIGH PRECISION MECHANICS Division (DMP) as a new member of the RIT's Gear Research Consortium. EGILE is a company with 30 years of history, committed to creating impact through products and solutions of high value in sectors where extreme precision is a fundamental requirement.

Join us and learn about advanced design, simulation of meshing and stress analysis of gear drives

The workshop "Advanced Design, Simulation & Stress Analysis of Gear Drives" will be held for the first time at RIT Campus in Rochester, NY, on June 24-26, 2019. This practical 3-day workshop will bring you up to speed on advanced gear design and simulation utilizing state-of-the-art computational tools for virtual generation of gears and application of tooth contact analysis (TCA) and finite element analysis (FEA).

Dr. Fuentes selected as the KGCOE featured faculty for the RIT's 2017 faculty scholarship reportDr. Alfonso Fuentes Aznar has been selected as the KGCOE featured faculty in the RIT's Faculty Scholarship report of 2017. The RIT's annual scholarship report

Dr. Alfonso Fuentes Aznar has been selected as the KGCOE featured faculty in the RIT's Faculty Scholarship report of 2017. The RIT's annual scholarship report is intended to acknowledge the ever-growing body of work produced by the RIT faculty in a wide range of fields and formats. The 2017 faculty scholarship report is the eighth annual review highlighting RIT faculty publications, scholarly presentations, exhibits, performances, and fellowships for the year 2017. The featured faculty members in the RIT's scholarship report exemplify the teacher/scholar ideal and are models to their students and colleagues.

Remembering UIC Distinguished Professor Emeritus Faydor L. Litvin

Head shot of Professor Litvin On April 26, 2017, the scientific community of mechanical engineers worldwide lost a renowned scientist and educator who dedicated his life to the development of the modern theory of gearing and made enormous contributions to the development of the theory of mechanisms.

Professor Litvin had been recognized as an authority in kinematics and the theory of gearing. A whole epoch in the theory of gearing is concerned with the name of Professor Litvin. He is the author of one of the most fundamental and cited works in the field—a well-known monograph, The Theory of Gearing, which underwent six editions.

Born in Russia in 1914, Professor Litvin graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1937 with distinction. He defended his PhD in 1944, becoming a unique, self-educated PhD holder and later received his Doctor of Technical Science degree in 1954. From 1963, he served as department head and professor of mechanical engineering at the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics in Leningrad. He trained and supervised 100 PhD students (50 in Russia and, later, 50 in the U.S.) as well as visiting scholars from around the world. All of them went on to receive prominent teaching and research positions in the U.S., Italy, Spain, Russia, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, China, Taiwan, and Australia. With great pride, they consider themselves as belonging to the “elite school of Litvin".