RIT Hosting Microelectronic Engineering Conference Next Week

Gathering will feature luminaries from "micro-e" industry

The Kate Gleason College of Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology is hosting its 21st annual Microelectronic Engineering Conference, May 13 and 14. RIT’s engineering college is ranked among the nation’s top 10 engineering colleges.

Highlighting the conference will be talks by James Hutchby, director of nanostructure and integration sciences for Semiconductor Research Corp., and Stanley Wolf, author of Silicon Processing for the VLSI Era.

The conference will feature presentations by RIT faculty, students and alumni and technical presentations by representatives from RIT industrial affiliates including Eastman Kodak Co., IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., Xerox Corp. and others. The conference will be in Xerox Auditorium in the James E. Gleason Building. An opening reception and dinner will be held at 6 p.m. on May 12 at the RIT Inn & Conference Center, 5257 West Henrietta Road.

According to a national survey by U.S. News & World Report, RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering ranks sixth in the nation among undergraduate and graduate engineering programs, offering degrees in computer, electrical, industrial and systems, mechanical, and microelectronic engineering, applied statistics and engineering science.

RIT was the first university to offer undergraduate degrees in microelectronic and software engineering. Founded in 1829, RIT has one of the nation’s oldest and largest cooperative education programs.