Welcome to Mechanical Engineering at RIT

1. Welcome toMechanical Engineeringat RIT Dr. Edward Hensel, PE Professor and Department Head Mechanical Engineering … We Design The Future

2. Why are we here? Our Mission is to prepare students for careers in industry or for graduate study in engineering or related fields. Our curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals and will provide you with courses that allow you to specialize in your chosen fields of study. To help ready you for life in the larger community, we seek to maintain a balance among humanistic-social subjects, the physical sciences, and engineering studies. “Well done is better than well said.” … Benjamin Franklin

3. Formula – On A Roll! • RIT's Formula SAE racing team placed fifth overall among 64 teams from 13 countries in the Formula SAE European competition, held in August in Germany. The team took first place in skid pad, 4th in endurance, 11th in design, 14th in autocross, and 16th in acceleration.

4. Mechanical EngineeringGood Things are Happening! • Great Students and Organizations! • Great Faculty and Staff! • 38,000 square foot expansion to Building 9 will be dedicated in a grand opening on September 7th! • World Class First Year Retention! • We only admit students whom we believe can be successful in our program.

5. ME Admit One Year Retention History During the 1990’s: one year retention at RIT hovered around 82%, while one year retention within the ME program was around 67%,

6. RIT Co-op and Career Services "Toyota's experience with RIT has been wonderful. The relationships we have built with career services and the engineering departments are not only better than any other, but are beyond our expectations. RIT has become the number 1 source of college co-ops and new grads for Toyota Engineering & Manufacturing North America." … Kim Demkco, Toyota North America

7. Expectations • Team Learning • Individual Competence • Dedication and Perseverance • Increased focus on critical thinking skills • Focus on basics of algebra, trigonometry, vectors, and units – an area we have seen decline in recent years.

8. Commitment • Team commitments. • We are here to help you. Let us. • Help one another; take responsibility for one another. • Individual commitments. • Demonstrate individual competence in your areas of study. • Do not abuse one another. "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."  -- Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65

9. Class of 2012 • Group Photo

10. Argabright, Kevin Borella, Brittany Caton, William Cheney, Michael English, Chad Garland, Andrew Guerra, Christopher Herbert, Jeffrey Kane, Melissa Komendat, Andrew Lentlie, William Marcello, John McGuirk, Marissa Phillips, Samantha Purak, Amina Rimkus, Sigitas Scanlon, John Seaman, Jonathan See, Evan Sharaf, Joshua Sonneborn, David Spath, Timothy Sullivan, Christopher R Swartz, Robert Switzer, Matthew Thazathu, Bharat Tobin, Daniel Van Slyke, Justin Yan, Rambert Zelinger, Franklin Go to Room 1129

11. Aderman, Erik Bender, Ryan Burns, John Ceron, Frances Crosby, Edward Day, Derek Dunckley, Kyle Grant-Diaz, Kira Greene, Penn Hinton, Shane Hugues-Simmons, Peter Le Clerc, Donald Marion, Matthew McMahon, Robert Phan, Dawn Phillips, Amanda Samowitz, Bryan Santini, David Schmidt, Colin Sieczkarek, Aaron Smith, Christina Snell, Nicholas Stephenson-Vallot, Brian Sullivan, Christopher C Topper, Derek Go to Room 1129

12. Berger, Michael Birkel, Andrew Blachowicz, Michael Blair, Andrew Bressler, Iric Cangero, Ian Dodge, Jared Godshalk, Bradley Han, Sangil Hatch, Cody Hergott, Braden Holleran, John Jones, Christopher Kasemer, Matthew Mina, Nathaniel Norris, Ryan Owens, Matthew Pederson, Todd Prabhu, Pranav Radziewicz, Thomas Rodriguez, Diana Samari, Pourya Sciarrino, Marc Scionti, Michael Shea, John St Pierre, Joseph Wisinski, Joseph Go to Room 1149

13. Accas, Owen Anderson, Cody Bagley, Stephen Bajorski, Krzysztof Bastian, Geoffrey Cerankosky, Katelyn Gagnon, Andrew Gajewski, Steven Hagerty, Peter Hartman, Carl Hurley, Ryan Hussain, Heather Huynh, Samantha Keel, Allen Tison III Kim, Sang Youn Morgenstern, David Myers, Michael Polimeni, Michael Powell, Matthew Quakenbush, Justin Rukas, Christopher Schindler, Jeffrey Schmidt, David Sukha, Davendra Torres, Chris Trenk, Matthew Wallace, Timothy Wheaton, Jay Wozniak, Evan Go to Room 1159

14. Ahlin, Konrad Baker, Thomas Bourque, Molly Davidson, Benjamin Dougherty, Tara Ehrenzeller, John Frasch, Graham Hall, Richard Hattori, Taylor Hemink, Douglas Holmes, Bernard Holmstrom, Rachel Hugunine, Adam Josselyn, Tyler Kernan, David Landers, Cody Lazeski, Philip Marsillo, Michael O’Dell, Brittanie Rankie, Mitchell Ryan, Patrick Safford, Kevin Scozzari, Giovanni Stam, Simon Stratton, Kurt Svrchek, Olivia Tierney, William Traxler, Shauna Wong, Anson Go to Room 2129

15. Barry Robinson • Learning Communities • Services • Building for Success

16. Hensel’s Fall LC Challenge to the ME Class of 2012 • I challenge each of your learning communities to excel academically during your first quarter on campus. • The Learning Community with achieving the greatest percentage of A, B, and C grades relative to credits enrolled for as of drop day wins the challenge. • The winning learning community can pick their own prize, with a value up to $1,000. We will measure our performance by the cohort of students admitted into Mechanical Engineering Learning Communities as of today, and course completion statistics for the Fall Quarter, 2007-1.

17. Dismissal • By Learning Communities