Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was an engineer whose self-named company made the first successful rigid airship. The path from his inspiration during a balloon trip in Minnesota in ...

Engineering Design Tools, a first-year course, is an example of how RIT’s most applied programs have managed to keep learning as close to hands-on as possible in the age of COVID-19. Mechanical ...

Have you ever thought about how and why something was designed? Who was considered a “stakeholder” for the design? And what biases are baked within the process of designing something? These are some ...

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Tahira Reid leads a lab focused on human-centered design. Over her career, she’s gone outside the “traditional engineering box” and integrated compassion ...

Introduction You’ve probably seen plenty of smartphone holders or stands. You might use one to prop up a tablet to watch a movie, and maybe your parents have mounted one on the dashboard of their car ...

Have a complex problem like how to reuse a skyscraper? Let artificial intelligence help brainstorm the solution with generative design. In association withAutodesk Artificial intelligence helps build ...

Innovation is transformative. It’s why we ride in a Mustang instead of on a mustang. Centuries of knowledge now fit in the palm of our hand. Products move from reliable to revolutionary. Yet ideas ...

The Department of Engineering Design and Manufacturing is involved in a variety of research and training activities. The following is an overview of the areas that research teams work in, with some ...