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and brightest available at Rochester Institute
of Technology (RIT). A privately endowed,
coeducational university comprised by nine
colleges which emphasize career education
and experiential learning, RIT was founded
in 1829 and has since earned distinction as
one of the top institutions of higher learning
in America.
While its student incubator (the Sim-
one Center for Student Innovation and
Entrepreneurship) has been ranked as the
best in the nation, RIT’s engineering school
and design school has also been recognized
among the best in the world. From this en-
vironment, RIT students set out to create
the technology that would advance this di-
rective. The program was bolstered by the
brilliance of Dr. Nabil Nasr, an international
leader in the research and development of
sustainable manufacturing, remanufacturing
and clean product solutions. From found-
ing the Center for Remanufacturing and
Resource Recovery (a leading conduit of ap-
plied research and manufacturing technolo-
gies) Dr. Nasr went on to serve as Director
of the Center for Integrated Manufacturing
Studies, an initiative designed to increase
competitiveness of manufacturers through
