RIT Dubai was visited by Dr. Mohamed Abou Zour of GE Power & Water, who is also known for his work as an industrial consultant for many oil companies. His work focuses on the smooth flow of oil and corrosion control.
Dr. Mohamed Abou Zour gave a seminar on ‘Steel pipeline corrosion treatment in oil & gas industry’. The seminar was for our aspiring future engineers to understand further what and how pipeline corrosion could possibly affect the oil and gas industry.
Rochester Institute of Technology is emerging into one of the world’s most innovative, agile, diverse and forward-thinking universities. At RIT, we forge greatness by being different. Here’s what makes us proud.
As we close out 2015, we have a lot to be proud of at RIT. Here's a sample: http://www.rit.edu/pride/
A group of 10 students in total, among them three students from the main RIT campus in New York, are learning about Islamic Finance for the first time in RIT Dubai.
Dr. Mejda Bahlous-Boldi an associate professor of Finance explains that the Islamic banking and Finance industry has witnessed double digit growth since the financial crisis and is now considered a viable alternative to conventional finance even in western countries. With the Islamic finance industry becoming a global industry, universities and colleges need to work on providing the human capital and product innovation needed to sustain the growth of the Islamic Banking and Finance Industry.
Islamic Banking deemed as interest free banking based on profit and loss sharing principles, promotes a more equitable, just and fair economic system that aims to benefit the society as a whole.
According to a recent report of The Banker 2015 “the Islamic finance industry’s strong, if not stellar, growth continued. The global industry’s compound annual asset growth (CAGR) between 2007 and the end of 2014 sits at an impressive 12.68%. This performance has largely been driven by the dominant markets of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) and Malaysia. For its part, the GCC registered a CAGR of 17.49% over this period, while in Asia this number hit 10.55%, followed by sub-Saharan Africa coming in at 10.46%.”
Spring BACHELOR’S STUDENT ORIENTATION AGENDA 2016:
During the 2016 Spring Orientation you will: tour your new campus, meet with your professors, and get to know our current students, your new classmates and staff members. You will be able to complete your placement exams, take the TOEFL (if not yet completed) and meet with your academic advisors to get your course schedule.
If you are moving into our housing you will get plenty of information during the Housing Orientation in the evening.
During Orientation, it is important to bring the following:
If you have questions, contact Housing Operations from 8:30am - 6:00pm Sunday through Thursday at (971) 371 2023 or (971) 371 2000 or email dubai@rit.edu .
Take the paper based TOEFL exam at RIT Dubai (scores can only be used for admission to RIT).
The TOEFL exam will begin promptly at 3 PM and end at 5 PM Please be on campus by 3 PM to check in with a valid ID and pay the 500 AED test fee.
Register online today or call 04 371 2000
Please Call us if you want to:
Take the paper based TOEFL exam at RIT Dubai (scores can only be used for admission to RIT).
The TOEFL exam will begin promptly at 3:30 PM and end at 5:30 PM Please be on campus by 3 PM to check in with a valid ID and pay the 500 AED test fee.
Register online today or call 04 371 2000
Please Call us if you want to:
The office of Outreach & Cooperative Education is organizing the annual Careers Day. At this fair, you will have an opportunity to meet our students and graduates who are available for internships and career placements.
Date: Sunday, March 20, 2016
Time: 3pm to 9pm
Location: Intercontinental Hotel, Dubai Festival City
Please note there is no charge to participate in this event.
Kindly contact the Office of Outreach & Cooperative Education for more details:
Mrs. Eleni Papailia
expcad@rit.edu
coopdubai@rit.edu
RIT Dubai Seminar
Dr. Kemal Kılıç – Sabancı University
February 18, 2016, Thursday
@ 11am @ Conference Center
RIT Dubai University – Dubai Silicon Oasis
Strategic-level decisions have significant influence on the competitiveness and success of companies. There is a tremendous need for decision support systems (DSS) that can be utilized by senior-level managers, for guiding their strategic level decisions based on data and knowledge. However, Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS) literatures have mostly focused on operational-level decision making problems. Strategic-level problems have not received adequate attention in the academic literature due to their inherent vagueness, as well as difficulties in their mathematical formulation. Data Mining might offer solutions to address this gap in the literature.
In the first part of this talk, a web-enabled decision support system (DSS) software will be introduced for enhancing firm-level innovativeness. The DSS utilizes data gathered in an empirical survey from 184 manufacturing companies located in a large industrial region of Turkey. By using various data mining techniques such as feature selection, feature weighting and fuzzy inference, the developed DSS generates a strategy report for the senior-level decision makers. The report suggests to the decision makers a prioritized short list of innovation determinants that deserve focus, in order to advance firm-level innovativeness.
In the second part of the talk, the focus will be on another data mining technique, namely clustering, and how clustering can be used in gaining deeper insights from a survey on innovativeness. As opposed to the more traditional statistical techniques, a taxonomy (classification) based on multidimensional clustering was observed to reveal immense amount of new actionable knowledge. In this part of the talk, the the application of the aforementioned analysis technique will be shown for investigating the relations among innovativeness, operations priorities and firm performance.
Dr. Kemal Kılıç is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering, and M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering. Dr. Kılıç has a Ph.D. degree from the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at University of Toronto, Canada. The total project budget of 10+ sponsored R&D (Research & Development) projects that Dr. Kılıç served exceed 2.5 million USD. His 60+ research papers span a range of areas, including data mining, innovation management, healthcare informatics and decision making under uncertainty.
For more information please contact: Dr. Gurdal Ertek - Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering @ gxecad@rit.edu
The Rochester Institute of Technology, Dubai campus, (RIT Dubai) signed a Technical Agreement with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), launching a new strategic partnership between the two institutions. As part of the university’s Outreach program, the partnership aims to foster collaboration opportunities in various fields, such as project development and cooperative education between RIT students and faculty, and UN WFP.
Pierre Honnorat, WFP/UNHRD Network Coordinator at WFP Headquarters in Rome, Italy commented on the new alliance between RIT Dubai and WFP: “Partnership with universities is essential because it joins academic enthusiasm with practitioners and stimulates the development and effectiveness of our humanitarian activities”
The partnership has begun with a collaboration with the UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) Network, working on improving its performance monitoring, reporting and information management to best serve its Partners. RIT faculty and computing students will work on this project for six months.
Dr. Yousef Al Assaf, President of RIT Dubai commented: "We are excited about this partnership as it allows our faculty and experts to share their experiences with WFP and support their humanitarian activities. It will also give our students the opportunity to engage in current industry projects and work on the implementation of new solutions."
RIT Dubai’s Outreach program is a strategic initiative to promote collaboration between the university and industry partners and institutions from across the United Arab Emirates. The Outreach program spans various fields of collaboration, such as research, cooperative education and career placement, specialized training, tuition discounts and project development.
We invite you to visit our campus during our Open Day! During your visit, you will get the chance to:
Tour the campus
Meet with an Admissions Counselor
Apply in person
Get your Application Fee Waived
Submit any documents needed
Meet with Faculty, Alumni and Current Students
Pay your enrollment fee to secure a spot in the Fall 2015 class!
Take the paper-based TOEFL exam (scores can only be used for admission to RIT).
Our Open Day begins at 12:00 Noon and ends at 3:00 PM, feel free to stop by at any time.The TOEFL exam will begin promptly at 12:00 PM and end at 2:00 PM. Please be on campus by 11:45 AM to check in with a valid ID and pay the 500 AED test fee. Register online today or call 04 371 2000
Sunday, June 11, 2016 - 12:00
We invite you to visit our campus during our Open Day! During your visit, you will get the chance to:
Tour the campus
Meet with an Admissions Counselor
Apply in person
Get your Application Fee Waived
Submit any documents needed
Meet with Faculty, Alumni and Current Students
Pay your enrollment fee to secure a spot in the Fall 2015 class!
Take the paper-based TOEFL exam (scores can only be used for admission to RIT).
Our Open Day begins at 12:00 Noon and ends at 3:00 PM, feel free to stop by at any time.The TOEFL exam will begin promptly at 12:00 PM and end at 2:00 PM. Please be on campus by 11:45 AM to check in with a valid ID and pay the 500 AED test fee. Register online today or call 04 371 2000
Sunday, February 21, 2016 - 12:00
We invite you to visit our campus during our Open Day! During your visit, you will get the chance to:
Tour the campus
Meet with an Admissions Counselor
Apply in person
Get your Application Fee Waived
Submit any documents needed
Meet with Faculty, Alumni and Current Students
Pay your enrollment fee to secure a spot in the Fall 2015 class!
Take the paper-based TOEFL exam (scores can only be used for admission to RIT).
Our Open Day begins at 12:00 Noon and ends at 3:00 PM, feel free to stop by at any time.The TOEFL exam will begin promptly at 12:00 PM and end at 2:00 PM. Please be on campus by 11:45 AM to check in with a valid ID and pay the 500 AED test fee. Register online today or call 04 371 2000
Saturday, May 21, 2016 - 12:00
We invite you to visit our campus during our Open Day! During your visit, you will get the chance to:
Tour the campus
Meet with an Admissions Counselor
Apply in person
Get your Application Fee Waived
Submit any documents needed
Meet with Faculty, Alumni and Current Students
Pay your enrollment fee to secure a spot in the Fall 2015 class!
Take the paper-based TOEFL exam (scores can only be used for admission to RIT).
Our Open Day begins at 12:00 Noon and ends at 3:00 PM, feel free to stop by at any time.The TOEFL exam will begin promptly at 12:00 PM and end at 2:00 PM. Please be on campus by 11:45 AM to check in with a valid ID and pay the 500 AED test fee. Register online today or call 04 371 2000
We invite you to visit our campus during our Open Day! During your visit, you will get the chance to:
Tour the campus
Meet with an Admissions Counselor
Apply in person
Get your Application Fee Waived
Submit any documents needed
Meet with Faculty, Alumni and Current Students
Pay your enrollment fee to secure a spot in the Fall 2015 class!
Take the paper-based TOEFL exam (scores can only be used for admission to RIT).
Our Open Day begins at 12:00 Noon and ends at 3:00 PM, feel free to stop by at any time.The TOEFL exam will begin promptly at 12:00 PM and end at 2:00 PM. Please be on campus by 11:45 AM to check in with a valid ID and pay the 500 AED test fee. Register online today or call 04 371 2000
We invite you to visit our campus during our Open Day! During your visit, you will get the chance to:
Tour the campus
Meet with an Admissions Counselor
Apply in person
Get your Application Fee Waived
Submit any documents needed
Meet with Faculty, Alumni and Current Students
Pay your enrollment fee to secure a spot in the Fall 2015 class!
Take the paper-based TOEFL exam (scores can only be used for admission to RIT).
Our Open Day begins at 12:00 Noon and ends at 3:00 PM, feel free to stop by at any time.The TOEFL exam will begin promptly at 12:00 PM and end at 2:00 PM. Please be on campus by 11:45 AM to check in with a valid ID and pay the 500 AED test fee. Register online today or call 04 371 2000
Ready for the RIT One Spirit Day this Saturday at 7pm?
We will be live streaming the event across New York, Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Kosovo and Dubai and compete with our the other campuses in a talent competition!
We set up a traditional American Fair, and you can expect live performances, food & games. (Transportation is provided!) #RITOnespirit
40 Senior Students from JSS International School visited RIT Dubai for an information session for their Business, Computing and Engineering bachelor degrees.
RIT’s communities in Dubai, Rochester Dubrovnik, Kosovo and Zagreb united for simultaneous celebrations of culture on Saturday, Feb. 20, collectively known as One SpiRIT: Global Unification. During One SpiRIT, attendees were able to interact with others across the world and see performances from each of the five campuses during a friendly global competition.
Here in Dubai the festivities took place on the RIT Dubai Tennis court where we set up a traditional American Fun Fair for students. Student were treated with live performances, food & games. The event was attended by more then 300 students, faculty and staff and was certainly one of the biggest student events
The first One SpiRIT event in 2014 highlighted Rochester’s favorite campus pastime, hockey, but now the emphasis will be on each campus and what makes us great.
“The impetus was that RIT’s presence, in name and in pride, is much more global now and we want students to know they’re a part of something larger,” says Dr. Karey Pine, Senior Director of the Center for Campus Life and one of the festival’s organizers at Rochester. One student group from each campus has been selected to perform in the global talent show, representing their campus culture for all to see. The performances are composed entirely by students, who will sing, dance or some of both. Pine says, “Some have done entire music videos to celebrate their culture and their pride as an RIT student.” RIT Dubai’s entry was a mix of songs in different languages to represent our cultural diversity here in the UAE. Using Cisco technology, all five RIT campuses interacted in real-time.
One SpiRIT is all about culture and a little bit of competition this time around. While Zagreb’s great performance was chosen as the winning entry this year, RIT Dubai is ready for another competition next year.
All staff and student organizers have put a great deal of effort into not only planning this event, but securing our connections with the other campuses through technology.
Dr. Kemal Kılıç
