postdoctoral associate

engagement director

lecturer

human resources coordinator

graphic designer

Rochester Institute of Technology

What is the best part of working at the company?
There's free tuition for employees, which is awesome, but you will hear "business needs come first" a lot when it comes to planning your classes, and some managers are unwilling to make exceptions to schedules.  Holiday breaks are great, and there are some really amazing people in Dining Services.  You have access to the massive gym and Olympic sized pool.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
You will never make a lot of money working here, in fact, you will barely make a livable wage. The pay is painfully low and the excuse is that there are great benefits.  The health benefits are decent, but as I stated with schooling, it gets dicey when you're unable to take classes because your manager is unwilling to make concessions with your schedule.  The dining facilities are staffed 90% by students, and only about 25% of them are capable workers.  This becomes even more challenging at the beginning and end of each semester as the student staff adjust classes, participate in extracurricular activities or call in because we have little recourse to discipline them.  The 10% of full time staff is comprised mostly of management that is either overworked, underqualified, indifferent, lazy, or in a role simply because they have been here for years. Turnover is high for both part-time and full-time employees, so you are never running at full strength for very long, if ever.  The systems RIT uses are antiquated or do not perform at the level they should because they look for inexpensive options.  This is a school of technology that operates 10 years behind the curve. Other departments are suffering from massive employee shortages, so the buildings suffer from disrepair, or it takes weeks longer to get things done.

I work in the access service department at RIT. The pay is horrendous, the merit raises are less than a cost of living raise (2%) and only happen once a year. My position has a career ladder with 4 levels. I was hired as a level 2 which means the rest of my tenure I only have two opportunities to move up in my position. Each time you are promoted it is a maximum of a 10% salary increase. The promotion process is extremely convoluted and biased. Positions in upper level administration are always give to external candidates and boots on the ground employees with a stellar track record aren’t given consideration. 

The leadership is authoritarian. Employees don’t get a seat at the table. Our opinions don’t matter. They are resistant to change and embrace doing things the way they’ve always been done. You are expected to give availability between 8am-10pm on week days and occasional weekends, with the requirement to work at least one night shift a week. You’re a 10 month employee and paid as so but you are expected to check email and be flexible and move to the work all summer long. You are never really “off”. 

In the day to day work you’ll be asked to take on additional projects, join committees, help coordinate, lead workshops, mentor students, etc. (all things outside your job description) but you will never be paid monetary incentive to do so. You’d be lucky to even receive verbal recognition or praise. 

The rest of RIT looks like it could be better but moving to another department is nearly impossible. Jobs are posted and traditional interviewing processes are followed but there is always an inside person with a connection who has the job before it’s even posted and they simply follow formalities to please HR. 

 

Being a research assistant at American Packaging lab in Rochester Institute of Technology is very enthusiastic & very productive place to work with. This research facility is Open 24 x 7 but usually people works from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm. 

While being a Project lead for one of my dream project under RIT Packaging research department, I have learned lots of technical things & developed a core packaging development skills. The most challenging and very interesting part is Innovation with sustainable development which is the basic important global market need from environment perspective.

Management at RIT is very supportive and very encouraging. whenever you have any query or you have any new concept in your mind, Professors are the best people to interact with and you will never return unsatisfied. 

Since its a research environment everybody around me is engaged in their respective research work but otherwise we all have fun time together after our work hours and who wouldn't like to have foodie and cooperative colleagues??

The hardest part of this research job was when my project was at beginning stage when all the theoretical part was done but I was lagging due to unavailability of the work instruments and development of all the project apparatus gave me really hard time.

The most enjoyed part of my work was when my research work was highly appreciated by President of RIT and my project got research funding from one of the leading company in USA

A typical day would begin by 9:30-10 am and would end by 6 pm. I was a member of team Lily Pad. Lily Pad is a system of interactive modules designed for children with varying developmental disabilities such as Autism and Down syndrome. Just in the U.S, one in every 68 children has autism and 1 in every 6 has some sort of developmental challenges. These children have the tendency to get easily distracted by their surroundings and daily activities, such as walking down hallways is challenging. Therapists have to put a lot of effort to catch the child’s attention and our goal is to design a system that will guide and engage these children in their daily activities. The team has designed each module with sensorial textures, light and sound outputs.
 Management was supportive and followed up with teams via a weekly meeting. We followed SCRUM process and each project went through various iterations. My co-workers and I followed the utmost level of professionalism. Each did their part and coordination was an integral part of the working environment. 
 I started learning how to gather data for business canvas model. Hardest part would be to combine design, engineering and business together and maintain balance. On the contrary, that was the most interesting part too.

The initial aim for this research is to build a Multi-Object Spectrometer (MOS) based on DMD. The MOS should be able to let people change the direction of the micro mirror of DMD in any regions of interest. The MOS doesn't need to flip the micro mirrors in a very high frequency. It usually keeps in position for a few seconds or longer, and it only change the direction of the mirrors when one needs to change the selection of the objects examined.
Texas Instruments (TI) has some starter kit for DMD. The DLP Discovery 4000 starter kit provides a solution for developer to use DMD, including LVDS- based DMD, Digital Controller and DMD Power and Reset Driver. However, this starter kit is not suitable for our application. Because for our project, the MOS is supposed to work in space, and there are radiation problems in space, which would possibly affect the performance of the MOS. Therefore, the whole system including all the chips should be radiation-hard in order to avoid the influence of the radiation in the universe. At the same time, the Discovery 4000 starter kit is also not flexible enough to meet the need for our application.
Therefore, the aim for the research is to build a customized controller for the DMD for a MOS. It should meet the requirements for the application and also maintain performance in space

Very poor management in every department across the university. As an alumni and former employee I can say with confidence that you should just skip applying to work here and find somewhere else. Although RIT has a very enticing benefits package, the workplace environment and massive amount of stress that comes with it is not worth any amount of extra perks the job seems like it comes with. You will be expected to be available at the drop of a hat and be penalized if you are not. Management does not respect their employees. The entire university has a culture of nepotism and favoritism. If you forget all of your values and morals and do everything your supervisor asks (including things you find problematic like misgendering or intentionally using incorrect pronouns for students), you *might* be considered for advancement. But probably not because likely they will hire their daughter or nephew or cousin or friend before promoting from within.

A typical day would involve coming in early in the morning and quickly finishing off anything that wasn't completed the night before (re-imaging, software pushes etc) then working with the Help Desk to solve issues and working with users directly when a ticket got escalated.

The management was very helpful and structured to ensure everything went smoothly for the support team and users alike. Co-workers were friendly and we worked well together as a team, ensuring that it was a positive learning experience for everyone involved.

The hardest part is looking at the ticket queue and sorting tickets out to get them all resolved correctly the first time in the fastest time possible.

User's may not know exactly what they need but listening to them instead of trying to cut them off made working there very easy unlike other IT places. You get to know the users not as a username but as a person, and each person may have slightly different needs which you attend to to get their issues resolved as fast as possible.

The most enjoyable part would be actually interacting and helping users remotely and on-site. It's much better than being stuck inside all day, and they really loved that they could put a face to the name that was helping them.

- I graded homework and assignments based on implementation of various tools of Product Development taught in class like VOC, A3, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), CVCA, Fishbone diagram, Cost-Worth Analysis and FMEA.
- Provided assistance to teams of students with their projects where the challenge was to redesign a product using Reverse Engineering, and using the tools and methods presented in class to enhance the product value. 
- Provided support to classroom professors by answering students’ queries during the office hours.
- Tolerance is one quality that I have cultivated after working with students of various background and thoughts is that I have become a good listener.
- I learnt how to deal with irate students. As a teaching assistant, the students always came to me with their queries and doubts. Now, some of the students are not satisfied with mere assistance, they need direct answers to their questions. And when I didn't do that, I had to be at the receiving end of the students' dissatisfaction. But I many times had to put my foot down, taking this into my stride as a learning experience of dealing with difficult people.

I have two jobs on campus. One is as a barista, the other is as a french tutor. The barista job is more fast paced, although it's nice because many of my friends stop by there to buy something or to simply say 'hi'. My coworkers are also fun to talk to while we work. The only thing is, we get paid minimum wage but are expected to "work hard" for it. I think the fact that we work there and go to school is hard enough. Feeling like one can't make a mistake puts a damper on the work. It's hard enough getting up early to open the cafe and having to stand and rush around for customers. We do get meal passes ($1 for every hour worked that day) and a free drink with every shift worked. On the other hand, french tutoring is far more relaxed. Tutoring hours are fit to the tutor's schedule and we get paid about a dollar more than minimum wage because of our specialization. Part of the job aside from tutoring is looking over the computer lab one evening a week. Both parts of the job are very relaxed although I can't have friends drop by to do work (unless it's help in french) so it ends up being a pretty solitary job. It does provide me time to do work without distractions.

I often worked with college students, to assure their understanding of using Access Services and help monitor their track of requirement for the courses/graduation. I also help remind them that they need to start looking for intern as part of graduation requirement which most college students lack the information.  It is more of a one person job, rather than working with others which I truly enjoyed doing this.  I also feel very comfortable with instructors which are part of co-workers that I share my concerns about the students or discussion of how I can be help with this certain student(s).  The hardest part of this job is to keep all students personal information confidential and not to be left noticeable on the desk/computer.  I enjoyed seeing the students graduate from this program as I feel he/she have achieved their dreams.  I also enjoyed any new experience that may obstacles my working experience and to overcome that with some kind of solutions.

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Postdoctoral associate 7 salaries reported	$55,000 per year
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Lecturer 2 salaries reported	$53,000 per year
Human resources coordinator 2 salaries reported	$25.88 per hour
Graphic designer 1 salary reported	$63,000 per year

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