RES News - President's Message

Dear Fellow Engineers,

Welcome back to all of the engineering students in the Rochester area! Don’t forget, multiple scholarships are sponsored by a variety of organizations that are administered through the RES. Numerous scholarships are awarded annually ($1,500 each) to recognize outstanding engineering, engineering technology, science or technology students. Please see page 8 of this issue to get more information on how to apply for these scholarships!

You may have noticed that we have been constantly revising the layout and delivery of the Rochester Engineer over the last few months! I’d like to personally thank those on the Magazine Committee and especially Lynne Irwin for greatly improving the look of the magazine! One of the things that we have tried to do over the last few months has been to highlight the accomplishments of engineers in Rochester. We have begun a new column to specifically highlight students and their accomplishments. This month we have highlighted Alexis Savage, a 9th grader from Rush-Henrietta High School who built an early warning fire detection system. The project included coding, 3D printing, and circuit design. I’m always amazed at what young students are capable of today. I couldn’t have envisioned doing any of those things while in 9th grade! Congratulations Alexis very well done!

Our members have also made very notable achievements over the last month. Bergmann has made the top 100 in Architectural Record’s list of 2021’s Top 300 U.S. Architecture Firms. MRB Group was recently named one of the “Top 100” businesses in the Finger Lakes Region by the Rochester Chamber of Commerce! SWBR has been recognized nationally by the Zweig Group with a 2021 Marketing Excellence Award. Last, but certainly not least, IBC Engineering was awarded an ACEC Engineering Excellence Platinum award. You can read about each of these awards within the magazine. The RES also continues to grow its corporate memberships! Bosch Security Systems, LLC has joined the RES as a new Enterprise level corporate member! We have already begun to plan for a feature article by Bosch in the near future! I look forward to hearing more about the local Bosch group in the upcoming issues of the Rochester Engineer! Your support reaffirms our commitment to provide value to our membership.

If your company is not a member, please consider joining today to help publicly celebrate your engineering staff and technical accomplishments!

All my best, Greg Gdowski, PhD President, RES

Greg Gdowski, PhD University of Rochester RES President June 1, 2020 - May 31, 2022