Experts Guide

Welcome to the RIT Experts Guide. Here you will find information on RIT faculty and staff with expertise in a variety of areas. Each profile includes the expert’s credentials and contact information.

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David Schwartz

Director of the School of Interactive Games & Media (IGM), Associate Professor
B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology

Expert in:
Game design and development
Educational engineering simulation games
Game prototyping
Breaking into the game industry
Careers in the game industry

Credentials:
Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in civil engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo
Founded the Game Design Initiative at Cornell (GDIAC) in the spring of 2001
Designed the Cornell Library Collaborative Learning Computer Laboratory (CL3)
Established Cornell's Minor in Game Design offered by the College of Engineering, the first formal Ivy-League game design program

Contact:
Scott Bureau, University News Services, 585-475-2481 or scott.bureau@rit.edu