Milford student helps team win engineering competition

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Matthew Myers, of Milford, N.H., was part of the winning team in the national 2011-12 College Industry Council on Material Handling Education student design competition. This was the first year the Rochester Institute of Technology team took top honors at the event. Myers is a fourth-year industrial and systems engineering student in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering. Other team members are Austin Chacosky, of West Chester, Pa.; Bridget Eggers, of High Falls; and Leila Rozenman of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. “We had the right group of people for this,” Myers said. “Austin was a wizard at data mining and Leila did an incredible job on her financial justifications.