Tim Friez '07, Alum of the Month, Nov 2018

Engineering - Software Engineering Concentration

Tim Friez

Tim Friez ’07 built his first computer in middle school with his father. Now chief operating officer of Robomatter, Inc., his company creates curriculum and training courses to help teachers get robotics into the classrooms for young kids all across the world.

Friez chose to attend RMU upon learning that he’d been awarded the Presidential Scholarship. Focused on the concentration of Software Engineering, Friez joined RMU’s chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and participated in competitions for the university. In his capstone class, community business partner DDI challenged students to write up a computer system code that could read assembly line workers’ movements and automate the assessment of their work. Friez took what he’d learned in his software engineering classes and combined it with his strong background in robotics to actually build a computer prototype for DDI.

Learn more about Friez and his company’s efforts to set up internship opportunities for RMU engineering and education students – click here