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Letter from the President

I want to tell you that dreams really do come true. When I first entered into academic administration at Carnegie Mellon University in the 1980s, I told my wife, Anna, that I aspired to one day become a university president. Even with that goal in mind, I could never have imagined that I would succeed one of my great mentors, John L. Anderson, whom I met at Carnegie Mellon, when he and I would serve as president and provost, respectively, at Illinois Institute of Technology. When President Anderson retired as Illinois Tech’s eighth president in 2015, the members of the university’s Board of Trustees placed their confidence in me by naming me as the ninth president of this great institution.

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The I’s Have It

Through her design of a custom-fit athletic shoe, Apoorva Shenoy (M.Des. ’18) says that she is “bringing back a more human way of running.” That Shenoy chooses to emphasize the human aspect of her startup idea is no surprise considering her educational pedigree: Illinois Tech’s Institute of Design (ID). Now housed in the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship, ID—founded as the New Bauhaus in 1937 under visionary László Moholy-Nagy—is recognized as a leading institution for its methods-based, human-centered approach to global challenges, inspiring students to place people first, and sometimes even feet first, as in the example of Shenoy.

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One Step Toward the Journey

Illinois Senate Democratic Caucus Photo: Brandy Renfro Kwame Raoul is ready for the next step. It’s been eight years since he succeeded Barack Obama in the Illinois Senate as a Democrat representing the 13th District on Chicago’s South Side. And just as now-President Obama moved on after eight years in...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

I thoroughly enjoyed your article about Rowine Hayes Brown Truitt on page 17 of the spring 2015 issue of IIT Magazine. Beyond being an amazingly accomplished professional, she was blessed with charm and wit, hinted at by the twinkle in her eye in the photo. Thank you for the article and for producing a consistently interesting and enjoyable magazine.

Features

From Engines to Ingenuity, Through Teamwork

From Engines to Ingenuity, Through Teamwork

To say that Michael “Mike” Mikula (METE ’91, M.S. ’93) has had a productive and stimulating career at Ford Motor Company, where he has worked for the past 26 years, almost goes without saying. One year after graduating with his master’s degree from Illinois Institute of Technology, Mikula began at Ford as a tooling and process engineer and in 1997, was placed into the company’s Manufacturing Leadership Program.

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The IIT Challenge Campaign

When I joined IIT in 1994, it was in the midst of a long-range planning effort, the National Commission for IIT. Led by President Lew Collens and Bob Galvin, and staffed by David Baker, the charge of the commission was to envision a future that would successfully set the university...

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Freedom to Be Free

Freedom to Be Free

If there’s one assignment universally loathed by college students, it’s the group project. Computer science third-year students Brendan Batliner and Vinesh Kannan have experienced firsthand the struggles of coordinating schedules, holding group members accountable for pulling their weight, and communicating these roadblocks to their professors.

Research Briefs

Gamification at School or Work a Win-Win

Gamification at School or Work a Win-Win

Incorporating elements of gaming into learning environments and workplaces is proving not just trendy, but also effective in producing positive learning outcomes, according to new research from Assistant Professor of Psychology Kristina Bauer and industrial-organizational psychology Ph.D. students Danny Gandara and Caribay Garcia-Marquez.