Alumni News

Spring 2024

Letter from the Board Chair

Letter from Alumni Board Chair Bob Hoel Success is typically defined as an achievement in our personal lives, careers, or relationships. However, success takes on a unique meaning to each of us, and no matter what that is, our success is a direct representation of what happens when we reach...

Spring 2024

Class Notes

William “Bill” Bahnmaier (ME ’60), Fort Belvoir, Va., former instructor emeritus at the Defense Acquisition University, recently qualified as a volunteer docent at the National Museum of the United States Army in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Spring 2024

Obituaries

Obituaries S. R. Cho (M.A.S. CHE ’66) S. R. Cho, an Illinois Institute of Technology Trustee Emeritus who was recognized in South Korea as an international business icon, died in March 2024 at the age of 89. Cho was honorary chairman of the influential Hyosung Group, a South Korea-based industrial...

Spring 2024

In Memoriam

In Memoriam Alumni | Faculty and Staff | Friends Alumni Ralph Pearson (AS ’40) John “Buck” Larry Donoghue (CE ’41) Sherwin P. Asrow (CE ’44) Leonard F. Ault (IE ’48) Martin Leonard Black (IE ’48) Herbert M. Sachs (EE ’48, M.S. ’58) Bert J. Toppel (PHYS ’48, M.A.S. ’50, Ph.D...

Spring 2024

Take Five

Maurice Dawson, assistant professor of information technology and management and director of Illinois Tech’s Center for Cyber Security and Forensics Education (C2SAFE), researches and travels the world speaking and advising on cybersecurity as a global issue, particularly in developing countries.

Fall 2023

A Letter from the Board Chair

A new academic year always brings a bustling energy like no other across the entire university. It’s a rejuvenating and inspirational feeling that is familiar to each of us Scarlet Hawks—one that comes with a true sense of excitement knowing that, at our university, cutting-edge innovations are being developed into breakthroughs that will change life as we know it. That is the difference we power.

Fall 2023

Class Notes

Mike Aronson (PHYS ’64), Corvallis, Ore., was presented the Majestic Volunteer Lifetime award in recognition of his contributions to Corvallis’s Majestic Theater in 2022. Lewis Thigpen (M.S. MECH ’67, Ph.D. ’70), Alexandria, Va., received the Howard University 2023 Alumni Award for Distinguished Postgraduate Achievement. Jason Chang (M.S. IE ’69), Taipei,...

Fall 2023

Obituaries

Abraham Zarem (EE ’39) One of the last surviving Manhattan Project scientists, Abraham Zarem died March 8, 2023, at the age of 106. Zarem joined the Manhattan Project at the age of 28, and after World War II, he headed the electrical section of the physical research division at the...

Fall 2023

In Memoriam

MEMORIAL LIST AS OF JULY 26, 2023 Alumni | Non Graduate Alumni | Staff | Friends Alumni Abraham M. Zarem (EE ’39) H. Thurber Stowell (ARCH ’41) Jim A. Carroll (ME '43) Joseph M. Siegal (IE ’43) Jack H. Slaton (EE ’45) Thomas J. Blim (ME ’46) Harold H. Esser...

Fall 2023

Take Five

Siva Balasubramanian serves as the Harold L. Stuart Endowed Chair in Business, professor of marketing, and associate dean at Illinois Tech’s Stuart School of Business. His research includes how artificial intelligence models have been, are being, and could be adopted in the modern business world.

Summer 2023

2023 Alumni Awards Winners

2023 Alumni Awards Slate Alumni Medal Burt Lewis (CE ’48) Alumni Service Award Dan Ephraim (M.B.A. ’76) Collens Merit Award Victor Tsao (M.S. CS ’81) International Award of Merit Lih-Farn (Gary) Shiau (M.S. MET ’87) John J. Schommer Honor I Award Gwenn Peters, (AE ’02, ME ’02) Lifetime Achievement Award...

Spring 2023

Class Notes

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