On Campus | Illinois Tech Magazine

Spring 2020

Keeping Illinois Tech Safe

Keeping Illinois Tech Safe

Weeks before the first case of the new respiratory virus 2019-nCoV, now widely known as COVID-19, was reported in the Chicago area on January 24, Illinois Institute of Technology leadership was behind the scenes, monitoring the campuses and coordinating efforts with officials from the Chicago Department of Public Health as well as state and national authorities.

Spring 2020

Illinois Tech Headliners

Illinois Tech Headliners

“There is no oops. We need compensation.” Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Bernadette Atuahene, in a Detroit News article on the continued problems of the city's over-assessments on homeowners

Spring 2020

Enhanced Web Presence

Enhanced Web Presence

In December 2019 Illinois Institute of Technology launched a redesigned website with the goal of enhancing the site’s appeal to prospective students. By February of this year, prospect requests for information had increased by 150 percent. More visible “Request Info” buttons on each page of the new website make it easier for potential students to navigate and obtain the information they need.

Spring 2020

Easing the Burden

Easing the Burden

Could good design solve Chicago’s longstanding problems with unfair ticketing practices? An Institute of Design student team led by Visiting Industry Professor Mark Jones (M.Des. ’95) is proposing new innovations that could provide economic relief to low-income citizens burdened by parking ticket debt. During the fall 2019 semester, Jones and...

Fall 2019

Letters

George Bob (TD ’63), Grand Rapids, Michigan, shared his copy of the spring 2019 issue of Illinois Tech Magazine with James R. Carr, a professional engineer who sent the magazine a letter about his slide rule memories that were prompted by the article “Giant Slipstick Returns to Mies Campus.” Carr says that his father (who worked with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as a contractor) gave him his first K&E slide rule in about 1939. His wife sent him a 7-inch K&E Doric Model 9069 in 1951 while he served with the United States Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 Seabees in the Aleutian Islands; he still uses it today as a retiree. Carr recommends that slide rule fans read the article “Lament for the Slide Rule” by Robert Kanigel, which first appeared in Johns Hopkins Magazine in the late 1970s.

Fall 2019

Transitions

Illinois Institute of Technology welcomed four new deans to the university this past summer.

Fall 2019

Design Thinking Outside the Box

Design Thinking Outside the Box

In late 2018 Institute of Design Studio Professor Martin Thaler asked his product design students to create something for a client one mile from Illinois Tech’s Mies Campus. The class devised a system of modular, box-shaped seats for Boxville—a seasonal food, retail, and community space built from shipping containers at 51st Street and the CTA Green Line—that debuted over summer 2019.

Fall 2019

A New Light

Mohammad Shahidehpour, Distinguished Bodine Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of Illinois Institute of Technology’s Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation, seems to think so. As a part of Galvin Center’s evolving microgrid project—a self-sufficient and environmentally sustainable energy system on Mies Campus—Illinois Tech has installed a system of photovoltaic panels on the roof of S. R. Crown Hall.

Fall 2019

Illinois Tech Headliners

“It’s long been thought of as an indicator of how bad the air in a space might be.” Brent Stephens, associate professor of architectural engineering, commenting on carbon dioxide levels in a room in a New York Times article about studies on the importance of indoor air quality.

Fall 2019

Ernie Iseminger

Ernie Iseminger Is New VP for Institutional Advancement

Illinois Institute of Technology welcomed Ernie Iseminger as vice president for Institutional Advancement on September 16. A leader in development and fundraising for more than three decades, he joined Illinois Institute of Technology from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, where he was involved in garnering a transformational gift of $70 million this past year.

Fall 2019

Illinois Institute of Technology Welcomes New Faculty

Illinois Institute of Technology Welcomes New Faculty

New faculty joining Illinois Tech in 2019–2020 include researchers and scholars in Armour College of Engineering, Chicago-Kent College of Law, the College of Architecture, the College of Science, and the Institute of Design. You can read about the university’s new deans—Professor Lance Fortnow, College of Science; Professor Reed Kroloff, College...

Spring 2019

Letters

I would like to confess my role in the burying of the rock between the chemistry building and The Commons. (I assume the statute of limitations has passed.) I read your story about rumors about IIT (“IIT Urban Legends,” Fall 2004), and want to correct the record.