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Spring 2016

Big Data for Big Decisions

The adage “it starts at the top” could apply to any dynamic—a sports team, classroom, or Fortune 500 company—where leadership is central to a group’s success. But in business, can the value and performance of top-level managers and corporate boards be quantified? Illinois Tech’s new Center for Corporate Performance (CCP)...

Spring 2016

Into the Titan-Sized World of Supercomputing

The fastest computer in the United States fills a room the size of a basketball court and generates an electricity bill estimated at $9 million per year. Behind this titan-sized technology is the combined brainpower of a scientific team at the largest U.S. Department of Energy laboratory—Oak Ridge National Laboratory...

Spring 2016

Room with a View

Room with a View

When two students representing the Illinois Tech American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics team arrived at 3 a.m. at Fort Sumner in the New Mexico desert, the only thing standing between them and the launch of their team’s payload was Mother Nature. Fortunately, on September 7, 2015, the wind was...

Spring 2016

Partners in Prevention

Partners in Prevention

In its quest to cure the causes of foodborne illness outbreaks, the United States is doubling down on prevention. In 2011 the United States passed the Food and Drug Administration’s Food Safety Modernization Act, a set of regulations and guidance aimed at curtailing the estimated 48 million incidents of individual...

Spring 2016

Toward Safer Nuclear Solutions

Toward Safer Nuclear Solutions

As a second-grader, Jeff Terry hoped to one day be a nuclear chemist. But as a young adult he fought against the Bailly Nuclear Power Plant, a failed project (construction began in 1974 and was canceled in 1981) planned for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, because he feared it would kill the fish in Lake Michigan. During graduate school, however, he again had a change of heart.

Fall 2015

In Marty’s World

In Marty’s World

With his signature charm, Martin “Marty” Cooper (EE ’50, M.S. ’57) will not only tell you an improbable idea is possible, but he’ll also map out a way to achieve it. If you don’t believe it, consider your smartphone. In the early 1970s, communications giant AT&T dismissed the idea of...

Fall 2015

The Art of Car-Hacking

The Art of Car-Hacking

During his senior year at Illinois Tech , Nishanth Samala (CS ’14) took his Mazda in for routine maintenance and received a shocking $2,000 repair bill. Later he learned the total was significantly inflated for the type of work done. This disturbed the self-proclaimed gearhead, who has tinkered with cars...

Fall 2015

Voices from Childhood

Voices from Childhood

On the southwest coast of Oahu, Hawaii , the remains of the now-defunct Ewa sugar plantation stand like a relic of a generation and way of life that has faded into history. But in the mid-twentieth century, when Dennis Irie (ARCH ’66) grew up there, it was a bustling community...

Fall 2015

It Was One Gas of a Ride, Baby

It Was One Gas of a Ride, Baby

Forty-five years ago this October 23 , a missile-shaped, pearlescent-blue rocket car roared down the Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, Utah, and into the record books because a derring-do band of technically brilliant car enthusiasts, IIT engineering students and their professors, and one highly regarded academic visionary—energy researcher Henry R...

Fall 2015

Into the Engine-less Future

Into the Engine-less Future: WISER Tomahawk

“SAE has been the most important experience that I’ve had at IIT so far; it’s definitely the most tangible project that I’ve seen at a university,” says Katy Banks, Camras Scholar, third-year student at Stuart School of Business, and member of the IIT Motorsports Formula SAE team. “It’s a huge...

Fall 2015

He Said Yes to the Dress

He Said Yes to the Dress!

I need to be honest about something. Over the past year, I spent a lot of time in the IIT Archives in the lower level of Paul V. Galvin Library on Mies Campus, secretly hoping I might end up being the person who discovered a famous (or infamous) student whose...

Summer 2015

Mapping History

Mapping History

Look at a map and you’ll see the physical. Topography. Buildings. Roads and highways. Directions from points A to B. Look beyond the physical—go inside those places—and you’ll find the stories. This online-exclusive interactive map highlights past, present, and future places on Main Campus and in the Bronzeville neighborhood—and the...

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