Online Exclusives

Spring 2010

Golden Photo Opportunity

Photographer Robert David readies his view camera for a shot of the Golden Gate Bridge Not many photo subjects look their most flattering while wearing the shade of vermilion known as International Orange. A nearly 9,000-foot-long exception is one of the world’s most monumental man-made marvels, San Francisco’s Golden Gate...

Spring 2010

Observatory Focuses on Our Earth

It seems appropriate that Dennis Roberson’s office at IIT’s Main Campus is high up, 10 floors atop street level and competing with the upper-tier seats at U.S. Cellular Field, which commands the view from the office’s west windows. While being eye-level with Canada geese flying in formation can be a...

Spring 2009

WISER Formula Hybrid Team on Fast Track to Learning

Each spring, the IIT community gathers outdoors for a supercharged send-off as Scarlet Hawk and other student-built high-performance hybrid vehicles roll out of Armour garage for a road trip to the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, where they vie against other college racecars in the annual Formula Hybrid™ International Competition. Jonathan Sibley (EE ’08), master’s degree candidate in electrical engineering and IIT Formula Hybrid project manager, helped to steer the efforts of the Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) Formula Hybrid team as they readied two vehicles for the competition, which was held May 4–6 in Loudon.

Spring 2009

Engineering a Useful Sulfur-Eating Bacterium

Petri plate streaked with a pure colony of the 36-SY bacterial strain possessing, to a degree, the heat-tolerant quality required for the Saudi Aramco project. The strain was isolated by an IIT student from a soil sample taken in the Chicago area. It seems fitting that a small plaque displaying...

Fall 2009

Behind the Blast Doors, ’Bots Rule

Building 3424 on IIT’s Main Campus seems tame enough. Visitors enter through a revolving door, check in at the reception desk, and go their respective ways, perhaps to the Department of Mathematics and Science Education or to the wing that houses Shimer College. But for those on their way to...

Winter 2010

One Year After the Fall of Lehman

The dark night is now past. Or is it? One year after the global financial-services firm Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 15, 2008 and set the world atilt, IIT Magazine asked Michael Gorham, Industry Professor of Finance and director of the Center for Financial Markets at IIT Stuart School of Business, his impressions on the collapse and what can be done to safeguard the country’s financial situation today.

Winter 2010

Slideshow: Winter on IIT Main Campus

Winter Companion A snowman joins George Segal’s Man on a Bench , the first piece of public sculpture displayed outdoors at IIT. Azure skies pair with a covering of snow to light up Main Campus in the unique way that only winter can. With foliage on winter break, the buildings...

Spring 2009

Rewind Revisited: IIT Navy V-12

In an effort to increase the number of college-educated officers called to serve their country during World War II, the federal government initiated a nationwide education effort in 1943 known as the V-12 Navy College Training Program . IIT’s reputation as a leading academic institution headed by a patriotic president—Henry...