Fall 2004

Inside this Issue

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What Do We Want?

In today’s high-tech world, technology often seems to be driving us instead of the other way around. Overnight, products and services appear that just days before we were unaware of—for example, the ability to now use a cell phone to send a photograph of the house we’ve just built to a friend half way around the world.

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IIT Urban Legends

As with any college, IIT has its share of stories, passed down from class to class, from senior to freshman. But at IIT, these legends don’t take the commonplace form of the ghost haunting the women’s dormitory. The pragmatic mind of the IIT student has conjured up a different brand...

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In His Tracks

A small photograph is perhaps the most telling testament to alumnus Max Ephraim’s legacy. It hangs in a corner of the factory at Modern Process Equipment, put there not by Dan and Phil Ephraim, Max’s sons and operators of the successful company, but by their workers. It is a tribute...

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Blueprint for a Legacy

When rock stars reach immortality, their fellow musicians honor them with tribute albums. When structural engineers reach immortality, their colleagues present them with a volume of research papers celebrating the breadth of their research. Such was the gift presented to Sidney A. Guralnick , Perlstein Distinguished Professor of Engineering, upon...

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Welcome Home

Whether you first arrived on campus 5 years ago or 50, chances are you can still recall the mix of feelings you experienced back then—fear, excitement, uncertainty, hope. In recent years, with memories of their earliest experiences at IIT still vivid, current students have signed on to become orientation counselors...