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.

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 of mythology curiously befitting an institute of technology.

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.

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.

Welcome Home
In recent years, with memories of their earliest experiences at IIT still vivid, current students have signed on to become orientation counselors. Each fall, between 40 and 50 go all out to help incoming undergraduates settle into their home away from home as quickly and effortlessly as possible—and have a lot of fun in the process.

Center for Financial Management
The world’s trading spaces have gotten a lot smaller—from the trading pit to the computer chip. At IIT’s Center for Financial Markets, students keep pace with the rapid changes in technology.

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