Thank you for considering supporting Illinois Tech students today! Your investment will help to strengthen our programs and enhance the student experience, both in and out of the classroom. Projects range from building an observatory, an EcoCAR, or an international school to helping with initiatives that support clean air and other real-world issues. From the faculty and staff, but most importantly from the students, thank you for helping us power the difference in the world!
Projects
EcoCAR
Illinois Tech was selected as one of 15 North American universities to participate in the 2022-2026 EcoCAR EV Challenge competition cycle, which is sponsored by General Motors, the Department of Energy, and MathWorks. This is a highly structured, experiential-learning opportunity involving students from across several engineering disciplines that are tasked with designing the modifications to a Cadillac LYRIQ SUV EV in order to have advanced autonomous driving capabilities and four-wheel electric drive. Students who participate are ideally prepared for employment in the automotive industry, among others, because they have gained insightful professional experience through the EcoCAR program. Funds will provide for team travel to EcoCAR events, meetings, and competitions, in addition to necessary tools and equipment.
Armour Academy for Experiential Learning and Student Success
These funds will be used to support engineering students in their pursuit of developing the broad traits of an Armour engineer. Doing so requires a highly intentional and personalized approach that ensures that each and every student participates in the full complement of curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular activities that holistically develop each student's manifestation of the Armour engineer, which is based on their individual backgrounds and professional ambitions. A team of professional mentors and faculty partners work with each student to identify such opportunities and activities for growth and development. In some cases, student participation requires additional funds to facilitate travel to a conference, a study abroad opportunity, an internship, or participation in a student organization or competition team.
The Built Environment Research Group: Clean Air
The Built Environment Research Group at Illinois Tech has a track record of conducting societally relevant research on indoor air sensing and air cleaning technologies across a range of laboratory and field settings. While the group is funded in part by research grants, they also rely on everyday citizens to help guide their research and testing to inform decision-making for cleaner indoor air. The group specializes in evaluating the impacts of in-duct and standalone/portable air cleaners on particles and gasses in indoor air; assessing ventilation, filtration, and pollutant sources in buildings; and developing and applying low-cost accessible methods to measure pollutant dynamics in buildings. They seek support to continue their work and expand in new directions, with the overarching mission to inform policy and practice for cleaner indoor air.
Chicago-Kent College of Law Constitutional Democracy Project
Every day seems to bring new evidence of political and social fragmentation in our country, with inflamed rhetoric and mistrust running rampant. In this context, providing high-quality, hands-on civics education to middle and high school students and teachers is more important than ever. Your contribution will support outreach to public schools that struggle to deliver a well-rounded curriculum in their classrooms, especially in post-pandemic times. Visit here to learn more about CDP. Please show your commitment to American democracy today!
Chicago-Kent College of Law Pre-Law Undergraduate Scholars
Lack of diversity in the legal profession has an outsized effect. Lawyers act as informal advisors in their extended communities and take the lead in protesting injustice and advocating for change. Chicago-Kent's residential, 3-week summer bootcamp gives 25 undergraduates an experience of what to expect in law school—and advice on getting in. Your contribution will go towards offsetting travel costs and summer income for our out-of-state participants. Visit here to learn more about PLUS. Please help make a young person's dream a reality!
Stuart School of Business Student Competitors
Stuart School of Business students compete each year in a variety of business competitions, including:
- CFA Institute Research Challenge: A global competition in which students take on the role of equity research analysts and are tested on their analytical, valuation, report writing, and presentation skills
- CME Group University Trading Challenge: A global electronic trading competition that allows students to experience the excitement, energy, and decision-making environment of real-time futures trading
- Curiosity Cup: A global analytics competition sponsored by the analytics software firm SAS. Each team submits a scientific paper detailing the results of a data analysis project that they have conducted using a publicly available data set and SAS software, and a panel of analytics industry consultants evaluates and scores the entries
Google Online Marketing Challenge: Student teams create Google Ads digital marketing campaigns for nonprofit clients. Google recognizes the most outstanding teams globally as Google Ads Top Marketers
SURE: Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
This year, the ten-week Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program will be hosted at Illinois Tech from Wednesday, May 22, 2024 to Sunday, July 28, 2024. SURE offers insight and learning into some of the hottest topics in data science and computational mathematics through hands-on research experience. Students learn to work as a team by interacting with graduate students and faculty and gain an understanding of what it takes to conduct real-world research. Program candidates will receive a stipend of $550 per week and are required to have a foundational background in mathematics (calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra) and some programming skills.