Armour College of Engineering: Bringing New Ideas into the World

Since 1890 Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Tech has been educating world-class engineers who go on to make an impact in service to humanity. Our faculty are leaders and innovators in their fields, accomplishing feats such as inventing a one-of-a-kind intracortical visual prosthesis, pioneering the use of microgrids for reliable energy distribution, and developing detailed maps of the human brain. We help drive Chicago’s continued rise as a global technology and innovation hub.

Wifi Model Diagram

Green Energy Harvesting

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Lin Cai works on sustainable solutions to wirelessly charge the ever-growing number of devices in the Internet of Things.

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Research in Service to Humanity

Seebany

Associate Professor Seebany Datta-Barua investigates how to predict changes in space weather that can interfere with GPS and other satellite-based applications.

Brent Stephens

Professor Brent Stephens’s model of how particles spread Diamond Princess cruise ship

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Environmental shot of Zoe Lallas (M.S. CE ’22, Ph.D. Candidate CE)

Zoe Lallas (M.S. CE ’22, Ph.D. Candidate CE) considers herself an all-out concrete fanatic, and for the past five years she’s found a home among equally concrete-obsessed people in Illinois Tech’s...

An Armour College of Engineering student works on racecar

Distinctively Armour

We integrate theory and practice, leading our students to tackle complex, real-world problems.  

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Students work on a circuitboard in an electrical engineering class.

Engineering at Illinois Tech

The only tech-focused university in Chicago.

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Featured Faculty

Mohammad Shahidehpour
Robert W. Galvin Electricity Innovation Endowed Chair Director, Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation Associate Director, Wanger Institute for Sustainability and Energy Research Affiliate Professor, Stuart School of Business
Lin Cai
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Director of Graduate Affairs in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Matthew J. Gombeda
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Director of the Concrete Materials and Structures Laboratory