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.

Space Weather Impacts on Earth

Cloudy with a Chance of Auroral Sightings

Armour College of Engineering Associate Professor Seebany Datta-Barua is studying Earth’s space weather environment, with a focus on helping to develop models that better track the zones of charged particles that can interfere with communication satellites and GPS.

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 “That’s where I’d like space weather to be...where before you launch to the moon, you’ll want to check your current space weather conditions.”

Associate Professor Seebany Datta-Barua

Seebany Datta-Barua

Research in Service to Humanity

Brent Stephens

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

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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
Distinguished Bodine Professor Robert W. Galvin Center for 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
Georgia Papavasiliou
Professor of Biomedical Engineering Professor of Chemical Engineering Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs, Armour College of Engineering Visiting Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Rush Medical College
Seebany Datta Barua
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Fouad Teymour
S.C. Johnson Professor of Chemical Engineering Director of the Center for Complex Systems and Dynamics