Living Your Values as an Engineer
Before making his way to Illinois Institute of Technology to study engineering, Jonathan Ellison (CE ’24) had an entirely different career. He spent the early 2000s getting an Associate of Arts degree...
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Lab Renovations Include Unique All-In-One Concrete Testing
The Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology recently celebrated upgrades to modernize its Concrete Materials and Structures Lab. Assistant...
Illinois Tech Member of Innovation Engine Awarded Up to $160 Million by NSF
Great Lakes ReNEW, a six-state collaboration coordinated by Chicago-based water innovation hub Current, has been awarded up to $160 million over 10 years from the United States National Science...
Illinois Tech Part of Innovation Engine Awarded Up to $160 Million U.S. National Science Foundation Grant
CHICAGO—January 29, 2024—Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) is part of Great Lakes ReNEW , a six-state collaboration coordinated by Chicago-based water innovation hub Current , awarded...
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Creating Stormwater Infrastructure Equity
A team of professors at Illinois Institute of Technology is bringing together social science, landscape architecture, and engineering—along with a dose of citizen science—to find ways to address a...
Why Air Quality Concerns Can’t Be Blown Away
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there has been a trend of “increased risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last two decades,” citing climate...
A Window into Sustainability at Willis Tower
Automated insulating window shades can provide energy savings in buildings by making sure that shades stay closed when they are not in use, reducing the amount of heat passing in or out of the...
A Structural Standout: Professor Honored for Decades of Bridge Engineering Research
Illinois Institute of Technology Professor of Civil and Architectural Engineering Gongkang Fu received the Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service Award from the National Academy of Science’s Transportation...
Illinois Tech Assistant Professor Awarded Funding to Stop Spread of ‘Forever Chemicals’ into Waterways
CHICAGO—January 4, 2023—Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) Assistant Professor David Lampert was recently awarded funding by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s People, Prosperity...
Keeping Our Water Clean
David Lampert, an assistant professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, works on projects relating to water quality. “I’m trying to understand what processes are happening in our water systems and...