Instrument Selected to Fly on NASA Mission
Illinois Institute of Technology Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Seebany Datta-Barua is a member of the team working on Near Earth Magnetometer Instrument in a Small Integrated...
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Illinois Tech Represents at Fifth Annual 2023 AeroSTEM Youth Expo
More than 100 students in the Chicago area attended the Fifth Annual 2023 AeroSTEM Youth Expo on Sunday, June 25, 2023, in Illinois Institute of Technology’s Hermann Hall. This landmark event, hosted...
From Illinois Tech Magazine: Breaking the ‘Boom’
Like some prodigious inventors, Michael Buonanno (AE ’01) truly understood the importance of his project when his first child was born. He’d just started working on a new supersonic aircraft design...
$10 Million Center Tackles Future Transportation Safety
The Center for Assured and Resilient Navigation in Advanced Transportation Systems (CARNATIONS) at Illinois Institute of Technology was named a new Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC) by the...
Illinois Tech’s CARNATIONS Receives $10M Federal Grant as New Tier 1 Transportation Center to Bolster Cybersecurity in Navigation Systems
CHICAGO—May 12, 2023— The Center for Assured and Resilient Navigation in Advanced Transportation Systems (CARNATIONS) at Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) was named a new Tier 1...
2023 MMAE Student Research Poster Competition and Departmental Awards
The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology held its annual MMAE Student Research Poster Competition and awards ceremony on March 31, 2023...
Illinois Tech Professor Demonstrates Novel Control Method in Aircraft with No Tail
CHICAGO—February 7, 2023—A research team at Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech), led by Professor David Williams, has for the first time demonstrated the use of a novel control method in...
Tailless Jet Flies Free with Novel Control Technique
David Williams and his team have demonstrated the first use of a novel control method in an aircraft with no tail. While conventional aircraft rely on protruding fins to enable steering, a tailless...
MMAE Hosts Annual Lecture and Unveils Latest Hall of Fame Inductee
Illinois Institute of Technology’s Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering hosted the Nagib and Kalpakjian Annual Lecture on Turbulence and inducted Lois Graham (M.S. ME ’49, Ph...
Illinois Tech Assistant Professor Awarded NSF CAREER Award to Develop Methods Reducing Computing Time for Turbulent Flow Modeling
CHICAGO—December 16, 2022—Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Scott T. M. Dawson has received a prestigious National Science...