Applying Engineering Concepts to the Human Body
TRANSCRIPT Alison Yurchak (BME, M.S. CHE 5th Year): I knew I was an engineer through and through because I grew up building my own toys, playing with Legos and Lincoln Logs, but I always thought the...
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Philip Troyk Receives Innovative Research Award for Electronics Company
Robert A. Pritzker Endowed Chair in Engineering Philip R. Troyk has been awarded the Chicago Council on Science and Technology’s (C2ST) inaugural Innovative Research Award for his work with Sigenics...
Illinois Tech Recognized as Global 3DX Education Center of Excellence
On May 11 Illinois Institute of Technology was recognized as one of Dassault Systèmes’s nine Global 3DX Education Centers of Excellence, the third university to achieve this distinction in the United...
$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...
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...
Illinois Tech Mourns the Passing of Professor Emeritus Dimitri Gidaspow
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dimitri Gidaspow (Ph.D. GT ’62), a prolific and innovative chemical engineering researcher and teacher, passed away on January 9, 2023, at the age of 88. With decades...
Novel Chemistry Offers Ultra-High Power Density Batteries to Decarbonize Transportation
Mohammad Asadi, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, has published a paper in Science describing the chemistry behind his novel lithium-air battery design...
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...
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...
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...