A Draw to the Futuristic
As a student at Morton College, Victor Quiroz joined his college’s chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). One day Quiroz visited the Illinois Institute of Technology campus...
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Creating a New Organization for Environmental Engineering
(Civil Engineering/M.Eng. Environmental Engineering 3rd Year)“Every summer, my mom, my younger sister, and I take road trips to unique places in the United States,” says Greta Vasiliauskaite. “At Glacier National Park, I saw a picture of how the glaciers looked...
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Tackling the Energy Crisis
(M.S. Materials Science and Engineering 2nd Year)As a graduate student in Leon Shaw’s research group, Vignyatha Tatagari works to develop novel materials for lithium-metal batteries. Before coming to Illinois Institute of Technology, Vignyatha...
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The Future of Clean Energy
(Chemical Engineering 4th Year)Through her engineering and economic courses as part of the Energy, Economics, and Environment minor at Illinois Institute of Technology, Lizz Elliott has learned the importance of nuclear energy as a...
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Innovating SARS-CoV-2 Detection
(Biomedical Engineering 4th Year)Laasya Devi Annepureddy works with Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Kenneth Tichauer studying diabetic retinopathy, a common side effect of diabetes that damages a patient’s ability to...
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Driving Sustainability Research Forward
(M.Eng. Energy Systems ’19, EE Ph.D. Student)Larissa Affolabi came to Illinois Institute of Technology as a master’s degree student in search of a top-tier graduate program in engineering for energy systems. “In terms of power system courses and...
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A Skill Set for Career Growth
(M.S. EE ’07, M.S. CE ’07, Ph.D. CE ’18)“I was probably born to be an engineer,” says David Hentrich. His grandfather was an engineer with his own workshop who built Hentrich his own child-sized workbench as a kid. He absorbed his...
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Becoming the Expert
(ARCE, M.ENG. STE ’18)From an outdoor sculptural installation celebrating Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood to studies of human bone fracturing, Demetria Boatwright took every opportunity to take on ambitious projects and...
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Dreaming Big Is Free
(Chemical Engineering 3rd Year)“I was always a huge dreamer since I was little,” says Jessica Forbes. “My dad has always told me that dreams are free, the sky’s the limit, and it doesn’t cost anything to dream big.” When as a...
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A Powerful Theory
(M.S. GE ’66, Ph.D. GT ’70)Like many scientists of his generation, Robert Lyczkowski says the launch of Sputnik 1, the first human-made satellite to orbit Earth, changed his life. “It started a whole push for science,” he says...