Students
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Calling All Smart Cookies for Decorating Contest at Galvin Library
October 16, 2025 -
Take Charge of Your Finances This Fall!
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Celebrate Open Access Week October 20-26 at Galvin Library
October 14, 2025 -
Workshop: Asking Great Questions & Giving Great Answers
October 14, 2025 -
Thinking About Grad School? Come to Graduate Preview Day 2025
October 14, 2025 -
Communications Lab (Formerly the Writing Center) Is Here for You
October 07, 2025 -
Learn About Spending Summer in Seoul at Info Session October 8
October 02, 2025 -
Your Feedback Matters: Please Complete Undergraduate Student Survey
September 30, 2025
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Calling All Smart Cookies for Decorating Contest at Galvin Library
Athletics
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Men’s Varsity Soccer Tryouts
August 18, 2022 -
Women’s Tennis To Hold Tryouts August 20 Through August 26
August 18, 2022 -
Men’s Tennis To Hold Tryouts August 20 Through August 26.
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Men’s Tennis Takes Home 2021 NACC Tournament Title with 5-2 Win Over Concordia (Wis.)
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Illinois Tech Athletics Announces Advisory Board
December 10, 2020
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Men’s Varsity Soccer Tryouts
Research
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IFSH Releases Annual Report of Research
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Grapeseed Extract (MegaNatural BP) Study at Clinical Nutrition Research Center Seeks Volunteers
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Welcome Week Student Research Showcase Winners
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Participate in a Study on Factors Impacting Student Interest and Career Intentions in the Analytics Domain
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Fall Schedule for Illinois Tech Responsible Conduct of Research Workshops
August 19, 2025
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IFSH Releases Annual Report of Research
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE) Archive
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Midwest Mechanics Seminar by Laura De Lorenzis: “Variational Phase-Field Modeling of Fracture: Toward Second-Generation Models”
September 25, 2025The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents the Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Laura De Lorenzis, Professor of Computational Mechanics at ETH Zürich, in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. De Lorenzis will present “Variational phase-field modeling of fracture: toward second-generation models.” This event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, November 5. Please note new time/location: 3:30–4:30 p.m. in room 6C7-1 of the Galvin Tower (IT 6C7-1). -
MMAE Holds the 2025 Poster Competition and Department Awards
April 1, 2025The MMAE Department held the 2025 Poster Competition and Department Awards Ceremony on Friday, March 28, in the Rettaliata Engineering Center. In addition to the competition, Dr. Robert Drubka was this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award. -
MMAE Seminar: Carlo Segre ‘Tuning Li-ion Anode Performance with High Entropy Oxides’
September 24, 2024The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a special seminar given by Carlo Segre, Duchossois Leadership Professor, professor of physics, deputy director of Materials Research Collaborative Access Team (MRCAT), director of Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and Instrumentation (CSRRI), deputy Director of BioCAT, and professor of materials science and engineering at Illinois Tech titled “Tuning Li-ion Anode Performance with High Entropy Oxides,” on Wednesday, October 9, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center. -
Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series: ‘Dissecting the Causality of Pressure Forces in Vortex Dominated Flows,’ Featuring Rajat Mittal
August 8, 2024The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering present the Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Rajat Mittal, professor of mechanical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, who will give a presentation on “Dissecting the Causality of Pressure Forces in Vortex Dominated Flows—From Fish Schools to Noisy Drones.” This event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, September 11, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center. -
Special MMAE Seminar: ‘The Progress of Turing Plan for AI-Driven Materials Design,’ Featuring Hao Li
August 1, 2024The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a special seminar given by Hao Li, associate professor at Tohoku University in Japan, titled “The Progress of ‘Turing Plan’ for AI-Driven Materials Design.” This seminar will take place on Friday, August 16, from 2–4 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center. -
DEI Seminar: Working Toward Socially Just Data Practices by Dr. Scott Tharp
July 25, 2024The Armour College of Engineering and Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents “Working Towards Socially Just Data Practices,” a lecture presented by Scott Tharp, Associate Director for Academic Program Review and Assessment at the University of Illinois Chicago. This lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center. This event is in-person only and open to the public. -
MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Mechanistic Interactions at Scale in Energy Storage,’ Featuring Partha Mukherjee
July 25, 2024The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents the 2024–25 Seminar Series featuring Partha Mukherjee, Professor and University Faculty Scholar at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University. Dr. Mukherjee will present: "Mechanistic Interactions at Scale in Energy Storage." This event will take place on Wednesday, September 4, at 12:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center. -
MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Advancing the Versatility of Legged Robots and Assistive Devices,’ Presented by Dr. Patrick Wensing
December 19, 2023The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents the Spring 2024 seminar series featuring guest speaker, Dr. Patrick Wensing, who will give a presentation on “Advancing the Versatility of Legged Robots and Assistive Devices.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, February 7, 2024 in the auditorium (room 104) of the John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center from 3:30–4:30 p.m. This event is open to all graduate students and faculty. -
MMAE Faculty Emeriti Will Be Honored Friday, November 17
November 14, 2023Directly following the 2023 Annual Nagib-Kalpakjian Lecture featuring guest speaker Scott Smith, the Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Chair Lou Cattafesta will honor the department’s faculty emeriti. A reception will be held in the first-floor atrium following the event. The Nagib-Kalpakjian Lecture will take place on Friday, November 17, from 1:45–2:45 p.m. in room 104 (auditorium) of the Rettaliata Engineering Center. The recognition of faculty emeriti will also take place in room 104 and will run from 2:45–3:15 p.m. -
Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series: ‘Multi-Physics Modeling of Flow and Cardiac Function in Pediatric Cardiology,’ Featuring Alison Marsden
October 17, 2023The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering present the Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Alison Marsden, the Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Disease in the Departments of Pediatrics, Bioengineering, and Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, who will give a presentation on “Multi-Physics Modeling of Flow and Cardiac Function in Pediatric Cardiology.” This event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, November 8, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 111 of the Pritzker Science Center.