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MASH Midterm Mastery Mixer
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Certificate Program in Sensor Technology and Experiential Learning Is Recruiting Students Now!
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Join the FDSN Food Club Community: Cozy Autumn Flavors Potluck!
September 22, 2026 -
Grainger Computing Innovation Prize — Concept Note Submission Deadline Is This Friday
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AWS JAM—Live Cloud Challenge or AWS Jam at Illinois Tech!
September 22, 2026 -
Communications Lab (Formerly the Writing Center) Is Now Open!
September 17, 2026 -
Student Volunteer Opportunities with the Office of Graduate Admission!
September 15, 2026 -
Come Work with Graduate Admissions!
September 15, 2026
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MASH Midterm Mastery Mixer
Athletics
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Illinois Tech Athletics Digest: Women’s Soccer Pushes Winning Streak to Six Games
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Illinois Tech Athletics Digest: Scarlet Hawks Soar Across All Sports
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Illinois Tech Athletics Digest: Women’s Tennis Wins NACC Opener
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Illinois Tech Athletics Digest: Starting the Season on the Right Foot
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Illinois Tech Athletics Digest: Away We Go
September 01, 2026
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Illinois Tech Athletics Digest: Women’s Soccer Pushes Winning Streak to Six Games
Research
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Fall Responsible Conduct of Research Webinar
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Funded Graduate Research Assistant Opportunity to Develop an AI-Augmented Platform
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Share Your Academic Advising Experience (2-Minute Student Survey)
September 15, 2026 -
Students: Share Your Perspectives on Seeking ADA Accommodations in Higher Education
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Students: Share Your Perspectives on Seeking ADA Accommodations
July 14, 2026
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Fall Responsible Conduct of Research Webinar
Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE) Archive
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The X-Cube Kicks It Up a Notch
June 21, 2013Last winter, IIT Magazine reported on Dane Christianson, now a third-year mechanical engineering student, and his X-Cube twisty puzzle invention. On June 7, Christianson opened a Kickstarter crowdfunding page to help raise money to manufacture the puzzle for possible distribution through Marbles the Brain Store and within one week, surpassed his goal of $30,000. (As of today's posting, more than $46,000 has been raised for the X-Cube.) -
Duchossois Leadership Professor Keith J. Bowman is cited in the journal TMS in an article on gender diversity in materials science and engineering.
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MMAE Grad Student Wins MAGS Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award
May 1, 2013MMAE graduate student Amirhossein Arzani recently won the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award. This award recognizes and rewards distinguished scholarship and research at the master’s level. To be considered, a thesis must contain original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. Arzani won a $750 cash prize and traveled to present his work at the MAGS Annual Meeting in Minneapolis in early April. -
Associate Professor of Materials Engineering Sheldon Mostovoy spoke with NBC 5 News about last December’s prison break from the Metropolitan Correctional Center and how inmates could use clothes irons, accessible to them in the prison common areas, to weaken and break glass in cell windows.
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IIT to Host ASM Materials Camp for Teachers
February 5, 2013IIT and ASM Chicago Regional Chapter invite teachers to attend a one-week professional development workshop this summer – at no cost! The ASM Materials Camp® 2013 will take place July 8-12 at IIT's Main Campus. Help us spread the word to teachers about this opportunity to get something they can really use in their classrooms! -
A Daily Herald story about Mark Evans, an Air Force veteran who started Pizzas4Patriots, which has since 2008 sent thousands of pizzas to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan every Fourth of July and Super Bowl Sunday, notes that his son Kent is an IIT MMAE student on an Air Force ROTC scholarship.
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The Fayetteville Observer interviews James Young of the rock band Styx in advance of an upcoming concert, asking him about the bachelor’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering he earned at IIT before embarking on his musical career.
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Universe Today sees potential in the flying/rolling quadrotor robot designed by Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Matthew Spenko and PhD candidate Arash Kalantari as a possible rover design for exploring the difficult terrain of Titan, the largest of Saturn’s moons.
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Demonstration video of the Hybrid Terrestrial and Aerial Quadrotor (HyTAQ) robot, developed in the IIT Robotics Lab by Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Matthew Spenko and PhD candidate Arash Kalantari, has garnered attention from a variety of technology-focused blogs and news outlets.
November 30, 2012Engadget: HyTAQ hybrid quadrotor robot travels by air and land, leaves us no place to hide CNET: This quadrotor flies — and rolls — over just about anything Gizmodo: Uncrashable Rolling Robot Takes To the Skies To Avoid Obstacles Gizmag:… -
IIT Robotics Lab Develops Crash-Resistant Hybrid Terrestrial/Aerial Robot (Video)
November 29, 2012The HyTAQ Robot (Hybrid Terrestrial and Aerial Quadrotor) was developed in the IIT Robotics Lab by Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Matthew Spenko and PhD candidate Arash Kalantari. The novel mobile robot is capable of both aerial and terrestrial locomotion.