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MMAE Student Organizations

10/22/2013

MMAE is a home to 4 student organizations: AIAA-IIT, ASME, Material Advantage, and Graduate Student Advisory Council. All four were very active in the 2012–2013 school year with a variety of tours and...

High School Teachers Learn That It’s a Materials World at ASM Camp

07/12/2013

It didn’t fall in shovelable amounts and was green instead of white, but the cups of “instant snow” that were passed around to a group of Chicago-area high school science teachers in IIT’s Engineering...

Accolade information for MMAE

05/22/2013

NSF Career Award – Prof. Shadden Best Paper Award for the SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling – Li and Prof. Qian IOM Charles Hatchett Paper Award – Prof. Nash, Prof. Mostovoy...

Meet an Innovative IIT Student: Dane Christianson, Mechanical Engineering 2nd year

05/22/2013

Dane Christianson is an inventor at heart. He designed—and then constructed—a three-dimensional twisty-puzzle he calls the X-Cube in IIT’s Idea Shop using a 3D printer. A video of Dane solving the...

MMAE Launches Co-Terminal Degrees

05/22/2013

This fall, MMAE will be launching new co-terminal degree options that will allow our undergraduate students to marry a bachelor’s degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering with a master of...

Congratulations MMAE Graduates

05/17/2013

Over 130 MMAE students completed their degrees by the 2013 IIT Commencement: 86 BS degrees (AE – 22, ME – 54, MSE – 10), 41 Master’s degrees and 7 PhD degrees (MSE – 2, MAE – 5). Commencement 2013

Associate Professor Matthew Spenko Interviewed by CBS 2 News about the Manufacturing of Guns on 3D-Printers

05/15/2013

Matthew Spenko, an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and an expert in mechanical design and the use of 3D-printers, was interviewed by CBS 2 Chicago on May 15, 2013. Professor Spenko was...

2013 MMAE Research Poster Competition

05/05/2013

The annual MMAE Research Poster Competition was held on April 5th, 2013. We were pleased to have 20 entries representing students at all degree levels – BS, MS, and PhD. All the candidates did...

MMAE Grad Student Wins MAGS Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award

05/01/2013

MMAE graduate student Amirhossein Arzani recently won the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award. This award recognizes and rewards distinguished...

2013 MMAE Spring Event and Departmental Awards Ceremony

04/29/2013

On April 29th, 2013, the Department held its 2013 MMAE Spring Event and Awards Ceremony. We are pleased to announce the following 2013 MMAE Department Awards winners: Outstanding Teaching Assistant...