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Get to know some of the student organizations on campus.

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SGA President welcomes incoming class to Illinois TechHamze Leo SukkarSGA PRESIDENT

This summer marks the end of a long journey that has led you to where you are today, at the doorstep of higher education and the prime of your personal and professional development. You are now perhaps not sure whether to feel excited to take on this new challenge, or worried about adjusting to college life. Rest assured, we have all been there, and we all experienced similar thoughts and feelings. A little more than three years ago, I made the decision to travel across the globe to attend Illinois Tech and become a Scarlet Hawk. My biggest concerns back then were my academics, friends and family, and my transition away from home. Today, as I reflect on three years of growth within this community, I realize how much I have learned and developed to get to a position that allows me to write this letter, welcoming you as one of us. There is something for everyone in Illinois Tech. Any student can either join or start their own organization that fits their interests. I encourage you to surf through the database of

our campus resources, student organizations, and identify our student leaders on campus. Find what interests you and put your time into it. Be curious and do not leave your questions unanswered. We all have something that makes us tick, something that gets us excited--find it and surround yourself with supportive friends who enjoy it with you. You can join a variety of student organizations, from professional, to gaming, maker clubs, sports, philanthropy, and many more. After I explored my fair share of organizations and got involved in several of their events and activities, I stumbled upon the group that interested me the most. Lend me your attention as I briefly explain to you about our Student Government Association (SGA), why you should know about it, and why it is important to get involved with SGA. Primarily, SGA is the governing body that serves as the liaison between the university’s administration and its student body, and is the power that can put student ideas into motion to make a change. SGA is divided into three main branches: Senate, Finance Board, and Judicial Board. They each operate under the direction of a single executive board, but vary in the functions they

provide to the students. Executive Board and Senate seats are elected through university-wide polls, while the Judicial Board and Finance Board seats are nominated by students and appointed internally. Additionally, SGA committees are open to volunteers who need not be appointed or elected. Join them if you simply wish to lead projects or get involved at the ground level. The senatorial committees focus on communications, academic affairs, and student life. I encourage you to learn more about what each branch is involved in, and read more about SGA on our website sga.iit.edu and in the SGA feature in TechNews. I mentioned earlier that SGA has the power to make a change, but I intentionally left out an important detail that I now want to bring to your attention. SGA is an organization of the students, for the students, and we cannot do what we do without you, the student. If we all invest in it together, the potential of making a change on our campus will be that much stronger. You will have many opportunities to get involved in SGA, share your ideas, or get hands-on, working on projects of your own. Stay on the lookout for those chances to jump in whenever you feel ready. Our promise to you

is to communicate everything we do, be readily available for students’ ideas and needs, and be transparent in the decisions that will impact you. Along with the three existing senatorial committees, this year will witness the start of a new committee, events and publicity, aiming to enhance our outreach to students and increase the number of meaningful events and communication platforms offered. I want to focus this year’s efforts on bringing the administration even closer to you, the student, to actively seek your voices, and to take action based on the feedback they receive. There is a lot I want to share with you but I also know there will be many opportunities and platforms where we will keep everyone updated on our ideas and progress. I would like to thank you for reading through this article and look forward to receiving any questions and/or feedback at [email protected]. I am honored and humbled to be serving as your president, and I hope to see you get involved on campus and become an active member of this community.

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The Undergraduate Studies Committee (UGSC), consisting of representatives of each academic department, the office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs (UGAA), Student Government Association (SGA), and more, is a group of individuals at the university tasked with creating “a set of broad goals for general education at IIT, then [enunciating] a concise set of measurable objectives which support those goals”. The body makes proposes, debates, and votes on a vast array of items related to undergraduate education at Illinois Tech, including changes to grading structure, program requirements, and expectations for students and professors. Meeting on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month during the academic year, the UGSC makes decisions and recommendations that are presented to the University Faculty Council (UFC) for final discussion and approval, formulating important pieces of academic life for this school’s undergraduates. On April 26 of this year, the UGSC gathered for its final meeting of the Spring 2016 semester. The numerical majority of the topics discussed were passed as informational items: BIOL 490, 491, and 495 had been moved to an exclusively pass/fail grading system, the Digital Humanities curriculum was updated, and announcements were made regarding each department’s use of Courseleaf to publish course information. Additionally, the UGSC voted to allow its executive committee (consisting of its chair, vice chair, and secretary) to vote on further informational items during the summer, when normal meetings of the body don’t take place. There was one intended informational item that didn’t make the cut for quick passage: a proposed minor in Leadership that many members of the committee felt could benefit from a wider array of course options

and a designated “home department,” among other suggestions. That proposal is likely to be re-heard after modification in Fall 2016. Moving beyond information items, the bulk of the meeting’s time was dominated by two major discussions, the first of which has been a commonly discussed topic among students in recent semesters. Students petitioned the university to establish standard metrics for professor feedback during the timeline of each undergraduate course, a proposal which proved challenging to implement in a specific manner due to the vast differences between many types of courses offered by the university. At the time of the meeting, a “minimal” and “optimal” standard feedback language was made available for review, shown below:

Minimal Standard Feedback Instructors shall provide all of their students with substantive feedback about their progress and status in courses by, at the latest, 5 full calendar days before the Withdrawal date.

Optimal Standard Feedback A. Instructors are encouraged to provide students with some form of “scorecard” or “tally sheet” in their syllabi or elsewhere, in which students may fill in their scores on various assignments, projects, exams, presentations, etc., and thus keep up with their own progress and status in the course throughout the semester. B. If A is not applicable to a particular course’s nature or structure, instructors are encouraged to devise alternate means of providing students with regular (at least every 3-4 weeks) and substantive feedback that will allow students to assess their own progress and status in the course. Both of these feedback standards were passed by the UGSC and sent on to UFC with the recommendation that they be presented as an informational item, but

the conversation on the topic did not stop there. Seeing potential to supplement those informal feedback metrics with further action, the group debated the merits of proposing an additional type of grade (something along the lines of “participating”) to allow instructors of 300 and 400 level courses, who are currently not required to report midterm grades, the opportunity to enter an indication of satisfactory academic progress without prematurely assigning a letter grade in a non-traditional class environment (such as an IPRO). The discussion was quite broad, and no specific proposals were put on the table, but the topic has potential for expansion in the Fall semester. The final section of the meeting came in the form of a consideration of Illinois Tech’s IPRO program and its relationship to the recent UGSC decision to implement an optional pass/fail system for specific courses on a department-by-department basis, which was covered in previous issues of TechNews. A representative from the program was present to discuss his experiences and take questions from the group, which was eager to clarify what was expected of students and instructors in those courses, and how each student is evaluated when taking an IPRO. Somewhat remarkably, there was nearly unanimous opposition to the concept of allowing students to take IPROs for a pass/fail grade, with strong arguments made about the importance of stressing each student’s full effort put into each project. Even the SGA representative, VP of Academic Affairs, Akash Raina, agreed that including a pass/fail option for IPRO could erode the seriousness with which students approach their projects and the ability of IPRO teams to function together as a whole. As always, full minutes and supporting documents for each UGSC meeting are available at iit.edu/~ugsc.

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Every year, the Office of Institutional Advancement (IA) organizes the Alumni Awards Luncheon to recognize and reward members of Illinois Tech’s alumni for their various accomplishments since graduating from Illinois Tech. The 2016 Alumni Awards Luncheon was held on Friday, April 29. According to IA, the first award presented, the Galvin Award, “recognizes an individual whose service, leadership and philanthropy have significantly advanced the university.” The award is presented to non-alumni “for their leadership and dedication.” This year, Jules Knapp was the recipient of the Galvin Award. Knapp graduated from the University of Illinois and served in the United States Army during the Korean War. Following the war, he began a career as a painter and went on to be involved in many entrepreneurial ventures. Knapp attributes success in business to hard work, not luck, saying, “The harder you work, the luckier you get!” The 2016 Outstanding Young Alumna/Alumnus awards were presented to Patrick Bourbon, M.S. Finance ‘00, Derek Tarnow, M.Des. ‘12 and Zahra Tashakorinia, M.Des. ‘12. Inspired by a visit to the Paris stock exchange, now known as Euronext Paris, Bourbon began his journey in finance early and currently manages two billion dollars in assets as the founder of Bourbon Financial Management, LLC. He also serves as the chief investment officer at ProManage. Bourbon dedicates much of his time to serving the Illinois Tech community. According to IA, “he’s a member of the Stuart Board of Advisors, director of the Chicagoland Alumni Chapter – Stuart Committee, and chairman of Illinois Tech Stuart Investments. In addition to engaging Chicago-area alumni, he mentors and places students, having created employment opportunities for at least 30 Illinois Tech graduates.” Tarnow and Tashakorinia’s careers began when, for a class project at the Institute of Design, they had to design a product that solved an everyday problem and launch a Kickstarter campaign. Through their campaign, they raised over 20 times their targeted 10,000

dollars and thus began their full-time business. In 2013, Logitech acquired their company and both Tarnow and Tashakorinia now work for Logitech’s smart phone team to continue their work in advancing technology. The John J. Schommer Honor I award, according to IA, “is awarded to alumni who excelled in both leadership and performance as student athletes at Illinois Institute of Technology who also went on to achieve significant success after graduation.” The recipient of this year’s John J. Schommer Honor I award was Ted Erikson, Che ‘52, M.S. Chem ‘59. Erikson became the first person to swim across Lake Michigan in 1961, when he began his professional swimming career. He set the world record for the fastest round-trip swim of the English Channel in 1965, a record that his late son Jon beat. Besides a career in professional swimming, Erikson has also worked as a senior chemist, a high school teacher and a businessman. The Professional Achievement Awards this year were awarded to Barbara Crane, M.S. Photography ‘68, Michael Graff, Che ‘77, James Lemke, Phys ‘59. Crane has been called “pioneering” and “legendary” by art curators and critics for her work, some of which has been displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and other famous museums globally. Her interest in photography began by helping in her father’s darkroom when she was a child and by the age of 20, she was taking professional photographs. She subsequently enrolled at the Institute of Design Master of Photography program. She went on to teach at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and retired in 1995. After graduating from Illinois Tech, Michael Graff continued his education throughout his career. He studied business at the University of Chicago, and pursued several programs in executive management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Cambridge and Stanford University Law School. Graff ’s advice to students is, “Never stop learning and take every opportunity that comes your way. Early in your career is the most opportune time to branch out and learn everything you

can and expand your horizons. There’s always something new to learn, not just in science and engineering, but in the world around you.” After completing his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Illinois Institute of Technology, his Master’s in Physics from Northwestern University and his PhD from the University of California in Santa Barbara, James Lemke went on to become a serial entrepreneur and inventor with 114 patents. Speaking about his motivation to be involved in the sciences, he says, “I knew from day one I wanted to be a scientist,” and “I just had a large scientific curiosity, and every time I learned something new… I would find ways to apply it… I’m sort of a techno junkie.” The Lifetime Achievement Award, according to IA, “is bestowed posthumously on alumni who have recently passed away and who, during their lives, achieved personal success, made outstanding contributions to their chosen fields of endeavor, and merited recognition from their colleagues.” This year, the award was presented to two individuals, Robert Bonthron, ME ‘44, M.S. Mech ‘52, Ph.D. Mech ‘62, and Howard Kehrl, ME ‘44. Katherine Stetz, Vice Provost of Student Affairs and Dean of Students nominated Bonthron and says, “[Bonthron] expressed a love for this institution. He learned at IIT, learned from IIT, and also taught IIT a thing or two. His passion for Illinois Tech is illustrated in the multitude of services he provided for the students of IIT.” Natasha DePaola, Dean of the Armour College of Engineering nominated Kehrl and says, “I can think of no better representative of Illinois Tech’s commitment to teaching the highest-quality engineering than Howard Kehrl, someone who personified both academic and real-world excellence.” The International Award of Merit, as its name suggests, is awarded to an individual whose accomplishments have strengthened the university’s reputation on the international scale. Akihisa “Aki” Miwa, M.S. OR ‘83, obtained his Bachelor’s in Architecture in Japan before getting his Master’s in Operations Research from Illinois Tech in 1983. He went on to spend his career at the Obayashi Corporation before and after they selected him as one of the employees who would be given the opportunity to study at a foreign university. He says that he rose to the top of

a global construction company like Obayashi “by always trying [his] best.” The Alumni Service Award recognizes an individual who shows great commitment and involvement in Illinois Tech through many different avenues, “including but not limited to recruitment, support, service and leadership.” Vasudevan “Raj” Rajaram, Law ‘91. Despite earning his juris doctorate from Chicago-Kent College of Law, Rajaram chose to stay in the field of engineering, founding Tetra Tech, an environmental management company in India in 1997. He has already contributed to over 40 publications and is currently working on his fifth book. The Collens Merit Award honors alumni who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to the future of Illinois Institute of Technology through philanthropic contributions paired with involvement in their gifts. Ronald Hochsprung, CS ‘72 was presented with the award this year. He has more than 20 patents to his name and is retired after 33 years of service for Apple Inc. He was on the team that developed the Lisa and Macintosh computers and says, “Whenever we got a new machine or computer chip, I was the first to go at it—making sure it ran and debugging it. I got to play with a new toy every day.” The last award presented, the Alumni Medal, “honors distinguished service to the university by alumni who have displayed the qualities of the Collens Merit Award, Alumni Service Award, and Professional Achievement Award. This is the highest honor bestowed by the Illinois Institute of Technology Alumni Association.” The 2016 Alumni Medal was presented to Alan “Bud” Wendorf, ME ‘71. Wendorf joined Sargent & Lundy in 1972 and oversaw engineering consulting projects globally. He rose through the company to become the chairman, president and CEO. He was nominated for the Alumni Medal by Illinois Tech president, Alan Cramb, who says, “Bud’s leadership and service have inspired those around him. The trustees have such belief in Bud that in 2013, they elected him their chair, one of the most important leadership roles at the university.” Visit alumni.iit.edu/awards for more information about Alumni Awards and the 2016 recipients.

Annual awards honor distinguished alumni for their achievements, contributionsAnoopa SundararajanEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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UNICEF at Illinois Tech UNICEF at Illinois Tech was founded this past academic year in August 2015 to educate, advocate and fundraise on behalf of UNICEF at the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is a program that was created in 1946 to overcome poverty, violence, disease, and discrimination in a child’s path. Every day, over 16,000 children die at the hands of preventable causes such as malnutrition, violence, lack of water, and no access to basic medication or vaccinations. UNICEF’s, and by extension, our mission is to make this number 0 and help children globally. Essentially, we want to start by making a difference in our local community here at Illinois Tech. In Fall 2015, we raised a total of $368.50. This money was split and sent to our respective countries of the month which included Syria, Nigeria, and Afghanistan. Fundraising efforts on campus were primarily done through monthly events which were ideated and executed by our dedicated members and executive board officers. Two of our most successful events were: “You Vs. UNICEF” - a series of challenges that encouraged students to donate while pushing their physical limits) and “UNICEF’s Got Talent” - a show to highlight our student body’s unique talents like singing, dancing, and magic tricks where students voted for the best performance through donations. In total, we educated an estimated 300 Illinois Tech students about global issues that children face on a daily basis.

This semester, we continued to grow our Facebook page of 353 likes and expand our 266 weekly email subscribers list. We have also been featured twice in TechNews since we made our start. Additionally, we introduced a sustainable ‘point system’ to count volunteering hours, take attendance, build reward points, and keep track of our events and meetings. The technical and creative inclination of our members has allowed us to use an RFID reader, collect an event’s attendance, add points to each member who showed up, and embed every member’s unique points to our weekly email. This way members are able to see their

points instantaneously and are incentivized to continue to be engaged with us. This semester we also introduced monthly local community volunteering opportunities for our members. In February, our members went to McCormick Elementary School to read with first graders, create kites based on the story, and do science experiments to introduce them to STEM fields. In March, our members volunteered with the Kids Enjoy Exercise Now (KEEN) sports program. This program provides one-to-one recreational opportunities for children and young adults with developmental and physical disabilities. So far with the new

point system, community volunteering and the immeasurable amount of fun we’ve had so far, we noticed our member retention has increased by almost 40 percent since Fall 2015. One of our biggest accomplishments this semester was being able to attend UNICEF’s national conference in Washington D.C. Even as a first year organization, we were able to take nine of our most dedicated members to join 300 UNICEF members, leaders and activists from across the United States. The conference not only taught us about the successes and failures of other clubs, but also helped us form new bonds with schools such as UCLA and Penn State. We were awarded the title “Most Knowledgeable Club” amongst 75 other clubs for our insights and unique methods in spreading awareness about global issues children face. But we are most proud of the growth of leaders within our organization. Executive board members have poured their creative ideas, tireless effort and almost 10 hours a week into making sure our events are successful. They have pushed their boundaries to speak publicly in front of 40-50 students during our monthly general body meetings. While ending the year we were given an award to show that our efforts weren’t meaningless, being given the “Outstanding Student Organization Award.” Additionally, our members have often helped to pivot events and steer our fundraising efforts to countries such as El Salvador where the Zika virus is currently prevalent. What began as a group of nine friends has now transformed into an organization that helps Illinois Tech students develop strong leadership skills while fighting for a cause with a burning passion.

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Assocation of Computing Machinery-Women The Association of Computing Machinery-Women (ACM-W) was formed at the end of 2015, inspired by the isolation our members felt at one point or another during their time in the computer science (CS) department at Illinois Tech. While it is not the only factor, the fact that there aren’t many other women in our classes increases these feelings of isolation. By coming together and sharing our experiences, we empower each other to succeed in the face of adversity and reach for higher goals than we might have on our own. We also inform our members about opportunities for conference scholarships,

focusing on broadening our networks of women in technology. We are planting the seeds that will blossom into long-term relationships with future collaborators. ACM-W at Illinois Tech provides support and mentorship to women in the computer science department. We hold weekly online voice chats to share news, events, and other organizational updates. We also host monthly in-person events to get all our members in the same room regularly. This spring, we had special luncheons with the academic chair of computer science, Professor Eunice Santos and Cyber Security Specialist and Instructor alumna, Barbara Johnson. In these events, we were able to gain insights from women who have “been there, done that”.

These opportunities have given us more energy and drive to move forward. Although we started as CS majors, we welcome all students in computing or electrical engineering. Our goals as an organization are aligned with the success of students in the classroom, in the job-hunt, during the interview process and after they graduate. Our mission as a student organization is fundamentally different from any other organization on campus. We provide a safe space where diversity issues are addressed in our confidential online voice chats. As Illinois Tech students ourselves, we want to make this a diverse campus where students can succeed beyond the classroom. Our affiliation with ACM-W as a professional organization allows

us to bring in guests from industry who would be unreachable without the affiliation. While our membership is primarily women, we also welcome male allies committed to helping more diverse voices in computing are heard and respected. You may find us on Hawk Link. We will be posting information there regularly. This fall we will be hosting events covering a variety of topics, including film viewings, technical interview practice, GitHub and LinkedIn profile workshops, and more. The interview process that CS students face are unique and rigorous, but not impossible to overcome. Please visit us on the Hawk Link page.

Viengkhai YadavongsyTECHNEWS WRITER

Society of Physics Students The Society of Physics Students (SPS) is an organization dedicated to teaching people more about physics, and training those in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields useful skills. We are open to all kinds of majors, and the only requirement is that you are interested in learning more about physics. We engage in a variety of activities throughout the semester, based off of feedback received from researchers on what skills are useful. For example, SPS conducted Python programming workshops every week last year, which helped facilitate students obtaining summer positions. All the students who engaged in the workshops received paid summer physics work where part of their job is to use Python. So we make sure to teach relevant skills, and give you relevant experience.

This next year we will be continuing the Python workshops, working with a professor at our school on muon beam experiments, sending 12 people to a particle accelerator conference, building a pumpkin launcher for Illinois Tech’s annual Pumpkin Launch, having electronics workshops, and more. We often bring in researchers (both faculty and graduate students) to our meetings to talk about their research and what it is like to be a graduate student/professor in physics. Even if you are not a physics student, we welcome you to join our organization. So long as you have an interest, we will happily accommodate you. In the past, SPS has performed a nuclear fusion experiment, built an electromagnetic levitator, worked with superconducting materials, gone to Argonne National Lab, many American Physical Society conferences, worked with IBM’s Quantum Computing group, conducted Telescope and Scanning Electron Microscopy training

sessions, and connected students to researchers who wanted undergraduates in their labs. I mentioned earlier that we would be working with a professor on muon beam experiments. That professor is Dr. Zack Sullivan here at Illinois Tech, our resident theoretical particle physicist. Among physics professors, there is an astrophysicist, some experimental particle physicists, an accelerator physicist, some condensed matter physicists, biophysicists, and also couple of professors who work on industry-related products, such as electric batteries for cars. We have built relationships with most of the faculty here, which means often they will approach SPS if they are looking for undergraduates to do paid summer research. If you are not a physics student but might be considering the switch, join us to find out what it is like to engage in physics. We have a welcoming group who is passionate to learn more about how the universe operates,

and don’t worry about ‘keeping up’ in terms of physics knowledge. If you have a gap in your physics knowledge, we will help out. For example, every week physics students meet Dr. Shylnov here to discuss the Feynman Lectures of Physics. In fact, every week, a student volunteers to read the chapter, present the material, and discuss. One of the best ways to learn something is to end up teaching it to others. We hope to have you on board as the new year starts! If you are interested in joining, or have any other questions about the physics department, please contact us at [email protected]. By emailing us about joining, we can make sure to inform you on our meeting times. Enjoy the summer while it lasts!

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Students for Justice in Palestine Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is an organization dedicated to spreading awareness of the plight of the Palestinian people with the ultimate goal of promoting justice, human rights, and liberation. SJP believes that while the Palestinian people must ultimately be able to decide their future in Palestine, certain key principles, grounded in international law, human rights, and basic standards of justice, are fundamental to a just and sound

resolution of the plight of the Palestinians. These include the full decolonization of all illegally held Palestinian lands, the end of the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. SJP aims to struggle against human rights violations, aggression, war crimes, and genocide inflicted on the Palestinian people. We believe in a fair, just, and sound resolution to the Palestinian right of return and repatriation of Palestinian refugees, as well as an end to the Israeli system of discrimination against the indigenous Palestinian population. SJP is also committed to overcoming anti-Semitic sentiments towards

both Arabs and Jews in the IIT community. Rooting its strength in the diversity of its membership, all are encouraged to join in solidarity with the struggle for freedom and justice in Palestine and help us raise awareness of the humanitarian issues in Palestine. While focusing on the humanitarian issues in Palestine is one of SJP’s main foci, we also like to represent Palestinian history and culture. In recent years, we have organized board games on the bridge in MTCC, a Palestinian Cultural Festival, a screening of ‘Detaining Dreams’ and hosted two Palestinian college students as they told us their own story of what it is like to live

in Palestine. We have also taken part in protests in order to speak up against the injustice in Palestine. This year we plan on having an Olive Festival, a discussion panel, a music night, becoming more involved in philanthropy, and introducing famous Palestinian writers, poets, and artists to students on campus. Want to be a part of SJP? Follow us on Facebook at SJP IIT for up to date information on general body meetings, events, and much more!

Nour IssaTECHNEWS WRITER

The Material Advantage chapter at IIT (MA@IIT) connects the bleeding edge of advanced materials science and engineering knowledge with the student body of IIT. Material Advantage believes that the best way to form this connection is by providing first hand opportunities for students to engage with materials science. These opportunities take many forms, but our chapter has five foci in projects, competition, research, outreach and professional networking. This summer we have two active projects that have been gaining momentum towards upcoming contests in the fall and winter: Bladesmithing and Mug Drop. MA@IIT’s Bladesmithing team has just completed initial work on using accumulative roll bonding to forge decorative knife steel for our entry in the 2017 TMS Bladesmithing Contest in San Diego, CA. The team is open to anyone with an interest in learning how alloys are designed and forged into useful tools. The Mug Drop competition is held annually at the Materials Science and Technology Conference (MS&T). MA@IIT has spent the past several years bringing our kiln and slip casting technology on line to produce mugs for the contest as well as enjoyment. This year we will enter a custom

fiber reinforced ceramic-ceramic composite with phase transformation induced toughness enhancement. If you want to try to make a shatterproof coffee mug or just want to come smash mugs that somebody else spent hours making you are welcome to join us. Our forges and kilns will be heating up just as the summer heat does for more information please contact us at [email protected] or add us on HawkLink and/or Facebook. We are open to

all IIT students and we can teach you to make ice cream using liquid nitrogen, or just give you the aforementioned ice cream if you are lazy and/or tired. This club isn’t just about ice cream nor hiding from beach weather by the glow of science equipment. MA@IIT has monthly general body meetings with social events and speakers from a variety of materials related fields. This fall we look forward to talks from

experts on topics ranging from aluminium to zirconium. In addition, we will be taking applications to attend the MS&T conference in the fall as a student delegate, student presenter or Mug Drop Team competitor (Note: conference attendance requires registration with our national organization and payment of $35 annual dues). Our conference efforts continuously enhance student knowledge of materials, opportunities for jobs, and IIT’s reputation as a high quality engineering and science institution. If you hate travel, no worries, we always bring back cool stories and conference proceeding summaries that are presented at the post conference general body meeting. MA@IIT is well connected with the research faculty and facilities in the Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Department. We seek to leverage those connections to help all students at IIT with their personal or research projects that have material engineering needs. Got a new prototype that isn’t working? Maybe your coat hook broke and you would like to learn how to weld it back together? Need help passing MS 201? Need something disappeared without too many questions? Whatever the predicament, MA@IIT is here for you.

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The Student Government Association (SGA) is the governing body for students at Illinois Institute of Technology. Their major mission on campus is to act as a bridge between the administration and the students by raising student voices and opinions. They provide a platform for students to raise their concerns and find long term solutions after interacting with all affected individuals. The SGA is divided into Senate, Finance Board and Judicial Board. Each board has individual duties which are written down in the constitution. The SGA also has an overarching Executive Board, consisting of the President, Executive Vice President, Finance Board Chair, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Vice President of Communications and Vice President of Student Life. For the 2015-16 academic year, SGA was led by its president, Rahul Wadhwani and Executive Vice President, Mete Morris. Being the heads of one of the most important student organizations on campus, they had a great deal of duties which were listed in the constitution and present in the daily business of the organization. Both Wadhwani and Morris believed that they had a successful term, where they were able to start long term projects and finish short term projects. Mete, the Executive Vice President, said "I started a Google Drive that we didn’t have before. I also established a system for communicating with students organizations by sending reminders, emails and I got a good documentation. We also improved attendance in forums and senate hearings, and we have many more volunteers. Whatever goals we achieve, we achieve as a team.” Wadhwani, the president, believes that the job isn’t as easy as it sounds: during an interview he said ”My role requires me to be adaptable because we lost multiple executive board positions, which made me take up their positions along with my role as President. A lot of my work revolves around ensuring

the executive board works and they work efficiently, by having constant one on ones. Making Finance and Judicial Board feel a part of SGA by going to their meetings. One of our major problems is we never had set goals. The new board gets elected every year and they come in with their own set of goals. I have tried to change that this year by looking at SGA from an outside perspective and will pass on my information to the next executive board. Our agenda was to also improve visibility and I think we have done that from our side.” During his term, the previous SGA President, Wadhwani, focused on trying to improve the transparency of SGA, starting multiple projects that included an SGA Google Drive, the HAWKi app, Safety app, and offering a closer connection to students through live streamed meetings. Additionally, Wadhwani has spent his last two months as president trying to look at SGA from an outside perspective rather than an internal view, which helps to understand the student body's views on SGA and how to make it better for all. This research, as mentioned by Wadhwani, was passed on to Hamze Leo Sukkar, the new President, during the transition meetings in hope for a positive outcome. Also, during the transition meeting TechNews and WIIT were discussed as good options to increase communication and marketing, thus benefiting all three student organizations. The relationship, as Sonia Kamdar, the new Executive Vice President, quoted, “is important if we are to grow as a student organization.” Bringing about change is a slow yet continuous process and takes over a year to be achieved. Wadhwani believes that every goal that he had set for when he started out as president has been achieved or at least started. During the interview he said, ”I think even if we haven’t completed it we have at least started it. We can see it happening in our eyes but at the end of the day the students are the graders and they have to tell us whether they see the changes. Some students believe we are the administration's babies, because

whenever they raise issues and we take it up with the administration, administration gives us an answer and being middle men we have to make decisions.” Morris added, ”Many students believe that the Student Government is the representation of administration to students but it’s actually the opposite, it is the representation of students to administration.” Every academic year, students on campus re-elect their representatives through an election process. This year's Executive Board elections were held in the month of April and elections were open for three days, with results announced on a Wednesday night during an SGA meeting. The new president of SGA is Hamze Leo Sukkar and the Executive Vice President is Sonia Kamdar. Both have been closely working with SGA for a few years and believe that their skills earned and developed will help them be good leaders of SGA. SGA in last few years has been able to overcome certain problems, especially having to do with transparency. Wadhwani, during his term as President, tried making SGA more open to the student body by streaming the SGA meetings. The incoming President, Sukkar, wishes to further stream the Finance Board hearings and Judicial Board meetings so that students on campus know how Student Activities Fund money is spent and how different organizations are approved. Both Presidents want SGA to become a more approachable and friendly organization, where students approach representatives with their problems, and the problems are taken up as soon as the next day. During their term, both have set goals which will be carried out for the upcoming semester. The Executive Vice President, Kamdar, said, ”What I am going to focus on more is strengthening the communication internally in SGA so that the three branches become one unified force. To do your best on the outside, you need to be strong on the inside. I would also like to increase communication with the student body which in turn will increase transparency,

because they work hand in hand.’’ Sukkar believes that this semester will bring certain changes for SGA and in his words, ”Most of my focus has to do with the image of SGA. I want people to come naturally to SGA and talk about their issues. Administration should be more open with us and not up in their offices in the IIT building.” Both believe that SGA has had its own success and failures, and when asked, this is what Sukkar has to say: “At the end of the day SGA is a group of students working on things, but they are exclusive. This exclusiveness is what takes the work that the senators do away. With better communication people will start seeing what we do.” The Executive Vice President, Sonia says, “SGA lacks communication with student body. Other than external communication, we also lack internal communication and SGA needs to strengthen its communication as a whole, which in turn will make SGA more transparent.” The new President, Sukkar, wants to be there for the students and tackle all problems like a team. For the upcoming term, Sukkar hopes to make improvements to the HAWKi app project that was started by Wadhwani. Other than that, the marketing and “image” of SGA will be another focus, attempting to understand the expectations of people and what they see the SGA doing as a student organization. This will be achieved by setting up another committee which will take care of marketing and brainstorming for events that will be carried out by SGA. But all this will be achieved together as a team and not just by the Executive Board or SGA as a group, but by the student body as a whole. The new Executive Board has just started their term and hopes to bring about changes which will make SGA a more transparent and successful student organization, representing the students' voices on campus.

Abhinaya IyerTECHNEWS WRITER

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Incoming SGA Executive Board

Outgoing SGA Executive Board

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ASCE student chapter hosts 2016 Great Lakes Student Conference

This past weekend has been quite an eventful one for the students of Illinois Tech’s American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), placing top three in two competitions for the Regional Great Lakes Student Conference and hosting the conference themselves! The Steel Bridge Team took second place overall, giving them the opportunity to travel to Nationals. Khadijah Mohammad, an ASCE chapter member, wrote the third-place-winning technical paper. This year, the ASCE student chapter had the honor of hosting 19 neighboring schools for the Great Lakes Conference. Though this is something the Illinois Tech chapter has never done before, the challenge was fresh, exciting,

and one everyone in the student chapter was looking forward to. The programming team, run and led entirely by students, have worked hard and diligently for over a year and a half preparing for this conference. The conference was an amazing opportunity to gain leadership experience in a unique way and become more aware of what it takes to host an event of such a large scale. Not only did Illinois Tech plan the competitions, they hosted a networking event called Network & Chill, a lecture presentation by AZZ Galvanizing, and finished out the conference with an awards banquet at the Shedd Aquarium. The Concrete Canoe event took place off-campus at Washington Park just 10 minutes south of campus. Nothing is better than being at a little-to-no-light park at 4 a.m. for setup. Well, nothing but spending

your Friday displaying and racing a concrete canoe you’ve spent a whole year building. The most entertaining part of the races were not only the races themselves, but the fact that everyone including the fire department’s safety scuba team was thoroughly enjoying themselves. “Even though our canoe failed at the conference, it was an amazing sight to see the wide variety of concrete canoes. We learned a lot from the experience and made a lot of great memories! Overall, it was an honor to be a part of this whole experience!” Daksh Patel, a freshman of ASCE mentioned. The Steel Bridge competition, along with the rest of the competitions, were held on campus the following day. Though their track record score-wise has not been stellar within the past few years, the Steel Bridge team stayed confident and were proud of the bridge they’d

spent a year working on. Through that hard work, they made second place in their overall score and eagerly await another chance to challenge UW-Madison, the first place team, at Nationals. They’ll be more than ready to challenge anyone at Nationals should with enough funding. The student chapter is now focusing all funds and efforts towards being able to send this team to nationals. For full information on all the competitions held as well as the final results visit glsc2016.org The conference was definitely the high point of ASCE’s year, but everyone’s looking forward to next year’s conference to be held at MSOE, hopefully bringing home a few more awards. Until then, it’s back to the shop for the crew. For more information on ASCE, email [email protected]!

Micki ChungTECHNEWS WRITER


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uFarmIIT builds first urban smart farm Innovation is reaching all corners of the Illinois Tech Mies Campus which brings together the digital world and the physical world to make great produce. For the past five years the uFarmIIT project, which started as an IPRO and is now a completely student run organization, has been humbly situated on a vacant lot in our Greek Quad and donating 100 percent of the produce to students, faculty, and a neighborhood food bank. This past spring the foundation has been laid that brings solar powered, wireless microcomputers and big data to create a new way to become a net-negative carbon campus. Farms are typically seen as simple creations in which after putting seeds in fertile soil and adding water, food can be grown. This is true and has been for thousands of years, yet we are at a critical turning point if we do not prepare for what's ahead. As a society we are

facing unprecedented climate change which will affect all of our food production at a time when the least amount of our population has any knowledge about how to produce food. Couple this with shipping basic produce thousands of miles on cheap fossil fuels and the intense use of pesticides and fertilizers, the situation could turn dire in a short period of time. By beta testing how to grow good food locally and collecting data to share with everyone on how to do it, uFarmIIT and Illinois Tech can have a focused yet significant impact in bringing about a different future. In partnership with the Wagner Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) and IN-TECH we have planned and implemented a smart farm grid that will passively power everything we need at the farm. Currently we are running an automated watering system that can be customizable for each section of the farm and powering lights that illuminate the shed. This system is built in a highly expandable way, with 1 kW worth of

solar panels installed there is much potential in this system. Using Illinois Tech’s wireless network we are uploading all the data and controls to the cloud so they can be controlled from anywhere. What excites us most about this project is where the future students are going to take it. When it comes to anything living the complexities of the problems compound greatly, which Illinois Tech students do not back down from a challenging problem. With creative solutions beta tested here there is true potential to create products that are truly world changing. New farmers all around the midwest who don’t have a ‘green thumb’ will benefit greatly from the knowledge acquired for how to grow local produce. Farmers in India who have to manually water their fields and have to rely on touch to know their crop health, can use a data analysis platform so they can spend less time in the fields and more time in the market. Such a small, portable solution is key to bringing many people out of poverty

and reducing the footprint of many modern countries; innovative solutions like this will come out of Illinois Tech on the shoulders of this project. But farming isn’t for everyone, and we get that. Sometimes its just about making healthy, ethical choices that don’t have a huge impact on the environment at large. What we charge of everyone in the Illinois Tech community is to define yourself as a producer. A producer gives more than what he or she takes. A producer understands the broadness and complexity of the world, and does his or her best to make a humble impact every day towards a better future. Let’s all rally around tinkering, building, failing, and growing through small contributions to our community and instead of focusing on the next 100x fad and on what makes us fulfilled human beings. Let’s start producing.

Neil GriffinTECHNEWS WRITER

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Anybody who reads this article past its headline likely already knows about the importance and variety of works exhibited by the Art Institute of Chicago. The huge museum is one of the most recognizable cultural landmarks in the city, and rightfully dominates Chicago’s art tourism market. As wide-ranging and important as the Art Institute’s collection is, though, there’s always room for smaller communities and niches to find their own foothold in a bustling metropolis. Chicago and its suburbs are home to a large number of art museums and galleries of all sizes and sorts, exploring dozens of movements, media, and topics. One of the most significant among these

institutions, with an international reputation of its own, is the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). As its name suggests, the museum exhibits works primarily from the post-World War II era, and its largest exhibitions showcase living artists working to expand the scope of their various forms. Housed in Streeterville just one block east of the historic Chicago Water Tower, MCA Chicago contains three floors of gallery space, with constantly rotating exhibitions curated by museum staff throughout the year. Typically, the top floor is dominated by partnered solo exhibitions, such as Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry”, which is on display right now until the last week of September (MCA Chicago was the first museum in the world to host a solo exhibition by now-ubiquitous sculptor

and painter Jeff Koons, among plenty other groundbreaking figures in contemporary art). The same level also contains a dark theater for film screenings, and smaller additional gallery spaces to one side. The main floor plays host to subject-specific explorations of MCA Chicago’s own permanent collection, as well as exhibitions that require immense vertical space beneath its soaring ceiling. Between those floors, space is carved out for more small showcases and occasional non-visual works, such as a current rehearsal residency by contemporary classical music group eighth blackbird. Around the time this article publishes, a number of very interesting exhibitions will be on display at MCA Chicago. The aforementioned “Mastry” is a survey

of countless works by MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Kerry James Marshall, whose style combines realism with abstraction and symbolism to reveal a nuanced image of the lives of black citizens in the United States. The exhibition “Above, Before & After” seeks to “manipulate form and space to explore the relationship between art and the viewer”, bringing together pieces from legendary kinetic sculptor Alexander Calder, 1960s avant garde figure Edward Krasiński, living photographer John Baldessari, and more. As the museum transitions into the summer months, more still will be announced. Individual tickets can be purchased on each visit with a student discount, and student memberships are available from $30 a year for those who intend to visit more than once in that time.

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ROAR return undiluted on new album “Impossible Animals”Reviews:

For the last four years, ROAR have not been an easy band to pay attention to. Fol-lowing two brief EPs in 2010 and 2012 which gained exposure through Jeff Rosenstock’s Quote Unquote Records netlabel, the Phoe-nix-based project of Owen Evans seemed like it was going through the time-honored tra-dition of a slow-motion evaporation. Social media posts occasionally showed glimpses of keyboards and microphones, but a promised debut LP was continually delayed and live performances became less and less common. If you weren’t actively seeking out news about the psychedelic pop act’s musical progress, it was easy to forget that ROAR even existed; and for those who were keeping up to date, it was easy to conclude that Evans was losing energy. In reality, though, precisely the op-posite was true. In August of 2015, ROAR released a split single with folk punk group Andrew Jackson Jihad (now simply called AJJ, the fel-low Phoenician band has occasionally counted Evans as one of its members). Recorded live at local mainstay Revolver Records, the new track on the ROAR side of the release had a fitting title: “Hope”. In the ensuing months it became clear that Evans had not languished in the wake of his last EP, and instead had been working with deliberate precision (as prom-ised) on the forthcoming full-length. And now it’s here, the album’s ten tracks doubling the size of ROAR’s catalog to date and setting out to prove itself worth the wait. “Impossible Animals” slides into ex-istence on a quiet wave of distorted noise remi-niscent of a lite version of Sigur Rós’s “Bren-nisteinn” intro, quickly transitioning into the

hazy, melodic waltz of “Dream”. While relative-ly short (under three minutes), the track has an impressive and intelligent build, working to-ward a pair of subdued crescendos in its latter half. Evans has added more layers to his sonic toolkit, and brought in a wider cast of creative collaborators to fill his musical landscapes,

but he hasn’t stepped away from the core Phil Spector-indebted art pop roots of his composi-tions. While such distinct stylistic origins may seem limiting on first blush, the modern pal-ette with which Evans performs transforms the genre, resulting in something wholly unique. Like of Montreal’s earliest albums, “Impossible

Animals” is not for everyone, but when it clicks with somebody, the experience is exciting. Aside from an increased number of instruments in the studio, there are some other notable differences between ROAR’s previous releases and this LP. While electronically mod-ulated vocals were a one-time occurrence on the tail end of 2010’s “I Can’t Handle Change” EP, here they are commonplace. In fact, the first verse of “Ghost (of 7th St.)” isn’t even the prod-uct of a sung melody, but is instead completely generated by computerized speech tones. The album also includes songs like “Little Sisters” and “Truck Stop Tiger” that could be played back outside the context of the album without sounding “retro” to the casual listener, finding peers alongside Beach House and other pur-veyors of clean electric guitar and keyboards. Though it’s easy to devote the bulk of discussion to the more technical aspects of ROAR’s evolution as a band, their true strength lies not in their influences or instruments, but instead in Owen Evans’ seemingly natu-ral compositional strength. The man behind ROAR has been compared to Brian Wilson by numerous publications, a comparison that is not made lightly. Evans’ sense of emotional movement and dynamic contrast is astound-ing, allowing him to weave through dark lyrical topics gracefully in what some might consider to be the graceless medium of wall-of-sound pop. “Impossible Animals” rarely goes all out, but when it does (in a reworked version of “Hope”, for instance) the results induce shiv-ers. In the span of an almost frustratingly brief 28 minutes, ROAR prove beyond a reasonable doubt that their finished work is worth the wait. Rather than becoming discouraged, lis-teners should be ecstatic if Owen Evans takes as long to complete his next album as he did for this one. 9.7/10

Soren SpicknallWIIT STATION MANAGER

From Italian to West African, eight great places to eat near campus

Ferro’s – 200 West 31st Street American staples like hot dogs, subs, and burgers served alongside Italian ice in a completely casual setting. Walk up or dine in, depending on the season.

nana – 3267 South Halsted Street Classy environment with a Mexican-influenced menu made with all organic ingre-dients in the heart of Bridgeport. Occasionally gets crowded, but it’s worth the wait.

Pearl’s Place – 3901 South Michigan Avenue Unpretentious sit-down restaurant specializing in classic southern U.S. soul food, featuring a well-stocked buffet during every meal of the day.

Ricobene’s – 252 West 26th Street Counter-serve Italian-American faire with big portions and messy plates, in-cluding the signature breaded steak sandwich. A neighborhood gathering spot and south side institution.

Shore’s Xpress – 3851 South Michigan Av-enue No-frills takeout with a wide menu covering pasta, sandwiches, burgers, burritos, fish, chicken, and plenty more. Perfect for a quick, big meal to bring back home with you.

Sip & Savor – 528 East 43rd Street Bronzeville’s best coffee shop, with lattes, mochas and more crafted from certi-fied fair trade beans in an environment fit for studying with a laptop. Smoothies, pastries, and breakfast sandwiches are also available.

Truth Italian – 56 East Pershing Road The most formal venue on the list, with multi-course meals in a dark-lit, up-scale environment. Top-notch pasta and more served by a staff that takes pride in their work.

Yassa – 3511 South King Drive Traditional Senegalese dishes for the adventurous palette or homesick exchange student. One of only two Senegalese restau-rants in the city, a truly unique experience just blocks from campus.

Soren SpicknallTECHNEWS WRITER

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