IIT 2013-2014 Commencement

2013-2014 Commencement Speaker

C. D. Mote Jr.

President of the National Academy of Engineering and Regents Professor, on leave, from the University of Maryland, College Park

Mote is a native Californian who earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in mechanical engineering between 1959 and 1963. After a postdoctoral year in England and three years as an assistant professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, he returned to Berkeley to join the faculty in mechanical engineering for the next 31 years. He and his students investigated the dynamics, stability, and control of high-speed rotating and translating continua (e.g., disks, webs, tapes, and cables) as well as biomechanical problems emanating from snow skiing. He coined the area called “dynamics of axially moving materials” encompassing these systems. Fifty-eight Ph.D. students earned their degrees under his mentorship. More

The 2013-2014 Illinois Institute of Technology Commencement Ceremony will be held at 10 am on Saturday, May 17, 2014, on the IIT Main Campus.

Academic Unit Ceremonies will take place on Saturday, May 17, between the hours of noon–3 p.m.

Applied Mathematics and Mathematics and Science Education—AM/MSED
Mathematics and Science Education
Perlstein Hall, Room 131, Auditorium
10 West 33rd Street

Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences—BCP
Hermann Hall, Auditorium
3241 South Federal Street

Computer Science—CS
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Ballroom
2233 South Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago

Visit the IIT Commencement website for more information about Academic Unit Ceremonies.