Ray Trygstad, Industry Professor of Information Technology and Management

Industry Professor of Information Technology and Management

at the rank of Teaching Professor. Professor Emeritus as of August 18, 2025.
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs and Curriculum, Department of Information Technology and Management

Associate Director, IIT Center for Cyber Security and Forensics Education
Faculty Adviser, Beta Chapter of Gamma Nu Eta
Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery
B.S., United States Naval Academy
M.S. Systems Management, University of Denver

Current Hot Items from Professor Trygstad: (I am not advising students for Fall 2025 registration.)
Fall 2025 ITM UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING NOTES! [PDF]

NOTE:	I am retiring from full-time employment at Illinois Tech as of August 17, 2025. All my ITM advisees except those graduating in May or September 2025 have now been reassigned to other advisers. I am not advising anyone for Fall 2025 except for incoming first year students at SOAR sessions.
Office:	IIT Mies Campus: Michael Paul Galvin Tower Room 15F4-1, 10 W 35^th St, Chicago, IL (Google Map Location) IIT Rice Campus: Room 227, 201 E Loop Rd, Wheaton, IL (Google Map Location)
Office hours for Summer 2025:	Online: By appointment only, except ITMO 356-88 students. Office Hours for ITMO 356-88 are Mondays 7 to 8 pm; the link is published in the course. Mies Campus: By appointment only. Rice Campus: By appointment only. Appointments may only be made by email, and online apppontments are preferred. Online appointments will always be via Google Meet at http://meet.google.com/bjt-cvwh-uib.
Telephone:	312.567.5252 (Unified number rings my office line and my mobile phone. Supports voice, text, MMS, and Teams Meetings.) Fax: 312.567.5248 (Email is preferred over fax.)
Email:	trygstad [at] iit.edu
Snail Mail:	Ray Trygstad Department of Information Technology and Management Illinois Institute of Technology 10 W 35^th St Chicago, Illinois, 60616-3792 USA
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Appointments:	Appointments may be made by email only. trygstad [at] iit.edu or scan the QR code below.

About Ray Trygstad

Ray Trygstad has broad experience and education in the management/administration of information systems, information security, computers, the Internet, and higher education. As a professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, he teaches cyber security management, legal and ethical issues in information technology, systems integration, disaster recovery and business continuity, open source operating systems, digital multimedia, and management. He serves as the Associate Chair of Illinois Tech's Department of Information Technology & Management (ITM), and wrote the curricula currently in use for all of the degrees in information technology and cybersecurity offered by the department. His experience as a college professor as well as over four years as a Navy Flight Instructor has made him an expert in curriculum development. In fall of 2023 he was named one of the first seven Illinois Tech faculty members to be appointed to the new new rank of Teaching Professor with the title of Industry Professor. He is also the Director of Undergraduate Advising for the ITM degree program. He is the Past Chair of the IIT Undergraduate Studies Committee and a member of the IIT HLC Accreditation Team. Ray previously served as the Director of Information Technology for the IIT School of Applied Technology, where he was responsible for technology planning and computer system management and administration for the school. He has taught Naval Science, Computer Science, Business, and Public Administration at IIT, and has guest lectured at the University of Chicago. Ray is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, and was designated a Computer Systems Management Subspecialist by the U. S. Navy, where he served as an Information Systems Manager and Information Systems Security Officer when he was not flying helicopters. In this capacity he did his first information systems security audit in 1988. He is the Past Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group in Information Technology Education (ACM SIGITE) and is a professional member and past National Chairman of Gamma Nu Eta, the Information Technology Honor Society. In his capacity as an ABET Team Chair he goes on program accreditation visits to evaluate degree programs in computing, and he also serves as a Commissioner on the ABET Computing Accreditation Commission, as well as a member of the joint CSAB/ABET CAC Criteria Committee. He earned a Master of Science in Systems Management from the University of Denver and has done Ph.D. Studies at Illinois Institute of Technology. He was named as a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2024. ● ● ● ●