Industry Professor of Information Technology and Management
at the rank of Teaching ProfessorAssociate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs and Curriculum, Department of Information Technology and Management
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Associate Director, IIT Center for Cyber Security and Forensics Education
Faculty Adviser, Beta Chapter of Gamma Nu Eta
B.S., United States Naval Academy
M.S. Systems Management, University of Denver
Spring 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 will be reassigned to other advisers before Spring 2025 advising. All of my Applied Cybersecurity and Co-Terminal advisees will be assigned new advisers at the beginning of the Spring 2025 semester. |
| Office: | IIT Mies Campus: Michael Paul Galvin Tower Room 15F4-1, 10 W 35th St, Chicago, IL (Google Map Location) IIT Rice Campus: Room 227, 201 E Loop Rd, Wheaton, IL (Google Map Location) |
| Office hours for Spring 2025: | Mies Campus: Wednesday 2:00-4:00 pm; other times by appointment. Rice Campus: By appointment only. I do not accept appointments during office hours; they are walk-in, first-come-first-served. For other times, please book an appointment. Please check my calendar, as I may be traveling on business. Monday appointments are online-only. I will be on campus on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays so appointments those day my be online or in person. I do not accept appointments on Fridays. Online office hours and online appointments will always be via Google Meet at http://meet.google.com/bjt-cvwh-uib. |
| Telephone: | 630.447.9009 (Unified number rings my office lines at both campuses and my mobile phone. Supports voice, text, MMS, and Google Meet.) 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 35th St
Chicago, Illinois, 60616-3792
USA |
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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.
 ABET Commissioner |
 ABET Team Chair |
 ABET Program Evaluator |
Classes
Curriculum Design
Designed the original curriculum for and authored the following degree programs:
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