Professor Emeritus of Information Technology and Management
Faculty Adviser, Beta Chapter of Gamma Nu EtaSenior Member, Association for Computing Machinery
B.S., United States Naval Academy
M.S. Systems Management, University of Denver
I'M RETIRED!
NOTE: | I retired 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. |
Office: | IIT Mies Campus: Michael Paul Galvin Tower Suite 1500A, 10 W 35th St, Chicago, IL (Google Map Location) |
Office hours: | By appointment only. (I'm retired!) Appointments may only be made by email, and online appointments 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 mobile phone. Supports voice, text, MMS, and Teams Meetings.) Fax: None. |
Email: | trygstad [at] illinoistech.edu |
Snail Mail: | Nope. |
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Appointments: | Appointments may be made by email only. trygstad [at] illinoistech.edu or scan the QR code below. |
About Ray Trygstad
Ray Trygstad is a
Professor Emeritus at
Illinois Institute of
Technology. (This means
he is, for the most
part, retired.) He 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
taught 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
served 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, and in
2025 became the first
Teaching Professor to
be appointed as a
Professor
Emeritus. He
was also the Director of Undergraduate Advising
for the ITM degree program. He is the Past Chair of the IIT Undergraduate Studies
Committee and a was
also 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
a Senior Member of the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) and is the
Past Chair of
ACM's Special Interest Group in
Cybersecurity and Information Technology Education (ACM
SIGCITE)
(formerly ACM SIGITE).
He 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. As a
member of the Criteria
Committee, he wrote the
first draft of the ABET General Criteria for
Accreditation of Master’s Level
Programs. 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.
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Classes
Curriculum Design
Designed the original curriculum for and authored the following degree programs:
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