Amanda Lietz, a senior in nuclear, plasma, and radiological engineering, spent four weeks of her summer in Botswana, Africa. Amanda worked on designing a hybrid power supply that would help bring electricity to a rural village. The six American students on the trip were each partnered with an engineering student from the University of Botswana. […]
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Research in a Medical World: Student Spends Summer at Mayo Clinic
Molly Imgruet, a junior in bioengineering, experienced both sides of her major this summer. At her internship with the Mayo Clinic, she was doing lab work on lupus patients and shadowing doctors. “I was at the hospital with the doctors on days I wasn’t doing research. It was helpful to see the medical side of the […]
From Champaign to China: Student Balances Engineering and Business
Nicholas Rivera, a senior in nuclear, plasma, and radiological engineering, spent two weeks of his summer on the annual trip to China for the Hoeft Technology and Management minor, a program that integrates engineering and business to solve real-world problems. He traveled to Beijing, Xi’an, Shanghai, and Nanjing and visited 16 companies. Some were American […]
Explore Engineering
Choosing your college is a big decision. So is choosing your major. We want to help you future engineers find your fit. Recently, we hosted Explore Engineering- a day devoted to giving prospective students a taste of specific majors at Engineering at Illinois. Professor Toussaint kicked off the event with an inspiring speech about finding […]
GEMS: A Camp That Gets Girls Excited About CS
Girls Exploring Math and Science The gender balance in the science fields has been evolving progressively- 57% of all undergraduate degrees are obtained by women as are 52% of all math and science undergraduate degrees according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. However the individual fields don’t all see such equal distribution. […]
Illinois Freshman Organizes HS Hackathon, Supported by Facebook & Palantir
©Hannah Rudin A Hackathon Computer Science freshman Mayank Jain made a legacy for himself at his alma mater high school this year. He organized a hackathon competition at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, or TJHSST, a public institution that offers an extensive science and mathematics curriculum. Having seen a few college […]
What You Might Have Missed at EOH 2013
This year the College of Engineering held its 93rd annual Engineering Open House, and it did not disappoint. Since the modest first shows in the 1920s the crowds and demonstrations have grown every year. Today it attracts over 20,000 visitors a year and it one of the largest exhibitions of its kind in the nation. […]
Illinois PhD Candidate Brett Jones Helps Unveil Microsoft’s IllumiRoom
The look home entertainment continues to evolve, but few innovations in the field have been more talked about in the last few months than Microsoft’s IllumiRoom project, where University of Illinois graduate and current PhD candidate Brett Jones is one of the principle researchers. IllumiRoom is “a proof-of-concept system that augments the area surrounding a […]
Transmission Disassembly Makes For Interesting GE 410 Class
Conceptualizing Component Design What’s the importance of watching the disassembly of an automatic transmission? Professor James Allison began doing so when students were having trouble grasping how systems work altogether. In General Engineering 410: Component Design, students learn about the design of basic engineering components. Much of the course is spent talking about individual pieces such as gears and […]
Slow Motion Concrete Crushing at EOH
Phil Plait, aka @BadAstronomer, blogged on Slate about Illinois’ Engineering Open House a couple of weeks ago. His video of a concrete column being compressed with millions of pounds of pressure (and then breaking into thousands of pieces) has more than a quarter of a million hits on YouTube. Now you can watch the EOH concrete crush in […]