Travis Hamilton, a senior in electrical engineering, stayed on campus over the summer working with a research team. It wasn’t just busy work for him. “I learned a lot, and was given independent study. I worked on series of programs that simulate thermal emission,” he said Professor Daniel Wasserman, Travis’ research leader and assistant professor, […]
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Crossing Continents: Electricity and UV Light Enhances Student’s Summer Experience
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. […]
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 […]