Summary of Engineering Research 2003

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Summary of Engineering Research 2003

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Welcome to the Summary of Engineering Research 2003.

Education, research, and public service are the three missions of the University.  In the Summary of Engineering Research 2003, we provide a retrospective view of faculty research within the College of Engineering during calendar year 2002.

Eventually, two versions of this report will be available.  A printable version of each department and laboratory report, in portable document format (pdf), is being posted as it is completed.  These can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat and searched using the tools provided in that program.  When all individual reports are completed, a compiled HTML version will be posted.  This version will be viewable using a web browser and will include its own search engine.

In the Summary you will find more than 1,700 entries describing funded research projects as well as the faculty, students, and staff who are carrying out the research.  Entries are arranged by department but also appear in the reports of our major laboratories where the research is performed.  The report includes lists of publications, patents, and faculty awards and honors.   The funding level for research, derived from federal and state grants and contracts and from private sector gifts and contracts, totaled $162.3 million.

Several major new programs appear here for the first time.  

  • The Center of Advanced Materials for Water Purification and Systems, a Science and Technology Center supported by the National Science Foundation, was formed as a partnership with Clark Atlanta University and Stanford University.  Its mission is to develop materials and systems for water purification.  
  • The recently renamed Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory has joined forces with the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory and the Coordinated Science Laboratory to initiate a new Center for Nanoscience and Technology.  The goal is to promote interdisciplinary research in this emerging field.  
  • A major new national facility for earthquake research is under construction in the Midwest Earthquake Center. In the new Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Multi-Axial Full-Scale Sub-Structuring Testing and Simulation (MUST-SIM) Facility, full-scale subassembly can be subjected to complex loading and imposed deformation states at multiple connection points on the subassembly, including the connection between the structure and its foundation. 

It is our hope that this Summary will give the reader a picture of the research activities and progress of our faculty and the broad range of expertise available to laboratories, companies, and the public.

David E. Daniel
Office of the Dean
College of Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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