http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/ Provides the latest news from the College of Engineering. Copyright 2008 en-us http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/support/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 172 Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Professor Weng C. Chew , Y.T. Lo Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering , was granted the 2008 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society "for outstanding contributions to education in the fields http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160770 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160770 Faculty & Staff Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 A perfect spring day filled with sunshine brought over 500 graduating seniors to the Bardeen Quad for Senior Sunday on the afternoon of Sunday, May 4. As a mega-stress-buster for their final Finals Week, the first-ever Senior Sunday brought together our future alumni for an afternoon of inflatable http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160784 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160784 College of Engineering News Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 An interdisciplinary team of University of Illinois engineering students was among the six award winners of the Fourth Annual Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) P3 grant were announced on April 22, in Washington, D.C. The award is for $75,000 over a two-year period to implement Phase II of a http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108000756 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108000756 Students Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Open the door of your house to go outside on a hot summer day and you'll create a density, or gravity, current. The air outside is hot and therefore lighter than the colder and heavier air conditioned air inside. Two currents develop when the door is open: one of cold air from the house to the http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160756 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160756 Research Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Professor James Coleman, Intel Alumni Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and former PhD student S. David Roh recently earned a U.S. patent for their research and development of the dual distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) grating semiconductor laser. Coleman said that one http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160742 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160742 Faculty & Staff Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 A hit CBS TV show is benefiting from U of I research and expertise. Amy Young, a Web and database developer at the Materials Computation Center (MCC), also is a script consultant for the show "Numb3rs," which draws about 11 million viewers each week. "We look at the scripts while they are in http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160728 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160728 Faculty & Staff Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 "I know how important it was for me to meet engineering alumni when I was a student, which is why I give as much time as I can to our engineering students as an Illinois alumnus.” - Ben Goodman (BS 2003, GE), who currently works at Accenture "Illinois Loyalty" means different things to http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108000798 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108000798 College of Engineering News Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 We are excited to announce that the UIUC #53 car took 3rd place overall at the inaugural SAE VIR event at Virginia International Raceway. It took a lot of hard work both leading up to and during the competition but the Illinois car turned many heads and tore up the track when it came down to http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160714 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160714 Students Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 "Did you feel it?" The small earthquake and several aftershocks took Midwestern residents by surprise recently, but caused very little damage. So is this it? Experts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign say “no!” "Last week's earthquake, which was attributed to the Wabash http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108000784 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108000784 Research Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Cyrus Omar and Andrea Trevino have a lot in common. For starters, they are both working on technologies that could bring new capabilities to disabled people. Omar is working on brain-computer interfaces to help people communicate even if they do not have any muscle movement in their bodies; and http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160672 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160672 Students Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Excerpts from Illinois in the News, a daily service provided by the University of Illinois News Bureau . This collection of May excerpts focuses on engineering topics and faculty contacted for their expertise by print and broadcast reporters around the world. WATER-COOLED SERVERS GAINING http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160686 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160686 Engineering in the News Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 When computer science alumnus and Microsoft researcher Shuo Chen returned to campus to discuss his work to find web browser bugs that were very hard to research, CS professor Sam King and his research team--PhD students Shuo Tang and Chris Grier--found inspiration. "The question that stuck out http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160700 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108160700 Faculty & Staff Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 The ability of living cells to interact with their environment is critical to all life processes--from development to tissue repair. Cells perceive and respond to their environment via cell signaling, in which a hormone, pharmaceutical or mechanical force outside the cell signals the cell to do http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108000770 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108000770 Research Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 A new low-temperature, catalyst-free technique for growing copper nanowires has been developed by researchers at Illinois. The copper nanowires could serve as interconnects in electronic device fabrication and as electron emitters in a television-like, very thin flat-panel display known as a http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108000728 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108000728 Research Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Three electrical and computer engineering students will enter their target-shooting robot in a competition that is part of the 16th Annual DEFCON Computer Security Conference at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas August 8-10. The open competition challenges competitors to create a http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108000742 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=074108000742 Students Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500