http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/ Provides the latest news from the College of Engineering. Copyright 2009 en-us http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/support/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 129 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Veteran space flier and Illinois alumnus Lee "Bru" Archambault (BS 1982, MS 1984, Aerospace Engineering) will command space shuttle Discovery's upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Discovery is targeted to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 12 at 7:28 a.m. http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980756 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980756 Alumni Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Excess fuel consumption caused by excess driver and passenger weight has increased in the past two years, with no end in sight. In a widely publicized study in fall 2006, computer science professor Sheldon H. Jacobson and doctoral student Laura McLay estimated the amount of vehicle fuel http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980728 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980728 Research Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Four College of Engineering faculty members--Richard D. Braatz, J. Gary Eden, William S. Hammack, and John A. Rogers--have been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This year, 11 Illinois faculty were among the 486 AAAS members http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980742 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980742 Faculty & Staff Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Like firemen fighting fire with fire, researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have found a way to fool a bacteria's evolutionary machinery into programming its own death. "The basic idea is for an antimicrobial to target something in a bacteria http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980700 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980700 Research Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 All PhD students conclude their studies by writing a dissertation, but it's rare when a dissertation becomes a book. NPRE graduate Martin Neumann’s work is one of the rarities. Lithium Sputtering, Deposition and Evaporation: Controlled Thin Film Engineering, first published in June by VDM http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980714 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980714 Nuclear Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Earlier this month, civil engineering students in a graduate-level geotechnical course got an in-depth look at one of the nation's most unique tunneling projects, the Devil’s Slide Tunnels Project in Pacifica,California. The class trip was the culmination of CEE598 TSR Tunneling in Soil and http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980672 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980672 Students Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Three College of Engineering faculty have been named 2008 Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). William S. Hammack , a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering For enhancing public awareness about physics, science, and technology via his radio commentaries and for his http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980686 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807980686 Faculty & Staff Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 On December 6, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosted its sixth Annual Illinois-FIRST Lego Robotics Regional Competition. The Illini Union was the site for this exciting competition, which featured more than 200 young competitors in one of the state's largest regionals. http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840784 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840784 Students Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Imagine tiny cracks in your patio table healing by themselves, or the first small scratch on your new car disappearing by itself. This and more may be possible with self-healing coatings being developed at the University of Illinois. The new coatings are designed to better protect materials from http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840770 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840770 Research Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 For much of the past decade, Professor Edwin Herricks has laid the foundation for a tool that may address one of the oldest problems facing aviation today, birds colliding with aircraft. Herricks, a professor of ecological engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840798 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840798 Research Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 P. R. Kumar, the Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a researcher at the Coordinated Science Laboratory , received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). He was one of seven recipients of the award, http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840756 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840756 Faculty & Staff Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 The College of Engineering has selected ten proposals for funding as part of the Grainger Program in Emerging Technologies. The program was created by the Grainger Foundation to promote the translation of new academic developments in engineering into commercially viable products and services. It is http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840742 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840742 College of Engineering News Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 When Kuang Xu looked around and didn’t see enough research opportunities for underclassmen, he decided to create some. Xu, a senior in electrical and computer engineeing (ECE) , is one of the creators of the program Promoting Undergraduate Research in ECE (PURE). The program’s aim is to http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840700 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840700 Students Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 As Congress debates the pros and cons of an automaker bailout, researchers at Illinois have developed economic models and methods that could help economists better understand the potential outcome of such stimulus packages. The techniques use engineering principles, especially in the area of http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840714 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840714 Research Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 A human-centric future for consumer computing--where mobile devices, virtual environments, and anthropomorphic communication interfaces allow humans to seamlessly move between cyber- and physical-spaces--is possible with the power of multicore parallel computing. A major impediment to this vision http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840728 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807840728 Research Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600