Electronicdesign 8533 Engineeringbuilding
Electronicdesign 8533 Engineeringbuilding
Electronicdesign 8533 Engineeringbuilding
Electronicdesign 8533 Engineeringbuilding
Electronicdesign 8533 Engineeringbuilding

University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

Feb. 25, 2016
As one of the world’s top ranked engineering programs, our students, faculty, and alumni set the standard for excellence. We drive the economy, reimagine engineering education, and bring revolutionary ideas to the world. We solve the world’s greatest challenges. We look toward the future and find ways to make it a reality. Leading the innovation of virtual reality. Designing electronic tattoos to treat seizures. Building safer global water systems. Converting algae to biofuel. Exploring fusion energy.

2015 Highlight Video

Merging Robotics and Neuroscience to Develop 3D-Printed Prosthetics

CSL Professor Tim Bretl investigates two distinct areas of research: robotics and neuroscience. Yet Bretl’s research, enabled by a multidisciplinary team of students, merges the two disparate areas in applications that aim to positively impact society.

One of Bretl’s four active projects involves developing upper-limb prosthetic devices. He and graduate student Aadeel Akhtar are building a prosthetic hand that connects to the user with electrodes that read muscle activity (called an electromyographic [EMG]-based interface) and incorporates sensory feedback.

Read more about this project

Why companies across the U.S. are flocking to this downstate research park

By: Lynne Marek

About 150 miles south of Chicago, past open fields and small-town water towers like pushpins on the Illinois map, you'll find a surprising corporate outcropping. Twenty-five big-name businesses—from Dow Chemical to Yahoo—have set up shop in a cluster of buildings at the University of Illinois Research Park in Champaign.

The draw: The university is one of the country's biggest producers of computer science, math and engineering students, a resource corporate America is desperate to tap. Eight companies arrived just last year, the biggest wave since the park opened in 2001.

Read more about how 520+ students are making money working for top companies

Project embeds computer science lessons in math instruction for K-5 students

Photography: L. Brian Stauffer | Written by: Sharita Forrest

Researchers at Illinois and Champaign Unit 4 Schools are collaborating on a study that is exploring ways to embed computer science instruction within mathematics curricula. U. of I. special education professor Maya Israel (holding computer) is a co-principal investigator on the grant, funded by the National Science Foundation STEM C initiative. Shown with Israel are (from left) enrichment teacher Jinsoo Park, teacher Wendy Maa and principal Trevor Nadrozny, all of Kenwood Elementary School. Read More

Engineering Program

The undergraduate engineering program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranked 5th in the 2016 America's Best Colleges edition of U.S. News and World Report (published in September 2015).

Quick Facts

Enrollment, 5,943 undergraduates and 2,539 postgraduates

Rankings:

  • Computer Engineering - 5th in the nation
  • Electrical Engineering - 5th in the nation
  • Mechanical Engineering - 6th in the nation
Profile created by Penton using resources found on the university website or material provided directly from the college. The intention of these profiles is to highlight some of the top electrical/computer and mechanical engineering programs in the United States. Source:http://engineering.illinois.edu/

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