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 198 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 A group from the Center for Plasma-Material Interactions has gained a patent on a non-contact method that uses plasma to clean very small dust and contamination particles from surfaces in the making of computer chips. The technique is used to remove contamination from semiconductor wafers and http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007420700 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007420700 Nuclear Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Below are excerpts from Illinois in the News, a daily service provided by the University of Illinois News Bureau . This collection of July excerpts focuses on engineering topics and faculty contacted for their expertise by print and broadcast reporters around the world. BIRDS "SEE" MAGNETIC http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007420672 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007420672 Engineering in the News Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 The Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiologial Engineering recognized almost 90 students as well as several faculty members and alumni during the department’s 2009 Honors Banquet. Following is a list of students honored and their awards: • Carlos A. Altamirano of Davie, Florida: American http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280700 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280700 Nuclear Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 David E. Goldberg, the Jerry S. Dobrovolny Distinguished Professor in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (IESE), will receive an Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award for 2010 by the Computational Intelligence Society. The award recognizes significant contributions http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280714 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280714 Faculty & Staff Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 $260,000 grant aims to improve student interest and achievement in engineering, computer science, and information technology The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was selected as one of 10 two- and four-year colleges and universities in the United States to receive a highly http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280742 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280742 College of Engineering News Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Researchers at the University of Illinois report that a toxic molecule known to damage cells and cause disease may also play a pivotal role in bird migration. The molecule, superoxide, is proposed as a key player in the mysterious process that allows birds to “see” Earth’s magnetic http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280756 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280756 Research Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 The National Science Foundation has announced a $357,000 award to create a "Research Experiences for Undergraduates" (REU) site in the Information Trust Institute (ITI) at Illinois. Undergraduate students, unlike graduate students, are often confined to classroom work and excluded from http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280728 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280728 College of Engineering News Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Twenty-one undergraduate students from around the world were selected to receive 2009 summer internships from the Information Trust Institute (ITI) at the University of Illinois, and the program is now underway. This year marks the third offering of the annual undergraduate research program, http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280784 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280784 Students Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 A team of researchers at the University of Illinois has created the world's first acoustic "superlens"--an innovation that could have practical implications for high-resolution ultrasound imaging, non-destructive structural testing of buildings and bridges, and novel underwater stealth http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280798 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280798 Research Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Four College of Engineering researchers-- Narendra Ahuja, Thomas S. Huang , and William H. Sanders , electrical and computer engineering (ECE) , and Jiawei Han, computer science --have been selected by Hewlitt Packard to receive awards as part of its second annual HP Labs Innovation Research http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280686 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280686 Faculty & Staff Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Researchers have constructed a light-emitting transistor that has set a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 gigahertz held by a light-emitting diode. But, the researchers didn't stop there. By internally connecting the base http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280672 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007280672 Research Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 This summer an intrepid team of graduate and undergraduate students is assembling in Urbana giant aluminum "wheels" that will hold the resistive plate counter (RPC) detector components for an upgraded trigger of the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Bookhaven http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007140798 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007140798 Students Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and INRIA, the French national computer science institute, announced the formation of the Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing. The Joint Laboratory will be based at Illinois and will include researchers from INRIA, Illinois' Center for http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007140770 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007140770 College of Engineering News Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 The University of Illinois Illini Pullers are the winners of the 2009 ASABE International 1/4 Scale Tractor Student Design Competition. The Pullers are a student club associated with the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Illinois. "We've been feeling in the last few http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007140784 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007140784 Students Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Both the electronic components of your cell phone and the explosive portions of military weaponry could be better protected by the smarter materials that U of I scientists plan to design. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded a $6.25 million grant for the University of Illinois-led http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007140728 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637080007140728 Research Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500