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 408 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Illinois computer science professor Karrie Karahalios has been awarded an A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research award from Microsoft for her work on voice visualization technologies. With online forms of communication evolving rapidly, the number of face to face conversations is http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807280714 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807280714 Faculty & Staff Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 How will researchers use the power of Blue Waters --the world's first sustained petascale computational system dedicated to open scientific research--to advance their fields? One of the model problems specified by the National Science Foundation in its solicitation for a sustained-petascale http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807280700 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807280700 Research Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 "I felt that there was a drastic misunderstanding of the sciences by the humanities,” said Stephen Levinson , a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Illinois. "And I felt that because of that, there is a real need to try to bring the two together and to try to repair the http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807280686 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807280686 Students Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Scientists putting the squeeze on thin films of polystyrene have discovered that at very short length scales the polymer doesn’t play by the rules. From buttons to storage bins, the molding of polymers is big business. At the nanoscale, processes such as nanoimprint lithography squeeze http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140770 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140770 Research Fri, 03 Oct 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 October excerpts focuses on engineering topics and faculty contacted for their expertise by print and broadcast reporters around the world. U of I COMPUTER SCIENTISTS http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140798 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140798 Engineering in the News Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 The Information Trust Institute (ITI) has just won $1.25 million in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to support scholarships for undergraduate students who are working towards careers in information trust. The grant, which establishes the Illinois Cyber Security Scholar http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140672 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140672 College of Engineering News Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 A four-part series on our water supply, moderated by William Hammack, debutted on WILL-AM 580's "Morning Edition" on Monday, September 22. The programs inaugurate a year long audio project. "I'm using the Champaign-Urbana area to examine from a local perspective the global issues that we http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140742 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140742 Teaching Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 The 14th annual ACM Reflections | Projections conference kicks off October 3. The event, which annually brings together more than 500 students from across the country, is focused on providing students with a broader perspective on computer science. With lectures and workshops on topics http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140756 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140756 Students Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 "We're proud to honor a new generation of people who have strived for excellence; people whose discoveries have changed America and the world. That is what we're here to honor: discovery and hard work and creative minds," said President George W. Bush, speaking from the East Room of the White http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140714 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140714 Faculty & Staff Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 William Gropp, the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science at Illinois, has been appointed the new deputy director for research for the university's Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies (IACAT). "Bill is an extraordinary scientist with a deep http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140728 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140728 Faculty & Staff Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 University of Illinois doctoral student Juan S. Mejia has won the second-place award in the Boeing Company's prestigious "Engineering Student of the Year Award" competition, and two other Illinois students received Honorable Mention honors. Mejia, who is pursuing his doctorate under the guidance http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140686 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140686 Students Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Scientists at the University of Illinois have developed a new class of disposable, microplate-based optical biosensors capable of detecting protein-DNA interactions. Based on the properties of photonic crystals, the biosensors are suitable for the rapid identification of inhibitors of http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807000770 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807000770 Research Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Over the past eight years, the Siebel Scholars program has created a community of over 450 Scholars that fosters personal leadership, academic achievement, and the collaborative search for solutions to pressing societal problems. "The Siebel Scholars Program recognizes students who have http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807000742 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807000742 Students Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Recent University of Illinois computer science alumnus Smruti Sarangi and his advisor, Professor Josep Torrellas, have published a new text based on Sarangi's doctoral thesis work. Techniques to Mitigate the Effects of Congenital Faults in Processors presents an architecture to patch design http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140700 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807140700 Alumni Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Aerospace Engineering teams from the University of Illinois swept all awards in the recent 2007-2008 Undergraduate Team Space Design Competition, sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation. The competition requires teams to design a space vehicle to complete a http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807000798 http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/rss.php?xId=0637076807000798 Students Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500