Student 2011 News

With the help of MIE, Whitney Young high school students are creating Biodiesel. Their story is featured in this ABC News report.		An inspiring human interest story about a UIC Computer Science (CS) undergraduate student, now a graduate student whose obsession with video games is turning into a successful career path.
MIE Grad student, Cristian Luciano's Ph.D. thesis has been nominated for the Annual Graduate College Outstanding Thesis Award.		CME student, has multiple talents: professional percussionist, member of the Honors College and named 2011 Udall Scholar by the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation.
The ASCE UIC Student Chapter received 1st place overall at ASCE Great Lakes Student Conference.		PTS Convention; a smashing success.
Everything about our Senior Design EXPO		Congratulations to EVL graduate student (M.S. in Computer Science) Arthur Nishimoto on his neat project and the corresponding video that has gone viral.
Top Tech Students Identified in 2011 ITA, Illinois Technology Association, Fall Challenge. Check out our COE students that made the list.

COE 2011 News

Computer Science Professor and EVL Director Jason Leigh was featured tonight (1/26) on the PBS program Nova scienceNow.		ITW ribbon cutting and official opening of 3 new COE laboratories.		WISE leaders travel to DC for presidential honors
Seagate donates equipment to UIC/EVL after viewing Leigh's profile on NOVA		Researchers paint on 20 foot electronic canvas -- Video & story by Marcella McCarthy, Medill Reports Chicago, Northwestern University -- Story by Paul Francuch, UIC News		UIC College of Engineering provides $200 awards to top Science Fair Students.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2010-2011 COE Faculty Research Awards		NSF Trusted Computing has awarded $616,000 for three years to CS Professor Venkat Venkatakrishnan.		International Biotech group names Gov. Pat Quinn 2011 "Governor of the Year."
Civil & Materials Engineering department head and professor Farhad Ansari featured in ABC News.				New 2-year $4.2 million IDOT contract to Dean Nelson and team. One of the products of this ongoing work, the regional real-time traffic map.
Computer Science department head and professor Bob Sloan featured in NBC News.				Chemical Engineering receives $599,766 NSF S-STEM grant to increase enrollment of women in Chemical Engineering.
COE Dean & Professor Peter Nelson explains why Chicagoans are dealing with BlackBerry outages.				UIC Wins $3.2 Million IGERT Grant for Electronic Security and Privacy Study. Prof. Venkat Venkatakrishnan from Computer Science is the Principal Investigator.
		The College of Engineering is honored to acknowledge recipients of various UIC Awards and Years of Service. Campuswide Employee Recognition Awards Program was held Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Congratulations to all 2011 honorees. View a list of COE honorees.		The College of Engineering Staff Excellence Award recognizes up to 10% of the COE staff for their significant impact on the educational and research mission as well as their contributions to a positive work environment. View a list of the 2011 honorees.
CME Professor Jane Lin featured in a "PI Spotlight" article in the ICT, Illinois Center for Transportation Newsletter.

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COE 2011 Events

1/10/11	CLASSES BEGIN
1/18/11	Women in Science & Engineering Spring Open House
1/21/11	Career Prep Day
2/15/2011	Bank of America intern information session
2/16/2011	UIC Engineering Career Fair
2/21-25/2011	Engineers Week
3/4/2011	Celebrate with UIC Engineers Without Borders. Sustainable Engineering in the Developing World
4/1-3/2011	Linux & Open-Source Flourish! Conference
4/22/2011	Speaker: Sir Harold (Harry) Kroto, Nobel Laureate 1996, Francis Eppes professor of Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. “Carbon in Nano and Outer Space"
4/26/2011	Engineering Senior Design Expo
5/7/2011	2011 College of Engineering Commencement
8/23/2011	CLASSES BEGIN FOR FALL SEMESTER
9/17/2011	GEM Grad Lab Event
10/7/2011	Engineering Career Prep day
11/10-11/2011	2011 AIChE Midwest Regional Conference
11/11-13/2011	UIC Hosts Free Mobile Processing Conference on Android and JavaScript.

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