Generating Impact
At Illinois, great research and great mentors produce great master’s and PhD graduates—the next generation of research leaders and educators. Talented students are attracted by the opportunities to work alongside top faculty researchers on the most challenging projects, with excellent facilities and equipment. Complex, big problems require broad, interdisciplinary teams and approaches. And those teams produce breakthroughs here every day.
Spring 2013: Generating Impact (pdf)
The Illinois Environment: Turning Ideas Into Reality
"There are a lot of ways to think about research impact. If you can invent something that a person—or hopefully, many people—would pay money for, that is tangible impact. This is the way that manufacturing comes back to the U.S. It’s high-tech that we can lead,” said William King, an Abel Bliss Professor professor of mechanical science and engineering and director of the NSF-funded Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing (Nano-CEMMS) at Illinois.
Spring 2012: The Illinois Environment: Turning Ideas Into Reality (pdf)
Health Care, Transportation, and Security
Engineering Solutions for a Global Community. “We explore efforts to tackle the vitally important areas of health care, transportation, and security—areas that must be addressed if we are to ensure the stability, prosperity, and well-being of the global community in the decades to come.” Ilesanmi Adesida, former dean of the College of Engineering at Illinois.
Fall 2011: Health Care, Transportation and Security (pdf)
Creating Engineers for the 21st Century
“Educating the engineer of the future will require us to connect philosophy and engineering, by connecting math and science rigor to philosophical rigor,” explained David E. Goldberg, professor emeritus in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering and iFoundry co-director.
Spring 2011: Creating Engineers for the 21st Century (pdf)
Water Energy Food
Energy makes the world go ‘round—literally. Developing and improving new ways of generating, capturing, storing, transmitting, and conserving energy occupy the minds of researchers across campus, and in collaboration with fellow scientists around the world.
Fall 2010: Water Energy Food (pdf)
