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Michael McCarty, a 2013 Lemelson-Illinois finalist, has demonstrated his ability to spread his wings over a wide range of projects in a number of engineering disciplines.

For starters, McCarty, a senior computational bioengineering major, is the co-founder of Prawg, Inc., a startup company aiming to revolutionize the way viewers interact with their TVs.

Structural engineering and mechanics courses will now be offered online as part of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) online master’s degree program, and students will now be able to pursue the MSCE degree in the area of Structures.

It's a typical day in the lab: Walk to your assigned lab bench. Wait for the teaching assistant to set up equipment. Load a sample, set a few knobs and begin taking measurements. Click on the information icon hovering over a particular knob on the machine if you want to learn more about it.

Commencement is a time rich in both tradition and anticipation for the future. Although a vital icon of tradition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Alma Mater sculpture, is absent in body, she is present in spirit – and in pixel.

This year, the 2013 National Concrete Canoe Competition (NCCC) will make its return to the place it first began: the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. More than 20 teams of college students who have designed and built concrete canoes will gather at Illinois June 20-22 to showcase the finished results of their nine-month projects. The three-day event, most of which is open to the public, will culminate in concrete canoe races on Homer Lake in nearby Homer, Ill.

Engineering at Illinois alumna Ping Fu (MS 1990, Computer Science) will return to campus this spring as College of Engineering Commencement speaker. The Commencement Ceremony will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 12 in the State Farm Center (Assembly Hall).