Engineering Update
News
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Week of June 29
ConvoPartner volunteers help Intensive English Institute students practice English and learn more about life in the U.S. Most of the IEI students are from Asia, but our diverse enrollment also includes students from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South America.
What does a ConvoPartner do?
- Meet with a group of 2-3 IEI students for 1 hour every week for English conversation/social activities. The SU09 program will run for 7 weeks, from June 23-August 4. The FA09 program will run for 12 weeks, from September 8-December 8.
- Email the IEI Convo Partner Coordinator, Megan Ficek (at convopartners@ad.uiuc.edu), each week to confirm that you met with the international students.
- Attend some of the all-IEI social activities. These events are, of course, optional, but the students love it when their conversation partners can attend!
How do I join?
- U of I students and non-students are welcome to participate as Convo Partners. Volunteers must be fluent speakers of English. Questions? Know anyone else interested? Email Megan, convopartners@ad.uiuc.edu. You can sign up for summer and/or fall semester at http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/ConvoPartners.htm
Interested in becoming more active in iFoundry's work to help engineering education? iFoundry is preparing to welcome 100 students into its entering class in Fall 2009. This innovative change effort needs student leaders to help serve as orientation guides (August 21-23), team leaders for new students, ELA's, mentors, advisors, creative contributors, and change agents as we go forward in enhancing engineering education at Illinois. We welcome all current student leaders in the college to come on board and actively help lead this initiative. For more information, and assistance with questions, please contact Associate Director Karen Hyman, kkhyman@illinois.edu, 217/244-3824 (office) and go to the website http://ifoundry.illinois.edu
Are you interested in going to grad school or just need some hands-on experience? If so, then undergraduate research might be for you. The Women in Engineering and Morrill Engineering Program are now accepting applications for the Intel Scholars Undergraduate Research Program for the 2009-2010 school year. For more information or to apply, please visit our website or contact Kris Pulling at kpulling@illinois.edu. http://engineering.illinois.edu/wie/isur
AT&T is accepting entries for its second annual Big Mobile On Campus Challenge. All full-time students and full-or part-time staff may apply by submitting a mobile application that enhances academic performance, builds campus community and improves campus operations. Individual and team entries of no more than four (4) persons are accepted between April 1, 2009 and September 30, 2009. The grand prize winner(s) will be announced in October to receive one $10,000 scholarship--given to an individual or divided among the team members who developed the application. For more information, visit www.att.com/higherEDcontest
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