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“To design a brand new vehicle is every aerospace engineer’s dream,” says Engineering at Illinois alumnus Sam Schweighart (BS 1999, Aerospace Engineering). So he and his colleagues designed one that could both fly like a plane and drive like a car.

The first five students of Department of Aerospace Engineering's new Aerospace Systems Engineering master’s degree program have now graduated, and so far, so good. All have firm plans for their next steps, and believe that the new program has helped guide them on their way.

A new product from a student startup has the potential to revolutionize the dairy industry in developing countries.

On May 12, the College of Engineering awarded 1,025 bachelor's degrees and 325 master's and PhD degrees to the Class of 2012. 

Rakesh Kumar, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received the Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Award. The award, which honors young researchers who “show exceptional promise for doing creative research,” will fund the development of algorithmic techniques to make applications robust to numerical errors.

The end of the 2012-2013 academic year has seen a whole new way for first-year engineering students to get introduced to the College of Engineering.

Stephen A. Boppart, a Bliss Professor of Engineering with appointments in the departments of electrical and computer engineering, of bioengineering, and of internal medicine at Illinois, has been awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize, an international prize presented annually to a distinguished scientist in a selected field.

Four University of Illinois doctoral students – three of them from the Urbana campus – will each receive a $20,000 FMC Technologies Inc. Fellowship for the 2012-13 academic year. Three master's students will each receive $12,000.