Undergraduate Advising

Grainger Engineering is committed to providing quality advising at all levels. We offer college and departmental level advising to help you answer any questions that might come up and to help you overcome any challenges you face.

We regularly help students with course difficulty, registration and course planning, study skills, test anxiety, questioning your major, feeling comfortable and happy on campus. We also would love to talk to you about different resources on campus, your plan to graduate, and what you want in your future.

The Grainger Academic Advising Center is on the 4th Floor of Grainger Library, East Wing, and advising hours are available Monday through Friday. See link below.

Go to Undergraduate Advising Website

Departmental Advising

Each department has an office for undergraduate student advising, and a departmental Chief Advisor. Departmental advisors can help you answer questions about departmental degree requirements, getting into that specific departmental courses, resolving academic difficulties, and transferring into or out of the department.

Department Advisor(s) Address Email

Aerospace Engineering

Audrey Cochran
Laura Gerhold 

329 Talbot 
MC-236

hasken2@illinois.edu
gerhold@illinois.edu 

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Anne Marie Boone 
Luis Rodriguez

360 Agricultural Eng. Sci. Bldg.  

MC-644 

aboone@illinois.edu 
lfr@illinois.edu

Bioengineering

Maddie Darling

1240 Everitt Lab

darling4@illinois.edu

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Wolali Dedo
Ryan Rafferty
Todd Spinner

110 Noyes Lab 

wdedo@illinois.edu
rraffer2@illinois.edu
spinner@illinois.edu

Civil and Environmental Engineering

John Popovics 
Becky Stillwell
Greg Coughlin

1102 Newmark 
MC-250 

johnpop@illinois.edu 
rborden@illinois.edu
gcoughli@illinois.edu 

Computer Science 

Steve Herzog
Katrina James 
Jenn Rose
Heather Zike
Fabian Zermeno

1210 Siebel 
MC-258 

smherzog@illinois.edu
krjames@illinois.edu
jennrose@illinois.edu
hlzike@illinois.edu
faz2@illinois.edu

Electrical and Computer Engineering 

Molly Helgesen 
Erhan Kudeki 
Tara Murray
Chris Schmitz

2120 ECE Building
MC-702 

mhelgese@illinois.edu
erhan@illinois.edu 
taramm@illinois.edu 
cdschmit@illinois.edu

Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering 

Carolyn Beck
Heidi Craddock

1270 Digital Computer Lab
MC-237 

beck3@illinois.edu
hcraddoc@illinois.edu

Materials Science & Engineering 

Laura Nagel 

201 Material Science Eng. Bldg. 
MC-246 

ljnagel@illinois.edu 

Mechanical Science & Engineering 

Missy Biehl 
Stephanie Ott-Monsivais 

1056 Lu MEB

mbiehl@illinois.edu
ottmonsi@illinois.edu

Nuclear, Plasma, Radiological Engineering

Becky Meline

100H1 Talbot Lab 
MC-234 

bmeline@illinois.edu 

Physics 

Merissa Milton

290W Loomis Lab 
MC-704 

majones2@illinois.edu

Technology Entrepreneur Center

Laura A. Miller

345 Coordinated Science Lab

arriola@illinois.edu

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