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ECE Students Named as 2025 Knights of St. Patrick
Ten students were announced in early February as the 2025 Knights of St. Patrick awardees for their demonstration of “leadership, excellence in character, exceptional contribution to the College of Engineering and its students.” Two of the ten students selected for this year's cohort are students from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Eric Nieto Gonzalez and Jaelynn Abdullah.
Industrial & Enterprise Systems
Engineering News
ISE Students Named to the 2025 Knights of St. Patrick
Ten students were announced in early February as the 2025 Knights of St. Patrick awardees for their demonstration of “leadership, excellence in character, exceptional contribution to the College of Engineering and its students.” Two of the ten students selected for this year's cohort are students from the Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering Department, Yara Aoun and Geo Qadri.
Mechanical Engineering News
Summer Bridge program reaches MechSE
Stephanie Ott-Monsivais, Director of Undergraduate Programs for MechSE, worked with ARISE to bring the bridge—a two-week program in which incoming freshmen engineering students move to campus, attend workshops, and collaborate on a series of projects—to MechSE’s space.
Facilitator and current Systems Engineering and Design junior, Erik Toledo, and sophomore, Andrea Martinez, helped facilitate the projects workshop.
Women in Engineering News
WIE Ambassador: Liz Perez
Meet Liz, a sophomore in the ARISE Engineering Undeclared program, and a Women in Engineering (WIE) Ambassador!
Mechanical Engineering News
Women in MechSE Spotlight: Diana Pham explores all the niches and opportunities at Illinois
Illinois is all about exploring your options as a student—and your life beyond it. Diana Pham is a senior in mechanical engineering, earning a minor from the Hoeft Technology and Management Program, a joint program with Gies College of Business and The Grainger College of Engineering.
Electrical and Computer Engineering News
Two ECE students have been named 2024 Knights of St. Patrick
Electrical and computer engineering students Cain Gonzalez and Cornell Horne Jr. have been named 2024 Knights of St. Patrick. The Grainger College of Engineering awards this honor to 10-15 outstanding students every year who exhibit leadership, excellence in character and exceptional contribution to Grainger Engineering.
Bioengineering News
Undergrad authors paper after summer research at Sandia Lab
Professor Holly Golecki co-leads an exciting collaborative project between the Department of Bioengineering and Sandia National Lab’s Center for Integrated Technologies (CINT) in New Mexico.
Most recently, MechSE senior Jorge Jimenez had the chance to work at Sandia through CINT’s Summer Research Program and co-author the related paper, “A Stiff-Soft Composite Fabrication Strategy for Fiber Optic Tethered Micro-Tools” with Golecki, Kaehr, and others.
Civil and Environmental Engineering News
Two CEE students named 2022 Knights of St. Patrick
Nine students have been announced as 2022 Knights of St. Patrick by The Grainger College of Engineering, including Civil and Environmental Engineering students Stefany Boyas and Christina Garcia, in recognition of their demonstrated leadership, excellence in character, and outstanding contribution to the college and its students. The Knights of St. Patrick is a prestigious honor awarded by The Grainger College of Engineering annually to acknowledge students for their academic excellence and extracurricular involvement.
Grainger Engineering News
2022 IDEA Institute Conference showcases its GIANT program teams
Students, faculty and staff from The Grainger College of Engineering and units across campus, representing 15 teams selected for the 2020 and 2021 Grassroots Initiatives to Address Needs Together (GIANT) program, had a chance to showcase their inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility-focused research.
Holly Golecki, Bioengineering teaching assistant professor, and her team received funding for both Phase I and Phase II for their project entitled Building Confidence and Engagement through Undergraduate Research which began with Academic Redshirt in Science and Engineering (ARISE) student recruits.
Bioengineering News
Undergraduate research experience leads to job opportunities at Sandia National Labs
ARISE engineering students Alyssa Bradshaw, Adia Radecka, and Javi Cardenas conducted experiments to identify biomaterials that could make effective robotic actuators for implantable medical devices.
Mechanical Engineering News
Undergraduate researchers succeed at RoboSoft 2021
MechSE undergraduate students Noe Cervantes and Sara Lamer, who are members of an all-undergraduate engineering research team, recently presented their work on biocompatible actuators at RoboSoft 2021, a major IEEE international conference on soft robotics.
In addition to Cervantes and Lamer, the other researchers are Alyssa Bradshaw (ECE), Adia Radecka (ECE), Javi Cardenas (ECE), and Umangkumar Kalaria (ECE). All of them are participants in the ARISE Program run by The Grainger College of Engineering at Illinois.
Grainger Engineering News
Assistant Dean Ivan Favila receives ASEE 2020 DuPont Minorities in Engineering Award
Ivan Favila, an Assistant Dean in The Grainger College of Engineering, has been selected for the 2020 DuPont Minorities in Engineering Award by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
The award recognizes Favila’s continuing support of underrepresented engineering students through his role as director of programs like the Morrill Engineering Program (MEP), the Center for Academic Resources in Engineering (CARE), and the Academic Redshirt in Science and Engineering (ARISE).
Grainger Engineering News
ARISE Student Feature: Oscar Zepeda
“ARISE is the reason I’m here and able to do all of things,” he said. “They have given me so many connections already. I can’t begin to thank everyone involved with ARISE for all of these opportunities. It still blows my mind.”
Grainger Engineering News
ARISE Student Feature: Raefa Malik
“I needed a support system and I feel like ARISE was the one who could give it to me,” Raefa said. The administrators and faculty have good connections and the cohort itself is a big support. Because you are with a group with similar interests and are required to live together for the first two years, you have that bonding experience. Because of ARISE, I am more confident and productive in my work.”
Grainger Engineering News
College of Engineering ARISE Program receives up to $1 million from Amazon
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's College of Engineering has received up to a $1 million commitment over five years to support the Academic Redshirt in Science and Engineering (ARISE) program.