Engineering News

In March 1942, Charles “Charlie” McGee was a sophomore engineering student at Illinois. After enlisting in the U.S. Army later that year, he earned his pilot’s wings and became a part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen. Three wars and 409 fighter pilot combat missions later, McGee is one of the most decorated pilots in America’s history.

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering announced their intent to form the Midwest Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Coalition.

Researchers at Illinois have replicated one of the most well-known electromagnetic effects in physics, the Hall effect, using radio waves instead of electric current.