Limitless Magazine Fall 2022

 

 

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Listening to Leaves

Vascular systems found in trees transport vital nutrients from root, to branch, to leaf. In a new study, researchers at the Beckman Institute developed a chemical process to mimic this arboreal architecture in foamed polymers, enabling directional fluid transport and adding structure throughout the material.

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We Needed One, So We Built One

IQUIST’s quantum testbed allows researchers to explore leading-edge quantum-computing hardware at a level of detail that few in the world can.

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It's Time to Jump In

Decarbonization  is crucial to mitigating the climate crisis.  But it’s also  an immense ‘wealth-generation opportunity’ for businesses, according  to alumnus  Jigar Shah.

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The Beginning of the Universe as Seen from the Bottom of the World

Physics Professor Joaquin Vieira describes the contributions the University of Illinois has made to understanding the beginnings of the universe – and the long-term technical contributions to the massive telescope behind those discoveries.

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The Vermilion River Observatory

How Grainger Engineers took on the FCC and carved  out a leadership position in the early days of  radio astronomy.

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Human-centered Engineering and Global Cooperation

A course connects Haining, China, with Urbana, Illinois, as first-year students share group projects and the Grainger Engineering curriculum.

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Fast Solutions, A Long Time Coming

Machine learning techniques have been around since the 1950s. Recently, Grainger Engineers have been applying them to electronics design. They hope to make chip development faster and cheaper – and, in the process, address some of the supply chain headaches we’ve all been experiencing.

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Fertile Ground for IUCRCs

In 2022, The Grainger College of Engineering launched two other  NSF-sponsored Industry-University Cooperative Research Center efforts. 

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The Illinois Computing Accelerator for Non-Specialists

New one-year program drives broader perspectives, economic justice and talent to a ‘wide-open’ industry.

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When Problems are Acknowledged, They can be Addressed

Professor Tiffani Williams named Dean’s Fellow in Inclusion, Belonging and Engagement.

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Computing with Living Neurons

The National Science Foundation awarded a seven-year, $15 million project  to a multi-university team led by The Grainger College of Engineering.  “Mind in Vitro – Computing with Living Neurons” will imagine computers  and robots that are human designed, but living.

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More Sustainable Concrete with Meta and AI

Cement, an essential ingredient in concrete, is responsible for eight percent of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers at The Grainger College of Engineering, Meta, and the concrete supplier Ozinga partnered to develop better concrete formulas using AI.

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Three ARPA-E Awards

Grainger Engineering faculty will be part of three projects funded by the Advanced  Research Projects Agency-Energy’s OPEN 2021 program, which supports high-impact,  high-risk approaches to clean energy.

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