Year In Review
Thank you for helping make 2018-19 another very successful academic year!
As a top-ranked engineering program, students and faculty come to Grainger Engineering from around the world to challenge the status quo, cultivate the next generation of innovators, and solve the world’s greatest challenges. Through private support, donors like you ensure that we can continue to educate the world’s brightest minds. Thank you for your investment in us and your support of our legacy of doing the impossible every day.
2018-2019 Highlights:
Reimagine engineering education
The Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education (AE3) connects Illinois students and faculty to innovative teaching and learning experiences
Build world-class facilities...
New facility encourages campus collaboration through innovative design space
...for teaching and learning
$21.5M gift to establish Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Make transformative scholarships available to the best and brightest
Engineering Visionary Scholarship recipient Eliza Wright talks about her experience in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at Illinois
Develop a culture of entrepreneurship...
Mechanodontics Takes Home the Cozad New Venture Challenge Grand Prize
...by producing more startups than ever before
Illinois Universities Are Producing More Startups Than Ever, and they're more likely to stay in-state, report says
And continue to lead the way on breakthrough research initiatives
The Illinois Innovators Podcast interviews MechSE associate professor Kimani Touissant on advances and the future in nanomanufacturing