Breakthroughs
We do the impossible. Every day. Check out some recent highlights of our impact on global research, innovation, and engineering education.
Illinois researchers to develop smartphone diagnostics kit for infectious diseases
11.6.19
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A robot puppet can learn to walk if it's hooked up to human legs
10.30.19, MIT Technology Review
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CSL researchers develop platform for scalable testing of autonomous vehicle safety
10.24.19
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Lilium says its electric aircraft has pulled off the key maneuver in its ambitious design
10.22.19, Forbes
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Illinois awarded NSF Research Training (NRT) grant for materials/data science program
10.9.19
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Illinois lands $50K grant to create more female-founded tech companies
10.8.19, Chicago Inno
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We do the impossible. Every day. Take a virtual tour through five forward-looking construction projects will give our world-class faculty and students the infrastructure and space they need to succeed.
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Top 5 Undegraduate Engineering Programs
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Overall Undergraduate Engineering Program
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Top 10 Undegraduate Engineering Programs
$100 million Center for Networked Intelligent Components and Environments to drive smart, reconfigurable technologies
Jump ARCHES partnership expands; endowment now exceeds $100 million
Six Illinois researchers receive Presidential Early Career Award
Grainger Engineering receives ASEE Bronze Award for Diversity
Illinois was among those Bronze Recipients who also earned “exemplar” status—the highest distinction for diversity work given by the national society this year.
W E D O T H E I M P O S S I B L E . E V E R Y D A Y .
At Illinois, we we place great pride in our interdisciplinary work ethic. With top-ranked graduate programs across every department and discipline of engineering, we bring together the brightest minds in the world to solve the most pressing global challenges of our time. We share the common goal of providing superior research capabilities in the fundamental engineering sciences in collaboration with industrial and governmental laboratories. We also support undergraduate and graduate student education and enhance rapid technology transfer from the University to industry.