-COE News
-Awards and Honors
-Seminars and Events
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-COE News
-Awards and Honors
-Seminars and Events
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Dear alumni and friends:
The College of Engineering is making progress in establishing endowed and current use scholarships for the Brilliant Futures Campaign. Among the several that were recently created, Victor (BS '71) and Lucy Kan made a generous gift of $250,000 to endow the Victor and Lucy Kan Family Scholarship. Bill Unger (BA ’71) donated $100,000 to be awarded as current use scholarships to approximately 20 incoming freshman women who have graduated from Chicago high schools. Dean Emeritus Larry Kennedy made an additional gift of $29,000 to increase the size of his and his wife’s endowed scholarship, the Valaree J. Kennedy Scholarship. The E. Eugene Carter Foundation made a generous gift of $50,000 to endow the Richard A. Cohn Scholarship for Women in Engineering. COMM ED made a gift of $30,000 to be awarded as scholarships for minority students, and Russell Hibbeler (Navy Pier ’64) endowed a $25,000 scholarship in memory of Prof. Dusan Krajcinovic.
Endowed scholarships are an integral part of the college's campaign priorities as we seek to create twenty of them starting at $100,000 each. We are truly grateful for all gifts in support of undergraduate education that have been made during the course of the campaign. All gifts and pledges that are made through December 31, 2011 count towards the Brilliant Futures Campaign.
2008 FIRST Robotics Midwest Regional Competition
UIC served as host university for the third year in a row for The FIRST Robotics Competition held at the UIC 
Pavilion on February 28-March 1, 2008. Some notable event attendees included teams of students, teachers, companies, schools and community leaders such as Senator Dick Durbin. A total of 42 teams participated in the three-day event where they tested their robots in a regional competition against other high schools in the Midwest. More than half of the team participants were from Illinois high schools. Some of the high schools included Deerfield, Rolling Meadows, Wheeling, Percy L. Julian, Illinois Math and Science Academy, and Roberto Clemente. Teams consisted of students, teachers, and mentors with most teams supported by at least one industry or university sponsor. Sponsors included companies such as Baxter Healthcare Corp, Chrysler Foundation, Delphi Corporation, Motorola, Rolls-Royce Corporation, John Deere, P& G, General Motors, NASA, Caterpillar, Boeing, PEPSI Americas, NTN Bearings, KTS Tooling, and DART Foundation and schools such as Michigan State University, Miami University, ITT Tech, Baker College, and IIT. The winner of the Midwest Regional Chairman’s Award was Team 71 School City of Hammond, Indiana. The next FIRST Robotics event is the championship which will be held in Atlanta from April 17-April 19, 2008 to determine the National Team Champions.
Sincerely,
Peter C. Nelson
Interim Dean, College of Engineering
The College of Engineering Advisory Board meeting will be held on Friday, April 11, 2008.
more information: http://www.uic.edu/depts/enga/corporate/ab.htm
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Engineering Senior Design EXPO
The College of Engineering invites you to participate as a judge in the capstone event of the Senior Design course for 2007-2008 on April 22, 2008. Judges are needed in 14 categories. Over 80 student teams are pre-registered for Engineering Senior Design EXPO. You may register on-line at http://www.uic.edu/depts/enga/expo/expo2008_judges.htm
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Jun Xin, has been elected a Fellow of the International Society of Automotive Engineers
Jun Xin, Managing Director, Engineering – China at Metaldyne Corp., has been elected a Fellow of the International Society of Automotive Engineers. Xin earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Zhejiang University, and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Xin will receive this prestigious award during the SAE 2008 World Congress Awards Ceremony in Detroit, April 15, 2008.
SAE Fellowship status is the highest grade of membership bestowed by SAE International. It recognizes outstanding engineering and scientific accomplishments by an individual that have resulted in meaningful advances in automotive, aerospace and commercial vehicle technology. The program, established in 1975, recognizes an average of only 20 recipients worldwide for this honor each year. Xin is being recognized for his efforts to help advance the development of the Chinese mobility industry.
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The Engineering Design Team wins robotics competition first place
Congratulations to our Engineering Design Teams, which took first place and fourth place at the AMD Jerry Sander's Creative Design Robotics contest! The contest was held at UIUC, with many other engineering teams from around the Midwest competing.
About the event: http://dc.cen.uiuc.edu/
About the team and photos: http://www.chicagoedt.org/
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Advertise in Engineering News
Engineering News, our alumni magazine, is now accepting paid advertisements from companies offering engineering services and employment opportunities to our students and graduates. For rate sheets and additional information about advertising, please contact Nancy J. Cohen at njcohen@uic.edu
Professors A.L. Yarin and Constantine Megaridis of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department received acknowledgement for journal paper
A.V. Bazilevsky, K. Sun, A. L. Yarin and C. M. Megaridis on “Room-Temperature, Open-Air, Wet Intercalation of Liquids, Surfactants, Polymers and Nanoparticles within Nanotubes and Microchannels,” J. Materials Chemistry (2008),” has received unsolicited coverage by the magazines
Chemical Technology
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTech
and Chemistry World http://www.rsc.org/ChemistryWorld
both published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK. The related article can be found at:
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTech/Volume/2008/01/capped_carbon_nanotubes.asp
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Professor Pat Banerjee of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department is nominated Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Pat Banerjee has been nominated to become an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.
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Professor Krishna R. Reddy of the Civil and Materials Engineering department is named Co-Chair of the GeoCongress2008
Krishna Reddy was the co-chair of the GeoCongress2008: The Challenge of Sustainability in the Geoenvironment, which was held in New Orleans from March 9th to 12th. This conference is organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers, and more than 1,000 participants attended. The main focus of the conference was to discuss innovative and emerging scientific advances and technologies that are needed to address a wide range of geoenvironmental issues. These issues include soil and groundwater protection and remediation, the challenges associated with sustainable development, and mitigation of natural and manmade hazards. More detailed information (including the Final Program) can be found at:
http://content.asce.org/conferences/geocongress2008/index.html
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Professor G. A. Mansoori of the BioEngineering and Chemical Engineering departments is invited to become Associate Editor of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (JAD)
G. Ali Mansoori was invited to become an Associate Editor of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (JAD) http://www.j-alz.com/about/board.html This comes as a result of his upcoming major publications on "Applications of Nanotechnology for Detection and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease."
Professor G. A. Mansoori of the BioEngineering and Chemical Engineering departments has been elected to full membership (Academician) of the International Academy of Creative Endeavors (IACE)
G. Ali Mansoori was elected to full membership (Academician) of the International Academy of Creative Endeavors (IACE) http://www.endeav.org/info_e.htm The Academy of Creative Endeavors began its activities in 1992, in Moscow, as an internationally orientated body embracing science, the arts and social issues in keeping with the principles of progressive academies of the world. As a new initiative in the field of science and the arts, the Academy of Creative Endeavors enhances and promotes various human activities on the basis of creative contributions by its members to scientific and social enterprises in their respective areas.
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Professor David Yang of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department wins the North American Pairs Bridge Championship
David Yang is the winner of the North American Pairs Bridge Championship. For more information, please see the following links that includes a New York Times article. This is the second North American Pairs Bridge Championship David has won in the last three years.
Press coverage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/crosswords/bridge/10card.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2008/01/bulletins/db1.pdf
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Computer Science Student, Anushka Anand is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Student Service Award
Congratulations to Anushka Anand on receiving Chancellor's Student Service Award for her work with women in computer science!
Anushka will receive the award at the ceremony on April 16, 2008.
Over the past two years, Anushka has emerged as a leader among female computer science students and has taken it upon herself to form a Women in Computer Science organization at UIC. She has organized lunches for Women in CS and has initiated a series of “Lunch with a Professor” events in the department. Sensing a need within the student community, she has organized several workshops on technical writing, communication, and research methods that were enthusiastically attended. Anushka’s participation has been essential in bringing a team of UIC female Computer Science students to two international Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing Conferences.
Since 1973, the Chancellor’s Student Service Award (CSSA) has honored students who have made an outstanding contribution to the University through campus and community service. Student nominees must contribute a significant amount of time, effort and creativity to one or more campus and/or community service project(s).
More information about the award ceremony: http://www.vcsa.uic.edu/MainSite/departments/student_development_services/sub_sldvs/Home/CSSA.htm
The College of Engineering Advisory Board meeting
Friday, April 11, 2008
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Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Materials Research Group Workshop
J. Ernesto Indacochea, jeindaco@uic.edu
Civil & Materials Engineering Dept.
April 16-17, 2008
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
IEEE Signal Processing Society
Professor Petar M. Djuric
Department of ECE, Stony Brook University
“The particle filtering methodology in signal processing”
Friday, April 18, 2008
11:00 am
Room 4055 SEO
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Engineering Senior Design EXPO
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Student Center East
750 South Halsted Street
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Newsletter Editors, Carolyn Griffith and Nancy Singer
Please submit news items to cgriffi@uic.edu
http://www.engr.uic.edu