Grainger College of Engineering, All Events
Friday, February 20, 2026
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10:00 - 10:50 am2311 NCEL - Yeh CenterIn this seminar, I will present my research on process-level innovation in electro-algal processes and system-level prioritization of research, development, and deployment (RD&D) pathways for emerging resource recovery technologies.
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10:00 - 10:50 amRoom 1310 Digital Computer Laboratory 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801 -
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
1:00 - 2:00 pmSiebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom -
2:00 - 3:15 pm1214 Siebel Center -
4:00 - 7:00 pmIDEA Lab, Basement of Grainger Engineering Library Information CenterVR Club at UIUC hosts meetings on Fridays from 4 - 7 PM at the IDEA Lab. Meetings start with MiXR (Meetings involving Extended Reality), an academic forum discussing topics regarding extended reality technology and the metaverse, followed by VR activities. - The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center IDEA Lab
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4:15 - 5:00 pm210 Engineering Hall, 1308 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 -
5:00 pmIllini Union Rooms 314 A&B
Saturday, February 21, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmECEB 1015Home is where the heart is, and home also reflects our lives and well-being. Our everyday activities affect how we use resources like water and energy. How can engineering make life at home more sustainable and healthier?
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12:00 - 2:00 pmECEB LobbyShowcasing the incredible women in STEM organizations on campus, allowing them to share their experiences and inspire younger students to explore engineering. Each organization will have a table with information and a kid-friendly activity relating to their engineering specialty.
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Monday, February 23, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm3401 Siebel Center -
3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online -
4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Qian Xu, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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4:00 pm100 Material Science Engineering Building -
4:00 pm119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online -
5:00 - 6:00 pmECEB 1002Representatives from MPR Associates will present.
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5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Thursday, February 26, 2026
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12:00 - 1:30 pmThis session covers the review and scoring criteria for NIH proposals and the intricacies of the NIH peer review process. Participants will learn how to tailor their proposal to fit the NIH criteria.
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12:30 pmNCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana IL 61801 Room 1040 -
1:00 - 2:00 pm190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Ethan Lake, Miller Fellow, University of California - Berkeley
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4:00 - 6:00 pm200 South Wacker Drive, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606Join us for a special networking night in Chicago!
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
4:15 - 5:15 pmIDEA Lab, Basement of Grainger LibraryWeekly interactive tabling events to learn about resources for stress management individually and throughout the campus community.
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5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
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7:00 - 9:00 pmGrainger Engineering Library and Information Center, Second floor, Room 233/235Take a study break at the Grainger Library and paint your worries away on a mini canvas. All materials will be provided while supplies last. No registration required, but seats are limited to 40 on a first-come, first-served basis.
Friday, February 27, 2026
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10:00 - 10:50 amRoom 1310 Digital Computer Laboratory 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801 -
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
1:00 - 2:00 pmSiebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom -
4:00 - 7:00 pmIDEA Lab, Basement of Grainger Engineering Library Information CenterVR Club at UIUC hosts meetings on Fridays from 4 - 7 PM at the IDEA Lab. Meetings start with MiXR (Meetings involving Extended Reality), an academic forum discussing topics regarding extended reality technology and the metaverse, followed by VR activities. - The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center IDEA Lab
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Sunday, March 1, 2026
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All DayOption for Grainger graduate students! The Graduate Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is now available to almost every admitted Grainger graduate student. Learn to tackle the business facets of industry-relevant problems and have these skills officially recognized on your transcript.
Monday, March 2, 2026
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Rahul Trivedi, Research Group Leader, Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
4:00 - 5:00 pmGrainger Engineering Library and Information Center, Room 335This session introduces the podcasting equipment and technology available to our campus community from the libraries.
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The Physics Colloquium: Rafael Fernandes "Altermagnetism: an unconventional quantum state of matter"
4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141 -
5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Thursday, March 5, 2026
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All DaySiebel Center for DesignIn collaboration with The Grainger College of Engineering and Siebel Center for Design, the Human-Centered Engineering Consortium is hosting the first symposium on human-centered engineering. The symposium will bring together educators, practitioners and researchers from all engineering disciplines. Attendance is free and all are welcome! Come join us in the conversation.
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10:00 - 11:00 amCIF 2035 -
11:00 am - 12:15 pm4045 School of Information Sciences -
12:00 - 1:30 pmYour grant went through peer review, but didn’t get funded. Now what? This session will address how to respond to the reviewers’ comments, interpret critiques, and use feedback from reviewers or mentors to improve your grant proposal.
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1:00 - 2:00 pm190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Fellow, Harvard University
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4:15 - 5:15 pmIDEA Lab, Basement of Grainger LibraryWeekly interactive tabling events to learn about resources for stress management individually and throughout the campus community.
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5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Friday, March 6, 2026
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All DaySiebel Center for DesignIn collaboration with The Grainger College of Engineering and Siebel Center for Design, the Human-Centered Engineering Consortium is hosting the first symposium on human-centered engineering. The symposium will bring together educators, practitioners and researchers from all engineering disciplines. Attendance is free and all are welcome! Come join us in the conversation.
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
1:00 - 2:00 pmSiebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom -
4:00 - 7:00 pmIDEA Lab, Basement of Grainger Engineering Library Information CenterVR Club at UIUC hosts meetings on Fridays from 4 - 7 PM at the IDEA Lab. Meetings start with MiXR (Meetings involving Extended Reality), an academic forum discussing topics regarding extended reality technology and the metaverse, followed by VR activities. - The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center IDEA Lab
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Monday, March 9, 2026
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
4:15 - 5:00 pm210 Engineering Hall, 1308 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 -
5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
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8:30 - 11:30 amIlini Union, Room ALearn to develop research dissemination plans for your community-engaged research projects with actionable approaches to communicating findings in ways that are responsive, accessible, and meaningful to the communities they serve.
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Dafei Jin, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Notre Dame
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2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab -
4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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4:00 pm119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Thursday, March 12, 2026
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2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab -
4:15 - 5:15 pmIDEA Lab, Basement of Grainger LibraryWeekly interactive tabling events to learn about resources for stress management individually and throughout the campus community.
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5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Friday, March 13, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
1:00 - 2:00 pmSiebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Sunday, March 15, 2026
Monday, March 16, 2026
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Friday, March 20, 2026
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1:00 - 2:00 pmSiebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190 -
3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online -
4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
4:00 - 5:00 pmGrainger Engineering Library and Information Center, Grainger Commons Room 233/235Learn how to find resources and navigate STEM databases using search strategies like Boolean Operators.
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4:15 - 5:00 pm210 Engineering Hall, 1308 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 -
5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
12:00 - 12:50 pmEveritt 2310 -
4:00 - 5:00 pmGrainger Engineering Library and Information Center, Grainger Commons Room 233/235This is a session in which podcasters learn tips and tricks for more advanced audio editing, including incorporating sounds effects, adding music, and more.
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5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Thursday, March 26, 2026
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4:00 - 5:00 pm1002 Grainger Auditorium -
4:15 - 5:15 pmIDEA Lab, Basement of Grainger LibraryWeekly interactive tabling events to learn about resources for stress management individually and throughout the campus community.
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5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
Friday, March 27, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
1:00 - 2:00 pmSiebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom -
4:00 - 7:00 pmIDEA Lab, Basement of Grainger Engineering Library Information CenterVR Club at UIUC hosts meetings on Fridays from 4 - 7 PM at the IDEA Lab. Meetings start with MiXR (Meetings involving Extended Reality), an academic forum discussing topics regarding extended reality technology and the metaverse, followed by VR activities. - The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center IDEA Lab
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4:15 - 5:00 pm210 Engineering Hall, 1308 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Monday, March 30, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm3401 Siebel Center -
4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
4:15 - 5:00 pm210 Engineering Hall, 1308 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 -
5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!
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6:00 pm 8:00 p.m.Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
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All DayGrainger Engineering undergrads - consider a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Henry Yuen, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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5:00 - 8:00 pmSiebel 1214Meet your fellow Siebel School peer mentors and get advice on courses, approach course instructors, RSOs, internships, and much, much more!













