Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • Beckman 4269 and zoom

  Final Defense - PhD - Hannah Kimmel

  • Other
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Marc Favata (Montclair State University)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Jeff Gore

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 12:00 pm

  What Can I Read? Who Can I Be? Exploring the Impact of Book Bans

  In an increasingly tense political landscape, book bans have become a topic of conversation nationwide. This talk discusses the history of book bans, why they happen, and what people can do to prevent them.

  • Informational
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

  Distinguished Lecture: Masashi Sugiyama

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm

  ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Priyash Barya

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Jim Haran

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium

  Intercellular Communication: Can It Be Mediated by Electromagnetics?

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day
  • Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 AND Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801

  CHBE/OXE UG Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony

  • Meeting
• • All Day
  • Grainger Engineering Campus

  Engineering Open House: The Age of Innovation

  • Reception/Open House
• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* and receive a 40% refund of tuition.

  • Other
• • All Day

  No refund of tuition is available after this date.

  • Other
• 

  • All Day
  • Bardeen and Engineering Quads

  Engineering Open House 2025

  The Age of Innovation. Experience exciting exhibits and competitions during Engineering Open House 2025!

  • Exhibition
• • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Final Exam: Robert Kaufman

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Daniel Shoemaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • Siebel Center 2124

  Final Defense of Supawit Chockchowwat

  • Other

Saturday, April 5, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day
  • Grainger Engineering Campus

  Engineering Open House: The Age of Innovation

  • Reception/Open House
• 

  • All Day
  • Bardeen and Engineering Quads

  Engineering Open House 2025

  The Age of Innovation. Experience exciting exhibits and competitions during Engineering Open House 2025!

  • Exhibition

Sunday, April 6, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day

  Last day for GRADS to add name to May degree list. Must use Web Self-Service.

  • Other

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Eun Ah Kim, Cornell University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker Jason Patrick: Self-healing and Self-sensing in Structural Composites

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Newmark

  Assessment & Repair of Fire Damage | Ray Drexler | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - no colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

  Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Suneet Singh

  Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - MRS, no seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• 

  • 12:00 pm

  Ampliar el Acceso a los Alimentos: Compras de Comestibles en Línea para las Comunidades Rurales de Bajos Ingresos

  Las compras de alimentos en línea pueden mejorar el acceso a los alimentos en las comunidades rurales. Descubra cómo este enfoque puede contribuir a mejorar la salud y la nutrición de las poblaciones desatendidas y aprenda cómo las soluciones innovadoras pueden fomentar el acceso equitativo a los alimentos y mejorar el bienestar de la comunidad.

  • Informational
• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Peter Nagler (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr.)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Gargi Maheshwari

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:30 - 4:00 pm
  • Reception in CSL 154 at 2:30pm followed by Seminar in B02 at 3:00pm

  Seminar with Speaker Yi Ren

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm

  ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Edward Hightower

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • Main Library, Room 146, 1408 W Gregory Dr, Champaign, IL 61820

  Women in Science Lecture Series: Dr. Taiye Winful

  This lecture series highlights the important innovations and contributions of women in sciences here at the University of Illinois, and centers the importance of documenting women scientists and engineers to create a diverse and inclusive archival record.

  • Lecture
• • 1:30 - 3:30 pm
  • ECEB & Zoom

  Final Exam: Haotian Chen

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - Spring MRS, no colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day
  • ECE Building

  Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 11:00 am
  • 464 Loomis

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Qianshu Lu (IAS)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Edoardo Baldini, University of Texas, Austin

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 12, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820

  Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
  • Wildfire Tysons at Tysons Galleria

  Regional Event near Washington, DC

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 4039 Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Women in Engineering Admitted Student Luncheon: Illini Fest

  • Social/Informal Event

Sunday, April 13, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul, Stanford University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE Special Seminar - Priti Balchandani

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Warren Dixon - Assured Autonomy for Uncertain and Data Intermittent Systems

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Javad Shabani, New York University

  Speaker: Javad Shabani, Associate Professor of Physics and Director of the Center of Quantum Information Physics, New York University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Jhansi Kandasamy

  Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Rajib Saha

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 12:00 pm

  Mind-Body Techniques: Strategies for Better Sleep

  Quality sleep is an essential component of physical and mental well-being. Mind-body practices can be utilized to promote and improve sleep quality. This presentation will provide an overview of sleep biology, the importance of sleep routines, and specific mind-body strategies to enhance sleep.

  • Informational
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm

  ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:30 - 9:00 pm
  • Illini Union Ballroom, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

  NPRE/ANS Student Chapter 2024 Honors Banquet

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 7:00 - 8:00 pm

  Women in Engineering "Ask Me Anything" Virtual Session with WIE Ambassadors

  • Social/Informal Event

Thursday, April 17, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
  • I Hotel and Conference Center

  2025 Illinois Structural Engineering Conference

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 11:00 am
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: "Anderson Group Careers in Physics Panel"

  • Lecture
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Kevin Quaid

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • LLP 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Vladimir Narovlansky, Princeton

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* or drop** a course without a grade of "W".

  • Other
• • 3:00 - 4:30 pm
  • 210 Engineering Hall, 1308 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

  Women in Engineering Coffee Chat

  Join us over coffee and snacks to connect with women engineering students!

  • Social/Informal Event

Saturday, April 19, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event

Sunday, April 20, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael, California Institute of Technology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: John Junkins

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Understanding the Impact of Grain Boundary Inclination on Grain Growth using Modeling and Simulation and Experiments"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

  Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washinton

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Michael Tonks

  Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Cross-shaped patch formation on gold stellated octahedron templates with structural change"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm

  ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  • Illini Union (1401 W Green St, Urbana)

  Undergraduate Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Alan Landmann

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • LLP 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Chis Akers, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 11:00 am
  • 464 Loomis

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Ben Hooberman (UIUC)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Nandini Trivedi, The Ohio State University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 26, 2025

• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Zhanybek Alpichshev, IST Austria

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker Mykel Kochenderfer: Automated Decision Making for Safety Critical Applications

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "From large to small: Nanoscale Processes in Energy Storage Systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Newmark

  Jeff Dragovich | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

  Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Joao Soares, University of Alberta , (host: Baron Peters)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - DEI

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:50 pm
  • 2036 Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Women in Engineering Social Craft

  Join Women in Engineering to de-stress and socialize over arts & crafts!

  • Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Xin Yu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm

  ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium