Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day

  Apply to be an ESTAR: DEADLINE April 25

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  DEALINE- Apply to be an ESTAR

  • Informational
• • All Day

  ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Award

  • Informational

Thursday, April 24, 2025

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

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day

  Apply to be an ESTAR: DEADLINE April 25

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  DEALINE- Apply to be an ESTAR

  • Informational
• • All Day

  ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Award

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

  Undergraduate Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 - 11:00 am
  • 3019 CEEB-Hydro

  The Evolution of Biofuels Policy From 2005 to the Present and What the Next 20 Years May Bring

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • HMNTL 1000

  INVITED LECTURE: Charge Transport in Doped Conjugated Polymers for Organic Electronics

  • Lecture
• • 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), "On the reconstruction map in JT gravity"

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 3:30 - 5:30 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Erkan Bayram

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Aerodynamic Design and Analysis of a 20 MW VSVP Horizontal-axis Wind Turbine

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "On-Demand Control of Single-Molecule Chemistry through Vibrational Characterization and Manipulation"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
  • ECEB 3015

  IEEE FPGA Workshop

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 5:30 pm
  • Campus Instructional Facility, Room 2018.

  Acoustics@UIUC Student Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

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

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • All Day

  Apply to be an ESTAR: DEADLINE April 25

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  DEALINE- Apply to be an ESTAR

  • Informational
• • All Day

  ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Award

  • Informational
• • 9:30 - 11:30 am
  • CSL 301

  Prelim Exam: Neeloy Chakraborty

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Christian Kroer

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
  • CSL B02

  IEEE Solid State Circuits Distinguished Lecture

  • Lecture
• 

  • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  Distinguished Alumni Panel and Lunch

  Join us for pizza and a Q&A with distinguished school alumni!

  • Informational
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: "One Way to Not Be a Physicist"

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Detection of anyon braiding through pump-probe spectroscopy"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • HMNTL 1000

  Prelim Exam: Brendan Wolan

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other
• 

  • 6:00 pm
  • Illini Union, Illini Room

  2025 Celebration of Excellence

  This event honors Siebel School of Computing and Data Science students, faculty, staff, and alumni for their outstanding accomplishments of the past year.

  • Ceremony/Service

Saturday, April 26, 2025

• • All Day

  Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Award

  • Informational

Sunday, April 27, 2025

• • All Day

  Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Award

  • Informational

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • All Day

  Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Award

  • Informational
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Special Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Tracing light: on Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Polaritonics in Quantum Paraelectrics"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Chaotic worms: from the dynamics of animal behavior towards a physics of complex, evolved systems"

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Umang Mathur, “ Equivalences for Causal Concurrency”

  • 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
  • 1310 Newmark

  Current Trends in Performance Based Wind and Seismic Design for Tall Buildings | Jeff Dragovich | 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 - "From large to small: Nanoscale Processes in Energy Storage Systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Everitt 2101

  ANS General Meeting

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Sidney Liu MechE Building, Room 2200

  IEEE x Tau Beta Pi LinkedIn Workshop

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • 6:00 pm
  • Campus Instructional Facility | 0035

  2025 Faculty Awards Ceremony

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • All Day

  Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Award

  • Informational
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • CSL 141

  Prelim Exam: Rakibul Islam

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Below Threshold Quantum Error Correction", Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

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

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • 4039 Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)

  NPRE Undergraduate Seminar Series: Senior Design Presentations

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 12:30 - 2:30 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Gabriel Muniz Negron

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

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Subroto Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), Electron hydrodynamics: "Strong violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law and vortical effects"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  A Soft Material Paradigm To Address Energy-Water Nexus Challenges

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

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Senior Design Presentations

  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 - "MatSE Community Town Hall"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:50 pm
  • 2036 Campus Instructional Facility

  Women in Engineering Social Craft

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 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

• • All Day

  Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Award

  • Informational
• • 10:00 - 11:00 am
  • B02 CSL Auditorum & Zoom

  Dr. Carmelo Sferrazza ECE Faculty Candidate Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute 5602

  Postpartum Breast Cancer: Etiology, Ideology & Interception

  This event is part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series. Coffee and light snacks will be provided.

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

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Lizhong Zhang (Flatiron Institute) "Modeling Black Hole Accretion with Radiation GRMHD: A Parameter Survey and Connection to Observations"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 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: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • 220 Talbot Lab

  ANS Illinois EnergyProf Filming

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 5:00 pm

  ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
  • CSL 141

  Prelim Exam: Abhi Kamboj

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

• • All Day

  Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day
  • Grainger Engineering Campus

  50 Years of the Morrill Engineering Program (MEP)

  • Festival/Celebration
• • 9:00 - 11:00 am
  • ECEB TBA

  Prelim Exam: Zhongmin Zhu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • ECEB 5086

  Prelim Exam: Sangrui Luo

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

  SE 290 - Aakrit Vaish

  • Lecture
• 

  • All Day

  50 Years of the Morrill Engineering Program

  • Festival/Celebration
• • 2:00 pm
  • Siebel Center 2405

  Final Defense of Sourav Das

  • Other
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium

  Architectures and Topologies for High-Frequency, High-Density Power Conversion

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - no seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Harnessing Fluid Mechanics for Single-Cell Manipulation in Personalized Medicine

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
  • HMNTL 2003

  Prelim Exam: He Lin Zhao

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
  • Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street

  ACDIS: Seminar Series -Behnam Taleblu

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

• • All Day

  Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• 

  • 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
  • Illini Union- Room 103 and 104

  2nd Annual ISE Student Conference

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center

  Innovative Mineral–Hydrogel Composites for Effective Nutrient Removal to Reduce Harmful Algal Blooms and to Upcycle Nutrients

  Harmful algal blooms pose significant threats to industries such as fisheries and tourism and also impact public health through the production of cyanobacterial toxins. To address the escalating concerns associated with HABs, we have developed novel calcium alginate hydrogel composites seeded with various minerals to effectively remove and recover phosphorus and nitrogen.

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

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 pm
  • 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion

  Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Acoustic and Spectral Imaging

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

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Despina Louca, University of Virginia

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Saturday, May 3, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

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

  Saturday Engineering for Everyone: How engineering was pivotal to fight the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Lecture
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • TBA

  ANS End of the Year BBQ

  • Social/Informal Event

Sunday, May 4, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Monday, May 5, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• 

  • 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
  • Heritage Hall in the IHotel & Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois

  10th Anniversary Celebration of the Health Care Engineering Systems Center

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • CSL 301

  Prelim Exam: Kaiwen Cao

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Sarah Sterman, "Designing for Ways and Whys: Transforming Process into a Material for Creative Reflection"

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov, “ Towards Truly Open, Language-Specific, Safe, Factual, and Specialized Large Language Models”

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Racheff student awardees

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • 9:00 am
  • 1306 Everitt Laboratory

  FINAL DEFENSE, Kyle Benjamin Timmer, "Development of Multicompartment Biomaterials to Modulate Cellular Environments for Improved Tendon-to-Bone Rotator Cuff Repair"

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

  Women in Science Lecture Series: Jennifer Hain Teper

  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
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)

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

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Senior Design Presentations

  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, May 7, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • 210 Engineering Hall, 1308 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

  Women in Engineering Final Exam Goodie Bags

  Stop by and pick up a final exam goodie bag to finish off the semester!

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 1:00 pm
  • Grainger Library - Grainger Commons 233/235

  Final Defense - PhD - Ananthan Nambiar

  • Other
• 

  • 1:00 pm

  Webinar | Next Generation Multi-View Video Delivery Systems for AR/VR End Devices

  Join us for the next Research Initiatives Webinar for an overview of Illinois Grainger Engineering's advancements in AR/VR research.

  • Webinar
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Ilan Shomorony, "An Information Theory for Out-of-Order Information: Applications in DNA Data Storage and Genomics"

  • 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: Geraldine Cochran (Ohio State University), "Leveraging Familial Capital to Improve Graduate Students Experiences"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
  • ECEB, Room 1002 Grainger Auditorium

  Canceled: ECE Explorations (200) - No Class - Reading Day Week

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* or drop** a course without petitioning the Graduate College.

  • Other

Friday, May 9, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • 1:00 pm

  Final Defense of Zhe Xu

  • Other
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Saturday, May 10, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Sunday, May 11, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Monday, May 12, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Non-degree students should register for FS summer online courses by this date to avoid delay in logins

  • Other
• • 10:00 am
  • 161 Noyes Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Anaira Roman Santiago, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • MNTL 2003

  Prelim Exam: Erin Raftery

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Masooda Bashir

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm

  FGI Webinar: Geomembranes for Produced Water and Brine Containment

  This FGI webinar will focus on the applications of geomembranes for containment of produced water and brine liquids in earth lined ponds, pits, reservoirs, and above ground tanks. Key topics will include today’s best practices in subgrade preparation, geomembrane selection, geomembrane installations, including thermal wedge and extrusion welding, and CQA.

  • Professional Development

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• 

  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • NCSA 1030

  Obesity and Cancer: Creating Niches for Metastasis

  This event is part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series. Coffee and light snacks will be provided.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 15, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Friday, May 16, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other
• • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
  • ECE Building Lobby

  2025 ECE Graduation Open House

  • Festival/Celebration

Saturday, May 17, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Sunday, May 18, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Last day to cancel registration in order to receive a full refund of tuition and fees for Summer 2025 FS/Full Semester courses (Except for S2/Summer Session II courses).

  • Other
• • 9:00 - 11:30 am
  • CIF Auditorium, Room 1025

  AE Commencement Celebration 2025

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 9:30 - 11:00 am
  • Krannert in Tryon Festival Theatre

  ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Ceremony

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
  • I-Hotel Ballroom

  Graduation Bruncheon

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Illini Union - room ABC

  ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Reception

  • Reception/Open House

Monday, May 19, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Instruction Begins for Engineering Online Summer FS/Full Semester courses (Except for S2/Summer Session II courses)

  • Other
• • 10:00 am
  • Siebel Center 3102

  Final Defense of Philip Amortila

  • Other

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • 3:00 - 4:00 pm
  • TBD

  NPRE Special Seminar Series - Alan Durif

  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

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Thursday, May 22, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Friday, May 23, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Saturday, May 24, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Sunday, May 25, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Monday, May 26, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Thursday, May 29, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Friday, May 30, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* and receive an 90% refund of tuition for Summer 2025 FS courses.

  • Other
• • All Day

  Official 10th day. Deadline to reduce course credit and to drop one or more, but not all courses, and receive a 100% refund of tuition and fees for the dropped Summer 2025 FS courses course(s). (Please click here for more information)

  • Other
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Saturday, May 31, 2025

• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Thursday, June 5, 2025

• • 1:30 pm
  • 307 Gregory Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, James Griebler, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, June 6, 2025

• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* and receive an 80% refund of tuition for Summer 2025 FS courses.

  • Other
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Thursday, June 12, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, June 13, 2025

• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* and receive a 70% refund of tuition for Summer 2025 FS courses.

  • Other
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Monday, June 16, 2025

• • All Day
  • Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, 301 E North Water St, Chicago, IL 60611

  Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

• • All Day
  • Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, 301 E North Water St, Chicago, IL 60611

  Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

• • All Day
  • Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, 301 E North Water St, Chicago, IL 60611

  Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Thursday, June 19, 2025

• • All Day
  • Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, 301 E North Water St, Chicago, IL 60611

  Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Friday, June 20, 2025

• • All Day
  • Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, 301 E North Water St, Chicago, IL 60611

  Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI2025)

  • Conference/Workshop
• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* and receive a 60% refund of tuition for Summer 2025 FS courses.

  • Other
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, June 27, 2025

• • All Day

  Deadline for ALL to drop semester course via Student Self-Service.

  • Other
• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* and receive a 50% refund of tuition for Summer 2025 FS courses.

  • Other
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Saturday, June 28, 2025

• • All Day

  Summer 2025 tuition and fees are due.

  • Other

Friday, July 4, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Sunday, July 6, 2025

• • All Day

  Last day to add name to August degree list.

  • Other

Friday, July 11, 2025

• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* and receive a 40% refund of tuition for Summer 2025 FS courses.

  • Other
• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* or drop** a Summer 2025 FS courses course without a grade of "W".

  • Other
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Monday, July 14, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Thursday, July 17, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Friday, July 18, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Saturday, July 19, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Sunday, July 20, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Monday, July 21, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop
• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  16th ANCRiSST Workshop and 4th ZHITU Symposium

  • Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop
• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  16th ANCRiSST Workshop and 4th ZHITU Symposium

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 5:30 - 7:30 pm
  • Bugsy & Meyers Steakhouse in the Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas

  AIAA Aviation Alumni Reception

  • Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Thursday, July 24, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Friday, July 25, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Saturday, July 26, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Sunday, July 27, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Monday, July 28, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Thursday, July 31, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Friday, August 1, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Monday, August 4, 2025

• • 12:00 - 4:00 pm

  RailTEC Short Course: Track Engineering Fundamentals

  • Professional Development

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

• • 12:00 - 4:00 pm

  RailTEC Short Course: Track Engineering Fundamentals

  • Professional Development

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

• • 12:00 - 4:00 pm

  RailTEC Short Course: Track Engineering Fundamentals

  • Professional Development

Thursday, August 7, 2025

• • 12:00 - 4:00 pm

  RailTEC Short Course: Track Engineering Fundamentals

  • Professional Development
• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* or drop** a course without petitioning the Graduate College.

  • Other

Friday, August 8, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Monday, August 11, 2025

• • 12:00 - 4:00 pm

  RailTEC Short Course: Railroad Project Design

  • Professional Development

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

• • 12:00 - 4:00 pm

  RailTEC Short Course: Railroad Project Design

  • Professional Development
• • 10:00 am   1:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Riccardo Candeago, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

• • 12:00 - 4:00 pm

  RailTEC Short Course: Railroad Project Design

  • Professional Development

Thursday, August 14, 2025

• • 12:00 - 4:00 pm

  RailTEC Short Course: Railroad Project Design

  • Professional Development

Friday, August 15, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, August 22, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, August 29, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, September 5, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, September 12, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, September 19, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, September 26, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, October 3, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Saturday, October 4, 2025

• • 8:30 am
  • Art Institute of Chicago

  Quantum Rhapsodies

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, October 10, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, October 17, 2025

• • All Day

  Deadline for ALL to drop semester course via Student Self-Service.

  • Other
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, October 24, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, October 31, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, November 7, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

• • All Day
  • iHotel Illinois Conference Center

  Railroad Environmental Conference (RREC)

  RREC features presentations by railroaders, consulting engineers, academics and others involved in all aspects of railroad environmental topics.

  • Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

• • All Day
  • iHotel Illinois Conference Center

  Railroad Environmental Conference (RREC)

  RREC features presentations by railroaders, consulting engineers, academics and others involved in all aspects of railroad environmental topics.

  • Conference/Workshop

Thursday, November 13, 2025

• • All Day
  • iHotel Illinois Conference Center

  Sustainability & Resiliency Day

  The S&R Day will focus on how sustainability and resiliency concepts and best practices can be applied to a broad range of engineering design, maintenance, operations, capital projects, construction, sustainable materials, organizational change activities, etc.

  • Conference/Workshop

Friday, November 14, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, November 21, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, November 28, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, December 5, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, December 12, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, December 19, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, December 26, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, January 2, 2026

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, January 9, 2026

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, January 16, 2026

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, January 23, 2026

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, January 30, 2026

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, February 6, 2026

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, February 13, 2026

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, February 20, 2026

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, February 27, 2026

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, March 6, 2026

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other