Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Friday, April 18, 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

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

  • Other
• • 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Fractional Chern Insulators Workshop - 2025

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center

  Human-Driven Evolution in Wastewater Treatment Bioreactors

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Zhaosong Lu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Heliudsen Bernardo (Brown) "Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity: Causality constraints, anomalies, and neutrinos."

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

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • 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
• • 3:00 - 4:30 pm
  • 210 Engineering Hall

  Women in Engineering Coffee Chat

  • Social/Informal Event

Saturday, April 19, 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
• • 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Fractional Chern Insulators Workshop - 2025

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 6:30 pm
  • ARC

  ANS Ultimate Frisbee with SPS

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 7:30 pm
  • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801

  Quantum Voyages

  • Ceremony/Service

Sunday, April 20, 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

Monday, April 21, 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
  • TBD

  Smitha’s book launch: Two Revolutions: Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Physics

  • Festival/Celebration
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Nishil Talati, "Co-Design for the AI Era: From Traditional Systems to Generative AI"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael (California Institute of Technology), "Self-correcting GKP qubit and gates in a driven-dissipative circuit"

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

  Special Careers Event: ""

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Xinwei Shen, "Distributional Learning: From Methodology to Applications"

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

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: John Junkins - What does Meryl Streep and Heartbreak Hotel have to do with Computational Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics and Control?

  • 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
• • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
  • ECEB 5086

  Prelim Exam: Derek Chaw

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 220 Talbot Lab

  WiN Coffee Chat w/ Prof. Brooks

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Everitt 2101

  ANS LAST Outreach Meeting

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
  • Illini Union, South Lounge, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana

  Luminous: An Evening of Poetry & Prose With National Poet-Engineer Richard Blanco and Physicist-Artist Smitha Vishveshwara

  A book reading & signing featuring two art-science creators, with special guests. Richard Blanco, national poet laureate, will read from "Homeland of My Body." Artist-Physicist Smitha Vishveshwara will read from "Two Revolutions: Einstein’s Relativity and Quantum Physics." Books available for purchase. Light refreshments served. Free and open to all.

  • Other

Tuesday, April 22, 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
• • 9:00 am
  • Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, Room 3350

  PhD Final Defense – Paul Gharzouzi

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am
  • The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236

  Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Single molecules, imaging, tracking, and the diffraction limit for finite photons."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

  Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington

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

  NPRE Undergraduate Seminar Series: Constellation-Kristin McCoskey, Joseph Serio, Dr. Dave Sikorski

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm

  Title: The X-59: A High-Speed Journey from Finite Element Models to Aeroservoelasticity

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • TBD

  Prelim Exam: Shubhang Bhatnagar

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

  Mechanics of glioma cells and T cells in brain tissue

  • 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
• • 6:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Flatstick Pub - South Lake Union

  ECE Seattle Alumni Reception

  • Social/Informal Event

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
• 

  • 10:00 am
  • NCSA Auditorium

  Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Recipients Panel Discussion

  Meet the 2025 class of Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Recipients!

  • Other
• • 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
  • Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 W Main St, Auditorium (B02)

  Seminar with Advanced Packaging Speaker Ganesh Subbarayan

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Anuj Maheshwari

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

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Avery Tishue (UIUC) "Fundamental Physics with kSZ Tomography"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:05 pm
  • 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion

  Data-driven, Physics-based Modeling of Strongly Nonlinear Mechanical Structures

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

  Distinguished Lecture: Jason Cong, "Efficient LLMs: From Model Innovation to Customized Acceleration"

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

  Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

  • Meeting
• • 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

  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
• • 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

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

  Prelim Exam: Erkan Bayram

  • 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

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
• • 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
• 

  • 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: ""

  • 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

Sunday, April 27, 2025

• • All Day

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

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • All Day

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

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 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

  • 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
• 

  • 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
• • 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
• • 12:30 - 2:30 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Gabriel Muniz Negron

  • 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 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
• 

  • 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 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
  • 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

Friday, May 2, 2025

• • All Day

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

  • Ceremony/Service
• 

  • 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
  • Illini Union- Room 314 A & B

  2nd Annual ISE Student Conference

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 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

• • 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

Monday, May 5, 2025

• 

  • 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

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov

  • 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

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

  IQUIST Seminar: Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

  Speaker: Srinivasan Arunachalam, Senior Research Scientist, IBM

  • 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 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 - "Improving Erosion Resistance of Polydicyclopentadiene for Low Earth Orbit Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • 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

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

  • Other

Friday, May 9, 2025

• • 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

Monday, May 12, 2025

• • 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

• • 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

• 

  • 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

Friday, May 16, 2025

• • 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

Sunday, May 18, 2025

• • 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

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

  • Other

Friday, May 23, 2025

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

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Friday, May 30, 2025

• • 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

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

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