Illinois ECE Saturday Engineering for Everyone

Saturday, April 6, 2024

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 1002 Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, 306 North Wright Street, Urbana IL

  From Nikola Tesla to TESLA: How the Electric Grid Became the Most Complex System Ever Engineered

  • Lecture

Saturday, April 13, 2024

• 

  • 10:00 am
    
  • 1002 Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, 306 North Wright Street, Urbana IL

  The Quantum Physics of an Ordinary Morning

  We tend to think of quantum mechanics as an abstract and arcane area of physics that only applies in the exotic situations found in physics labs, billion-dollar particle accelerators, or near black holes. In fact, the development of quantum physics has its roots in very mundane, everyday phenomena.

  • Lecture