Do you really trust online product ratings? CS Prof. Bing Liu is featured in this New York Times article about opinion spam, or fake online reviews.

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John Major, M.S. ’82, is the recipient of this year’s William Winters Award for his work as Chairman of the College Advisory Board.

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CME Professor Jane Lin featured in a "PI Spotlight" article in the ICT, Illinois Center for Transportation Newsletter.

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COE Dean & Professor Peter Nelson explains why Chicagoans are dealing with BlackBerry outages.

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UIC Wins $3.2 Million IGERT Grant for Electronic Security and Privacy Study. Prof. Venkat Venkatakrishnan from Computer Science is the Principal Investigator.

Engineering Career Prep Day, Friday, January 27th, 2012, 8:30am-12:00pm.

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EXPO, the COE Senior Design Competition is coming. April 17, 2012.

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The College of Engineering SCHOLARSHIP/AWARDS PROGRAM announces the 2012 – 2013 Scholarship application period for eligible continuing Engineering students.

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The COE Staff Excellence Award recognizes up to 10% of the COE staff for their significant impact on the educational and research mission as well as their contributions to a positive work environment. View a list of the 2011 honorees

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Chemical Engineering receives $599,766 NSF S-STEM grant to increase enrollment of women in Chemical Engineering.