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Engineering Career Prep Day 2013. Alumni mentors from leading companies will lead interactive discussions covering these important topics! Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to meet with engineering experts from various industries.		The COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SCHOLARSHIP/AWARDS PROGRAM announces the 2013/2014 Scholarship application period for eligible continuing Engineering students.
Engineering Career Fair 2013. The fair includes over 100 recruiters representing many local and international employers searching for future employees in the areas of engineering and computer science.		Eweek 2013. For a week in February, Engineers at college campuses all over the country get involved with Engineering Week which celebrates Engineering students.
EXPO, the COE Senior Design Competition 4/23/13.		Commencement video archive and Class of 2013 Photo Montage now available.
UIC Ranked 11th of World's Best Young Universities.		How would you explain your Ph.D. research to someone with no scientific background? See how Christopher Knowlton explains his in-progress BioE Ph.D. thesis with dance.
Junior mechanical engineering major Ante Kovacevic explores renewable energy initiatives in Costa Rica.		Senior industrial engineering major, Nadya Fogarty, has taken a nontraditional path to her degree. Read about her journey.
Inspired by comic book character Spider-Man, doctoral student Victor Mateevitsi developed and built, a system of wearable ultrasound sensors that can augment human sensory capacity.		Jaimie Stewart, senior bioengineering major, plans to combine her passions for medicine, teaching, and minority participation in engineering. Read her story.
The College of Engineering has launched a new guaranteed internship program for freshman engineers. Read more here.		UIC's Engineering Design Team robots crush Midwestern competition.
This year, three UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) research assistants were recognized in the campus' 2013 Image of Research competition. First place went to Joshua Albers, a New Media Arts MFA student, second place went to Khairi Reda, a Computer Science PhD student, and a Finalist was Victor Mateevitsi, a Computer Science PhD student.

2013 Department News

UIC Faculty Awards. Three faculty receive the 2013 Teaching Recognition Award.		UIC Faculty Awards. Two faculty receive the 2012 OVCR Researchers of the Year Awards.
CS Prof. & Dept. Head, Bob Sloan appears on Channel 11's "Chicago Tonight" to discuss how Google's Gmail culls emails for information in order to better target ads.		Elsa Soto, Assistant Director, Academic Resource Center in the College of Engineering, has been awarded the Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award.
The University Scholars Program honors faculty members for superior research and teaching, along with great promise for future achievements. MIE Professor Constantine Megaridis is the recipient of this distinguished award.		WTTW Channel 11's "Chicago Tonight" airs story on EVL and CAVE2™ System on April 23rd.
WTTW (Channel 11) television's news show, "Chicago Tonight," aired the story "The Star Wars Connection". It profiles the involvement of EVL faculty, students and visiting artist Larry Cuba in making the computer graphics special effects for the 1977 Star Wars movie.		World War II veteran, Paul Gordon, has completed the Master of Engineering online program at 85 years old. Read about his life here.
MIE team of researchers headed by assistant professor Amin Salehi-Khojin have discovered a technique for controlling the sensitivity of graphene chemical sensors.		He's not your typical graduate student. Orthopaedist and engineering doctoral candidate, Mark Gonzalez, MD, started down the road to a PhD with the Master of Engineering online program.

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