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College of Engineering News

Meenesh Singh

Pulling cleaner fertilizer out of thin air

Posted on January 13, 2026

UIC engineering faculty and students with the students from Mark T. Skinner West Elementary School at the First Lego League robotics qualifier host by the St. Ignatius College Prep FIRST robotics team.

UIC supports future engineers at St Ignatius Lego competition

David Staudacher | Posted on January 08, 2026

Pai-Yen Chen

Engineers create wearable sensor that flexes with skin

Tess Joosse | Posted on January 07, 2026

Thomas Searles

Thomas Searles named NSBP Fellow

Andrea Poet | Posted on December 09, 2025

CME Professor Jane Lin to lead top-tier transportation journal

David Staudacher | Posted on November 25, 2025

Three PhD students receive Dean’s Scholarship

Meghan King | Posted on November 17, 2025

UIC researchers are working on a new pancreatic cancer treatment, which separates cancer cells from the bloodstream using a small chip device.

Pancreatic cancer research project attacks ‘seeds of metastasis’

Jenna Kurtzweil | Posted on November 17, 2025

Researchers collaborate on the development of quantum technologies at the SQMS Quantum Garage, one of the world-class quantum research facilities developed by the center

Energy Department funding extends UIC, Fermilab partnership

Jenna Kurtzweil | Posted on November 13, 2025

Undergraduate students Lizette Salinas, industrial engineering; Luis Gonzalez, computer engineering; and Vanessa Del Real, electrical engineering,

UIC students win the Academic Olympiad Competition at SHPE convention

David Staudacher | Posted on November 12, 2025

Kamran Avanaki

UIC professor advances safer, more sensitive brain imaging for newborns

Meghan King | Posted on November 11, 2025

Assistant Professor Jida Huang, Professor Yayue Pan, both from Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Associate Professor Ning Ai from the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

UIC receives NASA grant to establish an institute

David Staudacher | Posted on October 10, 2025

Adina Luican-Mayer

Luican-Mayer receives prestigious Moore Foundation grant

Posted on October 08, 2025

PhD student Chengwei Wang monitors bridge health with a peer in the lab at UIC.

Using machine learning to detect bridge health

David Staudacher | Posted on October 02, 2025

Sungjoon Kim

UIC alumnus receives honor for groundbreaking nanomaterials research

Meghan King | Posted on October 01, 2025

UIC faculty researchers Craig Foster and Carmen Lilley have received the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for the 2025-26 academic year.

Engineering faculty members receive Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards

Jenna Kurtzweil | Posted on September 15, 2025

Robert Sloan

Robert Sloan steps down as CS department head

Andrea Poet | Posted on September 04, 2025

UIC engineering students with WTTW’s Chicago Tonight host Brandis Friedman

Three engineering students featured on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight

Posted on August 29, 2025

Wei Tang

Tang receives NSF CAREER award to understand compositionality of the physical world

Andrea Poet | Posted on August 27, 2025

Baoxin LI

CS welcomes new Department Head Baoxin Li

Andrea Poet | Posted on August 27, 2025

Drone shot of the engineering campus on a sunny day

Dean's Welcome to the Fall 2025 Semester

Posted on August 25, 2025

Ying Liu and Jenny Huang

Team wins Blaze Venture, pursues drug delivery for expanded use of cancer drug

Meghan King | Posted on August 19, 2025

Chicago Public Schools teacher Anna Fimmel participated in the College of Engineering’s Biomedical Engineering Experience for Science Teachers, or BEST, program this summer at UIC.

Summer program gives Chicago teachers hands-on lessons to take back to class

Carlos Sadovi | Posted on August 19, 2025

Lu Cheng

Lu Cheng receives NSF CAREER grant to improve AI accuracy, reliability

Andrea Poet | Posted on August 19, 2025

CME professor Matthew Daly and postdoc Jungsub Lee discuss preparing ceramic samples for characterization using a focused ion beam mill

Researcher awarded $510,000 grant to develop shatter-resistant ceramics

David Staudacher | Posted on August 19, 2025

Professor Subramanian Sankaranarayanan and members of his research team at UIC

UIC professor using AI and supercomputing for next-generation energy storage

David Staudacher | Posted on August 19, 2025