blog navigation

blog posts

  • $30 million research center will be based at UI

    Nov 1, 2012 8:00 am

    The new SONIC center — short for Systems on Nanoscale Information fabriCs — will be directed by Naresh Shanbhag, a UI professor of electrical and computer engineering.

  • Champaign-based firm IntelliWheels plans January product launch

    Oct 30, 2012 8:00 am

    Champaign-based IntelliWheels has developed a product to make getting around in wheelchairs easier.

  • LED Symposium Honors Holonyak and His Invention

    Oct 29, 2012 8:00 am

    On October 24, more than 250 participants gathered for the start of the two-day LED 50th Anniversary Symposium that commemorated the demonstration of the visible light-emitting diode (LED) in 1962 by its inventor, ECE alumnus and Professor Nick Holonyak Jr. (BSEE ’50, MSEE ’51, PhD ’54).

  • LEDs will dominate lighting, expert predicts at Holonyak symposium

    Oct 25, 2012 8:00 am

    Scientists from around the world gathered at the I Hotel to pay tribute to Nick Holonyak and his invention of the visible light-emitting diode, or LED, in 1962.

  • iFoundry announces the debut of the iFoundry Innovation certificate

    Oct 25, 2012 8:00 am

    First-year engineering students who are passionate about becoming entrepreneurs, innovative product designers, and technical developers are especially encouraged to apply for the College of Engineering's first certificate program--the iFoundry Innovation Certificate (IC).

  • Reebok-CCM and MC10 to Launch Revolutionary Sports Impact Indicator

    Oct 24, 2012 8:00 am

    Reebok-CCM Hockey and MC10 Inc. today announced that early next year a revolutionary new wearable sports impact indicator that identifies impacts to the head during play, will be made commercially available to consumers.

  • University celebrates 50th anniversary of Holonyak's LED

    Oct 23, 2012 8:00 am

    You may not know his invention, but you use it every day. From the iPhone and iPad, to laptops, flat-screen TVs, traffic lights and alarm clocks, this invention has been prevalent in modern life: the light-emitting diodes, better know as LED.

  • Rogers to head Materials Research Laboratory

    Oct 22, 2012 8:00 am

    John A. Rogers, the Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois, has been named director of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory (MRL).

  • Paint technology company moves from incubator to south of Bondville

    Oct 21, 2012 8:00 am

    A company seeking to commercialize "self-healing" technology for paints and coatings has graduated from the University of Illinois business incubator and moved to a site southwest of Champaign.

  • Nick Holonyak Jr., the LED and Illinois

    Oct 18, 2012 8:00 am

    Gallium, phosphorus and arsenic don’t go together. At least that’s the story you would have gotten from most materials and chemistry authorities in the early 1960’s. But not the one you’d have received from Nick Holonyak Jr.