Engineering grad life

GShine_1989
Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:47:59 +0000

There’s a fantastic $90 million building coming up just for EE (John Bardeen Hall). You won’t need the rest of Urbana and Champaign once that thing gets completed (around 2011-12).

Also, nanotechnology is one of the main focuses of EE at UIUC because the department’s strongest legacy is in semiconductor technology (having been associated with the inventors of the transistor, LED, and integrated circuit) and in physics is condensed matter/solid state physics (#1 ranked department for that in the world). You’ll mostly find the nanotechnology professors in the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab (MNTL) but also Beckman Institute and Materials Research Library (MRL). There’s about 15-20 of them within the ECE department itself and more in physics and materials science.