When Hamilton Elementary School 4th and 5th grade decided to have their first paper airplane contest, they reached out to MIE—to see if any engineers could help their students craft the best paper airplanes. Three MIE students and members of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics club, Kyriakos Anastasopoulos, Collin Brady and Oliver Sanchez, […]

Winners of the ASHRAE Illinois Chapter 2014 Scholarships were announced recently and all four winners are from the MIE Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Three winners are enrolled in the Master of Energy Engineering program and one is working on a M.S., Mechanical Engineering. Congratulations to Kelly Costello, Ben Campbell, Matt Kaleta […]

Rodica A. Baranescu has been nominated as a member of the National Committee on: “Assessment of Technologies and Approaches for Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium and Heavy Duty Vehicles, Phase 2″ This Committee – composed of experts from industry, academia and research institutions will work under the Assignment of the National Research Council (NRC) […]

The latest publication by MIE Professors Amin Salehi-Khojin, Alex Yarin and Jeremiah Abiade and their research groups has received great publicity. Their publication explains how new catalysts turn carbon dioxide into fuels faster and more efficiently. Click here for all the related articles.

Congratulations to MIE Professor Alexander Yarin, selected as a 2014 UIC Distinguished Professor. This award, which is bestowed upon only a select few faculty members at UIC every year, recognizes Professor Yarin’s significant impact on his field through scholarship, creativity and leadership.