Student Pool
(total Illinois 18 year olds)
US Census Bureau
April 2008
Enrollment 2011
2158
enrollment
Enrollment
enrollment
2158
Enrollment and ACT Scores
ACT
score
26.49
UIC College of Engineering – Technology Center
Preparing our students through Corporate Partnering
Engineering Tech Center
Revenues
Tech Center Clients
Past
Current
Akerman Senterfitt
Arryx, Inc.
Baxter
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Gabriel Inc. Spring '07
Hoover Materials
JSC
Kanvin (fall '08)
LA-CO Industries
Lisle Technology Partners
Material Sciences
McAndrews, Held & Malloy
Motorola - Corporate Labs
Motorola - Mobile Devices
Northrup Grumman
PC Tel
Sargent & Lundy
Servo Tech., Inc.
UOP (On-Campus)
Venture Gain
Blue Cross Blue Shield
BP
Gate Gourmet
Indie Energy
LA-CO
Motorola Mobility
NAVTEQ
PC Tel
Water Reclamation (On-Campus)
Faculty
old
Faculty Status
•
119 Faculty, 19 female
•
50 Fellows of Societies, IEEE, ASME, ASCE, ACM
•
24 NSF Career Award, NYI, PYI Awardees
• One member of the National Academy of
Engineering
Faculty Promotions
Promotions to Full Professor
Sudip Mazumder (Electrical and Computer
Engineering)
Promotions to Associate Professor with tenure
James Patton (BioEngineering)
David Eddington (BioEngineering)
Randall Meyer (Chemical Engineering)
Daniela Tuninetti (Electrical and Computer
Engineering)
Faculty Recruiting
Two new faculty members joining this fall
Jingjing Li,
Zheng Yang,
PhD University of Pennsylvania Dec. 2007,
Postdoctoral Research Associateat Hewlett
Packard Research Labs prior to joining UIC's
ECE Department asAssistant Professor.
PhD Univ. California, Riverside, Jun 2009,
Postdoctoral Research Associateat
Harvard University prior to joining UIC's
ECE Department as AssistantProfessor.
Update on Selected
Faculty Awards
(since May - September 2011)
Urmila Diwekar
(Adjunct Professor in BioE)
First woman to ever receive the
Lawrence B. Cecil Award from the
American Institute of Chemical
Engineers (AIChE).
Recipient of the 2011 Ernest
Thiele Award of the Chicago
Section of the American Institute
of Chemical Engineers.
Natasha Devroye
(ECE)
Received the Best Paper Award at the
conference CROWNCOM,
Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless
Networks and Communications, for the
paper “Receiver-side Opportunism in
Cognitive Networks”.
Appointed Associate Editor for the
IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications.
Danilo Erricolo
(ECE)
General Chairman, IEEE
Antennas and Propagation
Society International
Symposium/USNC-URSI National
Radio Science Meeting Chicago,
IL, 2012.
Lead Guest Editor, Special issue
International Journal of Antennas
and Propagation, approved in
August 2011.
Shantanu Dutt
(ECE)
Lead Guest Editor for New Algorithmic
Techniques for Complex EDA Problems
in the VLSI Design Journal.
Paper by ECE Michael Stroscio and Mitra
Dutta in Semiconductor Science and
Technology,
a high impact journal published from the UK
picked ten of the highest quality published
articles from the United States of America in
the past two years.
Alan Feinerman
(ECE)
One of ten selected out of 220
submissions to go to the CTSI
Defense Energy Challenge.
UI patent awarded.
Advanced to semi-finals of Clean
Tech Open for their north central
region.
2011 University Scholars
Jason Leigh
(CS)
Isabel Cruz
(CS)
Leland Wilkinson
(CS)
Elected Fellow of AAAS.
The FODAVA Distinguished Lecture,
Georgia Tech. "The Mathematical
Foundation of Analytic
Visualizations."
Appointed to the Panel on
Developing Science, Technology
and Innovation Indicators for the
Future at the National Academy of
Sciences.
Dale Reed
(CS)
Receives UIC INSPIRE Award
Sol Shatz
(CS)
Appointed as the UIC Interim
Executive Associate Vice
Chancellor for Research
Dan Bernstein
(CS)
Google Adds Possible TCP
Replacement Developed by
UIC CS Research Professor
Dan Bernstein To Chrome
Recent Grants
Recent Grants
Christos Takoudis
“Novels Synthesis And Characterization Of Intermediate
Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells”
National Science Foundation,
$474,966 (2011-2014)
James Patton
“Midwest Regional Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems:
Innovation Approaches to Improve Cognition, Function, and
Common Living”
Rehabilitation Inst. Research Corp.
$32,560 (2010-2011)
James Patton
“Error-Enhanced Learning & Recovery in 2&3 Dimension”
RIC
$177,810 (2011)
Recent Grants
Jie Liang
“Collaborative Research ABI Development
Algorithms and Software for Discovery of Non
Sequential Protein Structure Similarities”
National Science Foundation DBI
$613,803 (2011-2014)
David Eddington
“Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and
Therapeutics”
Chicago Biomedical Consortium
$301,254 (2010-2012)
Recent Grants
Sohail Murad
“Geothermal Energy Project at the Metropolitan Water
Reclamation District of Greater Chicago”
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago,
$175,000 (2011-2012)
Randall Meyer
(with Robert Klie, Physics)
“Understanding the Active Sites in Selective Alcohol Synthesis
with Promoted Rh Catalysts”
National Science Foundation, $300,000
Recent Grants
Craig Foster
“Planning Visit For Numerical And Experimental
Investigation Of Geothermal Heat Pumps”
National Science Foundation, $6,127 (2011 – 2012)
Didem Ozevin
“BRIDGE: Preventing Immenent Failures Of Pipeline
Networks Via Real Time Damage Detection And
Location System”
National Science Foundation, $173,559 (2011 –
2013)
Recent Grants
Isabel Cruz
“US-Based Students To Attend The ACM SIGSPATIAL
International Conference On Advances In Geographic
Information Systems 2011 (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011)”
National Science Foundation, $25,691 (2011-2012)
Isabel Cruz
“Visual Analytics For Ontology Matching”
National Science Foundation, $150,000 (2011-2013)
Recent Grants
Bhaskar Dasgupta - Jie Liang (BioE)
“Collaborative Research: ABI Development;
Algorithms and Software for Discovery of NonSequential Protein Structure Similarities”
National Science Foundation, $408,140 (2011-2014)
Thomas Moher
“HCC: Medium: New Technology Supports For
Learning In Embodied Science Inquiry Contexts”
National Science Foundation, $373,880 (2011-2015)
Jakob Eriksson
“A Real Time, Context Aware Transit Navigator”
Transportation Research Board, $80,000 (20112012)
Recent Grants
Philip Yu
“TC: Small-Robust Anonymization On Social Networks”
National Science Foundation, $495,935 (2011-2014)
Philip Yu
“PIRE: Training And workshops In Data Intensive
Computing Using the Open Science Data Cloud”
University of Chicago, $85,409 (2010-2011)
Recent Grants
Peter Nelson & John Dillenburg
“Gateway Traveler Information System and Travel
Midwest Website”
IL Dept. of Transportation (IDOT),
$4,234,028 (2011-2013)
Lenore Zuck
“Distributed, Verified, and Trustworthy Protocols for
Mobile Spacecraft Coalitions”
DARPA, $255,000
Lenore Zuck
Co-Pi Venkat Venkatakrishnan
“TC: EAGER: From Development Tools To Secure
Web Applications”
National Science Foundation, $228,175 (2011-2013)
Recent Grants
Venkat Venkatakrishnan
(with Information & Decision Sciences (Business), Communications
(LAS), Biomedical & Health Information Sciences (Applied Health
Sciences)
“Electronic Security and Privacy: Technological,
Human, Enterprise and Legal Considerations”
National Science Foundation IGERT, $3.2 Million
(2011-2016)
Venkat Venkatakrishnan
“CCS Workshop Organization Supplement”
National Science Foundation, $29,369 (2011-2012)
Recent Grants
Tanya Berger-Wolf,
Co-PIs Bhaskar Das Gupta,
Ashfaq Khokhar (ECE),
Mary Ashley (Bio)
“Collaborative Research: Scalable Kinship Inference in
Wild Populations Across Years and Generations”
National Science Foundation,
$1.2 Million, UIC share $955,000
Recent Grants
Bing Liu
“Comparing Consumer Sentiments In the USA and
China For Business Intelligence”
Hewlett-Packard Co, $60,000 (2011-2012)
Bing Liu
“Collaborative Research: Using Multi-Modal Digital
Footprints to Infer Public Sentiment”
National Science Foundation, $450,000
Leland Wilkinson
“Anomaly Discovery through Visual Characterizations
of Point Sets Embedded in High-Dimensional
Geometric Spaces”
NSF/DHS FODAVA, $185,000 (2011-2014)
Recent Grants
Leilah Lyons and Andy Johnson
(with Moira Zellner, Urban Planning and Policy)
“CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: Enhancing Stakeholder
Participation in Environmental Planning with Visualization
Tools that Support Complex Systems Learning and Spatial
Thinking”
National Science Foundation, $250,000 Million
Leilah Lyons and Thomas Moher
(with Susan Goldman, Psychology)
“Climate Literacy Zoo Education Network”
Brookfield Zoo (Chicago Zoological Soc.),
$433,099 (2010-2012)
Leilah Lyons
(with Josh Radinsky, College of Education)
“CoCensus: Collaboration Exploration of Census Data in a
Museum”
National Endowment for the Humanities,
$50,000
Recent Grants
Daniela Tuninetti, CoPI: Daniel Graupe
“Adaptive Closed-loop Control of Deep Brain
Stimulation for Movement Disorders”
National Science Foundation, $330,001 (2011-2014)
Sudip Mazumder
“Universal, Programmable and Affordable Power
Technologies for Underwater Vehicles”
Naval Surface Warfare Center
(via Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI))
$170,000 (2011-2012)
Recent Grants
Mike Stroscio, co-PI: Mitra Dutta
“Multi-functional UV-Visible-IR Nanosensor Devices
and Structures”
AFOSR grant, $451,380 (2011 – 2015)
Mitra Dutta
“SBIR Phase II Nanotechnology enhanced High Efficient
Miniaturized Energy Harvesting System”
ELORET Corp., $85,000 (2011 – 2013)
Recent Grants
David He
“Oil Condition Monitoring”
NRG Systems Inc., $55,278 (2011-2012)
David He
“Conditioned Based Maintenance Technology - Mechanical
Diagnostic And Prognostics Using AE Sensors”
Vertical Lift Consortium, $44,000 (2011-2012)
Recent Grants
Lin Li“GOALI/Collaborative Research: Cost-Effective Energy
Efficiency Management of Sustainable Manufacturing
Systems.”
National Science Foundation, $424,000
Recent Grants
Sabri Cetinkunt
“Real Time Control for Automated Wheel Lodor
Functions and Power”
Caterpillar, $60,000 (2011)
Farzad Mashayek
“MRC Master Agreement”
Enabling Energy Systems Inc, $40,000 (2011)
Recent Grants
Steffen Mueller & Kenneth Copenhaver
“Domestic Land Use Change Analysis From Biofuel
Production”
IL Corn Marketing Board, $45,000 (2011)
Steffen Mueller
“In-Season Corn Grain Availability Assessment”
IL River Energy, $15,000 (2011)
Kenneth Copenhaver
“Energy Assurance Planning ARRA”
IL Dept of Commerce & Economic Opportunity
(DCEO), $589,153 (2010-2012)
Research Funding Trends
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
YTD%Cha
2010-11
nge
ERC
$3,033,099 $2,389,361 $1,149,409 $1,855,848 $2,432,493
31.07%
MIE
$3,019,612 $2,606,271 $2,905,039 $2,485,919 $3,188,998
28.28%
BioE
$2,486,506 $3,230,575 $3,230,697 $4,216,812 $3,933,843
-6.71%
CS
$6,155,029 $6,606,428 $6,298,929 $7,500,199 $6,650,458
-11.33%
ChE
$933,980
-15.31%
CME
$1,357,408 $1,509,740 $1,644,798 $2,105,432 $2,273,404
7.98%
ECE
$3,657,565 $3,447,529 $3,673,253 $3,485,711 $3,284,289
$20,805,58 $21,051,80 $20,169,36 $22,752,74 $22,697,46
8
3
5
2
5
-5.78%
College
$793,066
$882,219 $1,186,908 $1,102,821
-0.24%