Women in Engineering at Illinois

Congratulations to our Spring Graduates!

WIE 🖤 You!

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Celebrate Quinn's Birthday on 4/28!


"The Quintessential Engineer," located outside the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory on the north Engineering Quad, is the product of a campaign started five years ago by Engineering alumna Sakshi Srivastava. The statue was created by Chicago sculptor Julie Rotblatt-Amrany and was financed by Texas Instruments (TI) to hopefully inspire both current and future female engineering students at the University.

Celebrate Quinn's 5th birthday with us on Thursday, April 28, 2022 4:00pm-5:00pm at Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab Atrium on 208 North Wright Street, Urbana.

Get those papers and projects done. Study for your finals. Eat healthy. Rest. Know that you are doing your best. Finish this semester strong.

WIE is proud of you!

Its gloomy out today, but spring is here. Get outside and get some sun. Study outside. Eat lunch outside. Go for a walk. Enjoying outdoors is key to mental wellness.

Congratulations to bioengineering junior Mia Takekawa for being named the Gymnast of the Week by the Big Ten Women's Gymnastics! She's won six event titles, including both all-arounds in two meets last week and is the first Illini gymnast to ever record two perfect 10s in her career.

Happy International Women's Day!

Today at 3:30 pm, Professor Judith Liebman will be honored amongst "13 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories"

Judith Liebman became the first woman on the CEE faculty in 1972, at a time when there was only one other woman faculty member in the College of Engineering. Liebman's original appointment was split between CEE and Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (which is now Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, or ISE)

Learn more about her story .illinois.edu/womensday

Does this nice weather have you thinking about summer? Apply today to be a WIE Orientation Mentor - application deadline extended to March 11!

Apply today!

https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/676692737?referrer=https://shibboleth.illinois.edu/

To all the newly admitted engineers out there, we hope you are ready to join the Grainger Engineering family. You belong here. Congrats!

Accept your admissions offer: https://admissions.illinois.edu/apply/admitted

Swimmer Abby Cabush, a senior in Engineering, has broken several records during her swim career. She has broken the University record for freestyle and some personal ones too.

Learn more about her story:
https://dailyillini.com/life_and_culture-stories/2022/02/22/abby-cabush-swim-illini/

WIE had a great morning training some of our WIEsters to be Ambassadors. We appreciate the time and efforts our Ambassadors give to help the success of WIE.

WIE ❤ Our Ambassadors!

Will you be our Valentine? Come to 212 Engineering Hall on Monday, February 14 from 12:00pm to 3:00pm to celebrate Valentines Day with us with a goody bag.

The University of Illinois Archives’ monthly Women in Science Lecture Series features speakers from across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s diverse and multidisciplinary scientific enterprise. The lecture series seeks to highlight the important innovations and contributions of women in the sciences at the University of Illinois, and center the importance of documenting women scientists and engineers to create a diverse and inclusive archival record. This lecture series will take place over Zoom on the second Tuesday of every month from 12:00 to 1:00 pm. Please join us for our February lecture with the leadership team from MakerGirl: Mary Hadley, Elizabeth Engele and Julia Haried. You can register here: https://go.illinois.edu/FebWomenInScience



Please share with anyone who might be interested! For more information about the lecture series and to view past lectures, visit the lecture series website.



February 8, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm CT

Speaker: Mary Hadley, Elizabeth Engele, and Julia Haried

MakerGirl Leadership Team

Registration: https://go.illinois.edu/FebWomenInScience



Future speakers and events:



March 31, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm CT

Join us for a panel discussion on the film Picture a Scientist

Details and registration forthcoming



April 12, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm CT

Speaker: Dr. Cecilia Leal

Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Racheff Faculty Scholar

Registration: https://go.illinois.edu/AprWomenInScience



May 10, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm CT

Speaker: Dr. Katie Ansell

Teaching Assistant Professor

Registration: https://go.illinois.edu/MayWomenInScience