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Corporate Relations

The Grainger College of Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
203 Engineering Hall
1308 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
grainger.illinois.edu/corporate

GRAINGER ENGINEERINGThe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering is
one of the world’s top ranked engineering institutions. Our students, faculty, andalumni set the standard for excellence. We drive the economy, reimagine engineering
education, and bring revolutionary ideas to the world.
We solve the world’s greatest challenges, transforming today’s ideas into tomorrow’s
reality. We explore the next generation of drone technology, design less invasive
ways to fight cancer, lead the innovation of virtual reality, and uncover new forms ofmatter. We do the impossible every day.

Who We Are
The Grainger College of Engineering values students, faculty, and alumni above
all else. It is this passion and drive for excellence that makes us one of the top 10
engineering schools in the nation.
We are constantly growing, always evolving. We ask the big questions, solve theunsolvable, innovate new technologies only dreamed of until now, and redefine what
is possible when bright minds work together.

What We Do
As part of a land-grant university and Tier 1 research institution, The Grainger College
of Engineering is committed to providing an outstanding education and facilitating
research that will change the world. From the transistor to the first internet operating
system, research from our college has been fundamental to modern advances,leading to the technology we use today. Our faculty and researchers continue thistrend, always at the forefront of innovation. Educating the engineers of tomorrow is
a responsibility we take very seriously. Whether Grainger Engineering students enter
academia or industry, our mission ensures they are prepared and equipped to thrivein their field.

1Strategic Plan

Continuing a tradition of excellence while pursuing solutions to new challenges facing
our world, The Grainger College of Engineering is directing and investing resources toboldly pursue the following strategic directions:• Grow basic and translational research impact• Deliver high-impact, personalized educational experiences at scale• Establish ubiquitous diversity, equity, access, and inclusion• Acquire, steward, and align resources with priorities• Communicate our achievements and capabilities• Enable our people to achieve their full potential.
Visit: grainger.illinois.edu/about/strategic-plan.

ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIESGrainger Engineering offers many partnership opportunities for companies toengage with and support the missions of faculty and students. These collaborative
opportunities allow industry and research to generate technology andbreakthroughs. Partner with us in leading-edge projects and programs, driving
exceptional research and spurring innovation. Engage with our faculty to advanceyour industry and work with our students to increase your pool of talented future
employees. Together we will build strategic partnerships including sponsoredresearch, recruitment, continued education, and philanthropy.

Philanthropy

Corporate philanthropy supports programs for budding engineers,
underrepresented groups, and much more at The Grainger College of Engineering.
Join us in advancing the knowledge and expanding the possibilities of a thriving
world-class engineering institution.

Programmatic Support

Your company may support programs for students and faculty in a varietyof contexts. This can be anything from assisting youth outreach initiatives
to supplying researchers with necessary equipment.

Outreach

The Grainger College of Engineering is committed to extending thebenefits of engineering and STEM education to everyone.
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Illinois Academic Redshirt in Science and Engineering (ARISE) - Students in the
ARISE program are highly talented undergraduates who lacked access to the samelevel of academics as their peers. This five-year program provides a community forthese students and facilitates continued collegiate success.
The IDEA Institute - The IDEA Institute supports scholarship, innovation,
collaboration, and leadership in the areas of inclusion, diversity, equity,and access (IDEA) within The Grainger College of Engineering. The Institute organizes
the college’s efforts and raises visibility in these areas.

Scholarships and Fellowships

Help the best and brightest of Grainger Engineering through undergraduate
scholarships and graduate fellowships. With this support, students canreach their educational goals.

Faculty Support

Grainger Engineering faculty are solving the world’s greatest challenges
and educating the next generation. Proper investment means they cantruly enact global changes.
Unrestricted Research Gifts – These gifts support research and numerous projects
throughout Grainger Engineering.
Equipment Loans or Donations – Loan or donate equipment to faculty members,
giving them the tools required to conduct their research.

Recruitment

Recruit Grainger Engineering students for internships and full-time jobs
after graduation and access the most sought-after students in the nation.

Engineering Career Services Career Fair

The spring and fall career fairs are the best way to get face-to-face contact with
Grainger Engineering students. The fall career fair is one of the largest in the country,with more than 400 companies and over 6,500 students attending.

Internships and Co-Ops

Working with current engineering students, your company will experience firsthandthe outcomes of a Grainger Engineering education. Internships
and Co-Ops place your company top of mind for students when looking
for post-graduation employment.
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City Scholars

Through this innovative program, current students spend a semester in Chicago,
working part time at internships while continuing their studies.
City Scholars builds a pipeline between Grainger Engineering students
and the City of Chicago.

Industry Affiliates Program

Participating in an affiliation program gets you in the door with students
and researchers in key departments. Affiliates participate in strategic programs,
gaining further insight into academic programs.

Corporate Events

Holding an event on campus facilitates one-on-one conversations with students andresearchers and showcases the benefits of collaboratingwith your company.
Corporate Day - Companies set up in a campus building lobby, creating
an accessible and informal meeting place and an excellent means of networking withstudents and researchers.
Corporate Hack-A-Thon – Build a software or hardware Hack-a-Thonaround a relevant problem and watch our brightest minds solve the issue
and showcase their skills.
Tech Talks - Host a technical talk on campus and connect with students
while highlighting your organization’s current developments.

Guest Speaker and Lecture Opportunities

Prominent industry leaders and experts share ideas and create relevant
conversations during distinguished lecture series.

Student Club Events

Student organizations are fundamental to the Grainger Engineering experience.
Sponsoring these clubs and their events help students
reach their full potential.
HackIllinois - One of the best collegiate hackathons in the nation,
HackIllinois is a 36-hour, caffeine-fueled exercise in creativity, cooperation, andinnovation. Teams work on projects, mentored by dozens of industry
leaders from the event’s nearly 40 sponsor companies.
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Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) Graduate Student Conference This conference showcases Grainger Engineering’s cutting edge and interdisciplinary
research and features a graduate student job fair.
Pulse – Designed by and for Electrical and Computer Engineering students, thePulse conference celebrates innovation in technology and connects students withgroundbreaking corporate projects.
Reflections/Projections - This student-organized tech conference draws students,
speakers, and companies from around the world to engage in conversation, an AI
hackathon, a startup fair, and a job fair.
Engineering Open House (EOH) - EOH draws more than 20,000 attendees every
year with interactive displays, renown speakers, and a world-famous robotics designcompetition. Participating companies and corporations highlight their innovations
and technologies at one of the best engineering colleges in the nation.

ResearchResearch and innovation are the heart of The Grainger College of Engineering.
Revolutionize your industry by partnering with Grainger Engineering faculty,
researchers, and students. Sponsor innovative research that will advance yourorganization and keep you at the forefront of the future.

Capstones and Senior Design Projects

These student projects create new design prospectives and solutions
tailored to specific industry issues. Sponsoring a senior design or capstone projectprovides problem-solving insights and access to possible new hires. Projects areavailable in bioengineering, computer science, electrical and computer engineering,industrial and enterprise systems, material sciences and engineering, andmechanical science and engineering.

Undergraduate Research

Sponsored undergraduate research, available in some departments,
exposes students to current disciplinary research, relevant discussions,and experiences outside of their regular coursework.
Illinois Scholars Undergraduate Research (ISUR) Program - ISUR offers
undergraduates two semesters of learning-by-apprenticeship, preparing them forresearch in both academia and industry.

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Multidisciplinary
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Top 5 ranked degreeand specialty
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Departments

Laboratories,
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Mentoring Undergraduates in Science and Engineering (MUSE) MUSE creates undergraduate and graduate student mentor pairs based on similar
research interests.
Promoting Undergraduate Research in Engineering (PURE) - PURE pairs first andsecond year undergraduates with graduate students for a semester-long engineeringresearch project, providing invaluable experience earlyin their career.

Sponsored Research

Corporate support for academic research comes in many forms, including financial
sponsorship. Companies may share proprietary materials and technical expertise toadvance joint research goals.
Our Process - Working from our database of expertise, The Office of Research
will match the best faculty member to your organization’s research problem. The
corporate relations team considers the details of your challenge, then narrows
possible faculty candidates to thosealigned to your interest.

Technical Testing

A Technical Testing Agreement (TTA) enables companies to engage
with the university, contracting out basic lab or field tests to technicians, without
faculty involvement.

Equipment and Facility Use

A Facility Use Agreement (FUA) allows companies to access lab andtesting facilities for research purposes.

Research Centers

Grainger Engineering is home to numerous research centers where faculty andresearchers work together on a shared purpose, idea, or goal. These centers are often
interdisciplinary and spur groundbreaking innovation.
Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS) - This collaboration
hopes to increase power density available in constrained mobile environments.
POETS seeks an interdisciplinary approach to co-design and co-operate powerdense electro-thermal systems.

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Socio-Technical Risk Assessment (SoTeRiA) - Based in the Nuclear,
Plasma, and Radiological Engineering Department, the SoTeRiA lab provides
scientific and innovative research solutions to complex real-world problems of safety,
reliability, profitability, and security. It is innovating Probabilistic Risk Assessment
by explicitly incorporating the science of underlying accident causation into risk
scenarios.
Center for Advanced Electronics Through Machine Learning (CAEML) CAEML’s vision is to enable fast, accurate design and verification of microelectronic
circuits and systems by creating machine learningalgorithms to derive models for electronic design automation. The center aims to
speed up the design and verification of microelectronic circuits
and systems, reducing development cost and time-to-market for manufacturers of
microelectronic products, especially integrated circuits.
Center for Autonomy – The Center for Autonomy enables high-impact research anddevelops new educational programs for students and professionals. The center plays
an important role in designing innovative systems that can function autonomously,
or without human intervention, in a safe and reliable way.
Center for Digital Agriculture - The Center for Digital Agriculture helps researchers,
educators, farmers, and industries keep pace with the ways technology istransforming how we feed and support a growing global population. The center
researches everything from the nature of the data itself—its collection, storage,transmission, and analysis—to how thedata might be used to optimize areas from precision agriculture tofood manufacturing to water use and treatment.
REMADE - In partnership with industry, academia and national labs, the REMADE
Institute enables early stage applied research and development of technologies that
could dramatically reduce the embodied energy and carbon emissions associatedwith industrial-scale materials production and processing.
Information Trust Institute (ITI) - The Information Trust Institute designs complex
systems that deliver a predictable level of reliability, security, performance andavailability, even when there are unknowns. Research is currently focused in theareas of critical infrastructures, energy systems, systems and networking, andtestbed science.

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Visiting Scientists

Engineers from all fields are invited to come for a sabbatical at The Grainger College
of Engineering in partnership with a host faculty of their choosing.

Interdisciplinary Research Centers

These centers serve as hubs for research and collaboration on campus, where
faculty and researchers from across disciplines meet to solve the world’s greatest
challenges.
Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) - Backed by more than 65 yearsof landmark innovations, CSL supports interdisciplinary research including theInternet of Things, cybersecurity, intelligent robotics, and health IT.
Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL) - MNTL is one of thecountry’s largest and most sophisticated university facilities for conducting
photonics, microelectronics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology research. The
facility includes 15 cleanrooms, 46 general purpose labs, and a 2,500 square footbiosafety level-2 bionanotechnology complex.
The Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) - MRL provides a highly-collaborative andprogressive materials research environment. At the forefront of materials discovery,
synthesis, fabrication, and understanding, MRL empowers researchers to makehighly functional materials and devices and to discover properties never before
observed.
The Illinois Applied Research Institute (ARI) - ARI performs translational researchwith a sharp focus on the development of technologies that are validated before theyleave the laboratory. This research is done in partnership with faculty, government,
and industry on open, proprietary, and classified projects.
Joint Programs with Federal Funders or Other Corporate Partners - Federal
agencies offer several funding opportunities for faculty willing to partner withcompanies. These grants are often written in partnership with a company willing to
supply small financial support or share their expertise.
View: https://www.nsf.gov/about/partners/fedagencies.jsp

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship

From YouTube to PayPal, some of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs began theirjourney in Grainger Engineering. Every Grainger engineer, from undergraduate tofaculty member, shares and develops this innovative spirit.

Licensable Intellectual Property

The Office of Technology Management’s (OTM) portfolio of licensable innovations
represents the breadth and depth of the university’s research enterprise. OTM’s
Ready-to-Sign Licensing Program facilitates rapid licensing and the transfer ofUniversity intellectual property.
View: https://otm.illinois.edu/technologies

Proof of Concept Funding to Advance Research to Commercial
Applications

Proof-of-Concept programs fund development projects that demonstrate aninnovation’s market viability to potential investors and partners. Projects consist of adefined set of milestones that, when completed, help overcome a specific hurdle toan innovation’s transfer outside of the university.
View: https://otm.illinois.edu/POC

Research Park Presence

The Research Park at the University Illinois Urbana-Champaign includes more than
120 companies ranging from corporate research to tech operations to startups.
These companies employ more than 2,100 people in high-tech careers and provide
experiential learning for more than 800 student interns.

Partnering with Faculty or Student Startups

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IP is the basis for more than 60 startups.
Through partnerships with startups, companies access teams of faculty or students
seeking innovation outside of academia.

Consulting

Companies may hire faculty as consultants outside of their academic responsibilities.
Constraints to consider include no access to university resources and varied
consulting fee rates per faculty member.

Short Courses and Custom Programs

Grainger Engineering’s Short Courses for Professionals focus on applications ofadvanced technical topics, developed and delivered by leading experts acrossmultiple areas of unique expertise. These small, in-person programs optimize
engagement, discussion, and hands-on learning.

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Grainger Engineering by the Numbers
Undergraduate Numbers

Undergraduate college rank: #5
Undergraduate population: 10,613
Undergraduate international percentage: 22%
Undergraduate female percentage: 25%
Undergraduate underrepresented minority percentage: 10%

Graduate Numbers

Graduate rank: #11
Graduate population: 6,048
Graduate international percentage: 48%
Graduate female percentage: 22%
Graduate underrepresented minority percentage: 5%

Total Tenure Track Faculty - 436

Grainger Engineering Departments by the Numbers
Aerospace Engineering

Tenure Track Faculty: 23
Undergraduate rank: #6
Undergraduate population: 654
Graduate rank: #7
Graduate population: 289

Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Tenure Track Faculty: 18
Undergraduate rank: #3
Undergraduate population: 234
Graduate rank: #4
Graduate population: 64

Bioengineering

Tenure Track Faculty: 15
Undergraduate rank: #19
Undergraduate population: 371
Graduate rank: #19
Graduate population: 18716

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Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Tenure Track Faculty: 19
Undergraduate rank: #6
Undergraduate population: 475
Graduate rank: #12
Graduate population: 133

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tenure Track Faculty: 56
Undergraduate rank: #3 and #3
Undergraduate population: 713
Graduate rank: #2 and #1
Graduate population: 550

Computer Science

Tenure Track Faculty: 76
Undergraduate rank: #5
Undergraduate population: 2,602 (includes CS+X programs)
Graduate rank: #5
Graduate population: 2,716

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tenure Track Faculty: 74
Undergraduate rank: #5 and 4
Undergraduate population: 1,157
Graduate rank: #4 and 5
Graduate population: 692

Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Tenure Track Faculty: 19
Undergraduate rank: #15
Undergraduate population: 592
Graduate rank: #15
Graduate population: 212

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Materials Science and Engineering
Tenure Track Faculty: 25
Undergraduate rank: #2
Undergraduate population: 260
Graduate rank: #2
Graduate population: 222

Mechanical Science and Engineering
Tenure Track Faculty: 44
Undergraduate rank: #5
Undergraduate population: 1157
Graduate rank: #5
Graduate population: 470

Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Tenure Track Faculty: 12
Undergraduate rank: NR
Undergraduate population: 138
Graduate rank: #8
Graduate population: 134

Physics

Tenure Track Faculty: 55
Undergraduate rank: NR
Undergraduate population: 483
Graduate rank: #9
Graduate Population: 347

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GETTING STARTED
Explore the many ways to engage with The Grainger College ofEngineering by contacting one of our team members listed below,
or visit: grainger.illinois.edu/corporate.

Kent Studer

					

Senior Director of Corporate Relations
The Grainger College of Engineering
kstuder@illinois.edu

Melissa Belcher

Associate Director of Corporate Relations
The Grainger College of Engineering217-244-5956
stierwlt@illinois.edu

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GRAINGER ENGINEERING
We’re The Grainger College of Engineering to honor our longand generous relationship with The Grainger Foundation.
William Wallace Grainger graduated from the college in 1919 andwent on to found W.W. Grainger and The Grainger Foundation,
which has provided the college with more than $300 million
in total support.
This is the largest naming gift to a public college of engineering.
This benefits every student by supporting modern learning environments, lifechanging research, and greater access to
one of the best engineering programs in the world.

Corporate Relations

The Grainger College of Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
203 Engineering Hall
1308 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
grainger.illinois.edu/corporate