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ARISE provides academically talented students from low -income backgrounds support and preparation to successfully earn their engineering degrees from the University of Illinois.

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Welcome to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering's Undergraduate Advising page. Here, you will find information to help you succeed as an Illinois engineering student, from before your arrival on campus through your graduation, and everything in between.

If you have questions, if you want to talk with someone about studying engineering, or if you would just like some reassurance that you are on the right track, the advising staff in 206 Engineering Hall (EH) would be happy to work with you. 206 Engineering Hall is also a great place to come when your life or your studies are presenting you with some difficulties. Remember, the sooner you come in, the more options we will have for helping you.

We look forward to working with you,
Jonathan J. Makela
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs

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Our major objective is to create outreach opportunities for local area students in the field of Aerospace Engineering by exposing students to ideas and practices in physics and engineering. To support this objective, we aim to create projects and events that support learning and are engaging for students K-12. We intend to collaborate with the Aerospace Engineering Department, other Aerospace RSO's and local community members to improve our program content and reach new audiences. We want to foster an environment within our undergraduate and graduate student culture that encourages volunteering in local education.

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A social and professional sorority for women in engineering and technical sciences.

Contact Christina Marelli at marelli2@illinois.edu to learn more about our recruitment process and how to become an active member of Alpha Omega Epsilon.

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Since its inception in 1876, the American Chemical Society has provided resources to chemists young and old. We offer professional, educational, and social opportunities for our members. Our club activities are geared towards chemistry and chemical engineering majors, but we welcome anyone with an interest in chemistry.

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Membership includes access to all ACS events and a free t-shirt designed by UIUC ACS and SCS.

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* Subsidized travel to national conventions (subject to funding availability)
* Networking opportunities with industrial and academic leaders
* Voting rights in general elections
* Able to hold an officer position immediately

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To advance the arts, sciences, and technology of aeronautics and astronautics, and to promote the professionalism of those engaged in these pursuits.

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-Corporate Networking
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AIChE is the world's leading chemical engineering professional organization with members spanning 93 countries and a variety of industries and areas of research. The organization provides networking opportunities and access to a wealth of information about the latest techniques in chemical engineering. Illinois AIChE strives to connect undergraduates in chemical engineering and related fields to these resources.

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Any interested student is able to participate in most of the events AIChE hosts, such as workshops focusing on professional and academic development, general meetings, and mentor program events. However, paid membership grants students priority attendance in smaller recruitment events, the ability to attend national and regional conferences, access to intramurals, and other fun perks, such as a free AIChE tee once a year. Membership dues are twenty dollars annually, feel free to stop by Noyes 50 with any questions!

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The UIUC Student Chapter of ANS aims to provide to students interested in nuclear topics opportunities to further themselves professionally through the international ANS network of scientists, engineers, and other nuclear specialists. Additionally, our chapter strives to keep its members informed and educated on nuclear topics and issues so they may act as educated advocates for the nuclear field to the public. To further expand our members' familiarity with the nuclear field, it is important to us that we regularly provide them with opportunities to tour power plants, national labs, and any nuclear-related facilities that are able to provide to interesting and educational real-life experiences.

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The goal of this chapter is to expose students to railroad engineering education and the railway industry in order to foster the development of leaders in railroad engineering in North America and throughout the world.

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-Exposure to rail industry practices
-Employment opportunities
-Opportunities for hands-on education
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-Travel to the annual AREMA national conference
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-Professional and social organization
-Largest civil engineering organization on campus
-Prep for post-college real experiences and networking methods
-Preparation for annual Great Lakes Student Conference in the Spring

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Our mission is to provide all students of the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering with an open-membership society that creates a dynamic bridge between students, faculty, and corporations. We host events and programs that are catered to enhancing the experience of engineers and fostering a community among students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Black, Indigenous, and Latinx in Tech (B[U]ILT) is a non-profit student organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We strive to become a strong support system for minorities in computing-related fields that fosters scholarship, professional development, and a sense of community. We seek to improve the diversity of the workplace in computing fields by holding technical and professional events for current students, in addition to running outreach programs to encourage the next generation of students from underrepresented communities to pursue careers in computing fields.

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The Center for Academic Resources in Engineering (CARE) enhances the learning experience for all undergraduate engineering students through academic support, enhancing collaborative learning opportunities, and providing positive influence through peer mentoring.

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To professionally develop our campus' construction community through outreach, networking, education, case studies, and collaborating.

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Our mission is to provide our member's opportunities to apply course content to real projects, develop technical and professional skills, and offer valuable experiences in engineering at the intersection of efficiency and sustainability, regardless of their major or desired career.

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Engineering Council is a union of engineering societies and committees dedicated to enriching the student collegiate experience through a distinctive array of programs and services. We aim to encourage academic, professional, and personal growth by offering leadership opportunities and fostering interdisciplinary relationships within the College of Engineering.

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Engineering International Student Programs (EISP) are part of the Engineering Undergraduate Programs Office (UPO) in the Grainger College of Engineering. Located in Access Point (Office 3322) 1304 West Springfield, we provide opportunities to enhance international and domestic student success through academic, professional, student life and leadership development!

EISP programs encourage networking with students, faculty, staff, advisors, deans, and administrators in the Grainger College of Engineering and extended University of Illinois community.

EISP also partners with campus-wide liaisons to enhance opportunities for international student development. Get involved, and strengthen your success with Engineering International Student Programs! Learn more at: http://go.engineering.illinois.edu/EISP

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Our mission is to establish a strong relationship between our Engineering Alumni and our undergraduate student base, fostering connections, a strong school spirit, and helping our members and fellow students start to prepare for their careers.

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Access to Networking events
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Facilitating the mission of its RSOs by fostering a work environment conducive to success.

Where engineering comes alive!

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UIUC Engineers in Action Bridge Program designs and constructs footbridges over impassable rivers with rural communities worldwide to strive for a world with equal opportunity. We've been building footbridges for four years, a footbridge each in Guatemala and Panama and two footbridges in Bolivia, and we're planning to build our fifth bridge in the upcoming summer. These bridges lead to a 12% increase in children enrolled in school, a 59% increase of women in the labor market, and an 18% increase in healthcare treatment for communities. The unique cultural and professional experience students get from these projects are transformative and develop them into leaders.

We spend the school year fundraising all the costs of the footbridge construction, service, and maintenance in addition to preparing detailed concept, design, and construction plans with professional engineers and organization staff. Outside of the general meetings, we have group fundraisers and social events that help bond our growing family of students from all backgrounds and with various interests.

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Some technical skills you'll gain from participating in our bridge projects:
1. bridge design
2. construction scheduling & quality control reporting
3. material estimation and procurement
4. safety and risk management planning
5. geotechnical data analysis

This initial exposure to problem-solving and coordinating with various stakeholders helps us develop teamwork and professional skills required for our future careers. The soft skills we develop on this project are ones that cannot be learned in a typical university classroom.

We overcome cultural barriers thousands of miles away from home, and we become more knowledgeable of different cultures, backgrounds, and politics. We learn how to be open-minded, empathetic, and culturally-sensitive leaders.

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EWB-USA supports community-driven development programs worldwide by collaborating with local partners to design and implement sustainable engineering projects, while creating transformative experiences and responsible leaders.

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The Geotechnical Engineering Student Organization (GESO) is UIUC's foremost RSO for those who are interested in the field of geotechnical engineering. GESO also serves as the parent organization of UIUC's Underground Construction Association (UCA) and Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) student chapters.

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The Grainger Engineering First-Year Experience (GFX) is an interdisciplinary program designed to enhance the learning experience of every first-year student in engineering. Our goal is to support your aspirations by laying a solid foundation for your collegiate career.

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Welcome to the Grainger Student Portal Help Center! Our mission is to ensure that you have the proper tools to seamlessly navigate through this brand new platform. You can find helpful material on our website, group page and forum!

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Unite students to build well-engineered, user-centric, and impactful products for social change. Hack4Impact believes in using tech for good. We believe in technology's huge potential to empower activists and humanitarians to create lasting and impactful social change. We connect student software developers with nonprofits and other socially responsible businesses to develop powerful new tools for social change, enabling to further their mission and better engage their clients. We work to foster a tight-knit community of dedicated students collaborating together to build a better society and making technology more accessible and inclusive to underserved communities.

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The Illini Solar Car team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign harnesses the skills from a diverse group of students in engineering and non-engineering fields in pursuit of creating the world's best solar electric vehicle. Through hands-on, interdisciplinary work that fosters real-world applications, we spark sustainable thinking by designing and building a road-legal car to compete in international competitions.

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Illini Urban Farmers provides UIUC students hands-on experiences in sustainable urban agriculture. We hold monthly meetings, discussing industry and research, and any urban farming topics requested by our members. We also host workshops, such as last semester avocado propagation workshop. We have group projects for the club, as well as the outreach and resources to aid individual research projects. There are currently no requirements to join.

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Founded in 2021, Illini VEX Robotics is the "Premier Robotics Organization" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With the platform of VEX we strive to promote STEM through creating Research & Design Projects, Software Development Tools, and Compete in the International level VEX U Competition.

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Sharing our passion and pride, we inspire middle and high school students to challenge conventional ideas about science and engineering. Through communication and leadership, we strive to become world-class engineers and seek to motivate the next generation of engineers to positively impact the health, happiness, and safety of our world.

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Illinois Solar Decathlon seeks to lead innovation in design and technology to advance towards an environmentally sustainable future. We bridge the legacy of past Illinois competition projects to the development of future successful teams. For our existing homes, we ensure their continual usage as a research and outreach platform. On campus, we engage in projects and foster relationships to educate and develop our organization. Through our integrated approach, we aim to elevate the standard of Solar Decathlon and ensure a true contribution to green building.

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Access to national IEEE benefits such as seminars, networking opportunities, and a variety of other resources available in detail on the IEEE website. Student branch members have access to networking with companies, tech talks, student panels, hackathons, socials, and membership swag!

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Please use our membership form to sign up!
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LEEP is for incoming freshmen in AE, ECE, ISE, NPRE, and MechSE to build a community and learn about opportunities available within engineering.

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The National Organization for Business and Engineering (NOBE) mission is to bring together individuals at corporate and academic institutions interested in both business and engineering and to integrate these fields into one practice. NOBE will serve as a crossroad and network for the unmet professional, leadership, technological and entrepreneurial development of these individuals. As a national organization, NOBE will maintain this network and continually build resources to help these individuals meet the constantly evolving demands they will face in today's business world.

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NOBE can offer a company a wide variety of opportunities. For the company interested in finding the future leaders of their business, NOBE's members are career driven, motivated, and polished. Moreover, most of our members have a unique background combining business and engineering, making them valuable assets as technology has evolved into an important factor in every business decision.

Take a look at some relevant facts about NOBE and their members:

Our membership is made up of mainly engineering and business students, but we reach out to many disciplines, including economics, mathematics, and the sciences.
Our resume database is rapidly growing with new members adding or updating their resumes on a regular basis.
NOBE alumni have been very successful, and have gone on to start careers at leading institutions such as: Microsoft, McKinsey & Company, Deloitte Consulting, Morgan Stanley, Bain & Company, Goldman Sachs, General Electric, Exxon, Accenture, Johnson & Johnson and many more.

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The mission of NSBE is to increase the number of culturally responsible Black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally, and positively impact the community.

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Members enjoy programming with academic support, professional development, and community engagement. NSBE-UIUC hosts Study Tables for a quiet and focused place to work twice a week, along with mentoring programs and a technical team that completes various projects throughout the year. Our members have access to various recruiters from corporate sponsors, as well as have the opportunity to travel to conferences at a highly discounted price. Members also gain quality communication skills through community engagement work with students of all ages by teaching STEM with the goal of increasing the number of minority engineers. Finally, the most important benefit is the NSBE Family. NSBE-UIUC is a safe space where Black engineers and allies can discuss challenges and work together for mutual success.

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The Society of Omega Chi Epsilon promotes high scholarship, encourages original investigation in chemical engineering, and recognizes the valuable traits of character, integrity, and leadership. The Society serves both undergraduate and graduate students within the Chemical Engineering Department. It encourages meaningful student faculty dialogue within the department.

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The Satellite Development Organization (SatDev) is a registered student organization at the University of Illinois that specializes in the recruitment, training, and retention of student workers in the Laboratory for Advanced Space Systems at Illinois (LASSI). SatDev is part of the Department of Aerospace Engineering in the Grainger College of Engineering. However, we recruit students from all science, technology, engineering, and mathematical disciplines, from chemistry to materials science to electrical engineering. We will find a place for you if you're interested in designing, building, and testing satellites with our members in LASSI. Check out our website http://satdev.ae.illinois.edu for more information!

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Our members receive one-on-one personalized training to work in the Laboratory for Advanced Space Systems at Illinois (LASSI). Our members are the only people allowed to work in the laboratory due to this required training. Our members also receive opportunities to participate in social and professional events, such as networking and outreach. We offer arguably the most cross-disciplinary projects within the university through LASSI.

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The mission of the Society for Women in Physics (SWIP) is to provide a social and professional network among the female students in the physics department in order to empower them throughout their career. SWIP also provides opportunities for its members to interact with other physics students, faculty, and the community in social, academic and philanthropic events.

We host lunches with faculty and visiting speakers, attend conferences for women in physics across the Midwest, and participate in local outreach to further promote equality in the physical sciences.

All majors and genders are welcome!

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Develop a diverse network of women in pursuit of engineering and science, providing them with mentoring relationships and professional development opportunities, and advocating for the future pursuit of careers in engineering.

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TEC helps students and faculty develop an entrepreneurial mindset to improve the world.

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THRUST is an rocketry organization run entirely by students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We focus on developing a liquid fuel rocket that can breach the Kármán line (100 kilometers above sea level) to reach space. We aim to foster teamwork, build professional relationships, and innovate technology. We promote interdisciplinary opportunities as well as provide a hands-on learning environment with an emphasis on developing industry ready college graduates and future leaders.

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- Hands on experience on designing, building, and launching REAL Rockets
- Real Industry experience with tools such as ANSYS, Altium, and Gitlab
- Professional and Personal Development with plenty of career opportunities (members have gone on to work/intern at SpaceX, Blue Origin, NASA, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Collins Aerospace, ViaSat, and more!)
- Join an awesome community of smart and talented people!

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The Hoeft Technology & Management (T&M) Program at the University of Illinois bridges the gap between traditional engineering and business education by offering a unique curriculum to a select group of highly qualified business and engineering undergraduates. The T&M Program is a joint venture between the College of Engineering and Gies College of Business and works closely with its corporate affiliate partners to build tomorrow's leaders of the innovation economy.

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InSPIRE is an outreach organization dedicated to motivating students and community members to explore the benefits of solar and renewable energy. We achieve this mission through outreach events as well as the efforts of our build team. The build team engages in projects which usually consist of designing and building renewable energy systems and showing off the practical aspects of these technologies to the public.

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With InSPIRE you will gain valuable knowledge of the impacts and benefits of clean energy and how it impacts our society in different ways. You'll be able to use this knowledge to educate others and become a community leader in promoting these technologies. If you join our build team you'll gain countless technical and engineering skills as well as develop a problem solving mindset.

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Theta Tau provides engineering students of any background with the opportunity to grow professionally, academically, and socially. With a multitude of events throughout the semester, we aim to push our members towards being not only the best students they can be, but also the best people they can be.

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Women In Aerospace (WIA) is a registered student organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign whose goal is to promote and maintain women's interests in the field of aerospace engineering. WIA also aims to provide a supportive resource for current and prospective female aerospace engineers and foster a sense of community for women in the aerospace engineering department here at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our campus chapter of WIA is also a chapter of the Women of Aeronautics and Astronautics (WoAA) committee within the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Check out our website http://wia.ae.illinois.edu for more information!

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WIA offers our members opportunities to participate in educational outreach, technical projects, social events, professional and academic development, and networking. Other membership benefits include access to our Resume Database, which is distributed yearly to our alumni in industry and academia all over the country. The Departmental Development Committee is a joint venture between WIA and the Department of Aerospace Engineering created in fall 2018 to simultaneously focus on retention and recruitment in the aerospace field in educational and social realms.

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Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) is a premier organization with national reach dedicated to bringing together women in cybersecurity from academia, research and industry to share knowledge, experience, networking and mentoring.

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The Women in Engineering (WIE) program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering was established in 1993 as an effort to provide support to students as they build community in engineering. WIE's focus on the University of Illinois campus is to provide equity in access and experiences for all interested in studying at The Grainger College of Engineering.

To achieve these goals, WIE, offers and/or promotes programs for a variety of students: engineering summer camps for high school students through the WYSE program, orientation camps for all freshman women engineering students, mentoring and leadership elective courses, personalized academic and professional success advising, and professional development workshops including leadership training to provide personal skill development and career preparation for current students.

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Orientation for all new women engineering students
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Women in Mechanical Science and Engineering (WIM) aims to provide an inclusive and open community for women in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. WIM strives to increase the growth and leadership of women within the department and provide professional and academic resources to its members.

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Technical skill workshops, professional and academic resources, networking with professors and companies, access to social events, project involvement

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The Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering LEADers program at The Grainger College of Engineering provides opportunities for undergraduate students to develop their leadership and communication skills by mentoring talented and diverse pre-college students interested in STEM. Together they explore engineering and the sciences through hands-on, minds-on activities. WYSE strives to overcome opportunity gaps by providing students from underrepresented populations with opportunities to experience success and to be able to see themselves as future engineers, programmers, mathematicians, and scientists.

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Make new friends
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We will provide you with either a letter or sign-off on any required paperwork to confirm you have earned your required volunteer hours for scholarships