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Newswise: Using ChatGPT, students might pass a course, but with a cost
Released: 17-Apr-2025 8:30 PM EDT
Using ChatGPT, students might pass a course, but with a cost
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

With the assumption that students are going to use artificial intelligence and large language models such as ChatGPT to do their homework, researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering in The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign set out to learn how well the free version of ChatGPT would compare with human students in a semester-long undergraduate control systems course.

Newswise: Additively Manufactured Heat Exchanger Beats Out Traditional Designs
Released: 16-Apr-2025 6:25 PM EDT
Additively Manufactured Heat Exchanger Beats Out Traditional Designs
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Now, newly published work from Bill King, Nenad Miljkovic and their colleagues is bringing some much overdue innovation to the design of heat exchangers. They’re using additive manufacturing, otherwise known as 3D printing, to create heat exchangers with dramatically superior functionality.

Newswise: Electrochemical Process Separates Valuable Industrial Chemicals From Animal Waste
Released: 27-Mar-2025 6:40 PM EDT
Electrochemical Process Separates Valuable Industrial Chemicals From Animal Waste
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

A collaboration between chemical engineers and animal scientists has created a system for recovering valuable industrial chemicals from animal waste, representing a major step towards circularity and environmental sustainability.

Newswise: Hypersonic Simulation in 3D Exposes New Disturbances
Released: 26-Mar-2025 9:20 PM EDT
Hypersonic Simulation in 3D Exposes New Disturbances
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

At hypersonic speeds, complexities occur when the gases interact with the surface of the vehicle such as boundary layers and shock waves. Researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering in The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were able to observe new disturbances in simulations conducted for the first time in 3D.

Newswise: New 3D Printing Method Replicates Nature's Finest Fibers
Released: 14-Feb-2025 2:20 PM EST
New 3D Printing Method Replicates Nature's Finest Fibers
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Grainger Engineering professors in Mechanical Science and Engineering, Sameh Tawfick and Randy Ewoldt, as well as doctoral candidate M. Tanver Hossain, and external collaborators have addressed this need with their cutting-edge embedded 3D-printing technique.

Newswise: New Research Sheds Light on Using Multiple CubeSats for in-Space Servicing and Repair Missions
Released: 14-Feb-2025 2:20 PM EST
New Research Sheds Light on Using Multiple CubeSats for in-Space Servicing and Repair Missions
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering in The Grainger College of Engineering say their method minimizes fuel consumption, guarantees that servicing agents never come closer to each other than 5 meters, and can be used to solve pathway guidance problems that aren’t space related.

Newswise: Illuminating an Asymmetric Gap in a Topological Antiferromagnet
Released: 22-Jan-2025 6:40 PM EST
Illuminating an Asymmetric Gap in a Topological Antiferromagnet
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

A new study led by Illinois Grainger Engineering Physics Professor Fahad Mahmood now reports the experimental discovery of a hidden gap in the electronic band structure of the intrinsic magnetic TI manganese bismuth telluride (MnBi2Te4).

Newswise: Flexible Electronics Integrated with Paper-Thin Structure for Use in Space
Released: 9-Jan-2025 6:45 PM EST
Flexible Electronics Integrated with Paper-Thin Structure for Use in Space
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign successfully integrated flexible electronics with a three-ply, self-deployable boom that weighs only about 20 grams.

Newswise: Study Introduces a New and Useful Definition of Sustainable Aviation
Released: 11-Dec-2024 2:05 PM EST
Study Introduces a New and Useful Definition of Sustainable Aviation
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Illinois Grainger Engineering researchers examined sustainable aviation as a process that connects communities and mobilizes people, goods, and services—all while minimizing negative impacts on human health, fostering a productive quality of life, and conserving natural resources.

Newswise: A Mission Design for Servicing Telescopes in Space
Released: 10-Dec-2024 5:05 PM EST
A Mission Design for Servicing Telescopes in Space
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

The fate of telescopes in space is looking better now that they are being designed to be serviceable. Illinois Grainger Engineering researchers developed a servicing plan that can be applied to future space observatories based on current missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope and the European Space Agency’s Gaia.

Newswise: A New Milestone in the Study of Octopus Arms
Released: 12-Nov-2024 5:00 PM EST
A New Milestone in the Study of Octopus Arms
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Newly published research by Grainger Engineers in Mechanical Science and Engineering describes an unprecedented computational model that captures the intricate muscular architecture of an octopus arm.

Newswise: Using Multimode Propulsion for More Efficient Trips in Space
Released: 29-Oct-2024 10:40 AM EDT
Using Multimode Propulsion for More Efficient Trips in Space
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign explore how a multimode propulsion system that integrates both a chemical high-thrust mode and an electric low-thrust mode—while using the same propellant—can succeed.

Newswise: Ordered Defects May Be Key for Solution-Deposited Semiconductors
Released: 9-Oct-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Ordered Defects May Be Key for Solution-Deposited Semiconductors
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

A new solution deposition process for semiconductors yields high-performing transistors by introducing more defects, counterintuitively. Researchers used these devices to construct high-speed logic circuits and an operational high-resolution inorganic LED display.

Newswise: DeepSPACE Design Tool Takes a Concept to a Multitude of Configurations
Released: 4-Oct-2024 4:05 PM EDT
DeepSPACE Design Tool Takes a Concept to a Multitude of Configurations
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

The new design software developed by an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign takes your concept and requirements and rapidly generates design configurations from conventional to out-of-this-world, including a 3D CAD model and performance evaluations.

Newswise: Thermal Effects in Spintronics Systematically Assessed for First Time
Released: 25-Sep-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Thermal Effects in Spintronics Systematically Assessed for First Time
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

A new experimental technique, reported by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the journal APL Materials, directly measures heating in spintronic devices, allowing direct comparison to other effects.

Newswise: Vishveshwara Seamlessly Weaves Science and Art Together
Released: 17-Sep-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Vishveshwara Seamlessly Weaves Science and Art Together
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Her father was a renowned physicist who studied black holes, and her mother is a prominent molecular biophysicist. You could say that physics is in her DNA. But physics isn’t the only thing in Illinois Grainger Engineering professor Smitha Vishveshwara’s blood; so are the arts.

Newswise: Controlling molecular electronics with rigid, ladder-like molecules
Released: 27-Aug-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Controlling molecular electronics with rigid, ladder-like molecules
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers report a unique strategy for controlling molecular conductance by using molecules with rigid backbones—such as ladder-type molecules, known as being shape-persistent.

Newswise: Using machine learning to speed up simulations of irregularly shaped particles
Released: 23-Aug-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Using machine learning to speed up simulations of irregularly shaped particles
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have trained neural networks to predict interactions between irregularly shaped particles to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations.

Newswise: ARPA-H project to pioneer rapid manufacturing of tumor models
Released: 20-Aug-2024 1:05 PM EDT
ARPA-H project to pioneer rapid manufacturing of tumor models
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Advanced imaging and AI will power the manufacture of any cancer at the push of a button.

   


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