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Title: AE alumnus' creation flies like a plane, drives like a car

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“To design a brand new vehicle is every aerospace engineer’s dream,” says Engineering at Illinois alumnus Sam Schweighart (BS 1999, Aerospace Engineering). So he and his colleagues designed one that could both fly like a plane and drive like a car.

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Title: Abbasi addresses Class of 2012

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On May 12, the College of Engineering awarded 1,025 bachelor's degrees and 325 master's and PhD degrees to the Class of 2012.

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Title: Engineering at Illinois to revamp targeted undergraduate courses

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Despite being highly-ranked nationally, the College of Engineering is not content to rest on its laurels. Striving to improve aspects of its undergraduate education programs by specifically targeting large courses (sometimes dubbed by students as “weed-out courses”), the College recently initiated the Strategic Instructional Initiatives Program (SIIP). Its goal: to renovate specific undergraduate courses to improve student engagement and learning outcomes.

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