UIUC Total Enrollment: 44,520 32,281 Undergrad 12,239 Grad and Professional

1. UIUC Total Enrollment: 44,520 • 32,281 Undergrad • 12,239 Grad and Professional • Engr Total Enrollment: 10,157 • 7,112 Undergrad • 3,045 Grad and Professional • Engineering U/G Students Abroad 12/13: 298 • 95 SEM/AY • 131 Summer • 14 Winter Break • 58 Risk Management • Students Out on Research Abroad Programs • 10 Semester (SP ‘11, ‘12, ‘13, ‘14 and FA ‘13) • 32 Summer (SU ‘13)

2. Summer Research Experiences • Have become more popular with the students • Students participate after their freshman year • Students work with engineering faculty and graduate students • Students receiving tech elective credit • Creates an interest and awareness regarding research earlier in students academic career

3. Selection of Research Projects • Done by host school • Provide list and description for students to apply to • Typically a limited number • Students submit application for project • Projects initially reviewed by UIUC faculty • Final Credit Determined Upon Completion of Program • Final report reviewed by faculty upon return • Hours spent on project submitted by host school • Research project included on transcript

4. Ambiguity • Students do not know for sure they will receive tech credit when they go • Why do they go??? • The chance to gain research experience when they can’t at home • Doing research at a premier institution while… • Gaining language and culture experience

5. Research Topics Taken • Detailed dimensional & geometrical measurement of a Human knee Model • Improved System of Road Safety for Cyclists • Analysis of Nanomaterial's • Effects of Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes on Biological Fluids • Discovery process in Bluetooth WPAN • Mechanical study of bone cements: Effects of nanomaterial's • Hybrid adhesives joint of aluminum alloys & steels