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MIDDLE SCHOOL COMPETITION The Middle School Design Contest offers 5th through 8th graders an oppor- tunity to unlock their engineering potentials through a prepared design chal- lenge. This year, our very own MSDC is a ping-pong ball launcher design EOH 2009 contest! It is held in the morning of Saturday, March 14th in room 1320 Digital Computer Laboratories. There are over 40 teams coming to EOH Director’s Welcome Letter...... 4 this year, and you should come see this exciting event! By using everyday objects, contestants have to apply engineering mechanisms and their cre- AMD W.J. “Jerry” Sanders Creative ativity to design a launcher. This competition provides hands-on experience, Design Competition...... 5 promotes students to design their own work, and fosters their creativity. RUBE GOLDBERG HIGH SCHOOL DESIGN CONTEST Exhibit Index...... 6 Teams of high school students have put their heads together to design excit- ing contraptions with the goal of replacing an incandescent lightbulb with a Project Listings...... 8 more energy efficient light emitting design. Inspired by the famous cartoons of Rueben Lucius Goldberg, students find complex ways of accomplishing a Project Descriptions simple task using ordinary (and sometimes not-so-ordinary) materials. Sci- ence and engineering principles are combined with creativity and ingenuity Agricultural Engineering Sciences to create these awesome inventions. Stop by Campus Recreation Center Building...... 8 East on Friday between 10:00am and 1:00pm to see these amazing ma- chines in action and vote for your favorite one! Coordinated Science Laboratory...... 9 ILLINI ENGINEERING CHALLENGE Here’s a chance for EVERYONE to work on an actual engineering project! Digital Computer Laboratory...... 10 The Illini Engineering Challenge is an on-site design challenge open to the general public, so everyone who attends EOH 2009 is welcome to partici- Engineering Hall...... 12 pate! There are two striking challenges for you at the Transportation Build- ing this year. Build an aluminum boat and see how many pennies your boat Everitt Laboratory...... 12 can support, or build a tower out of provided materials! Remember to think about the shape and stability of the structure, and try to build the tallest Hydrosystems Laboratory...... 16 tower! The projects have varying parameters depending on the age of the contestants, as the challenges are designed for all ages. Don’t miss out on our on-site challenges, and build your unique model! Loomis Laboratory...... 17 AMD W.J. “JERRY” SANDERS Material Science and Engineering CREATIVE DESIGN COMPETITION Building...... 20 AMD W.J. “Jerry” Sanders Creative Design Competition is an annual ro- botics contest which allows teams of the best engineering students in the Mechanical Engineering country to test their engineering skills and ingenuity. This year, robots will be Laboratory...... 23 playing a game of Tic-Tac-Toe. This is one of the largest and most exciting events at EOH, and is sponsored by Advanced Micro Devices. Come join us Newmark Laboratory...... 25 to encourage creativity and excellence in engineering! Kids Construction Zone - Hands on! Outdoor Exhibits...... 27 Transportation Building - EOH Hours

Siebel Center...... 27 Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory Tours Every 20 minutes, limit 10 per tour Talbot Laboratory...... 33 Concrete Crushing Talbot Laboratory basement - 10:00am, 11:30am, 1:00pm, 2:30pm Transportation Building...... 34 Tesla Coil and Continuum Fingerboard Musical Campus Map...... back cover Performances - 151 Everitt Laboratory - Saturday, March 14, 10:00am, 11:00am, 12:00pm, 1:00pm, 2:00pm, and 3:00pm. HIGHLIGHTS Unlocking Potential 3

“Dispelling the Myths of Nuclear Power” - Dr. David N. Ruzic, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering - Friday, March 13,10:00 a.m. - 151 Everitt Laboratory EOH presents Grant Imahara - Friday, March 13, 7:30 pm - Foel- EOH 2009 linger Auditorium - Free tickets available on Friday at specially marked areas (limited number available) Friday, March 13: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

TRAFFIC AND SAFETY Engineering Open House works hard to ensure the safety of our visitors. We Saturday, March 14: ask that you not enter the rooms and buildings not marked for EOH use as 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. indicated in the Visitor’s Guide. Additionally, please follow standard safety precautions with special consideration for campus construction sites. For the safety of yourself and others, please cross at the designated crossings when walking on the campus. Thank you! Engineering SHUTTLE AND PARKING In order to make your visit to EOH more relaxing, parking at EOH is free. Open House Please park your vehicles at the E-14 parking lot along Kirby Ave. The EOH Shuttle-- Operated by Peoria Charter Coach Company-- will run every Visitor Booths 15-20 minutes during EOH hours. •Sixth and Peabody •Transit Plaza The EOH Visitor Booths can •Green and Wright be found in the following •Kenney Gym (Springfield Ave.) locations: •Goodwin Ave. and Green St. •Gregory Dr. and Goodwin Ave. •Stock Pavilion (Pennsylvania Ave.) •Digital Computer Lab: Atrium A tour guide will introduce the University campus to the visitors during rides, and EOH visitor’s guides will be provided in the EOH shuttle. School buses can drop off visitors on Wright Street, between Talbot Lab (just north •Engineering Hall: of Green St) and Stoughton St. All buses must park in the E-14 parking lot. Main Hallway FOOD AND ENTERTAINMENT Engineering Open House is proud to present Area 51, food and entertain- •Engineering Quad: North ment central! Area 51 is conveniently located between Engineering Hall side, next to Grainger Library and Everitt Lab, right across the street from the Illini Union. Here, you will be able to grab a bite to eat and enjoy entertainment by U of I’s own student groups. So take a moment to stop by, relax, and recharge! Be sure to pick up your En- Operating Hours: gineering Open House mer- Food, beverage, and entertainment: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Friday, March 13: chandise, including this year’s 11:00 - 11:35 a.m. Mark Smart t-shirt, at the Visitor Booth 11:45 - 12:20 p.m. Connor Simmons 12:30 - 1:05 p.m. She and He located outside. 1:15 - 1:50 p.m. Chai Town

Saturday, March 14: Please Direct questions to the 11:00 - 11:35 a.m. Illini Contraband volunteers at the booths or 11:45 - 12:20 p.m. Illini Contraband 12:30 - 1:05 p.m. Girls Next Door one of the Central Committee 1:15 - 1:50 p.m. DeBono Members walking around with name tags. 4 EOH 2009

Welcome to the 89th Engineering Open House. This event has been a part of the Engineering at Illinois tradi- tion since 1907 and has been an annual event since 1952. Each year, thousands of visitors converge on the Il- linois campus to see and learn about all aspects of engineering and how it affects every facet of our lives. EOH can be described as a giant science fair, run entirely by students in the College of Engineering. The exhibits reflect the interests, creativity and passion of students across all engineering disciplines.

Every visitor will have the opportunity to learn about the engineering behind everyday items, see new technolo- gies and experience the wonders of engineering. We encourage you to ask questions and participate in all EOH has to offer.

Engineering Open House is organized by a central committee under Engineering Council, a student organiza- tion that works to enrich the engineering experience through a distinctive array of programs of services. Infor- mation about EC programs can be found at ec.illinois.edu. For more information about the College of Engineer- ing please visit www.engineering.illinois.edu.

Thank you for visiting Engineering Open House.

Sincerely, Yang Zhao Director, Engineering Open House 2009 Open House Central Committee SPECIAL THANKS EOH Cen-Comm would Engineering Open House Director Yang Zhao like to thank: Exhibits Director Gavin Rehkemper Awards Ltd. Corporate Co-Directors Mark Persaud Mark Briggs Brian Chae Campus Sportswear Angie Dimit Creative Design Director Isaac Chan Kristin Duitsman Equipment Director Daniel Evertz Ketty Duvall Facilities Director Kushal Sanghrajka Dean Michael Hirschi High School Design Contest Director Palak Doshi Rich Holm Grade School Design Contest Director Maurice Ng Chris Holt Jerry Sanders Director Chris Reeg Grant Imahara and Wolf- man Productions Judging and Awards Director Matt Johnson Michael Jacobson Visitor’s Information Director Stephanie Graves Kay Kappes External Publicity Director Ann Pan Rick Kubetz Internal Publicity Director Emily Carroll Greg Larson Traffic and Safety Director Jeff Ross Dan Mast Social and Entertainment Director Michelle Hollander Donna Nichols Donna Offenbecher Special Projects Serena Liou Tracy Osby Secretary/Treasurer Andrew Zwicky Alan Otto EFC Representative Kelsey Erickson Tim Prunkard Webmaster Allen Huang Dana Tempel Corporate Committee Dave Austin EOH Volunteers Michael Driscoll 22nd Annual AMD W.J. “Jerry” Unlocking Potential 5 Sanders Creative Design Competition

College students from around the world come to participate in the 22nd Annual AMD W.J. “Jerry” Sanders Creative De- sign Competition, a two-day contest of robotic design and engineering. This year, teams will need to move a weighted, air-filled balloon to play a large game of tic-tac-toe. Instead of Xs and Os, teams will play with colored balloons. Each team will be assigned a colored balloon to score with. To get their balloons, a team will first have to ‘unlock’ their balloons from a cage. Once released onto the field, teams can score by plac- ing it into a box. Once scored in, the box will remain under the team’s control until another team takes control by scoring in that box. Location and Time: Scoring: March 13 and 14, 2009 Points will be awarded for releasing balloons and Kenney Gym Annex University of Illinois at Urbana- scoring in a box. Additional points will be awarded if Champaign a team gains control over an entire ‘line’ in the tic- tac-toe grid. Points will be taken away for popping Schedule: the balloons. Competition will take place from 9 am to 4 pm on both days with final “Jerry” Sanders III graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana- rounds starting around 1 pm on Champaign in 1958 with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering. Since then, he’s gone on to start one of the most successful companies of Saturday, March 14th. our time. There will be rounds running at all W.J. “Jerry” Sanders III co-founded Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in 1969. Under his leadership, AMD grew from being a “second-sourcer” of times with bonus rounds and even other companies’ products to its current position as the fourth largest crowd participation events spaced semi-conductor manufacturer in the United States. throughout the day. Towards the end of the competition on Satur- Sanders also co-founded several prominent industry groups, including the Semiconductor Industry Association, the Santa Clara Manufacturing day there will also be a demolition Group, the Semiconductor Research Corporation, and the Microelectron- round where teams fight to have ics and Computer Technology Corporation. the last functional robot standing! The Wall Street Transcript named Sanders the Best Chief Executive Offi- cer in the semiconductor industry for the years 1983, 1984, and 1985, and W.J. “Jerry” Sanders runner-up in 1991. Mr. Sanders received the Robert N. Noyce Award Creative Design from the Semi-conductor Industry Association (SIA) in 1998. In 2001, he received the Medal of Achievement for the AeA, the nation’s largest high- Competition Committee tech Director: Chris Reeg industry association. Rules Chair: Jim Lange Field Chair: Jon Hansen Sanders’ continued support for the University of Illinois, and in particular this design contest, is a testament to his support for education and com- Publicity Chair: Dan McKenna petition, both of which he thinks breeds success, creativity, and excel- Faculty Advisor: Dan Mast lence. Treasurer: Renee Massey

W.J. Sanders III Teams Coordinator: Jack Pritz Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Programmer: Nishit Sharma 6 EOH 2009 EXHIBIT INDEX EXHIBIT SOCIETY BUILDING PAGE !Multiplicity !BANG Siebel Center 27 The 2009 Materials Show Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 20 3D Remote Reality CSL Coordinated Science Laboratory 9

A Promising New Energy Source Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building 8 ABE 100 Project Posters Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building 8 Advanced Ceramics Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 20 AgTracker Robot Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Digital Computer Laboratory 10 AIAA Booth AIAA Talbot Laboratory 33 Air Cannons For Use In Agriculture And Forestry Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building 8 The Amazing Underground World of TARP IAHR & IWRA Hydrosystems Laboratory 16 American Concrete Institute ASCE Newmark Laboratory 25 American Society Of Ag. And Bio. Engineering Student Branch ASABE Digital Computer Laboratory 10 Asphalt Pavements are a Lot of Fun! Independent Newmark Laboratory 25 Auto-Centering Platform Independent Everitt Laboratory 12 Automated Othello ECE 395 ADSL Everitt Laboratory 12 Automatic Slide Whistle ADSL Lab Everitt Laboratory 12

Balsa Wood Bridge Competition ASCE Newmark Laboratory 25 Bioenvironmental And Structural Systems Laboratory Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building 8 Biomass Feedstock Production Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building 8 Biomaterials - Drug Delivery Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 20 Biomaterials - Hydrogels Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 20 Bioshock Interactive Laser Tag System WECE Everitt Laboratory 12 Blacks In Chemistry & Chemical Engineering NOBCChE Loomis Laboratory 17 Bluewater Ampworks Independent Everitt Laboratory 12 Bookworm SIGSoft Siebel Center 27 Breakfast With SWE Society of Women Engineers Mechanical Engineering Lab 23 Brewing At Its Best AIChE Loomis Laboratory 17 Bubble Room Physics Society Loomis Laboratory 17 Burning Plasma And Etching Pen IEEE Everitt Laboratory 12

Campus Middle School Robotics Club Campus Middle School Digital Computer Laboratory 11 Candy AIChE Loomis Laboratory 17 Career Opportunities In Agricultural And Biological Engineering Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Digital Computer Laboratory 11 Cars Driven By Computers And Networks CSL Coordinated Science Laboratory 9 Century Of Flight AIAA Talbot Laboratory 33 Chromatactix Gamebuilders Siebel Center 27 CNC Machining Society of Women Engineers Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 23 Colloids AIChE Loomis Laboratory 17 Communications/Protocol Framework SIGOps Siebel Center 27 Composites And Sports Equipment Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 21 Concrete Canoe Concrete Canoe Newmark Laboratory 26 Concrete Crushing Society For Experimental Mechanics Talbot Laboratory 33 Conducting Polymers Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 21 Crazy Springs Society For Experimental Mechanics Talbot Laboratory 33 Crescendo SIGSoft Siebel Center 27 CubeSat Independent Talbot Laboratory 33

Decaf vs. Regular AIChE Loomis Laboratory 18 Design of a Canoe Chute and Fish Passage for the Chicago River IAHR & IWRA Hydrosystems Laboratory 16 Design, Build, Fly: Design And Construction Of R/C Airplanes Design, Build, Fly Talbot Laboratory 33 Diet Coke + Mentos AIChE Loomis Laboratory 18 Distracted Driving ASME (American Society Of Mechanical Engineers) Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 23 Dreaming Of Dirigible Physics Society Loomis Laboratory 18 Drinking Water Treatment WaterCAMPWS Materials Science and Engineering Building 21

Electricity And Magnetism Physics Society Loomis Laboratory 18 Engineering In The US Army Department Of Military Science, Univ. Of Illinois Newmark Laboratory 26 Enzymes In Food Processing And BioSensing Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building 9 Ever Seen the Bottom of the Ocean? IAHR & IWRA Hydrosystems Laboratory 16 Eyetracking Whack-A-Mole SIGBio Siebel Center 29

Face Recognition Technology CSL Coordinated Science Laboratory 9 Flight Simulator AIAA Talbot Laboratory 33 Flippin’ Flubber AIChE Loomis Laboratory 18 Float Your Boat National Organization For Business And Engineering Everitt Laboratory 14 Formula SAE And Baja SAE Society Of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 23 Frozen Marshmallows! Illinois Space Society Everitt Laboratory 14 The Frontiers Of Bioengineering: Applications And Design Biomedical Engineering Society Digital Computer Laboratory 11 Fruity Fragrances AIChE Loomis Laboratory 18 Fun with Fluids Society For Experimental Mechanics Talbot Laboratory 33 Fun With Vacuums And Plasmas American Vacuum Society Materials Science and Engineering Building 21 Fusion Technology American Nuclear Society Loomis Laboratory 18

Graffiti Independent Siebel Center 29 Graffiti Robot ADSL Everitt Laboratory 14 Gravitational Potential Physics Society Loomis Laboratory 18 Gravity And Mechanics Physics Society Loomis Laboratory 18 Greening the Desktop SIGSAC and SIGNet Siebel Center 29

Hands-On Hydrologic Model IAHR & IWRA Hydrosystems Laboratory 16 The Hazards of Low-Head Dams IAHR & IWRA Hydrosystems Laboratory 16 Heat Transfer AIChE Loomis Laboratory 18 High Powered LED Mood Lamp IEEE Everitt Laboratory 14 History Of Arab Engineering And Inventions Arab American Association Of Engineers And Architects Newmark Laboratory 26 Homemade Keyboard Independent Engineering Hall 12 Hovercraft SIGDave Siebel Center 29 Hydrogels Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 22 Hydrogen Fuel Cell AIChE Loomis Laboratory 18 Hydrogen Fuel Cells Use in Residential Comb Heat and Power Sys Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Digital Computer Laboratory 11 Hydrophobic And Hydrophilic Materials Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 22

IClicker Expansion Tech Team - Women In Computer Science Siebel Center 29 IIE Exhibit Institute Of Industrial Engineers Transportation Building 34 Illini Entrepreneurship Network: Student Startups Illini Entrepreneurship Network Siebel Center 29 Illini Prosthetics Team Illini Prosthetics Team Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 23 Illini Pullers Illini Pullers Digital Computer Laboratory 11 Illini Space Jet Illini Space Jet (AIAA) Loomis Laboratory 18 Illinois Laboratory For Agricultural Remote Sensing (ILARS) Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building 9 EXHIBIT INDEX Unlocking Potential 7

EXHIBIT SOCIETY BUILDING PAGE Illinois Student Branch of ASABE Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Digital Computer Laboratory 11 In Darkness Gamebuilders and SIGGRAPH Siebel Center 29 Indoor Localization (I-GPS) Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Digital Computer Laboratory 11 Induct On This American Institute Of Chemical Engineers Loomis Laboratory 18 Induction Heater Physics Society Loomis Laboratory 19 The Induction Stove Physics Society Loomis Laboratory 19 Instant Messaging Chat Bot SIGART Siebel Center 29 Interactive Carbon Cycle Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Digital Computer Laboratory 11

Lego Logic Gates SIGDave Siebel Center 29 Lemelson-Illinois Student Prize Finalist Displays CSL Coordinated Science Laboratory 10 Liquid Crystals And Optical Materials Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 22 Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream AIChE Loomis Laboratory 19 Liquid Nitrogen Table Physics Society Loomis Laboratory 19 LUG To The Rescue Linux Users Group Siebel Center 29

Magic Fountain IAHR & IWRA Hydrosystems Laboratory 16 Make Your Own Rocket! Illinois Space Society Everitt Laboratory 14 Marble Sorters Danville High School Engineering Hall 12 Materials Challenge Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 22 Materials Science Of Food And Candy Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 22 The Mechanical Eye SIGBot Siebel Center 30 Mechanical Properties Of Materials Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 22 Mechanical Weed Control Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building 9 Mechatronics And Its Applications To Off-Road Vehicles Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building 9 Michelson Interferometer Physics Society Loomis Laboratory 19 Moonbean SIGGRAPH Siebel Center 30 Motion Sensor Controlled Robotic Arm Independent Everitt Laboratory 14 Multitouch Computer Screen IEEE Everitt Laboratory 14 Multi-Touch Surface SIGArch Siebel Center 30 Music With Tesla Coil and Continuum Fingerboard Independent Everitt Laboratory 14 MyCampus MacWarriors - ACM Siebel Center 30

NASA Spinoff Game Illinois Space Society Everitt Laboratory 14 NewsLight SIGWin Siebel Center 30 Next-Generation Air Transportation System CSL Coordinated Science Laboratory 10 Non-Newtonian Fluids Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 22

Observe Cosmic Particles From Outer Space!! Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Digital Computer Laboratory 11 Online Ouija Board CSL Coordinated Science Laboratory 10 Overly Professional Gamebuilders Siebel Center 30

Penny Smasher American Society of Mechanical Engineers Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 25 Physics Society Exhibit Physics Society Loomis Laboratory 19 Physics Van Lecture Demos Physics Society Loomis Laboratory 19 Pi Tau Sigma Presents Hexapod Robots Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 25 Piezoelectrics Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 22 Pinball Machine ADSL Everitt Laboratory 15 Planet Ball ACM SIGGRAPH Siebel Center 30 Power And Energy Systems Laboratory Power And Energy Systems Everitt Laboratory 15 Print 3-D Objects using Common Materials Independent Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 25 Proximity Controlled Midi Controller ECE395 Everitt Laboratory 15 PTS Engine Display Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 25 Pyrotechnics AIChE Loomis Laboratory 19

Radio OneLlama Independent Siebel Center 30 Railroad Engineering Extravaganza American Society Of Civil Engineers Newmark Laboratory 26 Recycling Aluminum Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 22 Remote Control Sports Utility Vehicle (RC SUV) Project Q Open Area Southwest of Beckman Institute 27 Rowing Verification World ADSL Everitt Laboratory 15 RTS Racer Gamebuilders Siebel Center 30 Rube Goldberg Machine Rube Goldberg Society Engineering Hall 12

Sandcasting Exhibit Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 25 The Self-Sufficient Home Keramos Materials Science and Engineering Building 22 Shape Changing Materials Undergraduate Materials Organization (UMO) Materials Science and Engineering Building 22 Smoke Rings! Society For Experimental Mechanics Talbot Laboratory 33 Soil And Water Resources Laboratory Department Of Ag And Bio Engineering Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building 9 Solar Cells Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 22 Solar Decathlon 2009 UIUC Solar Decathlon Team - 2009 Everitt Laboratory 15 Solar Energy Undergraduate Materials Organization Materials Science and Engineering Building 22 Solar Powered Water Pumps AIChE Loomis Laboratory 19 Space Shuttle Tile Demonstration AIAA Talbot Laboratory 33 Space: Now And A Glimpse At The Future Illinois Space Society Everitt Laboratory 15 Spatially Augmented Reality SIGGRAPH Siebel Center 30 SPLATFest!!! -Egg Drop Gamma Epsilon Transportation Building 34 Squiggly River Boat Race Challenge IAHR & IWRA Hydrosystems Laboratory 16 Standing Water Waves IAHR & IWRA Hydrosystems Laboratory 16 Steel Bridge Team ASCE Newmark Laboratory 27 Sticky Skyscrapers ISGE Transportation Building 34 Stirling Engine American Society Of Mechanical Engineers Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 25 Stored Energy Solar Cooker Engineers Without Borders Materials Science and Engineering Building 22 Structural Engineers Association ASCE Newmark Laboratory 27 Swarming Cars SIGBot Siebel Center 30

The Tale of Heavy and Light - The River under the River IAHR & IWRA Hydrosystems Laboratory 16 To Rule The Waves Engineering Outreach Society Everitt Laboratory 15 Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid Information Trust Institute Coordinated Science Laboratory 10 Turbines: Powering The World Engineers Without Borders Materials Science and Engineering Building 23

UIUC Biodiesel Initiative UIUC Biodiesel Initiative Engineering Hall 12 Unfriendly SIGMiL Siebel Center 33

Walking Robots And Multi-robot Networks CSL Coordinated Science Laboratory 10 What Is Quicksand? Geotechnical Engineering Student Organization Newmark Laboratory 27 Wii Robotic Camera Independent Everitt Laboratory 15 Wind Tunnel AIAA Talbot Laboratory 34 The World Of Nuclear Power American Nuclear Society Loomis Laboratory 19

Zeppelin: Spy In The Sky ADSL Everitt Laboratory 15 8 EOH 2009 Agricultural general safety testing. The air This exhibit is suitable for: High cannon contains a unique piston School, College, General Public. Engineering mechanism that enables repro- Science Building ducible acceleration of a test Biomass Feedstock Pro- object. The working of the air ABE 100 Project Posters duction cannon will be explained along Agricultural and Biological Engi- Agricultural and Biological Engi- with a demonstration. neering Department neering Department This exhibit is suitable for: All How energy efficient is your Biomass feedstock production house? What is a living ma- (BFP) provides materials to the chine? Explore these questions Bioenvironmental and conversion of biomass into fuel, and more by seeing the hands- Structural Systems Labo- power, and value-added materi- on projects completed by our ratory als. BFP includes the agronomic first-year Agricultural and Biologi- Agricultural and Biological Engi- production of energy crops and cal Engineering students. neering Department the physical handling/delivery of This exhibit is suitable for: High The Bioenvironmental and Struc- biomass. The objective of this School, College, General Public. tural System (BESS) Laboratory program is to develop effective is a research, product-testing, and efficient engineering solu- Air Cannons for Use in and educational laboratory. The tions and machinery for biomass feedstock production. Agriculture and Forestry lab provides unbiased engineer- This exhibit is suitable for: High Agricultural and Biological Engi- ing data to aid in the design School, College, General Public. neering Department of agricultural buildings, and Air cannons are used for various conducts performance tests on purposes in agriculture, such as agricultural ventilation fans and a “puncher-planter”, and for poultry light traps. Unlocking Potential 9 Enzymes in Food Pro- This exhibit is suitable for: High designs systems to control soil cessing and BioSensing School, College, General Public. erosion and flooding, develops Agricultural and Biological Engi- irrigation systems, consults on neering Department Mechatronics and its Ap- crop nutrition management, and Enzymes are proteins that are designs ways to handle storm- plications to Off-Road water and control sediment. efficient catalysts for biochemical Vehicles reactions. They are widely used This exhibit is suitable for: High Agricultural and Biological Engi- School, College, General Public commercially in the detergent, neering Department food, and brewing industries. Mechatronics is the study of Coordinated Stop by and explore how en- machinery with a ‘brain’. Such zymes work in food processing machinery is integrated with Science Laboratory and producing biosensors. mechanical parts, electrical com- 3D Remote Reality This exhibit is suitable for: High ponents, and microprocessors. Here, you will find a remote-real- School, College, General Public. Come explore the differences ity framework able to capture, between conventional machinery reconstruct, stream, and render Illinois Laboratory for Ag- with electronic components and reality. We are working on build- ricultural Remote Sensing mechatronic machinery! ing a system that allows users (ILARS) This exhibit is suitable for: High to control the 3D viewing experi- Agricultural and Biological Engi- School, College, General Public. ence by combining images from neering Department multiple cameras. ILARS conducts research and A Promising New Energy Location: B18 works with industry and govern- Source This exhibit is suitable for: All ment agencies to develop “real Agricultural and Biological Engi- world” precision and site-specific neering Department Cars Driven by Comput- tools for agriculture and natural Thermochemical conversion ers and Networks resources management. ILARS processes (TCC) can be used to An automated road traffic system is staffed with experts in crop convert biomass into a crude oil may be possible in the future! science, agriculture engineering, product. Using a feedstock that See the demonstration of model geographic information systems, is normally considered a waste cars in the IT Convergence Lab and remote sensing. product, such as swine manure, of Professor P.R. Kumar, and This exhibit is suitable for: High improves the economic and envi- learn how research in control, School, College, General Public. ronmental considerations of the wireless communication and TCC process and also the pork software can help make it hap- Mechanical Weed Control production process. pen. Agricultural and Biological Engi- This exhibit is suitable for: High Location: IT Convergence Lab neering Department School, College, General Public. This exhibit is suitable for: All To address the trend of weeds becoming resistant to herbicides, Soil and Water Resources Face Recognition Tech- we developed a mechanical Laboratory nology weed control system for corn. Agricultural and Biological Engi- Come see our state-of-the-art The machine detects where the neering Department face recognition system! By cap- corn plants are located in the The Soil and Water Resources turing many images of your face row, and then uses mechanical Laboratory focuses on under- illuminated from many angles by arms that perform the mechani- standing the role of natural eco- an array of projectors, our com- cal weeding using harrows that systems in agriculture. The lab puter system is able to recognize avoid the corn stalks. 10 EOH 2009 you under completely new light- Online Ouija Board to create robots that walk in a ing. This exhibit will be of special The Online Ouija Board will not more lifelike way. We are also interest to students who are tak- allow you to speak with ghosts investigating telemanipulation ing linear algebra, or who have (sorry!). But it does borrow its and coordination in multi-robot an interest in digital cameras and concept from the Ouija game, networks, which would allow projectors. Warning: exhibit may which uses a board printed with robots to complete such tasks as not be safe for photosensitive the alphabet to help communi- remote construction, search and individuals. cate with ghosts. The project’s rescue, salvage operations, and This exhibit is suitable for: All aim is to explore how people and telesurgery. machines, with access to partial This exhibit is suitable for: All Lemelson-Illinois Student information and limited control, Prize Finalist Displays communicate and coordinate to Digital Computer The $30,000 Lemelson-Illinois achieve a common goal. Laboratory Student Prize is awarded on an This exhibit is suitable for: All annual basis to an undergradu- AgTracker Robot Agricultural and Biological Engi- ate or graduate student who has Trustworthy Cyber Infra- neering Department created or improved a product or structure for the Power Robotics in crop production process, applied a technology in Grid shows great potential in acquir- a new way, redesigned a sys- Information Trust Institute ing data from the field and for tem, or demonstrated remark- TCIP’s research is focused on low energy operations. This ro- able inventiveness in other ways. securing the low-level devices, bot can be used for mechanical Several finalists and the winner communications, and data sys- weed control. This will become of the 2009 prize will demon- tems that make up the power more important in the future, strate and display their innova- grid, to ensure trustworthy op- since an increasing number of tions. eration during normal conditions, weeds are becoming resistant to Location: Lower level lobby cyber-attacks, or power emer- glyphosate. This exhibit is suitable for: All gencies. Visitors can play with Location: West Atrium interactive applets which show This exhibit is suitable for: All how power distribution works in Next-Generation Air the U.S. The basics of computer American Society of Ag. Transportation System security will be explained. TCIP and Bio. Engineering Stu- Nobody likes to be stuck in an researchers will make appear- airport waiting for their plane to ances at the exhibit to answer dent Branch arrive. Unfortunately, flight de- questions. ASABE lays are a growing problem in Location: 448 (TCIP Laboratory) The American Society of Agricul- the U.S. air transportation sys- This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- tural and Biological Engineers tem. However, our researchers dle School, High School, Col- is an educational and scientific are working to ensure safe and lege, General Public organization dedicated to the reliable travel for fliers through advancement of engineering new computer technology and applicable to agricultural, food, Walking Robots and Multi- and biological systems. ASABE flight models. Learn more about robot Networks air transportation in this exhibit, comprises 9,000 members in Come see the latest in robot- which features model airplanes. more than 100 countries. ics research at the Coordinated This exhibit is suitable for: All Location: West Atrium Science Laboratory! Using ad- This exhibit is suitable for: High vancements in information tech- School, College, General Public nology, researchers are working Unlocking Potential 11 Campus Middle School areas of the field, addressing the Engineering department. Booth Robotics Club science and application of each also features photos of club Campus Middle School method. Various technologies events as well as general and The Robotics Club is an after- will be demonstrated. contact information. school program at Campus Location: East Atrium Location: West Atrium Middle School for Girls that uses This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- the Lego Mindstorms Robotics dle School, High School, Col- kit to promote math, science, Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Use lege, General Public and engineering in a fun and in- in Residential Combined teractive way. The girls, ages 11- Heat and Power Systems Indoor Localization (I- 14, use Lego bricks to build their Agricultural and Biological Engi- GPS) own robots, which are designed neering Department Department of Agricultural and to complete series of tasks. This exhibit presents the benefits Biological Engineering Location: East Atrium of using a hydrogen fuel cell in This exhibit has a robot that This exhibit is suitable for: High a home as a combined heat and knows its location using a spin- School, College, General Public power system, meaning that it ning laser beam that hits three provides both electricity and heat sensors in a board. Come see Career Opportunities in for consumption by the resi- how it works! Agricultural and Biologi- dents. The byproducts of a hy- Location: West Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: All cal Engineering drogen fuel cell include electric- Agricultural and Biological Engi- ity, heat, and water, thus making neering Department it environmentally friendly. Interactive Carbon Cycle Agricultural and Biological Location: West Atrium Department of Agricultural and Engineers solve engineering This exhibit is suitable for: Gen- Biological Engineering problems related to living or- eral Public In the BioMASS lab, we use ganisms and systems. Careers models to help analyze how a are available in bioprocessing, Illini Pullers complex system works. In this in- renewable energy, water and air Illini Pullers teractive game, become part of a quality, food production systems, Illini Pullers will be displaying two carbon cycle model. We’ll show and other areas. Employment of their newest tractors along how a complex system model is available in industry, govern- with a slideshow of events from works, and why little changes in ment, and academics. the past year. the way we use fossil fuels can Location: West Atrium Location: West Atrium make a big difference to global This exhibit is suitable for: High This exhibit is suitable for: High warming. School, College School, College, General Public Location: West Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: All The Frontiers of Bioengi- Illinois Student Branch of neering: Applications and ASABE Observe Cosmic Particles Design Agricultural and Biological Engi- from Space!! Department of Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering Society neering Department Biological Engineering Technologies such as the Eye Visitors will be given the oppor- This exhibit demonstrates a Mouse, MoCap Returns Motion tunity to talk with members about method that makes elementary Capture, and Wii Therapeutic will club experiences, opportunities particles (alpha, beta) visible. be examined. BMES will present through the club and ASABE, Location: West Atrium an assortment of posters that and about being a member of This exhibit is suitable for: All summarize some of the hot the Agricultural and Biological 12 EOH 2009 Engineering Hall will turn off and change a work- Automated Othello ing light bulb. Come see crazy ECE 395 ADSL Homemade Keyboard steps like a growing plant, danc- The playing pieces contain rare- This project is an integrated cir- ing people, and some mysterious earth magnets which are flipped cuit created by a non-engineer- murders. during game play by electromag- ing student. It uses a resistors, Location: East Atrium nets. Depending on a player’s potentiometers, and a capacitor This exhibit is suitable for: All move, the computer will auto- to output square wave forms matically flip/move the appropri- and produce multiple octaves UIUC Biodiesel Initiative ate pieces and display the new of musical notes. Each note is UIUC Biodiesel Initiative score. activated by a copper strip and it The UIUC Biodiesel Initiative is Location: 261 is all powered by a 9 volt bat- a student-run project focused pri- This exhibit is suitable for: All tery, which means the public can marily on lowering the emissions press the strips and play a song. of the University and promot- Bioshock Interactive La- Location: 106B8 ing education of renewable fuel ser Tag System This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- sources. This is done by retriev- WECE dle School, High School, Col- ing used vegetable oil from the Our interactive laser gun game lege, General Public campus dining halls and con- differs from the usual one. There verting it into environmentally- are two players involved in the Marble Sorters friendly diesel fuel. The team is game, each armed with a “pow- Danville High School striving to ensure that the UIUC erful” laser gun that will allow Using Robo Pro software and Biodiesel Initiative becomes a them to shoot at their competitor. Fishertechnicks pieces, students model for university and commu- If one of the players gets “shot”, in Principles of Engineering (a nity biodiesel production. See their gun will be frozen and un- Project Lead the Way class) a small demonstration of the able to shoot for 5-10 seconds. working in groups have designed simple process. At the same time, they will re- and built their own device that Location: 106B1 ceive a mild electric shock from will sort different colored marbles This exhibit is suitable for: All their shock band worn on the into equal groups. wrist. Come try it out! Location: 106B6 Location: 143 This exhibit is suitable for: All Everitt Laboratory This exhibit is suitable for: All

Rube Goldberg Machine Auto-Centering Platform Bluewater Ampworks Rube Goldberg Society Using a touchscreen as a plat- A demonstration of vacuum tube A Rube Goldberg machine is form, read the position of a steel guitar amplifiers and a technical a deliberately overengineered ball. From this position, calculate discussion on their operation. apparatus that performs a very the difference from the center Location: 260 simple task in a very complex and adjust the angle of the plat- This exhibit is suitable for: All fashion, usually using a chain form with two servo motors. The reaction. Based off of the draw- calculation and adjustment is Burning Plasma and Etch- ings of the cartoonist Rube Gold- done with a Basic STAMP 2 Mi- berg, each machine functions ing Pen crocontroller from Parallax, Inc. IEEE very much like the board game Location: 245 The plasma-burning pen oper- Mouse Trap. This year we have This exhibit is suitable for: All ates at high electric voltage and built a Clue themed machine that high frequency output to etch and burn fine inscriptions on Unlocking Potential 13 14 EOH 2009 any organic surface. The device this lamp is bright enough to be tute of Electrical and Electronic could also be used to light up seen even in daylight! Engineers. fluorescent tubes on contact like Location: 165 Location: 163 a magic wand. This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: All Location: 163 This exhibit is suitable for: All Make Your Own Rocket! Music with Tesla Coil and Illinois Space Society Continuum Fingerboard Frozen Marshmallows! Combine fuels such as lemon A system has been developed Illinois Space Society juice and alka seltzer into a film- for producing musical tones Space is cold! Come see how a canister “rocket” to determine from Tesla coils. The Continuum marshmallow would taste at -350 which combinations yield the Fingerboard, invented by U of Fahrenheit! greatest height or just create the I professor Lippold Haken, is a Location: 170 loudest bang! Feel free to add a musical instrument with real-time This exhibit is suitable for: Grade nose-cone and wings. continuous control in three direc- School, Middle School Location: 170 tions for every finger placed on This exhibit is suitable for: Grade the playing surface. The Tesla Graffiti Robot School, Middle School coil system and Continuum Fin- ADSL gerboard and will be featured in We have built a robot capable Motion Sensor Controlled a concert of several short pieces, of spraying paint on a wall. Our Robotic Arm including one composed by U of robot currently takes controls This exhibit has a 5-axis robotic I music composition professor from a controller and translates arm that you can control with a Scott Wyatt and musician/Con- those inputs to movement and Wiimote. The arm can follow tra- tinuum performer Mark Smart spraying to the user’s input. We jectories as well as grip objects. for SEAMUS (Society for Elec- are now working on a software It runs on a Position-Integral- tro-Acoustic Music in the United implementation that will run on Derivative (PID) controller coded States). The coil and Continuum anyone’s laptop that will trans- in the LabVIEW programming will be on display from 10am- late any image and paint a wall. language. 3pm Saturday only. Musical per- Location: 261 Location: 267 formances will happen Saturday This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: All at: 10:00am, 11:00am, 12:00pm, 1:00pm, 2:00pm, and 3:00pm. High Powered LED Mood Multitouch Computer Location: 151 This exhibit is suitable for: All Lamp Screen IEEE IEEE Lava lamps were all the rage This 24x18 inch computer NASA Spinoff Game back in the 60’s. This is a new screen uses infrared light and a Illinois Space Society and improved incarnation of an camera to detect multiple touch Over the years, technologies old novelty decorative item. A inputs. One can use it with more from NASA have trickled into demonstration will be given of than one finger, and many us- mainstream life. Pick out the the color changing capabilities of ers can interact at the same items that have come from the lamp, enabled through a pro- time. Demo applications include NASA from an assortment of grammed microcontroller that al- games and a fingerpaint pro- various things. Beware of items lows the user to control the LED gram. This is an exciting project that have been mistakenly attrib- color through outside switches. on image processing and hu- uted to NASA. A complete set of colors is pos- man-computer interaction from Location: 170 sible. Unlike most mood lights, the student chapter of the Insti- This exhibit is suitable for: Grade Unlocking Potential 15

School, Middle School Audio effects are controlled by Location: 269 reading the capacitance around This exhibit is suitable for: Grade Pinball Machine an antenna. School, Middle School ADSL Location: 261 Our made-from-scratch pinball This exhibit is suitable for: All Wii Robotic Camera machine is the result of over a The purpose of this project is year’s worth research and de- Rowing Verification World to develop a remote controlled sign. Unlike any other pinball ADSL robotic camera with three axes machine on the market, this A comprehensive monitoring of control for use in the television college-themed simultaneous system for rowing. Industry (utilizing a Wii remote multiplayer machine utilizes flip- Location: 261 for user interface). The robotic per buttons mounted intuitively This exhibit is suitable for: High camera will have: three axes of above each flipper! With each School, College, General Public control (using Wii Remote), full player focused on one themed control the camera, a base that side of the playfield (academic Solar Decathlon 2009 can drive the camera around, and extracurricular activities) a UIUC Solar Decathlon Team and a control system to maintain balance needs to be kept so you The Solar Decathlon 2009 will be a level camera against distur- don’t “burn out” from too much held in Washington D.C. in Oc- bances in the environment, such studying or “flunk out” from too tober. 20 university teams from as non-level ground. much recreation! North America and Europe will Location: 163 Location: 261 design and build a marketable, This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: All energy-efficient, comfortable So- lar powered home. This exhibit Zeppelin: Spy in the Sky Power and Energy Sys- will display models, posters, and ADSL tems Laboratory systems pertaining to UIUC’s Our project is a blimp that will Power And Energy Systems house. navigate itself to a determined Power and Energy are core Location: 168 location via a GPS system. Once disciplines in Electrical Engineer- This exhibit is suitable for: All it reaches its position, it will take ing. A series of projects are set surveillance using a video cam- up to demonstrate this exciting Space: Now and a era and send the video informa- area including the Magnetic ring tion back to the user using a Glimpse at the Future wireless signal. The blimp will be cannon, floating frying pan, auto- Illinois Space Society able to navigate to several way mated Etch-A-Sketch, and many See all of the amazing things the points and will receive a signal more. space program is doing present- that will force it to return back Location: 50 ly and its hopes for the future! to the user when they want it to This exhibit is suitable for: All Location: 170 return. This exhibit is suitable for: Grade Location: 261 Proximity Controlled Midi School, Middle School This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- Controller dle School, High School, Col- ECE395 To Rule the Waves lege, General Public The Proximity Controlled MIDI Engineering Outreach Society Controller is based on the same Local students from Leal El- principles as a Theremin. It uses ementary will be designing boats a single antenna to control the from household recyclables to modulation of different parame- compete with each other in vari- ters on an audio signal via MIDI. ous competitions. 16 EOH 2009 Hydrosystems Hands-On Hydrologic Squiggly River Boat Race Model Challenge Laboratory IAHR/IWRA IAHR/IWRA The Amazing Under- In this hands-on model one can Meandering rivers transport ground World of TARP explore how the power of water both water and sediment. The shapes the topology of our earth. understanding of their physical IAHR/IWRA (International As- Come design your own land- processes are important for hu- sociation for Hydraulic Engineer- scape and see how water works man-nature interaction and pres- ing and Research / International its magic. ervation. Come learn and then Water Resources Association) Location: 1504 play “Boat Race Challenge”, in Have you ever seen a 30 foot This exhibit is suitable for: All which participants with be able to wide tunnel that is 300 feet un- build and race their own alumi- derground? Now’s your chance! num foil boats. Come discover the complex and The Hazards of Low-Head Location: 1504 intriguing Tunnel and Reservoir Dams This exhibit is suitable for: All Project (TARP) of the greater IAHR/IWRA Chicago Area. Low-head dams are common Location: 1504 throughout Illinois on many rivers Standing Water Waves This exhibit is suitable for: All and streams. These dams are IAHR/IWRA also dangerous, and sometimes Have you ever seen what water Design of a Canoe Chute fatal, when fishermen or boat- waves look like when they fully and Fish Passage for the ers get too close to downstream reflect from a beach? Come visit end of the spillway and become our giant water wave tank and Chicago River trapped in a re-circulating current see first hand the peculiar wave IAHR/IWRA that can often be found at the toe patterns and the resulting sand The goal of this project is to of low-head dams. This exhibit bedforms! design a combined canoe chute demonstrates the dangers that Location: 1504 and fish passage for the North can be associated with low-head This exhibit is suitable for: All Branch Dam of the Chicago dams. River. The design includes a Location: 1504 The Tale of Heavy and canoe chute that provides a safe This exhibit is suitable for: All means of passing over the dam Light - The River under while providing a way for the the River local fish communities to move Magic Fountain IAHR/IWRA IAHR/IWRA upstream- helping to improve the Heavy things sink and light Learn how the flow of water biological diversity of the area. things float. Mother Nature is a through pipes and special pres- Location: 1504 master on this basic rule of phys- sure distributions make it pos- This exhibit is suitable for: All ics. Come and see how density sible for the construction of a wa- flows generate a river under the ter fountain that runs virtually on Chicago River in Chicago, Il- Ever Seen the Bottom of its own, without external forcing the Ocean? linois. or pumps of any kind! Known as Location: 1504 IAHR/IWRA the Heron’s fountain, it was first This exhibit is suitable for: All Come discover for yourself the invented in ancient Egypt in the interesting bed forms which are first century. Thank you for being present beneath the waves. Location: 1504 a part of Engineering Location: 1504 This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: All Open House 2009! Unlocking Potential 17

Loomis Laboratory U.S. News ranked the Agricultural, Civil, and Materials Blacks in Chemistry & Science Engineering departments #1 in America for 2009. Chemical Engineering The University of Illinois’ College of Engineering is ranked NOBCChE Learn about African-American the #4 Undergraduate Engineering Program in the U.S. contributions to Chemistry & Some famous alumni from the University Chemical Engineering. Location: Lobby of Illinois’ College of Engineering include This exhibit is suitable for: All YouTube co-founders Javed Karim and Steve Chen, Microsoft’s Chief Software Brewing at its Best Architect Ray Ozzie, co-founder and CTO AIChE for Paypal Max Levchin, and co-founder We will be explaining the chem- and long time CEO of Advanced Micro istry behind brewing through Devices Jerry Sanders. posters and out very own home- made brew. 16 alumni and faculty have won the Nobel Location: Lobby Prize, in addition to John Bardeen (professor of This exhibit is suitable for: All Physics and Electrical Engineering), who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice. Bubble Room Physics Society The bubble room is a hands-on demonstration that allows you to observe how bubbles form in a variety of patterns. Better yet, you’ll get a chance to form a bubble around your body! Location: Lobby This exhibit is suitable for: Grade School, Middle School

Candy AIChE See how to make candy and a demonstration of the thermody- namics mixing processes and mass transfer of food process- ing. Location: Lobby This exhibit is suitable for: All

Colloids AIChE When does 1+2=-5? When does a solid plus a liquid display prop- 18 EOH 2009 erties of neither phase? Come ciety exhibits of electricity, mag- will include a number of classical learn about colloids and their nets, metals, and conductors. exhibits in order to show the abil- magical mysterious chemical Location: 136 ity to extract Kinematic Energy properties. This demo-licious This exhibit is suitable for: All from stored Potential. These presentation includes take-home exhibits include uniform accel- gak! Flippin’ Flubber eration demonstrations, erosion Location: Lobby AIChE tables, and water wheels. This exhibit is suitable for: All We will be making the follow- Location: 144 ing materials: Flubber (a gel-like This exhibit is suitable for: All Decaf vs. Regular substance that flows but does AIChE not split easily), Potato Plas- Gravity and Mechanics Have you ever wondered if your tic (an organic plastic that is Physics Society coffee was actually free of caf- decomposed more easily than Here, you will find various Phys- feine? See how decaffeination petroleum-based plastic), and ics Society exhibits concerning works, with free samples! non-Newtonian fluid (fluid that gravity and other mechanics. Location: Lobby becomes more like solid under Location: 144 This exhibit is suitable for: All impact) This exhibit is suitable for: All Location: Lobby Diet Coke + Mentos This exhibit is suitable for: All Heat Transfer AIChE AIChE Thanks to the chemical proper- Fruity Fragrances Demonstration of the basis of ties of both Diet Coke and Men- AIChE heat transfer via examples of tos, an alternative fuel vehicle We have made a variety of conduction, convection, and heat can be powered through the scents in the lab to show how capacity. isolation of the soda burst. fragrances can be produced in Location: Lobby Location: Lobby a laboratory and the chemistry This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: All behind it. Location: Lobby Hydrogen Fuel Cell Dreaming of Dirigible This exhibit is suitable for: All AIChE Physics Society This exhibit will show how the Although in modern times, Fusion Technology power of hydrogen can be cap- blimps have been relegated to American Nuclear Society tured in order to make a fuel cell advertisement, they still have a See the tremendous power that will power a small vehicle, certain grace and power about behind a magnetic can-crusher. and someday might power the them. Come observe our tests of Although commercially-available cars that we depend upon so different uses for dirigibles! See fusion is not currently achiev- heavily. how these marvels of technology able, we hope to one day make Location: Lobby have modern applications, and that a reality. Hear about the This exhibit is suitable for: All have fun with interactive demon- fantastic developments in fusion, strations for all ages. and witness the future! Induct on This Location: 136 Location: 151 American Institute Of Chemical This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: All Engineers An electromagnet will be con- Electricity and Magnetism Gravitational Potential structed and used to induce heat Physics Society Physics Society in common metal cookware as a Here, you can find Physics So- The Gravitational potential series Unlocking Potential 19 means to cook food, heat water, Liquid Nitrogen Table fundamental concepts of physics etc. Physics Society in entertaining and educational Location: Lobby The Liquid Nitrogen Table is a ways. If you get excited when- This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- a demonstration of what hap- ever you hear about Einstein, dle School, High School, Col- pens when various materials are Newton, and Bernoulli, or if you lege, General Public subjected to extreme cold. The just get a kick out of things blow- exhibit explores the behavior of ing up, this is a show you won’t Induction Heater the gaseous, liquid, and solid want to miss. Physics Society phases of matter, and the transi- Location: 141 This device will be used to show tions between those phases for This exhibit is suitable for: All the use of changing magnetic various objects. The exhibit also fields to heat a conductor. As introduces the basic scientific Pyrotechnics well as showing the efficiency of concept of experimentation as AIChE this technique, it demonstrates a way to observe what the out- This booth shows the chemistry the concepts of skin depth by come of a given interaction will behind fireworks and pyrotech- observing the different heating be. Come guess what will hap- nics. There are demonstrations patterns across different fre- pen to bananas, balloons, and on the hour. quencies. flowers when they reach -320 Location: Lobby Location: 144 degrees! This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- Location: Lobby dle School, High School, College This exhibit is suitable for: All Solar Powered Water Pumps The Induction Stove Michelson Interferometer AIChE Physics Society Physics Society We will have a water fountain We are showcasing an impres- The Michelson interferometer run by one solar powered water sive application of alternating uses the extreme precision of pump, and another solar pump magnetic fields and eddy cur- laser technology to measure that is shooting water back into rents. Induction stoves leave distances with sub micrometer the water fountain. counter tops cool, and are ex- precision (or less then a thou- Location: Lobby tremely efficient modern kitchen sandth of a millimeter). This in- This exhibit is suitable for: All technology. Come experience credible technology is applicable our demonstration! in a wide variety of fields, rang- The World of Nuclear Location: 136 ing from medicine to engineering This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- to science. Come see how this Power American Nuclear Society dle School, High School, College amazing device works, and play Check out nuclear technology with lasers while you’re at it. in the everyday world. Use a Location: Lobby Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Geiger counter to take radiation This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- AIChE readings of radioactive dinner dle School, High School, Col- We will demonstrate the chem- plates, smoke detectors, and lege, General Public istry behind the making of deli- other items. See next genera- cious liquid nitrogen ice cream. tion nuclear power plants as well Come by and cool off with some Physics Van Lecture Dem- as a model of a modern nuclear yummy goodness. os power plant, complete with work- Location: Lobby Physics Society ing cooling towers. This exhibit is suitable for: All This annual favorite of EOH-go- Location: 151 ers presents some of the most This exhibit is suitable for: All 20 EOH 2009 Materials Science Advanced Ceramics the path of the drug in the body. Undergraduate Materials Orga- In addition, we will have mini Engineering nization scaffolds on display. Building We will introduce advanced Location: 100 ceramics to younger students. This exhibit is suitable for: All The 2009 Materials Show They can be complex and inter- Undergraduate Materials Orga- esting! Biomaterials - Hydrogels nization Location: First Floor Undergraduate Materials Orga- The 2009 Materials Show will This exhibit is suitable for: All nization demonstrate the different kinds This project discusses the use of of materials in a fun movie that is Biomaterials - Drug Deliv- hydrogels for scaffolding as well loosely based on the Wizard of as for newly designed implants Oz. This video will be both enter- ery Undergraduate Materials Orga- with improved properties. Hydro- taining and informative, and will nization gels interact with growth factors last approximately 10-15 min- We have demonstrations on and encourage the proliferation utes. If you want to learn about Transdermal Drug delivery. Dem- of bone and tissue cells. materials, come enjoy this short onstrations include a water and Location: First Floor movie. dye demo to illustrate diffusion of This exhibit is suitable for: High Location: 119 medicine through a skin mem- School, College, General Public This exhibit is suitable for: All brane. Another demo is a illumi- nated skeleton which will show

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© 2009 Caterpillar All Rights Reserved Printed in USA CAT, CATERPILLAR, their respective logos and “Caterpillar Yellow,” as well as corporate and product identity used herein, are trademarks of Caterpillar and may not be used without permission. Unlocking Potential 21 Composites and Sports will show how conducting poly- activities and demonstrations to Equipment mers can be used as sensors by represent various processes that Undergraduate Materials Orga- demonstrating how they change occur within a system. nization resistivity and color with doping. Location: First Floor We will explore materials used We will have two vials showing This exhibit is suitable for: All in various sports equipments, the different colors and an ohm- how materials in sports equip- meter showing the resistance. Fun with Vacuums and ments changed over time, and Location: First Floor Plasmas how they are enhanced to fit the This exhibit is suitable for: All American Vacuum Society sports’ needs. There will also be During our presentations, every- a brief description and demon- Drinking Water Treatment body can learn more about vacu- strations of general composites. WaterCAMPWS ums and plasmas. No, we don’t Location: First Floor The CEE WaterCAMPWS stu- show fancy vacuum cleaners This exhibit is suitable for: All dents will illustrate the design here. Vacuum is simply a volume and layout of a drinking water without any air. Many industrial Conducting Polymers treatment plant. We will have processes nowadays require Undergraduate Materials Orga- hands-on and visual demonstra- such empty volumes, and so do nization tions of a drinking water treat- plasmas. Never seen a plasma A sample of polyaniline (a con- ment system. There will be a before? No problem, we will ducting polymer) will be used to small-scale model of a typical show what these strange terms light up an LED through it. We drinking water treatment plant, really mean, and what kind of fun along with some more hands-on things you can do with them. 22 EOH 2009

Location: First Floor This exhibit is suitable for: All Location: First Floor This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: All Materials Challenge Hydrogels Undergraduate Materials Orga- Piezoelectrics Undergraduate Materials Orga- nization Undergraduate Materials Orga- nization Here, there is a hands-on project nization Learn how hydrogels work and where you build plaster beams An exploration of common why they can be used in many with different reinforcements. piezoeletrics, such as those applications. There will be sam- Have some fun trying to build the used in watches and various ples of hydrogels to touch, as strongest cement block! Com- modern applications. well as demonstrations of how pete with friends and family! Location: 100 hydrogels in items like diapers Location: First Floor This exhibit is suitable for: All can swell to many times their This exhibit is suitable for: All size. See what happens to hair Recycling Aluminum gel when people “sweat”. Other Materials Science of Food Undergraduate Materials Orga- examples of hydrogels will also and Candy nization be provided to show the diversity Undergraduate Materials Orga- We will be comparing recycling in their functions. nization aluminum with manufacturing Location: First Floor The general idea of our project is aluminum. The costs of recy- This exhibit is suitable for: All to illustrate through demonstra- cling aluminum will be analyzed tions and posters the material and compared to the costs of Hydrophobic and Hydro- science of different food items, manufacturing aluminum. We will philic Materials such as caramel and Jell-O. have an interactive game to help Undergraduate Materials Orga- Location: 100 explain the process of recycling nization This exhibit is suitable for: All aluminum. A demonstration of hydrophobic Location: First Floor and hydrophilic materials. There Mechanical Properties of This exhibit is suitable for: All will be demos of “magic sand” Materials that visitors can mold under Undergraduate Materials Orga- Stored Energy Solar water, but it is dry when you pull nization Cooker it out. There will also be some Visitors will be able to use a Engineers Without Borders small demos with oils and water, small, levered machine in order We are presenting a scale work- as well as informational displays. to attempt to deform polymers, ing model of our design of a Location: First Floor ceramics, and metals in three stored energy solar cooker. Heat This exhibit is suitable for: All tests. is collected and stored during Location: First Floor the day, and make it available Liquid Crystals and Opti- This exhibit is suitable for: All later for use in cooking. Come cal Materials learn about the benefits of solar- Undergraduate Materials Orga- Non-Newtonian Fluids powered cooking! Our goal is nization Undergraduate Materials Orga- to complete construction of a full Come see examples and dem- nization scale version later this semester. onstrations of different liquid We’ll discuss non-Newtonian Location: First Floor crystals and optical materials, fluids, which include dilatants, This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- and learn about their importance pseudoplastics, and ferrofluids. dle School, High School, Col- to material scientists. Our exhibit includes hands-on lege, General Public Location: 100 and visual demonstrations. Unlocking Potential 23 Turbines: Powering the a poster. Distracted Driving World Location: 100 American Society Of Mechanical Engineers Without Borders This exhibit is suitable for: All Engineers Our small-scale wind turbine Come learn about the dangers of shows how to harness natural Solar Energy distracted driving. Try your hand sources of energy to turn gen- Undergraduate Materials Orga- at a driving simulation while per- erators. Come see the compo- nization forming other distracting tasks! nents of the generator in action. Presentation of solar energy, Location: 2001, 2005, 2009 Learn the mechanics behind its pros and cons, and possible This exhibit is suitable for: All turbines and electricity gen- applications, both current and eration. You can also discover future. Formula SAE and Baja the differences and similarities Location: 100 SAE between power from fossil fuels This exhibit is suitable for: All Society Of Automotive Engineers and renewable sources. (SAE) Location: First Floor Mechanical SAE will bring cars from both This exhibit is suitable for: All Engineering Formula SAE and Baja SAE to display to the general public. The Self-Sufficient Home Laboratory There will also be presentation Keramos Breakfast with SWE boards and multimedia from Create a home with a low carbon Society Of Women Engineers competitions showing the work, footprint using the latest in mate- Grab a free breakfast and meet engineering calculations, and rials technology. the girls of the Society of Women student effort that goes into de- Location: First Floor Engineers! Breakfast offerings signing and building these cars. This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- will include bagels, donuts, Location: West end lower level dle School, High School, Col- muffins, and more, along with foyer and outside lege, General Public coffee, milk, and your traditional This exhibit is suitable for: All breakfast juices. Plus, you can Shape-Changing Materials learn more about SWE, from its Illini Prosthetics Team Undergraduate Materials Organi- role as a national organization to Illini Prosthetics Team zation (UMO) the UIUC section’s activities on The Illini Prosthetics Team is a Here, we have a glass container campus and in the community. group of undergraduate students of ferrofluid and other shape- Location: 2001, 2005, 2009 who is designing and construct- changing metals. We will have This exhibit is suitable for: All ing a prosthetic arm for use in demos to give away shape- third world countries, and those changing polymers, as well as CNC Machining who cannot afford the current informational displays. Society Of Women Engineers prostheses on the market. We Location: 100 Come learn about CNC machin- will demonstrate the arm as we This exhibit is suitable for: All ing - what the process entails have constructed it. and how it is used by a variety Location: 2001, 2005, 2009 Solar Cells of industries. We’ll be making This exhibit is suitable for: All Undergraduate Materials Orga- EOH 2009 keychains - grab one nization before you leave! The College of Engineer- This exhibit is a demonstration Location: 1230, 1228 ing has 240 professors, 85 of a working solar cell. Further This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- associate professors, and information on dye-sensitized dle School, High School, Col- 97 assistant professors. solar cells will be shown in lege, General Public 24 EOH 2009 Unlocking Potential 25 Penny Smasher rotary model and an aircraft in concrete technology. Recently, American Society of Mechanical cylinder-piston assembly. Sub- the chapter placed third overall Engineers sections of engine desgin will be in the concrete cube competition We are punching a Block I into discussed, including oil analysis at the 2007 Fall Convention held aluminum disks using a ma- and material selection. in Puerto Rico. chined die and vice. A quick Location: 2001, 2005, 2009 Location: Crane Bay demonstration and unique sou- This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: High venir! School, College Location: 2001, 2005, 2009 Sandcasting Exhibit This exhibit is suitable for: Grade Pi Tau Sigma Asphalt Pavements are a School, Middle School, General In this exhibit, the members of Pi Lot of Fun! Public Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineer- Discover the world of asphalt ing Honor Society will demon- pavements! Learn about what Pi Tau Sigma Presents strate how to create a sand mold asphalt is, how it is used, and Hexapod Robots for a small medallion, and then how it is studied. You can make Pi Tau Sigma pour liquid aluminum at 1500 your own asphalt mixtures with The members of Pi Tau Sigma degrees into the sand mold. After our slime, aggregate, and other here on campus put together a the molds have solidified, the fun ingredients. We can help display involving hexapods and medallions will be presented to you test your choice of mixture an obstacle course. Demonstra- the audience as souvenirs! to evaluate its performance. You tions will include allowing visi- Location: 1225 can learn why roads fail, and tors to guide robots up a small This exhibit is suitable for: All examine samples of asphalt structure in a race-like fashion, concrete. pressing various buttons along Stirling Engine Location: Crane Bay the way. First person to press American Society Of Mechanical This exhibit is suitable for: All the last button wins! Engineers Location: 2001, 2005, 2009 Using any type of external heat Balsa Wood Bridge This exhibit is suitable for: All source to run, the Stirling Engine Competition is truly unlocking potential. Come ASCE Print 3-D Objects using see our various versions of the The University of Illinois Student Common Materials Stirling Engine. Chapter of the American Society Location: 2001, 2005, 2009 We’ll show how solid objects of Civil Engineering is sponsor- This exhibit is suitable for: All are created from a photoactive ing a Balsa Wood Bridge Com- polymer using light from a data Newmark petition held during the Engi- projector. neering Open House on Friday Location: 2226 Laboratory March 13th, 2009. The purpose This exhibit is suitable for: All American Concrete Insti- of this competition is to build a tute balsa wood bridge given certain PTS Engine Display ASCE constraints with an emphasis on Pi Tau Sigma The student chapter of ACI has the greatest load to weight ratio. We will display the components been involved in many activi- Location: Crane Bay of 2 types of internal combustion ties ranging from international This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- engines, piston and rotary. There concrete design competitions to dle School, High School, Col- will be a cutaway of a 4-piston bringing speakers to the Univer- lege, General Public engine, along with a movable sity to talk about the cutting-edge 26 EOH 2009 Concrete Canoe tary engineers use the knowl- History of Arab Engineer- Concrete Canoe edge they gain in school to work ing and Inventions The Boneyard Yacht Club, also on projects ranging from build- Arab American Association Of known as the concrete canoe ing infrastructure in Iraq and Engineers and Architects team, spends each year design- Afghanistan, to flood control and This exhibit demonstrates the ing, constructing, and racing a ecosystem restoration in the contributions by Arabs through- canoe made of concrete. Spon- United States. Also, learn how out history towards the advance- sored by the American Society current Army ROTC cadets are ment of humankind though infor- of Civil Engineers, schools have working in conjunction with the mational posters and models. the opportunity of participating in Construction Engineering Re- Location: Crane Bay a regional competition, with the search Laboratory to gain indus- This exhibit is suitable for: All winner of each regional competi- try experience through summer tion competing nationally. internships. Railroad Engineering Location: Crane Bay Location: Crane Bay This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: High Extravaganza School, College, General Public American Society Of Civil Engi- neers. Engineering in the US Electrical and Computer Engi- Come see the leaders of the rail- Army neering had the highest enroll- road transportation industry! We Department Of Military Science, ment of all engineering disci- will demonstrate traffic control Univ. Of Illinois plines at UIUC (Fall 2007), with and maintenance and operations Come see how civilian and mili- 1,245 undergraduates. on a railroad. There will be a Unlocking Potential 27 locomotive simulator for visi- Outdoor Exhibits Chromatactix tors to learn how a locomotive is Gamebuilders operated, and demonstrations Remote Control Sports You and up to three friends try of both the tools used in mainte- Utility Vehicle (RC SUV) to fend off hordes of enemies to nance and traffic control. We will Project Q save the galaxy. Player-coopera- also have a booth with Operation Our current project entails a re- tion is required to survive. Lifesaver. mote control sports utility vehicle Location: Atrium Location: 1233 (RC SUV). We intend to fully This exhibit is suitable for: Gen- This exhibit is suitable for: All control an SUV using a control- eral Public ling device, such as a joystick or Steel Bridge Team a cellular phone. Communications/Protocol ASCE Location: Open area southwest Framework Steel bridge is an annual com- of Beckman Institute SIGOps petition put on by the American This exhibit is suitable for: All Today, most protocol implemen- Society of Civil Engineers and tations are written from scratch the American Institute of Steel Siebel Center for for specific purposes, or an Contractors. Students compete overly general approach is taken against one another and are Computer Science by using XML and other serial- judged for speed, efficiency, and !Multiplicity ization techniques. There are bridge stiffness. !BANG drawbacks to each method. Our Location: Crane Bay We are demonstrating a network protocol framework captures the This exhibit is suitable for: All protocol and client which work essence of what is needed to together to distribute process- define a protocol, and allows for Structural Engineers As- ing-intensive problems among easy code generation for proto- sociation multiple computers, speeding up col and message validation. ASCE the process considerably. Our Location: Atrium This exhibit will have posters of implementation gives the ad-hoc This exhibit is suitable for: Col- outstanding structures across flexibility and range that most lege, General Public the world and a computer dis- common clusters lack. playing software for civil engi- Location: Atrium Crescendo neering design. We will show This exhibit is suitable for: Col- SIGSoft how the program works and let lege Crescendo is a distributed demo- viewers play/interact with it. cratic music library and player. It Location: Crane Bay Bookworm allows many people to share mu- This exhibit is suitable for: All SIGSoft sic and vote for what they’d like Bookworm is a searchable index to hear. Crescendo is distributed, What is Quicksand? of ACM’s library. A clean inter- so it’s possible to use more than Geotechnical Engineering Stu- face provides a simple way of one database of music. Alterna- dent Organization finding your favorite math, sci- tively, you can set up your own Come find out what quicksand is, ence, or programming book in database and plug it into a public and see a demonstration that ex- ACM’s extensive collection. player so that others can enjoy amines many interesting aspects Location: Atrium your music collection. of quicksand and ‘liquefied’ soils. This exhibit is suitable for: High Location: Atrium Location: Crane Bay School, College, General Public This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: High School, College, General Public 28 EOH 2009 Unlocking Potential 29 Eyetracking Whack-A- How does it work? How much fight back against the undead Mole weight does it hold? How do you menace in this 3D game! Game- SIGBio steer? These are all questions builders and SIGGRAPH jointly We have created a game system we’re answering with the con- present a new way to visualize that uses an eye-tracking cam- struction of our very own hover- three-dimensional games in this era and surface EMG instead of craft. unique project. a typical controller. We applied Location: 1214 Location: Atrium this to the classic game Whack- This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: Col- A-Mole, using the eye-tracking lege to specify the target and muscle IClicker Expansion contraction to dictate the hit. Tech Team - Women in Com- Instant Messaging Chat Location: Atrium puter Science Bot This exhibit is suitable for: Gen- TechTeam has expanded the SIGART eral Public uses of the iClicker. You should Make a new friend! Our instant come check it out and see the messaging chat bot wants to Graffiti new features! meet you. Its amusing demeanor Ever walk into a restaurant, cafe, Location: Center Atrium (near will surely put a smile on your or lecture hall and wondered stairs) face, and you’ll see it learning what people were saying about This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- and improving its vocabulary as it? Come see Graffiti, which dle School, High School, College you converse with it. Who knew turns everything in the physical that testing the limits of modern world into a virtual graffiti wall Illini Entrepreneurship natural language processing that you can write comments on! Network: Student Start- could be so much fun? Location: Atrium ups Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: Col- Illini Entrepreneurship Network This exhibit is suitable for: All lege, General Public The Illini Entrepreneurship Network (IEN) aims to foster Lego Logic Gates Greening the Desktop entrepreneurship in students at SIGDave SIGSAC and SIGNet the University of Illinois through Lego logic gates are an enter- Thin clients are small, efficient presentations, workshops, com- taining and educational way to devices that provide a centrally petitions, and entrepreneurial recreate our most basic digital managed system to meet the ventures. With the addition of the building blocks. AND, NOT, computing needs of the aver- Student Startup Incubator, IEN OR, XOR, NOR, and NAND all age person. We will have a few helps students with an entre- combine to form a half-adder, on display to show everyone the preneurial idea make that idea a full-adder, and potentially a potential benefits of using these come to life. We are showcasing full blown ALU (Arithmetic Logic devices in place of power-hungry some of the student startups of Unit). desktop computers. our members. Location: Atrium Location: Atrium Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: Col- This exhibit is suitable for: Col- This exhibit is suitable for: High lege lege, General Public School, College, General Public LUG to the Rescue Hovercraft In Darkness Linux Users Group SIGDave Gamebuilders and SIGGRAPH LUG demonstrates their pre- What is an air-cushion-vehicle? Navigate the gathering black- configured Linux environment ness using all your senses and intended for system repair and 30 EOH 2009 recovery. It is designed to be detecting changes in capaci- Radio OneLlama booted either from across a net- tance on a wire grid. “...An Illinois based startup work or from removable media. Location: Atrium OneLlama, has aggregated Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: Col- many... [radio] stations into a This exhibit is suitable for: Col- lege, General Public single hub called Radio OneL- lege, General Public lama, allowing users to quickly MyCampus identify the stations that best The Mechanical Eye MacWarriors - ACM fit their tastes.” - TechCrunch. SIGBot Navigating a campus can be a com, September 2008. Stop by Now Showing! “The Mechanical tricky thing, especially if it is new. our booth and get a free Radio Eye” -- the camera that watches The iPhone platform is quickly OneLlama t-shirt! you while you move! Using two becoming a more widely used Location: Atrium cameras, it processes video and exciting platform. MyCam- This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- input to differentiate objects from pus is designed so that you can dle School, High School, Col- their background and follows better understand the campus lege, General Public them. It also uses depth percep- you spend your time on, and so tion to generate 3D video, so you provides you information from RTS Racer can watch the cameras watch the most convenient source: Gamebuilders you IN 3D! (just in case). your pocket. Race through an open world Location: 1214 Location: Atrium environment running over your This exhibit is suitable for: Gen- This exhibit is suitable for: All enemies with a convoy of ve- eral Public hicles at your side. NewsLight Location: Atrium (Video Wall) Moonbean SIGWin This exhibit is suitable for: Gen- SIGGRAPH Many students dislike the inabili- eral Public This 3D-animated short film ty to check newsgroups from any follows our characters through computer. NewsLight is an in- Spatially Augmented Real- the Solar System in a showcase browser newgroup reader, made ity of modern animation and other using Microsoft’s new Silver- SIGGRAPH computer graphics techniques. Light, allowing anyone from any What does it look like for an The project sums up 7 months of computer to check newsgroups object to come to life? Spatially effort from a mixed group of pro- whenever they want. augmented reality uses projec- grammers, artists, and musicians Location: Atrium tors to transform everyday ob- in a collaboration characteristic This exhibit is suitable for: All jects into virtual experiences. It’s of the film industry. Whether you the closest thing to magic you’ll are interested in film-making Overly Professional see all day. technology or a good story, you Gamebuilders Location: Atrium won’t want to miss “Moonbean”. Impasto the briefcase salesman This exhibit is suitable for: All Location: 1304 is on a mission. Are you a good This exhibit is suitable for: All enough salesman to rescue the Swarming Cars president? Featuring a unique SIGBot Multi-Touch Surface whiteboard-based style and ex- Come see our swarm of four SIGArch cessive explosions. independently thinking cars! As a SIGArch is implementing a Location: Atrium mass, they can follow a moving capacitive multi-touch surface. It This exhibit is suitable for: Gen- target, very similar to a school of detects more than one touch by eral Public fish. Watch as they act in Unlocking Potential 31

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P075044 08/07 An Equal Opportunity Employer 32 EOH 2009 Unlocking Potential 33 concert, although they are pro- tion into the phenomenon of the Flight Simulator grammed to act on their own! nonlinear spring system. What AIAA Location: 1214 is known as the “jump” phenom- A computer along with yoke, This exhibit is suitable for: All enon is a stunning feature of pedals, and throttle will be avail- mechanics that can be explained able for flight simulation. The im- Unfriendly with an investigation into the me- age will be projected onto a large SIGMiL chanics that is “Crazy Springs”. screen for optimum viewing and Your privacy settings online do Location: 104 more realistic interaction. not protect you. Unfriendly dem- This exhibit is suitable for: Col- Location: 105 onstrates the pervasiveness of lege This exhibit is suitable for: All information on the internet. Location: Atrium CubeSat Fun with Fluids This exhibit is suitable for: Mid- CubeSat is a student-run orga- Society For Experimental Me- dle School, High School, Col- nization that designs and builds chanics lege, General Public small satellites to fly in space. The Fluids Laboratory in Talbot Students from many engineer- Lab is the most hands-on fluids ing disciplines work in teams Talbot Laboratory laboratory at the University of on designing subsystems of the Illinois. Demonstrations are fun Century of Flight spacecraft. We hope to launch AIAA for all ages. The non-Newtonian our next satellite into space in Documentary video presentation fluids demonstration provides a late 2009 or early 2010! regarding the history of flight. wonderful experience for those Location: 206H Location: 105 wishing to further understand This exhibit is suitable for: This exhibit is suitable for: All fluids that don’t behave like we General Public might expect them to. Location: 126 Concrete Crushing Design, Build, Fly: Design Society For Experimental This exhibit is suitable for: All Mechanics and Construction Of R/C Every year, Concrete Crushing Airplanes Smoke Rings! is a must-see exhibit. Our four- Design, Build, Fly Society For Experimental Me- story testing machine is capable Design, Build, Fly is a student chanics of exerting up to 3 million pounds organization that competes in Come and see our smoke ring of crushing force on what- an annual competition spon- generator that will create smoke ever we choose to put under- sored by the American Institute rings 6 feet in diameter. These neath it. Don’t miss out on this for Aeronautics and Astronau- monstrous rings are big enough larger-than-life demonstration! tics and hosted by Cessna and to park your car in, but still obey Crushing Times are as follows: Raytheon. Our presentation laws of fluid mechanics. Come 10:00am, 11:30am, 1:00pm, will include an overview of the see it to believe it! 2:30pm. design process, as well as key Location: Hallway between 104 Location: Basement design points from current and & 126 This exhibit is suitable for: Gen- past airplanes. A flight simulator This exhibit is suitable for: All eral Public will also be presented to allow for first hand experience with fly- Space Shuttle Tile Dem- Crazy Springs ing R/C airplanes. onstration Location: 103 Society For Experimental Me- AIAA This exhibit is suitable for: All chanics An actual space shuttle tile is We have launched an explora- held in one hand by a team 34 EOH 2009 member while a blow torch is Transportation egg from cracking when it is used to heat one side of the tile. dropped from a second story This demonstration will show the Building window. Use (play) money to buy tile’s insulating capabilities. IIE Exhibit extra supplies, and try to achieve Location: 105 Institute Of Industrial Engineers the goal with the lowest price. All This exhibit is suitable for: All Looking for a fun, hands-on designs that successfully keep project? Join us for an exciting the egg from cracking will win a Wind Tunnel egg drop experiment! Learn prize! AIAA how a good design and industrial Location: 207 We are using the wind tunnel engineering principles can make This exhibit is suitable for: All in the department of Aerospace your egg drop a success. Great Engineering to demonstrate drag prizes, fun and knowledge are Sticky Skyscrapers forces on a smooth spherical ball are waiting! ISGE compared to a dimple-covered Location: 101 Build the tallest tower with tooth- golf ball. This exhibit is suitable for: All picks and marshmallow! Make a Location: 15B boat out of aluminum foil! How This exhibit is suitable for: All SPLATFest!!! Egg Drop many pennies will fit on the foil Gamma Epsilon before it sinks? “Smart Money” Magazine In this exhibit by Gamma Ep- Location: 206 ranked UIUC #1 in the Big Ten silon, the General Engineering This exhibit is suitable for: Grade for how quickly graduates earn Honor Society, it is your goal to School, Middle School, General back the cost of their tuition. build a device to prevent a raw Public

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The inspiration for EOH first came in 1906 when the physics Engineering Open House is an department hosted its first open event run entirely by the students house. of the University of Illinois. Engineering Open House has many exhibits and attractions representing all of the departments in the College of Engineer- ing at the Univeristy of Illinois:

•Aerospace Engineering •Agricultural and Biological Engineering •Bioengineering •Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering •Civil and Environmental Engineering •Computer Science •Electrical and Computer Engineering •Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering •Materials Science and Engineering •Mechanical Science and Engineering •Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering •Physics

The purpose of the Electrical Engineer- ing Show in 1907, a precursor to EOH, was to raise funds to contribute to a me- morial in honor of steamboat inventor Robert Fulton.

The first Engineering In the early years of EOH, exhibits put on Open House was held by companies were one of the highlights of in 1920 to commemo- the open house. Since then, the focus has rate the centennial of the shifted to student-run exhibits. birth of James Watt.