University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Steve Vavrik

CEO

Actuate Energy LLC

Pinshane Huang

UI professor of materials science and engineering

Ivan Racheff Faculty Scholar

Kevin Modglin

President

Mid Illinois Concrete & Excavation, Inc.

Amy Stabell

Global quality head of experts/aerospace, Henkel

2024 Young Alumni Achievement Award, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Kenneth Jaconetty

Retired intellectual property attorney, 2024 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award winner

2022's chemical and biomolecular engineering convocation speaker

Ross Erlebacher

Cognizant assistant VP

Earned computer science degrees in 1988, '89

Mark Fera

Senior VP

Aprimo of Chicago

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Scott Spellmon

Chief of engineers and commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

2024 Grainger College of Engineering Alumni Award for Distinguished Service

Sunil Kumar

President

Tufts University

Andreas Cangellaris

Provost, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

M.E. Van Valkenburg Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Ken Schweizer

Morris Professor of Materials Science & Engineering

Polymer Physics Prize recipient

Daniel Oerther

President-elect, American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists

Professor of environmental health engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Jennifer Lewis

Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering

Harvard University

Preeti Ghuman

Civil engineer

Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County

Bob Liebeck

Pioneering Boeing aerodynamicist, aerospace engineer

Grainger College of Engineering Hall of Famer

Catherine Koerner

Orion program manager

NASA

Newton Cheng

Global health and performance lead

Google

Dr. Erik Antonsen

Assistant Director, Human Systems Risk Management

NASA

Markita Landry

2020 UI Young Alumni Award winner

Assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Cal-Berkeley

David Tomasko

Associate dean and professor

Ohio State College of Engineering

Petros Ioannou

USC Professor of Electrical Engineering Systems

Director, Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies

Qilin Li

Civil and environmental engineering professor

Rice University

Chris Myers

VP/Advanced Technology

John Deere

Jovan Jovanovic

Patent attorney

Founding partner, Watson IP Group

Aaron Walz

Director, Ag Data Services

Purdue College of Agriculture