UIUC Landmarks
This iconic statue near the Union is the most popular spot for graduation photos.
Who is Alma Mater?
This red suspension bridge in San Francisco was designed by a UIUC alum, Charles Ellis.
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
This common building material is made by mixing cement, water, and rocks.
What is concrete?
This campus street is home to Green Street Realty, Target, and way too many Boba shops.
What is Green Street?
What is the newest undergraduate dorm on campus?
This bridge in the CEE building is "smart," it’s filled with sensors to track how it moves.
What is the Bahl Smart Bridge?
This Illinois alum designed the "bundled tube" system used to build the Willis (Sears) Tower.
Who is Fazlur Khan?
In physics, this is a "pulling" force, while "compression" is a "pushing" force.
What is tension?
This is the common name for the quad located north of Green Street where most engineering buildings sit.
What is Bardeen/Engineering Quad?
What is a frog?
This is the specific name of the massive engineering library where students pulls all-nighters.
What is Grainger?
Civil engineers use these to cross water; they can be "suspension," "arch," or "truss" style.
What are bridges?
Civil engineers often use this 3D software to draw blueprints and designs.
What is AutoCAD?
This engineering event happens every year and is where clubs show off their projects.
Engineering Open House (EOH)
The students rubs this person's nose before exams for good luck.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This lab is home to the "Big Machine" that can crush concrete with millions of pounds of force.
What is Talbot Lab?
This is the tallest building in the world, and a UIUC grad led the structural team for it.
What is the Burj Khalifa?
This is the study of how water moves and is managed in cities.
What is Hydrology?
The tallest structure in Urbana-Champaign.
What is 309 Green also known as Campus Corner?
Located near the Main Library, these are the oldest experimental corn fields in the Americas.
What is the Morrow Plots?
This is known as the best engineering building on campus.
What is Newmark?
This famous dam on the Colorado River was one of the largest concrete structures of its time.
What is the Hoover Dam?
To make concrete stronger under tension, engineers add these steel bars.
What is rebar?
This building on campus is also named after a Hall located in Krannert.
What is Foellinger?
What was the University of Illinois previously named when it was first established?
Illinois Industrial University