Professional Development
This 1-page document is a way to demonstrate your skills, experiences, and qualifications to potential employers.
What is a resume?
This is one of the most popular tutoring centers on campus, offering help for courses in the Math, Physics, and Chemistry departments among many others.
What is CARE?
Located in a building on Main Quad, students rub a statue of this president's nose for good luck on exams.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Similar to Quad Day, this evening event showcases all of the Engineering RSOs and attending this was a requirement at the beginning of the semester.
What is E-Night?
This is the system that faculty and students are required to use when handling infractions of academic integrity at UIUC.
What is the FAIR system?
This is a 30 second overview of your professional story and is usually the first thing you say to potential recruiters.
What is an elevator pitch?
This office within Grainger offers assistance to students interested in studying abroad.
What is IPENG?
Located in between Main and South Quad is the oldest experimental field in the western hemisphere. Legend has it if you step foot in it without permission you face expulsion.
What is the Morrow Plots?
This is the minimum number of credit hours you need to take in order to be considered a full-time student at UIUC.
What is 12?
This was the example of non-inclusive engineering that had negative consequences provided to you in Class 12.
What are car crash dummies?
This is an online version of your resume that is typically less tailored and is a great way to connect with others.
What is LinkedIn?
This is the location of the Grainger Academic Advising Center where students can drop in for Express Advising with non-departmental-specific advisors.
What is the 4th floor of Grainger Library?
This UIUC Alum is known for his role as Ron Swanson in Parks and Recreaction
Who is Nick Offerman?
These types of courses are required for all students at UIUC and include subjects such as Humanities and the Arts, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Advanced Composition.
What are General Education courses/requirements?
These are defined as, “Preferences that your family, community, and society have instilled in you that generally don’t change over time.”
What are cultural values?
These types of resume statements “demonstrate transferable and technical skills by describing how they were used to produce a positive outcome”
What are Skill/Outcome statements?
Applications for these scholarships typically open in February and are exclusive to engineering students at UIUC.
What are Grainger Scholarships for Continuing Students?
This video sharing platform was founded by two UIUC alumni.
What is YouTube?
This online portal is where students can register for classes, find financial aid information, and view their final grades
What is Self-Service?
These are two kinds of bias, one of which is conscious and the other subconscious.
What are explicit and implicit bias?
This structure on the south side of campus was the location of the Fall 2025 Engineering Career Fair
What is the State Farm Center?
With an office on the second floor of Engineering Hall, these counselors are a great resource for engineering students.
Who are the Grainger Embedded Counselors?
This famous actor's brother is a tenured professor in the department of entomology
Who is Tom Hanks?
Often abbreviated as ‘RSOs’ these groups are officially recognized groups on the UIUC campus.
What are Registered Student Organizations?
This document outlines rules and policies for students at UIUC and includes the definition and procedures regarding academic integrity and its infractions.
What is the Student Code?