Students gain valuable experience through this semester-long study and work program in Chicago where they go behind the scenes of Chicago’s tech sector. Partner with the Grainger College of Engineering to identify, hire, and retain leading students to compete with coastal markets and build Chicago’s tech workforce.
Longtime City Scholars partner DRW shared this blog post about their involvement with the City Scholars program. Visit their website to read about how DRW has used the program to bring Grainger Engineering talent to their team. We recruit from all over the country and even the world, but the City Scholars program gives us […]
By Urvashi JhaMarketing & Communications Coordinator, Technology Entrepreneur Center In its second year of partnership, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chicago collaborative entrepreneurship program is successfully helping students of both institutions bring their innovative ideas to the market. And, two University of Illinois teams are walking away from this year’s College […]
Quicket Solutions—a Chicago startup led by two U of I graduates—is doing its part to bring the next generation of Illini engineering talent to the city. Christiaan Burner and Akshay Singh founded Quicket Solutions in 2014, a year before graduating from the University of Illinois: Burner from the Gies College of Business and Singh from […]