FORTVILLE — Mt. Vernon Middle School students recently dove into an engineering challenge named the “Walk on Water” project. This hands-on “WOW” initiative combined creativity, teamwork, and ...

For billions of years, nature has been the world’s master engineer. Natural evolution has created impressive, sometimes implausible creatures. Take, for instance, the water strider. This group of ...

UI senior mechanical engineering student Abigail Steimel, left, talks with Jasmine Brown about the new walking device they are designing for her, at Brown’s home in Champaign on Wednesday.