The school actually does highlight John Bardeen and Nick Holonyak a ton! John Bardeen was the first person mentioned on my tour of the college of engineering and Nick Holonyak gave the keynote at my ECE orientation.<p>My posts were meant to highlight entrepreneurship which is why I didn&#x27;t mention them (they&#x27;d be in a class of amazing innovators who studied&#x2F;worked at UIUC). There&#x27;s also a ton of awesome alumni that have gone on to be C level execs at big companies, but again they were omitted because these posts were specifically targeted at entrepreneurial alumni.