Siddharth (“ Sid”) Muthal completed his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2015. He planned to start graduate school in the f all of 2016 when his life was cut short due to an un-treatable lung infection, which was the result of a genetic health condition he fought since his birth in 1993. The Siddharth “Sid” Muthal Memorial ECE Undergraduate St
udent Entrepreneur of the Year Award is dedicated towards that spirit with which Sid lived and illuminated every moment of his life and of those around him. Sid can be called a dreamer with big ideas, but he never lost his focus on execution. His many achievements in such a short time are a testament to this fact. He would be the first to remind you that ideas are free, and that having the courage, perseverance, and passion to execute your idea is what separates a visionary from an entrepreneur. For him, courage was a qualifier, not a differentiator; he embodied it himself and he recognized it in others. To know Sid is to know joy, as innately and purely as he experienced it each day. He simply lived in the moment, made that moment wonderful, and made sure that everyone else was invited. Perhaps the most important thing to know about Sid is that he chose to live a life filled with limitless possibilities. To make a gift, please visit our giving page and look for the Sid Muthal fund in the Special Projects section. For more information, please contact Allison Winter, ECE associate director of advancement, at 217-244-8307 or by email.
