CEE magazine winter 2014

CEEDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering

College of EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Winter 2014

CEE undergrads and the Illinois experience Alumni news and features

CEE is published twice a year for alumni and friends of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Those alumni who donate annually to CEE at Illinois receive every issue.

Amr S. ElnashaiProfessor and Head

John E. KelleyDirector of Advancement and Alumni Relations

Celeste BragorgosDirector of Communications

Breanne ErtmerExternal Relations Coordinator

Letters, comments and editorial submissions: CEE MagazineDepartment of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign1117 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory MC-250205 North Mathews AvenueUrbana, Illinois 61801(217) [email protected]

Advertising inquiries: Celeste Bragorgos(217) [email protected]

Front cover: Photo of the new M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Student Center, completed in June. Photo: Erich Adickes

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CEECEE is published twice a year for alumni and friends of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Those alumni who donate annually to CEE at Illinois receive every issue.

Benito MariñasProfessor and Interim Head

John SouthwoodDirector of Advancement

Celeste BragorgosDirector of Communications and Alumni Relations

Kristina ShidlauskiCommunications Specialist

Sheree FruzenOffice Support Specialist

Letters, comments and editorial submissions: CEE MagazineDepartment of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign1210 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory MC-250205 North Mathews AvenueUrbana, Illinois 61801(217) [email protected]

Cover photo: Jonathan Street/Off the Street Photographywww.offthestreetphotography.com

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The CEE Trust Fund is the department’s general, unrestricted gift fund. It is utilized in numerous ways to enhance the student experience and maximize the department’s impact in research, education and service to society. Through a gift to the CEE Trust Fund, you share in those accomplishments.

In August, the department used funds from the CEE Trust to sponsor the workshop Advancing Socio-Hydrology, a New Science of People and Water. Socio-hydrology is a new discipline that studies the interactions be-tween water and people.

Organized by CEE professors Murugesu Sivapalan, Ximing Cai and Megan Konar and offered in collaboration with the Beckman Institute’s initiative Social Dimensions of Envi-ronmental Policy, the workshop drew interna-tional experts on the topic of freshwater secu-rity from a variety of disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities.

“I was the one (along with two other del-egates to our workshop) who coined the term ‘socio-hydrology’ last year, and this was a cul-mination of several years of effort to look at

the water issues facing the world in the emer-gent Anthropocene, or at the impact human activities have had on Earth’s ecosystems,” Siv-apalan said. “The human footprint is now very strong and cannot be ignored.”

The workshop was one of a series on a variety of new topics, sponsored by CEE, de-signed to encourage innovation in emerging areas—and made possible by gifts to the CEE Trust Fund.Photo: Participants are pictured in the Beckman Institute. Seated are, left to right: CEE Assistant Professor Megan Konar; Associate Professor Ashwini Chhatre, U of I Department of Geog-raphy and Geographic Information Science (GGIS) and Political Science; CEE and Geography Professor Murugesu Sivapalan; CEE Professor Ximing Cai; and GGIS Professor Jesse Ribot.

Give today. Visit cee.illinois.edu/alumni/gift or contact John Southwood, [email protected], (217) 300-5480.

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Quo Vadimus?/Amr S. Elnashai

Benito Mariñas named Interim Head

CEEAA alumni board celebrates 50 years

Preparation/Tracy Lundin (BS 80, MS 82)

The Undergraduate Experience in CEE at Illinois

8 Project-based learning puts students to work

10 Backpack to Briefcase fosters professional development

12 Global Leaders programs offer international experience

13 CEE Job Fairs connect students, recruiters

14 Flipped classes enable better student/teacher interaction

15 Research Experience for Undergrads: Three Students’ Stories

18 CEE Student Committee enhances undergraduate life

19 Student organizations key to Illinois experience

Student organizations listings

Meet the future of CEE at Illinois: 14 new faculty members

Department news

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Alumni news

Sponsored research

Old Masters: James J. Doland

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Quo Vadimus?

by Amr S. ElnAShAi, ProfESSor And formEr hEAd

Our undergraduate program is outstanding

in every respect. It has always been very

deep; now it is both deep and broad. Our

research portfolio stands out head and

shoulders above all other engineering

departments at Illinois, even those who are

much larger than us. The vibe, the rhythm,

the magnificent melody that roams our

buildings, our minds and hearts, our faculty,

staff and students, is audible and most

enjoyable.

While the logistics of moving from Champaign-Urbana to Happy Val-

ley continue to provide ample challenges, these challenges fade in comparison with the emotional hurdle of leaving this de-partment, friends who are also colleagues and colleagues who became close friends. I am certain that the friendships I made at the University of Illinois, not solely in the CEE department, will endure for a life-time. I want to express my deep gratitude to those who were supportive of the lead-ership of the department, and equally to those who were constructively and sin-cerely critical of the Management Com-mittee and of me. To the former group, thanks to you, your engagement, your thoughts and vision, we have progressed in leaps and bounds on almost all fronts. To the latter group, thank you for keeping us on our toes, for questioning our deci-sions in a constructive context and for providing further intellectual depth to the formidable Management Committee brainpower. Thank you CEE for enabling me to enjoy the best years of my career, thus far.

A dear colleague of mine, a Sorbonne graduate no less, commented recently on the CEE magazine articles of the past few years; that they often start with a ques-tion, and end up with a closing argument in response to the question. This article does not start with a question, but rather has a question as its title …. Quo Vadimus, where are we going? Is it obvious? Not in my opinion. Academic units that are lag-ging behind are so much easier to lead; what is needed is quite basic and clear, and has been done before; the road has been trodden so many times that it is practically paved. Units like our depart-ment are challenging to lead because all the basics have been secured and many or most of the advanced too. Beyond the advanced is the ground-breaking, and this we have achieved a great deal of as

well. Our undergraduate program is out-standing in every respect. It has always been very deep, now it is both deep and broad. Our research portfolio stands out head and shoulders above all other en-gineering departments at Illinois, even those who are much larger than us. The vibe, the rhythm, the magnificent melody that roams our buildings, our minds and hearts, our faculty, staff and students, is audible and most enjoyable. Under-pinning our great accomplishments is the most robust financial metrics and structure anywhere, not only in terms of figures, but also in terms of fiscal man-agement procedures, accountability, and coupling of academic goals and ex-penditures. With the best faculty and staff, outstanding students, exceptionally engaged alumni, modern and evolving infrastructure, unique management pro-

cedures, metrics-based assessment, re-gional, national and international stand-ing and acclaim, Quo Vadimus? It is truly essential that we concern ourselves with the answer to this question. I submit to the good judgment of the CEE at Illinois community that first and foremost, we need to consolidate, secure and lock in our existing accomplishments.

The change of leadership is an oppor-tunity for reflection, sifting through the many initiatives that were launched, knot-ting the loose ends, crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s, closing the loop of launch-management-assessment-feedback-ad-justment. While enjoying our success and reflecting on our accomplishments, there are a few pressing issues that our depart-ment should consider. These are Space, Size and Sustainability. We seem to be space-challenged; the price of success and expansion. To address the space chal-lenge we need to remind ourselves that we are a community of intellectuals and administrators, not individuals in a com-petition for space. In academe, asserting the community ethos is non-trivial, be-cause of the natural empowerment and staunch independence that professors typically engender. In tandem, we need to dig as deeply as necessary into our real, as opposed to our perceived, space needs. Our own assessment of our needs would be the compelling case we make to the College, and campus if necessary, to claim permanent additional space. Coupled to the space issue is the significant chal-lenge of reviewing our target faculty size.


The formal target tenure-system faculty number of 50 was set in discussions with the Dean of Engineering and his team in late 2009-early 2010. We were at that time about 43 tenure-system professors or fewer, and there was a suggestion that our finances could not structurally sup-port a larger size faculty. We expanded, and we can – indeed we have to – expand further. We are on an upward spiral in the faculty-finance-technical footprint space. Sustaining the momentum of change in the department could prove more trying than initiating change. And sustaining the freshness and excitement of the cur-rent calls for proposals that we have been using to stimulate change requires imagi-nation and versatility. Sustaining the mo-mentum of the educational programs and research enterprise also requires re-imagining the front office role and struc-ture, to provide the necessary enrollment, student affairs and research management bandwidth, as well as the level of fiscal rigor and accountability that befits the top CEE department in the nation. Devel-oping an integrated vision for the next 20 years is essential, whereby we define our contribution to the global society, and the resources needed to not only consoli-date our current lead, but also to become the worldwide milliarium aureum of civil and environmental engineering discov-ery, learning and engagement. If we man-age to navigate the changes in the Col-lege of Engineering, and make the most of the new resources associated with big data and bioengineering, where we abso-lutely naturally have a major role to play, if we manage to address the space, size and sustainability issues, CEE at Illinois will reign supreme for many years. The prize is in sight, closer than it has been in the past few decades, and no other depart-ment in the nation is better equipped for the relatively short journey. i

Professor Benito Mariñas is serving as interim head of the Department

of Civil and Environmental Engineer-ing since the departure of former department head Professor Amr S. El-nashai in January. Elnashai was named Dean of Penn State’s College of Engi-neering.

Mariñas has been a faculty mem-ber in CEE since 1995. He holds an Ivan Racheff Professorship of Environ-mental Engineering. He has played several important leadership roles in CEE, including serving twice as chair of the Environmental Engineering and Science Program and chairing the de-partment-wide faculty search commit-tee for three years.

“I am honored to have been select-ed to lead our CEE department during this interim period,” Mariñas said. “I am excited about starting to work with the CEE faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends, and our counterparts at the rest of the College of Engineering and campus to continue our journey in the path of excellence and programmatic innovation that our departing CEE head Amr Elnashai has established. I am most grateful to Amr and other former department leaders for their encouragement and offers of support as I transition into this new role.”

As a leading expert in water quality control, Mariñas has made significant contributions to the drinking water in-dustry. His pioneering work on the in-activation of parasites has influenced federal regulations on surface water disinfection using ozone and chlorine dioxide. In his roles as director of the

Benito Mariñas named Interim Head

National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center WaterCAMPWS and director of the College of Engineering’s Safe Global Water Institute, Mariñas has brought together several interdisciplin-ary teams working on the development of sustainable approaches to provide safe water and sanitation to communities in developing countries that lack these ba-sic services.

“Benito exemplifies all the qualities that are at the core of our department—excellence, rigor, dedication, integrity and vision,” Elnashai said. “He also has the experience, as a leading researcher and educator, and as one of the founding members of the CEE Management Com-mittee, to lead the department through the transition between my departure and the tenure of a new permanent head.”

Mariñas will serve as interim depart-ment head until a permanent head is selected and in place. The committee for that search will be named in early 2014. i

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Department celebrates 50-year anniversary of CEE

alumni board

CEE alumni returned to campus Septem-ber 6-7 to celebrate the 50th anniversary

of the founding of the CEE Alumni Associa-tion (CEEAA) board. The celebration began Friday night with a reception in the M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Student Center. On Saturday the department hosted a pre-game brunch at the Activities and Recreation Center, fol-lowed by the football game against Cincin-nati, at which CEE alumni enjoyed the game together in a reserved block of seats.

To mark the occasion, the current CEEAA board established a scholarship to be award-ed each year to a student with a record of service to the department. To make a gift in support of this scholarship, please contact John Southwood, Director of Advancement, [email protected], (217) 300-5480.

For more photos and information, visit cee.illinois.edu/50years_celebration. i

tFrom left, Paul Koch and John Car-rato. pCEE Assistant Professor Dan Work (left) and Professor Emeritus Barry Dempsey. qFrom left, former CEE department head and dean of engineering Dave Daniel, Vicki Olson, Joseph Abruzzo and Gabriel Wiede.

Students (l to r) Nishant Makhijani, Ryan Chan, Marika Nell and Athena Patras help out at the entry table for a cocktail reception Friday night.

CEE Professor Emeritus Marshall Thompson, left, and James Hanlon.

CEEAA Board of Directors

PresidentTracy K. Lundin, P.E., (BS 80, MS 82)FermilabBatavia, Illinois

Vice PresidentAllen J. Staron, P.E., (BS 74)Clark Dietz Inc.Chicago

Second Vice President and SecretaryColleen E. Quinn, P.E., (BS 84)Ricondo & Associates Inc.Chicago

Past PresidentLawrence P. Jaworski, P.E., (BS 72, MS 73)Brown and CaldwellBeltsville, Maryland

DirectorsDaniel F. Burke (BS 92, MS 93)City of Chicago Department of TransportationChicago

David Byrd (BS 01, MS 06)EFI Global Inc.Addison, Illinois

Lynne E. Chicoine (BS 78, MS 80)CH2M HILLPortland, Oregon

James M. Daum, P.E., (BS 77)Bowman, Barrett & AssociatesChicago

Stanley M. Herrin, P.E., (BS 74, MS 78)Crawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc.Springfield, Illinois

Alan J. Hollenbeck, P.E., (BS 75, MS 77)RJN Group Inc.Wheaton, Illinois

Deron G. Huck, P.E., (BS 90)CH2M HILLKansas City, Missouri

John P. Kos, P.E., (BS 77)DuPage County

Dana B. Mehlman, P.E., (BS 99, MS 01)Hinshaw & Culbertson LLPChicago

Wilbur C. Milhouse, P.E., (BS 94, MS 95)Milhouse Engineering & Construction Inc.Chicago

Paula C. Pienton (BS 85)Ty Lin International GroupChicago

Frank Powers (BS 82, MS 83)H.W. Lochner Inc.Chicago

Julian C. Rueda (BS 80, MS 82)Geo Services Inc.Naperville, Illinois

C. Wayne Swafford (BS 78, MS 82)Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc.Oakland, California

Scott Trotter (BS 90)Trotter and Associates Inc.Saint Charles, Illinois

Preparationby TrAcy K. lundin, P.E., (bS 80, mS 82)PrESidEnT, cEE Alumni ASSociATion boArd of dirEcTorS

If you are reading this article you are most likely an Illinois CEE graduate, likely employed in or

retired from a career in civil engineering, and somewhat likely to wonder who the old person with the gray hair is that you see in the mirror every morning. When I look at the byline photo-graph on this page I see version 3.0 of somebody. However, I can still visualize version 1.0 catching frisbees on the quad or hunkered down in the reading room of the graduate library studying for one of Professor Mesri’s soil mechanics finals.

Version 3.0 knows how well my CEE educa-tion prepared me for dealing with the profes-sional twists and turns, challenges and opportu-nities that every career encounters. Version 1.0 had no idea of the importance that the days in Urbana would play in future upgrades and the varied and unique professional experiences that would accompany these upgrades. If you are a version 2.0 or greater, I suspect that you might echo these sentiments.

This edition of the CEE magazine focuses on the CEE undergraduate experience and the in-novative ways that the department is preparing students for later upgrades to version 2.0 and beyond. Innovative preparation is particularly important in the modern world as the rate at which change occurs is ever increasing. I would argue that the CEE department has consistently retained its position as either the top-rated or one of the top-rated departments in the coun-try because of the constant attention paid to the preparation of students and the importance of consistently employing outstanding and innova-tive professors.

So, why is all this important to you? If you are version 1.0, you should know that your CEE edu-cation will likely make you better prepared than a civil engineering student attending another university. You can help yourself by participating in CEE activities available to you — but don’t for-get about the life-skill benefits of taking a writing class or a basic accounting class. In addition to potentially valuable experiences, these activities can also forge life-long relationships.

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on this page I see version 3.0

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catching frisbees on the quad or

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Mesri’s soil mechanics finals.

If you are a version 2.0, you are likely expe-riencing some of the many professional respon-sibilities, challenges and opportunities that you will encounter in your career. By now you proba-bly are starting to have some sense of the impact your time in Urbana has had, and will continue to have, in your still unfolding career. You may feel that your CEE experience has given you a bit of an advantage over your professional colleagues. If this applies to you, it is time to start to consider how to give something back to the place that molded you.

If you have achieved a version 3.0 or 4.0 up-grade, you are in the second half of your career and/or retired and have come to know and un-derstand the advantages that your CEE degree has given you. The CEE Alumni Association web-site (cee.illinois.edu/alumni) offers suggestions of how you can participate in events, volunteer your time or provide financial support to the de-partment. Take a chance and rekindle your rela-tionship with your Urbana experience. i

Interested in serving on the CEEAA Board of Directors?

The CEE Alumni Association Board of Di-rectors celebrated its 50-year anniversary in September. If you’re interested in serv-ing the department as a board member, fill out an online application at cee.illinois.edu/alumni. For more information, con-tact John Southwood, [email protected], (217) 300-5480.


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Project-based learning puts CEE students to work benefiting campus and communityby lESliE SwEET-myricK

In CEE’s project-based learning cours-es, students’ classwork expands into the campus and community, and ev-eryone benefits. By introducing real problems that need to be solved, in-structors provide students with a re-al-world perspective. Students learn how to think like engineers – how to collect data, make decisions, serve clients and everything in between – and campus and community-based clients get innovative recommenda-tions at no cost to them.

For the graduate-level course “Sustainable Urban Systems,” which is entirely project-based, Professor Barbara Minsker sends out a call for projects to community partners and the students assemble into groups to work for the selected clients.

“The idea is that the students come into the class with methods un-der their belt, and they need to figure out how to address these projects with the methods they already know,” Minsker said. “They learn, through

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What is it like to be an undergraduate in one of the world’s top civil and environmental engineering programs?

Today’s CEE at Illinois undergraduates can choose among 10 areas of study, three of which are multi-disciplinary, offering a problem-focused, systems-level perspective that is currently unique among large CEE departments.

They have access to facilities that are second to none, including state-of-the-art classrooms in the Yeh Student Center, large indoor experimental labs in Newmark and the Hydrosystems laboratories, and the nation’s largest engineering library, Grainger.

They take classes from – and perform research with – world-class faculty at the top of their fields.

Their academic opportunities are increasingly project-based and globally focused.

From their first year on campus, they are eagerly courted by top engineering companies for internships, summer jobs and full-time positions.

More than two dozen active student organizations offer them a variety of rich social and learning opportunities.

On these pages, we highlight just a few distinctive features of the CEE at Illinois undergraduate experience.

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their projects, about sustainability and resilience and how to scope and carry out a project.”

The class’s most recent projects, four of which were for local clients, included looking at options for recycling waste-water generated from de-icing fluid at O’Hare International Airport; addressing stormwater on the property of the Inter-national Society of Arborculturists based in west Champaign; assessing the perfor-mance of Champaign’s John Street water-shed with regard to storm water manage-ment; studying the feasibility of putting a greenway (bike or walking path with greenery) between the Carle campus and downtown Urbana; and consider-ing green and LEED features, including a green roof and options for bringing natu-ral light in, for a classroom at Champaign-based Prosperity Gardens.

To finish the semester, the students give a final presentation, to which the clients are invited, and produce a final re-port.

Nicole Bridges, executive director of Prosperity Gardens, a community gar-dening project, said the students show true passion for their work.

“Specifically they offered me ideas for innovative ways to recycle water, beyond rain barrels, and for solar technologies,” Bridges said. “I also appreciate how they have been able to work within our means – we are a poor non-profit, and they un-derstand that. The students are extreme-ly inquisitive and professional, and I can tell they have developed a vested interest in our gardens.”

Minsker admits her class isn’t easy. “The experience is fairly overwhelm-

ing for some of the students. But many of them will be going into consulting, so this project-based work is very similar to what they will be doing,” she said.

Project-based learning had historical-ly been isolated to CEE’s graduate-level courses until fall semester 2013 when a new course, CEE398 “Project Based Learn-ing in Civil Engineering,” tested the idea out on sophomores, allowing them to

explore and propose solutions to civil en-gineering challenges that face the Univer-sity of Illinois campus community.

“The theme is how we, as a campus community, can be more sustainable with regards to civil engineering, wheth-er it is saving energy or re-using waste products,” said Professor Jeff Roesler, the course’s coordinating instructor.

Roesler said the new course was the vision of Jack Dempsey, the retiring direc-tor of the campus Department of Facili-ties and Services (F&S) and also one of the course instructors.

“Dempsey always wanted to teach a course on sustainability and already had a general outline,” Roesler said. “He wanted to connect campus needs and issues with academics and was looking for a ‘home’ for this course. We agreed CEE was the logical place.”

Roesler and Dempsey worked with the College of Engineering’s Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education (AE3) to set up the course format and were able to get some funding from its Strategic Instructional Initiatives Program. CEE398 has multiple facets, the core of which is a semester-long group project.

Starting with week one, the class brainstormed ideas for the group proj-ects, and they broke into groups based on their interests. Their projects included

assessing the actual energy efficiency of the LEED-certified Business Instructional Facility, the first LEED-certified building on campus; exploring the feasibility of us-ing algae feedstock to produce biofuels; and collecting and reusing rainwater or gray water (secondary water sources).

The class also includes a series of field trips to campus sites such as the waste-water treatment plant, the ECE building currently under construction, Boneyard creek, and the Abbott power plant, as well as case study discussions, which are led by instructors across campus.

“Each case study has a different theme and demonstrates that there are regula-tions to follow besides just needing to be technically competent,” Roesler said. “Through the field trips and case studies, they see various aspects of civil engineer-ing that they can identify with – or not identify with. Students becoming pas-sionate about what they may want to do is one outcome of the course.”

The students also are encouraged to innovate.

“One of the things we purposely com-municated to all assisting instructors is not to tell the students that they can’t do something a certain way,” Roesler said. “We intended to step back and allow the

Students from Jeff Roesler’s Project-Based Learning class are given a tour of the construction site of the new Electrical and Computer Engineering building on campus. The tour was led by Mike Millage of Smith Group and Adam Kimball of U of I’s Facilities and Services office.

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Landing a great job is just the first step in the often challenging transition from campus to workplace, so CEE is prepar-ing its students for the professional world with a comprehensive series of develop-ment seminars.

The Backcase to Briefcase Seminar Series, often led by alumni, builds on the professional development activities CEE previously offered in cooperation with the alumni board, such as the resume review night and “CEE Life in the Real World,” which involved alumni speaking to stu-dents about engineering specialties. The recently enhanced lecture series follows the natural career path progression, from understanding what employers are look-ing for to negotiating benefits.

Backpack to Briefcase series offers students professional development for job-hunting and beyond

“We had the job fairs as stand-alone events for many years, but it was up to the students to figure out how to prepare,” said Breanne Ertmer, former alumni rela-tions coordinator at CEE, who conceived the idea for the series along with John Kelley, former director of advancement. “I think the Backpack to Briefcase series has made CEE students more polished and more aware that it takes more than just that one-day effort to get that internship or job.”

David Byrd (BS 01, MS 06), a member of the CEE alumni board and a senior proj-ect manager at Bulley and Andrews, Gen-eral Contractor in Chicago, has helped with some of the seminars, including the resume workshop, interview workshop and the alumni panel.

students to explore options – with guid-ance, of course.”

Roesler said the cooperation with Dempsey and F&S’s Morgan Johnson, the campus sustainability chair, is critical for the course.

“With project-based learning, we need to connect our students’ projects with campus data and information, which they have,” he said.

Other instructors for the course are Assistant Professor Lance Schideman of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Professor William Sullivan of Landscape Architecture, and Research Assistant Pro-fessor Art Schmidt and Assistant Profes-sor Mani Gopalvar-Fard of CEE.

To conclude the semester, the stu-dents summarized recommendations in a written report and poster presentation.

“Though we don’t necessarily expect them to completely solve the problem, in addition to real-world experience, they have learned investigative skills and sharpened their communication skills,” Roesler said.

Amanda Caldwell-Jacques, a CEE sophomore and a student in the class, agreed on the value of exposure to real-world projects.

“It’s been wonderful to visit so many local sites directly relating to primary concentrations in civil and environmental engineering,” she said. “As a sophomore, these field trips have helped me solidify my primary decision. We have incredible access to several professors and facilities from several departments. Overall, the class has been a great experience to learn outside of the typical classroom setting and course structure.”

Roesler also declared the inaugural class a success and foresees it being con-tinued, and even expanded, in the future.

“It fills a huge hole in the curriculum,” he said. “Sometimes students don’t know what they would actually be doing as a civil engineer until junior or senior year. Eventually this could become a required course for our sophomore civil engineer-ing students.” i

Panelists discuss “Negotiating Salary and Benefits” in October. From left, they are Teresa Cardador, assistant professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations; Bethany Florek, human resources manager at Greeley & Hansen; and Lauren Stites, Senior Assistant Director of Engineering Career Services. CEE graduate student Jeremy Kaiser, discussion facilitator, is at the podium.

“Students are sometimes so engrained in their studies they don’t understand the importance of creating a great resume and presenting themselves appropriately to employers,” Byrd said. “The seminars are helping students understand how companies look for their employees. I see students get frustrated for not land-ing the jobs, but the seminars help them realize the process takes much more than being qualified and having good grades. The firm wants them to be a good fit with its culture, and the firm is picking them on these things as well. I see the seminars providing students with a much better understanding of the process.”

Ertmer said approximately 100 stu-dents attend each seminar. Registration is required, and some faculty members have incorporated the seminars into their coursework. Following each seminar, stu-dents enjoy pizza and an opportunity to network.

“They’re very good turnouts,” Ertmer said. “The students really like it. They re-ally are seeking that connection with the alums and the corporate representatives. They want to learn what they can do to re-ally make a difference in their job search.”

Alex Lakocy, CEE senior, attended all of the seminars in their inaugural year.

“It was tough to try and navigate my first job hunt without having these semi-nars as resources,” he remembered.

Specifically, Lakocy said he used to struggle with talking to recruiters at fairs, but he found the seminar titled “Recruit-ers: What they Want to Hear” particularly helpful.

Scott Trotter (BS 90), president of Trotter & Associates, speaks to students about inter-view skills in “Powering Through the Interview” in October.

“Prior to that seminar, I never felt like I made a lasting impression on the people I spoke with,” Lakocy said. “But I learned it is important to think about your ‘elevator pitch,’ which is summing up your quali-fications and experience in a 30-second speech. Working on my elevator pitch and practicing in front of a mirror, as the recruiters suggested, really helped me

become more comfortable at career fairs, and I ended up getting an internship offer from my top-choice firm.”

Additional seminars meant to help students after they get an offer include topics such as “Negotiating Job Salary and Benefits” and “What to Expect in the Workplace.”

Lakocy said he’s heard good reviews on the seminars from other students.

“From what I've heard, everyone has really appreciated these seminars,” he said. “They have cleared up the whole job

search process for students at all levels. In particular, we appreciate how the seminars aren’t just lectures – they are interactive workshops, which makes them so much more useful.”

The students, however, aren’t the only ones benefit-ing from the seminars.

“It gives the alumni a chance to come back to cam-pus because many of our alumni do want that experi-ence – to give back to the students and to really affect the student experience,” Ert-mer said.

The seminar series is planned during the summer for the following fall. Rep-resentatives from the com-panies who participate in the department’s Corporate Partners Program get invited first, but the department is always looking for more peo-ple to get involved. If you are interested in participating in a future seminar, contact Celeste Bragorgos, [email protected], (217) 333-6955.

For more information about the Backpack to Brief-case series, visit cee.illinois.edu/b2b. i

Working on my elevator pitch and practicing in

front of a mirror, as the recruiters suggested, really helped me become more comfortable at career fairs, and I ended up getting an internship offer from my top-choice firm.


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by lEAnnE lucAS

The Global Leaders program in CEE is a small but growing program that

has a big impact in the lives of students. The concept, to provide students with a background in global issues in their cho-sen field and prepare them for practice or research in an international arena, has been expanded from its initial implemen-tation in Construction Management to the department’s new cross-disciplinary programs.

Global Leaders in Construction Man-agement (GLCM) began in 2005. The tenth class was admitted in the fall of 2013, and there are now 51 alumni, 10 working over-seas. Brent Young is the director of GLCM, a position he has held for four years.

“A construction project site can be a very intimidating place,” said Young. “It’s a high-energy culture with a lot of pres-sure. A student that goes through the full GLCM program meets a huge cross-section of people and visits a variety of sites. That kind of experience, over and over, is what gets the student ready. They get technical instruction in the classroom, but once they see it in the real world, it all makes more sense.”

Students are admitted to the class their senior year and remain with the

Growing Global Leaders programs offer students international perspective

program two years, through a master’s degree. During that time they make two in-ternational trips (in January) and two domestic trips (in March). They also make day trips each semester, so over the course of two years, they visit anywhere from 20 to 40 construction sites.

In January of 2013, a trip to Turkey gave the students some classic “real-world” experience – roll with the punches. When Young began planning the trip, his focal point was a visit to the con-struction site of the Marmaray tunnel, a railway tunnel underneath the Bospho-rus Strait that creates a link between the Asian and European shores of Istanbul.

“This was an iconic project costing bil-lions of dollars,” said Young, “It was very interesting from a technical point of view, as well as a cultural and historical stand-point. But while we were able to observe an engineering marvel, instruction on the technical details was difficult due to the language barrier.”

Instead, a visit to the Izmit Bay Bridge, a suspension bridge under construction,

became the high point of the trip. “This bridge will be the fourth longest

suspension bridge in the world when it’s finished,” said Young. “We spent a day

The Global Leaders in Construction Man-agement students capped off two weeks of construction site tours and Brazilian cultural experiences in January with a visit to Christ the Redeemer on Corcovado hill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The students visited many different construction companies and projects including airport and subway expansion projects, multiple reinforced concrete high-rises, a soccer stadium, and both Olympic Park and Olympic Village.

Four GLCM students at the Blue Mosque in Istan-bul in 2013: (left to right) Liz Tewolde, Zorina Disheva, Ana Lucuta, Amna Mahmud.

Students are shown a sea dredger that will exca-vate for the foundations of the bridge towers for the Izmit Bay Bridge in Altinova, Turkey.

The SRIS Global Leaders the Chennai Metro Rail construction site. Professors Minsker (front) and Peschel are at right. Photo: Jorge Flores

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with that team, and they were amazing. They gave a two-hour technical lecture to the students on building the bridge, then took us out on the site and showed us ev-erything they’d just talked about.”

In January of 2014, Young took 15 students to Brazil; some of the sites they visited included the 2016 Olympic Park and Olympic Village, two 2014 World Cup stadiums, and the headquarters of Ode-brecht, the largest Brazilian contractor.

The GLCM program receives all of its funding from industry donations, evi-dence of the program’s success. There are an ever-increasing number of applicants, and the program has 100 percent job placement.

The new, cross-disciplinary Sustain-able and Resilient Infrastructure Systems (SRIS) program is the first of three new programs to implement its own Global Leaders program. Faculty in the SRIS pro-gram began the process in 2011. They wrote a proposal and secured funding for planning workshops and trips. Profes-sor Barbara Minsker traveled to India to visit three institutes and Associate Profes-sor Yanfeng Ouyang traveled to China to make contacts there. Based on similar in-terests and goals in terms of sustainability issues, the team chose to work with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras for their first Global Leaders trip.

Students in the program were required to attend a half-semester class before the trip to learn about sustainability and re-silience, and Indian culture. They were di-vided into four teams; two teams worked on projects in transportation and two on projects related to water. They planned and defined the scope of their projects, and learned about Indian culture during visits to local heritage sites. After the trip, each team completed independent study projects, supervised by a faculty member with expertise in that area.

Minsker and Research Assistant Pro-fessor Joshua Peschel traveled to Chen-nai, India, with their students in January of 2013. They first toured rainwater harvest-

It’s so important for our students to understand how doing civil and environmental engineering in another country is vastly different

from the United States. They need to have a global perspective. It will make them more attractive to employers, and they will be more successful in the long run because they have that exposure.

CEE Job Fairs bring students, companies together

Point your smartphone’s QR code reader here to view a video about the job fair, or see it by visiting youtube.com/watch?v=TJutay9FqSg.

CEE at Illinois graduates are in extremely high demand and typically receive multiple job offers from a variety of companies. To assist in bringing our students and representatives from civil engineering firms together, the department hosts two job fairs every academic year – once in the fall and once in the spring. Students of every year group attend the job fair, seeking internships, summer jobs and permanent positions.

ing sites with the director of the Chennai Rain Center, to study how problems of water shortages and flooding could be avoided. A trip to the Chennai Metro Rail allowed them to see the challenges of de-veloping an urban rail network in an area that has been built up for more than 1,000 years.

Next, they visited a wastewater treat-ment plant, where finding a cost-effective solution to the infrastructure corrosion caused by hydrogen sulfide gas was high on the plant’s list of priorities. They also visited the Pallikaranai Marshland, where encroaching development and a mas-sive open dump have led to flooding and water quality problems. A final visit was made to the IITM Intelligent Transporta-tion Systems Laboratory, where work on remote sensing is being done to provide information on traffic conditions to help improve traffic congestion.

Each team then worked several days, discussing how the concepts of sustain-ability and resilience could be integrated into the projects and writing project out-lines and problem definitions, which they presented to their fellow students, pro-fessors and IITM faculty.

“It’s so important for our students to understand how doing civil and environ-mental engineering in another country is vastly different from the United States,” said Minsker. “They need to have a global perspective. It will make them more at-tractive to employers, and I think they will be more successful in the long run be-cause they have that exposure.”

She said the program also teaches soft skills, such as writing and giving presenta-tions, working on conflict resolution, and thinking through ethical issues.

“I think that will really differentiate these students as they move into their ca-reers,” Minsker said.

Ouyang and Peschel will head the next trip to Beijing, China, and students from both the SRIS and the Energy-Water-En-vironment Sustainability program will be part of the second Global Leaders class. i


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by lESliE SwEET myricK

Your memories of college likely include a blur of classroom lectures and long

nights of homework. Using technology and an innovative teaching method, stu-dents in CEE’s new “flipped” class will watch pre-lecture videos on their own time and complete many of the assign-ments traditionally known as “home-work” during class time, when they have access to feedback from the instructor and their peers.

“The hope is that students come to class more prepared and ready to ap-ply fundamental concepts, and that the classroom becomes more interactive,” ex-plained Larry Fahnestock, associate pro-fessor in civil engineering and rotating assistant dean for the college’s Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education (AE3). Fahnestock’s new administrative role has inspired him to flip CEE460, a steel structures design course, which he has taught to juniors and seniors since 2006.

“The AE3 office thinks about how we innovate in education and how to go be-yond the standard lecture format. How can we better engage students and teach in new ways that will really enhance the learning experience? The flipped class-room has had successful results around the college, particularly in physics,” Fahnestock explained.

Fahnestock will pilot CEE’s first fully flipped class during spring 2014, but some CEE faculty, such as Professor Praveen Ku-mar, have already experimented with the

pre-lecture component. “I asked my students to watch a 15- to

20-minute video of key concepts before class and answer three or four basic prob-lems based on the video before coming to class. I hoped this would better pre-pare them for the material to be covered in the class and would open up more time to discuss problems in class,” Kumar said.

Jeffrey LaHucik, a senior in transpor-tation and a student in Kumar’s class, ad-mits he was initially a skeptic but ended up appreciating the concept.

“At first I was not a fan of this style because I thought it might require more of my time outside of class. However my mind was quickly changed since Profes-sor Kumar was able to work more exam-ples during class, which was very helpful for completing the homework, and an-swer more questions without having to rush through the lecture,” LaHucik said.

Another student of Kumar’s, Megh Pa-tel, junior in construction management, said the concept also worked well for him.

“I could play the video over and over until I understood the material,” Patel said. “And the repetition in class helped me to strengthen and remember impor-tant concepts.”

In his upcoming flipped classroom, Fahnestock hopes the students won’t feel like they are doing more work.

“The net [amount of] work for the stu-dent shouldn’t be increasing, it should be shifting. There will be more content learn-ing before class, and then in class there will be more problem solving so there

will be fewer take-home assign-ments,” he said.

Fahnestock’s redesigned CEE460 will focus on the types of hands-on problems he always wished he had more time for.

“My students always appre-ciated when I presented in-class problems based on a building I designed as a practicing engi-neer,” Fahnestock said. “It’s infor-mal, hands-on and interactive. In the coming semester, I’ll actually

be using this building as the key-stone of the course. They will an-alyze and design many different parts of the building, and they will get to see how all the pieces, to some degree, fit into the con-text of the complete building.”

Like Kumar, Fahnestock will use pre-lectures, which will be housed on the course website, to cover fundamental concepts. He can produce these lectures in his own office using software that al-lows him to record his voice over a slide presentation.

“There are things we need to understand before we can get to application. I would like to push that stuff to the pre-lecture so they can get the concepts and then in class we can work examples,” he said.

After viewing the pre-lecture, the students will take a short quiz, so Fahnestock can see what they understood and what he should review. In addition to having more time for solving problems in class, Fahnestock is excited about the opportunity to present more open-ended problems.

“We want to be teaching our stu-dents not just to solve clean-cut, de-fined problems, but how to wrestle with more realistic problems, so I’m hoping to incorporate these more in the coming semester when they will have the opportunity to use their creativity, get real-time feedback from other students, and have me and the TAs there for guidance.” i

Flipped classes enhance learning,increase student-teacher interaction

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percent of CEE at Illinois students who pass the

Fundamentals of Engineer-ing exam, required for

professional licensure in the United States

national average pass rate

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CEE’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program is growing, offering more and more students the chance to participate in research. The department con-tributes $2,000 for a student’s se-mester in the program – $1,500 to the student and $500 to the super-vising professor. Students spend at least 10 hours per week on the re-search for 12 weeks during the fall and spring semesters. They must devote at least 20 hours per week for six weeks during the summer break. At the end of their participa-tion, they must turn in a final prod-uct, such as a report, presentation or newly developed software code. The department’s goal is to fund 40 undergraduate students per year in the REU program. Alumni giving to the REU program has made many of these positions possible.

CEE undergraduate Nao Nishio, right, discusses her research work with Senior Research Engineer C. Tyler Dick.

Research Experience for Undergraduates

“I enjoyed everything about it.” by nAo niShio, cEE Junior

As a junior focusing in Transportation for my primary and construction ma-

terials for my secondary concentration, this fall I had the great pleasure of partici-pating in the Research Experience for Un-dergraduates (REU) program. I conducted research on an historical review of com-muter rail energy consumption trends in the United States under Senior Research Engineer C. Tyler Dick, P.E., and Graduate Research Assistant Gio DiDomenico.

The main part of my work involved gathering data from the National Transit Database (NTD), compiling the data from 1997 to 2011, and characterizing each commuter rail. I also analyzed historical changes in various system properties and efficiencies. This research is part of a larg-er research scope aimed at comparing en-ergy efficiency of passenger rail systems to competing modes of travel. Overall this research will provide insight into which systems will be used in case studies for future research.

This was my first time getting involved in a research project here on campus, and I enjoyed everything about it. The work covers a topic I really enjoy learning about. Within the transportation engi-neering program there are three possible concentrations: facilities, systems and

railroad transportation engineering. This research is the closest thing to my interest since it involves passenger rails and envi-ronmental concerns. I consider myself pretty lucky to have been able to work in a research area that I am interested in.

The best part of this research is that it can take place anywhere in the world; I just need my laptop with me! The flex-ibility of this research has enabled me to manage my time efficiently on top of my course loads and involvement with multi-ple student organizations – Alpha Omega Epsilon Engineering Sorority, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA), Engineers Without Borders, Engineering Career Ser-vices and the New Student Program. Be-ing able to do research without interfer-ing with my academics or sacrificing my other passions is something I appreciate as an undergrad.

Throughout the semester I saw per-sonal growth in managing my time, and I have increased my knowledge in railroad transportation engineering. The materi-als taught in class relate to the research, and I have seen a tremendous increase in

my motivation to learn in class. Through participation in the REU

program, I’ve realized that research is an important factor that supports our sus-tainable development. I have begun to think about pursuing a master’s degree after graduation. As an ambitious fresh-man, I wanted to attend graduate school here, but my first two years showed me the opportunities that industry had wait-ing for us, and I considered jumping on that bandwagon after attaining my bach-elor’s degree. Through the REU program, as well as discussions with my advisers, professor, students and even alumni from the railroad engineering program, I’ve changed my mind about higher edu-cation. This experience touched me in many ways, and now I am committed to continue learning in this field. i


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CEE student Donovan Holder, center, presents his research to Professor James LaFave, left, and Associate Professor Larry Fahnestock.

by donovAn holdEr, cEE SEnior

I am a current senior in the civil engineer-ing department, pursuing a primary in

structural engineering and a secondary in geotechnical engineering. Originally from Belize, Central America, I moved to the United States in pursuit of a degree in engineering.

Through my time here at the Univer-sity of Illinois I have had the opportunity to help on several structural engineer-ing research projects. I became involved with undergraduate research my junior year when I had the opportunity to work with Professor Daniel Kuchma and gradu-ate research assistants Andrew Mock and Anahid Behrouzi. The project was a multi-year research effort designed to de-velop tools to enable performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) of con-crete shear walls. Specifically I assisted with the large-scale experimental testing of two C-shaped structural walls at the NEES MUST-SIM facility in Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory. This allowed me the opportunity to learn about concrete shear wall design, the performance of concrete lateral systems in mid-rise struc-tures, and the need for PBEE in society

today. Thanks to my undergraduate research

work at Illinois, I obtained a research in-ternship at the University of Washington under the supervision of Professor Dawn Lehman, a CO-PI of the shear wall project. The project with Dr. Lehman involved research on developing a method of us-ing concrete-filled tubes in accelerated bridge construction. My main focus on the project was to study the composite action of concrete-filled tubes due to varying steel tube types and concrete core mixes.

Now as a senior, I am working with As-sociate Professor Larry Fahnestock and Professor James LaFave on their current research endeavor to analyze and devel-op conclusions from data gathered dur-ing their reconnaissance trip to Moore, Okla., following the devastating tornado in May 2013. This research initiative was funded by a CEE Rapid Response Grant, which is used to learn about infrastruc-ture failures that could guide future re-search and improve public safety. On this project my main focus is to analyze the behavior and performance of steel-framed buildings that experienced mod-

erate to severe non-structural damage and localized structural damage.

My undergraduate research opportu-nities have challenged me and taught me concepts that are constantly applicable in the civil engineering field. My research experiences have enhanced my under-standing of key engineering ideas taught in class, as well as allowed me the unique opportunity to see how the course ma-terial I am learning in my academics is used to come up with solutions to current structural engineering challenges.

Besides the educational development I receive from my research experiences, knowing that the work I am doing will positively contribute to the global under-standing of civil engineering construc-tion practices gives me great pride and drives me to excel in work assigned to me on each research team. Research tends to get rigorous at times due to the constant trial and error that comes with it, but in the end I know the knowledge I take away from my research opportunities will only make me a better engineer in the future. i


“The knowledge I take away from my research opportunities will make me a better engineer.”


CEE student Alexander Lakocy, left, is pictured in the lab with the professor supervising his research, Associate Professor John Popovics.


“It gave me another talking point at the CEE career fair, which led to a summer internship at a highly regarded structural engineering firm in Chicago.”by AlExAndEr lAKocy, cEE Junior

As a second-semester junior in CEE, I was approached by Professor John

Popovics, who asked whether I would be interested in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) project for the semester. At this point in my college career, I had solid grades in most of my core classes, plenty of extracurricular ex-perience through the Steel Bridge team, and some work experience as an intern for a construction firm the previous sum-mer. I had done well for myself, but there were several key things missing from my college experience – a connection with professors in the department, an intern-ship at a structural engineering firm and a well-defined idea of what I wanted to do after graduation. My research last spring in the REU program helped me to re-focus my education by allowing me to work closely with professors, design and conduct an experiment, and discover a passion for research.

This project was a preliminary study of how to measure the effects of Alkali-Silica Reactivity (ASR) damage within concrete specimens. The experiments used a non-destructive evaluation (NDE) technique called resonance frequency vibration test-ing to detect the extensive cracking net-works associated with ASR-induced dam-age. The tests were performed through a series of laboratory experiments using different concrete specimens exposed to harsh conditions, which were intended to accelerate ASR damage. At the end of the project, analysis of the data demonstrat-ed that cracking due to ASR damage ac-

tually causes the resonance frequency of concrete specimens to decrease, which is detectable using the vibration tests that were performed.

Throughout the duration of the proj-ect I had lots of interaction with the proj-ect adviser, Professor Popovics, as we shared ideas about how to design the ex-periment, what materials to use and how to measure the damage within the affect-ed specimens. However, I was also given the freedom to work on many aspects of the project on my own. I designed and constructed the tank to house the speci-mens alone, and I performed the majority of specimen casting and testing by my-self (with occasional guidance from some of the graduate students). All in all, the project taught me quite a bit about how various NDE tests work, as well as some of the chemistry behind concrete degra-dation mechanisms. The most important

Funding for research within CEE at Illinois is on the rise, with sponsored research up 16 percent in the past year, totaling $21.25 million and overall expenditures up 17 percent to $38.03 million. A healthy research program means more opportunities for undergrads and graduate students alike to participate in research, which helps them gain valuable experience, enhances their education and builds their resumes.

lessons for me, though, were about what it’s like to conduct graduate-level re-search. It’s almost never as glorious as it sounds – it seemed like the work I did re-quired almost as much reading and writ-ing as it did experimentation. At the same time, the experience was very valuable. It gave me the opportunity to present at a conference last summer. It introduced me to a professor who would become like a second adviser for me. It gave me anoth-er talking point at the spring CEE career fair, which led to a summer internship at a highly regarded structural engineer-ing firm in Chicago. Most importantly, it helped me to discover that I want to pursue research as a graduate student – something I would never have found out without that experience. i

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student advisory committee

by EnJi PAul PAPAziSi, cEE SEnior

“Get involved.” Throughout all my years at Illinois, that has been the

most frequent advice given to under-classmen and prospective students by upperclassmen and faculty. Joining organi-zations can help students learn more about engineer-ing, broaden their profes-sional networks, make friends, and just have some much needed fun. How-ever, the large number of organizations available can be overwhelming to under-classmen, especially those who are uncertain what dis-ciplines they want to focus on. Also, many of these orga-nizations do not always allow students to be in charge of their management until they are voted onto the board at

the end of the year. One organization that empowers students to act from the start is the CEE Student Committee (CSC). I be-came involved with CSC during the sec-ond half of my freshman year, making it the first organization I joined in college. Like most, if not all, other members of the committee, I believe it has been one of the most beneficial experiences at Illinois and has had a tremendous effect on my professional development.

The goal of CSC is to aid the CEE de-partment in enabling students to net-work with each other, professionals and professors. Each fall semester, the com-mittee organizes a Freshmen Kickoff Event. During this event, freshmen are given an informal setting to talk to up-perclassmen about anything they wish to know while enjoying some free pizza in the crane bay. Also, each CEE student organization hosts a booth at the event. While attending this as freshman, I got advice about courses, found out more about the organizations I was interest-ed in and met the people I consider my best friends today. This event also al-

lowed me to meet a few of the professors who would teach my CEE classes. Because of this, I was able to make a connection with a professor and be offered a research position as early as my sophomore year.

More recently, the committee has been hosting CEE Social Hours every Wednesday which gives students an op-portunity to network with a CEE profes-sor over appetizers at a local restaurant. Though these were not around during my underclassmen years, I have been attend-ing the social hours this year. During each one, I get a very rewarding feeling an-swering questions students have about CEE disciplines, or job and research op-portunities in the department.

To help in getting connected with professionals, the committee organizes a Networking Event on the night prior to each CEE Job Fair. This event creates an informal setting in which students can be introduced to the recruiters they will be speaking to the next day, learn a little more about the companies they work for, and gain insight as to what skills they look for in candidates they wish to hire. During the last hour of the event, students and recruiters participate in a meet-and-greet dinner in which they can have more of a one-on-one interaction, allowing stu-dents to make a great first impression and differentiate themselves. This has proven to be exceptionally helpful to stu-dents in being offered an interview and, ultimately, getting a job offer. In my per-sonal experience, this event was crucial to my obtaining my internship for the past two summers. I was fortunate enough to be in charge of organizing the event dur-ing the spring of my sophomore year and served as a company liaison of my future boss. This allowed me to get a lot of one-

on-one time with the recruiter while also learning more about the company and what was expected from their employ-ees. Equipped with this knowledge and a great first impression, I was able to feel more comfortable talking to recruiters at the job fair and could more effectively present my qualifications.

These events are only three of the nu-merous ones that CSC conducts for stu-dents throughout the academic year. Be-ing a part of the committee has allowed me to grow professionally, make a ton of long-lasting friendships, and, most im-portantly, gain insight into how the CEE department works. While the committee works mostly to benefit the students, it also is a great resource for the depart-ment as whole. Through its interaction with Professor Liang Liu and academic adviser Becky Stillwell, the committee aids the department in understanding what CEE students like about the depart-ment and what changes they would like to be instituted. In my mind, this interac-tion has been the most rewarding aspect of being a part of CSC because it has al-lowed me to make a name for myself within the department. This has enabled me to make a class of 100 students feel like one of less than 30 students. Though I was worried about getting lost in a big lecture hall when I first came to college, my participation in CSC has made CEE feel like a smaller, welcoming environment. In other words, CSC has transformed the CEE department and its students into my family away from home. i

The CEE Student

Committee has transformed the CEE department and its students into my family away from home.

CEE Student Committee enhances undergrad life

The CEE Student Committee, including Paul Papazisi, right, and Mike Roggeman, left, helped create a video called “Stuff CEE Students Say.” Point your smartphone’s QR reader at the code to watch the video or view it at youtube.com/watch?v=PvSa0Dil6_g

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Student organizations key to the Illinois CEE experience by niShAnT mAKhiJAni, cEE SEnior

Recently, I shared the stage with Da-vid Gottfried, the founder of the U.S.

Green Building Council (USGBC), and Stephen Ritz, Founder of Green Bronx Machine, at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Philadelphia. I had been asked to participate because of my long involvement with the USGBC student chapter here at Illinois. During the panel discussion, David asked me this question: “Nishant, what advice do you give to other students involved in the sus-tainability movement?” My reply: “Get in-volved in the community and take advan-tage of the resources available to you.”

I believe it was my educational ex-perience at the University of Illinois, and particularly my experience with student organizations, that has given me that perspective. I got involved with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Students four years ago as a freshman. USGBC Stu-dents is an organization that promotes the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) building standard and pro-vides opportunities for students to learn more about sustainable infrastructure through general meetings and site tours. My values resonated very closely with the organization’s mission, so I started to give my time and energy to the organization, eventually becoming president in 2012.

As president, my primary goal was to increase our membership base by offering a variety of events. This goal helped me create rela-tionships with the strong base of CEE student groups such as the American Society of Civil Engi-neers, the Structural Engineers Association and the Construc-tion Management Association of America, as we all shared a common purpose – educating and giving relevant life experi-ences to the CEE at Illinois stu-dents. This passion to create a positive change for the students

has helped me and other stu-dent leaders in CEE grow as in-dividuals and leaders. We hold ourselves to high standards and are driven by passion, hard work and the determination to succeed. These organi-zations give us opportunities to cultivate our networking skills and develop profes-sional etiquette.

As a senior, I feel it is important to recognize and acknowledge the support I have received in the last four years, es-pecially from the CEE department. In addition to giving us an excellent educa-tion, our department faculty and staff are always looking out for us and offering op-portunities for growth. The support from the department to attend conferences, lectures and networking events gives us a unique opportunity to seek out alumni and industry professionals to advance our organizations. Furthermore, they also give us an opportunity to seek mentors from the industry and create long-lasting

relationships with them.As a member of USGBC, I am a part of

a community of highly motivated young people – students and emerging profes-sionals – who inspire me through oppor-tunities for growth in their workplaces and communities. This community is unique to USGBC, and I consider myself lucky to be part of this social change. To-day, with support of the CEE department, USGBC Students hold numerous events through the Green Apple Initiative, to educate and inspire children and adults to view sustainability and sustainable de-sign with a new eye.

In addition, during my time in CEE at Illinois, I have also had the opportunity to give back and serve as a mentor for fresh-men through a position as an Engineer-ing Learning Assistant and involvement in the CEE Student Committee Mentoring Program. My other student organization involvements have included Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity and the Student Sustainability Committee. These involvements have enhanced my education in numerous ways and helped

me make the most of my Illinois experience in ways I will never for-get.

Partly because of my involve-ment in the department through student organizations, a CEE de-partment staff member nominat-ed me for a position on the 2013 Homecoming Court. My friend Marika Nell, also a CEE senior, and I were honored to represent the student body in another unforget-table Illinois experience. i

These involvements have enhanced my education in

numerous ways and helped me make the most of my Illinois experience in ways I will never forget.

Makhijani and members of U.S. Green Building Council Students.

Makhijani teaches visitors to Engineering Open House about sustainability through a Lego building game.


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American Concrete Institute The American Concrete Institute (ACI) Student Chapter promotes student interest in all aspects of concrete. Dur-ing monthly meetings, our members gain perspective from industry and academic guest lecturers who discuss unique challenges facing concrete in laboratory and other environ-ments. The student chapter is affiliated with ACI-Illinois, the professional liaison chapter located in Chicago. This year, our members have the opportunity to attend ACI Conventions in Phoenix during the fall semester and in Reno during the spring semester. We also operate the popular Concrete Coasters and High-Strength Concrete Competition exhibits at Engineering Open House. For information, please contact [email protected].

American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way AssociationThe student chapter of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) celebrated its five-year anniversary in fall 2013. We educate students about the railroad industry and transform their interest to passion. Earlier this year, our members visited the CTA workshop in Skokie, Ill., to learn about CTA car manufacturing. This visit concluded with a fun ride in a new CTA line train. Later this year, 48 student members will attend the Railway Interchange conference in Indianapolis. The conference will have student members giving technical presentations and provide many career and networking opportunities for them. Our activities also include general meetings with presentations by industry professionals as well as social activities such as cookouts and broomball. For more information, contact Scott Schmidt at [email protected].

American Society of Civil EngineersThe ASCE Great Lakes Regional Conference competition will take place on campus April 11-12. More than 500 students from 18 schools in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana will compete in eight competitions, including Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge. For the concrete canoe competition, students design and construct concrete canoes and compete for a shot to at-tend the national competition. In the steel bridge competi-tion, students design and fabricate a steel bridge before the competition and, at conference, load their bridge and also do a construction time trial. Each school will compete for a spot in the national competition. The other six competitions are only regionally based but are important to the winner of the overall conference. The materials competition will test two

precast concrete cylinders under compressive loading. A quiz bowl will test teams of students on their knowledge of various civil engineering disciplines. The surveying competition will have students use surveying equipment to plot the terrain at a location. A technical paper will require a student to write a persuasive paper on a given civil engineering topic and pres-ent it during the conference. For the environmental and mys-tery design competitions, the rules have not been officially released. The top three finishers in each category receive a plaque and in some cases financial awards. To compete, do-nate or volunteer for the conference, contact Mark Keller at [email protected].

Chi Epsilon Honor SocietyChi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society (XE) had a great start to the academic year with 90 students eligible for initia-tion. Our initiate kickoff smoker went smoothly and the ini-tiation process is underway. The lineup for our general meet-ings includes presentations from Langan Engineering, TYLin International, and Applied Research Associates. We also have several service and social events planned including volunteer-ing at a local food bank, a wine and cheese mixer with CEE professors, and a soccer match against the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers student chapter. Chi Epsilon also has teamed up with the Structural Engineering Association stu-dent chapter to provide an introductory SAP2000 workshop to help CEE students develop the technology skills necessary for structural design. Chi Epsilon is always looking for scholarship sponsors and guest speakers at our meetings. Please contact President Donovan Holder at [email protected].

Concrete Canoe TeamThe Boneyard Yacht Club (BYC), the Illinois concrete canoe team, is a group of multidisciplinary engineering students who grow into their roles as professional engineers through a year-long project designing and building a concrete canoe. BYC’s mission is to create critical thinkers, knowledgeable practitioners and devoted leaders. As the founding organiza-tion of this ASCE-sponsored event, and as the host of the Great Lakes Regional Conference 2014 (April 10-12), BYC will be dis-playing the pride of the Illini. With a membership of 40 stu-dents from different engineering disciplines, we believe we have the diversity and the breadth to win regionals and be-come the 2014 national champions! We are not an island and seek support from alumni and companies to aid in our goals of engineering professionalism and regional and national titles. Please contact the BYC project managers Robert Butler

([email protected]) or Alexandra Prasauskas ([email protected]) with any questions about the team, the upcoming competition or events.

Construction Management Association of AmericaConstruction Management Association of America (CMAA) is an organization geared towards aspiring Construction Managers. Construction Managers plan, coordinate, budget, and supervise projects as they develop from paper to reality. These professionals interact with both the designers and cli-ents in order to deliver the desired project. The CMAA Student Chapter at Illinois strives to introduce students to the dynamic industry of construction. CMAA relies on general contractors for construction site visits and presentations at general meet-ings. These events give students a look into the work of a gen-eral contractor, the industry as a whole and potential career opportunities. Any students interested in events with CMAA should join the Facebook group: “Construction Management Association of America UIUC Chapter.”

Deep Foundations InstituteThe Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) student chapter allows student members to learn about the planning, design and construction aspects of deep foundations and deep excava-tions. For the second year, DFI is hosting a field trip to Atlas Tubing in Chicago. DFI also hosts events in conjunction with GESO. Please contact Aaron Leopold, chapter president, at [email protected] to learn more about upcoming events and get involved.

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is a leading technical society in earthquake risk and engineering research. We give any student the chance to make contacts and learn about subjects in earthquake engineering. EERI hosts visiting professionals for guest lectures. The recent range of topics has included SAP2000, engineering, risk analysis and policy. Another event is the Seismic Design Com-petition. The National EERI holds an undergraduate competi-tion at their annual conference, which will be at Anchorage, Alaska this July. The U of I has participated for the last four years and performed consistently well. Undergraduates who join the design team are introduced to earthquake engineer-ing concepts, construct a 5-foot-tall balsa wood building, and give a presentation at the conference. Finally, their structure is tested on a shake table to simulate a real earthquake. For more information, contact Kevin Kho, at [email protected].

Some of the many student organizations for civil and environmental engineers at Illinois tell what they’re up to and how alumni can get involved. A more extensive list of CEE student organizations and links to their websites appear here: cee.illinois.edu/student_organizations.

Student Organizations


Geotechnical Engineering Student Organization The Geotechnical Engineering Student Organization (GESO) provides geotechnical graduate students with a forum to pursue and discuss their research interests in an educational and constructive environment and allow them to develop the leadership and interpersonal skills they will need as future engineers. The chapter continues to have frequent research roundtables, which include student member presentations on their current research and professional speakers from the private or public sector. Last school year, GESO sent a team of undergraduate and graduate students to the annual GeoCongress conference in San Diego, Calif., to participate in the GeoWall and GeoPrediction competitions. The Illinois GeoPrediction team won 2nd place, competing against other top geotechnical engineering schools throughout the United States and world. This school year, GESO plans to attend the GeoCongress conference in Atlanta and participate in all three student competitions: GeoWall, GeoPrediction and GeoPoster. For information, contact Steve Wilk at [email protected].

Institute of Transportation EngineersThe student chapter of Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) is part of an international community of transportation professionals working around the world to meet safety and mobility needs. Students join ITE to learn about exciting ad-vancements and challenging problems in this field, network with peers and have fun. Activities this year include partici-pating in the 62nd Annual Traffic Engineering and Safety Con-ference and concurrent student-practitioner forum, hosting speakers from consulting firms and academia, student social events, field trips and the Illinois ITE annual banquet and student day. In the spring, ITE will create a transportation-re-lated exhibit to be featured during Engineering Open House. ITE is very excited to return and compete at the Midwestern District Traffic Bowl in June. For more information, contact [email protected].

International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR)The IAHR is an 80-year-old independent organization of engineers and scientists who work in the area of hydro-environmental sciences and their practical applications. The Illinois IAHR student chapter organizes informal collaborative activities with neighboring IAHR student chapters, field trips to local hydraulic works and research facilities, professional development seminars and reading groups. It also organizes social activities which include the annual Hydro T-Shirt de-sign contest, annual pumpkin carving contest, cookouts and mixers. The chapter is also committed to education outreach; every year we present a range of exhibits during Engineering Open House and since last year we have been mentoring local schools for the Office of Naval Research’s SeaPerch program. For information, email [email protected].

International Water Resources Association (IWRA)The IWRA student chapter is part of an educational organi-zation whose mission is to expand understanding of water resource issues by promoting education and collaboration in research and decision-making with an emphasis on com-munity involvement. We work locally to raise awareness of water issues through educational events open to the campus community, promote interaction among students and faculty within the Hydrosystems Laboratory, and provide members with networking opportunities. This year, IWRA will start a new event that will involve students and alumni from CEE and other departments with an interest in water resources: a Water Day celebration with a student poster competition and discussions on the future of water resources. We invite alumni to contribute to our efforts by participating in info sessions, seminars and informal meetings with students. For informa-tion, contact Andrew Rehn at [email protected].

Steel Bridge TeamThe Steel Bridge team is preparing for this year’s competi-tions. Last year, we placed fourth in the Great Lakes Regional Competition at Trine University. This year, we are looking forward to hosting regionals here at Illinois. We also plan to improve from last year through a more comprehensive design process and better selection of bridge components. Our goal is to qualify for the national competition in Akron, Ohio, May 23-24. Contact captain Alexander Lakocy ([email protected]) with questions or information requests.

Structural Engineers AssociationThe Structural Engineers Association student chapter edu-cates students on professional opportunities through events and networking opportunities. Our general meetings have featured presentations by structural engineers. We have also toured construction sites, done job shadowing and hosted a research panel. Our social outings have included a welcome back barbecue, field day, bowling night, and a multi-orga-

nizational broomball tournament. Our outreach committee created a year-long partnership with the High School of St. Thomas More in Champaign; we visit every month to intro-duce basic concepts in structural engineering. This year marks our 10th anniversary, so the SEA board is organizing a cel-ebration dinner for current members, past members, SEAOI members, professors and professionals who have presented throughout the years. To get involved or to be added to the guest list for the 10th Anniversary Celebration, please contact Paul Papazisi at [email protected] or visit our website at https://sites.google.com/site/seauofi.

U.S. Green Building CouncilU.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) student chapter recruits, connects and equips the next generation of green building leaders by empowering them to transform their campuses, communities and careers. Our chapter helps students inte-grate sustainability themes into their coursework and ad-vocate for sustainable university practices and policies. We provide LEED study sessions to prepare students for the LEED Green Associate Exam. We also organize monthly general meetings to educate our members about recent green build-ing projects. We organized an event for Green Apple Day of Service and attended the annual Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. We will be leading an annual dorm competition called Green Your Dorm, which will encourage students to compete to reduce the amount of energy and water that they use. We plan to host a green building and net-working conference in spring 2014, which will feature work-shops, talks and tours. For information, write [email protected].

This year, the University of Illinois will host the American Society of Civil En-gineers Great Lakes Regional Compe-tition April 11-12. Regional concrete canoe and steel bridge contests will be among eight total competitions held that weekend. For more information as plans develop, check https://publish.il-linois.edu/asceglc2014/.

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Meet the future of CEE at IllinoisSince 2010, CEE at Illinois has hired 14 new faculty members, increasing our number of tenure-system faculty to 54. The new professors’ areas of expertise are cross-disciplinary, representing the integration of the traditional CEE sub-disciplines that has been a strategic focus for the depart-ment for several years.

The department’s three new cross-disciplinary programs were developed with the same strate-gic goal in mind: a more forward-thinking approach to engineering education, research and service to society that recognizes the complexity and interconnected-ness of our world and therefore our challenges in civil and envi-ronmental engineering.

Presented on these pages are the new professors added since 2010—two of whom will join the department in 2014. They represent the future of civil and environmental engineering. They will serve as role models for those students who aspire to work on the peripheries of traditional sub-disciplines and to address system-level societal challenges. Their research, the contributions they make to their fields, and their impact on society through their work with students will do nothing less than change the world.

Paolo Gardoni Joined January 2012

Structural Engineering; Director of the Mid-America Earthquake Center; Co-director of the Societal Risk Management (SRM) ProgramLaurea, Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 1997MS, Structural Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1997MA, Statistics, UC Berkeley, 2001PhD, Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2002

Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? The new frontiers of engi-neering are interdisciplinary. CEE at Illinois provides a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge interdisciplinary proj-ects with significant societal impact

Tell us about your research interests. My areas of expertise include reliability, risk and life cycle analysis; decision making under uncertainty; earthquake engineering; performance as-sessment of deteriorating systems; ethical, social, and legal dimensions of risk; policies for natural hazard mitigation and disaster recovery; and engineering ethics.

Oscar Lopez-Pamies Joined August 2011

Societal Risk ManagementBA, Mathematics, University of Maryland Baltimore County,

2001BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore

County, 2001MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore

County, 2002PhD, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics,

University of Pennsylvania/École Polytechnique, 2006

Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? I chose CEE at Illinois be-cause of its great reputation and tradition in mechanics.

Tell us about your research interests. I am interested in the mechanics and physics of advanced materials with a particu-lar emphasis on soft-matter (i.e., highly deformable) systems. Specific areas of interest include the development of math-ematical models for the response and failure of electroactive materials for uses as artificial muscles and energy harvesters.

Hadi Meidani Joining August 2014

Transportation Engineering; Structural Engineering BS, Civil Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, 2002MS, Structural Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2005MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2012PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, 2012

Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? CEE at Illinois is a leader in traditional civil engineering areas and a pioneer in establish-ing new interdisciplinary areas in civil engineering research and education.

Tell us about your research interests. My overarching objec-tive is to develop rigorous predictive models for complex sys-tems. To this end, my research is focused on the modeling of the uncertainties relevant to the behavior of these systems, and the quantitative assessment of their impacts on the overall performance.

Geotechnical Engineering; Societal Risk Management (SRM)BS, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2002MS, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2004PhD, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2012

Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? I chose to come to Illinois because of the Civil and Environmental Engineering depart-ment’s commitment to supporting innovative experimental research.

Tell us about your research interests. I have research interests in the characterization of marine sediments subjected to dynamic loading and the relationship between geohazard triggering mechanisms and sediment properties.

Cassandra Rutherford Joined December 2011

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Jeremy Guest Joined December 2011

Environmental Engineering and Science; Energy Water Environment Sustainability (EWES); Sustainable and Resil-ient Infrastructure Systems (SRIS)BS, Civil Engineering, Bucknell University, 2005MS, Civil Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State

University, 2007PhD, Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, 2012

Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? I was incredibly impressed by the faculty, students, and staff, and was very excited about the opportunity to work closely with them to advance fundamental knowledge in environmental engineering.

Tell us about your research interests. My research group inte-grates experimentation, modeling, and sustainable design to invent and advance select water treatment technologies, with a focus on those that are capable of energy, nutrient, and water recovery from wastewaters.

Ange-Therese Akono Joined December 2013

Structural EngineeringBS, Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, 2008MS, Engineering and Innovation Technologies, UEcole Poly-

technique, 2011MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, 2011PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, 2013

Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? The wide variety of dis-ciplines represented and the collegiality of faculty members creates a nurturing environment conducive to interdisciplin-ary research and creative collaboration.

Tell us about your research interests. In my research group, the Sustainability Under the Nanoscope laboratory (SUNlab), we will investigate fracture mechanisms in complex materials from the millimeter scale down to the nanometer scale.

Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Systems (SRIS); Societal Risk Management; Construction Engineering and ManagementBS, Civil Engineering, Iran Univ. of Science and Technology, 2002MS, Civil Engineering, Iran Univ. of Science and Technology, 2005MS, Civil Engineering - Project and Construction Management,

University of British Columbia, 2006MS, Computer Science, University of Illinois, 2010PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, 2010

Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? CEE at Illinois has a long standing reputation for focusing on creativity, innovation, inter-disciplinary collaboration, and entrepreneurship to solve some of the grand challenges of engineering.

Tell us about your research interests. My research focuses on the development of computer vision and machine learning methods that benefit from site images, video streams, and Building Information Models (BIM).

Mani Golparvar-FardJoined December 2012

Rosa Espinosa-Marzal Joined September 2013

Environmental Engineering and Sci-enceBS, Mechangical Engineering, Universi-

dad Politecnica de Valencia, 1997MS Mechanical Engineering, Universidad

Politecnica de Valencia, 1997PhD, Engineering/Materials Science,

Hamburg University of Technology, 2004

Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? Dur-ing my first visit I immediately realized that this was a special place: dynamic, in-teractive, collaborative, multidisciplinary, very creative, and full of opportunities.

Tell us about your research interests. Specific research interests include anti-bacterial biodegradable nano-particles for drinking water, electrolyte structure/transport and crystal growth in pores of rocks or membranes, surface modifica-tion against material (bio)degradation, and understanding self-healing behavior of polymer-reinforced minerals toward the design of sustainable materials.

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Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering;Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability (EWES)BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia,

2006MS, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, The Uni-

versity of Texas at Austin, 2010M.P.Aff Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, 2010PhD, Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2013

Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? My work is highly inter-disciplinary, so I was drawn to the new overarching programs, EWES in particular, as an avenue for advancing my work.

Tell us about your research interests. My primary research areas include developing decision support tools regarding water use in thermoelectric power plants, modeling the im-pacts of water and energy management decisions on resource systems, and assessing the economic value of waste streams.

Ashlynn StillwellJoined August 2013

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Ahmed ElbannaJoined January 2013

Structural Engineering; Societal Risk Management (SRM); collaboration with faculty in EE/EWES and SRISBS, Civil Engineering, Cairo University, 2003MS, Structural Engineering, Cairo University, 2005MS, Applied Mechanics, Caltech, 2006PhD, Civil Engineering, Caltech, 2011

Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? At Illinois I will be able to work on my interdisciplinary research while (1) collaborating with world-class faculty and students, and (2) using the best computa-tional resources available in the world.

Tell us about your research interests. Understanding how things break. I use computational models as well as theories from physics and mechanics to uncover mechanisms contrib-uting to these processes from the microscale up to the macro-scopic scale.

Daniel WorkJoined December 2010

Transportation Engineering; Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Systems (SRIS); Decision and Control in the Coordinated Science LabBS, Civil Engineering, the Ohio State University, 2006MS, Systems Engineering, Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2007PhD, Systems Engineering, Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2010

Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? I was extremely impressed with the quality of the research at Illinois and the outstanding reputation of the faculty in CEE.

Tell us about your research interests. My current research fo-cuses on modeling, estimation and management of transpor-tation systems. My research leverages the ubiquity of mobile phones as traffic sensors and cheap computing to study traffic phenomena at scales that were unimaginable even just a few years ago.

Roland Cusick Joined October 2013

Energy-Water-Environmental Sustainability (EWES); Safe Global Water InstituteBS, Environmental Engineering, University of California, River-

side, 2005MS, Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, 2010PhD, Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, 2013

Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? I was extremely impressed by the research facilities, the quality and collegiality of depart-ment faculty. I was also excited to participate in the develop-ment of the new cross-cutting EWES program as well as the Safe Global Water Institute.

Tell us about your research interests. My primary research areas include nutrient and energy recovery from wastewater using microbial electrochemical technologies, electrochemical energy production from natural and engineered salinity gradients, ca-pacitive deionization, and sustainable sanitation technologies for the developing world.

Megan Konar Joined Fall 2012

Hydrology/Environmental Hydrology; Energy Water Envi-ronment Sustainability (EWES)BS, Conservation and Resource Studies, UC Berkeley, 2002MS, Water Science, Policy and Management, Oxford, 2005PhD, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Princeton, 2012

Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? I chose CEE at Illinois for the world-class research and colleagues, the ability to recruit top students, and the emphasis on excellence in both technical depth and interdisciplinary breadth.

Tell us about your research interests. My research focuses on the nexus of water and food systems, with a particular empha-sis on how trade in agricultural commodities impacts water re-source use. This research is inherently interdisciplinary, due to the focus on agricultural production and economic trade.

Eun-Jeong Cha Joining Spring 2014

Structural Engineering; Societal Risk Management (SRM) BS, Architectural Engineering, Seoul

National University, 2006MS, Structural Engineering, Georgia

Institute of Technology, 2009PhD, Structural Engineering, Georgia

Institute of Technology, 2012Why did you choose CEE at Illinois? Creativity, passion, mastery, vision and leadership is what I see from the past and the present of the department and I could see myself happily being part of this great synergy.

Tell us about your research interests. My research is aimed at establishing a comprehensive risk-informed decision framework to manage risk to structures and civil infrastructure from extreme natural hazards, including earthquakes, hurricanes, or floods, and to abnormal events, such as terrorist attack, using analytical and statistical approaches.

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The M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Student Center received an Award of Merit at the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois 2013 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Competition. This design competition takes place each year to recognize excellence in structural engineering.

Professor Imad Al-Qadi was recently named the next president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI). The ASCE established the T&DI in 2002. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in transportation or development. As direc-tor of the Illinois Center for Transportation, Al-Qadi oversees operations for the center, which has become one of the larg-est centers at the University of Illinois and one of the leading national and international transportation centers.

Professor Emeritus Robert H. Dodds Jr. (MS 75, PhD 78), former CEE at Illinois department head, was named to the initial class of Fellows of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and also was awarded the Fracture Mechanics Medal by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) in recognition of his outstanding and sustained contributions to the advancement of fracture mechanics technology and education. He is also

a Fellow of ASTM and has previously won the George Irwin Medal, the Jerry L. Swedlow Lecture Award, and the ASTM Award of Merit.

Associate Professor Larry A. Fahnestock, a CEE Excellence Faculty Fellow, has been honored with a 2013 Campus Dis-tinguished Promotion Award. The award recognizes faculty whose cases for promotion were deemed particularly note-worthy by the Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure during the promotion review process, noting scholars whose contributions are exceptional in terms of quality of work and overall achievement. Four faculty in total across the campus were so honored. The award comes with a $3,000 discre-tionary fund to support scholarly activities. Fahnestock has served on the CEE faculty since 2006. His research focuses on earthquake engineering, innovative structural systems, steel structures, connection performance, progressive collapse mitigation and large-scale experimental evaluation of struc-tural components and systems.

Assistant Professor Mani Golparvar Fard (PhD 10) has been selected for a 2013-14 fellowship from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications for his project “Energy Perfor-mance Augmented Reality Models for Building Diagnostics Using a Hybrid of RGBD/Thermal Cameras and CFD Models.” He also has a collaborative fellowship with Timothy Bretl of Aerospace Engineering for “Autonomous Vision-based Prog-ress Monitoring of Building and Infrastructure Construction Projects.”

Professor Marcelo García was named a Fellow of the Environmen-tal Water Resources Institute, a civil engineering specialty institute of the American Society of Civil Engi-neers. A Fellow is someone who is recognized by the field and their peers as a leader in water resources and/or environmental engineering.

Associate Professor Youssef M.A. Hashash was selected by the Geo-Institute Board of Governors to receive the 2014 Ralph B. Peck Award for “inno-vative research in evaluating the load and defor-mation response of deep excavations, using novel modeling approaches and innovative monitoring technologies and the immediate advancement of the excavation design practice, and for his vol-untary commitment to the geotechnical community.” The Ralph B. Peck Award recognizes an individual’s outstanding contributions to the geotechnical engineering profession through the publication of a thoughtful, carefully researched case history or histories, or the publication of recommended practices or design methodologies based on the evaluation of case histories.

Xiang Liu (MS 11), a postdoctoral researcher with the Rail Transportation and Engineering Center, won the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Risk Policy & Law Merit Award at the SRA annual meeting in December.

CEE graduate student Andrew Mock (MS 12) has won a Graduate Research Opportunity Worldwide award from the National Science Foundation. The GROW program, which be-gan this year, is a partnership between NSF and select inter-national funding agencies that allows current NSF fellows to conduct extended research overseas. Mock will conduct struc-tural dynamics research in France for seven months at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan with Fabrice Gatuingt. Mock will devise computational models to predict how cracks in concrete form and propagate under stressful conditions.

CEE graduate student Yu Qian (MS 13) has been awarded the 2013-14 Geosynthetic Institute Fellowship for his research proposal “Investigation of Geogrid-Ballast Interaction and Geogrid Application in Railroad Reinforcement using Image-aided Discrete Element Method.”

CEE Senior Research Engineer and Director of Research with RailTEC Conrad Ruppert Jr. is one of six people appointed to the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Blue Ribbon Panel to study the causes of rail accidents and incidents, including the major derailment last May on Metro-North’s New Haven Line and several train-car accidents on the Long Island Rail Road.

Repping CEE at HomecomingTwo CEE students, pictured here with Chancellor Phyllis Wise, left, served on the University of Illinois Homecoming Court in fall 2013. Nishant Makhijani, right, and Marika Nell, center, both seniors, were among 20 students selected by university faculty and staff through a rigorous application process that emphasizes student achievement, leadership and community service. The honor involves tak-ing part in numerous activities during Homecoming Week, including the Homecoming parade and pep rally, football game and receptions. To learn more about Makhijani and Nell, visit cee.illinois.edu/HCcourt2013.

Fall job fair lunch sponsors

With deep gratitude, we acknowledge these companies who sponsored lunch

at the fall 2013 CEE Job Fair.Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc.

CiviltecFullerton Engineering Design

Sargent & Lundy LLCLangan Engineering & Environmental

ServicesManhard Consulting

The 100th Illinois Transportation and Highway Engineering confer-ence (THE) will take place on cam-pus March 25-26. Visit the confer-ence website for more information or to view historical information and photos.theconf.com

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CEE student Scott Schmidt has been awarded a $1000 Frank J. Richter Scholarship by the Ameri-can Association of Railroad Superintendents. His focus of study is railway engineering with a minor in business. He has worked as an intern for Loram Maintenance of Way, BNSF Railway and Han-son Professional Services. He is President of the AREMA Student Chapter and works as a RailTEC

undergraduate assistant.

Professor David Lange has received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research on concrete durability in collaboration with VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland from January to June 2014. VTT is the largest multidisciplinary research or-ganization in Northern Europe. Lange will be developing new experimental techniques to better understand mechanisms that deteriorate concrete and limit service life. Drs. Erika Holt, Markku Leivo and Miguel Ferreira are among the VTT team focusing on concrete durability who will serve as primary partners during Lange’s time there.

Professor Charles J. Werth has been appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board’s Environmental Engineering Committee. He will serve through Sept. 30, 2016, providing independent advice on technical issues underlying the EPA’s policies and decision-making.

MAE Center adopts multi-hazard focus

A broader range of natural and human-made hazards is the new focus of the recently revitalized MAE Center, a 17-year-old research center headquartered

within CEE at Illinois. Previously geared toward solely earthquake engineering research, the center now derives its acronym, MAE, from its new Multi-hazard Approach to Engineering.

“The MAE Center was established in 1997 by the National Science Foundation as one of three national earthquake engineering research centers,” said Associate Professor Paolo Gardoni, MAE Center director. “Since then, we have expanded the mission to consider multiple hazards around the world. We have also devel-oped a new sustainable business model that will allow the center to continue to be a world leader in the prediction and mitigation of natural and human-made hazards and one of the world’s most comprehensive centers for risk analysis.”

Two conferences are planned: The International Conference on the So-cietal Risk Management of Natural Hazards, April 17-18, Urbana; and the International Conference on Multi-hazard Approaches to Civil Infrastruc-ture Engineering, June 26-27, Chicago. i

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Donor visits to meet scholarship recipient CEE alumnus Victor C. Corsetti (BS 67, MS 69), not pictured, visited the department in September to meet with Associate Professor Paolo Gardoni, left, and graduate student Roberto Guidotti, the recipient of the Loreta and Silvio Corsetti Memorial Scholarship. Vic Corsetti established the scholar-ship fund in 2009 in honor of his parents, for whom it is named. Silvio immigrated from Pacentro, Italy, after World War II to Venezuela, where he became a carpenter. He came to the U.S. in 1951, and in 1952 brought Loreta and six of their seven children – including Vic, who was 10 years old – to Illi-nois. Silvio spent his entire career at Caterpillar Tractor Co. in Joliet, Ill. Vic attended the University of Illinois and was mentored by civil engineering professors William Gamble and William Hall. Hall rec-ommended he stay for his master’s, which Vic has said was instrumental to the success of his career. Guidotti came to Illinois after completing his undergraduate studies at the Politecnico of Milano.

Three new cross-disci-plinary programs in CEE at Illinois are givingstudents a systems-level perspective and real-world experience.Learn more in this new

3-minute video. Point your smart phone’s QR code reader at the code, or visit you-tube.com/ceeatillinois.

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Microbes in fish offer key to Asian carp control

A project to map the microbes present in the digestive systems of fish species holds promise for monitoring the

presence of Asian carp in Chicago area waterways and ulti-mately preventing their spread, according to a study pub-lished in Nature’s ISME Journal. The work, funded through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes Res-toration Initiative, is being conducted by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the U.S. Geological Survey.

Asian carp is a term used to refer to several invasive fish species including silver, bighead and black carp. Bighead carp and silver carp have already invaded much of the Mis-sissippi River basin, where they compete for food with na-tive species and dominate aquatic communities. Bighead carp and silver carp are considered one of the most severe aquatic invasive species threats facing the Great Lakes today, according to the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Commit-tee (ACRCC). The ACRCC is coordinating the efforts of fed-eral, state, local and private resource management agencies to develop an Asian carp control program. Efforts to control the fish include research to understand their physiology and behavior and how they differ from that of native species, with an eye toward developing effective monitoring and management systems.

Gut microbiota—the microbial communities present in the digestive tracts of living things—are unique, according to CEE Professor Wen-Tso Liu, co-author of the study. For that reason, careful analysis of fish gut microbiota can reveal host-specific biomarkers shed in fish feces that indicate the presence of a specific species, promising the development of precise monitoring systems. Since fish feces are plentiful in waterways, monitoring could be easier than with tech-niques that have focused on detecting the DNA of the tar-geted species in sloughed-off skin tissue, Liu says.

The researchers used a next-generation gene sequenc-ing technology called 16S pyrosequencing, which focuses on the 16S rRNA gene sequences, to analyze the gut micro-biota of the invasive silver carp and the native gizzard shad. They successfully discovered potential biomarkers for silver carp and are working to refine them, Liu says. i

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GAMES camp offers Environmental Engineering and Sustainability track

The Girls’ Adventures in Mathematics, Engineering and Sci-ence (G.A.M.E.S.) camp is once again offering a track on En-vironmental Engineering and Sustainability. The week-long camp, July 13-19, 2014, focuses on designing sustainable technological solutions for critical environmental and energy challenges of the 21st Century. Through a series of team ac-tivities, lab exercises, and field trips campers will learn about:

• Sustainability and how the environment, culture, society and economics are all linked

• Environmental pollutants and the cycles they follow as they move through the air, water and soil

• Climate change• Renewable energy sources and energy efficiency• Water resources and clean water technologies• Air quality management• What environmental engineers do to help protect

human health and the planet

A group of CEE undergrads attended the Water Environment Federation’s Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC) in October in Chicago. Above are (from left) Lance Langer, Michael Azzarello, Joseph Chang, Theodore Chan, Namrata Logishetty and Bill Cheng. Langer and Azzarello, along with Donnie Manhard and Alyssa Sohn (not pictured), competed in the Environmental Design Competition, placing fourth with their study of the Combined Sewer Overflow system in Mishawka, Ind. The students also visited Greeley and Hansen’s Chicago office and attended the WEFTEC career fair.

Scientists to Study Human Impact on Midwestern Environment

As humans modify the earth’s landscape to suit their pur-poses, their activities can have far-reaching effects on

the environment. Of particular concern to those who study these effects is the region from the top of the plant canopy to the bedrock beneath. This area—called the critical zone —is now a special focus for scientists, thanks to a National Science Foundation initiative to study human impact on the environment through a network of nine instrumented loca-tions across the country called Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs). CEE Professor Praveen Kumar is leading a $4.9 mil-lion, multi-disciplinary, multi-institution project to establish the first CZO in the Midwest.

In the Midwest, human beings have intensively modi-fied the landscape within the last 200 years to make the prairie more capable of sustaining agriculture, Ku-mar said. But these modifications may have led to un-intended consequences for the critical zone, which functions as “a cohesive unit with living and non-liv-ing things interacting,” Kumar said.

The Midwestern CZO will consist of two core sites, one lo-cated in the Upper Sangamon River basin measuring 3,600 square kilometers and the other in Clear Creek Watershed in Iowa measuring 275 square kilometers. A third, partner site is located in the Minnesota River basin in Minnesota. Instru-mentation will be installed to monitor baseline characteris-tics such as rainfall, radiation, evaporation, carbon dioxide use by plants, and the flow of nutrients, sediments, organic carbon and water. Researchers will also collect soil samples to map the paths of nutrients and sediments, and examine previously collected data to understand historical trajecto-ries. The result will be a very detailed, comprehensive pic-ture of the natural processes going on throughout the CZO, Kumar said. The sites will serve as a resource for research-ers, educators and students in fields including engineer-ing, geography, geology, soil science and ecology, he said.

“The observatory is aimed at understanding how natural processes happen together, how they co-evolve and how human modification has altered that,” Ku-mar said. “What is the limit to these modifications and what do we need to do to recover many of the func-tions that originally made this land productive?” i

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1940sCharles J. Berkel (BS 46) died Nov. 4. He was 88. In 1959, working out of his basement, he started his own company. Berkel & Co. grew into one of the largest piling contractors in the U.S. Berkel’s awards included Ernst & Young’s 2008 Entre-preneur of the Year.

Ronald H. Brown (BS 49) died Aug.13. He was 87. He

was employed by Shell Oil Company for about 40 years. He held professional memberships in the National Petroleum Refiners Association and the American Institute of Chemical Engi-neers. He retired in Houston, Texas in 1988.

Thomas D.Y. Fok (MS 48) died Aug. 24. He was 92. He taught civil engineering for nine years at Youngstown State University. In 1967, he began Moser-Fok Consulting Engineers, and later served as chairman of Thomas Fok and Associates. He was a registered engineer in nine states and a registered surveyor.

Richard H. Foley (BS 49) died July 6. He was 87. He spent his career at Felmley-Dickerson Co. in Champaign, retiring as president in 1990. His projects on the Urbana campus in-cluded the Assembly Hall (1963), classroom buildings and dormitories. He was a lifetime member of the University of Illinois Alumni Association and received the Civil Engineering Loyalty Award.

Raymond M. Stone (BS 46) died Sept. 27. He was 88. He worked on the design of many schools and other buildings in Indiana as a partner in E.I. Brown and as an independent consultant.

1950sAustin J. Boyle (BS 51) died June 23. He was 87. Boyle was the Midwest Manager for Ceco Steel Corp.

Donald E. Eckmann (BS 56) died July 4. He was 78. Eckmann was a partner in the consult-ing firm of Alvord, Burdick & Howson, and was responsible for the design of the Lake Michi-gan Water Supply System project for DuPage County. He was past president of the Illinois Section of the American Society of Civil Engi-neers, and was a past Director of the National ASCE. He received the 1992 ASCE Civil Engineer of the Year award. He was the past president of the University of Illinois Civil Engineering Alumni Association. He was also named a 1989

D i s t i n g u i s h e d Alumnus of CEE at Illinois.

Fred E. Myers Jr. (BS 57) died Sept. 7. He was

83. He worked at Caterpillar Inc. and later at Ziegler Co. in Minneapolis, Minn.

Vernon C. Rosenbery (BS 51) died March 13. He was 84. He began his career with a job at North American Aviation in Los Angeles, de-signing fuselages for F-86 Saber fighter jets. He returned to the Midwest to work for the Iowa DOT in Manchester, Iowa. He later be-came sole owner of Foley Construction.

James H. Schooler (BS 58, MS 59) died Sept. 11. He was 77. He was a Lieutenant junior grade in the Navy where he worked at MCAS Yuma. He transitioned to civil service in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, retiring in 1992.

Samuel M. Wolfington (BS 57) died Oct. 14. He was 83. He was an Army forward observer, Chief Engineer at MacDill AFB and later sta-tioned in London.

1960sMax L. Rosenquist (BS 65) died September 7. He was 71. He was a commissioned officer in the Civil Engineer Corps of the U.S. Navy, served a one year tour in Vietnam, and was honorably discharged as a lieutenant in 1970, serving in the U.S. Naval Reserves until 1973.

1970sDon C. Banks (PhD 78) died Aug. 11. He was 73. He spent a 35-year career at the then U.S. Army Corps Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg, Miss. He was a fellow in the Ameri-can Society of Civil Engineers and the Ameri-can Rock Mechanics Association.

Phillip W. Schuetz (BS 73, MS 74) died Aug. 10. He was 63. He had a long career with Bechtel Power Corp.

1980sAnthony G. Levine (BS 81, MS 85) died Sept. 25. He was 54. He was the former president of Devine Engineering, Incorporated.

Timothy J. Spangler (MS 84) died Aug. 13. He was 57. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1978-1988 and was recalled to active duty in 2002. He retired from the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve in 2004. He was a Senior Proj-ect Manager with HICAPS in Greensboro, N.C.

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2000sIoannis Brilakis (MS 02, PhD 05) has been selected to receive the 2013 Collingwood Prize for the paper, “Visual Pattern Recognition Models for Remote Sensing of Civil Infrastructure,” Journal of Comput-ing in Civil Engineering, October 2011.

Ryne M. Fiorito (BS 08) a civil engineer at Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s Springfield, Ill., head-quarters earned his professional engineer license in Illinois. He joined the company in 2008 and serves the firm’s power and industry market.

Thomas J. Foley (BS 09, MS 10) of Clark Dietz Inc., Kenosha, Wis., has received his professional engi-

neer license in Illinois.

Lee Fritz (BS 04, MS 05) has been promoted to senior project architect at Thornton Tomasetti’s Chicago, Ill., office.

Ronald E. Heuer (BS 63, PhD 71) received an outstanding achievement award from the Moles, a professional group for those working in heavy construction. Heuer is a geotechnical consultant specializing in large underground projects.

Michelle Mehnert (BS 12) represented the University of Boulder as a graduate student to take a Collegiate National Triathalon Championship in Tempe, Ariz., on April 13, 2013.

Sean W. Mikos (BS 04) is an engineer and head of public works for the City of Peru, Ill.

Christopher T. Rapp EIT (MS 13), railroad designer, recently joined Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s Seattle regional of-fice, serving the firm’s railway market.

Sudhir K. Singamsethi (MS 02) received the Structural En-gineers Association of Illinois 2013 Outstanding Young Engi-neer Award.

Kevin M. Spitz P.E. (BS 08) civil engineer at Hanson Profes-sional Services Inc.’s Chicago regional office, recently celebrat-ed five years of service with the company.

Timothy J. Truster (MS 10, PhD 13) was the recipient of the award for the Best Mathematically Oriented Poster from Com-puters & Mathematics with Applications at the 12th U.S. Na-tional Congress on Computational Mechanics in Raleigh, N.C. His PhD advisor is CEE Professor Arif Masud.

1990sRadwan Al-Weshah (PhD 93), professor of civil engineering at the University of Jordan in Amman, is a senior adviser to the Kuwait National Focal Point for Environmental Remediation Project in Kuwait.

Russell A. Green (MS 94), associate professor of civil and en-vironmental engineering in the College of Engineering at Vir-ginia Tech, has received the University’s 2013 Alumni Award for Excellence in International Research for his work in the ar-eas of engineering seismology and earthquake engineering.

Douglas L. Mangers (BS 96) has been promoted from proj-ect director to vice president operations – healthcare for the central division of McCarthy Building Companies Inc., based in St. Louis, Mo.

Richard K. Murphy (MS 90) is a senior manager at Lockport, La.-based Bollinger Shipyard Inc. Murphy joins Bollinger fol-lowing a 30-year career with the Coast Guard.

Scott A. Spellmon (MS 97) was promoted to brigadier gen-eral in a ceremony at Fort Hood, Texas. Spellmon is the com-manding general of the U.S. Army Operational Test Command. Helen Torres, S.E., LEED AP BD+C (MS 95) has been promoted to vice president in the Chicago office of Thornton Tomasetti.

1980sWayne A. Aldrich (BS 83) is public works director in Normal, Ill.

Joette Flora (MS 88) has rejoined The Boudreaux Group as a project architect.

Stuart M. Kemp P.E., S.E. (BS 83, MS 85), regional vice presi-dent, recently celebrated 25 years of service at Hanson Profes-sional Services Inc.’s Rockford, Ill., regional office.

Gennaro G. Marino P.E. (PhD 85) has been named by the Academy of Geo-Professionals a Diplomate, Geotechnical Engineer.

Ronald P. Palmieri P.E. (BS 83, MS 85) is chief operating of-ficer of GEI Consultants Inc. in GEI’s Libertyville, Ill., office.

Robert D. Schlesinger P.E., LEED AP BD+C, Capt., U.S. Navy (Retired) (MS 85) has been elected a member of the National Board of Direction for the Society of Military Engineers.

Dan S. Takasugi (MS 82) is the new Public Works Director and City Engineer for the City of Sonoma, Calif.

Greer visits as CEE Engineer in Residence

Four once-in-a-lifetime engineer-ing projects—from relocating a

lighthouse to moving nuclear reac-tor pressure ves-sels—were high-lighted when CEE alumnus W. Charles Greer Jr. (BS 71, MS 73) visited Oct. 25 as CEE’s Engineer in Residence.

Greer is Senior Vice President and Director of Qual-ity Assurance for AMEC Environ-ment & Infrastructure Inc. in Atlanta, Ga. While on campus, he gave his lunchtime presentation, “Once-in-a-Lifetime Project Every 10 Years,” held office hours with students and met with faculty.

The Engineer in Residence pro-gram was developed in an effort to bring accomplished alumni back to campus to interact with students and faculty. i

Bob (BS 54) and Fran (BS Home Ec. 54) Fosnaugh of Albuquerque, N.M., and Dennis (BS 76 MS 78) and Cathie Benoit (BA Psych 78) of Grand Rapids, Mich., met while on a small group tour in Spain and soon discovered that both couples were University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduates. The couples shared memories of life on the Urbana campus one generation apart. Bob and Dennis en-joyed discovering that several of the Civil Engineering faculty that were there during Bob’s tenure were also there when Dennis attended, including Chester Seiss, John D. Haltiwanger and Ven Te Chow. This picture is taken near the Greek ruins of Empuries on the Mediterranean coast.


If you know of a deserving col-league who graduated from CEE at Illinois, consider nominating him or her for a CEE Alumni Association award. The Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna Award and the Young Alum-nus/Alumna Achievement Award recognize those who have distin-guished themselves in the field at different career stages. The next deadline is July 28, 2014. For more information, please visit our alumni awards page of the CEE website at cee.illinois.edu/CEEAAawards.

Nominations invited: CEE alumni awards

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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering gratefully acknowledges the following companies who

contribute to CEE at Illinois as Corporate Partners.Sharon L. Wood (MS 83, PhD 86) is interim dean of the Cock-rell School of Engineering at the University of Texas.

1970sJack D. Barnes (BS 74) has retired after 19 years as the direc-tor of the Garden City, Mich., Department of Public Services.

John P. Coombe P.E., S.E., ExecEng (MS 78) executive vice president and chief operating officer at Hanson Professional Services Inc., celebrated 35 years of service with the company.

Robert B. Hamilton P.E. (MS 73) chairman and CEO of Ge-walt Hamilton Associates Inc., an 80-employee civil engineer-ing firm in Vernon Hills, Ill., was named the 2013 Civil Engineer of the Year by the Illinois Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Naveen Khurana (MS 72) will team with CelebrityPress, a leading book publishing company, and several leading ex-perts from around the world to release the book, “Dare to Succeed: The World’s Leading Experts Reveal Their Secrets to Success in Business and in Life – and Dare You to Succeed!”

Thomas F. McCluskey (BS 71) received the Structural Engi-neers Association of Illinois 2013 Service Award.

John E. Schaufelberger (MS 70, PhD 71) is dean of the Uni-versity of Washington College of Built Environments.

John P. Tynan (BS 77) has been named interim CEO and President of VG Life Sciences Inc.

1960sM. Frank Avila Jr. (BS 61), the Metropolitan Water Reclama-tion District of Greater Chicago Commissioner, was recently honored with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Chicago Presidents Award.

Louis T. Cerny (BS 64, MS 65) is one of six people appointed to the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Blue Ribbon Panel to study the causes of rail accidents.

1950sBurton A. Lewis (MS 50) received the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois 2013 John F. Parmer Award. This award honors a structural engineer whose distinguished career was acknowledged by his peers to be an example of excellence.

Joseph C. Geagea (BS 81, MS 82), Senior Vice President, Technology, Projects and Services, for Chevron (right) visited the department in October. He is pictured here in the department head’s of-fice with Amr S. Elnashai, then Head (left) and Professor Emeritus William J. Hall (MS 51, PhD 54). At Illinois, Geagea was named a 1981 Bronze Tablet honoree and was awarded the 1981 Baker Prize.

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Investigator Funding Agency Project Title

Abrams, Daniel P US National Science Foundation Hybrid Masonry Seismic Structural Systems

Al-Qadi, Imad Texas Engineering Experiment Station Numerical Prediction of Three-Dimensional Tire-Pavement Contact Stresses

Al-Qadi, Imad Federal Highway Administration The Impact of Wide Base Tires on Pavements a National Study

Al-Qadi, Imad Applied Pavement Technology Inc Development of Reference Documents for Sustainable Pavement Systems

Al-Qadi, Imad Virginia Transportation Research Council Validation of Hot Poured Crack Sealant Performance Based Guidelines Pooled Fund Study TPF 5 225

Al-Qadi, Imad Michelin Americas Research & Development Corp Influence of Tire Parameters on Roadway Structures

Al-Qadi, Imad IL State Toll Highway Development of Life-Cycle Assessment Tool for the Illinois Tollway Roadway

Al-Qadi, Imad IL Department of Transportation ICT Program Management FY14

Al-Qadi, Imad IL Department of Transportation Testing Protocols to Ensure Performance of High Asphalt Binder Replacement Mixes Using RAP and RAS

Al-Qadi, Imad IL Department of Transportation Funding Set Aside for BS & MS Students

Al-Qadi, Imad IL Department of Transportation Asphalt Binder Additives Modifiers of Moisture Sensitivity in HMA

Al-Qadi, Imad IL Department of Transportation Special Projects Engineering

Al-Qadi, Imad IL Department of Transportation Information Technology Support

Al-Qadi, Imad IL Department of Transportation Technology Transfer and Editorial Support

Al-Qadi, Imad IL Department of Transportation Illinois Center for Transportation ICT

Al-Qadi, Imad IL State Toll Highway Support for Pavement Research at UIUC Proposal to the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority 2010

Andrawes, Bassem US National Science Foundation Innovative Confinement Technology for Strong Main Shock-Aftershock Damage Mitigation

Andrawes, Bassem IL Department of Transportation Strengthening of Bridge Wood Pilings Retrofits for Moment Resistance–Phase 2

Barkan, Christopher Trustees of Purdue University Integrated Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Risk Management Framework

Barkan, Christopher US Department of Transportation National University Rail NURail Center A Proposal for a Tier 1 University Transportation Center

Barkan, Christopher Trustees of Purdue University Integrated Solutions for Mobility Safety and Infrastructure Renewal Integrated Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Risk Management

Barkan, Christopher Federal Highway Administration Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship

Barkan, Christopher IL Department of Transportation A Preliminary Feasibility Study for the Chicago Champaign Link in the Midwest High Speed Rail Network

Benekohal, Rahim F Trustees of Purdue University Optimized Active Traffic Management and Speed Harmonization in Work Zones

Benekohal, Rahim F Trustees of Purdue University Dynamic Multi Modal Multi-Objective Intersection Signal Priority Optimization

Benekohal, Rahim F Trustees of Purdue University Agent Based Real-Time Signal Coordination in Congested Networks

Benekohal, Rahim F US Department of Transportation 2006-06604 DOT PU 4108-21574

Benekohal, Rahim F IL Department of Transportation Safety and Efficiency Benefits of Implementing Adaptive Signal Control Technology in Illinois

Benekohal, Rahim F IL Department of Transportation Street Lighting Technologies–LED Street Lighting Evaluation, Phase 2

Benekohal, Rahim F IL Department of Transportation Field Eval of Smart Sensor Detectors at Intersections & RR Crossings

Bond, Tami C University of California - Irvine Characterization of Emissions From Small Variable Solid Fuel Combustion Sources for Determining Global Emissions and Climate Impact

Bond, Tami C US Department of Energy Isolating Weakly and Strongly-Absorbing Classes of Carbonaceous Aerosol: Optical Properties Abundance and Life Cycle

Bond, Tami C US Environmental Protection Agency Linking Regional Emission Changes with Multiple Impact Measures Through Direct and Cloud-related Forcing Estimates

Bond, Tami C Pacific Northwest National Lab Harmonized Emission and Activity Databases for 1850-2010

Bond, Tami C US Environmental Protection Agency Global to Urban Models for Minimizing Air Quality and Climate Impacts of Freight Choice

Bond, Tami C US National Science Foundation A Chemical History of Anthropogenic Input to the Atmosphere Throughout the Industrial Era

research is an important part of the mission of the department of civil and environmental engineering. the many and varied projects of our faculty contribute to knowledge, enhance the education of our students, and improve the practice of civil and environmental engineering. on this page we acknowledge companies and organizations that are currently providing research funding in the department (through september 2013). listed are the faculty members who are conducting the research, the sponsoring agencies, and project names.

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Investigator Funding Agency Project TitleBond, Tami C NASA Shared Services Center Bridging the Last Few Kilometers: Accounting for Subgrid Mixing and Spatial Gradients in Global Aersol Models

Buttlar, William G Trustees of Purdue University Integration of Smart-Phone-Based Pavement Roughness Data Collection Tool with Asset Management System

Buttlar, William G Trustees of Purdue University Integrated Solutions for Mobility Safety and Infrastructure Renewal Integration of Pavement Cracking Prediction Model

Buttlar, William G US Department of Transportation Testing, Modeling and AE Crack Detection for FAA Reflective Cracking Study

Buttlar, William G US National Science Foundation A Hybrid Failure Approach Using Digital Image Correlation for Functionally Graded Thin-Bonded Overlays

Buttlar, William G National Academy of Sciences Development and Implementation of the Asphalt Embrittlement Analyzer

Buttlar, William G IL Department of Transportation Designing Producing & Constructing Fine-Graded HMA in IL

Cai, Ximing US National Science Foundation Interdependence Resilience and Sustainability of Infrastructures for Biofuel Development

Cai, Ximing NASA Shared Services Center Developing Seasonal Predictive Capability For Drought Mitigation Decision Support System

Cai, Ximing US National Science Foundation Quantifying Environmental Ecological Relationships for Watershed Sustainability Analysis

Cai, Ximing International Food Policy Research Institute Impacts of Climate Extremes on Future Water and Food Security

Dersch, Marcus Amsted Rail, Inc Testing of Concrete Crosstie Fastening Systems

Dick, C Tyler California Air Resources Board Economic and Operational Considerations in Transitioning to a Zero or Near-Zero Emission Rail System in California

Dick, C Tyler TransSys Research Comparison of Passenger Rail Energy Consumption with Competing Modes

Duarte, Armando Air Force Office of Scientific Research An Adaptive Multiscale Generalized Finite Element Method for Large Scale Simulations

Duarte, Armando US National Science Foundation Validated Multiscale Simulations of Ceramic Matrix Composites for Power Generation

Duarte, Armando Ohio State Univ A Collaborative Center in Structural Sciences

Edwards, John Riley Trustees of Purdue University Design of Abrasion Resistant Concrete Railway Crosstie Rail Seats

Edwards, John Riley Federal Railroad Administration Improved Concrete Crossties and Fastening Systems for US High Speed Passenger Rail and Joint Passenger/Freight Corridors

Edwards, John Riley Trustees of Purdue University Integrated Solutions for Mobility Safety and Infrastructure Renewal Improved Concrete Railway Crosstie Design and Performance

Edwards, John Riley Amsted Rail, Inc Testing of Concrete Crosstie Fastening Systems

El-Gohary, Nora US National Science Foundation Axiological Modeling and Simulation for Value Sensitive Infrastructure Project Planning and Design

El-Gohary, Nora US National Science Foundation Deontic Modeling and Natural Language Processing for Automated Environmental and Green Compliance Checking

El-Gohary, Nora IL Department of Transportation Incorporating NEPA into the IDOT and MPO Planning Process

El-Rayes, Khaled A IL Department of Transportation Effects of Flaggers and Spotters in Directing Work Zone Traffic for Illinois Multi-lane Highways

Fahnestock, Larry US National Science Foundation Reserve Capacity in New and Existing Low-Ductility Steel Braced Frames

Fahnestock, Larry US National Science Foundation Structural Integrity of Steel Gravity Framing Systems

Fahnestock, Larry University of Washington Smart and Resilient Steel Walls for Reducing Earthquake Impacts

Fahnestock, Larry American Institute of Steel Construction Seismic Steel Design in the East: Balancing Strength Ductility and Reserve Capacity

Garcia, Marcelo H US Geological Survey Discharge Rating of Chicago River Controlling Works

Garcia, Marcelo H Office of Naval Research Characterization of Bed Morphodynamics Using Multi Beam Echo Sounding (MBES) and Wavelet Transform (WT) Analysis

Garcia, Marcelo H US Department of Interior INT 04ERAG0004

Garcia, Marcelo H US Geological Survey Hydrodynamic/Sediment Transport Modeling for the Enbridge Line 6B Kalamazoo River Oil Spill

Garcia, Marcelo H Metropolitan Water Reclamation TARP Modeling - Phase II of the Mainstream Des Plaines TARP System

Garcia, Marcelo H Metropolitan Water Reclamation Impact of CSOs & Stormwater on Chicago Area Waterways

Garcia, Marcelo H Great Lakes Commission Hydraulic Modeling of Chicago Area Waterways System to Assess the Impact of Hydrologic Separtion on Water Levels and Potential Flooding

Garcia, Marcelo H Exxon-Mobil Corporation Hydrodynamic Behavior of Thickened Tailings

Garcia, Marcelo H Exelon Business Services Company Development of a Hydrodynamic and Thermal Model for Clinton Lake Illinois

Golparvar Fard, Mani US National Science Foundation Hybrid 4-Dimensional Augmented Reality Environments for Ubiquitous Markerless Context-Aware AEC/FM Applications

Golparvar Fard, Mani MathWorks Inc Visual Sensing for Civil Infrastructure Engineering and Management

Guest, Jeremy King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology Advancement of Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor (anMBR) Technology via Quantitative Sustainable Design

Hashash, Youssef M A University of Colorado Seismic Response of Shallow Underground Structures in Dense Urban Environments

Hashash, Youssef M A US National Science Foundation Performance of Deep and Wide Excavations in Congested Urban Areas

Hashash, Youssef M A University of California Berkeley Geotechnical Working Group Integration Project

Hashash, Youssef M A University of California - San Diego Earth Pressures on Deep Foundation Walls During Seismic Events

Herricks, Edwin E Federal Aviation Administration Airport Safety Management Program

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Investigator Funding Agency Project TitleKumar, Praveen University of Michigan Sustainable Environment through Actionable Data

Kumar, Praveen U S National Science Foundation Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes

Kumar, Praveen NASA Shared Services Center Fellow Assessing Disaster Impact from Large Scale Floods Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

Lafave, James M IL State Toll Highway Integral Abutment Bridge Study

Lafave, James M IL Department of Transportation Analysis of Superstructures of Integral Abutment Bridges

Lange, David A Kansas State Univ Freeze-Thaw Performance of Concrete Railroad Ties

Lange, David A Silica Fume Association Development of Optimal High Performance Concrete Mixture to Address Concrete Tie Rail Seat Deterioration

Lange, David A BPC Airport Partners The Center of Excellence for Airport Technology A Partnership in Research and Outreach O’Hare Modernization Program

Liu, Wen-Tso US Geological Survey Development of a Rapid and Quantitative Genetic-Based Asian Carp Detection Method

Liu, Wen-Tso King Abdullah Univ of Science and Technology Primary Colonizers Eco-Physiology in Submerged UF Membranes for Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Liu, Wen-Tso The AWWA Research Foundation Development of a Microbial Standard for Assessment of Performance of Total Coliform Analytical Methods

Liu, Wen-Tso PepsiCo International Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors Using Advanced Membrane for Treating Industrial and Domestic Wastewater

Liu, Wen-Tso The AWWA Research Foundation Developing a Genetic-based Approach that Complements Enzyme-based Coliform Methods

Long, James H Wisconsin Dept of Transportation Static Pile Load Tests on Driven Piles into Intermediate Geo Materials

Long, James H IL Department of Transportation Improvement of Driven Pile Installation and Design in Illinois–Phase 2

Lopez-Pamies, Oscar US National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Damage in Soft Solids: Elasticity vs Fracture

Lopez-Pamies, Oscar US National Science Foundation An Iterated Homogenization Method to Study Cavitation in Soft Solids

Lopez-Pamies, Oscar US National Science Foundation Novel Homogenization Approaches to Study the Electromechanical Behavior and Stability of Soft Electrostrictive Composites

Lopez-Pamies, Oscar US National Science Foundation Processing and Characterization of Soft Active Nanoparticulate Composites

Mariñas, Benito Jose US Environmental Protection Agency Toxicity of Drinking Water Associated with Alternative Distribution System Rehabilitation Strategies

Mariñas, Benito Jose King Abdullah Univ of Science and Technology Antic Nitrogenous Disinfection By-Products in Reclaimed Wastewater Effluents Chemistry Toxicity and Control Strategies

Mariñas, Benito Jose Japan Sewage Works Agency Trilateral Training

Mariñas, Benito Jose Not Specified Advanced Characterization of Oxidation Processes Involved in the Degradation of Reverse Osmosis Membranes

Minsker, Barbara S University of North Carolina Conceptualization of a Water Science Software Institute

Minsker, Barbara S U S National Science Foundation CyberSEES: Type 2: A New Framework for Crowd-Sourced Green Infrastructure Design

Minsker, Barbara S Metropolitan Water Reclamation Animated Chicago Area Waterways Analysis System

Minsker, Barbara S Deere & Company Demonstrating the Feasibility of Agronomic Decision Support Using a Field Readiness Virtual Sensor

Mondal, Paramita US National Science Foundation The Effect of Alumina Substitution on Viscoelasticity of Calcium Silicate Hydrate

Mondal, Paramita CERL Champaign Development of Relationship Between Calcium Carbonate Polymorphs and their Bonding Capacity with Ceentitious Materials

Mondal, Paramita IL Department of Transportation Bridge Decks: Mitigation of Shrinkage Cracking (Phase 2 Study)

Nguyen, Thanh Huong US National Science Foundation Virus Removal in Membrane Bioreactors: Role of Virus Aggregation and Adhesion

Nguyen, Thanh Huong US National Science Foundation Horizontal Gene Transfer in Porous Media Experiments and Modeling

Nguyen, Thanh Huong US National Science Foundation US Singapore Planning Visit: Survivability of Human Enteric Virus in Surface Water

Nguyen, Thanh Huong US Environmental Protection Agency Association of Pathogens With Biofilms in Drinking Water Distribution Systems

Nguyen, Thanh Huong Not Specified Reclamation of Secondary Effluents with Reverse Osmosis Membranes Fouling Mechanisms and Control

Nguyen, Thanh Huong US National Science Foundation Pathogen Control, Sustainable Reuse of Wastewater, Role of Surface Interactions on Natural Removal of Cryptosporidium Parvum Oocysts

Nguyen, Thanh Huong National Institute of Food & Agriculture/USDA Mechanisms of Viral Contamination in Fresh Vegetables and Tomatoes

Olson, Scott US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Investigation and Modeling of Element-Level Soil Behavior Under Multi-Dimensional Loading

Olson, Scott US National Science Foundation Impact of Liquefaction-Induced Water Layers on Forward and Inverse Geoengineering Analyses

Ouyang, Yanfeng US National Science Foundation Planning Reliable and Resilient Transportation Networks Against Correlated Infrastructure Disruptions

Ouyang, Yanfeng Trustees of Purdue University Decision Support Tool to Locate Shelters in Disasters

Ouyang, Yanfeng Trustees of Purdue University Impact of High-Speed Passenger Trains on Freight Train Efficiency in Shared Railway Corriors

Ouyang, Yanfeng US National Science Foundation Information Mechanisms and Robust Stabilization of Nonlinear, Stochastic Transportation Networks

Parker, Gary US National Science Foundation Climate and Human Dynamics as Amplifiers of Natural Change: A Framework for Vulnerability Assessment and Mitigation Planning

Parker, Gary University of Texas - Austin A Delta Dynamics Collaboratory Proposal

Parker, Gary US National Science Foundation A Field Laboratory and Theoretical Study of Mixed Bedrock-Alluvial Meandering Rivers

SPONSORED RESEARCH

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SPONSORED RESEARCHInvestigator Funding Agency Project TitlePaulino, Glaucio US National Science Foundation Building Engineering Through Topology Optimization

Paulino, Glaucio US National Science Foundation Mapping Fragmentation and Topology Optimization Concepts to GPUs

Paulino, Glaucio Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP Topology Optimization Applied to High-Rise Building Design

Popovics, John S National Academy of Sciences Hardware Development for a Full Lane Acoustic Scanning Device

Popovics, John S University Texas Arlington Full-Scale RC and HPFRC Frame Sub-assebalges Subjected to Collapse-Consistent Loading Protocols

Popovics, John S UT-Battelle LLC Testing of Ultrasonic NDE Techniques and Equipment on Concrete Specimens

Popovics, John S US National Science Foundation Contactless Characterization of Distributed Damage in Concrete Using Diffuse Surface Wave Scattering

Popovics, John S IL Department of Transportation Ultrasonic Tomography for Concrete Infrastructure Condition Assessment and Quality Assurance

Popovics, John S IL Department of Transportation Evaluation of PCC Pavement and Structure Coring & In-situ Testing Alternatives

Roesler, Jeffery R National Slag Association Evaluation of Steel Furnace Slag FRAP Aggregates in Concrete

Roesler, Jeffery R IL Department of Transportation Mech Empirical Design I & M for Rigid Pavements

Rood, Mark J US National Science Foundation Gas Purification with Recovery and Reuse to Achieve More Sustainable and Competitive Manufacturing

Rood, Mark J Colorado State Univ Bondville Environmental and Atmospheric Research Site (BEARS)

Rood, Mark J US National Science Foundation International DDEP: Understanding and Enhancing Post-Combustion Multi-Pollutant Control with Carbon-Based Materials

Rood, Mark J US National Science Foundation Understanding and Enhancing Post-Combustion Multi-Pollutant Control with Carbon-Based Materials

Rood, Mark J US National Science Foundation Ammonia NH3 Emission from Fertilizer Application: Understanding an Uncertain Input to Air Quality Models

Rood, Mark J Schlumberger Foundation Inc Faculty for the Future

Saat, Mohd Federal Railroad Administration Identification of High-Speed Rail Ballast Flight Risk Factors and Risk Mitigation Strategies

Saat, Mohd Monsanto Lane-Specific Risk Analysis for Monsanto Yellow Phosphorus Shipments

Sivapalan, Murugesu US National Science Foundation Biotic Alteration of Soil Hydrologic Properties and Feedback with Vegetation Dynamics in Water Limited Ecosystems

Song, Junho US National Science Foundation Structural Optimization for Buildings Under Stochastic Excitations

Song, Junho US National Science Foundation Risk-informed Management and Post-disaster Operations of Lifeline Networks by Rapid Condition-based System Reliability Analysis

Spencer, B.F. US National Science Foundation Asia-Pacific Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APSS) China 2011 India 2012 and Korea 2013

Spencer, B.F. Trustees of Purdue University NEES Operations FY 2010 - FY 2014

Spencer, B.F. Federal Railroad Administration Campaign Monitoring of Railroad Bridges in High-Speed Rail Shared Corridors using Wireless Smart

Stark, Timothy D Federal Railroad Administration Seismic Testing for Track Substructure (Ballast and Subgrade) Assessment

Strathmann, Timothy J US National Science Foundation Fouling, Regeneration, and Sustainability of Heterogeneous Catalytic Treatment Processes: An Integrated Research and Education Plan

Strathmann, Timothy J US Environmental Protection Agency Fellowship for Tias Paul

Strathmann, Timothy J King Abdullah Univ of Science and Technology Development of High-Activity and Fouling-Resistant Catalysts Using Novel Silica-Based Nanostructure Supports

Thompson, Marshall IL Department of Transportation Design I & M for Flexible Pavements

Tutumluer, Erol Trustees of Purdue University Development of Improved Pavement Rehabilitation Procedures Based on FWD Backcalculation

Tutumluer, Erol US Department of Transportation Mitigation of Differential Movement at Railway Transitions for US High Speed Passenger Rail and Joint Passenger Freight Corridors

Tutumluer, Erol North Carolina Department of Transportation Base Course Aggregate Testing and Rutting Model Calibration

Tutumluer, Erol Minnesota Department of Transportation Cost Effective Base Type and Thickness for Long Life Concrete Pavements

Tutumluer, Erol IL Department of Transportation Sustainable Aggregates Production - Green Applications for Aggregate By-Products

Tutumluer, Erol IL Department of Transportation Development of Improved Overlay Thickness Design Alternatives for Local Roads

Tutumluer, Erol IL Department of Transportation Evaluation of Aggregate Subgrade Materials Used as Pavement Subgrade/Granular Subbase

Valocchi, Albert J US Department of Energy Microbiological-enhanced Mixing Across Scales During In Situ Bioreduction of Metals and Radionuclides at Department of Energy Sites

Valocchi, Albert J US National Science Foundation Improving Prediction of Subsurface Flow and Transport through Exploratory Data Analysis and Complementary Modeling

Werth, Charles J US Environmental Protection Agency Sustainable Catalytic Treatment of Waste Ion Exchange Brines for Reuse during Oxyanion Treatment in Drinking Water

Werth, Charles J King Abdullah Univ of Science and Technology Collaborative Research on Sustainable Water Development and Engineering

Work, Daniel Trustees of Purdue University Joint Parameter and State Estimation Algorithms for Real-Time Traffic Monitoring

Work, Daniel US National Science Foundation Monitoring the Response of Transportation Cyber Physical Systems in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy

Work, Daniel IL Department of Transportation Traffic Turk Evaluation (Special Project)

Zilles, Julie US National Science Foundation Novel Biomimetic Materials for Water Purification: Perchlorate Treatment

Zilles, Julie National Water Research Institute Fellowship for Membrane Technology


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Engineering giants of the department’s historyJames J. Doland1890-1960Educator, author, hydraulic engineer

Old Masters

“He was not only a wonderful school teacher, but he was much more than that; he had the unique character of making everybody in his class feel somehow that he was somebody Jimmie was personally interested in.”

James Doland graduated from the Uni-versity of Colorado Boulder with a B.S.

degree in 1914. He earned his M.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1932 and received an Hon-orary Doctor of Science Degree from St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minn., in 1945. He retired in 1958 with the rank of Professor Emeritus of Hydraulic Engineer-ing.

Upon graduation from the University of Colorado, Doland became a hydrogra-pher with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and shortly thereafter became an Instruc-tor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado during 1914 to 1916. From 1916 through 1923 he was employed as an engineer with the W.J. Hoy Co., St. Paul, Minn., although this position was inter-rupted by military service in World War I. From 1923 until 1926 he was employed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and in 1926 he joined the University of Illinois faculty.

During WWI (1918-1919), Doland was a first lieutenant in the Construction Di-vision of the War Department and later (1919-1935) held the rank of captain in the Corps of Engineers Reserve. He held special military posts at various times as noted below.

For 32 years, Doland was on the fac-ulty of the University of Illinois Depart-ment of Civil Engineering; he was made a Professor of Hydraulic Engineering Emeri-tus in 1958. Doland worked with the Bu-reau of Reclamation for 12 years; served as consultant to the National Resources Planning Board from 1936 to 1944; was the principal engineer for the United States Engineering Department on sev-

eral lend-lease bases in 1941, one in the West Indies; and from 1943 to 1944 was consultant for the War Production Board. He was president of the Illinois Union Board; engineer in charge of the Universi-ty of Illinois Airport; Chairman of the Uni-versity Senate Committee on Student Af-fairs; and served on the Board of Trustees

of Burnham Hospital in Champaign from 1941 to 1948, serving as its president dur-ing the last two years.

In Doland’s College of Engineering Memoir, quotes were taken from two let-ters, one of which was written by J.B. Tif-fany, Technical Director of Waterways Ex-periment Station, and recognized nation-ally as one of the more prominent engi-neers of the nation. Tiffany stated in part, “When I was a student at the University about 30 years ago the Civil Engineering staff was recognized as probably the best in the country, but among all those other outstanding men Jimmie was always the top of them all, almost from the first week

by ProfESSorS EmEriTi williAm J. hAll (mS 51, Phd 54) And John d. hAlTiwAngEr (mS 49, Phd 57) 2005

that I entered Illinois and went into one of his classes ... He was not only a wonder-ful school teacher, but he was much more than that; he had the unique character of making everybody in his class feel some-how that he was somebody Jimmie was personally interested in, and he certainly gave me that feeling from the start. I am sure that there are hundreds of others of his former students who share the same feelings that I have in that respect.”

Another former student, H.A. Wallace, Vice-President of Massey, Ferguson Ltd. at that time, wrote that “Jimmy Doland is the finest teacher that I have had in my life. He was far more than an academic instructor, he was a friend, adviser and counselor. In addition to this he had that quality which is so rare—that of being able to challenge men in such a way as to get the very best out of everyone.”

Doland was a member of many engi-neering and scientific societies and the author or co-author of three books, nu-merous technical articles and papers. He was the author of “Hydro Power Engineer-ing” and a co-author of “Water Supply En-gineering” and “Low Dams.” He is noted also for being an author with Hardy Cross of the Cross-Doland method of analysis of flow in water distribution systems. In the last 15 years before his retirement his in-terest was confined mostly to the area of hydraulic engineering, in which capacity he was responsible for the development of courses on water power engineering, hydrology and water resources planning and development.

Doland married Mary Ellen Hoy in St. Paul, Minn., in 1917. He died on December 23, 1960. i


Langan Engineering & Environmental Services Inc.

Leopardo Companies Inc. Lockheed Martin Foundation Marion Environmental Inc.Marshall Miler & Associates, Inc. dba Cardno MM&A Midwestern District I. T. E.Milhouse Engineering & Construction MWH National Council of Examiners for Engineering and

Surveying National Water Research Institute Netvantage Marketing LLCNorthwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc. The O’Neil Foundation O’Neil Industries Inc. OSI Environmental, LLC Oil Skimmers Inc. Pace Analytical Services Inc. Patrick Engineering Inc.Peoples Energy Corporation Pinnacle Engineering Inc. Polk Brothers Foundation Polystar Inc. Poplar Smogpros Primera Engineers Ltd. The Procter & Gamble FundPrudential Foundation Inc.Raths, Raths & Johnson Inc.RF IDeas Inc.The RJN Foundation Inc. RJN Group Inc. Shaw’s Environmental & Infrastructure GroupShell Oil Company FoundationThe Sidney Epstein and Sondra Berman Epstein

FoundationSigma Alpha Iota Evanston Alumnae Chapter Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP SpillX LLC St. Paul United Church of Christ Stokes Financial InvestmentsStone Energy Corporation StormwatRx LLC Stratech Systems Limited Summit Contracting LLC Sunpro Inc. SWS Environmental Services T. L. Rice LLC TestAmerica Laboratories Inc. Tetra Tech Inc.Tidewater Inc. Transportation Technology Center Inc. TRC Trotter and Associates Inc.Turner Construction Company Turner Corporation TY Lin International Union Pacific RailroadURS Corporation Versabar Inc. W. E. O’Neil Construction Company Walsh Construction Company The Walt Disney Company FoundationThe Watkins Family Foundation Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc.

Corporate and Foundation DonorsThe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is proud of its strong ties to industry and practicing engineers. We gratefully acknowledge the corporations, foundations and professional associations that contributed to CEE from July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013. This list includes organizations that made gifts directly to the department, as well as those who matched gifts made by their employees. CEE Corporate Partners are denoted in bold.

3M A. A. R. Testing Laboratory Inc. Accutest Labs Southeast Inc. AECOM AISC Education FoundationAlcoa FoundationAlfred Benesch & Company AMEC Environment & Infrastructure Inc. Ameren American Institute of Steel ConstructionAmerican Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-

Way Association American Society for Nondestructive Testing Inc.American Society of Civil Engineers American Society of Mechanical EngineersApple Junction Design Services PLCApplied Pavement Technology Inc. Applied Research Associates Inc. ArcadisARCO National Construction Company Inc.Association of American Railroads Barr Engineering Company Baxter & Woodman Inc.Bechtel CorporationBechtel Group Foundation Belfor Environmental BNSF Railway Company The Boeing Company Bowman, Barrett & Associates Inc.Bucher Willis & Ratliff Scholarship FundBurns & McDonnell FoundationCapital BlueCross Cedar Street Charitable FoundationCenter for Toxicology and Environmental Health LLC Century Group Inc. CETCO CH2M Hill Chevron CorporationClark Dietz Inc. Clayco Inc. Clean Harbors Environmental Services Coleman Industrial Construction Inc.Conestoga-Rovers & Associates Inc. Coral Vista LLCCrawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc. CRSI Foundation CSX Good Government Fund PacMatch Deep Foundations Institute Dewberry LLC Donahue & Associates Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

Edison International Edward B. Finkel Associates PA Consulting Engineers EMR Inc. Envirocon Inc. Environ International Corporation Environmental Restoration LLC EnviroScience Inc.EpsteinERM-West Inc. Ernst & Young Foundation Exelon ExxonMobil Corporation ExxonMobil Foundation F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielsen & Assoc. LLCFabricated Geomembrane Institute Farmers National Company Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund The Fluor Foundation FMC Environmental Solutions FMC Technologies Inc.Fullerton Engineering Consultants Inc. Fundacao Padre Leonel FrancaGannett Fleming CompaniesGE FoundationGEI Consultants Inc. Geo Engineering Inc. GeoSyntec Consultants Golder Associates Inc. The Greater Cincinnati Foundation Greeley and Hansen LLC H. W. Lochner Inc.Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County UIUC

Student ChapterHanson Professional Services Inc. Harvey Parker & Associates Inc. Hatch Mott MacDonald Hayward Baker Inc.HDR Engineering Inc. HNTB CorporationHulcher Services Inc.Huston Family TrustICF International Illinois Asphalt Pavement AssociationIllinois Association of County Engineers Inc.Illinois Ready Mixed Concrete Association Illinois Road & Transportation Builders Association

Road Builder Charities Illinois Society of Professional Engineers Inc. Illinois Tool Works Foundation Industry Advancement Foundation Central Illinois

Builders Chapter Ingenii LLC JL Arnold Engineering Inc. JRW Bioremediation LLC The Kansas City Southern Railway CompanyKennedy-Jenks Consultants Inc.Kinectrics Inc. Lancaster Laboratories Inc.

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IndividualDonors

The Department of Civil and Environmental

Engineering thanks its alumni and friends who

have made it possible for our students and faculty

to pursue their education and research in the best

CEE department in the country. We could not do

it without your support.

Donors to any fund in the Department of Civil and

Environmental Engineering from July 1, 2012 to June 30,

2013, are listed here. We strive to make these lists as accurate

as possible. If your name is listed incorrectly or omitted, please accept our apologies.

For corrections or further information about making a gift, please contact John

Southwood, (217) 300-5480, [email protected].

President’s CouncilWe thank those who have joined

the University of Illinois President’s Council with a commitment of $25,000 or more. Below are members who joined before June 30, 2013, and who have given to the department.

Friends:Lalit R. Bahl and Kavita KinraDavid Boyce Walter L. and Carole A. Crowley Anna Allen Farnsworth (dec) Helen F. GrandoneMarilyn Smith Brown HuntThomas W. and Edith Margaret Johnston George-Anne Oliver Kelly Wendel F. Kent David A. and Rise R. Lange Paul M. and Susan A. MayfieldMary Barlow Medearis Kenneth E. NelsonWilliam E. O’NeilPhyllis Williams and Stanley T. Rolfe Vern and Jeannie Snoeyink Ruth Chao Yen

1995Wilbur C. Milhouse III

1991Brian E. and Lin Healy

1987David G. and Janet S. Peshkin

1985Kathryn A. Zimmerman

1984Larry C. and Rhonda S. Wesselink

1983Richard D. Payne

1982Tracy K. and Kathy P. LundinDonald E. Jr. and Patricia M. ManhardJulian Rueda

1981Kevin J. and Carey A. Dulle

1980William F. BakerJohn L. and Karen E. CarratoDavid J. Stoldt and Constance S. Wright

1979Thomas A. BeckJohn A. FrauenhofferStuart A. and Susan Verseman Klein

1978Robert H. Dodds Jr. and Deana Bland-DoddsStanley M. HerrinJon E. and Barbara B. KhachaturianAndrew W. RichardsonDamon S. Williams

1977James J. Brown and Emi K. KawasakiPerry C. and Linda S. Hendrickson

1976Jeffrey A. Liggett

1975Leslie J. and Theodora I. Benson Dan and Mary Guill

1974Richard Jr. and Helen A. CramondLawrence F. JohnsenSergio ”Satch” PecoriRichard J. and Linda J. Sieracki

1973Ronald W. and Lois T. CrockettJames L. and Doris I. Willmer

1972Dean J. Arnold

1971Fred GarrottJoseph M. and Patricia A. KaiserBengt I. and Kathryn A. Karlsson

1969Barry J. and Pauline G. DempseyRichard J. EricksonMichael M. and Carol Jean Kimura

1968Paul D. and Barbara C. KochRobert G. and Flo Anne O’BrienGeorge K. and Mami Varghese

1967Arthur R. Jr. and Judy B. JensenThomas E. ReesLarry B. and Sharon Salz

1966Norman Allen and Lee Ann DobbsRichard A. Pattarozzi

1965Larry M. Sur

1961W. Gene (dec) and Lynd W. CorleyNeil Middleton and S. Ann HawkinsWilliam A. Jr. and Delores HustonThomas K. Liu and Olive M. Chen-LiuRobert W. and Donna Mikitka

1960Phillip L. and Deborah P. Gould Lyle W. and Nancy M. Hughart Norman C. Riordan

1959Thomas C. H. LumJoseph H. and Joan R. Pound

1958Benjamin A. Jones Jr.Joshua L. Jr. and Eleanor W. Merritt

1957Ronald R. and Margaret M. Watkins

1956Arthur R. Robinson

1955Thomas J. ByrneJerry J. Felmley

1954David C. and Carolyn M. CrawfordRobert E. (dec) and Doris B. LenziniMaurice A. and JoAnn Wadsworth

1952John E. Barrett

1951William K. BeckerLouis Bowman Jr.

1950Burton A. LewisWilliam E. and Margarite D. Stallman

1949Robert J. and Stella F. MosborgWendall Lee Rowe

1948Melvin and Theda Febesh

1943Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein

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Dean’s ClubThe department is honored

to acknowledge members of the Dean’s Club of 2012-2013. Listed below are those who gave $1000 or more to CEE from July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013.

Friends:Soledad Juamiz Esmilla Michael Hextell Sheila Huck Richard W. and Gayle D. Landuyt Wen-Tso Liu Steven R. and Pamela D. Saye

2004Tjen N. Tjhin

1994Ron Juamiz Esmilla

1993Henry Matt Bellagamba

1992John A. and Gail L. Balling

1989Robert J. Risser Jr. and Martha A.

Boling-Risser

1987Rudolph Pio and Susan Irene Frizzi

1985George E. Leventis and Lili Deligianni

1983Kenneth M. Floody

1982C. Wayne Swafford

1980James Robert Harris

1979Lee W. AbramsonBruce A. Johnson

1978Steve R. Raupp

1977Alan J. and Karen A. HollenbeckJohn P. and Catherine M. KosMichael T. McCulloughWilliam J. Nugent

1975Larry A. BolanderThomas D. O’Rourke

1974David and Diane M. DarwinVernon E. DotsonMichael Ray LewisDouglas J. and Jacqueline A. Nyman

1973Glenn E. FryeLawrence Paul Jaworski

1972Bruce R. and Lois D. Ellingwood

1971Michael W. and Jean D. FrankeThomas L. and Margaret V. Roscetti

1968Hershell Gill Jr.

1965Frederick B. Plummer Jr.Richard A. and Charlotte Wiseman

1963James O. Jirsa

1962H. S. Hamada

1957Gary G. Stokes

1953Nancy B. Brooks Estate

Sponsoring AssociatesThe department gratefully acknowledges the Sponsoring Associates of 2012-2013. Listed below are those who gave $500 to $999 to CEE from July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013.

2003Kyle R. and Katharine M. Duitsman

2001David L. Byrd

1993Kai Tak and Alisa Ocker Liu

1992Ranji S. Ranjithan and Imara Y. Perera

1990Robert Scott Trotter Howard P. Walther

1986Sharon L. Wood

1985Paula C. Pienton

1983Siu-Wang Stephen Huang Francis J. Powers

1982Jeffrey L. ArnoldJane Durkin FruinBlaine F. and Kathryn G. Severin

1981David A. and Frances K. Sabatini

1980Marco David and Mary Lynn

Boscardin Lynne C. ChicoineCarlos Rodriguez-Perez

1979Christina U. K. DrouetDavid A. and Kathleen A. Twardock

1978Mark H. Erwin

1977James M. DaumMichael J. Koob Michael G. and Bette Wallerstein

Lombard Terry L. Rice Takehira Takayanagi

1975Robert R. Goodrich Jr.

1974Luke ChengRichard Alan Guinn

1972Robert C. and Joan B. BauerAnand K. and Aruna Singh

1971Charles H. Dowding IIIJohn and Eleanor W. Ramage

1970John F. and Linda S. HarrisGregory L. Perkinson

1969Alan B. Butler William J. Pananos Michael W. Shelton

1966Maynard A. and Mona C. Plamondon

1962Shamsher Prakash Richard N. III and Teresa Rios Wright

1958Eugene J. FasulloRalph H. Yunker

1957Raymond F. and Arlene L. Wojcieszak

1955Glenn E. and Mary Lou Nordmark

1954Ashley B. Craig Jr.

1952Nicholas A. and Carol N. Weil

1949Robert D. Mahan

ContributorsCEE gratefully acknowledges the Contributors of 2012-2013. Below are those who gave up to $499 to CEE from July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013.

Friends:Charles and Carolyn Barker Anne C. Baum David C. Bergman Winona S. Bolinger Sara K. Born Steven A. and Celeste Arbogast

Bragorgos Sangeetha Chandrasekaran Michael R. and Mary A. Cleary Annie Rae Clementz and Jeffrey M.

Threlfall Charles E. and Anna Marie Corley Clare Bridget Curtin Bernice Cutler Michael F. DeSantiago John and Mary B. Digenan Lawrence E. and Ethel M. Doyle Warren L. Fellingham Jr.Brian Mylin and Melissa L.

Frederiksen Caesar Ghilarducci Bradley Gipple Nancy L. Hansen Nancy C. Hardy

Glenn P. Heisey Moreland and Nancy Herrin Robert C. JohnstonJimmey L. and Mona A. Kaiser John Edward and Elizabeth Ann

Kelley Samuel L. Kershaw Sandra K. and David L. King Hans C. and Betty J. Kosel Jeannette B. Kreston Susan Bahrenburg Matthews John G. Mellor Robert D. and Rosemarie Mickish Brian S. and Barbara S. Minsker Jonathan S. Murer Kathy Culver and Randall L. Nickell Mark A. Prelas and Rosemary S.

Roberts Robert N. and Joyce E. Quade Frederick Reed Wilma J. Reed Donald H. and Betty L. Rice James A. Schroeder Marshall J. Schultz Virginia R. and David W. Scott Brian J. Sinclair Lee A. and Julie M. Spacht Barbara I. Strange Leslie J. and Robert G. Struble Michael S. and Dawn M. Szatkowski Leonard J. Timms Jr. Margaret M. Tower Brandon J. Van Dyk Edith A. Mose-Watts Arnold R. and Nancy A. Wieczorek Betsy P. and Kam Wu Wong Jack C. and Robin R. Yockey James L. and Judy A. Yockey

2013 Thomas M. and Erin Jean FrankieJason L. Frericks

2011Thomas A. BurklandBryan A. Miko Ava H. Strough

2010Thomas M. Carrato Anirudh Vemula

2009Patrick C. Johnston Elizabeth Caitlin RichterAdam Tate

2008Jordan J. and Jennifer J. Card Michael J. Fornek Michael D. Gustavson


Joshua M. Hendrix Justin R. LewisTerence V. ProfitaJeffrey D. Viano

2007Jennifer L. Fairchild Qingwei FuJun Ji Anca Felicia ScaesteanuJanice M. and Ryan Wenzel

2006Colin C. CoadKurt A. Keifer James F. Meister

2005David M. Boddy Edward W. East Andrew J. Keaschall Darren A. LytleDavid A. and Carolyn J. TayabjiSchaun L. and Chisaki Muraki-

Valdovinos

2004Robert A. Bevins Peter A. and Meghan BylerCarlos Rodriguez-Jimenez Evaristo Quiroz

2003Jason M. Curl Jason C. and Meggie D. FuehneJames A. and Becky Ann Webb Zhanping You and Qingli Dai

2002Alexander S. and Bethany B. Garbe Kevin P. Huberty Eric O. and Shannon Johnson Jeffrey John Tardy

2001Katherine D. DombrowskiDana Beth Mehlman Thomas E. Riordan Mark S. and Tracey L. Salvatore

2000Christian M. CarricoMichael James and Wendy L. RosborgJoshua E. Saak Angela S. Wolters

1999James P. and Nancy E. Hall Jeffrey R. HillThomas J. Mitoraj Simon S. Shim Aaron T. and Brandee L. Toliver

1998Pat ArnettAndrew L. Goldman John R. Hayes Jr. Andrew J. and Karen H. MartinMatthew J. Niermann Matthew John Pregmon and Karen

T. Hou Jeffery R. and Sandra E. Roesler Paul R. and Lisa A. Ruscko Michael M. and Chloe S. Wieczorek

1997Brian S. Chaille Hector Estrada Brian S. Heil John A. Kerrigan Jeffrey B. NaumannKeri A. Nebes Christopher M. Thomas Tracy L. Willer

1996Mark S. Denton II Tetsuo Wada Eric B. and Joanna Schmid Williamson

1995Kevin R. Collins Richard T. Nickel Anthony Sak Christopher T. Sosnowski Scott A. Stelzer Stephen H. Wassmann

1994Gregory B. and Laura B. Heckel Jason E. HedienAndrew J. Ptak Anupama Ramesh Timothy J. and Robin Wendt

1993Gregory T. and Lori W. BuchananDaniel F. BurkeJames W. Carter III David T. LewandowskiBrian A. and Alicia PerkovichPete J. PrommerMonty J. and Rebecca Ellen Perrine-

Wade

1992Sava S. Nedic William Richard Powell William M. Rexroad II Robert K. Rockwood

1991Ronald Michael Hubrich David M. Riordan

Sophie B. SaccaSusan M. Wallner

1990Matt R. Fauss Allen B. Gelderloos Michael J. Jelen Joseph W. VespaMatthew W. Zajac

1989Edward M. Brazle John W. and Michelle S. HackettSamuel X. Yao

1988Kevin J. and Victoria L. Ahern Stacey E. McNamaraBrian G. RamsayScott D. and Susan B. SchiffAlan D. StuemkeLisa J. TaccolaSteven A. Wirtel

1987Fariborz Barzegar-Jamshidi Steven C. Jirschele Kevin W. KleemeyerJames M. LaFaveTimothy G. LaGrow Thomas F. Plinke

1986Michael J. Cronin John S. Fraser Barry E. and Christine M. KleppThomas D. and Cynthia A. KnoxKristina A. Lang Andrew J. Querio David T. Soong and Joanne W. Chou Edmund H. Tupay Jr. and Beda B.

Tupay

1985Brian T. and Claire A. Aoki Charles R. and Janet E. Conlon David L. Greifzu Melissa A. KennedyAnthony G. Myers Brian E. Peck Ronald J. and Jennifer G. RomanAmy M. Schutzbach Peter J. Stork Daniel J. and Mary E. Whalen

1984Marc P. BeislerDelph A. Gustitus Irvin P. Kirkwood Colleen E. Quinn David W. Rydeen

Marcia Y. Liao-Wang Mark S. and Ellen R. Wylie

1983Robert E. Bassler III David Daniel DavisJames A. and Carol A. FischerCharles E. GullaksonJohn M. Heinz Richard J. KerhlikarDavid E. McCleary Daniel C. Powers Brian D. Smith Robert H. and Anjali M. SuesBrian R. Welker

1982Ronald J. BoehmCraig W. Brunner Mark Steven Engelen Scott G. Frandsen Jeffrey R. LivergoodJames M. NauDonald J. Nelson Thomas S. PalanskyJ. Dennis and Sally S. Wermcrantz Dale R. WilhelmKevin M. WilsonJohn A. and Lynn D. Worley Lawrence P. Zablock

1981Mark D. Bowman James M. Casey Michael S. Cheney Guy W. MarshLinda R. MusserDaniel R. RehakRichard G. Stratton Jr.

1980Keith W. Benting Paul H. BoeningRichard P. Byrne Mark R. and Mary Ann EricksenMichael D. Grimm James F. and Melody Hall Christopher P. Jepsen Michael S. Kesselmayer Jack P. Moehle Carl M. Nagata Daniel J. RubelWilliam L. SchmanskiTimothy Joseph Sheehan Ya-Hu ShenSteven J. SierackiRobert W. SteenJames B. Sullivan Timothy P. Tappendorf James T. Wickens George Ziska Jr.

1979Thomas K. Connery Carl A. and Margaret Ellen EriksonThomas E. Havenar Mary L. Miller James T. and Julia K. Olsta John D. Osgood John C. SingleyPaul M. Street Mark D. Watson John R. and Maureen K. Wolosick

1978Dennis J. Benoit Darrell J. Berry James K. Chan Lawrence K. Cunningham Gary W. Ehlert Richard C. and Sue M. Frankenfield

(dec) Neil A. and Barbara Parikh David A. and Adrienne D. Schoenwolf Charles A. Zalesiak

1977Jose R. Danon Philip E. and Eileen L. Diekemper Wayne G. Hood Byung R. and Young H. KimJoel C. Maurer Daniel K. Moss Charles E. PeabodyTerrence L. SchaddelDietmar Scheel Thomas G. Struttmann

1976James T. BraseltonArmen and Nelly Der Kiureghian Dennis W. Dreher Patrick Kielty Dennis D. and Kristine L. Lane Richard W. Liesse Douglas C. NoelHarvey W. Parker David E. Rensing Joel Smason Shiraz D. Tayabji Edward J. TuneliusWilliam W. Wuellner Jr.

1975Mitchell E. BrachmanGary S. Brierley David V. Bubenick Marion S. ErwinGautam and Susan A. GhoshGary J. and Susan S. Klein Douglas W. Ounanian

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1974Robert J. Andres G. Tim and Susan R. Bachman Andrew D. Cohn Donald R. and Marianne DoonanJ. C. Goldman Jr. (dec)Kent R. Gonser Edward C. Gray Patrick W. Healy Robert W. Horvath Kevin J. and Margaret M. KellJohn V. and Gayle P. O’HolleranGary A. Rogers Allen J. and Paula L. StaronPatrick F. and Carol B. Wilbur

1973Thomas A. Boroni Thomas A. Broz Martin G. Buehler Ronald W. DevermanMichael Steven FranklinPhilip A. and Kathleen McMahon

GazdaRobert W. and Cheryl Y. HahnDaniel W. Halpin Jeffry E. and Arlene S. LambClinton C. MudgettToan T. Nguyen Richard C. ReedLarry J. and Marjorie M. Rhutasel Richard S. Weiss Theodore R. Williams

1972Thomas J. Cech Reggie K. ChongJohn P. FyieJames A. HanlonJames J. Johnson Kenneth L. Kulick Gary and Kathleen M. MariettaDaryl D. Moeller Joseph A. Reichle Donald B. Thelen Richard J. and Barbara V. Zdanowicz

1971Patrick P. BrennanGregory D. and Kathryn T. Cargill Daniel P. DietzlerAdisak Intaratip Peter A. Lenzini Gregory C. Martin Stephen W. and Martha S. Moulton William A. and Julie H. Rettberg John E. Schaufelberger Lee J. and Judith W. Scherkenbach Gary A. Wilken Lyle D. Yockey

1970William D. BergLarry A. CooperMarvin E. and Lela L. Criswell Robert L. Fark Roger R. and Lorel Beth FittingDouglas A. and Margaret Ann Foutch

(dec) Gary R. and Janice K. MarineWilliam E. McCleish Thomas W. PuddicombeEarl J. Schroeder James E. Schwing Jerome F. ThibeauxRobert F. and Elberta J. Wood

1969Jeffrey E. and Barbara G. AndersonHarold T. BrownGary N. Cantrell Yuan Chun Eugene Chang Tony Girolami Jerome E. HeinzDavid J. McConnellTerry W. Micheau Eric C. Pahlke

1968Clyde L. Anderson Robert L. Carter Bruce M. and Arlene L. CowanThomas F. HintzCarl H. and Shirley Johnson William N. LaneJames R. Levey Donald F. MeinheitRobert W. and Patricia C. NowakRaman K. Raman Charles John and Victoria Ann Trenkle Roger W. Wright

1967Dennis H. File Lonnie E. Haefner John G. Wolan Harry J. Woods Jr.

1966Charles H. and Catherine W. Allen Donald R. and Ann W. Aukamp Barry R. BalmatDanny N. Burgess Allan W. and Susan Crowther Jerry R. DivineEmmanuel DrakosGerman R. and Ana Gurfinkel Dennis R. LagerquistMichael R. and Sandra J. McLamore Edward R. Pershe

1965John R. Abbott William M. Derby Samuel S. and Peggy C. Doak Gregory R. Erhard Salah Y. and Frances M. KhayyatDonald D. Oglesby E. Douglas Schwantes Jr. Herbert J. SeagrimMehdi S. Zarghamee

1964Paul D. and Amelia R. Andresen Bernard J. Casey Judith L. HamiltonStewart W. JohnsonDarrell G. Lohmeier Theodore W. NelsonRobert L. Nickerson Kenneth G. Nolte Richard L. RuddellRussell Ramon Rudolph Donald R. Sherman Marshall Ray Thompson

1963Robert L. Almond William A. Kreutzjans Charles W. Larsen David M. LeeRobert N. and Carol S. LeslieStanley L. PaulGerald L. and Marylee PetersAllen N. and Marinell E. ReevesEmile A. SamaraRobert E. and Pamela J. Shewmaker

1962J. Dewayne and Mary A. AllenNed H. BurnsChunduri V. Chelapati Bing C. ChinWilliam L. and Judy M. GambleJohn T. Gannon Stephen J. III and Janet M. Madden Joseph A. Morrone

1961Walter L. Allen Jr. William L. Hartrick Harry Moore Horn Wayne L. and Margaret F. Johnson John A. Kuske Richard F. Lanyon and Marsha

RichmanJack C. Marcellis James A. Tambling Raymond E. Untrauer

1960Harold J. AbramowskiJames H. AikmanGuy J. Marella Wallace W. Sanders

1959Robert L. Dineen Donald McDonaldWilliam K. StockdaleWalter A. Von Riesemann

1958Richard J. BeckJohn M. and Elly J. Brandt Philip C. Brumbaugh Richard A. Davino Robert L. Gende (dec) Gregorio Hernandez Robert H. MeyerFrank A. Perry Jr.

1957Robert C. and Marilyn E. BrozioWilliam P. Taylor Robert K. Wen

1956Robert W. and Ruth Hawkins BeinJohn H. Cousins (dec)John F. and Barbara B. DreherRobert E. and Aneita Atwood Gates Robert G. Grulke Miroslaw Noyszewski Henry L. Schmitz Jr.

1955Howard Y. and Ellen H. FukudaWilliam J. and Alice T. MebesJames G. and Diana SpyrosRonald A. and Lois Wisthuff

1954Edward Robert and Mary Massey

Baumann Leo R. DiVita C. Terry DooleyRobert A. and Frances A. Fosnaugh Paul A. KuhnMax H. and Sondra M. Lorig Daniel W. UrishRoger H. Wood Michael and Dorothy Zihal

1953Richard E. and Janet L. AtenRichard H. F. Pao Charles L. Sheppard Donald E. and Doris J. ThompsonAnestis S. Veletsos

1952Arthur M. Kaindl George R. Neder

1951Tung AuBenny L. Cochran Neil M. Denbo Gerald E. and Evelyn L. HannJoseph J. Jeno John L. Mataya Wayne V. MillerJohn W. Ratzki

1950Robert G. Currie Philip G. and Kathryn L. DiersteinEdward B. Finkel

1949Donald W. KaminskiWalter L. Kevern Russell O. Lightcap Robert J. Mathews

1948Walter W. Jr. and Carol Giffhorn Herbert A. Schroeder

1947Harold Clinton Ward M. Dobbin Bernard J. Krotchen Wilho E. Williams

1943William A. Hickman

1938Paul H. Kaar

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