CEE Magazine Winter 2009 by Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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5 Blue chip investing/Robert H. Dodds Jr. 7 Changes, challenges/Ken Floody 8 ACE Mentor Program/Terry Dooley (BS 54) 10 Illini connections/Claire Joseph 12 Safer skies: Airport safety research 14 New lab targets safer drinking water 17 Yeh Center design in process 18 World travelers: CEE students go abroad 20 Department news 22 New seismic system tested 28 Alumni news 29 Influential Illini: Milt Sees 33 Obituaries 35 Sponsored research 38 Individual donors

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5 years at #1 For the fifth year in a row, CEE’s undergraduate program has been ranked No. 1 by U.S.News & World Report in its America’s Best Colleges issue. Congratulations to CEE at Illinois, the nation’s number one department for civil and environmental engineering!

Robert H. Dodds Jr. Professor and Head John E. Kelley Director of Advancement and Alumni Relations Celeste Bragorgos Director of Communications Carla J. Blue Program Coordinator Danielle Gray Program Coordinator Letters, comments and editorial submissions: CEE Newsletter Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1117 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory MC-250 205 North Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 (217) 333-6955 celeste@illinois.edu Advertising inquiries: Celeste Bragorgos (217) 333-6955 celeste@illinois.edu

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Blue chip investing Robert H. Dodds Jr., Professor and Head, (MS 75, PhD 78) M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Endowed Chair of Civil Engineering

s the economic downturn and growing uncertainty deepens into the winter season, all of us seek to make wise investments with the promise of positive returns, if not soon then certainly for the longer term. Investing in the education of our own children, and together in all of our children through public higher education, will without question yield only positive returns for individuals, our state and our nation in the coming years. During economic downturns, history often reveals an increased demand for access to public universities, especially in engineering and technical fields at both the undergraduate level and the graduate master’s level for additional preparation to enter the workforce. In the field of civil and environmental engineering, the U of I exemplifies a “blue chip” investment in undergraduate and graduate education, and in world-class research on the critical infrastructure challenges facing our nation. Earlier this fall, CEE at Illinois celebrated the 5th consecutive year of a first-place ranking for our undergraduate program. Our graduate program maintains its number one ranking as well. These rankings reflect the outstanding quality of our students, the scholarly and professional contributions of our distinguished faculty, our fine staff, our physical facilities and, perhaps most importantly, the incredible engineering accomplishments of our more than 13,000 living alumni. Despite the ongoing economic challenges, with your support we continue investing in the CEE department to prepare for the short and long terms. We are gearing up for much larger junior and senior level classes over the next few years as the increased numbers of freshmen, sophomores and transfer students progress toward graduation. CEE now enrolls more than 650 undergraduate students, up from just 400 a few short years ago. The number of graduate students seeking a master’s degree before entering practice continues to grow. With nearly 400 full-time graduate students now enrolled, CEE at Illinois has the largest graduate program in the nation. We have streamlined the graduate admission process, and the organization and sequencing of graduate courses for students seeking a practice-oriented master’s degree. With about 45 percent of our entering graduate students this year funding their own tuition, nearly all of these students will now complete their M.S. degrees in 11 months or less, and thus at much less expense. When completed in the summer of 2010, the M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Student Center in Newmark Laboratory (the “Yeh Center”) will provide critically needed and

state-of-the-art classrooms, student design rooms, and student work areas to accommodate this influx of talented students. With an investment of $9 million for construction, this long-planned addition to Newmark Lab will become the campus home for undergraduate and graduate students in CEE for many decades. Dr. Yeh’s $4 million gift— together with $1 million from CEE funds, $1 million from College of Engineering funds, and $3 million from alumni, companies, and supporters to match Dr. Yeh’s challenge gift—reinforces the confidence of our stakeholders in the future of CEE. Detailed design of the Yeh Center began this fall, with Teng & Associates of Chicago selected by the Board of Trustees this past August to perform architectural and engineering services. Of the $3 million in nonUniversity funds necessary to match Dr. Yeh’s $4 million gift, we have already reached $2 million in gifts and multi-year commitments. We again ask all of our alumni, friends and supporters to join with us to invest in your CEE department. With your support, we expect to begin construction next summer and move in for classes in the fall 2010 semester. CEE at Illinois has endured, prospered and sustained excellence for nearly 140 years, through two world wars, an economic depression, and many economic recessions. World-class education and research in civil and environmental engineering will continue to attract the very best students and most promising new faculty to Urbana—as long as we invest in the future. And the future remains extraordinarily promising for the department and for our profession. In closing, I have communicated to our faculty and the Dean my plan to step down as Head next summer to return to the faculty in the structural engineering group. After five years of department administration and leadership, I wish to re-engage full time in teaching, scholarship and other service to the University and the profession. Those of us on the faculty often find it difficult to be away for such long periods from the day-to-day joys of the classroom and the laboratory, and more substantial interactions with young people. The Dean has a process underway to name the new Head later in the spring semester. Your thoughts, suggestions and comments are always welcome. Please feel free to contact me any time at rdodds@illinois.edu or call (217) 333-3276. Go Illini! i

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Changes, challenges Kenneth M. Floody, P.E., S.E. (BS 83) President, Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Association Board of Directors

very two years there is a change in the officers of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Association board of directors. I now have the pleasure and honor of serving as the board’s president for the next two years. The makeup of the board has also undergone its quadrennial change as we say goodbye and express our gratitude to six outgoing members of the board and welcome six new members. We thank the following departing members for their service: Ralph Anderson, Greg D. Cargill, Kevin A. Michols, David J. Stoldt, and Chris Thomas, as well as Associate Professor Daniel Kuchma. We welcome to the board the following new members: David L. Byrd, Lynne E. Chicoine, Paula C. Pienton, Francis J. Powers, C. Wayne Swafford and Associate Professor James LaFave. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus remarked that nothing in life is permanent except change. Change is always obvious in an election year. For engineers, the moist poignant examples of change are the triennial publications of code revisions. Some changes are welcomed as improvements, others feared for the uncertainty they bring. CEE at Illinois is not immune to the forces of change. Those of you who have already read Professor’s Dodds’ column know of his decision to step down as Head of CEE at the end of this academic year. Professor Dodds has long been a spirited champion of the department, even before becoming its head in 2004. He has improved communication between the CEE department and the CEEAA board of directors and challenged us to better serve the needs of the department. He will continue to serve the department through his research and teaching. Despite these changes in the department leadership, many of the same challenges remain. Most notable among these challenges is the funding for the Yeh Student Center. Many CEE alumni have already made generous contribu-

tions, and more than $2 million has been raised by the department. Professor Dodds and John Kelley, Director of Advancement, have been tireless in meeting with contributors to line up funding for this essential addition to Newmark Lab. The last $1 million will undoubtedly be the hardest, and I urge you all to support this important project. Assisting Professor Dodds in closing out the funding for the project that he has worked so diligently to bring forth would be a fitting acknowledgment of his efforts during his five years as department head to maintain and advance CEE’s position as the premier institution for civil and environmental engineering. The declining state financial support for the University of Illinois also presents an ongoing and ever-increasing challenge to maintaining the premier status of the department. The department’s faculty has risen to this challenge by expanding the level of research funding to the tune of $17 million for this year alone. Even so, the department must rely more and more on the financial support provided by CEE alumni or else face making changes to the features of the department that have made it excellent for so many years. Even as the department responds and positions itself in this climate of change, the consistency of CEE’s top ranking is the exception that proves the rule. The department has just completed its fifth year as the #1 ranked undergraduate civil engineering department and currently holds the #1 and #3 rankings for graduate civil and environmental engineering programs, respectively. The world will continue to change, that is certain, and as it changes it will create new demands and challenges for engineers to solve. The University of Illinois Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has enjoyed a long tradition of educating the engineers that will solve those problems. With the continued support of our alumni, that is one thing that will not change. i

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Thousands of inner-city students are being introduced to the fields of architecture, construction and engineering through the ACE Mentor Program By Terry Dooley (BS 54) icardo Zendejas is well on his way to a successful career in civil engineering. In June he graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) with a bachelor’s degree in Civil/Structural Engineering, and he is now working toward a master’s degree in Design/Construction Integration at Stanford University. Along the way, Ricardo has benefited from the encouragement, mentorship and opportunity provided by volunteers from the ACE Mentor Program. Ricardo’s road into engineering originated on one of the crowded high school campuses of the Los Angeles Unified School District and passed through two years at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, before he reached UCLA. Through the years, volunteers from the architecture, construction and engineering professions advised him, encouraged him, and helped him land an internship at Pankow Builders in Pasadena. Like thousands of inner-city high school students across the country—many of them from groups under-represented in engineering and families in which they are the first to graduate from high school—Ricardo is an ACE Mentor Program success story. I introduced the ACE (Architecture, Construction, Engineering) Mentor Program to the Los Angeles metropolitan area in 2002, just as I was retiring from a 48-year construction career on the West Coast. Since then I have been helping to build the ACE program as a volunteer.

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ACE introduces inner-city high school students to professionals from these fields and shows students how to follow in their footsteps. I was the initial Chairman for ACE in Los Angeles and now serve as Secretary of its Board of Directors. The program has two principal aims: help to produce the next generation of design and construction professionals, and open doors for urban youth to opportunities they might not otherwise know about or know how to access. In Los Angeles, 80 percent of the ACE student population is from what typically are considered minority groups. About half are women. Founded in 1994 in New York City, the ACE Mentor Program now has spread nationally to 110 cities with about 10,000 active high school students. The program operates by linking teams of a half-dozen professionals in the ACE disciplines with about two dozen upper-level high school students. In the Los Angeles model, because of the geographic spread of the region, most teams are built around high schools or small clusters of schools. Teams meet every two weeks from October through May, after school hours. The meetings are sometimes at the

school but more often at professional offices, construction sites and universities. In other cities, including New York and Chicago, teams are built around specific professional offices, with students traveling from multiple schools. In some cities the program meets every week, but for a shorter time, usually November through April. There are the same 15 or 16 meetings per academic year. In autumn the model is “show-andtell,” with professionals demonstrating what they do and telling what education and experience it took to get there. The students visit professional offices and construction sites. Some of the mentors are minority group members with links to the inner-city. In spring the team works on a design/ budget problem asParticipants signed by local ACE in the ACE leadership. In 2008, Mentor Program con- the Los Angeles centrate on a teams determined a bridge-buildspecific new building ing project. need or renovation need on their own school campuses. They then designed, modeled and budgeted, with mentors’ help, structures that fit to scale within the footprints of their school sites. The work of all the teams was

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displayed at the Annual Awards Banquet this summer at the Los Angeles Convention Center, for a crowd of approximately 700 people, about evenly divided between paying professional donors and students, parents and teachers. The national founder of the ACE Mentor program is Charles B. Thornton, also a founding partner of Thornton Tomasetti Inc., an international consulting firm of civil and structural engineers. In 2001, I recruited Thornton to be the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute in Long Beach, Calif. Before breakfast was finished on the day of his speech, he had in turn recruited me to start the ACE

Program in southern California. Those familiar with the apostolic zeal of Charlie Thornton for the ACE Program will understand. When we started the program in southern California in fall 2002, we were in three high schools with 45 ACE students. Nine were seniors. In May 2003 each senior was awarded the right to a small scholarship if he or she documented entrance into a college level program in one of the ACE disciplines. In the second year, the program’s reach was extended to a total of six high schools. May of 2004

saw 23 students awarded the right to college scholarships of $1,000 per year for a maximum of four years, always predicated on demonstrated progress. Today there are 18 mentoring teams involving about 350 high school students from 24 high schools in three counties. Approximately 115 professionals from a wide array of design, construction and education disciplines now volunteer as mentors in the Los Angeles area. About 70 firms are involved. Prominent among them are DMJM, Turner Construction, Parsons Corporation, Gruen Architects, Jacobs Carter Burgess, Perkins + Will, John A. Martin Associates, Thornton Tomasetti and Clark Continued on the next page

Moving to general contractor Morley Builders of Santa Monica, Calif., in 1981, I I grew up in South Bend, Ind., and spent the next 21 years helping to develop earned a B.A. in English and Philosophy from St. John’s University, Minn. Then my new the company. For the last six years before wife, Kathleen, and I moved to Champaignretirement, I was a principal in the preUrbana, where after a year as an architecture construction planning and then the building student, I earned my bachelor’s degree in civil of a five-structure complex: The Cathedral engineering. of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los After graduation, we moved west. I was Angeles. The cathedral is believed to be the Terry Dooley employed for the next 26 years at locations largest building in California built of exposed colored architectural concrete. Extensive up and down the coast by the construction divisions of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. My work was research went into mix designs, placing and curing techprincipally in the fields of field-erected structural steel and niques, and sealing compounds, all intended to lengthen field-installed reinforcing bars. During these years I helped service life and to maintain consistent color. The building build the first “ductile moment resisting space frames” of and its associated campanile are seismically base-isolated. reinforced concrete in Los Angeles, breaking the old 160- The project won a 2003 national Merit Award from the foot height limit. This advance was based on a seminal American Society of Civil Engineers as an Outstanding Civil book, “Design of Multistory Reinforced Concrete Build- Engineering Achievement. Among other principal activities were early applicaings for Earthquake Motions” by John Blume, Illinois’ own Nathan Newmark, and Leo Corning. During my time with tions of seismic base isolation to the upgrading of existBethlehem, I earned a master’s degree from UCLA, in its ing buildings, and extensive work in the seismic repair and retrofit of structures, especially after the Northridge Engineering Executive Program.

quake of 1994. I have continued an advisory role in those fields via committees of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the American Concrete Institute and the Applied Technology Council. I am an Honorary Member of the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California, and a Fellow of ASCE and of the American Concrete Institute (ACI). I was co-recipient (with Dennis Drag) of a 1991 “Award For Innovation” from ASCE for work in seismic base isolation, and recipient of the Roger Corbetta Award from ACI in 1997 “for contributions to the advancement of construction techniques in seismic repair and retrofit of concrete buildings.” I have served on departmental advisory boards at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. I am past president of the Architectural Guild, a support group for the School of Architecture, University of Southern California, and now serve as an occasional tutor and counselor for students at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, UCLA. My wife, Kathleen, and I live in Sherman Oaks, Calif., and have six children and 12 grandchildren. —T.D

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ACE Mentor Program

Continued from the previous page Construction. At the 2008 Annual Awards Banquet, rights to $1,000 college scholarships were granted to 74 graduating high school seniors. Over six years, the Los Angeles program has offered 254 scholarships of $1,000 each to graduating high school seniors entering 30 different colleges and universities. Re-application for scholarship continuation in the college sophomore year and above is contingent on presentation of a college transcript and a class enrollment schedule for the next academic term in one of the ACE disciplines. The awarding of scholarships also is dependent on the availability of funds; a necessary corollary is a vigorous fundraising program. The first two “classes” of ACE students are the only ones that would be expected to produce college graduates by 2008. These two classes produced 32 scholarship-eligible students. At this writing, eight of these have received bachelor’s degrees from four-year universities. Three more are expected to graduate soon. This makes the successful college graduation rate about one-third of graduating high school seniors in the program: 11 of 32. Universities that have graduated students from ACE Los Angeles include the University of California, Davis; UCLA; California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; and Santa Clara University. ACE Los Angeles students are in good standing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan. A growing statistical record shows that more than 90 percent of those high school seniors offered scholarships claim the money in the first year. This drops to 50 percent in the second college year, and then holds steady at about 35 percent over the final two years. Those who drop out along the way get at least a taste of higher education and might return later. ACE Los Angeles leadership is trying to improve retention by increasing the number of internships and by linking mentors and students personally in a continuing 10 10 Visit VisitCEE CEEon onthe theweb webat athttp://cee.uiuc.edu http://cee.uiuc.edu

relationship. Beginning in fall 2008, a “Sponsored Scholarship Program” began linking scholarship donors to specific students. Thirty college upperclassmen and women are receiving $2,000 each through this program for the 2008-2009 academic year. Many ACE students come from households in which the parents may not have finished high school. The student is often the first in his or her household to seek higher education, and some are forced out of college to contribute to the support of their families. After our Awards Banquet last June, a tearful mother and father each gave me a hug and told me in halting English that the program had redirected and inspired their son. Throughout my own life, my path has been shaped by the inspiration and mentorship of talented engineers. My grandfather, Charles Dutton Terry, earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1897. His class was among the first to study in brand-new Engineering Hall. During the summer of 1952, I found myself working on the second floor of this same building as a draftsman with the Bridge Division of the Illinois Highway Department. I was at the time an undergraduate in the architecture program, and I was fortunate to be in daily working contact with an elite group of engineers, including John Haltiwanger (MS 48, PhD 57); Gene Daily (MS 51); Narbey Khachaturian (BS 47, MS 48, PhD 52), now CEE Professor Emeritus; graduate student Sabih Sami; and Tom Leahey (BS 52, MS 54). Before the summer was over, they had presented me with transfer forms and facilitated the switch from architecture to engineering that has illuminated my professional life ever since. Today I volunteer nearly full-time for the ACE Mentor Program, working from an “emeritus” office donated to the program by Morley Builders. It’s a wonderful job, paid for by the smiling faces and bright futures of Ricardo Zendejas and others like him. After he gets his master’s at Stanford, perhaps we can show Ricardo the way to Urbana. i

Illini con It was no ordinary internship. I didn’t know what to expect. my experience interning at

erplexed is the perfect word to describe my reaction when Professor David Lange asked me about my plans for summer 2008. It was only March 2007 (the second semester of my freshman year), and I wondered why he was inquiring about my schedule more than a year in advance! But just a few weeks later, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I had been chosen for the Willmer scholarship and internship presented through the CEE Department. Not only did this provide me with generous financial assistance, but I was also invited to intern with Doris and Jim Willmer at their engineering consulting firm in Atlanta, Ga. I had never met these generous alumni, and yet I felt gratitude and excitement about the opportunities they were providing me. My favorite days at work were those that I could lace up my steel-toed work boots and tuck my long hair under a Willmer Engineering Inc. hard hat. Many other civil engineering interns will say the same: standing on construction sites and gaining field experience is critical to making our class work relevant. Willmer is considered a small firm, and I found that a key advantage of this is the ability to grow both vertically and laterally. I had the great benefit to spend time in almost every aspect of the firm: geotechnical, environmen-

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nections I didn’t apply or interview. But, quite simply, Willmer Engineering Inc. was fantastic. tal, and construction materials. I worked neering firm, it was the accessibility to Doon soil surveys, bridge foundation inves- ris and Jim themselves that I value most tigations, pavement evaluations, and a when I look back at my summer in Atlanta. groundwater monitoring study, to name a Doris and Jim Willmer have built their firm few. I gained experience in working with into an incredibly well-respected organia wide variety of projects and was also zation. They are great role models and asked to take more responsibility and be- superb Illinois alumni. In my discussions come more deeply involved in other proj- with them about their experiences runects. I traveled to job sites in Atlanta and ning their own business and listening to across southeast Georgia to work along- stories of their years at Illinois, I became side the drill acutely aware team, to apprenof the power tice under field of the Illinois technicians, and CEE alumni to ask the comnetwork. As pany engineers students, our as many quesrelationship tions as I could with the unithink of. My faversity does vorite project at not end on Willmer was an co mm e n ce ongoing $600 ment day. We million dollar are assigned raised “automat- Department Head Robert H. Dodds Jr., right, with James the mission to ed people mov- L. (BS 71, MS 73) and Doris I. Willmer (BS 72, MS 73). Top represent the er” and rental car photo: Claire Joseph in front of Newmark Lab. Illinois CEE facility at Hartscommunity in field Jackson our workplacAtlanta International Airport. With 500+ es. We must contribute to our university workers on-site daily, there was always and department, and the most valuable something exciting that I could observe way to do this is by giving our time. The and learn. advice and experience relayed to current While all these experiences are cer- students from alumni is invaluable. The tainly perks of working for a small engi- Willmers are a prime example. Doris and

Jim visit campus multiple times a year to talk to the geotechnical engineering classes, present to Women in Engineering groups, and, of course, to watch their beloved Illinois sports teams. They have been extremely generous in supporting undergraduates as well as graduate environmental research. But the Willmers don’t stop there. Their tradition of hosting an Illinois student as intern is a tremendous opportunity for our students that I hope can expand to other companies who have Illini alumni among the ranking engineers. It’s like Doris and Jim never left our campus, and, in the same way, I hope I never leave either. Life and work will lead most of us from C-U, but the skills we learned and the values we practice in CEE at Illinois draw us back. So, to our CEE alumni: please visit campus. Talk to current students about your experiences. Share your expertise. To our current CEE students: network with alumni. Their experience and advice is of tremendous value and the Illinois connection provides many opportunities. Our most valuable possession is our education. It can’t be confiscated, stolen, or totaled in a car wreck. Ours will always be the “Illinois brand.” Doris and Jim Willmer reminded me that this is something to be very proud of, now and throughout the rest of my career. i

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Research by Professor Ed Herricks is assessing technology that promises greater protection from bird strikes and foreign object debris on runways By Laura Weisskopf Bleill For much of the past decade, Professor Edwin Herricks has laid the foundation for a tool that may address one of the oldest problems facing aviation today, birds colliding with aircraft. Herricks, Professor of Ecological Engineering, coordinates the Airport Safety Management program for the CEE-based Center of Excellence for Airport Technology. His team has deployed avian radars at major airports around the country. Now Herricks’ research program is moving into the performance assessment phase, addressing issues such as calibration, performance under different environmental conditions, and reliability. A radar at the Naval Air Station at Whidbey Island in Washington State has been operational and collecting data for more than 18 months. A radar at SeattleTacoma International Airport and a second one at Whidbey Island have been providing

data since August 2007. The ultimate goal is to provide guidance to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) so they can develop procedures that may help pilots, air traffic controllers and wildlife managers avoid a catastrophic bird strike accident. Already, bird strikes cost the aviation industry $1 billion a year, according to Bird Strike Committee USA. But there are few mandates in place to address the issue. “In one sense the FAA is trying to get out in front of the avian radar question,” Herricks said. “Before the FAA requires the installation of this technology, they need to figure out what it can do.” At Whidbey Island, one radar uses a parabolic dish antenna, while the other has an array antenna. At Seattle-Tacoma, one installation has two dish antenna radars sitting on top of an administration building, and a radar with an array antenna is used on the airfield. The difference between array and dish antennas is beam coverage. The array antenna sends out a signal that sweeps plus or minus 11 degrees from horizontal, providing coverage from the ground to 11 degrees up from horizontal. The array configuration provides information on the range to target, but no altitude information. The parabolic dish antenna sends out a four-degree cone with an angle adjustment that provides better altitude discrimination. The radars generate data that can show the real-time movements of birds around the Seattle Airport. A visual display of bird movements is available on Google Earth. “These radars with different antenna tProfessor Herricks scans the skies during a test at the Seattle-Tacoma airport.

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configurations and different ways that we’re using them represent different classes of operation and information that we need for this overall performance assessment,” Herricks said. “We already know that operations are significantly different between Seattle and Whidbey Island simply because of the differences in the numbers of birds at Whidbey Island. So what we need to do is evaluate these sensors under a variety of conditions to see how they perform under all of these conditions.” One of the challenges is to determine that the tracks the radar picks up are indeed birds. The radar data processor can be configured to use factors like velocity to discriminate between birds and other aerial targets, such as insects and rain. The sensor validation work is ongoing. Herricks recently flew a radio-controlled helicopter at Seattle-Tacoma, an experiment that confirmed that the radar can detect a known target in near-real time. Another challenge is sifting through the sheer amount of data that has been collected, which Herricks compares to “drinking water out of a fire hose.” In just a year the operational radars have produced a terabyte, or 1,024 gigabytes, of processed data. But Herricks believes it is possible to provide information on wildlife hazards that will be useful to pilots. One approach is to automate the analysis of tracks of birds flying across approach or departure zones at airports. “By counting those bird tracks, what we begin to do is develop a quantitative measure of hazard and we can do this throughout the day so we can begin to identify critical periods, taking into account changes that occur between days and changes that

FAA honors Herricks for safety work with excellence award

http://ceat.uiuc.edu occur between seasons. This will help pilots and controllers understand how the relative risk of collisions with wildlife changes over time.” As part of the FAA program Herricks’ team will be deploying avian radars at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, Vancouver International Airport, and Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. Herricks estimates that the evaluation process may take another two to three years, to assemble the data needed for the FAA to develop an advisory circular on avian radars. In addition to the avian radar project, Herricks is spearheading a process to assess foreign object debris (FOD) detection sys-

tionary millimeter wave radar system at TF Green International Airport in Providence, R.I. Testing is underway for a hybrid radar and video system at Boston’s Logan International Airport, as well as a mobile millimeter wave radar system and a high resolution video camera system at the major Chicago airports. Although the sensor technology for each system is different, Herricks’ team uses common procedures and FOD targets. The performance assessment has four elements—calibration, sensitivity testing, blind testing and operational performance analysis. Testing on runways is a challenge. Herricks’ team is commonly placing FOD items on runways in the middle of the night when runways are closed. The assessment programs are designed “The FAA is trying to to test detection systems under different weather conditions, with get out in front of the a particular emphasis on rain, ice avian radar question.” and snow. “The FAA needs to have infortems at airports across the nation. The goal mation about these detection capabilities is similar—to provide the FAA with techni- and a variety of other features of the techcal information so that it can develop an ad- nology so they can write this advisory circuvisory circular that establishes the require- lar,” Herricks said. “We’re carefully trying to ments and standards for the technology. avoid endorsement. That’s why we’re calling Vendors worldwide have developed it a performance assessment, not an evaluacontinuous surveillance systems that can tion. We don’t want to evaluate. What we’re detect FOD—the junk that collects on or trying to do is simply use what the vendors around runways—which is said to cost are telling us is their detection ability and airlines between $4 billion and $10 billion apply science to the test procedures to dea year. The FAA brought in Herricks’ team to assess the performance of four such systems. Testing has been completed for a sta-

tOne of nine trailers housing avian radar control units that Herricks' team deploys at various airports. pWorking at night when the runways are closed, Herricks’ team tests radar designed to detect foreign objects. Above, CEE student Josh Green places a test object on a runway.

This year the Federal Aviation Adminstration (FAA) recognized Professor Edwin Herricks for his contributions to safer air travel with the 2008 Excellence in Aviation Research Award. The award is given for research contributions that have resulted in a significantly safer, more efficient national airspace system. “This award is well-deserved recognition of Professor Herricks’ impressive contributions to new radar technologies for airports,” says David Lange, CEE Associate Head and Director of the Center of Excellence for Airport Technology. The highly competitive award is the FAA’s premier recognition of outstanding contributions by external partners. This is the 11th year it has been presented.

termine if detection claims are met.” A tragedy accelerated the gears in motion for more sophisticated and specialized FOD detection systems, after investigators blamed a piece of debris for the 2000 Concorde crash in Paris. A titanium strip fell from a DC-10 that had departed from the same runway minutes earlier. This strip punctured one of the supersonic passenger jet’s tires during takeoff. The accident killed all 109 aboard the aircraft, in addition to four people on the ground. Herricks has reason to believe that the aviation industry is one commercial airline disaster away from making bird strike prevention a higher priority. A bird strike made national news in March 2007, when a 767 hit a flock of canvasback ducks upon takeoff at O’Hare, ingesting several into one engine and shutting it down. The plane was able to return to the tarmac safely, but not without significant structural damage. “We almost had the smoking hole in the ground that would have been very clearly a bird strike problem,” he said. Herricks contends that the avian radar systems will significantly improve wildlife management at airports. The data will be able to identify trends that indicate when and where bird activity may increase, allowing wildlife managers to provide more concrete hazard warnings. “At present what we have is the same warning day after day after day, and pilots ignore it,” he said. “We can actually begin putting information up there that is timely and real.” i

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Adenovirus, Cryptosporidium, Coxsackie virus, You-Name-It Pathogen,

here we come

In Newmark’s new Level II Disinfection Research Laboratory, researchers will By Joyce Mast take on the world’s biggest threats to safe drinking water

ater is life; without it we die. If water is contaminated, we may get sick— or die. Population and industrial growth, global warming, and climate change stress the world’s water supply and increasingly necessitate quicker re-use. Re-use requires the careful control of human pathogens such as Adenovirus, Cryptosporidium, Coxsackie virus, and others that may emerge in the future. The new Level II Disinfection Research Laboratory in CEE will allow researchers to safely study pathogenic viruses and their human host cells to establish data describing how viruses are inactivated by disinfectants, thus providing a technological key to world-wide drinking water sanitation. Professor Benito Mariñas, a champion of safe drinking water, conceived of reclaiming the area formerly occupied by the cooling towers on the roof of Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory to create a biological-safety Level II laboratory. Level II is a federal designation specifying the type of pathogens allowed (in this case, primarily opportunistic pathogens—or those that can make you sick but are not dangerous unless your immune system is already compromised), as well as space (must be non-circulating—only one door), equipment, and safety training regulations. The

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new disinfection lab with “cold room” and microscopy suite occupies 1,700 square feet including a mechanical equipment room, and there is approximately 2,800 square feet of unfinished space for future labs and/or student offices. Funded by the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) department, the College of Engineering, the National Science Foundation through the WaterCAMPWS (Center of Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with Systems), and the Provost’s office, construction began in May. Completion is expected by the end of 2008. Currently, only one student can work at any given time in the very cramped space of the old two-person Level II lab. In the new lab, with its increased safety features, this stringent certification process will allow up to eight properly trained students to work simultaneously in a more open space. Pairs of students studying the same virus will share one of four bio-safety hoods/workstations equipped with laminar air flow filtration system and ultraviolet (UV) lamps to prevent contamination of the students and their equipment. After use, the hoods are closed and UV-irradiated to sterilize the work area. Human cells and highly concentrated virus stocks can be manipulated safely in the bio-

safety cabinets. Each workstation will be equipped with its own incubators and pH meters to minimize cross-contamination. The lab also contains a water tank to allow high-flow experiments with bench-scale UV reactors or ozone contactors. A solar simulator system that can mimic sunlight in different regions or at different times of day will also be used in the lab. How does the new lab fit into the grand scheme of water disinfection? Water scarcity dictates re-use. Direct reuse—toilet-to-tap—is technically possible and potentially safe but not yet socially acceptable. Currently in the US, water is indirectly re-used, for example in Minneapolis and St. Louis, where treated wastewater is discharged into a river and then re-used downstream as part of the water source for a drinking water treatment plant. In California, where there is more demand than water, new treatment strategies are needed to shorten the gap between wastewater and drinking water. The most urgent concern is pathogens from human, agricultural and even wild animal wastes. These pathogens must be removed and/or inactivated by the re-use Above, top to bottom: colorized images of Adenovirus, Cryptosporidium, and Coxsackie Virus.

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Environmental Engineering and Science students (left to right) Amanda Poole, Theresa Vonderhaar and Martin Page pose in front of one of four biosafety hoods that will be used in the new lab.

treatment processes. Throughout the 20th century, the standard water disinfectant has been free chlorine (household bleach). However, free chlorine degrades in sunlight and is powerless against the common waterborne pathogen Cryptosporidium, a protozoan parasite that causes gastrointestinal illness and has the potential to produce large waterborne disease outbreaks such as the one that affected more than 400,000 people in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1993. Free chlorine also reacts with organic matter to form potentially carcinogenic disinfection byproducts. In 2006 the EPA called for municipalities to control some of these byproducts, resulting in the increased use of alternative disinfection technologies. One option, UV light, is effective against Cryptosporidium but doesn’t provide residual protection. Monochloramine, or combined chlorine—chlorine plus ammonia with more ammonia than chlorine—has been around since the 1930s but is becoming more popular because it is more stable than free chlorine and forms fewer regulated byproducts. However, monochloramine is a less efficient disinfectant, requiring too much contact time to control viruses at most treatment plants. Applied sequentially, UV light and monochloramine can control Cryptosporidium and regulated disinfection byproducts effectively but will not control waterborne viruses at typical doses. Mariñas and his students continue to study this

sequential treatment in order to develop data demonstrating its ineffectiveness against viruses and discover what new byproducts it might form. Researchers in the new lab, besides Mariñas’ group, will include collaborators through the WaterCAMPWS in areas of microbiology, chemistry, materials science, and genetics; and those working on water quality in developing countries, for instance, professors Benito Corona Vasquez and Erick Bandala from the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla in Mexico who collaborated with Mariñas and his CEE 449 Integrated Design Project/Laboratory Expe-

rience class on a project in Los Llanos over spring break 2008 and are interested in building a biosafety Level II lab in Puebla. The first to use the new lab will be three of Mariñas’ group of 14 grads and 5 undergrads: Amanda Poole (BS 08), Theresa Vonderhaar and their laboratory

mentor, Martin Page (BS 03, MS 04). They represent a new generation of top-level students who, in addition to working on pressing issues relating to disinfection worldwide, dedicate a portion of their work to improving access to safe water in developing countries. Poole is a first-year grad student; Vonder Haar, second-year; and Page is planning to complete his Ph.D. in March. Page, in collaboration with Professor Joanna Shisler in Microbiology, is developing molecular approaches to discover which part of Adenovirus type 2 (a UV-resistant virus that causes respiratory illness) is being damaged by disinfectants such as UV light and chlorine. This information will help to figure out how to best transform the Adenovirus genes or proteins to an extent that it cannot infect human cells, cells which may even help the virus to fix itself. He is building on the research of a recent doctoral recipient from the Mariñas group, Kwanrawee (Joy) Sirikanchana (MS 03, PhD 07). Poole is researching how Adenovirus is inactivated with SoChlor (solar/ chlorine) using the lab’s solar simulator to mimic conditions in tropical regions. When chlorine is added to water containing ammonia, a common co-contaminant in developing regions, monochloramine is formed, which favors virus survival. If the bottle is exposed to sunlight on a roof, the SoChlor disinfection time, even under cloudy conditions, ranges from one to five hours, whereas disinfection from the sun or chlorine alone requires up to two days. Last January, Vonderhaar began work on the Coxsackie virus B5, which causes respiratory diseases, miscarriages, heart problems, aseptic meningitis, diabetes and heart problems. Coxsackie is not quite as resistant as Adenovirus to UV light but is more resistant to free chlorine. The goal of Vonderhaar and all virus researchers is to find an optimal, multifaceted system for disinfecting all types of viruses. The department’s new Level II lab is a fitting venue for pursuing, and possibly attaining, this pressing objective. i

Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Association—Winter 2009

Open structure, natural light will enhance Yeh Center By Laura Weisskopf Bleill he M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Student Center in Newmark Laboratory will influence not only where CEE students will be taught, but how. Designs for the Yeh Student Center, currently in process, reflect a concerted effort to present the building as a living, breathing example of concepts that CEE students will encounter in the curriculum. “It’s not just a structure that will be covered up and buried in the walls somewhere,” says Tom Hoepf, principal designer at Chicago-based multidisciplinary engineering firm Teng & Associates Inc., the firm chosen by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees to design the addition. The building will be constructed in a manner so that a professor, upon lecturing about steel connections, could then take students for a short field trip into the hallway to show how the columns and beams are connected. The structure of the building will tell the story of the structure, Hoepf says. “It’s really a building that you can walk into and really understand the guts of it,” he says. The long-awaited Yeh Center project, a 22,500-square-foot addition to Newmark Laboratory, is now on the fast track. The building, named for alumnus M.T. Geoffrey Yeh (BS 53) in honor of his $4 million lead gift, is scheduled to be open for business for the fall semester in 2010. The structure will be entirely studentfocused, providing critically needed classroom space, student design and meeting rooms, a 150-seat auditorium, and an atrium that will provide space for more informal interaction. The design will be finalized by summer 2009, when bids will be solicited for construction. Groundbreaking will take place the following fall, and planners believe it will take less than a year to build, says project manager David Yandel, a University of Illinois architecture alumnus.

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Teng & Associates has been involved with the Student Center project since its inception more than a decade ago, having provided the preliminary plans for the structure. Founded by the late Wayne C. Teng (MS 46, PhD 49), the firm was chosen by a selection committee and recommended for approval by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees to manage the project, from the design stage to the construction administration phase. The building has a working budget of $9 million, with construction costs accounting for $6 million. Hoepf has been on board since the beginning, and says that the design concept has not strayed from the original vision set forth by former department heads

Both photos: Steve Hall, Hedrich Blessing Photography

Before (above) and after (right) views of the lobby in U of I’s Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, on which Teng & Associates performed an expansion in 2007. The design, created with Thomas Hoepf as Principal Design Architect, won the 2008 Frank Lloyd Wright Award (Citation of Merit) from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Illinois.

Professor Emeritus William J. Hall, Professor Emeritus Neil Hawkins and Professor David Daniel. “People change and needs change and we are open to revisiting the design,” Hoepf says. “We’ve gone through that process and found that indeed it’s still valid. I think the fact that the design is still strong after that time speaks to the original conception of the building, that it made sense from an architectural standpoint, an urban design standpoint and an educational standpoint.” One aspect that has been altered is the size of the classrooms in order to accommodate the current size of the department and future growth. The classrooms range in capacity from 30 to 100

One day students. One of the building’s unique “classrooms” may be a green roof demonstration area, a feature still under consideration. The designers will be providing for potential loads and vertical transportation to the roof, which would be the second of its kind on campus. A green roof—a roof that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and soil—is one element contributing to the building’s “green” quotient. The Yeh Center will meet the University standards of silver LEED certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), a program administered by the U.S. Green Building Council. Several intrinsic factors of the Yeh Center provide a solid base for certification: that it is being built onto an existing building, using two existing walls; that it is on an existing building site; and that it will utilize the University’s efficient mechanical systems for heat and water. The building will employ green building materials, such as high-efficiency insulated glass that filters ultraviolet light. It will consist of a steel structure, with locally manufactured brick and concrete. The Yeh Center will have a preponderance of glass to capture as much natural light as possible. The use of glass will be significant to the structure’s exterior design, a theme that is common to other buildings in the vicinity, such as the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, the Beckman Institute, and the Coordinated Science Laboratory. “Those are all brick buildings but rooms like lobbies and conference rooms and spaces that are more public and shared tend to be expressed with glass,” Hoepf says. “We’ve taken that same strategy with the design of our building.” Other than typical noise, construction should be minimally disruptive to operations at the existing Newmark building during the 2009-10 academic year, Hoepf and Yandel say. i

the future of civil and environmental engineering will be in their hands.

Claire Joseph, CEE Junior

Kevin Foster, CEE senior

Kevin Bailey, CEE senior

Today it’s in yours.

Please give generously to the Yeh Student Center building addition fund.

Goal: $9 million Raised to date: $8 million We need your help: $1 million to go!

Build the Future

To arrange your gift or pledge, contact: John Kelley, Director of Advancement, (217) 333-5120, jekelley@illinois.edu or Robert H. Dodds Jr., Professor and Head, (217) 333-3276, rdodds@illinois.edu

World travelers CEE students

studied abroad in record numbers in 2007-2008

he College of Engineering and the department encourage all students to consider how international studies can enhance their education at the University of Illinois. Our students responded in a big way this past year. A record number of 61 CEE undergraduates took courses overseas or took part in a winter term, spring break, or a summer term experience. Their destinations included 18 different countries: Argentina, Australia, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.

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“International programs provide an opportunity for students to better understand the world community, experience courses in a new environment, improve their foreign language skills, and enjoy the unique independence of traveling abroad,” says David Lange, Professor and Associate Head for Undergraduate Affairs. “The College of Engineering International Programs for Engineering (IPENG) office has been an essential partner in helping such a large number of students participate. Their financial and logistical support is a critical contribution that opens the door for our students to experience the world.” Through the Study Abroad Office, CEE

student Matthew Knight lived for a year in San Joaquin de Flores, Costa Rica. He studied grammar, culture, conversation, composition and cinema—all in Spanish—and became close to his fellow students and his host family. “These past four months were probably some of the greatest times and memories of my life, because they were spent with an amazing group of people in a completely different culture from the United States’,” Knight says. “I know that study abroad has positively affected my life in ways I will continue to discover, but I can already see a change in my appreciation of things in my life.” i

Julie Rosen (at left) hiking with friends in northern Spain. In the distance is the Church of San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, which sits atop the tiny island of San Juan de Gaztelugatxe near the fishing town of Bermeo.

Peter Maraccini dances at the Carnival of Cadiz, Spain. “Typically the costumes of the Carnival are sharply satirical and have a close relation to current events, but I opted for something a little cheaper,” he writes. Mark D. Cooke, who studied in Australia, pets a kangaroo, and poses before the famous Sydney Opera House.

Elizabeth Richter and Julie Rosen (third and second from right) with friends in Puerto Viejo, a fishing village near Bilbao, Spain. Matthew Knight with members of his host family in Costa Rica. Matthew Knight whitewater rafting in Costa Rica and hiking with fellow students on Volcan Barva, an inactive volcano in Costa Rica. Knight is at right in both pictures.

Page 18: CEE students Elizabeth Richter and Julie Rosen (third and fourth from left) at the 700-year-old Cathedral of Sainte-Marie in Bayonne, France. The arches were being renovated at the time of their visit. “It was very neat to see them in both their original and restored forms,” Rosen writes. Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Association—Winter 2009

Department News New faculty:

Wen-Tso Liu addition to the CEE facTheultynewest is Associate Professor Wen-Tso

Liu of the Environmental Engineering and Science (EE&S) area. Liu is an environmental microbiologist whose research focuses on improving the performance of biological wastewater treatment processes. Biological wastewater treatment is worldwide the largest biotechnology application, yet most of today’s treatment processes are based on a limited and often empirical understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Wastewater is increasingly viewed as a valuable resource for water reuse to provide safe drinking water in the U.S. and in the world. Liu’s work seeks to elucidate the mechanisms underlying wastewater treatment through characterization of the microbial communities responsible for this process. One of his projects explores the use of lab-on-a-chip devices for rapidly detecting pathogenic microbes in these processes and the natural environment. CEE currently has faculty with expertise in the areas of water and wastewater treatment processes and microbial physiology in natural and engineered systems, says Professor Charlie Werth of the EE&S group. Liu brings a unique strength in molecular microbiology, especially as it relates to water and wastewater processes, and in the application of molecular microbiology to the development of new biological sensors. i

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Several CEE students won awards in the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Illinois’ 2008 Named Scholarship Program. Adam Tate, a CEE senior, won the top award, receiving both the $2,500 Lonnie H. Carter Memorial Scholarship and the $1,500 Huff & Huff Inc./ACECIllinois State Scholarship. The following students won $1,500 State Scholarships sponsored by ACEC-Illinois and the company listed: Dean Collins, URS Corporation; Maciej Mroczek, TransSystems Corporation; Katie Kukielka, Farnsworth Group; Denise Soehrman, Cowhey Gudmundson Leder Ltd. Associate Professor William G. Buttlar of the Transportation Engineering program was promoted to the rank of Professor.

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Professor Mark M. Clark has retired. Professor J. Wayland Eheart has retired. Professor Jerry Hajjar, the Narbey Khachaturian Faculty Scholar, was honored by the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES, www.nees. org) at their 6th Annual Meeting in June for “Outstanding Contributions to NEES Community Cyberinfrastucture.” Associate Professor Daniel Kuchma has won the 2008 Collins Awards for Innovative Teaching. This College of Engineering teaching award is given on the basis of outstanding development and/or use of new and innovative teaching methods. Kuchma developed a new course, CEE 498KUC “Experimental Methods in Structures and Materials,” which provides undergraduate and graduate students with the skills needed to conduct leading experimental research on the response of laboratory test strucContinued on page 23

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CEE researchers field test a new wireless structural health monitoring system

team of researchers from the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Computer Science (CS) is conducting its first full-scale testing of a system for continuous, wireless, real-time monitoring of structures. Working under professors Bill Spencer in CEE and Gul Agha in CS with funding from the National Science Foundation, the group is deploying the system outside the laboratory for the first time in a study of a local pedestrian bridge. Concerns about aging infrastructure and disasters like the 2007 Minnesota bridge collapse have focused widespread attention on the importance of structural health monitoring. Monitoring systems don’t replace human inspection, but rather make it possible for inspectors to work more efficiently, targeting structures where measurements indicate possible damage. Wired systems that use multiple sensors to detect strain and vibration typically require costly, time-consuming installation due to the necessity of cabling, or stringing the wires. Such systems can only take measurements and return data to a central location, where it must be analyzed to determine if the numbers indicate likely damage in the structure. The new system under development at Illinois uses cutting-edge wireless technology and smart sensors, capable of both gathering data and processing it, so only the most relevant information is transmitted. Each sensor node, measuring only a few inches, includes a device for detecting vibrations in the structure, a microprocessor that can compare current measurements reflecting the structural response with baseline numbers, and a radio transmitter.

“Now we can put hundreds, thousands, of these all over a structure, we can process data out in the sensor network, and then we can just send back pertinent information to a central location,” says Jennifer Rice, a CEE PhD student involved in the project. “So rather than use a traditional system with wired sensors with no processing capability—dumb sensors as opposed to smart sensors—we can advance structural health monitoring and put networks on structures that actually tell us useful things instead of just data.” The Computer Science students are designing damage detection algorithms with special consideration for the constraints of the wireless system. Because the batterypowered sensors have limited memory and processing capability, the algorithms are designed to enable data transfer and processing within small “local communities” of sensors. Only if the data is determined to be relevant is it shared with the monitoring center. Kirill Mechitov, a CS Ph.D. student, has led the software development effort. The team has also developed an open-source toolkit for structural health monitoring. “The people in Computer Science help us implement these things from a software standpoint,” says Rice, whose area of expertise is the customized sensor hardware. “It’s

outside the civil engineering realm. We can do some limited programming, but this would not be possible without the collaboration.” Other involved CEE students include Shin Ae Jang, Sung-Han Sim and Ryan Giles, all Ph.D. candidates. For this first field testing of the system, the students have installed more than 50 sensor nodes on the local pedestrian bridge, an historic steel-truss bridge located in Mahomet, Ill. No baseline data is available on the bridge’s structural response when it was first built, but the bridge’s two identical spans enable the comparing of measurements, Rice says. When the project is complete, students will have monitored the bridge for about two years. Civil engineers from Japan also are collaborating on the bridge monitoring projects, including CEE alumnus Tomonori Nagayama (PhD 2007), who worked on the local project as a PhD student at Illinois and is now an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo. In Sep-

The U.S.-Japan team poses during a session of bridge testing. L to r: Kirill Mechitov U of I, Computer Science; Professor Yasunori Miyamori, Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan; Jennifer Rice, U of I, CEE; Shin Ae Jang, U of I, CEE; Professor Tomonori Nagayama (PhD 07), University of Tokyo; Dr. Dionysius Siringoringo, University of Tokyo; Dinh Minh Hung, University of Tokyo.

tember, collaborators gathered at Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory for the U.S.-Japan Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, which featured presenters from the University of Illinois, the University of Tokyo, the Kitami Institute of Technology, and Kajima Corporation. Sometime this year, the team plans to deploy the monitoring system on a much larger scale at the brand-new Jindo Bridge in Korea. i

Kirill Mechitov, left, and Professor Yasunori Miyamori check radio communication between two smart sensors. Data from the sensor on the bridge are transferred into the base station sensor, held by Miyamori, and recorded in the laptop computer.

Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Association—Winter 2009

Department News New seismic system for buildings tested

esearchers led by Professor Jerry Hajjar of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and colleagues are testing a new structural system that will make steelframed buildings more resilient in earthquakes. The “controlled rocking” system will enable buildings to sway during earthquakes and return to their original positions without sustaining irreversible damage. The project is being done in collaboration with colleagues at Stanford University and EDefense, the Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center in Japan. The group has been testing the system at the University of Illinois’ Multi-Axial Full-Scale Subassemblage Testing and Simulation Facility (MUSTSIM) located within Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory. The facility is part of the National Science Foundation’s George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation. The controlled rocking system is a seismic lateral resisting system that minimizes residual drifts and concentrates the majority of structural damage in replaceable fuse elements. There are three major components to the system: a stiff, steel-braced frame that remains virtually elastic, but is not tied down to the foundation and thus allowed to rock; vertical posttensioning strands that anchor the top of each frame down to the foundation and bring the frame back to plumb; and replaceable structural fuses that absorb seismic energy as the frames rock, fabricated from steel plates with water-cut diamond-shaped slits. “Currently, in moderate to large

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earthquakes, the manner in which structures withstand the earthquake is to sustain significant damage throughout the core structural framing systems,” Hajjar says. “While they are designed not to collapse, many structures are permanently damaged after such an event, such that they may need to be condemned, even if they were designed to satisfy the building code. Developing new systems that focus the damage into structural ‘fuses’ that may be replaced after the earthquake, and that self-center the structure to ensure plumbness, provides both safer and more sustainable options for building design in seismic zones.” The first phase of the project included conducting experiments at Stanford University of various fuse configurations to develop and optimize the fuse shape and characteristics. After the quasi-static testing at the University of Illinois is completed as a second phase of the project, the research will continue in 2009 with a two-thirds scale dynamic testing of the structural system on the EDefense shake table in Miki, Japan. Collaborators include project principal investigator G.G. Deierlein, and professors S. Billington and H. Krawinkler from Stanford University. E-Defense Collaborators include professors M. Midorikawa, Hokkaido University; T. Takeuchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology; and T. Hikino, Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center. Funding is being provided by the National Science Foundation, the Ameri-

Using Newmark Lab’s MUST-SIM facility, researchers conduct testing on a new system to make steel-framed buildings more resilient in earthquakes.

can Institute of Steel Construction, Stanford University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and E-Defense. In-kind funding has been provided by Tefft Bridge and Iron, MC Detailers, Infra-Metals, Prestressed Engineering Corporation, and Wagner Machine Company. i For more information on the current testing, visit the project web site at http:// cee-zzi4.cee.uiuc.edu:85/controlledRockingWebsite/trunk/Index.php. For more information on the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, visit http://nees. uiuc.edu.

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Continued from page 20 tures to imposed loadings as well as for making assessments of the condition of the built civil infrastructure including bridges, buildings, and other structures. This course culminates with a six-week project in which students work in small groups to complete all aspects of an experimental investigation. Associate Professor Arif Masud, of the structural engineering group, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME). The Fellow Grade is the highest elected grade of membership within ASME, the attainment of which recognizes exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession. Masud was elected a Fellow of ASME for making “fundamental contributions to multiscale and stabilized finite element methods for fluid and solid mechanics, and for leadership in the profession.” The certificate was awarded at the Winter Annual Meeting of ASME in Boston in November. Professor Feniosky Peña-Mora received the 2008 American Society of Civil Engineers Computing in Civil Engineering Award. The award is given to recognize outstanding achievement and contribution in the use of computers in the practice of civil engineering. Associate Professor Jeffery R. Roesler and his students won two out of the four research paper awards given at the 9th International Conference on Concrete Pavements. Associate Professor Erol Tutumluer of the Transportation Engineering program was promoted to the rank of Professor.

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Associate Professor Charles J. Werth, of our Environmental Engineering and Science program, was promoted to the rank of Professor. Werth also was appointed the Arthur and Virginia Nauman Endowed Faculty Scholar in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

hree Illinois graduate First Place students took top honJonguen Baek and ors in the recent Design Hao Wang ”Long-Lasting PaveCompetition for Universiment Structure Reties sponsored by the Fedhabilitation: Hot-Mix eral Aviation Administration Asphalt Overlay with (FAA) Offices of Safety SerSteel Reinforcement vices and Airport Safety and Netting Interlayer System.” Standards, in partnership with the American Associa- Jonguen Baek, left, and Hao Wang Entry sponsored by Professor Imad tion of Airport Executives, Al-Qadi Airport Consultants Council, the Airports Council InternaSecond Place Phillip Donovan tional-North America, and “Aircraft Wander the National Association of Effects on Unbound State Aviation Officials. Aggregate Layers.” The competition allows Entry sponsored by students at U.S. colleges Associate Professor Erol Tutumluer and universities to address technical challenges in AirThird Place port Operation and Mainte- Phillip Donovan Hasan Ozer nance; Runway Safety/Run“A Fast and Autoway Incursions; and Airport mated Approach for Monitoring Groove Environmental Interactions. Deterioration at AirA panel of FAA, industry, and port Pavements.” academic experts chose the Entry sponsored by winners. Challenges are inProfessor Al-Qadi. terdisciplinary, encouraging participation from many enAbout CEAT gineering, technology, and The Center of Exscience disciplines. cellence for Airport Students were required Technology (CEAT) to reach out to airport opis a research cenerators and industry experts ter with its home to advise them in their proin CEE at Illinois. posals and to help them as- Hasan Ozer CEAT was founded sess the efficacy of their proin 1995 as an FAA posed designs/solutions. It Center of Excelprovided a framework and incentives lence focused on airport pavement isfor quality educational experiences for sues, and has since broadened to include college students and to raise student wildlife issues, anti-icing, and lighting. awareness of airports as a vital and In 2004, the O’Hare Modernization Prointeresting area for engineering and gram (OMP) initiated a research program technology careers. through CEAT that targets technical isCEE graduate students affili- sues related to construction of new and ated with the Center of Excellence extended runways at O’Hare Internationfor Airport Technology (CEAT) took al Airport. The Federal Aviation Adminisfirst, second, and third place awards tration (FAA) is part of the Department of in Airport Operation and Mainte- Transportation and is responsible for the nance. safety of civil aviation.

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Department News IDOT pledges $15 Million to Illinois Center for Transportation research By Leslie Sweet Myrick he Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) will invest more than $15 million over the next three years to continue funding transportation research by the Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT). The new Intergovernmental Agreement between IDOT and ICT, effective July 1, represents a 70 percent increase over the first threeyear agreement that created ICT in the summer of 2005. “We appreciate the confidence shown by IDOT and will continue the research advancement in transporta-

almost 40 researchers, both at Illinois and other schools. In addition, it has supported more than 55 of our young, talented graduate students, and this number is rising every year.” As outlined in the agreement, ICT will continue to develop effective technologies that improve safety and reliability, reduce congestion, improve utilization of the state’s infrastructure, and optimize the limited resources of IDOT. The center will also provide support for the administration, development, and management of technical studies, research projects, and technology transfer programs for IDOT.

The Accelerated Transportation Loading ASsembly (ATLAS) at ATREL, part of its full-scale pavement testing facility, is capable of evaluating multiple transportation support systems under real environmental and vehicular loading conditions.

tion,” said ICT Director Imad Al-Qadi, Founder Professor of Engineering at Illinois. “Through much hard work and support from many, the ICT research of the past three years has been responsible for supporting the work of

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Since its 2005 inception, ICT has grown to become one of the leading transportation centers in the nation. The center’s varied research includes developing better designs for pavements that use recycled materials, improving work zone

safety, implementing technologies to improve bridge safety and monitoring, and utilizing alternative energy sources such as wind. Headquartered at the Urbana-Champaign campus, ICT funds transportation research on all three U of I campuses and out-sources funds and research projects to private researchers and other universities. The center has also been actively working with alternative energy research. “Especially at this time of high oil prices and heightened environmental awareness, ICT is proactively working to provide solutions for sustainable transportation systems, renewable energy, green engineering, and safe, durable, and less congested transportation systems,” Al-Qadi said. David Lippert, Bureau Chief of Materials and Physical Research at the Illinois Department of Transportation, credited ICT with giving IDOT access to leading researchers and helping the agency solve technical problems. “Though not a substitute for a much needed capital program, the research effort will help us stretch our dollars and work smarter,” Lippert said. “We are thankful for support from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) which provides transportation research funds and the University providing the required matching funds to make this effort possible.” The center is located at the Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory (ATREL) in Rantoul, Ill. The 47-acre facility has 60,000 square feet of laboratories and three major buildings for transportation research. i

Railroad engineering program expansion on track after industry gifts

ess than two years after generous gifts from industry enabled the expansion of CEE’s railroad engineering program, the program is stronger than ever and still growing. Changes have included a new teaching position, an expanding research program, an additional class offering, greater interest among undergraduates, and a new railroad engineering student organization. Illinois’ railroad engineering program was already North America’s largest and most highly regarded when significant gifts from CN, CSX, Hanson Professional Services, and the George Krambles Foundation allowed for new growth. Increasing opportunities in rail due to an aging work force and industry growth have led to increased investment in railroad engineering education on the part of railroad companies, such as CN and CSX. Hanson, a consulting engineering firm that serves the railroad industry, and the Krambles foundation, which counts railroad engineering education among its charitable interests, also responded to the need for more educated rail professionals. The infusion of capital at Illinois led to the hiring of another railroad engineering faculty member, Lecturer J. Riley Edwards (MS 06). Edwards and Railroad Engineering Program Director Christopher P. L. Barkan now have more time to devote to students and growing the Railroad Engineering Program. “Now that there are two of us, we get to have more interaction with the students,” Edwards says. “We get more face time with the undergraduates and the grad students.” To expand course offerings, Edwards and Barkan developed a new course, CEE 498RD Railroad System Planning and Design. The class offers students a comprehensive, integrated understanding of the process of planning and designing a railroad engineering project from concept through construction. It is the program’s fifth course offering.

Edwards, who presents several railroad engineering lectures in CEE’s Introduction to Transportation class, has noticed greater interest among undergraduates in enrolling in the railroad engineering classes. His presentations highlight the basics of railroad engineering, the expanding job and internship opportunities, as well Students in CEE 498RD Railroad Project Planning and Design visited as the chance for un- the BNSF Memphis Intermodal Expansion Project (photo) and the dergraduates to be CN Johnson Yard Project, both in Memphis, Tenn., to see real-world involved in research examples of capital expansion projects that are under construction at projects while still in two major Class I railroads. college. In addition, information about the health of the rail in- into a position of leadership as industry dustry and the optimistic job outlook is a requirements and opportunity drive the welcome message. need for schools to establish or re-estab“That’s the thing that gets them really lish programs. This year, at the request excited,” Edwards says. of AREMA’s Education and Training ComInterest has grown so much that this mittee, the University of Illinois hosted year saw the establishment of Illinois’ first the Railroad Engineering Education Symstudent chapter of the American Railway posium, a three-day meeting of 29 repreEngineering and Maintenance-of-Way sentatives from 26 schools in the U.S. and Association (AREMA), for which Edwards Canada who have expressed interest in serves as faculty adviser. It is only the sec- developing programs. Industry profesond of its kind in the nation, he says. Stu- sionals were also on hand as attendees dent officers are busy planning activities for received an introduction to railroad enthe academic year. gineering and guidance on incorporatThe research program has expanded, ing it into their curricula. too, Edwards says. An example is a new re“It was a huge success,” says Edwards, search collaboration with Edwards and Pro- who adds that just a handful of universifessor David A. Lange, funded by the Asso- ties now teach railroad engineering but ciation of American Railroads’ Technology that interest is high. “There’s a thirst for Scanning Program, to improve the design students to hear more than just highway and performance of concrete ties. Multi- engineering in their transportation engidisciplinary projects with colleagues in the neering classes.” departments of Electrical and Computer Helping other schools catch up can Engineering and Mechanical Engineering only elevate the quality of research and also peak students’ interest, he says. instruction, as well as service to the inIllinois’ foresight in holding onto rail- dustry, Edwards says. road engineering when most schools were “It’s not advantageous for us to have dropping it from their curricula after World the only railroad engineering program in War II has now thrust the Illinois program the U.S.,” he says. i

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Department News Glaucio Paulino invested as Donald Biggar Willett Professor

arlier this year, CEE celebrated the investiture of Professor Glaucio Paulino as a Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Civil Engineering. Paulino is a member of the structures group with expertise in the area of computational mechanics. He has taught graduate and undergraduate classes in the mechanics of materials, fracture mechanics, plates and shells, continuum mechanics, tensor analysis, methods of structural analysis, the finite element method, and the boundary element method. A large audience of Paulino’s colleagues and students were on hand April 28. Special guests included Paulino’s wife, Ebertilene, and their daughter, Rafaela. Speaking at the event were Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Linda Katehi; College of Engineering Dean Ilesanmi Adesida; Professor and Head Robert H. Dodds Jr.; CEE alumnus William F. Baker (MS 80), partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; and Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University. “People in the field of mechanics can be loosely grouped into two categories,” Huang said. “One is what I call the model-developer. These

people develop tools for others to use to solve problems. The other group, I call the problem-solvers. These people apply mechanics principles to solve important engineering and science problems. Prof. Paulino is really good at both.” A member of the faculty since 1999, Paulino is Technical Director of the Midwest Structural Sciences Center, a multidisciplinary center of the U.S. Air Force. His contributions in computational mechanics include the development of methodologies to characterize deformation and fracture behavior of existing and emerging materials and structural systems. His recent research work spans topology optimization for large-scale and multiscale/ multiphysics problems. He has worked to increase collaborative work between the scientific communities in mechanics and materials from the U.S. and developing countries through workshops funded by the National Science Foundation, including events in Brazil, Argentina and South Africa. Paulino’s contributions to the scientific literature include a new book, The Symmetric Galerkin Boundary Element Method (Springer 2008). The Willett Professorships were established by Willett’s wife, Elizabeth Marie Henning Willett, in honor of her husband,

who attended the University from 1916-1922. He left the University six credits short of earning a B.S. degree from the Department of Civil Engineering. During his speech, Paulino showed computer animated images demonstrating aspects of his research. He also recognized and thanked his family, special guests, students and the CEE staff. “Our department has been consistently ranked number one, and there is a reason for that,” he said. “We have excellent people at every level.” i

CEE professors well-represented on University’s list of excellent teachers The following CEE faculty members made the spring 2008 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students:

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Student Organizations Chi Epsilon As the Alpha chapter of Chi Epsilon enters the fall of 2008, new and interesting events are under way. With the largest initiate class to date, active members are constantly busy instructing initiates on how to complete their requirements for this special process which has occurred here since 1922. Our former president of Chi Epsilon, Brian Schertz, recently went to the national conclave at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. There he represented the founding chapter of Chi Epsilon and discussed issues that affect the Society at a national level. He was also able to see how the organization has affected so many people in positive ways. Our officers are planning various social and service events along with the general meetings for Chi Epsilon initiates, members, professors, and any alumni who wish to get involved with some of the best and brightest that the U of I has to offer. There is always a demand for speakers, alumni sponsorship, mentoring, and employment resource presentations. For more information, email our president, Melissa Berena (mberena2@illinois.edu). —Kurt Lindeman, Engineering Council Representative American Society of Civil Engineers The student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) helps students become involved with the industry. Company representatives are invited to speak at our monthly general meeting about projects and experiences. ASCE also works with companies to arrange field trips to projects like the O’Hare expansion, Block 37 and Trump Towers. In addition to industry-related activities, ASCE also encourages social and outreach events among students and faculty. Events include Crane Bay Cinema, intramural sports, Steel Bridge, Concrete Canoe, Relay-for-Life, peer advising, professor lunch, and, this year, our first annual Freshman Welcome Picnic (featuring pizza, Wii, games, and upperclassmen). Want to get involved? ASCE is always looking for alumni to speak at our meetings about interesting projects they may have worked on; practicing advisers for our chapter; company sponsorship for our chapter, Concrete Canoe, or Steel Bridge; and companies to arrange field trips. For more information, check out our website at http://www.asce.org or contact us by email. —Matt Sugihara, secretary, msugiha2@illinois.edu American Concrete Institute Since our start in 2003, the student chapter of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) has encouraged student interest and involvement in concrete materials, structures and construction. We host monthly meetings and seminars with speakers from the concrete industry or research fields. Recent speakers included Sal Villalobos (MS 06) of CTLGroup; Brad Pfanenstiel of BASF; James Lafrenz of CH2M Hill; and Sky Sanborn (BS 99, MS 00) of Broeren Russo Construction. Each semester we send students to the ACI International

conventions, to participate in the student competitions, become involved in committees, and attend technical presentations. Every March we take part in Engineering Open House by helping visitors create a personalized mortar coaster and hosting a high-strength concrete cylinder competition. At least once a semester, students represent our chapter at ACI-Illinois Chapter meetings or conference events. We have also made posters for display in our concrete lab to describe standard testing procedures for students to reference. We encourage any alumni involved in either ACI or the concrete construction industry to speak at our meetings or to suggest a field trip idea. Visit http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/aci for contact information. —Kerry Hall, President AREMA Student Chapter This fall, civil engineering students at Illinois formed our University’s first student chapter of The American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA). AREMA is the professional association representing the railway engineering community with the goal of “developing and advancing both technical and practical knowledge and recommended practices pertaining to the design, construction and maintenance of railway infrastructure.” In spring 2009, the chapter will begin having regular meetings with speakers and presentations from the railroad industry and will plan field trips to expose students to the railroad environment. We are looking for speakers, hosts for field trips, and funding for 2009. For more information about getting involved with this exciting new group of talented railroad engineers, please contact John Zeman (jzeman2@illinois.edu) or visit the AREMA Student Chapter website: http://cee.uiuc.edu/railroad/CEE/ Railroad%20Students/AREMA.asp. Geotechnical Engineering Student Organization The Geotechnical Engineering Student Organization (GESO) will offer many events for U of I geotechnical engineering students, faculty, staff and alumni during the 2008-2009 school year. GESO, a student chapter of the Geo Institute (GI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers, will provide students opportunities to attend “International Foundation Congress & Equipment Expo 2009” and participate in the competition during the conference. GESO will also hold lectures by prominent researchers and practitioners on important geotechnical engineering topics and issues. GESO also plans to display its exhibits in the 2009 Engineering Open House at U of I. Other events include general meetings, discussion group meetings, and various social activities like picnics and field trips. We are always interested in collaborating with alumni who wish to help us organize field trips or speak at general meetings and other events. As part of our goal to act as a link between the industry and students, we would like to collaborate with different geotechnical engineering consulting and

Members of the Concrete Canoe team compete at the national competition in Washington, June 2007. Photo: Kevin P. Casey, courtesy of ASCE construction companies in arranging lectures and field trips. Please visit our website at http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/GESO to view photos of past events and contact our officers. —Brett Zitny, President; Manzoor Hussain, Secretary. International Association of Hydraulic Engineers The student chapter of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) is one of the two student chapters with specific focus for students in the Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering (EHHE) program. The student chapter gathers regularly to share experiences and perform various community outreach functions, for example conducting laboratory tours for visiting primary, elementary and high school students. In addition, the chapter takes part in numerous engineering projects and IAHR activities such as the Biennial Congress. The chapter is primarily responsible for the Engineering Open House preparation in the Hydrosystems Laboratory, arranging research/ industry water-related seminars, discussions and/or workshops, field trips to local hydraulic works, and informal collaborative activities with neighboring student chapters such as the International Water Resource Association. Visit the Illinois IAHR student chapter on the web at www.illinois.edu/goto/ iahr. —Brett Zitny, president Structural Engineers Association As a new year rolls around, the Structural Engineers Association is working on new ideas and plans for its members. SEA is always looking to connect structural engineering and architecture students to alumni and corporate representatives currently in the industry. Along with General Meetings throughout the semester, SEA is currently working on plans for various social events. For more information or a chance to work with the Structural Engineers Association, contact our President, Aurora Ebert, at ebert2@illinois.edu.

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Dodds inducted into NAE membership

Dennis Benoit, P.E., (BS 76, MS 78) was promoted to associate of the firm Hubbell, Roth & Clark Inc. Benoit provides direct oversight for projects managed out of the company’s Grand Rapids, Mich., office, and technical expertise for complex water and wastewater projects performed by the firm. John Coombe (MS 78), executive vice president of Hanson Professional Services Inc. of Springfield, Ill., received the national 2008 Community Service Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). The award recognizes a principal or manager of an ACEC member firm who has made a significant contribution to the quality of life in his community. Coombe has been an active volunteer in a number of organizations, John Coombe including serving on the board of directors of the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce; serving as co-chairperson of last year’s United Way of Central Illinois campaign, which raised $3.2 million; answering phones for the Children’s Miracle Network telethon; and coaching youth hockey.

Professor and Head Robert H. Dodds Jr. was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) on October 5 in Washington, D.C. He was cited “for contributions in non-linear fracture mechanics and applications to practice in nuclear power and space systems.” Dodds is pictured at right with his wife, Deana Bland-Dodds.

Luis E. García (MS 72) is Partner and President of Proyectos y Diseños Ltda., Consulting Engineers, a structural engineering consulting firm in Bogotá, Colombia, that he founded in 1980.

Mete A. Sozen (MS 52, PhD 57) delivered the Newmark Distinguished Lecture Oct. 7 on campus. Pictured here with CEE Associate Professor Arif Masud, Sozen spoke on “Illinois Concrete.” Sozen is the Kettelhut Distinguished Professor of Structural Engineering at Purdue University.

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Ian Goulter (MS 77, PhD 79) is currently Vice-Chancellor and President of Charles Sturt University, a multi-campus University in New South Wales, Australia. In that position, which he has held since 2001, he has attempted to maintain his connections with water resource engineering Ian Goulter through supervision of doctoral students, examination of dissertations and the odd review of technical articles. He and his wife Julie have four children, the eldest born while he was studying at Illinois, and dispersed around Australia and the globe, namely, Brisbane, Tokyo, Bathurst, and Toowoomba. He was elected to Fellow Continued on page 30

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Milton R. Sees, P.E., (BS 75) Secretary, Illinois Department of Transportation By Leslie Sweet Myrick llinois residents are most likely to notice the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) when they travel through a work zone, see an orange truck, or need a snowplow. But this often-overlooked agency is responsible for moving people and goods safely through an elaborate transportation network that ranks third in the nation in number of highway miles, includes 8,000 bridges, and serves as a crossroads for the nation’s commerce. Additionally, IDOT oversees several public airports and is the first responder for all natural disasters, which have recently included record amounts of ice and snow, the flooding of the Mississippi River, and a surprising earthquake. As Secretary of Transportation, CEE alumnus Milt Sees (BS 75) heads this agency. Sees’ path to this position began right after high school when he worked at the state’s transportation agency (now known as IDOT) as an engineering technician. However, his journey to his current position—like a typical Illinois roadway—had some twists and turns. After leaving IDOT for the Air Force, he then attended the University of Illinois on the G.I. bill, focusing on pavement design and drainage. He returned to IDOT for a period of time after college, but then he was recruited for a variety of professional positions that included working on a railroad relocation project, serving as a lobbyist for the precast concrete industry in Springfield and later as a lobbyist for

the steel industry, which manufactures concrete reinforcement, in Washington, D.C. He then moved back to Illinois, to Mt. Vernon, where for 15 years he managed a corporation that had several precast concrete plants. He was elected a city councilman and later mayor—civic roles that required interaction with IDOT and provided exposure to state government as he pursued transportation upgrades for his community. Through this combination of professional and civic experiences, Sees found a passion for the funding, political, and community relations components that are so important to the implementation of infrastructure projects. “I realized that funding would always be critical to ensure that infrastructure was available to support economic growth for communities and the state,” he says. These experiences also resulted in an invitation to return to IDOT in 2006, where he says, “The biggest challenge I face is providing an acceptable level of services for users of the system given the reduction of revenue needed to maximize benefit using minimum resources.” Overall, Illinois has fared well, he says. “The old cliché of getting more for less—we’ve gone way beyond that. We’ve been able to use technology and experience to maintain that ever-growing system and ever-growing needs. Both in the state of Illinois and nationally, there is a real crisis with our infrastructure. And although I wouldn’t call it a success, I would say that Illinois has fared very well in adapting to that environment. We continue to be ahead of the curve in being able to provide a level of service that is

capable of providing economic growth and development for the state.” In a speech at a recent traffic and safety conference in Champaign, Sees discussed the challenges his agency faces in competing with other crises and how infrastructure always seems to get pushed back. “[Infrastructure] is a tough message to sell with wars, financial crisis, etc., but keeping our infrastructure up is necessary, and not doing that will cause the economy to suffer,” he says. Although he must constantly stress infrastructure needs, Sees is pleased to note the progress Illinois has made in terms of traffic safety and engineering, including positive results on a recent motorist survey. The state is on target to have significantly fewer fatalities on state roadways in 2008. Sees’ fond memories of Illinois include working with such committed and dedicated faculty members as Moreland Herrin and Marshall Thompson, whom he still has the pleasure of seeing at transportation conferences and events. And because of his role at IDOT, he still runs into many of his U of I classmates who are now employed by IDOT, local agencies, the Federal Highway Administration, or who work as engineering consultants and contractors. Sees cherishes his memories of Illinois and credits his education with his career successes. He is proud that a new scholarship program introduced by IDOT will allow more people to have similar experiences. The agency reContinued on page 30

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cently announced it will provide scholarships for to up to 20 students per year. By doing this, IDOT hopes to build relationships with civil engineering students and provide exposure to the agency. “It is very competitive trying to recruit young engineers to state government,” he says. “Competing with the private sector is difficult, and there is a sense that government may not afford the best career path for success. However, I would say that IDOT is a great place to start your engineering career. You get such a broad spectrum of experience in a compressed timeframe.” Sees lives in Springfield with his wife, Kathy, a vocalist and pianist, who teaches private piano and voice lessons. They have two grown daughters. i For more information on the scholarship program, visit http://www.dot. il.gov/scholarships/.

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of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2008 and to Diplomate of the American Academy of Water Resources in 2008. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, Australia.

Engineers. The medal honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to bridging environmental engineering research, education and practice.

Polat Gülkan (PhD 71) was elected president of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) during its Fourteenth World Conference in Beijing. Gülkan will serve from 2010-2014, and will be president-elect until he takes office. Gülkan has served IAEE as Director (1996-2004) and Executive Vice President (2004-2008). He is editor of EERI Earthquake Spectra.

Lawrence E. Thomas (BS 76 MS 77), vice president and chief operating officer of Baxter & Woodman Inc. Consulting Engineers, has been named an honorary member of the American Water Works Association.

James E. Monsees (PhD 70) received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Underground Construction Association of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. The award was given in recognition of Monsees’ outstanding contribution to the U.S. underground construcJames Monsees tion industry over his 48-year career. He is an expert in the design and construction of underground structures and in soil and rock mechanics. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and was named a Distinguished Alumnus by the CEE Alumni Association in 2000. Sergio “Satch” Pecori, P.E., (BS 73, MS 74), president and CEO of Hanson Professional Services Inc., has been selected to serve as a member on the Industry Advisory Panel of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Building Operations. As one of nine members, Pecori will serve in an advisory capacity with respect to industry and academia’s latest concepts, methods, best practices, innovations, and ideas related to project management.

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Melvin G. Spiese (BS 76), a Brigadier General in the U.S. Marine Corps, is the commanding general of the Training Education Command at Quantico, Va.

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Makram T. Suidan (MS 73, PhD 75), the Herman Schneider Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati, was awarded the Frederick George Pohland Medal given by the the Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors and the American Academy of Environmental

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Thomas Bartolomucci, P.E., S.E., (BS 82, MS 83), a vice president with Hanson Professional Services Inc., recently celebrated 25 years with the company. Pascal G. Luciano, P.E., S.E., (BS 83, MS 84)recently joined Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s Tinley Park regional office as a senior project manager serving Hanson’s railway market.

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David A. Sabatini (BS 81), a David Ross Boyd Professor and the holder of the Sun Oil Company Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma (OU), has been named a co-Editor-in-Chief Pascal G. Luciano for the Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (JCH). JCH is an international journal publishing scientific articles on the physical, chemical and biological processes influencing the behavior of organic and inorganic contaminants in the subsurface. He has also been selected to receive the 2008 Outstanding Educator Award from the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. The award is given annually to “recognize and honor the development of innovative teaching methods, including the application of these methods in the classroom and the dissemination of methods to the academic community.” The award is sponsored by John-Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Andrew D. Canopy, P.E., PLS, (BS 93) recently joined Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s Peoria office. As a senior civil engineer and professional land surveyor, he serves the energy and industry market. Alan W. Flenner (MS 93), a Commander in the Navy Reserve and an attorney with High, Swartz, Roberts & Seidel in Norristown, Penn., completed a successful, two-year assignment as the commanding officer of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion. Flenner led more than 500 active duty and reserve component Seabees (engineers and construction workers). He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. Thomas W. Jones (MS 92) is chief of the Office of Budget and Programs at the U.S. Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, D.C. He was formerly the commander of the U.S. Coast Guard Research & Development Center. In 2004, Jones was named Coast Guard Engineer of the Year. Eric T. Monico (BS 96) has been selected as the Air Mobility Command Outstanding Active Duty Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Field Grade Officer of the Year (wing level and below) for 2007. Monico is the intelligence flight commander, 15th Air Mobility Operations Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, Calif. He has been selected for an assignment to Headquarters, Joint Chiefs of Staff Intelligence Directorate, at the Pentagon. Casey Wagner, P.E., (BS 97) is managing principal for the Houston office of Walker Parking Consultants. Wagner joined Walker in 1996 and has extensive experience in technical quality assurance, client relationship management, and staff workload projections.

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Monica Crinion (BS 07) has joined the consulting engineering firm of Crawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc. She is a civil engineer assigned to the firm’s Aurora Highways and Bridges Group. Crinion recently assisted with the design and detail of the Wood Street Bridge replacement project over BNSF Railroad and Indian Creek in Aurora. Travis D. Painter (BS 04, MS 06) is a railroad design engineer Continued on page 32

Professor Benito Mariñas’ visit to the Japan Sewage Works Agency. Sitting, l to r: Kentaro Mizuta; Hiroyuki Fujimoto (MS 91); Makoto Jingu (MS 06), Engineer Exchange Program Coordinator; Haruo Miyake (MS 02) ; Nobuyuki Horie. Standing, l to r: Makoto Ibaraki; Minoru Sasaki (MS 98); Mariñas; Hitoshi Nakazawa (MS 88).

or nearly 25 years, the Japan Sewage Works Agency (JSWA) has been sending engineers to CEE at Illinois to earn master’s degrees in environmental engineering. Professor Benito Mariñas traveled to Tokyo in September to celebrate the continued success of the agency’s Exchange Engineer Program and visit with CEE’s JSWA alumni. The JSWA serves local governments in Japan by planning, designing and managing the construction of sewage facilities. Nearly half of the agency’s 500 employees are civil engineers. The organization sponsors the Exchange Engineer Program, which covers both full tuition and a student stipend, to provide its engineers with the education and experience they need to continue bringing the best environmental engineering practices to the communities they serve. “What they really value is not only that they are coming to a really strong program, but also that they are getting international experience,” says Mariñas, who is currently serving as coordi-

nator on the U of I side. Mariñas is the third professor to serve in this capacity. The first was Professor Richard S. Engelbrecht, who helped establish the program and who in 1993 became the first non-Japanese citizen to receive the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, from the Emperor of Japan. The position was later assumed by Professor Vernon L. Snoeyink. During Mariñas’ visit to Japan, he attended a dinner hosted by JSWA at its Tokyo headquarters. Also present were five of the seven CEE alumni who have completed the MS program at Illinois since the establishment of the exchange program in the 1980s. The group celebrated the success of the program and its anticipated continuation. Another JSWA student is expected to arrive on campus in fall 2009, promising to increase the number of loyal Illini practicing environmental engineering in Japan. i Headline translation: JSWA - UIUC: A tradition of excellence. Japanese headline courtesy of CEE student Tasuma Suzuki.

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Alumni News Nominations invited: alumni awards If you know of a deserving colleague who graduated from CEE, please request a nomination form for the Distinguished Alumnus Award or the Young Alumnus Achievement Award from Carla Blue, Program Coordinator, 1117 Newmark Lab, 205 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801; fax 217-333-9464, blue1@illinois.edu. You must fill out the form, but we

Distinguished Alumnus Award This award recognizes professional accomplishments or unique contributions to society of civil engineering graduates. Recipient will have distinguished themselves by outstanding leadership in the planning and direction of engineering work, by administration of major engineering work, by contributing to knowledge in the field of civil engineering, by fostering the development of young engineers, or by uniquely contributing to society. They should be dedicated to the ideals of the profession as evidenced by their contributions to the recognition and promotion of civil engineering activities and professional organizations. CEEAA board members are ineligible until at least two years after their terms have ended. UIUC faculty members are ineligible for at least two years after ending their faculty status.

Homecoming visitors William F. Sieczkowski (BS 87, MS 89) was on campus with his family for Homecoming, and they stopped by Newmark Lab to see the Ira O. Baker Prize plaque, on which Sieczkowski’s name has been displayed since he won the honor in 1987. With Sieczkowski are his wife, Sara, holding their dog, Gabby; daughter Lindy, 15; and sons (from left) Alex, 11; Robbie, 9; Tommy, 6; Paul, 10; and Billy, 13.

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will assist you as needed. Nominations are due no later than July 15 for consideration for the following year’s awards. Please make sure you make a clear case for the professional achievements and contributions of your nominee. A nominee will be considered for an award when the form is completed and returned by the nominator. Criteria for the awards are:

Young Alumnus Achievement Award This award recognizes a graduate who has received his or her most recent degree from the University within the past 10 years, with special consideration for those candidates who are 35 or younger. Recipients shall have distinguished themselves in their fields of endeavor and achieved a level of accomplishment significantly greater than that of other recent graduates. Recipients shall have demonstrated one or more of the following: outstanding technical advancement or achievement; design innovation and excellence; enhancement of civil and environmental engineering education; outstanding leadership resulting in significant accomplishments; exemplary service to the profession. Consideration is given to volunteer activities in civic, religious or charitable groups and organizations.

Continued from page 31 in Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s Peoria regional office. Before joining Hanson, Painter was a design engineer for Hatch Mott MacDonald in Dulles, Va. He assisted with projects including rail design for Norfolk Southern mainline realignment in Walton, Va., and drainage design of new passing siding for Canadian Pacific Railway in New Milford, Pa. Kevin Spitz (BS 08) joined Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s Chicago regional office. As a civil engineer, Spitz serves Hanson’s railway market.

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Ann-Perry Witmer Ann-Perry Witmer (BS 2002), a Senior Project Engineer for Crispell-Snyder, is the 2008 recipient of the Leon A. Smith Award. The award is presented annually to a member of the Wisconsin Water Association (WWA) in recognition of distinguished service to the association and for exceptional activity on behalf of the drinking water industry. She was cited for working to ensure the success of the organization’s humanitarian efforts. A civil engineer in the State of Wisconsin, Witmer has chaired the Water for People/Wisconsin Water for the World Image and PR Committee and has served on the Newsletter, Water Efficiency, Awards, and Annual Planning committees.

In Memoriam Professor Emeritus John D. Haltiwanger 1925-2008

John D. Haltiwanger, 83, died on Thursday, November 27, in Urbana, Ill. The son of David S. and Susan D. Haltiwanger, he was born in Richland County, S.C., on June 10, 1925, and lived his early life in Irmo, S.C. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1945 with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering. He served in the U. S. Navy during WWII. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1948 and 1957, respectively, majoring in structural engineering. His professional career began in the fall of 1946 with his appointment as an Instructor in Civil Engineering at The Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University). He served on that faculty until 1951, taking a 15-month leave of absence to earn his M.S. at the University of Illinois. In 1951 he joined the Illinois Civil Engineering faculty. He served continuously on the U of I faculty until his retirement in 1990, except for 1977-78, during which he served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Civil Engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Throughout his career at Illinois, he was widely considered to be one of its most gifted teachers by students and fellow faculty alike. During his tenure at the University of Illinois, Haltiwanger was active in faculty governance issues and served on numerous major committees, including chairmanships of the University Senate Council of the Urbana-Champaign campus (1972-73) and the multicampus University Senates Conference (1975-76). From 1967 until 1983, except for his year at the Air Force Academy, he served as Associate Head for Un-

dergraduate Affairs of the Department of Civil Engineering. Haltiwanger served as academic adviser to U.S. Coast Guard students earning advanced degrees at the U of I beginning in 1962 and from 1980-83 also served as a member of the U. S. Coast Guard Academic Advisory Committee. Haltiwanger held membership in a number of professional societies including the American Society for Engineering Education, The American Concrete Institute, and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He was especially active in ASCE, serving in such positions as Chairman of the Committee on Structural Dynamics of the Engineering Mechanics Division (1959-61), Chairman of the Committee on Research of the Structural Division (196467), and as a member of numerous other technical committees. From 1990 until 1998, he served as Central District Councilor and member of the National Council of Chi Epsilon, the national Civil Engineering Honorary Society. Through numerous University research contracts and consulting assignments, he was closely associated with the nuclear weapons effects program, including silobased weapons systems, of the U. S. Department of Defense (DOD) from the mid1950s until 2002. During this period, he also served as a consultant to numerous agencies of the DOD and in special cases to private engineering firms on problems related to hardened structures when subjected to blast effects. He co-authored, with N. M. Newmark, The Air Force Manual for the Design of Hardened Structures (1962). With the passage of time, that volume became generally recognized as the defining piece of work of that era in the blast and vulnerability fields. From 1991 until 2000, through the firm of H & H Con-

sultants Inc., he served as a consultant to the U.S. Defense Nuclear Safety Board on a variety of issues related to the structural adequacy of U.S. Department of Energy production facilities. Among the more significant of the professionally associated awards that he received during the course of his career were a Public Service Commendation from the United States Coast Guard, the Meritorious Public Service Award by the U. S. Coast Guard, the Bliss Medal of the Society of American Military Engineers, and election to Honorary Membership in the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was an active member of the First United Methodist Church of Champaign for over 40 years. In addition to his devotion to his family, superb teaching abilities, and major contributions to our countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s military defense, Haltiwanger was well known for being a southern gentleman. He shared his charm, humor and wit with everyone he encountered, leaving each one feeling better. He is remembered fondly and will be missed by many. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Margaret; their two daughters, Rae Ann Matthews (Gary) of Avon Lake, Ohio, and Lynn Peck (Glenn) of Rochester, NY; two grandchildren, David and Megan Matthews; and one niece and two nephews. i

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In Memoriam 1930s Eber J. Riley (BS 36) died Dec. 22, 2007. He was 86.

1940s Haluk Akol (BS 47) died January 5, 2008. He was 82. Haluk was a structural engineer and architect who started his own structural engineering firm in 1958 and his architectural practice in 1963.

1950s Harold R. Coldwater (BS 54) died Sept. 28

at his home in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 82. Coldwater worked for NASA for 33 years.

Mustafa Khalil Egyptian politician Mustafa Khalil (MS 48, PhD 51) died June 7 in Cairo, Egypt. He was 88. Khalil was a close aide to former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and held public office in Egypt for more than 20 years. He served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1978-1980 and as Egyptian foreign minister from 1979-1980. He was a key player in the negotiations between Egypt and Israel at Camp David, moderated by President Jimmy Carter, which ended in an historic peace treaty between the two countries in 1979. Khalil was born in Kalyoubieh, Egypt, in 1920 and earned his first civil engineering degree from Cairo University in 1941.

Ralph A. Easley Jr. (BS 57) died Dec. 29, 2007. He was 73. He founded his own consulting firm, Andy Easley Engineering, in Evansville, Ind. John T. Guthrie (BS 58) died March 28. He was 80. Guthrie was retired from his position as Division Engineer at Master Builders Inc. David R. Howard (BS 57) died May 2. He was 78. He was a retired Colonel in the U.S. Air Force and worked for the Oakland, Calif., school district and with San Francisco State University. Daniel G. Rinck (BS 52) died Dec. 10, 2007, in Panama City, Fla. He was 76. Rinck worked for Caterpillar Tractor Co. for most of his life. Bernard H. Spinner (BS 50) of Springfield, Ill., died Sept. 23. He was 82. He was a civil engineer at Sverdrup and Parcel, retiring after 40 years of service.

1960s John “Jack” Healy (BS 60, MS 62) of

Springfield died July 17. He joined Hanson Professional Services Inc. in 1962, retiring as senior vice president in 1995. Robert S. Shierry (BS 60) of Champaign died Sept. 6. He was 76. Shierry was a lifelong employee of the Northern Illinois Water Corporation.

2000s Joseph G. Kudabeck, 30, of Urbana, Ill.,

formerly of St. Charles, passed away Oct. 22, 2008, at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. He was a current CEE student at the time of his death. Matthew Travis Stanley (BS 02), of Mt. Zion, Illinois, Civil Engineer for the City of Decatur, August 18. He was 28.

After WWII, he came to the United States to earn his master’s degree and Ph.D. from CEE. When he first returned to Egypt, he spent six years on the faculty of Ain Shams University. He entered government service as the Transport Minister in 1958. More recently, he served as the deputy chairman of the National Democratic Party. Khalil was awarded the U of I Alumni Achievement Award in 1981. He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.

Benjamin B. Ewing Retired CEE professor Benjamin B. Ewing died June 6 on Lummi Island, Wash. He was 84. Ewing was born on April 24, 1924, in Donna, Texas. He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1944, shortly before leaving for a tour of duty with the Navy Seabees in the Pacific Theater during WWII. He was stationed in Okinawa, where he met his wife, Elizabeth Malone, a fellow Texan and staff assistant with the Red Cross. After returning from Okinawa, Ewing and Malone wed in 1947. They were married more than 61 years and had three children—Melissa, Douglas and Joshua. Ewing earned his master’s degree in civil engineering

at the University of Texas in 1949 and his Ph.D. in sanitary engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1958. He then began a long career in teaching and research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While at U of I, Ewing founded the Institute for Environmental Studies, with the mission to pursue research, education and public service in the area of restoring the human environment. He served as director from 1973 to 1985, when he became Director Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Engineering. In addition to his teaching and research activities, he was a consultant to both industry and sanitary districts on the treatability of industrial wastes and on improvements of waste treatment facilities. He published numerous articles in professional journals and was active in scientific and professional societies, including the American Society of Civil Engineers, in which he was a Fellow.

Diego Echeverry-Campos Diego Echeverry-Campos (BS 85, PhD 91) died Aug. 24 in Bogotá, Colombia. He was an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Los Andes University in Bogotá, where he developed a prominent M.S. program in Construction Engineering and Management. During his tenure as a graduate student in CEE, he was affiliated with the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. Between 1996 and 1998, Campos was a visiting professor at U of I during the summer and taught Construction Cost Analysis and Estimates. His research interests included economic analysis of housing for low income families in developing countries, construction process improvement, information technology, and project management. He is survived by

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his wife and three children. Los Andes University has established a scholarship in his name to assist the best Colombian students with limited economic means to study civil engineering. Los Andes University will match any funds contributed towards this scholarship on a one-to-one basis. To contribute toward the scholarship, please send a check with a note indicating that the funds are a donation for "Fondo Quiero Estudiar - Diego Echeverry," and with your complete contact information to: University of the Andes Foundation, Attn. Jo Ann Arias, 126 East 56th Street - 12th floor, New York, NY 10022.

IDOT

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New Tire Design

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Tack Coat for HMA

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Special Projects Engineering

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IT Support

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Editorial Support

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Conference Training & Support

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ICT Administration

Imad Al-Qadi

IDOT

Illinois Center for Transportation

Bassem Andrawes

National Academy of Sciences

Response Modification Factors

Bassem Andrawes

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DeKalb County Bridge Collapse Investigation

Bassem Andrawes

IDOT

Prestressed SCC Bridge Box & I-Girders

Bassem Andrawes

National Academy of Sciences

Active Confinement of Bridge Piers Using Shape Memory Alloys

Carlos Arboleda

Southern Polytechnic State

Constructability of PCC pavements

Grzegorz Banas

Wiss Janney Elstner Assoc

Cyclic Tests on Reinforcing Bar Mechanical Connectors

Christopher Barkan

Monsanto

Railroad Transportation Safety of Phosphorus

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Solar Powered Flashing Beacons

Rahim F Benekohal

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Wireless Detection Systems Evaluation

Rahim F Benekohal

IDOT

Queue & Users Cost in Highway Work Zones

Tami C. Bond

Argonne National Lab

Linking Technological Change and Socioeconomic Models

Tami C. Bond

NSF

CAREER: Carbonaceous Particles of Tarry Origin

Tami C. Bond

US Dept of Energy

Optical Properties Of Particles At Very High Humidity

William G Buttlar

Koch Materials Group

Improvement of Koch Material Company’s STRATA

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Not Specified

Fracture Energy of Asphalt Institute Mix Specimens AAPTP Aging Study

Ximing Cai

Other & special use

Fort Bend County Flood Plain Web Tool Development

Ximing Cai

Internat’l Food Policy Research Institute

Basin Focus Project - The Yellow River Basin

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NASA Shared Services Center

Developing Seasonal Predictive Capability

Ximing Cai

US National Science Foundation

Planning for Drought Preparedness in the Watershed Context

Ximing Cai

US National Science Foundation

Interdependence Resilience and Sustainability of Infrastructures

Cai, Ximing

US National Science Foundation

CAREER Quantifying Environmental Ecological Relationships

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ERES Consultants

Testing of GTR Mixtures for the Illinois Toll Road Authority-ARA

Samuel H Carpenter

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Content & Pavement Performance

Mark M Clark

American Water Works Association

Phytoplankton Fouling

Mark M Clark

US National Science Foundation

Development of Highly Efficient Aquaporin-Based Membranes

Robert H Dodds

Marshall Space Flight Center

Modeling of Delamination Fracture in Advance Aluminum-Lithium Alloys

Amr S Elnashai

US National Science Foundation

Mid-America Earthquake Center

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Development of MAEVIZ-Laclede

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Other & special use

A Proposal for the Development of MAEVIZ-CenterPoint

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University of Nevada - Reno

Seismic Simulation and Design of Bridge Columns

Amr S Elnashai

NEES Consortium Inc

NEES-Operations & Maintenance of the Equipment Site

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CERL Champaign

Catastrophic Event Planning Scenarios

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CAREER: Distributed Multi-Objective Optimization

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US National Science Foundation

Optimizing Airport Construction Site Layouts

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Qatar University

Distributed Multi-objective Optimization in the State of Qatar

Robert J Finley

National Energy Technology Laboratory

An assessment of Geological Carbon Sequestration Options

Sponsored Research 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. Listed are the sponsoring agencies, the faculty members who are conducting the research, and project names.

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University of New Hampshire

Phosphorus Removal

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US National Science Foundation

Reduced Extracellular Electron Shuttles

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Office of Naval Research

Numerical Modeling and Large-Scale Lab Experiments

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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

Hydraulic Model/Canoe Chute, Fish Passage, Chicago River North

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Office of Naval Research

Evolution of rippled beds under oscillatory flow

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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

Chicago Waterway System Environmental Modeling

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USDA Agricultural Research Service

Enhancement Of Channel Evolution Model Concepts

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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

TARP Modeling - Phase II of the Calumet TARP System

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US Department of Interior

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Stanford University

NEESR-SG: Controlled Rocking

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Georgia Institute of Technology

NEESR II

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RW Howe and Associates PLC

Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment for Memphis Light-Gas and Water

Youssef Hashash

Northwestern University

Center for the Study of Subsurface Space Development

Youssef Hashash

US Geological Survey

Nonlinear Soil Behavior

Youssef Hashash

National Academy of Sciences

Framework for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Maps, Pakistan

Edwin E Herricks

Ohio State U Research Foundation

Understanding Ecological Processes

Daniel A Kuchma

IDOT

Brass Breakaway Couplings

Daniel A Kuchma

University of Washington

NEESR-SG: Seismic Behavior Analysis

Daniel A Kuchma

US National Science Foundation

NEESR-SD: ExVis Tool and Case Study Implementation

Praveen Kumar

US Dept of Commerce NOAA

Influence of Deep-Rooted Vegetation Environments

Praveen Kumar

US National Science Foundation

Interactions Between Water Energy Carbon Dynamics

James M Lafave

University of Michigan

Innovative Applications of Damage Tolerant Fiber-Reinforced

David A Lange

BPC Airport Partners

Center of Excellence for Airport Technology

David A Lange

W R Grace & Co

Crack Control in Composite Decks

David A Lange

FAA William J Hughes Technical Center

Center of Excellence for Airport Technology

James H Long

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Foundation Piling Design

Benito Marinas

US National Science Foundation

Transport of Solutes & Macromolecules

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Syndicate des Eaux dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ile de France

Inactivation Kinetics of Coxsackievirus

Arif Masud

National Academy of Sciences

Development of Computational Mechanics Infrastructure

Arif Masud

US National Science Foundation

Analysis of Structures Containing Mechanical Joints

Barbara S Minsker

US National Science Foundation

Environmental Information System, Hypoxia in Corpus Christi Bay

Eberhard Morgenroth

In-Pipe Technology

Influence of Bioaugmentation

Eberhard Morgenroth

CERL Champaign

Hydrogen-Enhanced Reactor Treating Perchlorate and RDX

Thanh Nguyen

USDA

Investigating The Spread Of Antimicrobial Resistance

Scott Olson

IDOT

Monitor Extreme Integral Abutment Bridges in IL

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IDOT

Integral Abutment Design

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US Geological Survey

Instrumentation, Measuring Response to Potential Liquefaction

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US National Science Foundation

NSEER-SG: Soil Improvement Strategies

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Pavement Program Planning Using Benefit Cost Analysis

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GIS Software

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Highway Program Planning Using Benefit Cost

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IDOT

Safety Performance Functions for IL

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US National Science Foundation

CAREER: Information Mechanisms

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University of Minnesota

Transport of Gravel by Turbidity Currents

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University of Minnesota

Long Runout Turbidity Currents

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NCED

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Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP

Topology Optimization Applied to Tall Building Design

Glaucio Paulino

US National Science Foundation

Functionally Graded Concrete for the Civil Infrastructure

Feniosky A Pena-Mora

US National Science Foundation

Workshop, Research and Education Issues

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US National Science Foundation

Group Interactions, Advancing US National Priorities

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US National Science Foundation

Civil & Environmental Engineering

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US National Science Foundation

Collaborative Research: Integrated Conflict Claim and Dispute Avoidance

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US National Science Foundation

Interactive Ubiquitous Visualization of Construction Progress Monitoring

Marvin D Piwoni

City of Chicago

Data Development, Computer Modeling, Chicago

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US National Science Foundation

Ultrasonic Imaging for Concrete Structural Elements

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Concrete Temperature Specification

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US National Science Foundation

Collaborative Research

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US National Science Foundation

Sensing Method, In Situ Assessment, Steel Corrosion in Concrete

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National Academy of Sciences

Investigation of a Full Lane Acoustic Scanning Method

Nancy J Rader

Food & Agriculture Research Act

IL Councili on Food & Agricultural Research Program

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Commercial TCPavements Ltd

Acceleration Testing of Thin Concrete Pavements

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IDOT

Analysis of I-57 Recycled CRCP Cores

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Office of Naval Research

Vapor Recovery by Electrothermal Swing Adsorption

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CERL Champaign

Development of Digital Optical Method and System

Mark J Rood

US National Science Foundation

Microwave-Swing Adsorption

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US National Science Foundation

Understanding Hydrologic Implications

Vernon L Snoeyink

US National Science Foundation

Water CAMPWS

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Caterpillar Inc.

Caterpillar’s CSPH Mesh-Free Methods Code

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Boeing Company

Performance Evaluation Optimization and Scalability of BCFD

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National Institute of Building Sciences

Infrastructure And Implementation Requirements, National Post Earthquake

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Army CERL

Effect of Basements on Building Dynamic Response Spectra

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Performance-Based Design, Testing, Advanced Damping Systems

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US National Science Foundation

Hybrid Simulation in an Earthquake Impact Assessment Context

B.F. Spencer

US National Science Foundation

US-Japan Coop Program, Sensors Smart Structures Mechatronic

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US National Science Foundation

Multi-Scale Smart Sensing for Monitoring Civil Infrastructure

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US National Science Foundation

Smart Structures Technology Summer School

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US National Science Foundation

Sustainable Catalytic Treatment Process for Perchlorate

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The AWWA Research Foundation

Oxidation and Removal of Pharmaceutically-Active Compounds

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US National Science Foundation

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MetaMateria Partners

Cementitious Samples Testing and Analysis

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Geophysical Survey Systems Inc

GPR Based Railway Track Subsurface Condition Indices

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Virginia Tech Inst & State Univ

Application of LADAR

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Caterpillar Inc

Lab Characterization, Stone Matrix Asphalt Compaction

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Aggregates for Subgrade & Subbase

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US Department of Energy

Modeling Multiscale Multiphase Multicomponent Subsurface Reactive Flows

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US Department of Interior

Carbonaceous Material Fractions in Sediments

Charles J Werth

US Department of Energy

Influence of Wetting and Mass Transfer Properties

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US Department of Education

Enhanced PhD Quality and Diversity in Environmental Engineering at U of I

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USDA Coop State Rsrch Educ & Ext

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The department thanks those who have joined the University of Illinois Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Council with a commitment of $25,000 or more. Listed below are members who joined before June 30, 2008, and who have given to the department.

Individual Donors 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, 2007, to June 30, 2008, are listed below. 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 E. Kelley, jekelley@illinois.edu, (217) 333-5120. Gifts made at the College of Engineering level will be recognized in the College of Engineering annual donor report.

Friends Lalit R. Bahl and Kavita Kinra William A. and Marjorie G. Bardeen Barbara Boulware Camp Robert Eisner Jr. and Elizabeth Robinson Eisner Mary E. Engelbrecht Anna Allen Farnsworth William R. and Shaun P. Gaston Eugene Grandone Watson A. and Celeste F. Healy Morris L. Hecker Jr. and Martha Z. Hecker Edwin E. and Susan L. Herricks James C. and Arlys R. Hunt Ralph E. Kelly and George-Anne Oliver Kelly Jon C. and Judith S. Liebman Paul M. and Susan A. Mayfield Richard A. and Joan F. Newmark William E. O'Neil Charles E. and Janice C. Olson Walter W. and Patricia A. Rust Vern and Jeannie Snoeyink David K. and Gina M. Stark A. Robert and Mary K. Twardock Albert J. Valocchi and Anne H. Silvis Yi-Kwei and Irene Yu-Ten Wen Ruth Chao Yen 1915 Carl A. Metz 1922 A. L. Ralph Sanders 1923 Edward Balson Trust Frederick W. Shappert 1924 Ernest C. Hartmann 1925 Harvey L. Goodell 1927 Will K. Brown Raymond L. Moore 1928 W. Leighton Collins 1929 Ralph L. Palmer

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1930 Herman H. Jost Jr. and Marguerite L. Jost J. Wallace Miller 1931 Edwin C. and Margaret L. Franzen 1932 Glenn E. Hodges Estate William P. Jones Jr. Harry F. Lovell Trust Rudolph A. Monson Nathan M. Newmark 1934 Ralph J. Epstein William D. Fooks Trust Edgar J. Luetzelschwab Arthur C. Nauman George Pagels Jr. Trust 1935 James G. Clark 1936 Stephen W. Benedict Estate Herbert L. Frank Robert C. and Dorothy R. Hieronymus Estate 1937: Richard Jaccoud Estate Carl W. Muhlenbruch 1938 Vernon Glenn and Margaret B. Rathsam 1939 Edward S. and Elsie T. Fraser Chester P. Siess Estate Harold J. Spaeder Estate Frank K. and Alice L. Veasman 1940 John C. and Mary M. Houbolt Nick and Addie Pokrajac Louis W. Schumm 1941 Spencer F. and Maev C. Brown Benjamin H. and Ruth J. Janda Eugene T. and Emma K. Simonds 1942 Robert L. and Gertrude A. Clapper Harold R. and Alice L. Sandberg 1943 Louis A. and Clara M. Bacon Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein Otto W. Schacht Jr. and Otto W. Schacht

1946 Robert J. and Stella F. Mosborg Wayne C. and Eleanor H. Teng Benjamin E. and Roberta R. Weeks 1947 Oliver H. Briggs Jr. Estate John W. and Catherine Briscoe Charles R. and Shirley H. Fago Robert E. and Shirley M. Hamilton Walter E. Hanson Herbert O. and Mary L. Ireland Narbey and Margaret Khachaturian Charles H. Mottier Jr. and Audrey Kramer Mottier John E. and Loudean Schmitt 1948 Hugh H. Connolly Melvin and Theda Febesh James H. and James H. Gallivan James C. and Mary B. Wood 1949 Armen G. Avedisian Gordon B. and Monalea Dalrymple Richard H. Foley and Joanne Bresee Foley H. Harvey Hunt and Marilyn Smith Brown Hunt Wendall Lee Rowe 1950 Edward A. and Helen E. Brooks George L. Crawford Jr. Burton A. Lewis Myron E. and Ruth P. Oppenheim William E. and Margarite D. Stallman 1951 William K. Becker Louis Bowman Jr. and Corrine Bowman Ralph C. and Nancy M. Hahn William J. and Elaine F. Hall William D. and Patricia Holmes Harry D. Rimbey 1952 John E. Barrett George F. and Carol Heck Kenneth G. Medearis and Mary Barlow Medearis John A. and Barbara Mifflin William H. Richardson Mete A. and Joan Sozen 1953 Pryce L. and Dorothy L. Keagle Dohn H. Mehlenbacher and Nancy J. Moss Arthur R. Robinson Leroy J. and Mary L. Ruesch

Geoffrey and Helen Yeh

Eugene R. and Elaine A. Wilkinson Harry K. and Carol A. Windland

1954 David C. and Carolyn M. Crawford Leo J. Dondanville Jr. and Ann L. Dondanville Delon and Sonia M. Hampton Robert E. and Doris B. Lenzini Robert J. Mayerjak Robert W. and Donna Mikitka Maurice A. and JoAnn Wadsworth

1962 Joseph P. and Mary Stuart Colaco John S. Endicott George M. C. and Ann Fisher

1955 James D. and Wylma M. Bergstrom Thomas J. Byrne and Jane Armstrong Eli W. and Georgia A. Cohen M. T. and Marlene Davisson Don U. Deere Jerry J. Felmley USAF Thomas K. Liu and Olive M. Chen-Liu Joshua L. Merritt Jr. and Eleanor W. Merritt

1964 Woodrow C. Chenault Jr. and Miriam I. Chenault William D. and Lisa H. Snider Larry M. and Rose Marie Sur

1956 Robert H. and Donna J. Anderson Donald E. and Arlene B. Eckmann Gerald R. and Audrey G. Olson Stanley T. Rolfe and Phyllis Williams Rolfe Robert A. Sachs 1957 Alfredo H. and M. Mae Ang Ronald R. and Margaret M. Watkins James T. P. Yao 1958 W. Gene and Lynd W. Corley Guy E. and Babette Jester Benjamin A. Jones Jr. and Georgeann Hall Jones 1959 Neil Middleton and S. Ann Hawkins Thomas C. H. and Patsy Lum Robert E. Morgan Joseph H. and Joan R. Pound Donald L. and Bertha Rissling 1960 Ronald D. and Mary Jane Crowell Barry J. and Pauline G. Dempsey Lyle W. and Nancy M. Hughart Richard W. Miller and Janet L. Pritchett Miller Norman C. and Sharon L. Riordan Robert S. and Helen J. Shierry 1961 Richard J. and Sylvia C. Eckhardt William A. Huston Jr. and Delores Huston

1963 Edward J. and Norma G. Cording Charles Robert Marek and Sunny L. Suhr Marek

1965 Russell C. and Cornelie G. Hibbeler 1966 Norman Allen and Lee Ann Dobbs Richard E. Hulina and Bonnie Ramond Hulina Paul D. and Barbara C. Koch Frank J. and Jeanette Nesseler Bert E. and Cathy J. Newton David A. Pecknold Marvin A. and Karen K. Wollin 1967 Patrick S. and Millie L. Au Victor C. Corsetti Arthur R. Jensen Jr. and Judy B. Jensen 1968 Donald G. and Della M. Beiser Thomas B. and Jeannie M. Berns Augusto Rodriguez Gallart Stephen R. and Sally A. Kannaka Robert G. and Flo Anne O'Brien George K. and Mami Varghese 1969 Richard J. Erickson Clement C. Lee and Ellen Liaw Lee 1970 Douglas J. and Jean Ratty Chidley Joseph M. and Patricia A. Kaiser Albert Y. C. Wong and Fernadina Chan 1971 James L. Willmer 1972 Steve R. and Lynn L. Roeschley Doris I. Willmer

1973 Michael A. Burson and Gloria Devacht Burson Ronald W. and Lois T. Crockett Sergio 'Satch' and Rosemary Pecori 1974 Miguel A. and Nora E. Andrada C. Phillip E. and Lena K. Borrowman James J. Brown Richard Cramond Jr. and Helen A. Cramond Thomas L. and Sue C. Hannula Gerald E. Quindry Richard J. and Linda J. Sieracki 1975 Robert W. and Andrea C. Cusick Robert H. Dodds Jr. and Deana Bland-Dodds John A. Frauenhoffer 1976 Nancy L. Gavlin 1977 Perry C. and Linda S. Hendrickson 1978 John P. and Mary Ann Coombe Donald J. and Patricia L. Janssen Jon E. and Barbara B. Khachaturian Jeffrey C. Schneider Damon S. Williams 1979 Thomas A. and Suzanne M. Beck Bryan D. and Kathy M. Wesselink 1980 William F. Baker Tracy K. and Kathy P. Lundin David J. Stoldt and Constance S. Wright

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1981 Clarke and Karen P. Lundell 1983 Richard F. and Elizabeth B. Cavenaugh Richard D. Payne and Jane Goldberg Larry C. and Rhonda S. Wesselink Kathryn A. Zimmerman 1984 J. Kevin Roth and Sara Anderson Long 1985 James P. and April Messmore 1986 David G. and Janet S. Peshkin Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Winter 2009

New graduate fellowships: Alumnus who valued education inspires graduate fellowship fund

new fund to provide graduate felRavi contriblowships in the department has uted significantly been established to honor the mem- to the science and ory of a late CEE alumnus who placed art of offshore a high value on education. With gifts e n g i n e e r i n g . A totalling $750,000, Kavita Kinra and her very significant husband, Lalit Bahl, endowed the Rav- and lasting contriindar K. and Kavita Kinra Fellowship in bution was in the Civil and Environmental Engineering area of Fatigue Life earlier this year to honor Kinra’s late calculations for offhusband, Ravindar K. Kinra (PhD 68). shore structures. “Ravi always impressed upon any- In 1976, with aubody and everybody that education thor Jan Vugts, he was very important,” Kinra says. “We published a paper felt this was a good way to honor Ravi’s entitled, “Probabimemory and follow his desire for peo- listic Fatigue Analple always to study further and get a ysis of Fixed Offgood education. That was a wealth, he shore Structures.” Lalit Bahl and Kavita Kinra said, that no one could take away from Thirty-one years you.” later, in 2007, that The fellowships will be awarded paper was recognized by the American design, construction and installation with first preference to students whose Society of Civil Engineers as one of the of offshore oil and gas production defamilies reside in India as well as those groundbreaking papers of its time, and it velopment systems. of Indian descent. Both Ravi and Kavita had two children, was enrolled into the Offshore Kinra and her late husTechnology Conference Paper Anjali and Rajeev, both now grown. band were born in India, Ravi died in 1990. Hall of Fame. and Kinra says that Ravi Kinra’s husband, Lalit Bahl, was a In addition to that groundbenefited from such breaking work, Ravi devel- longtime friend of Ravi, whom he had charitable giving during oped procedures for the siz- known since they were classmates at the course of his own ing of stiffened plates and IIT Kharagpur. While Ravi earned his education. shells, used in the design and doctorate in CEE, Bahl was earning “We felt that that’s construction of deepwater his through U of I’s Department of how Ravi came to this fixed platforms as well as ten- Electrical and Computer Engineering country, that’s how he sion leg platforms and other (ECE). Bahl and Kinra also honored achieved what he did,” floating systems. Much of Bahl’s late wife, Joan, with a similar Kinra says. this work found its way into gift to the ECE department. Ravindar K. Kinra Ravindar K. Kinra The first recipient of the Bahl-Kinthe American Petroleum Inearned his bachelor’s degree at the stitute’s (API) Recommended Practices ra fellowship in CEE is Ashna Chopra, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) documents and was then mandated by a Ph.D. candidate in the Construction Kharagpur, his master’s degree at the the regulatory standards and code writ- Materials group. Chopra grew up in University of British Columbia in Van- ing bodies for use by the entire industry. India and completed a dual degree couver, and his Ph.D. at the University By his own API committee work, he was course at the Indian Institute of Techof Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He himself a major contributor and principle nology Bombay. spent his career as a staff civil engineer author of three significant RecommendBahl and Kinra married in 1998. with Shell Oil Co. ed Practices documents related to the They live in Long Island, NY. i

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Help Yourself – Help CEE

Dean’s Club

The department is honored to acknowledge members of the Dean’s Club of 2007-2008. Listed below are those who gave $500 or more to CEE from July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008.

FRIENDS: Lalit R. Bahl & Kavita Kinra Clyde & Jeanette Baker Josh Boltz Soledad Juamiz Esmilla Susan Felmley Ray K. Forrester Marcelo H. Garcia & Estela Rodriguez-Canga Shirley M. Hamilton Samuel L. & Helen K. Kershaw David A. and Rise R. Lange Paul M. and Susan A. Mayfield Mary Barlow Medearis Richard A. and Joan F. Newmark Bernard T. Noonan William E. O'Neil Cheryl Sanderson William C. Schindler Mark Urbassik Albert J. Valocchi and Anne H. Silvis Timothy J. and Lisa F. Wallender Ruth Chao Yen 1939 Edward S. and Elsie T. Fraser 1943 Dan S. and Catherine M. Bechly 1947 Oliver H. Briggs Jr. Estate Walter E. Hanson Herbert O. Ireland Narbey and Margaret Khachaturian 1948 Melvin and Theda Febesh Thomas D. Y. Fok Nicholas A. and Carol N. Weil 1949 Gordon B. and Monalea Dalrymple John D. and Margaret L. Haltiwanger 1950 Edward A. and Helen E. Brooks Burton A. Lewis 1951 Louis Bowman Jr. and Corrine Bowman

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Ralph C. and Nancy M. Hahn William J. and Elaine F. Hall

1963 David M. Lee

1952 John E. Barrett

1965 Thomas L. and Wendy I. Kueck Frederick B. Plummer Jr. PhD

1953 Richard E. and Janet L. Aten Arthur R. Robinson Geoffrey and Helen Yeh 1954 Ashley B. Craig Jr. David C. and Carolyn M. Crawford Robert E. and Doris B. Lenzini Robert W. and Donna Mikitka Maurice A. and JoAnn Wadsworth 1955 Thomas J. Byrne and Jane Armstrong Jerry J. Felmley USAF Joshua L. and Eleanor W. Merritt Glenn E. Nordmark 1956 Gerald R. and Audrey G. Olson

1966 Norman Allen and Lee Ann Dobbs Larry B. Salz 1967 Vernon Eugene Dotson Hershell Gill Jr. Arthur R. and Judy B. Jensen 1968 Charles H. Dowding III and Jane D. Dowding Robert G. and Flo Anne O'Brien George K. and Mami Varghese 1969 Richard J. Erickson William J. Pananos

1957 Gary G. and Donna J. Stokes Ronald R. and Margaret M. Watkins

1970 John F. and Linda S. Harris Joseph M. and Patricia A. Kaiser Kenneth C. and Amy Jo Malten

1958 W. Gene and Lynd W. Corley Eugene J. Fasullo and Maxine J. Hyrkas H. S. Hamada William H. and Shirley M. Walker

1971 Michael G. and Cinda J. Berry Bengt I. and Kathryn A. Karlsson Douglas J. and Jacqueline A. Nyman James L. Willmer

1959 Henry J. Eppel Neil M. and S. Ann Hawkins Thomas C. H. and Patsy Lum Joseph H. and Joan R. Pound Donald L. and Bertha Rissling

1972 Dean J. Arnold Lawrence Paul Jaworski Doris I. Willmer

1960 Barry J. and Pauline G. Dempsey Lyle W. and Nancy M. Hughart 1961 William A. Huston Jr. and Delores Huston Eugene R. and Elaine A. Wilkinson 1962 Robert A. and Sharon L. Bloechle Richard N. Wright III and Teresa R. Wright

1973 Ali Osman Akan Michael A. Burson and Gloria Devacht Burson Ronald W. and Lois T. Crockett Glenn E. Frye Thomas D. and Patricia O'Rourke Sergio and Rosemary Pecori Fred N. and Ellen A. Ranck 1974 James J. Brown Richard and Helen A. Cramond David and Diane M. Darwin Stanley M. Herrin and Elizabeth A. Small Michael Ray Lewis

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Richard J. and Linda J. Sieracki 1975 Marco David and Mary Lynn Boscardin John A. Frauenhoffer Robert R. Goodrich Jr. James Robert Harris Alan J. and Karen A. Hollenbeck Blaine F. and Kathryn G. Severin 1976 Jeffrey A. Liggett 1977 Stephen D. Bost Philip E. Diekemper Perry C. and Linda S. Hendrickson Michael G. Lombard and Bette Wallerstein Lombard Terry L. and Joette L. Rice 1978 Donald J. and Patricia L. Janssen Jon E. and Barbara B. Khachaturian Damon S. Williams 1979 Thomas A. and Suzanne M. Beck John L. and Karen E. Carrato Michael J. and Christina U. K. Drouet Bruce A. Johnson Stuart A. and Susan V. Klein Kevin A. Michols John D. Osgood David A. and Kathleen A. Twardock Bryan D. and Kathy M. Wesselink 1980 William F. Baker Tracy K. and Kathy P. Lundin Julian Rueda and Pamela C. Piarowski David J. Stoldt and Constance S.Wright 1981 Kevin J. and Carey A. Dulle

1982 Steven Blinderman Brian E. Healy Donald J. Nelson 1983 Kenneth M. Floody Howard P. Walther Bartholomew E. and Deborah A. Weldon Sharon L. Wood Kathryn A. Zimmerman 1984 Paul J. Kilgallon Jeanette A. Walther 1985 Anthony J. and Roxane M. Pasquinelli 1986 David G. and Janet S. Peshkin Karim A. Valimohamed 1987 Robert J. Risser Jr. and Martha A. Boling-Risser 1988 Brian G. Ramsay 1991 Kyle E. and Candice M. Camper 1992 John A. and Gail L. Balling 1994 Ron Juamiz Esmilla 1995 Christopher William Stori and Kelly Ren Hayashi 1999 Jonathan E. and Michelle A. Lewis

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Sponsoring Associates

New scholarship: Golf Course Builders Association of America

he foundation of the Golf Course Builders Association of America (GCBAA) has established a scholarship fund to provide undergraduate scholarships in CEE. The Golf Course Builders Association of America Foundation Scholarship Fund will offer a $1,000 award to a junior or senior with a grade point average of 3.0 or higher. One may wonder what building golf courses has to do with civil and environmental engineering. Quite a bit, really, says Tom Shapland (BS 74), a member of the GCBAA and president of Wadsworth Golf Construction Company in Plainfield, Ill. “Environmental issues are rampant in any land development project,” Shapland says. “Water systems, drainage systems and erosion control systems can easily take up a third of the budget of a golf construction project. The proper implementation of erosion control measures can change a mandated task into a meaningful result.” Throughout different stages of his career at Wadsworth, Shapland has been able to use the knowledge he gained in the CEE program with respect to soil mechanics, surveying, concrete, calculus and hydrology. Working in the golf course building industry led him to become a part of the GCBAA, for which he has served as president. Due to the relationship the principals in Wadsworth had with the University of Illinois, including the founder being a graduate of the Landscape Architecture program, it was logical for the firm to partner with the GCBAA Foundation to create this scholarship. —Dani Gray i

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The department gratefully acknowledges the Sponsoring Associates of 2007-2008. Listed below are those who gave $100 to $499 to CEE from July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008.

FRIENDS Daniel W. Cassens Richard H. Cox L. Benjamin Curet Ann L. Dondanville Emmanuel Drake Brian M. Frederiksen Moreland Herrin Keith D. Hjelmstad Jimmey L. Kaiser John E. Kelley Ralph E. Kelly Jon C. Liebman Arif Masud Susan B. Matthews William H. McAdams Ahmed Mohideen Marion L. Nelson Timothy L. Nosbisch Margaret D. Rockwood Mark J. Rood Elizabeth A. Small Vern Snoeyink Lee A. Spacht Marian Taosaka Eric A. Terzaghi Beverly N. Thomas John A. Triandafilidis Stephen E. Triandafilidis Evyenia L. Triandafilidis Robert S. Turner Robert V. Whitman Leo G. Woerner Kam W. Wong 1938 Paul H. Kaar 1942 William H. Munse 1943 Alfred D. Webster 1944 Carl F. Mueller 1945 Edward Robert Baumann Curt A. Matyas

1946 Robert J. Mosborg 1947 Ernest H. Kidder Robert D. Mahan Victor R. Mazzucco William A. Randolph James E. Stallmeyer Wilho E. Williams 1948 Tung Au Dean M. Duboff Herbert A. Schroeder 1949 Donald W. Kaminski Robert J. Mathews Edward R. Pershe 1950 John R. Ross James R. Sims William E. Stallman Anestis S. Veletsos 1951 Gerald E. Hann Joseph J. Jeno Henry J. Karpinski Dean C. Merchant Richard H. Pao Thomas J. Regan Jr. 1952 Dale J. Henry Clair E. Hutchison Armas Laupa 1953 Nancy B. Brooks John D. Landgren Charles L. Sheppard Donald E. Thompson Clement D. Zawodniak Eugene M. Zwoyer 1954 Ferd E. Anderson Jr. Harold R. Coldwater C. Terry Dooley Robert A. Fosnaugh Michael P. Gaus John C. Guillou Paul A. Kuhn Max H. Lorig Michael Zihal 1955 Thomas M. Riordan Ronald A. and Lois Wisthuff

1956 John H. Cousins USA Robert G. Grulke Everett E. McEwen Van A. Silver 1957 K. W. Derby German R. Gurfinkel David R. Howard Mickey Kupperman Wallace W. Sanders Virgil A. Wortman 1958 John M. Brandt Robert L. Gende Frank A. Perry Jr. 1959 Ralph J. Coffey Robert L. Dineen John A. Djerf Anthony F. Gaudy Jr. John A. Gray William T. Hanna Donald W. Pfeifer Walter A. Von Riesemann 1960 Lester D. Bacon Wilbur C. Buckheit Jack Healy Wen-Hsiung Huang Richard F. Lanyon Brendan T. Nelligan Norman C. Riordan Robert S. Shierry Marshall Ray Thompson 1961 Walter L. Allen Jr. Harry M. Horn J. A. Kuske Shamsher Prakash PhD 1962 J. Dewayne Allen Shankha K. Banerji Ned H. Burns Bing C. Chin James O. Jirsa Robert N. Leslie Darrell G. Lohmeier Stephen J. Madden III Wallace S. Prescott 1963 Jack H. Kotter William Kreutzjans Robert G. Krimmel Allen N. Reeves

1964 Jerrold R. Asal Larry M. Campbell Robert L. Carter Theodore W. Nelson Jr. Kenneth G. Nolte Maynard A. and Mona C. Plamondon Richard L. Ruddell Russell R. Rudolph Larry M. Sur Kenneth R. Tunstall Richard A. Wiseman 1965 Michael T. Doering Jr. Robert A. Dudek William N. Lane Dennis R. Pipala Raman K. Raman 1966 Barry R. Balmat Marvin E. Criswell Paul David Ellis Harold D. Meisenheimer Alan Zimmer 1967 James J. Adrian David M. Kollmeyer Mehdi Tasooji Harry J. Woods Jr. Roger W. Wright 1968 Bruce Ellingwood Thomas F. Hintz Winston E. Kile Chester R. Kropidlowski Donald F. Meinheit 1969 Alan B. Butler Harry L. Jones Arthur J. Loebach Jr. Gary R. Marine Kenneth M. S. Mark Vincent C. Wroblewski Jr. 1970 Larry A. Cooper Theodore M. Denning Roger R. Fitting Robert B. Hunnes F. Jay Lindhjem William E. McCleish Earl J. Schroeder 1971 Gregory D. Cargill Robert S. Giurato

Robert W. Hahn Walter S. Kos Stephen W. Moulton Dennis D. Niehoff Lawrence W. Rasbid Lee Scherkenbach Lyle Duane Yockey 1972 Robert J. Andres Guy R. Christensen Philip A. Gazda James A. Hanlon Kevin J. Kell Joseph A. Reichle William W. Wuellner Jr. 1973 Charles Barenfanger Thomas A. Broz Jeffry E. Lamb Dennis D. Lane Richard A. Lundin Clinton C. Mudgett James K. Wight Theodore R. Williams 1974 G. Tim Bachman Robert T. Brummond Luke Cheng Jose R. Danon Kent R. Gonser Edward C. Gray Daniel A. Guill Patrick W. Healy Robert W. Horvath David V. May Gary A. Rogers Martin E. Schneider Allen J. Staron Robert H. Wicklein Patrick F. Wilbur 1975 L. Jerome Benson Larry A. Bolander Robert H. Dodds Jr. Jack S. Dybalski Marion S. Erwin Douglas C. Noel Joel Smason 1976 Paul H. Boening Dale E. Book James T. Braselton Armen Der Kiureghian Dennis W. Dreher Donald A. Jakesch Patrick Kielty Michael J. Koob

Richard W. Liesse Mark E. Meranda Robert J. Montgomery Terrence L. Schaddel Edward N. Wade 1977 David L. Dunn Gary W. Ehlert Douglas W. Fiene Richard J. Kerhlikar John P. Kos Michael T. McCullough Daniel K. Moss Mehdi Saiidi Dietmar Scheel David A. Schoenwolf Thomas G. Struttmann 1978 William T. Arnold II John P. Coombe Louis H. Dixon Richard C. Frankenfield Charles N. Haas Jeffrey W. Lake Mary L. Miller Jack P. Moehle James T. Olsta Steve R. Raupp John R. Wolosick 1979 Patrick K. Callahan Thomas E. Havenar Kenneth W. Hecht Louis J. Le Mieux Linda G. Schub John C. Singley 1980 James M. Casey James K. Clinard Mark R. Ericksen Michael D. Grimm Ya-Hu Shen Steven J. Sieracki David T. Soong Frank R. Wengler Kenneth E. Wilson III 1981 Ronald J. Boehm Mark D. Bowman John C. Hill Stephen L. Johnson Christopher J. King Clarke Lundell Enrique C. Maisch Naneil R. Newlon David A. Sabatini Joseph Scarpelli

Dawn M. Szatkowski Dale R. Wilhelm 1982 Paul A. Fruin Stephen M. Heinrich PhD Richard M. LaBarge Jesus O. Lopez James M. Nau Ronald J. Roman David W. Snyder Kevin M. Wilson John A. Worley David K. Wuethrich 1983 Robert E. Bassler III Bryan R. Castles Benjamin D. Martin David E. McCleary Richard D. Payne Brian E. Peck Carl Weber Larry C. Wesselink 1984 Delph A. Gustitus Theodore K. Rothschild David W. Rydeen 1985 Michael J. Cronin Melissa A. Kennedy George E. Leventis William A. Rochford Richard P. Sprague Peter J. Stork 1986 Andrew J. Querio 1987 Hiroshi Hayashi Kevin W. Kleemeyer Timothy G. LaGrow Steven A. Wirtel 1988 David T. Nauman 1989 John W. Hackett Daniel S. and Helen T. May John E. Naughton III Charles D. Zapinski 1990 John Jeffery Blue Allen B. Gelderloos 1991 Edward W. East

Cynthia Levey Jose Robert L. Keiser Gregory S. McLellan 1992 Shaoying Qi Ranji S. Ranjithan 1993 Eric Andrew Dahl Brent P. Eastep Hector Estrada Mark F. Rhodes 1994 Scott M. Olson 1995 Kevin R. Collins Kevin W. Sutherland Theodore F. Szyszka Jr. Stephen H. Wassmann 1996 Nathan F. Schwartz 1997 Amjad J. E. Aref Edward H. Conderman Michael M. Wieczorek 1998 Rachael K. Berthiaume Jennifer L. Harris John R. Hayes Jr. Elizabeth A. Murphy Amy J. Wildermuth 1999 Jeffrey R. Hill Joshua Saak 2001 Peter E. Cotugno James Robert Klein Thomas Edward Riordan Vito C. Schifano 2002 Matthew C. Walters 2003 Guangyao Yao 2004 Michael J. Waldron 2005 Marcia S. Hayes 2006 Philip T. Endress

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Contributors

The department gratefully acknowledges the Contributors of 20072008. Listed below are those who gave up to $100 to CEE from July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008. -

New scholarship: Deep Foundations Educational Trust and Berkel & Company Contractors Inc.

ndergraduate students in CEE with interest in the deep foundation industry have a new scholarship opportunity, thanks to the DFI Educational Trust and Berkel & Company Contractors Inc. The two organizations recently collaborated to establish the DFI Educational Trust Berkel & Company Contractors Inc. Scholarship. This $12,000 scholarship will be awarded to an undergraduate CEE student with financial need who demonstrates an interest in the deep foundation industry. The DFI Educational Trust is an independent charitable foundation of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), a technical association of firms and individuals in the deep foundations related industry. DFI has an international network of heavy construction professionals and serves as a resource for identifying and locating deep foundations specialists. By bringing together professionals in the deep foundations sector of the construction industry, DFI has created a place for discussion, inquiry, and debate where various industries have learned from each other, creating a better informed, more communicative foundations industry. Charles J. Berkel (BS 46) is a charter member of DFI, and the Chairman of Berkel & Company Contractors Inc., headquartered in Bonner Springs, Kansas. A leader in the deep foundations industry, Berkel & Company’s projects include Georgia’s Olympic Stadium, the Pentagon, the World Trade Center site, entertainment venues, hotel resorts, casinos, power plants, and high-rise buildings in almost every major U.S. city. In addition to providing deep foundation services to some of the world’s largest and most successful engineering firms and contractors, the company strongly supports the community through a number of charitable and nonprofit organizations. —Dani Gray i

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FRIENDS Celeste Bragorgos Janet M. Bly Ximing Cai Steven C. Daley John Digenan Vicki A. Dixon Carlos A. M. Duarte Joseph M. Elble Larry A. Fahnestock Cheryl A. Gantz Jamshid Ghaboussi Danielle Marie Gray Jerome F. Hajjar Youssef M. Hashash Lyman W. Heller David L. King Robert P. Knight Benito Jose Marinas Barbara S. Minsker Eberhard F. Morgenroth Leslie Sweet Myrick Glaucio H. Paulino Mickey Peyton John S. Popovics Rhonda J. Powell Gayle B. Price Jr. Kurt A. Rinehart Virginia P. Siegle Judith A. Siess Timothy J. Strathmann Leslie J. Struble Nicholas Vinci Mark A. Wandrey Becky Ann Webb Arnold R. Wieczorek Robert F. Wood Julie L. Zilles 1942 Francis D. Dietiker 1943 William A. Hickman 1947 Bernard J. Krotchen 1948 Richard W. Heil Martin J. Siebrasse

1949 William A. Parsons 1950 Paul Williams Clinebell Robert G. Currie Philip G. and Kathryn L. Dierstein Fred O. Gilbertsen Paul E. Russell 1951 George M. Bayer Yngve S. Bloomquist David A. Day Neil M. Denbo Samuel J. Errera Norman M. Lucas Wayne V. Miller Robert H. Patch IV John W. Ratzki 1953 John W. Witters 1954 Leo R. Divita Walter F. Rowland 1955 Howard Y. Fukuda William J. Mebes Robert E. Oglesby 1956 Robert E. Gates Gregorio Hernandez PhD Miroslaw Noyszewski 1957 Hans F. Bell Robert C. Brozio Samuel S. Doak Ralph Andrew Easley Jr. Steven J. Fenves Pedro Jimenez Quinones Alexander E. Scalzitti 1958 Richard J. Beck Richard A. Davino Benjamin A. Jones Jr. 1959 William H. Johnson 1960 Harold J. Abramowski James H. Aikman Jack C. Marcellis Frank A. Peterlin

E. Douglas Schwantes Jr. Gerald F. Wheeler 1961 Robert F. Bradford Jr. William L. Gamble Wayne L. Johnson Emile A. Samara Raymond E. Untrauer 1962 Joseph A. Morrone 1963 Robert L. Almond Nelson E. Funston Gerald L. Peters Richard B. Pool William G. Westall 1964 Paul D. Andresen Daniel G. Barney Bruce M. Cowan Bruce G. Goodale Judith L. Hamilton James R. Hann Toan T. Nguyen Donald H. Potter Charles E. Sandberg Donald R. Sherman Robert S. C. Wang 1965 Thomas L. Boblenz William M. Derby James M. Fisher Arthur R. Kardatzke Jr. Kenneth L. Ludwig Clarence R. Warning Richard B. Watson Harold D. Weisenborn Roger L. Zebarth 1966 Charles H. Allen Allan W. Crowther Jerry R. Divine Vernon J. and Kathy Eardley Peter C. Kohnke 1967 Dennis H. File D. Danny Ghorbani William S. Hennessy Gregory C. Martin John G. Wolan 1968 John P. Elberti Joseph Figueroa

H. Peter Kaleta Fred D. MacMurdo Robert W. Nowak James H. Tucker Jr. 1969 Thomas A. Boroni Gloria Caban-McCutcheon Gary N. Cantrell Raymond L. Engman Jerome E. Heinz Alfred G. Kalus David J. McConnell Stuart A. Moring Eric C. Pahlke Michael W. Shelton 1970 William D. Berg Chung-Yi Chiou Robert L. Fark Douglas A. Foutch Richard L. Karnopp James E. Schwing Jerome F. Thibeaux Roy K. Yamashiro 1971 Peter A. Lenzini Edmund F. Mackin Jr. William A. Rettberg Stephen T. Sonneville Eric P. Sprouls Richard J. Zdanowicz 1972 Thomas J. Cech John P. Fyie Kenneth L. Kulick Gary Marietta George P. Meister Daryl D. Moeller John A. Morris Richard C. Reed 1973 Eugene D. Brenning Larry J. Rhutasel Terry J. Rosapep Richard S. Weiss John P. Wesby Jr. Joseph W. Wuellner 1974 Daniel P. Abrams Stephen A. Leiber John V. O'Holleran 1975 David V. Bubenick James H. Evans

Michael P. Fallon James P. Hall Michael T. Matzke Douglas W. Ounanian William J. Zelnio 1976 Lawrence K. Cunningham Michael J. Doerfler Lawrence A. Kulman Jr. David E. Rensing 1977 Joel C. Maurer John H. Michael Mark W. Randolph Richard G. Stratton Jr. Daniel G. Streyle 1978 Roger W. Baugher Steven J. Bellona Darrell J. Berry Mary J. Erio Neil A. Parikh 1979 Douglas R. Brown P.E. Thomas K. Connery Robert B. Doxsee Walter J. Korkosz Jr. 1980 Gary M. Amel Keith W. Benting Michael S. Cheney John R. Jenkins Jay E. Jessen Carl M. Nagata Mark M. Petersen Daniel J. Rubel Robert H. Sues Timothy P. Tappendorf Francis P. Wiegand Jr. George Ziska Jr. 1981 Fariborz Barzegar-Jamshidi Richard M. Bennett David D. Davis Thomas W. George Neil H. Harris James P. Holloway Maureen E. Kolkka Martin E. Millburg Richard A. Nack Gregory G. Pankow Thomas F. Plinke 1982 Jeffrey L. Arnold

Jeffrey W. Darling Mark S. Engelen Thomas S. Palansky Mark S. Wylie 1983 Kirk P. Andreina Karl A. Burrelsman David L. Greifzu William T. Grisoli Daniel C. Powers Steve R. Synovitz 1984 James S. Diemer Amy M. Schutzbach 1985 Brian T. Aoki Brian M. Bottomley Donald W. Budnovich Jr. 1986 Thomas D. Knox Mary A. Recktenwalt Edmund H. Tupay Jr. 1987 Gary U. Rundblad 1988 Kevin J. Ahern Lori A. Muhs Lisa J. Taccola 1989 Anthony M. Baratta 1990 Steven P. Fessenbecker William M. Rexroad II Matthew W. Zajac 1991 James T. Coyle Ronald Michael Hubrich 1992 Daniel F. Burke Mark T. Kirk Sava S. Nedic Scott A. Twait

1995 Christian M. Carrico James D. Mitchell Richard T. Nickel Earl C. Peterson 1996 Brian Scott Heil John Kerrigan 1997 Timothy J. Kellogg Todd C. Missel Jeffrey B. Naumann Keri A. Nebes Matthew John Pregmon Jeffrey Greg Schmidt Alyssa M. Smith Tracy L. Willer 1998 Scott T. Forrest Scott R. Hartman Paul R. Ruscko 1999 Rachel A. Brennan Nathan D. Rau 2000 William H. Dunlop Shannon K. Sempsrott 2001 Eric O. Johnson Kyle A. Kershaw Matthew James Wagner Andrew J. Wilcox Jeffrey J. Williams 2002 Christopher P. Donaldson Alexander S. Garbe Beida Xie 2004 Bidjan Ghahreman

1993 Kenneth Ahn David T. Lewandowski 1994 Gregory B. Heckel Bryan J. McDermott

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Corporate and Foundation Donors The 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, 2007, to June 30, 2008. This list includes organizations that made gifts to the department, as well as those who matched gifts made by their employees.

Abbott Laboratories Fund Accelerated Remediation Technologies Inc. Accenture Foundation Inc. Accutest Laboratories Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. Advisor Charitable Gift Fund Alcoa Foundation Alfred Benesch & Company AMEC Earth & Environmental Services Inc. Ameren American Institute of Steel Construction Inc. American Public Works Association Chicago Metropolitan Chapter The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rail Transportation Division American Society of Civil Engineers American Water Works Association Research Foundation Anheuser-Busch Foundation Ansys Inc. Apple Junction Design Services PLC Applied Pavement Technology Inc. ARCADIS Association of American Railroads AT&T Foundation Barr Engineering Company Baxter & Woodman Inc. Bechtel Foundation BNSF Railway Company The Boeing Gift Matching Program Bowman Barrett and Associates Inc. BP Corporation North America Inc. BPC Airport Partners Brian Isherwood & Associates Ltd. Brierley Associates LLC Burns & McDonnell Foundation Cameron-Cole LLC Camp Dresser and McKee Inc. Canadian National/Illinois Central Carollo Engineers Caterpillar Foundation Caterpillar Inc. Caterpillar Simulation Center Center For Toxicology and Environmental Health LLC Century Group Inc. Cera Tech Inc. Chevron CH2M Hill Foundation Civil & Environmental Consultants Inc. Compagnie Generale des Eaux Computer Associates International Inc. Conestoga-Rovers and Associates Inc. ConocoPhillips Corporation Crawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc. CSX Corporation CTL Group Custom Environmental Services Inc. Damon S. Williams Associates LLC D'Appolonia Engineering Division of GroundTechnology Inc. David & Lucile Packard Foundation Delta Institute D.J. Nyman & Associates The Dow Chemical Company Dudek Consulting PC Eagle Construction and Environmental Services LP

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Eardley Family Foundation Earth Tech EarthSoft Inc. Eli Lilly and Company Foundation EMR Inc. ENSR Corporation Envirocon ERM-Rocky Mountain Inc. Environmental Works Inc. Ernst & Young Foundation ExxonMobil Corporation ExxonMobil Foundation FedEx Corporation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund G & H Real Estate LLC Gannett Fleming Companies GE Foundation GeoSyntec Consultants Gilbane Building Company Golder Associates Inc. Golder Associates Ltd. The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Greeley and Hansen LLC GSSI Habitat Engineering & Forensics Hanson Professional Services Inc. Hatch Mott MacDonald HDR Engineering Inc. Henry, Meisenheimer, & Gende Inc. Hershell Gill Consulting Engineers Inc. Historical Information Gatherers Inc. Hoffer's Coatings Inc. The Enviro-Prep System Hulcher Services Inc. Huston Family Trust IBM Matching Grants Program Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association Illinois Association of County Engineers Inc. Illinois Chapter Inc. - American Concrete Pavement Association Illinois Ready Mixed Concrete Association Industry Advancement Foundation Central Illinois Builders Chapter Industry Advancement Fund Inc. In-Pipe Technology Company Intech Consultants Inc. International Food Policy Research Institute International Waste Water Management Institute J. D. Mollard and Associates Limited Jacobs Engineering Group JDM Management Jewel Food Stores Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies JRW Bioremediation LLC Kennedy-Jenks Consultants Inc. Kiewit Western Company Kiewit-Bilfinger Berger A Joint Venture Koch Materials Group KU Resources Inc. Lancaster Laboratories Inc. Langan Engineering & Environmental Services Inc. Lockheed Martin Corporation Foundation Malcolm Pirnie Inc. Marathon Petroleum Company LLC Marshall Miller & Associates Inc. Michael Baker Corporation

Monsanto Company MWH Americas Inc. National Pork Board National University of Taiwan HydrotechResearch Institute National Water Research Institute Newcomb, Sabin, Schwartz & Landsverk LLP Norfolk Southern Corporation Northrop Grumman Foundation Northwestern University The O'Neil Foundation O'Neil Industries Inc. Pace Analytical Services Inc. Poplar Smogpros Portec Rail Products Inc. Portland Cement Association Powtec LLC Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute The Procter & Gamble Fund PVC Geomembrane Institute The RJN Foundation Inc. RJN Group Inc. RM CAT Environmental Robinson Engineering Ltd. S & J Investments LLC S and R Company Sargent & Lundy LLC SC Johnson Fund Inc. Schnabel Foundation Company Schwab Charitable Fund The Sergio Corporation dba FirstResponse SESI Consulting Engineers Shaw Environmental Inc. State Farm Companies Foundation STS Consultants Ltd. Sunpro Inc. Sur and Associates LLC SWS First Response Syndicate des Eaux d'Ile de France T. L. Boblenz and Associates Inc. T. L. Rice LLC TCPavements Tensar Earth Technologies Inc. TerraTherm Inc. TestAmerica Laboratories Inc. Tokyo Institute of Technology Transportation Technology Center Inc. TranSystems Corporation TSVC Inc. Turner Construction Company Turner Corporation Universite Laval University of Minnesota McNamara Alumni Center US Ecology Verizon Foundation Versabar Inc. Walker Parking Consultants/Engineers Inc. Walsh Construction Company The Walt Disney Company Foundation Waste Management Inc. The Watkins Family Foundation Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc. YSI Incorporated 3M Foundation Inc.

Old Masters

Engineering giants of the department’s history

Edward Ezra Bauer

1886-1964 Educator in highway materials, author, public servant

By professors emeritus William J. Hall and John D. Haltiwanger dward Ezra Bauer was born on June 6, 1886, at Rocky Ridge, Ohio. He received the Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering in 1919, the professional degree of Civil Engineer in 1927, and the Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering in 1929, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During World War I, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was assigned to the Student Naval Training Corps at the U of I. Bauer joined the faculty of the Civil Engineering Department in 1919, where he taught for 45 years; he retired in 1964. Following retirement he passed away suddenly, before Emeritus status could be bestowed on him. During his tenure he was largely instrumental in helping the department establish its laboratories in bituminous materials and concrete, subjects in which he specialized. By virtue of his expertise, he assisted the engineering staffs of many cities in the Midwest. He was the sole author of two textbooks, one entitled “Plain Concrete,” and the other “Highway Materials.” With T.H. Thornburn, he authored “Introductory Soil and Bituminous Testing.” With G. W. Hollon, he authored “A Laboratory Manual for Plain Concrete.” These texts were widely used in the education of civil engineering students throughout the United States. He also was author or co-author of a number of technical papers. In short he was quite visible professionally, and his

reputation benefited not only himself but also the reputation of the department in a significant way. Bauer was one of quiet and dignified reserve. Devoted to the profession of engineering education, in which his capabilities and reputation earned him respect and recognition, he endeavored to develop in his students a critical basis for judgment, meticulous attention to written expression, and an awareness of the concept that few engineering problems have a single or unique solution. He was able to demonstrate to students how to get to the core of a communication (be it subject matter in a book, or in a paper) in a lucid and effective manner. He was an active member of many technical organizations, including the American Society of Testing and Materials, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Concrete Society and the Highway Research Board, serving as a member of numerous technical committees of these organizations. In addition, he was an active member of numerous honorary educational and professional societies. Of special mention in terms of the service he rendered to his alma mater

and to the engineering profession was his close association for many years with the Triangle Fraternity. He was honored with the Triangle Service Award in 1928 and the Crossman Award of the Illinois Chapter in 1952. He served as an editor of Triangle Review, the national fraternity publication, from 1922 until 1947. Particularly prominent in the field of alumni relations with U of I civil engineering graduates, Bauer at the time of his death was Secretary of the Civil Engineering Alumni Association, and Editor of the alumni/departmental newsletter. As a capable and adored teacher, an able engineer, and a friend of students and alumni, for four decades he represented, for a broad spectrum of the Illinois civil engineering graduates, the image of our department as a place of warm interest in its graduates as well as a high concern for their professional and technical preparation and their professional advancement thereafter. Bauer was revered as a respected educator and mentor, and he had a profound effect on the lives of many of his students. Bauer died on July 22, 1964, in Urbana. i

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