Student and Faculty Awards/Honors for Summer 2009
C. C. Wiley Traveling Award
Brian Hill (pictured to the left with Professor Buttlar) was awarded the C.C. Wiley Traveling Award. This annual award, from the UIUC Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, provides a graduating senior with a financial grant to travel through the United States for 2-3 weeks to see and experience construction projects and transportation issues firsthand. Brian's itinerary includes visits to Cleveland, New York City, Boston, and Niagara Falls. The Wiley Award is named after the first professor of Transportation Engineeing at UI and is made possible by a grant from the Paul F. Kent Memorial Fund. Brian, who was also awarded the Dwight D. Eisenhower Graduate Research Fellowship, will begin his work towards a M.S. in the fall under the advisement of Dr. Bill Buttlar. During his undergraduate studies, Brian spent two summers working as a engineering technician for IDOT.
Yee Memorial Fund Fellowship
Zhen Leng has been awarded the Yee Memorial Fund Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year. This award is funded by Drs. Warren and Ming Ting Yee. Dr. Warren Yee received his PhD from UIUC in 1943 and later founded Bio-Tech Research Laboratory, Inc. in Washington, D.C.
FAA Design Competition
Jonguen Baek and Zhen Leng won second prize in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Design Competition for Universities in the Airport Operation and Maintenance Design Challenge. The selection was made by a panel of FAA, industry, and academic experts. Their submission was titled "In-place Hot Mix Asphalt Density Estimation Using Ground Penetrating Radar for Airport Pavement Quality Control and Assurance Activities." (Advisors: Imad Al-Qadi and Samer Lahouar)
Faculty Promotion
Associate Professor Chris Barkan, head of the UIUC railroad program, was promoted to the rank of Professor.
Fulbright Scholar
Associate Professor Jeff Roesler, the Assistant Director of ATREL, will spend the 2009-2010 academic year in Santiago, Chile at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile as part of the Fulbright Scholarship. Roesler will be working with several faculty members in the Civil Engineering Department to study material characterization and fracture of concrete.
Faculty Activities
Professor Imad Al-Qadi, Director of ICT, served as Conference Chairman of the 7th International RILEM symposium on advanced testing and characterization of bituminous materials in Rhodes, Greece. Al-Qadi also recently attended the High Tire Pressure Tests Workshop at the Airbus Headquarters in Toulouse (workshop group pictured below), and then travelled to Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chausses (LCPC) in Nantes where he lectured on his research work at ICT including rutting in hot-mix asphalt pavements and ground penetrating radar.
Associate Professor Erol Tutumluer is serving as the assistant editor of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE's) Journal of Computing. He recently attended the annual editorial board meeting at the ASCE headquarters in Reston, VA.
Assistant Professor Yanfeng Ouyang is serving as the only Cluster Chair of the Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL) for the upcoming INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, October 2009. In this role, he will organize all TSL presentations and sessions at the conference.
Photo below Copyright Airbus 2009.
