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In The News
2009 AREMA Annual Conference - September 2009
Railroad Students and faculty attend the 2009 AREMA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL.
Renewing the Partnership by Christopher P.L. Barkan, Railway Age, October 2009
2010 Joint Rail Conference - High Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail
JRC 2010 is the the principal, multi-disciplinary, North American conference focused on rail transportation next year. The conference will be held 27-29 April 2010 on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, IL 140 mi, (225 km) south of Chicago. Click HERE to view the 2010 JRC Call for Presentations and Papers - ABSTRACTS Due October 31st
Field Trip on BNSF Geometry Car
Railroad students had the opportunity to take a ride on the BNSF Geometry Car
in July 2009
Chris Barkan and Yung-Cheng Lai receive the TA Steward-Dyer/ Frederick Harvey Trevithick Prize
Summer 2009 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
International Heavy Haul Association 2009
Railroad Engineering Students went to Shanghai, China to present papers.
2009 Railroad Job Fair
This fall, the University of Illinois Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and Engineering Career Services are excited to host an event to highlight the railroad and the innovative opportunities available to college students and graduates. “Getting Your Career on Track in the Railroad Industry” will be held on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 from 4-6 p.m. at the Illini Union on the Urbana-Champaign campus.
2009 Dr. W.W. Hay Award for Excellence
The selection process for the tenth Dr. W.W. Hay Award of Excellence has begun and this year's chair, Michael W. Franke, a former student of Dr. Hay, has issued a call for entries. Entries should be received no later than June 15, 2009 Click here for more information
8th International Conference on the Bearing
Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields
The Eight International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields
(BCR2A’09) will take place at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois, on June 29-July 2, 2009.
The BCR2A’09 conference is particularly of interest to academics, researchers, and practitioners
involved in transportation geotechnics, pavement and railroad engineering disciplines and concerned
with the many issues pertaining to the bearing capacity and mechanistic based design of highway and
airfield pavements and railroad track structures. The BCR2A’09 conference will provide a forum to
promote efficient design, construction and maintenance of the transportation infrastructure. Click here for PDF
2009 TRB Annual Conference - January 2009
Railroad students and faculty
presented at the 2009 TRB Annual Conference in Washington, DC.
2008 AREMA Annual Conference - September 2008
Railroad Students and faculty attend the 2008 AREMA Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, UT.
Field Trip to Monticello Railway Museum
Railroad students had an opportunity to work on the railroad.
Railroads and "green" by Tom Judge, December, Railway Track and Structures.
Tom Judge, editor of RT&S, discusses attending the 2008 Railroad Environmental Conference.
1968 - 2008 Moving toward green: Forty years of railroad environmental practice by Chris Barkan, Railway Age, October 2008, pp. 24-27
AREMA Student Chapter Formed
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign formed a student chapter of AREMA in the Fall of 2008. The goal of this chapter is to expose students to railroad engineering education and the railway industry in order to foster the development of leaders in railroad engineering in North America and throughout the world.
"Building an Education Infrastructure For Railway Transportation Engineering - Renewed Partnerships on NewTracks" by Christopher P.L. Barkan, July-August 2008 - TR News
2008 Railroad Engineering Education Symposium
To foster the growth of rail engineering education within universities, the AREMA Foundation and AREMA Committee 24 - Education and Training, organized an event called the Railway Engineering Education Symposium. The goal of the event was to provide engineering professors with rail curriculum to take back to the classroom. The professor symposium was held from June 8-11, 2008, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The symposium included two days of discussion on railroad engineering materials, current and future research, and a visit to local railroad facilities.
8th World Conference on Railway Research, Seoul, Korea - May 2008
Three University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign students and Prof. Barkan attended the 8th World Conference on Railway Research in Seoul, Korea. Prof. Barkan, Darwin Schafer and Yung-Cheng Lai all presented papers. Darwin Schafer's paper was chosen the "Prize for Best Paper Award" and "Prize for Young Researcher Award."
2008 Dr. W.W. Hay Award for Excellence
The selection process for the tenth Dr. W.W. Hay Award of Excellence has begun and this year's chair, Michael W. Franke, a former student of Dr. Hay, has issued a call for entries.
Entries should be received no later than June 15, 2008 Click here for more information
CTA - Fellowship for Summer 2008
The Chicago Transit Authority is initiating the inaugural Presidential Fellowship this upcoming summer. The program seeks highly-skilled and motivated graduate students the opportunity to both learn from and contribute to the CTA's mission to providing quality and affordable transit services to residents in the Chicago area. They are targeting students from top graduate programs in policy engineering transportation studies and public and business administration to join the program.
University of Kentucky Students and Faculty Visited UIUC
The Univeristy of Kentucky students and faculty visited the railroad engineering program March 7-11, 2008.
Engineering Open House - March 7-8, 2008
Engineering Open House (EOH) is an annual event organized entirely by engineering students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is held each spring semester, and draws estimated crowds of 20,000 people including, students, teachers, parents and families, from all over Illinois (and beyond). The Railroad Engineering Program participates in EOH each year by working with major railroads who to set up various exhibits and displays of railroad technology.
Alumnus returns to teach railroad engineering
Winter 2008 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Railroad Alumnus Speaks at Grainger
Chuck Allen of Norfolk Southern spoke at a William W. Hay Railroad Engineering Seminar on 10-19-07
TRB 87th Annual Meeting - January 2008
Railroad Engineering faculty and students attended the TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC to present papers and attend sessions
INFORMS - November 2007
Railroad Engineering students went to the INFORMS meeting in Seattle, WA to present papers.
2007 AREMA Annual Conference - September 2007
The 2007 AREMA Annual Conference was held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, IL. UIUC faculty member, Erol Tutumluer, and Railroad Engineering Program graduate student, Daniel Peltier, both presented papers, as did UIUC alumnus, Kevin Day of CN. The title and links to their papers are here . A number of students in the UIUC Railroad Engineering Program attended the conference and had the opportunity to meet some of their predecessors who are now working in engineering positions in the railroad industry
Railroad Job Fair - September 6, 2007
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Railroad Engineering Department and Engineering Career Services hosted a Railroad Engineering Job Fair.
International Heavy Haul Association 2007
Railroad Engineering Students went to Kiruna, Sweden to present papers.
Teaching and Research Position in Railroad Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time Lecturer in its railroad engineering program.
Hay Railway Engineering Collection Dedicated
The William W. Hay Railway was dedication on September 29th, 2006 in the Grainger Engineering LIbrary.
Illinois Engineer presents the American Railroads Experience
La Opinion, Granada, Spain. 5/24/06
Lean Railroading
Productivity Press 2006
William Hay Railroad Engineering Collection dedicated at Grainger
Fall/Winter 2006 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Hanson Inc. gift will help expand, improve rail program
Fall/Winter 2006 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Letter from Luc Aliadière, UIC Chief Executive
Mads Bergendorff, Senior Advisor for
Environment at UIC, 2001 – 2005
Keynote Speaker at the 2004 Railroad
Environmental Conference at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
Safe, Efficient Rail Transport
Fall/Winter 2005 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Union Pacific Railroad Gift to Support Rail Grad Research, Diversity
Fall/Winter 2005 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Career in Rail Prompts Gift for Scholarships
Fall/Winter 2005 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Norfolk Southern Corporation’s gift sponsors Hay seminars
Fall/Winter 2005 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Barkan named George Krambles Faculty Fellow
Fall/Winter 2005 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Those Who Can, Teach
Trains Magazine, May 2005
Amtrak President David Gunn Lectures at UIUC
Spring/Summer 2005 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
CN gift supports railroad program Spring
Spring 2003 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Transit leader's life inspires scholarship
Spring 2003 CEE Alumni Associate Newsletter
On Track
Spring 2003 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
William W. Hay Railroad Engineering Collection
Friendscript Volume 23, Issue 2, Winter 2001
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