Spring 2018 Kent Seminar Series wraps up

The Spring 2018 Kent Seminar Series wrapped up another successful season in late April. Students, researchers, and professionals lectured on a variety of transportation topics. The list of speakers and topics covered were as follows: 

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  David Lippert, senior sustainability implementation engineer, ICT: Predicting Asphalt Concrete Overlay Performance

  

• Issam Qamhia, Ph.D. candidate, UIUC: Field Performance Evaluation of Quarry By-Products Used in Unbound Aggregate Layers Constructed Over Soft Subgrade
• Erman Gungor, Ph.D. candidate, UIUC: Development of a Proposed Overweight Vehicle Permit Fee Structure in Illinois
• Peter Taylor, professor and director, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center at Iowa State University: Performance Based Concrete Mixtures
• Brian Pfeifer, chief of IDOT's Central Bureau of Materials: Partnering with IDOT: Providing Innovative Transportation Research
• Graduate research student Pradip Adhikari and M.S. candidate Sina Nassiri, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville: The Effects of Sediments on Bioswale and Infiltration Trench BMP Performance and Soaked and Unsoaked Performance of Crushed Gravel and Limestone Aggregates
• Elie Hajj, associate professor and director, Western Regional Superpave Center Pavement Engineering and Science Program: Analysis Procedures for Evaluating Superheavy Load Movement on Flexible Pavements: SuperPACK

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  Yan Qi, civil engineering professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville: Comparison of Contributing Factors to Pedestrian Crossing Crash Severity at Locations with Different Controls in Illinois

• Egemen Okte and Zehui Zhu, M.S. candidates, UIUC: Development of Machine Compliance Factor for the Illinois Flexibility Index Test (I-FIT)
• Katie Zimmerman, executive vice president, Applied Pavement Technology, Inc.: Managing a Pavement Over Its Life Cycle

This year Kumares Sinha was the Kent Seminar Series Distinguished Speaker. Sinha is the Edgar and Hedwig Olson Distinguished Professor in the School of Engineering at Purdue University. You can watch his full lecture, “Charging Mechanisms for Road Use: An Interface between Engineering and Public Policy” here and read more about it here.

The Kent Seminar series can be viewed on YouTube Live and includes a chat box feature that allows the viewer to participate in the sessions. YouTube Live’s chat feature requires a YouTube login, which is free to sign up for at ict.illinois.edu, the day of the presentation. The Kent Seminar series runs every Thursday during the academic semester at 12:30 p.m. You can also visit the Kent Seminar Series Video Archive to see past presentations.