Kent Seminar Series

Illinois Center for Transportation is proud to present the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Kent Seminar Series. Each Thursday of the fall and spring semesters, ICT invites transportation leaders to present on a wide range of transportation engineering topics, from 2:00-2:50 p.m.

The Fall 2026 Kent Seminar will explore advancements in transportation modeling. The 13-speaker series will begin August 27 and end November 19.

The Kent Seminar Series is sponsored by the Paul F. Kent Memorial Fund, established in 1977 to support transportation engineering education. The Kent Seminar Series is named after University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering standout Paul Kent.

Paul Kent, a 1920 alumnus of Illinois’ civil engineering program, held the highest regard for the civil engineering education he received.

He became a civic servant in Illinois and the surrounding states.

Kent was the founder and president of the University of Illinois Civil Engineering Alumni Association, and he was the recipient of the U of I Loyalty Award and the Civil Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award.