CEE Magazine Winter 2010

CEEDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignWinter 2010

Leading the way toward sustainable engineeringPreparing students to adopt a global viewAlumni news and features

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Opportunities of the Downturn/Amr S. Elnashai

The Power of Leverage/Kenneth M. Floody (BS 83)

Global Leaders: Five Years of Success

Sustainability at CEE/Charles J. Werth

Nailing It: Student research yields a drinking water innovation

Working in Traffic: ICT research for safer construction

New earthquake system tested at E-Defense

Wireless structural health monitoring system deployed in Korea

Yeh Student Center needs final funding boost

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Department news

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In Memoriam

Sponsored research

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Can we afford to miss the opportunities of an economic downturn?by Amr S. ElnAShAi, ProfESSor And hEAd

WilliAm J. And ElAinE f. hAll EndoWEd ProfESSor in Civil And EnvironmEntAl EnginEEring

While we face unprecedented eco-nomic and leadership uncertainties,

our Department of Civil and Environmen-tal Engineering is busy developing its strategic plan and implementation mech-anisms for the next five years, turning those same uncertainties into opportuni-ties. In times of perceived or actual hard-ship, communities that exhibit coherence and common objectives develop height-ened awareness of the need to achieve their best endeavors and perform at their peak, while adapting to the changing cli-mate. Our CEE at Illinois community is in-deed coherent and holds firmly to its core values that define its common objectives.

We are ready for the challenges, as demonstrated by the outcome of a sur-vey of the faculty and senior staff in September, before and after a daylong planning meeting held off-campus. The participants’ response to the statement “I believe that we have to change in some ways the contents of our curricula, the research topics, and the way the depart-ment is managed” are shown in the Fig-ure, at the beginning (left) and at the end (right) of the planning meeting. Whereas the difference between “before” and “af-ter” is a testament to the success of the planning meeting, with those who agree or strongly agree increasing from 69 per-cent to 82 percent, the support for “the necessary change” even at the beginning of the retreat is still clear. We therefore are mandated to effect change.

The past five years have seen tre-mendous progress with the stewardship of Bob Dodds. Now it is time to take the next steps towards modernizing the de-partment and preparing it for the chal-lenges ahead. Through a community-led process, we have identified four thrusts

that are considered the highest priorities for our next development phase, namely (i) Governance, (ii) Multidisciplinary Edu-cation and Research, (iii) International Cooperation and (iv) Financial Manage-ment. We undertook a process of wide consultation that employed several forms of community engagement, which culmi-nated in short reports that address what the faculty and senior staff consider the most pressing requirements and recom-mendations for action. We then mapped these recommendations onto the strate-gic goals of the College of Engineering. Such mapping is vital to strengthening the ties between the CEE department and other units on campus and to taking full advantage of being part of a College of Engineering with national and inter-national standing. An essential compo-nent of planning for implementation of change is to define the success metrics. Our evolving priority action and success

metrics (in bold) are listed at right.The process of implementation has be-

gun in earnest. We are also mindful of the increasing demands on our staff and facul-ty. We are therefore balancing the require-ments of change with those of maintain-ing steady operation of the department.

We continue to hear that the econom-ic situation will get much worse before it improves. We have no reason to believe otherwise. Admittedly, this is an issue of grave concern, but the availability of funds has never been the reason for the excellence of our CEE department at Il-linois. So why now would the scarcity of funds threaten our excellence? The busi-ness literature tells us that the primary reason for people leaving an organiza-tion is lack of fulfillment and not low pay, which only appears as number six in a list of 10 reasons for departures. It is not shortage in funding that affects people’s productivity but rather feelings, percep-

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Faculty and senior staff responses to the question, “I believe that we have to change in some ways the contents of our curricula, the research topics and the way the department is managed,” before (left) and after (right) a day-long planning retreat.


tions, attitudes, and relationships. Our department is led through a healthy mix of consultation and direction, serving and inspiring, setting the vision and disciplin-ing the process of its achievement. The high spirit of our superb faculty and staff is deep-rooted, our students are among the best, and our alumni are the most loyal and generous with their time, effort and financial support.

As we move toward ground-breaking for the construction of the new addition to Newmark Laboratory, the M.T. Geof-frey Yeh Student Center, scheduled for March 2010, I believe that our alumni will consider investing in the future of CEE at Illinois, in the training of the next genera-tion of leaders, in providing our students with the building and facilities that befit the best young engineers in the nation.

By the time this issue of the CEE magazine is being mailed we will have launched our “last million dollars” campaign to com-plete the financing of the $9M Student Center. The support of our alumni has been and continues to be an inspiration for our Illinois Civil and Environmental En-gineering community.

I wish you all happy holidays and a pros-perous New Year, in orange and blue. i

Governance Multidisciplinary

Expand and empower CEE committees to deal proactively with departmental management

Introduce systems thinking in curricula by developing integrated CEE sub-disciplines

Broaden participation in decision-making by establishing formal consultation processes

Offer multi-disciplinary Primary and Secondary thrusts in subjects of societal importance

Draw strategy and tactics from the CEE community through structured surveys

Encourage multi-disciplinary research within and outside of the CEE department

Reward faculty and staff excellence to enhance job satisfaction and appreciation

Develop “Programs” in multidisciplinary topics to integrate the “Areas” in a matrix format

Enhance social and technical interaction, and develop Annual Calendar to manage interactions

Reach out to College of Engineering and campus units to explore opportunities not available to CEE

Metrics: Surveys; external assessment Metrics: Students’ feedback, connectivity

International Finance

Increase students’ study abroad programs with top ranking international institutions

Increase income from one-year, non-thesis domestic and international students

Introduce global issues in undergraduate and graduate curricula through group projects

Increase income from research Indirect Cost Recovery by enhancing proposals

Enhance research cooperation and proposals through bilateral cooperation agreements

Increase income from endowments, gifts and corporate annual recurring support

Develop higher international profile in areas from which we are attracting fewer students

Reduce expenditure on temporary teaching by rationalizing teaching plans and practices

Improve access to our publications through e-newsletters and free online access

Focus investment in high return areas that are consistent with College and campus plans

Metrics: Surveys; numeric Metrics: Budget balance; funding sources

The past five years have seen tremendous

progress. ... Now it is time to take the next

steps towards modernizing the department

and preparing it for the challenges ahead.

CEEAA Board of Directors

PresidentKenneth M. Floody, P.E., S.E. (BS 83)Ingenii LLCOak Park, Illinois

Vice PresidentLawrence P. Jaworski, P.E., (BS 72, MS 73)Black & VeatchGaithersburg, Maryland

Second Vice PresidentTracy K. Lundin, P.E., (BS 80, MS 82)Hanson Professional Services Inc.Springfield, Illinois

Past PresidentJohn L. Carrato, P.E., S.E., (BS 79, MS 80)Alfred Benesch & CompanyChicago

SecretaryJames M. LaFave (BS 86, MS 87)Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois

David L. Byrd, P.E., (BS 01)EFI Global Inc.Addison, Illinois

Lynne E. Chicoine (BS 78, MS 80)CH2M HILLPortland, Oregon

Stanley M. Herrin, P.E., (BS 74, MS 78)Crawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc.Springfield, Illinois

Alan J. Hollenbeck, P.E., (BS 75, MS 77)RJN Group Inc., Wheaton, Illinois

Deron G. Huck, P.E., (BS 90)CH2M HILLKansas City, Missouri

John P. Kos, P.E., (BS 77)DuPage County

Walter S. Kos, P.E., (BS 71)

Wilbur C. Milhouse, P.E., (BS 94, MS 95)Milhouse Engineering & Construction Inc.Chicago

Paula Pienton (BS 85)AECOMChicago

Frank Powers (BS 82, MS 83)H.W. Lochner Inc.Chicago

Colleen E. Quinn, P.E., (BS 84)Ricondo & Associates Inc.Chicago

Allen J. Staron, P.E., (BS 74)Clark Dietz Inc.Chicago

C. Wayne Swafford (BS 78, MS 82)Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc.Oakland, California

Elias Zewde, P.E., (BS 73, MS 75)Khafra Engineering Consultants Inc.Atlanta, Georgia

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The power of leverage

Anyone who has hired a University of Illinois Civil and Environmental Engi-

neering graduate will tell you that one of the CEE department’s greatest strengths is the emphasis that it places on teaching students the underlying fundamentals of engineering principles. Those fundamen-tals being taught to today’s students are essentially the same as those I learned a generation ago and that others learned for generations before me. It is a firm under-standing of the fundamentals of engineer-ing that allows us, as practicing engineers, to adapt to new challenges and establish new paradigms that address humankind’s evolving needs.

The complexity of the challenges fac-ing tomorrow’s engineers requires an em-phasis on multidisciplinary solutions that have not traditionally been addressed by the department. Professor Amr Elnashai, CEE department head, has determined to pursue the “grand challenges” of the future that will “require multidisciplinary perspective in civil and environmental engineering research and education” and to prepare tomorrow’s engineers to face those challenges.

Professor Elnashai has shared with me the outcomes of a recent departmental planning retreat that focused on identify-ing and addressing barriers in research and education to pursuing those challenges. The retreat also helped establish and reor-der priorities for the CEE department, which Professor Elnashai addresses in his article.

The Civil and Environmental Engineer-ing Alumni Association (CEEAA) must de-termine how we can best support Profes-sor Elnashai and CEE in tackling the major challenges facing the department. If you are a regular reader of the CEE Magazine, you are already aware of many of the chal-lenges facing the department, especially regarding the precipitous drop in state

funding for the University. You are also likely to be a recurring financial supporter of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Trust.

Your support is essential and greatly ap-preciated, but we need to do more—not more from those who are already actively supporting the department, but more from those who are not. The major chal-lenge facing the CEEAA is not to have those who already do, do more. Our challenge is to contact those who are not actively in-volved and informed as to the state of the department, and to make them aware and get them involved.

There are currently more than 13,000 CEE alumni, of whom less than one in 10 are actively engaged in support of the depart-ment from year to year. We all have many friends, associates and coworkers who are CEE alumni. How often do we discuss the challenges facing the CEE department within those groups?

Twelve years ago, I could be counted as one of the uninformed, a CEE alumnus, but not a member of CEEAA. I would likely have stayed that way, complacent and blissfully unaware, had I not been asked by a past member of the CEEAA board of di-rectors whether I was willing get involved. All it took was for someone to pose the question. The answer was obvious.

How can the CEEAA double or triple its support of the CEE department? There is always a hard way and an easy way. The hard way would be to ask those who al-ready contribute to do more. The easy way is to use a fundamental principle of engi-neering familiar to all of us:

Leverage. Leverage 1,000 CEEAA supporting

members to move the other 12,000. Chal-lenge your fellow alumni to get involved in supporting the CEE department in any way they can. It never hurts to ask. i

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Less than a year into his tenure at Chica-go’s W.E. O’Neil Construction Compa-

ny, Numan Velioglu (BS 06, MS 07) found himself in a strange city singing karaoke and being wined and dined by Chinese executives.

As a graduate of CEE’s Global Leaders in Construction Management master’s degree program, Velioglu had a skill set and the experience his company wanted when they needed to send an employee abroad to procure materials. When a trip to China surfaced, Velioglu got the call.

“Half the [W.E. O’Neil] employees don’t have passports. I’m there managing my own trips, going to cities I’ve never heard of,” said Velioglu, who spent his time in China inspecting wood flooring purchased for a high-end retail project in Chicago. “I probably did 15,000 miles in a week.”

Velioglu is a prime example of the type of well-rounded engineer the Global Leaders program has produced since its establishment in 2005. The Global Lead-ers experience gives students an oppor-tunity to visit major construction projects around the world while broadening their

knowledge of construction management through courses in disciplines such as law, labor, and business.

As it celebrates its fifth year, the Global Leaders program is in a position of strength. Its alumni are in demand by industry; students are eager to enroll; fac-ulty are determined to see the program continue to thrive.

“Now that we’re five years into it, what I can say looking back is that candidates that we’ve hired out of the program have been some of the strongest young em-ployees we’ve added to the company,” said Pat McGowan (BS 86), the vice presi-dent of W.E. O’Neil Construction. “They have just a tremendous upside. They are the types of employee that we want to invest in more, in terms of development and training. Long term, they can be great leaders.”

One-on-one exposure to industry leaders is a major component of the pro-gram, be it in Urbana or abroad during the Global Leaders trips. Students have found their dream jobs directly because of such connections.

And it’s not just traditional construc-tion companies who are attracted to the Global Leaders students, but recruiters from other industries, most notably the

oil industry. “We have companies recruiting who

say, ‘Do you have more Global Leaders?’” said associate professor Liang Liu. “I think that’s a great confirmation and compli-ment to the program but at the same time we are very humbled by this kind of response. We have the responsibility to make it better and to serve the student better and the industry better. These are all important things.”

Monica Lim (BS 05, MS 06), who gradu-ated in the Global Leaders program’s first class of four students, returned to cam-pus this fall to direct the Global Leaders program, succeeding Carlos Arboleda, who returned to industry. Lim sees the program as bridging the gap between engineering and other fields. Its unique external focus sets it apart, she said.

One of her goals for the program is to cement its identity.

“We’re trying to close in on what ‘glob-al’ truly means,” said Lim, who worked in construction companies for three years in Chicago prior to returning to Urbana. “It’s not just Japan or Dubai, but it’s also hav-ing a good understanding of what’s hap-pening at home.”

The program, which is only open to current Illinois CEE seniors, is attractive to

After five years, CEE’s Global Leaders in Construction Management Program continues to produce globally-aware graduates who are highly qualified for the industry’s most desirable jobs, here and abroad.


By Laura Weisskopf-Bleill

students because it requires just two se-mesters more of coursework.

“Early on in engineering I was so frus-trated with the straight calculations. You don’t really have an idea of where you’re going with that,” said Kevin Bayci (BS 09), a Global Leaders student.

Admitted in the fall of the senior year, the underclassmen engage with the pro-gram immediately by traveling with the graduate students on the winter trip. This builds relationships and creates continu-ity that loops through the years.

Trips remain one of the program’s highlights. Each student goes overseas twice, and also participates in two domes-tic jaunts in the spring. The trips are tar-geted to show students how large-scale projects are managed, planned and con-trolled. As an important team-building exercise, each student plays a role in plan-ning and researching the trip’s itinerary.

The current Global Leaders students will travel to Europe in January. They will visit major construction projects connect-ed to the 2012 Olympics in London, and then continue to Germany to see exam-ples of that nation’s cutting-edge sustain-ability practices. Previous destinations

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included Japan, France, Dubai, Panama and China.

The site visits illustrate that one size doesn’t fit all in construction. Labor rela-tions, safety standards and sustainability practices vary by cultures and regions. Last winter’s trip to Panama was an eye-opening experience for Kevin Foster (BS 09).

“The chaos of the construction—it was nuts,” he recalled. “It was like a free-for-all. It was kids on a playground or something—people everywhere. It was fun to see how different it was from here. It was something you could not be ex-posed to unless you were actually there to see it.”

While the program hasn’t grown tre-mendously in size since its inception—it is deliberately kept small to maintain a low faculty-to-student ratio—it has increased its stature. With increased marketing and awareness, the program attracts a deeper pool of applicants. The competition has resulted in top-notch classes that im-

prove each year. “We’re certainly producing a good

mix of students that are thinking big in terms of job opportunities,” Lim said. “They are creative, looking for places where they can add value and where they can make a difference.”

Both current students and alumni would like to see ties with industry con-tinue to develop and deepen, especially with multi-national corporations.

“When we were in Dubai we were able to get in touch with major developers and CEOs were able to court us,” said Robert Kuang (BS 06, MS 07), an assistant project manager for Bovis who rooms with Veli-glu in Chicago. “It was a great experience to have that kind of exposure.”

The international learning experience is key to the success of the program and its value to students. Due to the rigors of the curriculum, traditional study abroad is rarely an option for undergraduate engi-neering students. It’s a concept that other departments within the college may im-port.

“Expanding the horizons of our under-

graduate and graduate students by work-ing with them in different engineering cultures around the world prepares them for the global marketplace,” said CEE de-partment head Amr Elnashai. “I hope that we will have the means to expand this program beyond construction manage-ment and perhaps outside of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.”

As the world gets increasingly smaller, international exposure and experience may become the standard for students in any discipline. The Global Leaders pro-gram gives CEE students a competitive edge while providing a basis of knowl-edge that its graduates will be able to reference as they enter the workforce and climb the career ladder.

“You can really take this program in a lot of different areas, because the compa-nies like the international exposure, that perspective of the entire system through-out the world and being able to piece dif-ferent parts of the company together to see how it all relates,” Bayci said. “We live in a world that is increasingly intercon-nected.” i


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The Global Leaders in Construction Management will be traveling to London and Germany January 6-15 and blogging about their trip. Visit their website to learn more about the program and read their blog.

http://glcm.cee.illinois.edu

The newest group of Global Leaders students. Back row: A.J. Deters, Westley Bauling, Kevin Foster, Kevin Bayci, Matthew Knight, Ewa Gasienica. Front row: Isaac Chan, Jenny Henry, Cory Kuo, Calvin Young, Louie Sevandal, Pok Ki Tsang, Tom Dieball, Lindsay Carpenter, Program Director Monica Lim


Global Leaders Alumni

2006Monica LimGreg FeiereiselAlex BonfilEric Kerestes

2007Numan VeliogluRobert KuangJeffrey Dolian

2008Adam JansenEric MeisterMichael GustavsonMike Addison

2009Tamra HarkeyMonica ShenoudaBob SchneiderStephanie LarsonMatt BayerBrandon TonarelliPok Ki Tsang

2010Louis SevandalKevin FosterKevin BayciJennifer HenryLindsay CarpenterThomas Dieball

By Laura Weisskopf-Bleill

Before he entered the Global Leaders in Construction Management graduate

program, Eric Meister didn’t even have a passport. Today, he is one of two alumni of CEE’s Global Leaders in Construction Management program who work on the Burj Dubai mega-construction project in the United Arab Emirates.

“Going in I wasn’t expecting to move 8,000 miles away and work,” he said dur-ing an overseas phone interview.

The Global Leaders trip to Dubai in January 2007 forever altered Meister’s and classmate Adam Jansen’s career tra-jectories. For two days the group toured with Burj Dubai’s project management company, Turner Construction, and also met with Turner CEO Ali Odeh. The Global Leaders faculty maintained contact with Odeh, and invited him to give a presenta-tion to students in Urbana the following year, where he floated the idea of pos-sible job opportunities for Global Leaders students.

Dubai was a long way from St. Louis or Chicago, cities where Jansen imagined he would work after college. But after a

job offer with Turner materialized, Jan-sen—who grew up on a farm in Effing-ham—decided it was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up.

“I’ve seen and done things and experi-enced things that most people won’t un-derstand,” he said.

That includes working with a ma-jor contractor by the name of Bin Laden Group.

“It gives you a perspective that you don’t know what’s out there, you don’t know what you’re going to encounter in other parts of the world,” he said.

Turner stationed them in different ar-eas of the Burj Dubai project, one of the world’s largest and most ambitious. Jan-sen is working on the complex’s $281 mil-lion lake, which contains the world’s larg-est and tallest dancing fountain. Meister is responsible for managing signage in the Tower, in addition to overseeing progress on the gym and spa in the Tower’s hotel.

“You would want to work on some-thing like that once in your career,” Meis-ter said. “It’s worked out for me that I’m doing it now. It’s definitely a marquis project.” i

A long way from Illinois

Eric Meister, left, and Adam Jansen pose in front of the Burj Dubai Tower.


By Professor Charles J. WerthChair, Environmental Engineering and Sciences Program

Charlie Werth

Recently, I can’t seem to turn a corner without running into the word sus-

tainability. It has been used in association with every aspect of civil and environmen-tal engineering, and sustainability efforts are generating a lot of interest among both our alumni and students.

At a recent CEE at Illinois alumni event in Chicago, Professor Barbara Minsker spoke about sustainability initiatives at Illinois, and feedback from alumni was overwhelmingly positive. Our student body is no less excited. In 2007, they voted to approve a student sustain-ability fee to support “green” projects on campus. The fee draws several hundred thou-sand dollars annually and has supported a variety of proj-ects in areas such as energy-efficient lighting, green roofs, and photovoltaic cells. Other student efforts on campus include an initiative to con-vert campus cooking oil to bio-diesel, and a very active Engineers without Borders chapter that designs and implements water treatment and sanita-tion solutions in developing countries. In all of these efforts, CEE students are active and in leadership positions.

Growing student interest in sustain-ability, and the need to define how this important area applies to CEE, has resulted in a number of new sustainability efforts within our department. As Chair of the Environmental Engineering and Science (EES) Program in CEE, I’d like to share with you efforts being taken by our faculty in this area. Several faculty members have formally integrated sustainable design principles into their courses. Students in Professor Benito Mariñas’ Environmental Engineering Laboratory course are learn-

ing how to design sustainable water treat-ment solutions for developing countries. Last spring Professor Mariñas took his stu-dents to Los Llanos, Mexico, to characterize drinking water and design treatment solu-tions using local materials and expertise. Students in Professor Mark Rood’s Air Qual-ity Engineering course are learning how to consider the triple bottom line (environ-ment, economics, society) when design-ing industrial off-gas capture technologies.

Students in my Sustain-able Urban Engineering course are learning how to design urban build-ings and landscapes that minimize energy con-sumption, water use, and off-site runoff. Students in Professor Ed Herricks’ courses continue to learn about ecosystem sus-tainability, particularly in areas such as stream restoration and wetland design.

Outside of the classroom, sustainabil-ity is increasingly being integrated into research and outreach activities. With re-spect to research, Professors Benito Mari-ñas and Helen Nguyen are developing so-lar disinfection technologies using bleach, natural sunlight and reused plastic bottles for developing countries. Professor Timm Strathmann and I are performing a life cycle analysis to compare economic, en-vironmental, and social impacts of a cata-lytic reduction technology for perchlorate treatment with conventional technologies. Professor Tami Bond models global emis-sions of air pollutants to connect choices about energy and economy with climate change. Professor Mark Rood developed a vapor recovery system for painting booths that recycles solvents to reduce costs and

environmental impacts. Professors Julie Zilles and Mark Clark are developing new biologically inspired membranes that re-duce energy requirements for desalina-tion.

With respect to out-reach, professors Helen Nguyen, Benito Mari-ñas and Albert Valocchi are helping students in Engineers Without Borders design sustain-able water treatment solutions for develop-ing countries. Profes-sor Zilles is working with colleagues south of Green Street in Agricultural Engineer-ing and Environmental Sciences to evalu-ate the use of biofilters to remove nitrate in agricultural drainage water. Professor Tami Bond is working with organizations in developing countries to measure cook-ing stove emissions that affect climate, air quality, and health. I am working with a group of CEE students to develop a point-of-use treatment device for uranium and arsenic in drinking water using inexpen-sive materials and local expertise at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Professor Ed Herricks, co-workers, and students are developing sustainable air-port vegetation that will not attract wild-life, reducing bird strike hazards to aircraft. Professor Barbara Minsker recently helped develop a vision for integrated water cy-cle science and engineering, incorporat-ing social and economic considerations, that is now the framework for efforts to develop a new nationwide environmental monitoring/sensing program.

Through these combined efforts, CEE at Illinois is educating the next generation of students to develop sustainable solu-tions for today’s complex world. i


CEE student Matt Mitchell examines a sample of dirt taken from the green roof on U of I’s Business Instructional Facility.

CEE Professor and Associate Provost Fellow Bar-bara Minsker is working with Dick Warner, Pro-

fessor and Director of the University of Illinois’ Office of Sustainability, to create a strategic vision and im-plementation plan for sustainability at Illinois. The effort is part of the University’s initiative to accelerate sustain-ability efforts. The Office of Sus-tainability and the Sustainability Council also were established in pursuit of this goal.

The resulting document, The Strategic Opportunity in Global Sustainability Challenges: a Vi-sion for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, proposes a vision of the future for Illinois to leverage its unique strengths and achieve strategic leadership in ad-dressing two long-term global societal sustainability challenges: to maintain or restore natural ecosystem function while providing essential human services; and to sustainably raise the quality of life for the world’s poor to acceptable levels. Five long-term goals are outlined in the statement:• Create a new forum for in-depth, crossdisciplinary engagement on the sustainability grand challenges.• Create and implement a sustainable campus op-erations plan that maintains or restores natural eco-system function and supports impoverished com-munities.• Infuse sustainable thinking into campus missions through new education activities.• Create incentive programs that spur sustainability activities to meet the above goals.• Create a viable financial plan for sustainability ac-tivities.

Planning is underway for launching programs to implement the vision beginning in 2010. For more information about this initiative and to view the lat-est version of the Strategic Vision document, visit http://sustainability.illinois.edu.

“The students are leading the way in moving us towards sustainability,” Minsker says. “Their energy and enthusiasm, coupled with faculty and staff in-terest across campus, makes this job really exciting. There is already a lot going on in this arena, and our task is to help build bridges and raise the profile of our activities. Watch for more news to come as we start ramping up later this year.” i


Minsker helping form campus sustainability plan

Barbara Minsker

▲CEE students Sheila Markazi (blue hat) and Kim Parker (orange t-shirt) work on an Engineers Without Borders project in Guatemala.

▲U of I students pose with local citizens during an Engineers Without Borders water project in Enugu State, Nigeria.tStudents collect samples for a water project in Los Llanos, Mexico.

uCEE undergraduates Kim Parker and Peter Maraccini take well wa-ter samples to check for arsenic and uranium levels on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.


CEE student researchers find household biosand filters + iron nails = virus-free drinking water

by JoyCE mASt

Socorro, a Mayan community of 450 in the highlands of southwestern Guatemala, is

afflicted with acute and chronic diarrheal ill-nesses, soil-transmitted helminthes (worm) infections, and subsequent malnutrition. During the first months of winter rains, di-arrheal rates in the children of Socorro ex-ceed 75 percent. In 2007, Socorro called the University of Illinois branch of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-UIUC) for help. The response? An innovative project that will likely bring clean water to every Socorro household by fall 2010.

A team of U of I students, including CEE student leaders Sheila Markazi and Billy Nichols, went to Socorro for initial site as-sessments in December 2008 and spring 2009. The team designed a centralized sys-tem, but unfortunately the required land could not be purchased. In summer 2009, the community and the team, with help

from a local, culturally sensitive non-govern-mental organization (NGO), decided to pur-sue household-scale water treatment. Five CEE EWB-UIUC undergraduates—Kimberly Parker and Peter Maraccini (project leads) with Alyssa Sohn, Emily Van Dam, and Ofe-lia Romero—will travel to Socorro during the 2009-2010 winter break. Working with the NGO, they will teach the small commu-nity team how to construct, operate, and maintain 150 (one for each family group) $30 concrete, iron-amended biosand filters (BSFs). After about 30 weeks, at a rate of five per week, Socorro could have its first reliable source of safe drinking water and no water-borne bacterial and viral diseases.

For 15 years, BSFs have been used effec-tively to strain out bacterial pathogens, pro-

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tozoa, and helminthes from drinking water, but viruses, which are approximately 100 times smaller than bacteria, slip through. Enter EWB-UIUC undergraduates Parker, Maraccini, Markazi, Kevin Swanson and graduate researcher Ian Bradley, with their research adviser, Professor Thanh (Helen) Nguyen, who all found a great research op-portunity in Socorro’s waterborne diseases. Could the low-virus-removal problem be solved with rusty nails? Iron nails (zerovalent iron) added to the BSF sand layer, will rust, producing iron oxide and hydroxides. These positively charged oxides efficiently adsorb virus particles, removing them from the wa-ter. As the adsorption sites are filled, the iron oxides fall off the nails and expose new iron material, which rusts and creates new iron oxide adsorption sites to remove still more viruses. The process passively regenerates itself to indefinitely remove viruses. The iron oxides are caught in the sand once they fall off the nails and do not enter the filtered drinking water.

The few existing studies that have tested virus reduction using zerovalent iron-amended BSFs have considered only a particular virus or aspect of filtration. In April 2009, the CEE team was awarded a $10,000 grant from an Environmental Pro-tection Agency program called P-3 (People, Prosperity, Planet) - Promising Research Ideas, one of only 20 nationwide, to exam-ine multiple aspects of virus reduction us-ing zerovalent iron-amended BSFs, in both small- and large-scale experiments with model organisms (MS-2) and human patho-genic viruses (rotavirus). They began in May. On the small scale, the team pumped water

containing model viruses through glass col-umns filled with sand mixed with 10 percent iron filings and saw a 99.99 percent virus removal—the World Health Organization standard. As the experiment has continued and the iron has corroded further, more iron oxides have formed, with a 99.9999 percent removal rate.

Such promising results raise more ques-tions: What is the optimal number of nails and placement—concentrated in a layer or spread throughout the sand? How long do they need to be in contact with the wa-ter? Does local contaminated water contain enough oxygen for nails to rust, or do its mi-croorganisms remove too much oxygen for the rusty-nail idea to work? Will Guatemalan nails remove viruses without affecting the water’s pH, color, or taste? The CEE team is addressing these questions. Best responses could solve the waterborne disease prob-lem in Socorro and developing communi-ties around the world.

“First and foremost, we want to help Socorro,” Maraccini says. “But we also want them to help us to demonstrate that our idea will be effective in real world situations.”

The team will be flown to Washington, D.C., sometime this spring to compete for the $75,000 EPA-Phase II -Implementation grant. A follow-up trip to Socorro to evalu-ate filtered water quality and community response is planned for May 2010. i

Peter Maraccini, Kimberly Parker, and Ian Brad-ley contributed to this story. Professors Nguyen and Bruce Litchfield supported the EPA P-3 grant application. More than 50 EWB-UIUC members volunteered their time, donated, and raised almost $24,000 through fundraisers, the University of Illinois, EWB, Wuqu’ Kawoq and St. John’s Catholic Chapel. This money, togeth-er with the $10,000 EPA P-3 grant, will fund the 150 zerovalent iron-amended BSFs for Socorro.

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Routine road maintenance is a rare sight during an Illinois winter, but two CEE al-

ums are using this year’s off season to wrap up their research towards safer work zones for the future. Through research funded by the Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT), Douglas Steele (BS 91, MS 92) and William Vavrik (BS 96, MS 97, PhD 00), both of Ap-plied Research Associates Inc., are final-izing recommendations to improve the safety of moving lane closures.

Moving lane closures are a common traffic control technique in work zones. They consist of a convoy of traffic protec-tion vehicles equipped with warning lights and arrow boards that alert drivers to the presence of work crews and guide them to the adjacent lane until they have safely passed the work zone. Moving lane clo-sures allow the work crews to close lanes for shorter durations, thereby minimizing disruption for the traveling public and in-creasing the efficiency of maintenance work. However, they can also be danger-ous because their mobile nature does not allow for the placement of barricades between the work crew and the adjacent open traffic lane. Additionally, many mo-torists do not view moving lane closures as “real work zones” and therefore don’t exer-cise proper precautions in these zones.

In Phase I of this project, Steele and Vavrik studied the factors that affect driv-er behavior around moving work zones through a series of field tests. They ob-served driver behavior through video-tapes and through the help of the Illinois State Police, who in an unmarked vehicle, monitored and recorded traffic speeds ap-proaching and passing through the work zones. Also with the help of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, the research-ers were able to test four locations for two to three days each. Specifically, they studied pertinent safety parameters that include traveling speed, number and spac-ing of trucks, buffer distances, and visibil-ity of work crews. They also used energy absorption calculations to predict the typi-cal roll-ahead distances of protection ve-hicles when they are impacted by vehicles of varying sizes and speeds.

After reviewing driver behavior and analyzing the video and speed data, Steele and Vavrik published their research and initial recommendations (posted on the ICT website’s publications page at http://ict.illinois.edu). This initial research result-ed in an improved understanding of traf-fic patterns and driver behavior near and around rolling lane closures.

The project has since expanded into Phase II that included a series of meet-ings with a diverse group of profession-als who are involved with moving lane closures. Using the feedback gained from these meetings, Steele and Vavrik will sub-mit specific recommendations for revised standards for moving lane closures in Illi-nois to the Illinois Department of Transpor-tation (IDOT).

“Taking our field study results, present-ing them to practitioners and experts, and

Two CEE alumni work with the Illinois Center for Transportation for safer moving lane closures

by lESliE SWEEt myriCK Above: A mobile lane closure on the Reagan Memo-rial Tollway (I-88). Trucks with arrow boards and crash attenuators closed the right lane of the interstate for workers to do short-duration work in the lane.Inset: A mobile lane closure at night on I-90 near Barrington Rd. Trucks with arrow boards and crash attenuators closed two left lanes of the three-lane interstate to perform maintenance on the pavement markings. The work crew is near the bright white light and the use of that light is based on recommen-dations from an earlier ICT project. Driver behavior was evaluated around these closures with a goal of making these closures safer.

The Illinois Center for Transportation is an innovative research partnership between the Illinois Department of Transportation and the University of Illinois. The ICT research team includes 64 investigators from a diverse array of universities, private consulting firms, and governmental agencies. ICT accepts research ideas twice annually.

http://ict.illinois.edu

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This project was proposed to ICT after an Applied Research Associ-ates Inc. (ARA) worker was killed while working at night in a closure similar to the one shown in the inset. About 18 months before the ARA accident, a toll-way worker was killed while perform-ing road work in another closure. These tragedies were the genesis of this re-search, the goal of which is to save lives.

getting their feedback adds tremendous insight for our final recommendations,” says Vavrik.

The implementation of the recom-mendations could help reduce the thou-sands of accidents and numerous fa-talities that occur in highway work zones each year. Aaron Weatherholt, the IDOT Technical Review Panel chairperson who oversees this research sums up the proj-ect’s impact: “The value of this research is very simple, to reduce crashes and save lives.” i


Controlled Rocking System Tested at Japan’s E-Defense

A group of researchers led by Profes-sor Jerry Hajjar and colleagues from

Stanford University, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Hokkaido University, and E-Defense in Japan, have successfully tested a new structural system that will make steel-framed buildings more resilient in earthquakes.

The “controlled rocking” system en-ables buildings to sway during earth-quakes and return to their original positions without sustaining ir-reversible damage.

“In moderate to large earthquakes, structures sustain significant damage throughout the core structural framing systems,” Hajjar says. “While they are de-signed not to collapse, many structures are permanently damaged after such an event, such that they may need to be con-demned, even if they were designed to sat-isfy 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 en-sure plumbness, provides both safer and more sustainable options for building design in seismic zones. The most recent testing completed at the shake-table fa-cility in Japan has validated the effective-ness of this structural system when sub-jected to earthquakes.”

The technology, which just completed testing at Japan’s Hyogo Earthquake En-gineering Research Center (E-Defense), is the culmination of more than a decade of ideas and developing technologies. Three major components make up the seismic lateral resisting system—a stiff steel-braced frame that remains virtually

elastic, but is not tied down to the foun-dation and thus allowed to rock; vertical post-tensioning strands that anchor the top of each frame down to the founda-tion and bring the frame back to plumb; and replaceable structural fuses that ab-sorb seismic energy as the frames rock, fabricated from steel plates with water-cut diamond-shaped slits.

In an earthquake event, the flexible steel “fuse” takes the brunt of the force, keeping the frame and constituent ten-dons from shouldering the entire load. The fuses are easily replaceable when they blow—similar to an electrical fuse. Following a quake, the building can be refitted with fresh fuses for the next tec-tonic event.

The first phase of the project includ-ed experiments at Stanford University of various fuse configurations to develop and optimize the fuse shape and charac-teristics. Phase two featured quasi-static testing of a half-scale, three-story model of the complete structural system at the University of Illinois’ Multi-Axial Full-Scale Subassemblage Testing and Simulation Facility (MUST-SIM) located within New-mark Civil Engineering Laboratory. The fa-cility is part of the National Science Foun-dation’s George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation.

In summer 2009, the research contin-ued with the two-thirds scale dynamic testing of the structural system on the E-Defense shake table in Miki, Japan. For testing, the team constructed a two-thirds-size model of a standard three-story office building, representative of a building with a footprint 120 by 180 feet, and a mass comparable to a full-size building. Even at a magnitude-seven earthquake, the only damage recorded in the frame was in the replaceable fuses.

Perhaps the most promising aspect of the system is that it can be retrofitted to existing buildings using readily available materials.

Project investigators include principal investigator G. G. Deierlein, and profes-sors S. Billington and H. Krawinkler from Stanford University. Collaborators in Ja-pan include professors T. Takeuchi and K. Kasai, Tokyo Institute of Technology; M. Midorikawa, Hokkaido University; and T. Hikino, Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center.

Funding is being provided by the Na-tional Science Foundation, the American Institute of Steel Construction, Stanford University, the University of Illinois at Ur-bana-Champaign, and the Hyogo Earth-quake Engineering Research Center. In-kind funding has been provided by Tefft Bridge and Iron, M.C. Detailers, Infra-Met-als, Prestress Engineering Corporation, Wagner Machine Company, Japan Iron and Steel Federation, and Nippon Steel Engineering Corporation. i

Above: a three-dimensional rendering of the test. Inset: Professor Jerry Hajjar, right, with CEE student Matthew Eatherton, who also traveled to Japan to assist with the testing.

Jerry Hajjar


Wireless structural monitoring system deployed in Korea

Bill Spencer

Illinois researchers have developed an inexpensive, wireless means for contin-

uous and reliable structural health moni-toring and successfully deployed their system this summer at full scale on the new Jindo Bridge in South Korea. A joint project between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, KAIST in Korea, and the University of Tokyo, it is the first dense deployment of a wireless sensor network on a cable-stayed bridge and the

largest of its kind for civ-il infrastructure to date.

The researchers—part of the Illinois Struc-tural Health Monitoring Project (ISHMP) led by Professor Bill Spencer of CEE and Professor Gul Agha of the University of Illinois’ Computer Sci-ence department—de-signed, developed, and

tested sensors that can be manufactured very cheaply and still produce the high-fidelity data required for structural health monitoring. Their research has also pro-duced a customizable software frame-work that simplifies the development of structural health monitoring applications for smart sensor platforms. In combina-tion, their sensors and software create an integrated framework that can be utilized by most civil engineers without the need for extensive background in electrical engineering or computer science. More than 40 institutions throughout the world are now using the ISHMP framework, says CEE Professor Bill Spencer.

“It’s becoming the de facto standard for wireless sensing of civil infrastruc-ture,” Spencer says.

Structural health monitoring is an emerging field that combines civil engi-neering knowledge with developments

in sensor technology, information man-agement, and networking technologies. The goal is to achieve a more reliable al-ternative to traditional structure inspec-tion techniques. Until now, though, its usefulness was limited by concerns about cost and effectiveness.

“Manual inspection of bridges costs millions of dollars, is relatively unreliable, and can only be carried out infrequently,” Spencer says. “Some real-world structur-al health monitoring deployments using wired sensors have been able to provide detailed information about the state of civil infrastructure. However, the enor-mous expense of installing traditional monitoring systems has significantly lim-ited such deployments.”

The Illinois team’s framework address-es this issue by employing dense arrays of wireless smart sensors designed to record and transmit complex, high-fidelity data cheaply and efficiently. The team’s tech-nology employs concurrent and distribut-ed real-time processing to overcome the limitations inherent in traditional central-ized approaches.

“The traditional centralized approach

for structural health monitoring is not feasible with moderate to large numbers of sensors; tremendous amounts of data must be sent to such a central station, requiring expensive, difficult-to-install wired networking and introducing a single point of failure,” Agha says. “Our research in distributed structural health monitoring using wireless sensor net-works overcomes these problems and promises a robust, significantly lower-cost, safer alternative to traditional struc-ture inspection techniques.”

Others who have contributed to this project include: Shinae Jang, CEE Ph.D. student; Hongki Jo, CEE Ph.D. student; Jennifer A. Rice (MS 05, PhD 09), assis-tant professor at Texas Tech University; Robin Kim, CEE Ph.D. student; Sung-Han Sim, CEE Ph.D. student; Parya Moinzadeh, Computer Science Ph.D. student; and Kirill Mechitov, Computer Science Ph.D. student.

For more information on the Illinois Structural Health Monitoring Project and the Structural Health Monitoring Ser-vices Toolsuite software, visit http://shm.cs.uiuc.edu/. i

Top: the Jindo Bridge in South Korea, which connects the main-land to Jindo Island. Inset: One of the boxes containing the wireless sensors, affixed to the bridge with strong magnets. At right, left to right: Professor Chung-bang Yun of KAIST; Professor Gul Agha from U of I’s Department of Computer Science (CS); U of I CEE Ph.D. student Shinae Jang; and U of I CS Ph.D. student Kirill Mechitov.


Less than $1 million is needed to fully fund the M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Student

Center, a planned 20,500-square-foot ad-dition to Nathan M. Newmark Civil Engi-neering Laboratory that will be entirely student-focused. CEE at Illinois is call-ing on all alumni to meet the challenge posed by alumnus M.T. Geoffrey Yeh (BS 53), who promised a $4 million gift if fel-low CEE alumni would contribute $3 mil-lion in additional funds.

New classrooms, a conference room, meeting rooms for student groups, and a

spacious atrium with seating for informal gathering are all part of the design, which was finalized this summer. The goal is to improve the student experience by pro-viding CEE students with a designated “home” on campus where they can at-tend class, hold student group meetings, study and collaborate on projects, and meet informal-ly. Currently,

Yeh Student Center project needs final funding boost

Sketches of the planned Yeh Student Center by Teng & Associates Inc.


CEE classes are held in various buildings across campus.

The Yeh Center will also serve as a liv-ing laboratory with links to the physical structure where displays fed by wireless sensors will show long-span vibrations,

energy consumption, and other unique features of the building directly ap-plicable to the students’ learning experience. The addition will meet the standards for a silver cer-tification through LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a program administered by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Thanks to the $4 mil-lion gift from Yeh, $1 million from the College of Engineering, $1 million in CEE funds, and additional alumni gifts total-ing approximately $2 million, the depart-ment is less than $1 million away from its goal of $9 million, which will completely fund the project. Construction is expect-ed to begin in spring 2010 with the move-in set for April 2011.

Chicago-area design firm Teng & As-sociates Inc. have completed design and

http://cee.illinois.edu/alumni/gift/studentcenter


All of us on campus are very excited about the new Yeh Student Center. It’s a much-needed addition to Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory. I could point out to you all of the CEE students spread across campus in order to find places to study and work on class proj-ects. I could tell you how many times we’ve been mistaken for students in other majors because we frequent their lounges and computer labs. In fact, as I write this, I’m working on CEE home-work in the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. CEE students don’t have a space to call our own on campus. But you already know this, because you were a student here too.

I just made my $25 student dona-tion to the M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Student Center Fund because I see this new con-struction as more than simply another campus building that will block out the persistent Urbana-Champaign rains and bitter winter winds. Like all of you who came before us, my CEE friends and I have learned to appreciate Newmark for what it is, and what it’s not. The crane bay at Newmark is a truly awe-some playground for constructing and destroying, testing, and tweaking. The entire building—from the basement to the fourth floor environmental labo-

ratories—is filled with high-tech equip-ment and hard-working, world-renowned scholars. But what Newmark is missing is a student zone. The Yeh Center will solve this problem by providing a place for study tables and space for students to congregate after student organization meetings. But it will do more, as well.

I’m making my small contribution as an investment in a shelter for big ideas and dreams. I want future students to have a place to spend more time with those who really understand them—fel-low CEE students. I want the camaraderie and relationships built on campus to ex-tend past graduation and last throughout the careers of our students as we solve problems all over the world using our Illi-nois CEE pedigree—the best in the world. The Yeh Center will be at the heart of these friendships.

All of us—current students, alumni, and friends—can make a small contri-bution toward this worthy effort. The Yeh Center is evidence of a bright future for our department. It’s a home that will make all of us proud—while on campus and when we return as alumni. I hope you’ll join me in helping to make the Yeh Student Center a reality. Sincerest thanks to you on behalf of current and future CEE students at Illinois.

—Claire Joseph, CEE senior

Dear CEE alumni,construction documents for the Yeh Center this fall. The company has been involved with the project for more than a decade, having done the initial sketch-es in the 1990s. The design that will be implemented is very close to that one, with a few adjustments to reflect the department’s growth and changing needs, including bigger classrooms and a tiered lecture hall instead of an audi-torium.

The construction of the Yeh Student Center will fulfill the original vision for Newmark Laboratory, which included plans for an additional structure for class-rooms. At that time, budget constraints prevented its realization. Thanks to the generosity of CEE alumni, the depart-ment is closer than ever to achieving this vision. i

How to GiveMake a gift online to the M.T.

Geoffrey Yeh Student Center in Newmark Laboratory or, for more information, please contact:

• John Kelley, Director of Ad-vancement and Alumni Relations, (217) 333-5120, [email protected]

• Amr S. Elnashai, Professor and Head, (217) 333-3276, [email protected]

“I’m making my small

contribution as an investment in a shelter for big ideas and

dreams.”


Claire Joseph, with Newmark Lab in the background


Student OrganizationsCEE’s many student organizations offer enrichment and fun. They also offer alumni the opportunity to get involved and share their experience with current students. Here’s what CEE’s students are planning this year. http://cee.illinois.edu/student_organizations

American Concrete InstituteThe student chapter of the American Concrete Institute

(ACI) works to encourage student interest and involvement in concrete materials, structures and construction. We host monthly meetings and seminars with speakers from the con-crete industry or research fields. Recent speakers included Dr. Thomas VanDam (BS 84, MS 86) of APTech, Margaret Reed of WJE, and Ken Marley (BS 05, MS 07) and Chris Hart (MS 07) of the U of I. Each semester we send students to the ACI Inter-national conventions to participate in the student competi-tions, 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 encourage any alumni involved in either ACI or the concrete construction industry to speak at our meetings or to sug-gest a field trip idea. Visit http://go.illinois.edu/aci. for contact information. —Kerry Hall, President

AREMA Illinois’ Student Chapter of the American

Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) was founded in the fall of 2008 and has since grown to 42 mem-bers who are also student members in the parent organization AREMA. The 2009 ARE-MA Annual Conference was held in Chicago in September, and 29 chapter members attend-ed, with their travel supported through the AREMA Student Chapter by the Student Orga-nization Resource Fund, Engineering Council, and the George Krambles Foundation. At the conference, students attended technical sessions and exhibits, and participated in a meet-and-greet with potential employers. With additional assistance from the CEE de-partment, the chapter also took a few field trips in its charter year. Last fall, six chapter members trav-eled to Ft. Madison, Iowa, to observe rail grinding on the BNSF Railway. Last spring, members travelled to Memphis, Tenn., to visit three major rail yards. Chapter members also created an intermodal shipping game for Engineering Open House and volunteered for a day at the Monticello Railroad Museum. The chapter is seeking guest speakers, hosts for field trips, and donations to help fund travel to the 2010 AREMA Conference in Orlando, Fla. For more information, contact John Zeman, [email protected], or visit the website, http://ict.illinois.edu/railroad/CEE/Railroad%20Students/AREMA.asp.

American Society of Civil EngineersThe student chapter of the American Society of Civil

Engineers (ASCE) helps students to immerse themselves in the industry and to create ties with working professionals. Company representatives are invited to present at monthly general meetings regarding their experiences in the work force. ASCE also works alongside companies to provide field trip opportunities that allow students to visit project sites. Social and outreach events are also a focus of ASCE. Events include Crane Bay Cinema, intramural sports, Relay-for-Life, peer advising, and professor lunches. The student chapter also works with the Steel Bridge and Concrete Canoe teams. The chapter is always searching for alumni to present at future meetings. We also seek practicing advisers for our chapter, company sponsorships (for ASCE as well as Steel Bridge and Concrete Canoe) and companies interested in hosting field trips. For more information, please email [email protected].

American Society for Engineering Education

The student chapter of the American Society for Engi-neering Education (ASEE) is now officially a Registered Stu-dent Organization at Illinois, and is recognized by ASEE as the 18th student chapter nationally. ASEE is committed to furthering engineering education by promoting excellence in instruction, research, public service, and practice. Planned activities for this new student chapter will include a lunch seminar series and presentations by faculty on topics con-cerning engineering education. Other activities with a variety

of like-minded programs on campus, such as iFoundry and the Campus Center for Teaching Excellence, are also planned. For more information, contact Thomas Frankie, [email protected], or visit the website, http://asee.ec.illinois.edu/.

Chi EpsilonAs the Alpha chapter of Chi Epsilon enters fall 2009, new

and interesting events are under way. With the largest initi-ate class to date, active members are constantly busy instruct-ing initiates on how to complete their requirements for this special process which has occurred here since 1922. Our for-mer president of Chi Epsilon, Melissa Berena, along with for-mer board members Calvin Young and Jie Zuo recently went to the central district regional conclave at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan. There they represented the found-ing chapter of Chi Epsilon and discussed issues that affect the Society at a regional level. They were 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, pro-fessors, 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, contact our president, Ryan Miller, [email protected].

Geotechnical Engineering Student Organization

The Geotechnical Engineering Student Or-ganization (GESO), will once again offer many events for U of I geotechnical engineering stu-dents, faculty, staff, and alumni during the 2009-2010 school year. GESO, a student chapter of the Geo Institute (GI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), will provide students opportu-nities to attend two conferences this year. The first is the 34th Annual Conference on Deep Foun-

dations in Kansas City, Mo., and the second is the International Foundation Congress & Equipment Expo 2010 in Palm Beach, Fla. Additionally, GESO will fund a team to participate in the competition during the Palm Beach conference. We will also hold lectures by prominent researchers and practitioners on important geotechnical engineering topics and issues. We also plan to present an exhibit in the 2010 Engineering Open House at U of I. Other events include general meetings and various social activities like picnics and field trips. This year we will be reactivating a roundtable discussion group aimed at becoming more familiar with the current research in the geo-

Chi Epsilon members pose at a wine-and-cheese event with CEE profes-sors Jeffery Roesler (BS 92, MS 94, PhD 98), far left, and Robert H. Dodds Jr. (MS 75, PhD 78), sixth from left.



technical department, along with staying current on journal papers. 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 collabo-rate with different geotechnical engineering consulting and 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. —Presi-dent: Mark Muszynski

International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research

The student chapter of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) is one of the two student chapters in CEE with a specific focus for students in the Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering (EHHE) program. This student organization gathers regularly to share experiences related to hydraulics, river morphology, sediment transport processes and environmental fluid mechanics, where they discuss past, present, and future research within the dis-cipline. As part of this effort, the chapter arranges research/industry water-related seminars, discussions, workshops, field trips to local hydraulic works, and informal collaborative activi-ties with neighboring student chapters. Also, the IAHR student chapter performs various community outreach functions to foster the understanding and awareness of the importance of fluid dynamics in the world in which we live. With this in mind, a wide range of educational activities are common part of this active chapter, like the laboratory tours they perform at the Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory for all types of visitors (both technical and nontechnical) with a special focus on students

ranging from primary school to college level, showcasing from the very basic hydraulic principles to ongoing cutting-edge research experiments. In addition, IAHR also leads the organi-zational effort of preparing exhibits every year in the Hydro-systems Laboratory for the unrivaled Engineering Open House event at the University of Illinois, which are open to the general public as well. This chapter organizes regular mixers with the faculty, several sports activities throughout the year for its members as well as the popular Hydro Happy Hour every Friday! On an international level, the chapter takes part in numerous in-ternational IAHR activities such as Conferences and the Biennial Congress. To learn more, visit the Illinois IAHR student chapter on the web at www.illinois.edu/goto/iahr. —President: Blake Landry

International Water Resources AssociationThe International Water Resources Association (IWRA)

works to advance the understanding and management of water resources worldwide. The student chapter gathers regularly to share experiences and increase awareness of wa-ter resources issues through research/ industry seminars and educational field trips. The chapter organized a canoe trip as well as a separate camping trip this past summer. These trips allowed students to examine unique geological formations formed by water as well as share their research experience with others. The chapter arranges annual events which allow inter-action between the faculty and staff in the Environmental Hy-drology and Hydraulic Engineer-ing Program. The chapter also participates in Engineering Open

House and helps the IAHR student chapter prepare the Hy-drosystems Laboratory for this event. Visit the Illinois IWRA student chapter on the web at http://www.illinois.edu/goto/iwra. —Kevin Miller

Structural Engineers AssociationThe Structural Engineers Association is anticipating

great success continuing this academic year as we kick off the year with a General Body Meeting featuring members from SEA of Illinois. It is our hope that students will understand the many opportunities that becoming a member of the Illinois chapter will bring. Prospects for networking will be available for both students and professionals looking to connect with one another. We began the year with our first social event: a game of Ultimate Frisbee, which resulted in a great turn-out! We’ll also be arranging more professional affairs such as project tours (where available) and job shadow experiences for students interested in finding out exactly what structural engineers do. If your company would like to participate in job shadows, general meetings, or just hang out at our socials, we would love to get you involved. Feel free to contact Aurora Ebert, [email protected], with any questions, concerns, or thoughts. Let’s work together to build another successful year with the Structural Engineers Association!

Above, on a sailing trip planned by student chapters of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research and the International Water Resources Association, CEE students (left to right) Jory Hecht, Ruiyu Wang, and Gianluca Blois set sail. Inset, Michelle Hollander, left, and Yun Tang, right, enjoy the same trip.

Above, CEE students Aurora Ebert, left, and Ron Stefani recruit members for the Structural Engi-neers Association student chapter on Quad Day.

At right, Chi Epsilon mem-bers enjoy a golf outing. Chi Epsilon, a national civil engineering honor society, was founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.



Department NewsHashash leading major geotech workshop

Professor Youssef Hashash of the geotechnical area is chair of Earth

Retention 3 (ER2010), an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) spe-cialty conference sponsored by the Earth Retaining Structures Committee of ASCE’s Geo-Institute. The event will be held August 1-4, 2010, in Bellevue, Wash.

The conference is held ev-ery 20 years to share changes in design and construction practices for earth retaining structures and draws hun-dreds of geotechnical engi-neering professionals from around the world. ER2010 is the third earth retention specialty conference of ASCE. The first two were held at Cornell Uni-versity in 1970 and 1990.

“It’s a 20-year milestone, so it should be a major update of what we know about earth retention structures,” says Hashash, stressing that the conference is aimed at providing practical, imme-diately applicable information for prac-titioners.

The event will feature plenary and breakout sessions with national and international experts in the field. Top-ics will include supported excavations,

mechanically-stabilized earth walls, seismic design of walls, numerical analyses of walls, wall selection, recent advances, performance of walls, de-sign of walls, soil mixed walls, tied-back support, sinking of shafts, soil nailing, and concrete diaphragm walls.

The University of Illi-nois has a long history of leadership in geotech-nical engineering and retention structures, with seminal contribu-tions made by former faculty member Ralph Peck. Alumni Thomas O’Rourke (MS 73, PhD 75) and Professor Emeri-tus Edward Cording (MS

63, PhD 67) have also contributed to knowledge in the field and are expect-ed to speak at the conference, Hashash says. Alumnus Richard Finno (BS 75) of the Northwestern University faculty is Technical Program Coordinator for the conference, and John R. Wolosick (BS 78, MS 79) of Hayward Baker is serving as Exhibitors and Field Demonstrations Coordinator.

For more information, please visit the conference website at http://www.er2010.org. i

Youssef Hashash

Professor Imad L. Al-Qadi, director of the Illinois Center for Transportation, has been reappointed to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Transportation and Development Institute’s

(T&DI) Board of Governors. This board is responsible for the direction, strategic planning, and activities of the T&DI including the technical committees and special conferences on transportation. The T&DI is comprised of more than 15,000 dedicated members ranging from engineers to scientists, all of whom come together to share a common vision of becom-ing a global leader for integrated transportation and development that is safe, secure, and sustainable.

Christopher P. L. Barkan

was promoted to Professor. Barkan has been on the CEE faculty since 1998. He is the Krambles Faculty Fellow and directs the Railroad Engineering Program.

Tami C. Bond was promoted to Associate Professor.

Ximing Cai was promoted to Associate Professor.

Professor Emeritus Barry Dempsey has won the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Robert Horonjeff Award for his outstanding achievements

in, and contributions to, the advancement of the field of air transportation engineering. The award will be presented at the 87th Annual Transportation Research Board meeting in January. The award carries

the name of Robert Horonjeff (1913-1976), a leader in the development of the field of air transportation engineering and a very active member of ASCE.

CEE student Kayleigh Dunnett was recognized during the 25th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments and Water with an award for Best Overall Scientific Presentation for her presentation, “Biodegradation of Tert-butyl Alcohol (TBA) using Biological Granular Activated Carbon (Bio-GAC).”

Armando DuarteRiley EdwardsWayland EheartLarry FahnestockKevin Finneran

Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, Spring 2009Youssef HashashEd HerricksPraveen KumarLiang Liu

Benito MariñasGholamreza MesriYanfeng OuyangGary Parker

Jeff RoeslerVernon SnoeyinkBill SpencerCharlie Werth


CEE and KAUST announce environmental research collaboration

The Department of Civil and Environ-mental Engineering (CEE) and the

Water CAMPWS at the University of Illi-nois have signed a three-year collabora-tive research agreement with the newly established King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. Under the agreement, KAUST will provide $5 million in funds to be shared by researchers at both U of I and KAUST for research of mutual interest in the areas of environmental sciences and engineer-ing and water desalination and reuse.

Founded through an endowment by King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the university is being constructed on more than 14 square miles along the Red Sea at Thuwal, about 50 miles north of Saudi Arabia’s second largest city, Jeddah. Ad-mission is open to both men and women. KAUST’s vision is to be the premier insti-tution for higher education in the Middle East, “dedicated to inspiring a new age of scientific achievement in Saudi Arabia, the region and the world.”

“This project represents an ideal part-nership between a world-class university, Illinois, and a new university built on an inspirational concept in research, KAUST, to address the world’s most challenging problem—clean and abundant water for life-sustenance,” said Amr Elnashai, CEE department head. “The Illinois team pos-sesses the richness of research culture and state-of-the-art laboratories that will not only advance clean water research but also underpin capacity building in KAUST and Saudi Arabia.”

The agreement provides $3 million for collaborative research with CEE research-

ers in any area of environmental en-gineering and $2 million for research in water desalination and reuse with researchers from the Water CAMPWS, the Center of Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with Systems, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center based in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering.

CEE Professor Charles J. Werth of the Environmental Engineering and Science (EE&S) group is Principal In-vestigator for the collaborative agree-ment. Professor Benito J. Mariñas of CEE’s EE&S group and Mark A. Shan-non, a Professor in Illinois’ Department of Mechanical Science and Engineer-ing and director of the Water CAMPWS, are Co-Principal Investigators.

“The Middle East has a lot of chal-lenging and unique environmental problems,” Werth said. “This agree-ment provides us with new resources and the opportunity to develop long-term collaborations in a strategic part of the world, where the challenges they face are the challenges we will face in the near future.

“We will become more familiar with, and we will better understand, the problems they face and their culture, so we can begin to address those problems in a sustainable way. Further, we have the unique oppor-tunity to contribute to the develop-ment of a top-notch, open, and in-clusive university.” i

Photo: the KAUST campus under construc-tion on the shores of the Red Sea.

Civil and Environmental Engineering staff mem-bers Leslie Elble, Steven Mathine and Mickey Peyton are the 2009 recipients of the CEE Staff Awards for Excellence. The awards are given in recogni-tion of outstanding performance and dem-onstrated professional excellence and consist of a cash award and a framed certificate. In addition, the names of the recipients are inscribed on a plaque displayed in the Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory crane bay. Elble is Assistant to the Director of the Illinois Center for Transportation. Mathine is a senior labo-ratory mechanic in the Newmark Lab Machine Shop. Peyton is the department’s Graduate Admissions Coordinator.

Associate Professor Khaled El-Rayes of the

Construction Management group has been ap-pointed a Specialty Editor in the American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ef-fective December 1. In this position, he will be responsible for manag-ing the review process for assigned manuscripts. El-Rayes has been on the CEE faculty since 2000. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on a wide range of topics in the area of construction engineering and manage-ment. He has research interests in construction op-timization, decision support systems, information technologies, highway construction, and construc-tion productivity.

Assistant Professor Larry Fahnestock of the structural engineering group is the recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers 2009 Raymond C. Reese Research Prize for his paper, “Seismic Response and Performance of Buckling-Restrained

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Mickey Peyton


Department News

CEE women students filled the hill-side by Boneyard Creek in this

September photo, taken to mark the historic occasion of the department’s largest number of matriculating fresh-man women to date. This year, an un-precedented 32 percent of civil and environmental engineering freshmen, 53 out of 164, are women, according to Professor and Associate Head David A. Lange.

Civil engineering is increasingly at-tractive to the current generation of high school students who value ser-vice-oriented career paths, Lange says.

“Young women value the opportu-nity to help build our neighborhoods and cities and contribute to public safety and health,” he says.

CEE freshman women make history

Increasing the participation of women is a priority of the College of Engineering through its Women in Engineering program. Recruitment starts as early as middle school with summer camps such as Girls’ Adven-tures in Mathematics, Engineering and Science (GAMES). The CEE de-partment has supported GAMES by sponsoring activity sessions during the week-long camp.

The College of Engineering works to develop the camaraderie of women students through events that encour-age scholarship and social interaction.

“We see the incoming freshman class as an important opportunity to engage and retain women students,” Lange says. i

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Braced Frames.” The paper, published in the American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Structural Engineeering in 2007, was based on Fahnestock’s Ph.D. research and co-authored by his former advisers from

Lehigh University, Richard Sause and Jim Ricles. The selection noted the authors’ development of guidelines and recommendations that are directly useful to the engineering profession.

Professor Jerry Hajjar of the structural engineering group was selected to receive the American Society of Civil Engineers 2009 Shortridge Hardesty Award, which recognizes a member or members of the Society who have contributed substantially in applying fundamental results of research to the solution of practical engineering problems in the field of structural stability.

Youssef Hashash was promoted to Professor.

Lanhua Hu, Ph.D. student in environmental engineering and science, was awarded a Student Paper Award at the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors 2009 Grand Challenges National Conference for her recent paper, “Oxidation of Carbamazepine by Mn(VII) and Fe(VI): Kinetics and Mechanism.” The paper was co-authored with CEE graduate students Heather Martin and Matt Sugihara and their adviser, Associate Professor Timothy Strathmann.

Professor Praveen Kumar of the Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering group has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Water Resources Research, the premier journal for hydrology. Published by the American Geophysical Union,

the inter-disciplinary journal integrates research in the social and natural sciences of water.

Professor David A. Lange, Associate Head for Undergraduate Affairs and Director of the Center of Excellence for Airport Technology was appointed to the

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If Professor Marcelo H. García has ever doubted the impact he has had over

the course of his academic career, those concerns were laid to rest in August. That’s when past and present students of the Environmental Hydrology and Hy-draulic Engineering professor gathered in Urbana to celebrate his 50th birthday.

The three-day event, planned and executed by a group of García’s current students, was designed to “celebrate the past, the present, and the future of Marcelo’s contributions to the fields of sediment transport, environmental hy-drodynamics, and river mechanics,” ac-cording to organizers. García joined the department in 1990 and has served as Di-rector of the Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory since 1997. He is a leader in river mechanics, sediment transport, sedimentation engineering and environ-mental hydraulics.

The main event of the celebration was a technical workshop at which more than 20 former students presented their current research. Other activities in-cluded four invited lectures, including one by García’s former academic adviser, CEE Professor Gary Parker; a welcome re-ception; a celebration dinner; and other activities including a tour of the Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory. About 40 people attended, some from as far away as Chile and Spain.

“The original idea was to gather all Marcelo’s ‘academic children’ for a par-

ty,” says post-doctoral researcher Mariano I. Cantero (MS 02, PhD 07), who thought of the idea along with fellow post-docs Jorge D. Abad (MS 02, PhD 08) and Yovanni A. Catano (PhD 05).

Between the technical sessions at which former and current students gave presen-tations on their work were the keynote lec-tures by Parker and Associate Professor Yarko Niño (MS 92, PhD 95) of the Department of Civil Engineering at the Universidad de Chile and three invited lectures by James Best, Professor Juan Pedro Martin Vide, of the Uni-versitat Politecnica de Catalunya, and Bruce L. Rhoads, Head of the Department of Geog-raphy at the University of Illinois.

Many of García’s students pitched in to make the event a success, including gradu-ate student Jose Mier, who helped organize the barbecue and arranged for a group pho-

tograph of the attendees posed with García by the Alma Mater. Mier and Ph.D. student Blake Landry also designed com-memorative mugs as keepsakes for the guests. The magnitude of the event pre-vented it being a surprise, but there were unexpected moments, such as the final party at which García was presented with the framed photograph and a cake.

“It truly surprised me how much my students appreciate the time they spent working with me at Illinois and all the things we have accomplished. I am proud of what my students have achieved and have great expectations for the future,” García says.

Additional information about the event is available on the Hydrosystems Laboratory website, http://vtchl.illinois.edu/. i

Students, alumni honor professor

Professor Marcelo H. García, center in dark pants and light shirt, poses by the Alma Mater with about 40 former and current students, colleagues and friends during the celebration of his 50th birthday.

Industry-based research center in CEE expands

Professor Timothy D. Stark has ex-panded the PVC Geomembrane In-

stitute (PGI), housed in CEE since 1998, to include all geomembranes that can be factory fabricated. The new entity is called the Fabricated Geomembrane Institute (FGI).

For more than a decade, the Univer-sity of Illinois has hosted the PGI and as-sisted engineers in designing, testing,

specifying, and installing PVC geomem-branes for water, mining, and environmen-tal applications. The recent expansion includes all geomembranes that can be factory fabricated. Factory fabrication of individual rolls of geomembrane into large geomembrane panels increases liner qual-ity, reduces field seaming, provides consis-tent seam quality, and reduces expensive field installation time and costs.

The FGI is dedicated to advancing the use of fabricated geomembranes through education, research, and technology trans-

fer. The expansion to all fabricated geomembranes allows the group to focus on many more geomembranes than just PVC geomembranes, such as reinforced polyethylene, Hypalon rein-forced polypropylene, EPDM, and XR-5.

The FGI is a consortium of manufac-turers, fabricators/installers, designers, regulators, and suppliers of fabricated geomembranes.

For more information, visit http://www.fabricatedgeomembrane.com. —Timothy Stark


Department News

When the Indoor Track & Field Sea-son begins in January, CEE will

have a special interest as the depart-ment’s own Greg Shroka returns to the field. Shroka earned All-America status in June after placing sixth in the high jump at the NCAA Outdoor Champi-onships with a personal best height of 7 feet, 1.5 inches. His performance ranked second in Illinois history and made him the first Fighting Illini Out-door All-American in the high jump in 30 years.

Shroka is working toward his mas-ter’s degree in Construction Manage-ment and expects to graduate in May. He earned a bachelor’s degree in archi-tectural studies in 2008 from the Uni-versity of Illinois.

Shroka’s dedication to Fighting Il-lini Track & Field spans his entire aca-demic year. In addition to carrying a demanding academic load, Shroka spends 20-25 hours per week at prac-tice and training in the fall. When the indoor season starts in January, he will add traveling to competitions to his schedule. The indoor season, which ends in March, flows into the outdoor season, which ends in June. Shroka also works 12-15 hours per week for a local architect.

Good time management skills and communication with his professors en-ables him to balance it all, he says.

“You really learn early on that if you can balance your time, it’s a whole lot easier to get things accomplished,” he says.

Despite the demanding and some-times stressful schedule, Shroka says

he wouldn’t trade the lessons he’s learned from athletics.

“You can take the things you learn with athletics—the drive and the com-petition—and translate them into your academics,” he says. “The education is what’s going to carry me through the rest of my life—not track.”

How far athletics will carry Shroka de-pends on how well he jumps this year, he says.

“I’m going to have to jump a little higher this year to think about jumping post-collegiately, but a goal of mine has always been to make the Olympic trials.”

His success so far, earning All-America status his first time at nationals, has been encouraging, he says.

“It was definitely a big accomplish-ment—good for the self-esteem,” he says.

Shroka’s other accomplishments in-

clude taking fourth at the NCAA Mid-east Regional Championships with a performance of 7 feet, 1 inch to qualify for the national competition; placing fifth in the high jump at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships and the Big Ten Indoor Championships; being named the team’s Most Valuable Field Event Athlete; and earning Academic All Big Ten, which requires that a stu-dent keep his grade-point average above 3.0 and letter in a sport. He also holds the record high jump for Ha-nover Central High School in Indiana, with a jump of 6 feet, 8 inches.

Originally from Cedar Lake, Ind., Shroka is the son of Steve and Joyce Shroka. i

Greg Shroka, CEE grad student, is the first Fighting Illini Outdoor All-American in the high jump in 30 years.

CEE graduate student flies high in Fighting Illini Track & Field


Board of Directors of the American Concrete Institute for a three-year term beginning in spring 2010.

CEE student Zhen Leng was selected as a recipient of the Yee Fellowship.

Professor Arif Masud of the structural engineering group has been elected a Fellow of the U. S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) in recognition of contributions to the field of Computational Mechanics. The Fellows Award recognizes individuals with a distinguished record of research, accomplishment and publication in areas of computational mechanics and demonstrated support of the USACM through membership and participation in the Association, its meetings and activities. Since its inception in 1986, USACM has elected only 44 Fellows, and it adds just four Fellows every two years. Masud also was promoted to Professor this year.

Assistant Professor Yanfeng Ouyang of the transportation group has been appointed a Paul Fraser Kent Faculty Scholar. Ouyang has been on the CEE faculty since 2005. He teaches transportation engineering and a graduate course on logistics systems.

Assistant Professor Junho Song was awarded the Junior Research Prize (under age 40) in the area of System Reliability and Optimization by the International

Association for Structural Safety and Reliability. Song was also selected as a National Center for Supercomputing Applications/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Faculty Fellow. His project, “Rapid Decision Support for Hazard Responses by Cyberenvironment of Urban

Infrastructure Networks,” will be supported for the 2009/2010 academic year.

Timothy J. Strathmann was promoted to Associate Professor.


New facultyMonica Lim

The newest addition to the Construction Engineering and

Management group is Lecturer Monica Eun Lim, program director of the Global Leaders in Construc-tion Management (GLCM) pro-gram (see feature, page 8).

Lim received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked for inter-national construction manage-ment firms in Chicago upon her graduation. As an alumna of the GLCM program (Class of 2006), Monica brings her professional ex-perience and her vision for the pro-gram back to the University. She organizes all program activities, fa-cilitates relationships between stu-dents and industry, and oversees the field learning experience, one of the program’s highlights.

Monica also instructs more than 80 undergraduates in the In-troduction to Construction Man-agement course, in which students gain their first exposure to the field.

During her time as a student and construction manager, Mon-ica has traveled internationally to construction sites, worked with architects, developers, and sub-contractors, and taught courses in sustainability and LEED cer-tification. i

CEE Graduate Student Lauren Stromberg was part of a team from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) that was recognized by Architect Magazine for a 2009 R + D Award for its design of a desalinization tower, the Oasis Generator. The structure is a 22-kilowatt unit that converts nearly 9,000 gallons of seawater into fresh water daily, thereby helping to transform the harsh seaside desert into a lush, usable environment. Stromberg was on a 2008 summer internship with SOM’s structures group when she served on the 12-member team, which was cited for its advanced, technical engineering. She also interned at SOM during summer 2009. Stromberg is part of Professor Glaucio Paulino’s research group.

Professor Emeritus Marshall Thompson of the transportation group was awarded honorary mem-bership in Chi Epsilon, the national civil engineering honor society that was founded at the University of Illinois in 1922. Chi Epsilon seeks to promote the val-ues of scholarship, char-acter, practicality, and sociability in its members and the profession of civil engineering. To recog-nize prominent faculty, community members, and graduates, Chi Epsilon chapters initiate honor-ary members who have exemplified the ideals of Chi Epsilon and played an important role in their univer-sity’s Chi Epsilon chapter.

Professor Charles J. Werth was chosen as one of 49 of the nation’s brightest young engineering researchers and educators selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s first Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium in November. Engineering faculty members in the first half of their careers who are developing and implementing innovative educational approaches in a variety of disciplines came together for the 2-day event, where they shared ideas, learned from research and best practice in education, and left with a charter to bring about improvement in their home institutions.

Alumni News


Five members of the self-named “Newmark Forty-Niners” gathered

this summer in Champaign to mark their 60th year since matriculating at the University of Illinois. The group of six men arrived in the civil engineering department in 1949 as graduate stu-dents to work under Nathan M. New-mark and have kept in touch ever since.

In addition to eating out together and sharing stories about their experi-ences and families, on July 13-14 the group toured several locations on cam-pus, including Newmark Lab, Talbot Laboratory and Grainger Engineering Library. They took a trip to Springfield one day to visit the Lincoln Museum. To celebrate their long friendship and loyalty to the University of Illinois, the group also sponsored a paver at the

Alice Campbell Alumni Center. This was the group’s eighth for-

mal reunion. Previous get-togethers have been held in Vancouver; Toronto; Bethlehem, Penn.; St. Louis; Kansas City, Mo.; and Champaign.

Pictured above at the Lincoln Mu-seum are the five Forty-Niners who were able to attend the reunion with spouses and friends (left to right): Douglas T. Wright (MS 52); Roland Dean Collins (BS 49, MS 51); Elaine Hall, the wife of Professor Emeritus William J. Hall; (in front of Elaine) Zella Wolof-sky; Jane Errera and her husband, Sam-uel J. Errera (MS 51); Professor Emeritus William J. Hall (MS 51, PhD 54); and Wil-liam K. Becker (MS 51). Unable to at-tend the reunion were Sheldon Cherry (MS 51) and his wife, Jane. i

Newmark ‘49ers mark 60 years of friendship 1940sHarold R. Sandberg, P.E., S.E., (BS 42, MS 47), Chairman Emeri-tus of Alfred Benesch & Co. was the 2009 winner of the John A. Roebling Medal presented by the Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania. The award recog-nizes an individual for lifetime achievement in bridge engineering, including design, construction research or educational endeavors.

1950sTerry Dooley (BS 54) was named an Honorary Mem-ber of the American Concrete Institute, one of five such awards nationally in 2009. Dooley was also named a Fellow of the Structural Engineers Association of Califor-nia. Dooley is the founder of the Los Angeles affiliate of the ACE (Architecture, Construction, Engineering) Men-tor Program.

1960sJohn F. Kiefner (PhD 67), a resident of Powell, Ohio, and senior advisor with Kiefner and Associates Inc., has been named a fellow of ASME. Kiefner is one of the pre-mier technical experts in North America in the field of gas and liquid pipeline safety and reliability.

1970sPhil Borrowman (BS 73, MS 74), P.E., S.E., senior vice president, recently celebrated 35 years of service at Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s Kansas City office. Recently, Borrowman has worked with the Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency (FEMA), helping the Houston area recover from Hurricane Ike.

Rick Makrickas (BS 73) is vice president of operations for Goodyear Dalian & Pulandian and plant manager of Goodyear’s largest new tire factory ever, 2.4 million square feet, located in Pulandian, China.



Born and raised in Chicago, I ac-quired a great interest and appreci-

ation for engineering and architecture. The modern city owes much to the prominent engineers and architects that helped build Chicago. Reversing the flow of a river, movable bridges, buildings with a “skeleton” within, foundations that support buildings that scrape the sky, are but a few of the monumental accomplishments of this great city. How could you not be interested?

A lasting impression that the U of I CEE department made upon me was that its faculty and students are/were major players in the world of civil engi-neering. The past and present faculty list literally reads as a who’s-who in civil engineering. One establishes that he or she is part of something special once those junior year classes begin and we spend most of our time “North of Green.”

My primary academic focus was in structures. I dabbled with materials and transportation to a lesser degree and tried to experience a little of ev-erything. From surveying to fluid dy-namics, I am amazed how many times these other subjects have resurfaced throughout my career. It is nice to spe-

By Mark A. KuberskiBS 1986, MS 1987Partner, Central Building and Preservation, Chicago

cialize in a few things but have a broad knowledge about many. One subject to which I am indebted is material behavior. It has been at the core of most everything in which I have been involved.

I started my professional career in 1987 with the Northbrook-based A/E con-sulting firm Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associ-ates Inc. (WJE). My first four years with WJE were spent in their Princeton, New Jersey, branch. In 1991 I transferred to their Chicago office to be closer to home. I spent much of my time investigating, an-alyzing and designing repairs for structur-al and architectural systems on buildings throughout the country, particularly New York City and Chicago. Inspecting tun-nels below rivers, cooling towers at pow-er plants, facades of historic skyscrapers, crane bays in steel mills and monitoring ground motions below buildings, are but a few of the tasks that I performed. Fa-çade investigations are performed from a swing stage scaffold. On a windy day, it is akin to a carnival ride. Fascinating stuff! Not just the task but the location of the work as well. From the bowels of the city to the tops of skyscrapers, I have seen the American city as few have.

I left WJE in 2000. It was the toughest

professional decision of my 22-year ca-reer. I loved working at WJE but I have always been a “hands-on” guy and wanted to be in charge of the means and methods of construction. This is something that the design profession-al typically cannot control. I accepted a position as a project manager with Central Building and Preservation L.P. (Central), a masonry restoration com-pany in Chicago.

At Central I have managed hun-dreds of projects with budgets rang-ing from thousands of dollars to mil-lions of dollars. These projects gener-ally involve the maintenance and/or repair of exterior masonry facades. My favorites are the restoration of histor-ic/landmark masonry clad skyscrapers such as the Marquette Building (Hola-bird & Roche), the Santa Fe Building (Daniel Burnham) and Carson, Pirie, Scott’s (Louis Sullivan). Restoration work is unique such that most success-ful projects are those in which you do not know work was performed when completed. Sounds simple enough, however, replacing 100-year-old ma-

Mark Kuberski with his family: wife, Carrie; daughter, Cameron; and son, Mackinnley, 5.

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terials (brick, stone, terra cotta, mor-tar, etc.) with new materials so that they “blend in” with the old is a daunt-ing task. It requires persistence and a good eye.

My efforts at Central include but are not limited to bidding work; staff-ing each project with men that have the appropriate skill set(s); determin-ing how to execute the work; oversee-ing the work so that it is done prop-erly; interacting with the design pro-fessional and communicating with the owner.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of communication. Keep-ing your clients well informed and un-derstanding their needs is paramount in a service industry; sometimes that requires a little hand-holding. I never forget that I am working for the client and not the reverse. Someone wiser than me once said, “It is easier to keep an existing client than it is to acquire a new one.” Truly words to work by.

I find as a former design profes-sional-turned-contractor, that having the ability to effectively interact with engineers and architects throughout the duration of a project makes for a better end product. Many times a design cannot be executed as shown on the drawings. Having a sound en-gineering background, understanding the objective of a repair and knowing the skills of the person performing the repairs affords me the opportunity to suggest alternative repairs that can be executed more effectively. There are no problems, only solutions. I strongly recommend that all engineers, young

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and old, spend time working on the construction side of our industry, if possible.

I am currently a Partner at Central, and I still love what I do. I work many long days, and sometimes nights, and have a wife, Carrie, who has been a Godsend. She is the glue that keeps our family together and works many long days, and usually nights, taking care of our household and children. My daughter Cameron is 7 and my son Mackinnley is 5.

My experience at Illinois molded me into the person that I am today. I got much more than my educa-tion. For that I am grateful and al-ways gratefully dedicated to the Uni-versity of Illinois. i

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1980sSteven Brandau (BS 81), head of the Henry County Highway Department, was named 2008 Rural County Engineer of the Year by the National Association of County Engineers.

Virginia Holtzman-Bell (MS 85) retired from the U.S. Coast Guard in September. Holtzman-Bell is a third gen-eration civil engineer and Coast Guard officer, following the legacy of her father and grandfather. Her decora-tions include three Coast Guard Meritorious Service Medals, two Coast Guard Commendation Medals and the Coast Guard Achievement Medal. She will go on to take a Senior Executive Service position in Boulder, Colo.

Sonia Maassel Jacobsen (MS 80) was named 2007 Professional Engineer of the Year by the American Soci-ety of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Neil Miltonberger (BS 84, MS 85) is a vice president for The Kenrich Group in the firm’s Chicago office.

David A. Sabatini (BS 81) was named a co-Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Contaminant Hydrology.

Daniel J. Whalen, P.E., (BS 84, MS 85) was named assistant vice president at Hanson Professional Services Inc. As a geotechnical engineer, he primarily serves the energy and industry market.

1990sRae R. Aranas (BS 92, MS 93) worked for five years as a design engineer at CB&I, then went to medical school and completed an anesthesiology residency and fellow-ship training in interventional pain medicine. Aranas is currently working at Atlantic Spinal Care in Edison, NJ, as an interventional spine physician focusing on utiliz-ing minimally invasive techniques such as endoscopic laser approaches to treat neck, arm, back or sciatic pain caused by spine pathology.




In summer 2009, a book called “$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise

in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Bet-ter” was featured in a number of major news outlets and made the New York Times Best-seller List. The author: CEE’s own Christopher Steiner (BS 00).

Steiner, a senior staff writer for Forbes Magazine, believes higher gasoline prices are inevitable, will af-fect nearly every aspect of our lives,

and will change our lives for the better in the long run. More centralized urban communities, shorter commutes, bet-ter mass transit systems and a healthier lifestyle are among the posi-tive effects, he says. Proven correlations between lower gas prices and obesity, as well as deaths

from traffic accidents, offer examples, he says.

“When the price of gas rises to $6, more than 20,000 lives will be saved from obesity-related diseases. A simi-lar effect will take place on our roads, where more than 15,000 lives will be spared,” Steiner says.

Before becoming a journalist, Steiner was a practicing civil and envi-ronmental engineer in San Francisco and Park City, Utah. In addition to his degree from Illinois, he holds a mas-ter’s degree in journalism from North-western University. He lives in Evan-ston, Ill., with his wife, Sarah, and their son, Jackson. —Sinem Ertunga i

CEE alum predicts pricey gas, improved lifestyle

Christopher Steiner

CEE alumnus and Ph.D. candidate Fernando Moreu (MS 05), center front, poses with mem-bers of the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois after being introduced as the Max Zar Scholar at the organization’s fall lecture on Nov. 10. Pictured are, left to right: Carol Druker, president of the Structural Engineers Foundation; Scott Graham (BS 99, MS 01), senior engineer at Wiss Janney Elstner; Nancy Gavlin (BS 76), Director of Education for the American Institute of Steel Construction; Greg Lakota (BS 91, MS 93), principal of Halvorson and Partners; Fernando Moreu; Chris Rockey, CEO of Rockey Structures LLC; Chris Poland, CEO of Degenkolb; and Structural Engineers Foundation fall 2009 lecture guest speaker Steven Elver, principal of AECOM.

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I-L-L... W-J-E Professor Amr S. Elnashai, CEE department head, visited Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc. in Chicago this fall and found a host of CEE alumni. Pictured are, from left: Blake Andrews (MS 08), Bill Nugent (MS 77), Stephen Schmitt (MS 07), Rich Kristie (BS 78), Brian Greve (BS 99, MS 00), Jon Lewis (BS 99, MS 01), Noah Fehrenbacher (MS 05), Elnashai, Dick Reed (BS 72, MS 73), Jim Don-nelly (BS 83, MS 85), Peter Nelson (BS 06, MS 08), and Arne Johnson (BS 87).

Nominations invited: CEE alumni awards

If you know of a deserving colleague who graduated from CEE at Illinois, consider nominating him or her for a CEE Alumni Association award. The Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna Award and the Young Alumnus/Alumna Achievement Award recognize those who have distinguished themselves in the field at different career stages.

For more information, please visit our alumni awards page of the CEE website at http://cee.illinois.edu/ceeonline/alumninews/CEEAAAwards.html.

Louis J. Gale (BS 96, MS 98) is an associate with the Chicago law firm of Arnstein & Lehr LLP specializing in construction litigation.

Frank Humay (BS 92) was promoted to vice president at Baldridge & Associates Structural Engineering Inc. He will oversee government-sector projects and the com-pany’s expansion to Guam and Chicago.

Mark Tompkins (BS 96, MS 98), Senior Ecosystem Plan-ning and Restoration Technologist for CH2M HILL, was selected by the National Academy of Engineering to be part of the 2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Sympo-sium.

2000sJoshua M. Bickett (MS 08) joined Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s St. Louis regional office in summer 2009. A geotechnical engineer, Bickett serves Hanson’s De-partment of Defense market.

Kelly Fitzgibbon, P.E., (BS 04) was promoted to senior engineer with Crawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc. She is as-signed to the company’s Aurora Water and Wastewater Group.

David H. Gagne (BS 01) married Sara A. Nutt on March 7 in Chicago. Gagne is employed by Accenture in Chi-cago.

J. Gregory Huntley (MS 08) is a civil engineer with Crawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc. He is assigned to the firm’s Military and Special Projects Aviation Group.

Fernando Moreu (MS 05), a Ph.D. candidate in CEE, was selected as the Max Zar scholar by the Structural Engineers Foundation of the Structural Engineers As-sociation of Illinois (see photo, page 31). Moreu has pursued his Ph.D. while working full-time with ESCA Consultants, which he joined in 2001.

Amanda Poole (BS 08) is serving a three-month in-ternship in Vienna, Austria, with the United Nations Of-fice of International Development. She will be working in the field of energy generation from agricultural waste and crop residues. Upon her return, Poole will work for Baxter & Woodman, a Chicago-based wastewater con-sulting firm.


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In Memoriamproducing division of Mobil Oil Corporation in Houston after more than 35 years in the oil business.

Janice A. Helgason (MS 65) died July 17, 2008. She was 66. Helgason worked as a cartographer, systems programmer, scientific programmer, realtor and a da-tabase administrator with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Lyman R. Squier (MS 61, PhD 67) died Oct. 20, 2008. He was 75. Squier was a consulting geotechnical engi-neer at Squier Associates.

1970sTimothy E. Etzkorn (BS 75) died May 5. He was 58. Etzkorn spent his career as a petroleum engineer.

Buddy D. Shuler (BS 76) died Oct. 7. He was 72. Shuler retired as an engineer with Clark Dietz Engineers in Champaign.

2000sJustin K. Wenthe, P.E., (BS 00) died July 27. He was 32. Wenthe worked for Egyptian Concrete Com-pany, where he was a project engi-neer in charge of the fabrication of precast and prestressed elements for highway and railroad bridges.

1940sHilmar B. Christianson (BS 43) died July 23 in Phoe-nix, Ariz. He was 87.

William R. Cox Jr. (BS 48, PhD 64) died Sept. 14. He was 84. Cox spent most of his career specializing in the design and construction of offshore oil and gas drilling foundations. For five years, he was a professor of engi-neering at the University of Texas.

Mahlon E. Gates (MS 48) died Oct. 17, 2008, in San Antonio, Texas.

Walter H. Jollie (BS 40, MS 50) died June 21. He was 91. Jollie worked for the Sanitary Water Board of the Il-linois Department of Health for 15 years, after which he was employed for 30 years at Baxter & Woodman Inc. Civil & Environmental Consulting Engineers. He became a partner in 1975.

Arnold F. Kohnert (BS 43) died April 28. He was 88. Kohnert was an engineer with Concrete Engineering Company in Los Angeles, Calif., and in retirement found-ed Pompadour Vineyard.

Norbert C. “Pete” Long (BS 49) died Jan. 2, 2009. He was 85. He had a long career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, retiring from the St. Louis District, where he had served as the chief of the River Stabilization Branch.

Bernard L. Robinson (BS 47, MS 58) died Dec. 25, 2008. He was 84. Robinson’s career included serving briefly on the architectural engineering faculty at Rens-selaer Polytechnic Institute. He served in the U.S. Army as a commissioned officer for more than 20 years.

Raymond C. Ward (BS 45) died Nov. 20, 2008. He was 83. Ward retired as a Naval Commander in the Seabees.

1950sRonald A. Burke (BS 56) died in November.

J. LeRoy Cange (BS 56) died May 14. He was 74. Cange was a retiree of McDonnell Douglas, having spent 22 years as an electrical flight systems engineer.

Dean C. Compher (BS 52) died Oct. 4. He was 80.

Daniel J. Hanson Sr. (BS 51, MS 52) died Aug. 8. He was 80. Hanson was a traffic engineer who served as president of the American Road and Transportation Builders trade group from 1973 to 1988.

Dale J. Henry (BS 52) died June 21 in Seaside, Ore. He was 80. Henry founded with colleagues the struc-tural and environmental engineer-ing firm Henry, Meisenheimer & Gende. He was an avid rose gar-dener.

Oscar G. Lara (BS 53) died Oct. 1. He was 84. He spent his career with the U.S. government and later as a pro-fessional consultant. He published numerous articles on hydrology.

Donald J. Mulcahy (BS 58) died Sept. 16. He was 78. Mulcahy was a civil engineer and retired owner of The Brite House Co.

Edwin T. O’Donnell (MS 52) died Oct. 25. He was a re-tired Brigadier General in the U.S. Army. O’Donnell’s last assignment was as the commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River Division.

Harvey P. Pittelko (MS 55) died Nov. 21, 2008. He was 76. Pittelko and a colleague founded Kelly and Pittelko, a consulting engineering firm, which later became KPFF, with 1,000 employees and multiple offices across the country and overseas.

William R. Scherwat (BS 53) died Jan. 4, 2009. He was 79.

James E. Smiley (BS 51) died May 7. He was 82. Smi-ley’s professional career included working for engineer-ing firms in the Chicago area, and as an employee of the City of Austin, Texas, from which he retired in 1990.

Michael P. Whittington (BS 51) died Nov. 9, 2008. He was 81. Whittington was president and CEO of Pierce Construction Co.

1960sGeorge P. Dalton (BS 67) died March 21, 2008. He was 73. Dalton retired in 1995 as the manager of the central

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Sponsored ResearchResearch 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.

Principal Investigator Funding Agency Project

Daniel P. Abrams US National Science Foundation Hybrid Masonry Seismic Structural Systems

Imad Al-Qadi Federal Highway Administration Dwight Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship

Imad Al-Qadi IL Department of Transportation Warm Mix Asphalt Study Special Project

Imad Al-Qadi IL Department of Transportation ICT Administration

Imad Al-Qadi IL Department of Transportation Profile Equipment Verification 2009 Special Project

Imad Al-Qadi IL Department of Transportation Thin Quiet Long Lasting Hi Friction Surface Layer

Imad Al-Qadi IL Department of Transportation Special Projects Engineering

Imad Al-Qadi IL Department of Transportation Support

Imad Al-Qadi IL Department of Transportation Editorial Support

Imad Al-Qadi IL Department of Transportation Conference Training & Support

Imad Al-Qadi IL Department of Transportation Illinois Center for Transportation

Imad Al-Qadi Michelin Americas Research and Development Corporation Predictive Design Models/Pavement Damage, Axle Configurations

Bassem Andrawes IL Department of Transportation Strengthening of Bridge Wood Pilings Retrofits for Moment Resistance

Bassem Andrawes IL Department of Transportation Prestressed SCC Bridge Box & I-Girders

Bassem Andrawes National Academy of Sciences Response Modification Factors for Pakistan Seismic Code Development

Grzegorz Banas IL Department of Transportation Fatigue Testing of Brass Breakaway Couplings

Grzegorz Banas Washington Group/Alberici Joint Venture Mechnical Testing of Rebar Connectors

Grzegorz Banas Wiss Janney Elstner Associates Cyclic Tests on Reinforcing Bar Mechanical Connectors

Rahim F. Benekohal IL Department of Transportation Solar Powered Flashing Beacons

Rahim F. Benekohal IL Department of Transportation Wireless Detection Systems Evaluation

Rahim F. Benekohal IL Department of Transportation Queue & Users Cost in Highway Work Zones

Rahim F. Benekohal US Department of Transportation 2006-06604 DOT PU 4108-21574

Tami C. Bond NASA Shared Services Center Accounting for Subgrid Mixing, Spatial Gradients/Global Aersol Models

Tami C. Bond US Department of Energy Optical Properties/Organic, Mixed Organic Particles at High Humidity

Tami C. Bond US National Science Foundation A Chemical History of Anthropogenic Input to the Atmosphere

Tami C. Bond US National Science Foundation CAREER: Carbonaceous Particles of Tarry Origin

William G. Buttlar Federal Highway Administration 2009 Dwight Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship

William G. Buttlar IL Department of Transportation Fine Graded Hot Mix Asphalt on IL Roadways

William G. Buttlar IL Department of Transportation Distance Technology Transfer Course Content Development

William G. Buttlar National Academy of Sciences Acoustic Emissions Based Test

William G. Buttlar University of Minnesota Low Temperature Cracking in Asphalt Pavements

Ximing Cai International Food Policy Research Institute Basin Focus Project - The Yellow River Basin

Ximing Cai NASA Shared Services Center Predictive Capability For Drought Mitigation Decision Support System

Ximing Cai US National Science Foundation Infrastructures for Biofuel Development

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Ximing Cai US National Science Foundation Drought Preparedness in the Watershed Context

Ximing Cai US National Science Foundation CAREER: Environmental Ecological Relationships

Samuel H. Carpenter ERES Consultants Testing of GTR Mixtures for the Illinois Toll Road Authority-ARA

Samuel H. Carpenter IL Department of Transportation High RAP Content & Pavement Performance

Mark M. Clark American Water Works Association Phytoplankton Fouling of Membranes In Seawater Desalination

Mark M. Clark US Environmental Protection Agency Fellowship for Manish Kumar

Mark M. Clark US National Science Foundation Development of Highly Efficient Aquaporin-Based Membranes

Robert H. Dodds US National Science Foundation Glaucio Paulino’s Intergovernmental Personnel Act

Armando Duarte Air Force Office of Scientific Research Generalized Finite Element Method for Multiscale Simulations

Amr S. Elnashai CERL Champaign Catastrophic Event Planning Scenarios, New Madrid Seismic Zone

Amr S. Elnashai University of Nevada - Reno (Sub-contract NSF) Seismic Simulation and Design of Bridge Columns, Combined Action

Amr S. Elnashai US National Science Foundation International Conferences on Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo

Khaled A. El-Rayes IL Department of Transportation Minimizing Traffic Related WZ Crashes in IL

Khaled A. El-Rayes Qatar University Optimization for the Construction of Transportation Systems, Qatar

Khaled A. El-Rayes US National Science Foundation Optimizing Airport Construction Site Layouts

Larry Fahnestock American Institute of Steel Construction Seismic Steel Design in the East

Larry Fahnestock Universlity of Washington (Sub Contract NSF) Smart and Resilient Steel Walls for Reducing Earthquake Impacts

Larry Fahnestock US National Science Foundation Innovative Self-Centering Braces for Advanced Seismic Performance

Kevin Finneran University of New Hampshire Phosphorus Removal, Wastewater Secondary Treatment Systems

Kevin Finneran US Department of Energy Combined Roles, Iron and Transverse Mixing/ Uranium Bioremediation

Kevin Finneran US National Science Foundation Dechlorination,Tricyloroethylene/Non-Dehalococcoides Microorganisms

Kevin Finneran US National Science Foundation Reduced Extracellular Electron Shuttles as Electron Donors

Marcelo H. García Exxon-Mobil Corporation Flow Velocity, Sediment Concentration Profiles in Turbidity Currents

Marcelo H. García Metropolitan Water Reclamation Modeling/Settling and Aeration Tanks, Appurtenant Flow Distribution Structures

Marcelo H. García Metropolitan Water Reclamation Modeling - Phase II of the Calumet TARP System

Marcelo H. García US Department of Interior INT 04ERAG0004

Marcelo H. García US Department of Interior Collocation Lease for Office Space in North Campus Parking Deck

Marcelo H. García USDA Agricultural Research Service Enhancement, Channel Evolution Model Concepts

Jerome Hajjar Georgia Institute of Technology (Sub Contract NSF) System Behavior Factors for Composite Mixed Structural Systems

Jerome Hajjar IL Department of Transportation Illinois Earthquake Resisting System Bridge Design Methodology

Jerome Hajjar RW Howe and Associates PLC Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment for Memphis Light-Gas and Water

Jerome Hajjar Tokyo Institute of Technology Cyclic Axial Testing of Buckling Restrained Braces

Youssef M. A. Hashash IL Department of Transportation Evaluation of Horizontal Directional Drilling Special Project

Youssef M. A. Hashash National Academy of Sciences Framework for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Maps for Pakistan

Youssef M. A. Hashash National Academy of Sciences Framework for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Maps for Pakistan

Youssef M. A. Hashash Northwestern University Center for the Study of Subsurface Space Development in Urban Areas

Youssef M. A. Hashash US Geological Survey Nonlinear Soil Behavior, Downhole Array Measurements

Youssef M. A. Hashash US NASA Feas. Study, Polyhedral Discrete Element Simulation, Lunar Regolith Simulants

Youssef M. A. Hashash US National Science Foundation Integrated Framework for Soil Behavior Characterization and Modeling

Edwin E. Herricks Ohio State Univ Research Foundation Understanding Ecological Processes/Channelized Headwater Systems

Daniel A. Kuchma US National Science Foundation ExVis Tool, Case Study/Concrete Structural Walls

Praveen Kumar US National Science Foundation Interactions Between Water Energy Carbon Dynamics

James M. LaFave Georgia Institute of Technology (Sub Contract NSF) Seismic Risk Mitigation for Port Systems

David A. Lange BPC Airport Partners Center of Excellence for Airport Technology

Edwin E. Herricks FAA William J Hughes Technical Center Center of Excellence for Airport Technology - Avian Radar

David A. Lange FAA William J Hughes Technical Center Center of Excellence for Airport Technology - Pavements

Liang Y. Liu IL Department of Transportation AASTHO Retroreflective Sign Sheeting Specifications Special Project

Wen-Tso Liu The AWWA Research Foundation Microbial Ecology of Drinking Water Distribution System

James H. Long IL Department of Transportation Improved Design for Driven Piles Based on IL Pile Load Test Program

Benito Jose Mariñas US National Science Foundation Transport of Solutes, Macromolecules/Reverse Osmosis, Nanofiltration Membranes

Arif Masud General Electric Company Analysis, Risk Assessment of GE Vendors Concrete Wind Tower Design

Arif Masud US National Science Foundation Analysis, Structures Containing Mechanical Joints

Thanh Huong Nguyen USDA Coop State Rsrch Educ & Ext Serv Investigating Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance Near Animal Facilities

Scott Olson IL Department of Transportation Monitor Extreme Integral Abutment Bridges in IL

Scott Olson US National Science Foundation CAREER: Impact of Liquefaction-Induced Water Layers

Scott Olson US National Science Foundation Soil Improvement Strategies to Mitigate Impact of Seismic Ground Failures

Yanfeng Ouyang IL Department of Transportation National Safety Performance Function Summit

Yanfeng Ouyang IL Department of Transportation Highway Program Planning Using Benefit Cost

Yanfeng Ouyang US National Science Foundation CAREER: Info. Mechanisms,Stabilization/Nonlinear, Stochastic Transp. Networks

Gary Parker Exxon-Mobil Corporation Transitions Between Turbidity Currents and Mudflows

Gary Parker National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics STC: National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics

Gary Parker US Geological Survey Modeling of St. Clair River

Glaucio Paulino US National Science Foundation Functionally Graded Concrete for the Civil Infrastructure

Feniosky A. Peña-Mora US National Science Foundation Visualization of Construction Progress Monitoring with D4AR Models

Feniosky A. Peña-Mora US National Science Foundation Conflict Claim and Dispute Avoidance Mitigation and Resolution

Feniosky A. Peña-Mora US National Science Foundation Observation Facilitation and Computer Support of Group Interactions

Feniosky A. Peña-Mora US National Science Foundation Civil & Environmental Engineering

John S. Popovics IL Department of Transportation Concrete Temperature Specification

John S. Popovics National Academy of Sciences Full Lane Acoustic Scanning Method for Bridge Deck NDE

John S. Popovics US National Science Foundation Sensing Method for In Situ Assessment of Steel Corrosion in Concrete

John S. Popovics US National Science Foundation Electromagnetic and Mechanical Wave Data/Concrete Structure Diagnostics

Jeffery R. Roesler Commercial TCPavements Ltda Acceleration Testing of Thin Concrete Pavements

Jeffery R. Roesler Federal Highway Administration 2009 Dwight Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship

Jeffery R. Roesler IL Department of Transportation Design Implementation & Monitoring for Rigid Pavements

Jeffery R. Roesler IL Department of Transportation Analysis of I-57 Recycled CRCP Cores

Mark J. Rood CERL Champaign Measurement/Particulate Matter Emissions, Open Burning and Detonation Plumes

Mark J. Rood Office of Naval Research Vapor Recovery by Electrothermal Swing Adsorption

Mark J. Rood US National Science Foundation Microwave-Swing Adsorption to Capture Hazardous Air Pollutants

Arthur Schmidt Illinois Association for Floodplain and Stormwater Management Green Roof Monitoring 2009

Murugesu Sivapalan US National Science Foundation Biotic Alteration of Soil Hydrologic Properties and Feedback

B.F. Spencer CERL Champaign Advanced Bridge Capacity and Structural Integrity Assessment

B.F. Spencer Mandaree Enterprise Corporation Advanced Bridge Capacity and Structural Integrity Assessment

B.F. Spencer US National Science Foundation Bio-Informed Framework/Multimetric Infrastructure Monitoring

B.F. Spencer US National Science Foundation Interntl Workshop/Advanced Smart Materials, Smart Structures Tech.

B.F. Spencer US National Science Foundation Smart Structures Technology Summer School

B.F. Spencer US National Science Foundation NEESR-SD: Framework for Development of Hybrid Simulation

B.F. Spencer US National Science Foundation Multi-Scale Smart Sensing for Monitoring Civil Infrastructure

Timothy J. Strathmann The AWWA Research Foundation Oxidation and Removal of Pharmaceutically-Active Compounds

Timothy J. Strathmann US Environmental Protection Agency Fellowship for Tias Paul

Timothy J. Strathmann US National Science Foundation CAREER: Fouling, Regen., Sustainability of Heterog. Catalytic Treat. Processes

Timothy J. Strathmann US National Science Foundation Dev. of a Sustainable Catalytic Treatment Process for Perchlorate

Leslie J. Struble National Lime Association Technical Tests for National Lime Association

William C. Sullivan US Dept of Commerce NOAA Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program Omnibus 2006-2008

Erol Tutumluer BASF Corporation Testing of Elastocoast Urethane Coated Railroad Ballast

Erol Tutumluer Federal Highway Administration 2009 Dwight Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship

Erol Tutumluer Virginia Tech Inst & State Univ Application of LADAR in the Analysis of Aggregate Characteristics

Albert J. Valocchi US Department of Energy Modeling Multiscale Multiphase Multicomponent Subsurface Reactive Flows

Charles J. Werth King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Collab. Research on Sustainable Water Development and Engineering

Charles J. Werth US Department of Education Enhanced PhD Quality, Diversity in Environmental Engineering at UIUC

Charles J. Werth US Department of Energy Influence of Wetting and Mass Transf. Prop. of Organic Chem. Mixtures

Charles J. Werth USDA Coop State Rsrch Educ & Ext Serv Gene Expression and Gen. Adaptation for Herbicide Degradation

Julie Zilles US National Science Foundation Identifying Design Principles for Engineered Ecosystems


Corporate and Foundation DonorsThe 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, 2008, to June 30, 2009. This list includes organizations that made gifts directly to the department, as well as those who matched gifts made by their employees.

Accenture Foundation Inc.Accutest Laboratories Inc.Advance Drainage Systems Inc.Adventus GroupAdvisor Charitable Gift FundAECOM Inc.Alcoa FoundationAldridge Electric Inc.Alfred Benesch & CompanyAlliant Techsystems Community Investment FoundationAMEC Earth & Environmental Inc.American Concrete Institute Illinois Chapter Inc.American Institute of Steel ConstructionAmerican Petroleum InstituteThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rail Transp. DivisionAmerican Water Works Association Research FoundationAnheuser-Busch FoundationApple Junction Design Services PLCApplied Pavement Technology Inc.Applied Research Associates Inc.ARCADISAREVA NP Inc.Asphalt InstituteAssociation of American RailroadsAT&T FoundationBarr Engineering CompanyBechtel Group FoundationBelfor Environmental Inc.BNSF Railway CompanyThe Boeing Gift Matching ProgramBowman Barrett and Associates Inc.BPC Airport PartnersBusey Wealth Management Inc.Cameron-Cole LLCCamp Dresser & McKee Inc.Canadian National/Illinois CentralCarollo EngineersCaterpillar FoundationCaterpillar Inc.Ceco Concrete ConstructionCera Tech Inc.CETCOChevronClark Dietz Inc.Clean Air Task ForceComputer Associates International Inc.Conestoga-Rovers & Associates Inc.Crawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc.Crouch Engineering PCCSX Corporation Inc.Damon S. Williams Associates LLCDeep Foundations InstituteD.J. Nyman & AssociatesDuke Energy FoundationEagle Construction and Environmental Services LP

Earth Tech Inc.EarthSoft Inc.EMR Inc.ENSR CorporationEnvirocon Inc.ERM - Rocky Mountain Inc.Environmental Works Inc.Erie EngineeringErnst & Young FoundationExxon Production Research CompanyExxon Mobil CorporationExxonMobil FoundationExxonMobil Retiree ProgramF.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielsen & Assoc. LLCFidelity Charitable Gift FundFisher Associates, PE, LS, PCFrauenhoffer & Associates PC Consulting EngineersG & H Real Estate LLCGannett Fleming CompaniesGE FoundationGeoSyntec ConsultantsGilbane Building CompanyGolder Associates Inc.Golf Course Builders Association FoundationGreeley and Hansen LLCHabitat Engineering & ForensicsHanson Professional Services Inc.Hatch Mott MacDonaldHDR Engineering Inc.Henry, Meisenheimer & Gende, Inc.Hershell Gill Consulting Engineers, Inc.HNTB CorporationHulcher Services, Inc.Huston Family TrustICL Performance Products LPIlliana Insurance Agency Ltd.Illinois Asphalt Pavement AssociationIllinois Association of County Engineers Inc.Illinois Chapter Inc. American Concrete Pavement Assoc.Illinois Society of Professional Engineers Foundation Inc.Industrial Management Group LLCIn-Pipe Technology CompanyInternational Food Policy Research InstituteIrvine Institute of TechnologyJacobs Engineering GroupJohn Hopkins UniversityKennedy-Jenks Consultants Inc.Koch Materials GroupLaclede Gas CompanyLancaster Laboratories Inc.Lockheed Martin, The Scholarship FoundationMarshall Miller & Associates Inc.Milhouse Engineering & ConstructionMurphy & NorthNational Lime Association

National University of Taiwan Hydrotech Research InstituteNational Water Research InstituteNippon Steel Kankyo Engineering CorporationNorfolk Southern CorporationNorthrop Grumman FoundationOccidental Petroleum CorporationOil Skimmers Inc.The O’Neil FoundationO’Neil Industries Inc.Pace Analytical Services Inc.Polystar Inc.Pompadour VineyardPoplar SmogprosPortec Rail Products Inc.Precast/Prestressed Concrete InstitutePregis Innovative Packaging CorporationRailroad Research FoundationRaytheon CompanyRegenesisRJN Group Inc.S and R CompanySC Johnson Fund Inc.Schlumberger Stichting FundSeaman CorporationSelvaggio Steel Inc.The Sergio Corporation dba FirstResponseShannon & Wilson Inc.Shaw Environmental Inc.The Sidney Epstein and Sondra Berman Epstein FoundationSkidmore, Owings & Merrill LLPSouthern Petroleum Laboratories Inc.St. Paul United Church of ChristState Farm Companies FoundationStokes Financial InvestmentsSunpro Inc.SWS First ResponseTCPavementsTerraTherm Inc.TestAmerica Laboratories Inc.Texas Measurements Inc.Thornton Tomasetti FoundationTokyo Institute of TechnologyTransportation Technology Center Inc.TSVC Inc.Turner Construction CompanyURS CorporationUS Environmental Services LLCW. E. O’Neil Construction CompanyW. R. Grace & CompanyThe Walt Disney Company FoundationWaste ManagementThe Watkins Family FoundationWDWS/WHMSWiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc.3M



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President’s CouncilWe thank those who have joined the University of Illinois President’s Council with a commitment of $25,000 or more. Below are members who joined before June 30, 2009, and who have given to the department.

FRIENDS Lalit R. Bahl & Kavita Kinra Rob R. & Dorothy Waymon Beldon Donald L. & Maryann D. Bitzer Richard B. Cogdal Walter L. & Carole A. Crowley Mary E. Engelbrecht Charles E. & Blanche M. Finn Ralph E. & George-Anne Oliver Kelly Jon C. & Judith S. Liebman Paul M. & Susan A. Mayfield William E. O’Neil J. Roger & Kathleen D. Powell Vern & Jeannie Snoeyink Robert H. & Barbara W. Suter Albert J. Valocchi & Anne H. Silvis Howard L. & Joyce I. Wakeland Ronald Lee & Susan Leona Warsaw Kenneth S. & Cindy Weiss Ruth K. Youngerman 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 1930 Herman H. Jr. & Marguerite L. Jost J. Wallace Miller 1931 Edwin C. & 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. & Dorothy R. Hieronymus 1937 Richard Jaccoud Estate Carl W. Muhlenbruch

1938 Vernon Glenn & Margaret B. Rathsam 1939 Edward S. & Elsie T. Fraser Chester P. Siess Estate Harold J. Spaeder Estate Frank K. & Alice L. Veasman 1940 John C. & Mary M. Houbolt Nick & Addie Pokrajac Louis W. Schumm 1941 Spencer F. & Maev C. Brown Benjamin H. Janda Eugene T. & Emma K. Simonds 1942 Robert L. & Gertrude A. Clapper Harold R. & Alice L. Sandberg 1943 Louis A. & Clara M. Bacon Sidney & Sondra Berman Epstein Otto W. Schacht Jr. & Otto W. Schacht 1946 Robert J. & Stella F. Mosborg Wayne C. & Eleanor H. Teng Benjamin E. Weeks 1947 Oliver H. Briggs Jr. Estate John W. & Catherine Briscoe Charles R. & Shirley H. Fago Robert E. & Shirley M. Hamilton Walter E. Hanson Herbert O. Ireland Narbey & Margaret Khachaturian Charles H. Jr. & Audrey Kramer Mottier John E. & Loudean Schmitt 1948 Hugh H. Connolly Melvin & Theda Febesh James H. & James H. Gallivan James C. & Mary B. Wood 1949 Armen G. Avedisian Gordon B. & Monalea Dalrymple Richard H. & Joanne Bresee Foley H. Harvey & Marilyn Smith Brown Hunt Wendall Lee Rowe 1950 Edward A. & Helen E. Brooks George L. Crawford Jr. Burton A. Lewis Myron E. & Ruth P. Oppenheim William E. & Margarite D. Stallman 1951 William K. Becker Louis Bowman Jr. & Corrine Bowman Ralph C. & Nancy M. Hahn William J. & Elaine F. Hall William D. & Patricia Holmes Harry D. Rimbey 1952 John E. Barrett George F. & Carol Heck Kenneth G. & Mary Barlow Medearis John A. & Barbara Mifflin William H. Richardson Mete A. & Joan Sozen 1953 Pryce L. & Dorothy L. Keagle Dohn H. Mehlenbacher & Nancy J. Moss Arthur R. Robinson Leroy J. & Mary L. Ruesch Geoffrey & Helen Yeh

1954 David C. & Carolyn M. Crawford Leo J. Jr. & Ann L. Dondanville

Delon & Sonia M. Hampton Robert E. & Doris B. Lenzini Robert J. Mayerjak Robert W. & Donna Mikitka Maurice A. & JoAnn Wadsworth 1955 James D. & Wylma M. Bergstrom Thomas J. Byrne & Jane Armstrong Eli W. & Georgia A. Cohen M. T. & Marlene Davisson Don U. Deere Jerry J. Felmley USAF Thomas K. Liu & Olive M. Chen-Liu Joshua L. Jr. & Eleanor W. Merritt 1956 Robert H. & Donna J. Anderson Donald E. & Arlene B. Eckmann Gerald R. & Audrey G. Olson Stanley T. & Phyllis Williams Rolfe Robert A. Sachs 1957 Alfredo H. & M. Mae Ang Ronald R. & Margaret M. Watkins James T. P. Yao 1958 W. Gene & Lynd W. Corley Guy E. & Babette Jester Benjamin A. Jr. & Georgeann Hall Jones 1959 Neil Middleton & S. Ann Hawkins Thomas C. H. & Patsy Lum Robert E. Morgan Joseph H. & Joan R. Pound Donald L. & Bertha Rissling 1960 Ronald D. & Mary Jane Crowell Barry J. & Pauline G. Dempsey Lyle W. & Nancy M. Hughart Richard W. & Janet L. Pritchett Miller Norman C. & Sharon L. Riordan Robert S. & Helen J. Shierry 1961 Richard J. & Sylvia C. Eckhardt William A. Jr. & Delores Huston Eugene R. & Elaine A. Wilkinson Harry K. & Carol A. Windland 1962 Joseph P. & Mary Stuart Colaco John S. Endicott George M. C. & Ann Fisher 1963 Edward J. & Norma G. Cording Charles Robert & Sunny L. Suhr Marek 1964 Woodrow C. Jr. & Miriam I. Chenault William D. & Lisa H. Snider Larry M. & Rose Marie Sur 1965 Russell C. & Cornelie G. Hibbeler 1966 Norman Allen & Lee Ann Dobbs John E. & Janice Garlanger Richard E. & Bonnie Ramond Hulina Paul D. & Barbara C. Koch Frank J. & Jeanette Nesseler Bert E. & Cathy J. Newton David A. Pecknold Marvin A. & Karen K. Wollin 1967 Patrick S. & Millie L. Au Victor C. Corsetti Arthur R. Jr. & Judy B. Jensen 1968 Donald G. & Della M. Beiser Thomas B. & Jeannie M. Berns

Augusto Rodriguez Gallart Stephen R. & Sally A. Kannaka Robert G. & Flo Anne O’Brien George K. & Mami Varghese 1969 Richard J. Erickson Clement C. Lee & Ellen Liaw Lee 1970 Douglas J. & Jean Ratty Chidley Joseph M. & Patricia A. Kaiser Seung Jai & Jung Ja Kim Albert Y. C. Wong & Fernadina Chan 1971 James L. Willmer 1972 Steve R. & Lynn L. Roeschley Doris I. Willmer 1973 Michael A. & Gloria Devacht Burson Ronald W. & Lois T. Crockett Sergio ‘Satch’ & Rosemary Pecori Fred N. & Ellen A. Ranck 1974 Miguel A. & Nora E. Andrada C. Phillip E. & Lena K. Borrowman James J. Brown & Emi K. Kawasaki Richard Jr. & Helen A. Cramond Thomas L. & Sue C. Hannula Gerald E. Quindry Richard J. & Linda J. Sieracki 1975 Robert W. & Andrea C. Cusick Robert H. Dodds Jr. & Deana Bland-Dodds John A. Frauenhoffer 1976 Nancy L. Gavlin 1977 Perry C. & Linda S. Hendrickson Mark L. & Mary Estelle Sitki Selvaggio 1978 John P. & Mary Ann Coombe Gary L. & Susana B. Franzen Donald J. & Patricia L. Janssen Jon E. & Barbara B. Khachaturian Jeffrey C. Schneider Damon S. Williams 1979 Thomas A. & Suzanne M. Beck Bryan D. & Kathy M. Wesselink 1980 William F. Baker Charles L. Thierheimer Jr. & Cindy L. Dahl Tracy K. & Kathy P. Lundin David J. Stoldt & Constance S. Wright 1981 Clarke & Karen P. Lundell 1982 Richard F. & Elizabeth B. Cavenaugh 1983 Richard D. Payne & Jane Goldberg Larry C. & Rhonda S. Wesselink Kathryn A. Zimmerman 1984 J. Kevin Roth & Sara Anderson Long 1985 James P. & April Messmore 1986 David G. & Janet S. Peshkin 1994 Wilbur C. Milhouse III & Michelle Milhouse


Dean’s ClubThe department is honored to acknowledge members of the Dean’s Club of 2008-2009. Listed below are those who gave $500 or more to CEE from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009.

Sponsoring AssociatesThe department gratefully acknowledges the Sponsoring Associates of 2008-2009. Listed below are those who gave $100 to $499 to CEE from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009.

FRIENDS Robert E. Ahlf Lalit R. Bahl & Kavita Kinra Robert Berube Walter L. & Carole A. CrowleyAmr S. Elnashai Soledad Juamiz Esmilla Shirley M. Hamilton Zakir Hussain David A. & Rise R. Lange Jon C. & Judith S. Liebman Paul M. & Susan A. Mayfield Mary Barlow Medearis William E. O’Neil Donald H. & Betty L. Rice Mark J. Rood & Terri I. Medwed William C. Schindler Albert J. Valocchi & Anne H. Silvis J. Michael & Nancy J. Yohe 1942 Harold R. & Alice L. Sandberg 1943 Dan S. & Catherine M. Bechly 1946 Robert J. & Stella F. Mosborg 1947 Herbert O. Ireland Narbey & Margaret Khachaturian William A. Randolph 1948 Melvin & Theda Febesh Nicholas A. & Carol N. Weil 1949 Wendall Lee Rowe 1950 Burton A. Lewis William E. & Margarite D. Stallman 1951 Louis Bowman Jr. & Corrine Bowman 1952 John E. Barrett 1953 Richard E. & Janet L. Aten Arthur R. Robinson Geoffrey & Helen Yeh 1954 Ashley B. Craig Jr. David C. & Carolyn M. Crawford Robert E. & Doris B. Lenzini Robert W. & Donna Mikitka Maurice A. & JoAnn Wadsworth 1955 Thomas J. Byrne & Jane Armstrong R. Alex Collins Jerry J. Felmley USAF Glenn E. Nordmark 1957 Alfredo H. & M. Mae Ang Ronald R. & Margaret M. Watkins 1958 Eugene J. Fasullo & Maxine J. Hyrkas H. S. Hamada 1959 Neil Middleton & S. Ann Hawkins

Thomas C. H. & Patsy Lum1960 Toshinobu Akagi Barry J. & Pauline G. Dempsey Lyle W. & Nancy M. Hughart Roy E. Olson 1961 Brian E. W. Dowse Harry M. Horn William A. Huston Jr.

& Delores Huston 1962 J. Dewayne & Mary A. Allen Robert A. & Sharon L. Bloechle James O. Jirsa J. Ronald & Sharon A. Salley Richard N. Wright III

& Teresa Rios Wright 1964 Ronald W. Drucker Kenneth G. Nolte 1965 Frederick B. Plummer Jr. PhD Thomas E. Rees 1966 Paul D. & Barbara C. Koch 1967 Vernon Eugene Dotson Hershell Gill Jr. Arthur R. Jensen Jr. & Judy B. Jensen 1968 Robert C. & Joan B. Bauer Charles H. Dowding III

& Jane D. Dowding Robert G. & Flo Anne O’Brien 1969 Richard J. Erickson George F. Jamison & Mary Lou Goodpaster 1970 John F. & Linda S. Harris Seung Jai & Jung Ja Kim Kenneth C. & Amy Jo Malten 1971 Michael G. & Cinda J. Berry Bengt I. & Kathryn A. Karlsson Walter S. Kos Douglas J. & Jacqueline A. Nyman James L. Willmer 1972 Dean J. Arnold Lawrence Paul Jaworski Doris I. Willmer 1973 Ronald W. & Lois T. Crockett Glenn E. Frye Dennis D. & Kristine L. Lane Thomas D. & Patricia O’Rourke Sergio ‘Satch’ & Rosemary Pecori Fred N. & Ellen A. Ranck 1974 Richard Cramond Jr.

& Helen A. Cramond David & Diane M. Darwin Stanley M. Herrin & Elizabeth A. Small Richard J. & Linda J. Sieracki 1975 Marco David & Mary Lynn Boscardin Robert H. Dodds Jr.

& Deana Bland-Dodds John A. Frauenhoffer James Robert Harris Blaine F. & Kathryn G. Severin 1976 Jeffrey A. Liggett

1977 Philip E. Diekemper Perry C. & Linda S. Hendrickson Michael G. & Bette Wallerstein Lombard Michael T. McCullough William J. Nugent Mark L. & Mary Estelle Sitki Selvaggio 1978 George Avery Grimes Donald J. & Patricia L. Janssen C. Wayne Swafford Tom O. & Christine M. Vujovich Damon S. Williams 1979 John L. & Karen E. Carrato Michael J. & Christina U. K. Drouet Bruce A. & Ann Johnson Stuart A. & Susan V. Klein David A. & Kathleen A. Twardock Bryan D. & Kathy M. Wesselink 1980 William F. Baker Julian Rueda & Pamela C. Piarowski David J. Stoldt & Constance S. Wright 1981 Kevin J. & Carey A. Dulle Dale R. Wilhelm 1982 Brian E. & Lin Healy Donald J. Nelson 1983 Kenneth M. Floody Howard P. Walther Sharon L. Wood 1984 Colleen Elizabeth Quinn Jeanette A. Walther 1986 David G. & Janet S. Peshkin 1987 Robert J. Risser Jr.

& Martha A. Boling-Risser 1988 Brian G. Ramsay 1991 Robert L. & Debra V. Keiser Kai-Tak Liu & Alisa Ocker Liu 1992 John A. & Gail L. Balling 1994 Ron Juamiz Esmilla Wilbur C. Milhouse III

& Michelle Milhouse 1995 Stephen H. Wassmann

FRIENDS Donald L. Bitzer Deana Bland-Dodds Daniel W. Cassens Joanne W. Chou

CEE alumnus John A. Frauenhoffer (BS 75, MS 79) has made a $23,000 gift to en-

dow a research fund in the department. An annual, three percent distribution from the fund will go to support research by Associ-ate Professor Daniel A. Kuchma, the Burton & Erma Lewis Faculty Scholar.

A desire to make a lasting, beneficial im-pact on the profession motivated the gift, according to Frauen-hoffer, president of Frauenhoffer and As-sociates PC, a Cham-paign-based civil en-gineering firm.

“I believed that there was no better method of realizing that goal, no better way to contribute to the profession, and no better way to thank the CEE department than to create a research endowment,” he says.

“One of the values of Professor Kuch-ma’s research is that we have had the op-portunity to take the published results of his work and translate the results into practical applications. He is a unique talent, a fine intellect, and a hard work-er. He will put our money to good use.”

Kuchma has been on the CEE faculty since 1997. He has taught graduate and un-dergraduate courses on structural dynam-ics, statics, reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, and experimental methods.

Kuchma’s research interests include the design and behavior of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures subject to complex states of stress. He is study-ing how advanced instrumentation meth-ods can be used in physical experiments for the development, calibration, and validation of more comprehensive and reliable numerical models. i

Alumnus endows research fund

Frauenhoffer


Alvin Decker Mary E. Engelbrecht Margaret L. Haltiwanger Moreland Herrin Robert H. Holdsworth Marilyn Smith Brown Hunt Krista M. Jahnke Jimmey L. Kaiser John E. Kelley Ralph E. Kelly Samuel L. Kershaw Thomas Kittle-Kamp Sondra M. Lorig Benito Jose Marinas Komal Arif Masud David M. Matthews Susan Bahrenburg Matthews Daniel S. May Marian L. Meinheit Eleanor W. Merritt Kathy Culver Nickell Robert N. Quade Philip J. Ruff Brian J. Sinclair Vern Snoeyink Janet Stanish Robert H. Suter James G. Turpin Larry D. Vandendriessche Joyce I. Wakeland Susan Leona Warsaw Kam W. and Betsy P. Wong Nancy J. Young 1932 E. Scott Dillon 1938 Paul H. Kaar 1943 Raymond J. Ackerman Louis A. Bacon Harold Clinton Sidney & Sondra Berman

Epstein William A. Hickman Clyde E. Kesler Donald L. Renick 1945 Edward Robert Baumann Anthony N. Konstant 1947 Robert D. Mahan Victor R. Mazzucco Wilho E. Williams 1948 Tung Au Richard W. Heil Herbert A. Schroeder 1949 Donald W. Kaminski Robert J. Mathews Donald V. Sartore 1950 John R. Ross James R. Sims Anestis S. Veletsos 1951 Yngve S. Bloomquist William J. and Elaine F. Hall Dean C. Merchant Richard H. Pao Vernon C. Rosenbery 1952 Dale J. Henry Frank L. Howland Clair E. Hutchison Arthur M. Kaindl Armas Laupa 1953 Fredrick R. Beckmann

Charles L. Sheppard Clement D. Zawodniak 1954 Ferd E. Anderson Jr. Harold Robert Coldwater C. Terry Dooley Michael P. Gaus Paul A. Kuhn Michael Zihal 1955 James D. Bergstrom Howard Y. Fukuda Thomas K. Liu Thomas M. Riordan Ronald A. Wisthuff 1956 John H. Cousins USA Robert G. Grulke Everett E. McEwen 1957 Samuel S. Doak German R. Gurfinkel Wallace W. Sanders Gary G. Stokes William P. Taylor Virgil A. Wortman 1958 Robert L. Gende Frank A. Perry Jr. 1959 Raymond A. Baum William M. Cazier Robert L. Dineen John A. Djerf Anthony F. Gaudy Jr. John A. Gray Joseph H. Pound Walter A. Von Riesemann 1960 Lester D. Bacon Wilbur C. Buckheit Richard F. Lanyon Brendan T. Nelligan E. Douglas Schwantes Jr. Marshall Ray Thompson 1961 William L. Gamble John A. Kuske Charles W. Larsen James A. Tambling Robert J. Wendler 1962 Ned H. Burns Bing C. Chin Darrell G. Lohmeier Stephen J. Madden III Wallace S. Prescott 1963 Robert L. Almond Norman K. Brown Jack H. Kotter William Kreutzjans Robert G. Krimmel David M. Lee John D. Mozer Allen N. Reeves 1964 Robert L. Carter Dennis R. Lagerquist James R. Levey Theodore W. Nelson Jr. Maynard A. & Mona C.

Plamondon Richard L. Ruddell Russell R. Rudolph Larry M. Sur Kenneth R. Tunstall

1965 Thomas L. Boblenz S. Wayne Terry Clarence R. Warning 1966 Danny N. Burgess Marvin E. Criswell Nick L. Niestrath 1967 Mehdi Tasooji Harry J. Woods Jr. Roger W. Wright 1968 Clyde L. Anderson Bruce R. Ellingwood Fred D. MacMurdo Robert W. Nowak 1969 Jeffrey E. Anderson Harold T. Brown Harry L. Jones Arthur J. Loebach Jr. Gary R. Marine Eric C. Pahlke Michael W. Shelton 1970 Theodore M. Denning Roger R. Fitting Douglas A. Foutch Joseph M. Kaiser F. Jay Lindhjem William E. McCleish Earl J. Schroeder James E. Schwing 1971 Gregory D. Cargill Robert S. Giurato Robert W. Hahn Adisak Intaratip Stephen W. Moulton Lyle Duane Yockey 1972 Robert J. Andres Larry R. Bellisario Philip A. Gazda James A. Hanlon Kevin J. Kell George P. Meister Richard C. Reed Joseph A. Reichle Ron Sharpe 1973 Charles Barenfanger Clinton C. Mudgett James K. Wight Theodore R. Williams 1974 George A. Braam James J. Brown Robert T. Brummond Jose R. Danon Kent R. Gonser Edward C. Gray Daniel A. Guill Thomas L. Hannula Patrick W. Healy Robert W. Horvath Byung R. Kim Allen J. Staron Patrick F. Wilbur 1975 L. Jerome Benson Jack S. Dybalski Robert R. Goodrich Jr. Alan J. Hollenbeck Douglas C. Noel 1976 Dennis J. Benoit Paul H. Boening

New scholarship fund honors alumnus Eli Cohen

Thornton Tomasetti Founda-tion has made a $25,000 gift to

CEE to endow a scholarship fund in honor of late alumnus Eli W. Co-hen (BS 55), who was a principal at Thornton Tomasetti until his death in 2008. The Eli W. Cohen-Thornton Tomasetti Foundation Scholarship will be awarded annually to a struc-tural engineering student deemed by the department to have the po-tential to make an impact profes-sionally.

Born in Germany in 1927, Cohen and his family fled the Nazis and moved to Palestine in 1935. After high school, he served as a communications officer in the Haganah, fighting for Israeli Independence in 1948. He moved to the United States in 1953, and after receiving his civil engineering de-gree from the University of Illinois in 1955, began a career that spanned more than 50 years and made him a leader in the Chicago engineering community.

Cohen began his career at Paul Rogers Associates, a Chi-cago structural engineering firm. He became partner in 1965, then president and principal of Cohen-Barreto-Marchertas (CBM) in 1969. In 1993, CBM merged with Thornton Toma-setti, where Cohen became a principal.

Under his leadership, CBM pioneered the use of a com-posite steel structural system, which involved the integration of a reinforced concrete core wall, to resist lateral loads, with a light steel floor framing. The development of 50- to 60-sto-ry buildings became more feasible and efficient because the lighter framing reduced construction time and expense, and allowed for large, column-free spans, giving architects great-er freedom in exterior expression.

Cohen’s composite steel designs received awards from the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois for Most Inno-vative Design in 1987 for 10 South LaSalle Street; Best Struc-ture Award in 1991 for 181 West Madison Street; and Best Structure Award in 1992 for 77 West Wacker Drive.

Cohen also spearheaded numerous philanthropic efforts, particularly his firm’s involvement with the Chicago Architec-ture Foundation’s Newhouse Architectural Program, which gives high school students the opportunity to enter the field of architecture and design.

Cohen was a registered structural engineer or profes-sional engineer in more than 30 states. He was also active in engineering education, serving as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and as a guest lecturer at several regional colleges and for the American Institute of Architects. i

Eli W. Cohen


Contributors

CEE gratefully ac-knowledges the Con-tributors of 2008-2009. Below are those who gave up to $100 to CEE from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009.

FRIENDS Imad L. Al-Qadi Celeste Arbogast Bragorgos Dorothy Waymon Beldon Dorothy J. Burr Samuel H. Carpenter Margaret W. Cline Richard B. Cogdal Mark E. Dixon Loren E. Evans Charles E. Finn L. Thomas Fredrickson Steven H. Gantz Cheryl A. Gantz Jamshid Ghaboussi Jerome F. Hajjar Youssef M. Hashash Kathy Hepler Nancy Herrin David L. King

Barbara Kleiss Virginia L. Lauchner Frederick V. Lawrence Jr. Frances J. McCormick Coline T. McGehee John Miebach Brian S. Minsker Ahmed Mohideen Eberhard F. Morgenroth Martha B. Morris David F. Mulliken Gayle M. Nogle J. Roger Powell Rhonda J. Powell Robert B. Rice Margaret J. Roby Annilee A. Shaul Virginia P. Siegle Sue Summerville Nell W. Wainwright Sheree L. Waltz Mark A. Wandrey Sarah J. Watson Kenneth S. Weiss Mary J. Whitman Arnold R. Wieczorek Beverly Ann Williams Robert F. Wood Mary Peterson Yost Ruth K. Youngerman Ying Yu 1940 Albert J. Logli 1941 Robert L. Miller 1947 Chester C. Kohl Bernard J. Krotchen James Edward Stallmeyer 1948 Alfred Joseph St. Pierre 1949 Walter L. Kevern Edward R. Pershe 1950 Robert G. Currie Philip G. and Kathryn L. Dierstein Fred O. Gilbertsen Mario G. Suarez 1951 Neil M. Denbo Samuel J. Errera Norman M. Lucas Wayne V. Miller John W. Ratzki 1952 Eric A. Graepp 1953 John W. Witters 1954 Leo R. Divita 1955 William J. Mebes Stanley L. Paul 1956 Robert E. Gates Miroslaw Noyszewski Van A. Silver 1957 Robert C. Brozio Melvin Kupperman Pedro Jimenez Quinones Alexander E. Scalzitti 1958 Richard J. Beck Richard A. Davino

A desire to support the education of future civil and en-vironmental engineers prompted a new scholarship by

Walter L. and Carole A. Crowley of Chicago. Walter Crowley is a law alumnus of the University of Illi-

nois at Urbana-Champaign, having earned his bachelor’s de-gree in commerce law in 1962 and his law degree in 1964, and the couple are long-time supporters of the law school. This time, they wanted to do something different.

“We thought maybe we had helped create enough law-yers,” Crowley says. “We wanted to provide a scholarship for a student who was going to contribute more significantly to the country’s needs.”

A friend who is a civil engineer put the Crowleys in con-tact with CEE at Illinois. The $6,000 Crowley Scholarship is awarded to the top Baker Prize winner in each graduating class who intends to pursue a graduate degree in the depart-ment. In the case of a tie, the two top students will split the award. The Crowleys have made a three-year commitment to fund this scholarship.

This year, the award was split between two students: Bri-an Schertz (BS 08) and Adam Tate (BS 08). Schertz is currently studying structural engineering in CEE’s graduate program and doing research related to structural health monitoring, and corrosion and deterioration monitoring of steel bridges. Tate is working on his master’s degree in geotechnical engi-neering. His primary interest is in geotechnical earthquake engineering. After graduation in December, Tate will join Versabar Inc. in Houston, Texas.

Walter Crowley spent his career as a lawyer before becom-ing CEO of Gould Financial and founding Guardian Financial Services Corporation. Now retired, he manages the Walter L. and Carole A. Crowley Charitable Fund. Carole Crowley is an artist. The couple’s primary philanthropic interest is educa-tion.

“We think education is important—probably the most im-portant thing that keeps a country like this going and work-ing the way it’s supposed to,” Crowley says. i

Crowley Scholarship will support Baker Prize winner for grad work

Carole and Walter Crowley

James T. Braselton Armen Der Kiureghian Dennis W. Dreher Donald A. Jakesch Patrick Kielty Michael J. Koob Terrence L. Schaddel 1977 Gary W. Ehlert Douglas W. Fiene John P. Kos Daniel K. Moss Donald Plotkin David A. Schoenwolf 1978 Lynne C. Chicoine Jeffrey W. Lake Mary L. Miller Steve R. Raupp Timothy R. Wells 1979 Patrick K. Callahan Thomas E. Havenar John D. Osgood Linda G. Schub 1980 James M. Casey James K. Clinard Michael D. Grimm James F. Hall Timothy J. Sheehan Ya-Hu Shen Steven J. Sieracki Joseph C. Spitek Timothy P. Tappendorf Frank R. Wengler 1981 Ronald J. Boehm Mark D. Bowman David D. Davis Clarke Lundell Thomas F. Plinke David A. Sabatini 1982 Jeffrey L. Arnold Richard M. LaBarge Ronald J. Roman David W. Snyder John A. Worley David K. Wuethrich 1983 Robert E. Bassler III Carolyn L. Eberhard William T. Grisoli Richard D. Payne Carl Weber Kathryn A. Zimmerman 1984 Delph A. Gustitus Joseph A. Jones Theodore K. Rothschild David W. Rydeen 1985 Michael J. Cronin Melissa A. Kennedy George E. Leventis William A. Rochford 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 John E. Naughton III Charles D. Zapinski 1990 Allen B. Gelderloos 1991 Edward William East Sophie B. Sacca 1992 Jason E. Hedien Ranji S. Ranjithan 1993 Eric Andrew Dahl Hector Estrada Peter J. Prommer Mark F. Rhodes 1995 Kevin R. Collins Andrea Johnson Klopfenstein 1996 Nathan F. Schwartz 1997 Matthew John Pregmon Michael M. Wieczorek 1998 Nicholas G. Golz Jennifer L. Harris John R. Hayes Jr. Andrew J. Martin Paul R. Ruscko Tony Fatjon Shkurti Amy J. Wildermuth 1999 Jason T. Balabas Jeffrey R. Hill Joshua E. Saak 2001 James Robert Klein Thomas E. Riordan Gregory Raymond Ulreich 2002 Frederick S. Wu 2004 Justin Clark Barton

Benjamin A. Jones Jr. William H. Walker 1959 Chunduri V. Chelapati C. Gordon Herrington 1960 Harold J. Abramowski James H. Aikman Jack C. Marcellis Andrew T. Tun Frank R. Van Matre 1961 Robert F. Bradford Jr. Wayne L. Johnson Emile A. Samara Raymond E. Untrauer 1962 Shankha K. Banerji Anthony T. Campanelli Stewart W. Johnson Joseph A. Morrone 1963 Nelson E. Funston Gerald L. Peters Richard B. Pool 1964 Paul D. Andresen Jerrold R. Asal Bruce M. Cowan John L. Saner Donald R. Sherman 1965 William M. Derby Gregory R. Erhard James M. Fisher William N. Lane Dennis R. Pipala Harold D. Weisenborn Roger L. Zebarth 1966 Charles H. Allen Allan W. Crowther Jerry R. Divine 1967 Dennis H. File Lonnie E. Haefner William S. Hennessy John G. Wolan 1968 John P. Elberti Anthony E. Fiorato Anthony G. Girolami Thomas F. Hintz H. Peter Kaleta 1969 Thomas A. Boroni Gary N. Cantrell Daniel W. Halpin Jerome E. Heinz Alfred G. Kalus 1970 William D. Berg Larry A. Cooper Robert L. Fark Jerome F. Thibeaux Roy K. Yamashiro 1971 Peter A. Lenzini Dennis D. Niehoff William A. Rettberg Francisco Silva-Tulla

Stephen T. Sonneville Richard J. Zdanowicz

1972 Thomas J. Cech Kenneth L. Kulick Gary Marietta Daryl D. Moeller William W. Wuellner Jr. 1973 Eugene D. Brenning Mark A. Koelling Larry J. Rhutasel Terry J. Rosapep Joseph W. Wuellner 1974 Daniel P. Abrams James E. Knuckey Stephen A. Leiber Gary A. Rogers 1975 David V. Bubenick Michael P. Fallon James P. Hall Douglas W. Ounanian 1976 Michael J. Doerfler Lawrence A. Kulman Jr. Edward B. LaBelle Mark E. Meranda David E. Rensing Edward N. Wade 1977 John H. Michael David M. Olson Mark W. Randolph Richard G. Stratton Jr. George T. Wozny Charles A. Zalesiak 1978 John P. Coombe Mary J. Erio Richard C. Frankenfield Neil A. Parikh John R. Wolosick 1979 Richard P. Byrne Thomas K. Connery Robert B. Doxsee 1980 Keith W. Benting Michael S. Cheney Jay E. Jessen Carl M. Nagata Daniel J. Rubel Robert H. Sues George Ziska Jr. 1981 Fariborz Barzegar-Jamshidi Richard M. Bennett Neil H. Harris Martin E. Millburg Richard A. Nack Gregory G. Pankow 1982 Jeffrey W. Darling Mark S. Engelen Thomas S. Palansky Robin L. Warren Kevin M. Wilson Mark S. Wylie 1983 David L. Greifzu

Charles E. Gullakson John M. Heinz David E. McCleary Brian E. Peck Daniel C. Powers Steve R. Synovitz 1984 Amy M. Schutzbach 1985 Brian T. Aoki Brian M. Bottomley 1986 Thomas D. Knox Edmund H. Tupay Jr. 1988 Kevin J. Ahern David R. Heselbarth Lisa J. Taccola 1989 James A. Geades 1990 Steven P. Fessenbecker 1991 Ronald Michael Hubrich Joseph L. Olson 1992 Daniel F. Burke Sava S. Nedic 1993 Sotiria Koloutsou-Vakakis David T. Lewandowski 1994 Gregory B. Heckel Cheryl E. Rottmann Johnson Julie A. Lomax Bryan J. McDermott 1995 Neal L. Banerjee James D. Mitchell Earl C. Peterson 1996 Brian S. Heil John A. Kerrigan 1997 Jeffrey B. Naumann Keri A. Nebes Tracy L. Willer 1999 Nathan David Rau William L. Simonton 2001 Eric O. Johnson Kyle A. Kershaw 2002 Alexander S. Garbe Beida Xie 2009 Matthew C F Johnson Patrick Johnston Kim Manning Brian K. Schertz


A new $3,000 scholarship will be offered annually to a CEE student who intends to pursue a graduate degree within

CEE in an area related to steel reinforced concrete, thanks to a gift by the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI) Edu-cation and Research Foundation of Schaumburg, Ill.

Founded in 1924, CRSI is a trade association that stands as the authoritative resource for information related to steel reinforced concrete construction. Serving the needs of ar-chitects, engineers and construction professionals, CRSI of-fers many technical publications, design aids, software pro-grams, educational seminars, promotional activities, mem-bership functions and design award programs. Serving the construction market in the United States, Canada and Mex-ico, CRSI is headquartered in Schaumburg, Ill., with regional offices located across the United States. The mission of CRSI is to maximize the use of steel reinforcement in concrete in construction.

The CRSI Education and Research Foundation was estab-lished in 1989 to fund scholarships and research fellowships for engineering, architectural, design and detailing students. The purpose of the scholarships and research fellowships is to enhance understanding of steel reinforced concrete de-sign and construction and to encourage students to seek oc-cupations in the field of steel reinforced concrete construc-tion, design and engineering. i

CRSI funds new reinforced concrete graduate scholarship

Engineering giants of the department’s history

Nathan M. Newmark1910-1981Educator, international engineering leader, consultant

Old Masters

by ProfESSorS EmErituS WilliAm h. hAll And John d. hAltiWAngEr

Nathan M. Newmark was born in Plain-field, N.J., on September 22, 1910. He

attended Rutgers University and as an un-dergraduate received many prizes, graduat-ing with High Honors and Special Honors in Civil Engineering in 1930. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-paign in 1932 and 1934.

Newmark held a succession of positions in the department, becoming Research Professor of Civil Engineering in 1943. From 1947 to 1957 he also served as Chairman of the University’s Digital Computer Labora-tory. In 1956 he was appointed head of the CE department and held that position until 1973. He continued as a Professor of Civil Engineering until 1976, at which time he retired with the rank of Professor Emeritus.

During World War II, Newmark was a consultant to the National Defense Re-search Committee and the Office of Field Service of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. For his service he was awarded the President’s Certifi cate of Merit in 1948.

Newmark was a Founding Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1964, and was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1966. His numerous honors include the 1968 Nation-

al Medal of Science from President Lyndon B. Johnson; the prestigious Washington Award (1969), an award given collectively by the major engineering societies of the United States; the John Fritz Medal (1979); and the 16th Gold Medal in the 57-year history of the Institution of Structural En-gineers of Great Britain (1980). Only one other American engineer has received this latter medal, namely Hardy Cross who had served on this faculty previously. New-mark received numerous other honors, awards and citations. His publications in-clude more than 200 books and papers.

Newmark developed simple, yet pow-erful and widely used, methods for analyz-ing complex structural components and

assemblies under a variety of condi tions of loading and for calculating the stresses and deformations in soil beneath foundations. He contributed significantly to a better un-derstanding of the behavior of structural materials under various environments in-cluding fatigue and brittle fracture. He add-ed materially to knowledge of the behavior and design of highway bridge decks and floor slabs in buildings and structures sub-jected to impact, periodic excitation, wave action, wind, blast and earthquakes.

Industrial organizations and govern-mental agencies sought Newmark’s con-sultation on major seismic, structural and geotechnical projects. The survival without damage of the 43-story Latino Americana Tower—on which Newmark was earth-

quake design consultant—during the 1957 and 1985 Mexico City earthquakes attests to his insight and ability. Design criteria for the military protective construction pro-gram within the United States, nuclear reac-tor facilities in the United States and abroad, the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, large dams throughout the world, and other major structures and systems have been based on his personal studies and on the reports and publications prepared by him and his associates.

It is no accident that there grew up around Newmark one of the most active research centers in civil engineering in the country and one of the nation’s largest groups of advanced students in civil en-

gineering. The alumni of this group have assumed broad leadership in education, indus-try and government and in the technical work of the armed services. Newmark possessed an unusual ability to attract young people to the field of

civil engineering, to inspire them with the confidence to undertake new and varied tasks, to guide but not direct their think-ing, and to ensure that as individuals they received appropriate recognition. His pen-etrating insight, keen engineering judg-ment, and genuine interest in people were a constant source of inspiration to all who had the privilege of working with him.

A more comprehensive summary of Newmark’s career appears in “No Bound-aries: University of Illinois Vignettes” (U of I Press, 2004) edited by Linda Hoddeson.

Nathan Newmark died on January 25, 1981. His wife, Anne May (Cohen) New-mark, died several years later. He is survived by three children: Richard Newmark, Susan Mayfield and Linda Bylander. i

Newmark possessed an unusual ability to at-tract young people to the field of civil engineer-ing, to inspire them with the confidence to un-dertake new and varied tasks, to guide but not direct their thinking, and to ensure that as in-dividuals they received appropriate recognition.


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