Fall 2015 - Civil and Environmental Engineering

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CEE
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fall 2015
Why a bridge?
The case for a new campus landmark for CEE
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4 Positioning ourselves to lead/Benito Mariñas
7 Legacy/Allen J. Staron (BS 74)
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8 Why a bridge?
10 Learning without borders
14 Under Cubstruction at Wrigley Field
16 Top women students consider grad school at We Go CEE
18 Four faculty invested as endowed professors
20 CEE’s online program is five
22 Alumni Q&A with Marilyn Tears (BS 80, MS 82)
24 Illinois team solves ancient Roman water supply mystery
25 Overuse of aquifers could threaten global food security
26 Student organizations
27 New student organization: Civil China
28 Department news: First alumni event held in China
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29 Project will make Chicago smarter, greener
30 CEE teams study Nepal earthquake
32 Alumni news
34 In memoriam
36 2015 student awards
38 Individual donors
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42 Corporate and foundation donors
43 Local bridge designed by CEE prof marks 50 years
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Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Association—Fall 2015 3
Positioning
ourselves to lead
CEE Modernization Plan
state-of-the-art classrooms
hands-on, upgraded laboratories
collaborative spaces
ADA compliance
expansive lobby
modernized exterior
support for innovative instructional methods
smart bridge connecting buildings
The decade-long project to modernize the infrastructure at CEE at Illinois
began with the Yeh Student Center and will continue with the renovation
and expansion of Hydrosystems and Newmark labs. Work on the project will
be funded through support of the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, the College of Engineering, the campus and private gifts. All
donors will be recognized on a giving installation. Naming opportunities for
classrooms, labs, student spaces, the alumni center and meeting rooms are
available.
To support this effort, please contact:
Benito Mariñas, Department Head, (217) 333-6961, [email protected]
or Celeste Arbogast, Senior Director of Advancement Operations, (217) 3336955, [email protected] or visit cee.illinois.edu/alumni/gift.
Help shape the future
of CEE at Illinois.
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By Benito Mariñas
Ivan Racheff Professor
of Environmental Engineering and Head
D
ear CEE at Illinois Alumni and Friends,
The civil and environmental engineering profession has been evolving
rapidly in recent years in response to
emerging societal needs associated with
revolutionary technological innovation
and globalization. In order for CEE at Illinois to continue playing a prominent and
exemplary role in training future generations of leaders in the CEE profession we
must modernize our human resources,
our curricula and our infrastructure.
CEE faculty and staff started the development of a modernization strategic
plan for CEE at Illinois at a full-day strategic retreat on Friday October 16, 2015.
This strategic plan provides a guiding
platform aiming at identifying human resources needs, developing new curricula
and research programs, and creating the
state-of-the art facilities needed for programmatic implementation. The next
step in this process is the engagement of
our alumni and friends in providing input
and support to achieve these goals.
There are two components of our strategic plan that I would like to share with
the broader CEE at Illinois family at this
time for their input and support. First, we
must continue to attract top talent to our
student body and ensure that they become more representative of the increasingly diverse modern society that we
serve. Our alumni and friends can play key
roles in helping us accomplish this goal.
You could join those that are pioneers in
contributing to the Engineering Visionary
Scholarship (EVS) initiative coordinated
by the College of Engineering. Increased
support of the EVS program will allow us
Over the course of our nearly
150-year history, CEE at Illinois achieved a
leadership position. We have retained that
leadership position thanks to the vision of
our world-class faculty and the support of
generations of alumni.
to become more competitive in attracting a diverse group of top applicants to
our CEE undergraduate program.
We are also engaged in attracting diverse top talent to our graduate program.
We are most grateful to the many alumni
and current graduate students and faculty that recently interacted with a group of
45 top women seniors from 30 universities and 15 states who participated in the
inaugural We Go CEE (Women Exploring
Graduate Opportunities in CEE) workshop, featured elsewhere in this magazine. The We Go CEE workshop was a
great success, but we now need help from
a broader base of alumni and friends in
creating a We Go CEE Fellowship program
that will allow us to recruit these top students. Please contact us if you share our
passion to achieve the goal of attracting
diverse groups of top, talented students
to both our undergraduate and graduate
programs by contributing to the EVS and
We Go CEE Fellowship programs.
The other key component of our strategic plan that I would like to share with
you at this time is the modernization of
our facilities, which is needed to implement curricular and research program
changes. As discussed in the preceding
CEE Magazine, we are engaged in Phase
II of our facilities modernization plan that
focuses mainly on developing modern
classrooms, design studios and instructional laboratories in support of curricular changes. Our primary goal in updating our facilities is to give our students
a modern, second-to-none educational
experience in CEE, but the new facilities also give us an opportunity to make
these students aware of our tradition of
excellence by creating not just functional,
state-of-the-art facilities but also a modern landmark building as the home of CEE
at Illinois, the second-to-none program in
Illinois, the U.S. and the world. The new
facilities will also give us the opportunity to honor our prominent alumni and
friends who are leaders in the CEE profession, as well as our legendary CEE faculty
leaders who played a key role in training
generations of professional leaders.
We invite alumni and friends of CEE at
Illinois who feel passionate about recognizing faculty that had a pivotal impact
in their educational experience at Illinois
and in their careers thereafter, and honoring the members of the CEE at Illinois
family that have made milestone contributions to our society. Please contact
us if you are interested in honoring them
by naming classrooms, design studios,
instructional laboratories and landmark
components such as the smart/instructional bridge and the CEE Alumni center.
Over the course of our nearly 150-year
history, CEE at Illinois achieved a leadership position in the education of civil and
environmental engineers, research that
built this nation’s infrastructure and service to society that improved quality of life
around the world. We have retained that
leadership position thanks to the vision
of our world-class faculty and the support of generations of alumni. Such vision
and generosity helped us achieve the M.T.
Geoffrey Yeh Student Center in 2011. We
now ask you, our alumni, to again rise to
the challenge of supporting the continuation of our CEE Modernization Plan so that
the preeminent role of CEE at Illinois will
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continue for the next 150 years.
We invite alumni and
friends of CEE at Illinois
who feel passionate
about recognizing
faculty who had a
pivotal impact in their
educational experience
at Illinois to honor
them by naming
classrooms, design
studios, instructional
laboratories and
landmark components
such as the smart
bridge and the CEE
alumni center.
CEE alumni events
Watch your inbox for details
on these upcoming CEE alumni events:
Alumni Dinner . . . . . March 2, 2016 . . . . Chicago, IL
Beer Tasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBD . . . . . . . . . Chicago, IL
Golf Outing . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBD . . . . . . . . . Chicago, IL
Chicago River Boat Tour . TBD . . . . . . . . . Chicago, IL
CEEAA Board of Directors
President
Allen J. Staron, P.E., (BS 74)
Clark Dietz Inc.
Chicago
Vice President
Colleen E. Quinn, P.E., (BS 84)
Ricondo & Associates Inc.
Chicago
Second Vice President and Secretary
John P. Kos, P.E., (BS 77)
H.W. Lochner
Chicago
Past President
Tracy K. Lundin, P.E., (BS 80, MS 82)
Fermilab
Batavia, Illinois
Directors
Daniel F. Burke (BS 92, MS 93)
City of Chicago DOT
Chicago
David Byrd, P.E., (BS 01, MS 06)
Bully and Andrews General Contractors
Chicago
Nick Canellis (BS 94)
Turner Construction
Chicago
Lynne E. Chicoine, P.E., (BS 78, MS 80)
Water Environment Services of Clackamas County
Oregon City, Oregon
John E. Conroyd, P.E., S.E., (BS 83, MS 85)
Tishman Construction Corp.
Chicago
James M. Daum, P.E., (BS 77)
Bowman, Barrett & Associates
Chicago
James K. Klein, P.E., S.E., (BS 78)
Illinois Department of Transportation
Springfield
Dana B. Mehlman, P.E., (BS 99, MS 01)
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Chicago
Paula C. Pienton, P.E., S.E., (BS 85)
T.Y. Lin International Group
Chicago
Frank Powers, P.E., S.E., (BS 82, MS 83)
H.W. Lochner Inc.
Chicago
Julian Rueda, P.E., (BS 80, MS 82)
Geo Services Inc.
Naperville, Illinois
Update your contact information, and keep up-to-date on all
CEE at Illinois events by visiting
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David A. Schoenwolf, P.E., (BS 77, MS 78)
Haley & Aldrich Inc.
McLean, Virginia
C. Wayne Swafford, P.E., S.E., (BS 78, MS 82)
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc.
Oakland, California
Scott Trotter, P.E., (BS 90)
Trotter and Associates Inc.
Saint Charles, Illinois
Daniel J. Whalen, P.E., (BS 84, MS 85)
Hanson Professional Services Inc.
Springfield
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Legacy
By Allen J. Staron, P.E., (BS 74)
President, CEE Alumni Association Board of Directors
I
t was with great sadness that I recently learned of the passing of Professor
Emeritus Moreland Herrin. I had the privilege of taking two courses taught by Professor Herrin when I was a civil engineering undergraduate and both were great
learning experiences even if my course
grades did not truly reflect it. Although
he was small in stature, I considered Professor Herrin one of the giants in the University’s Civil Engineering department at
that time.
He was a leader in both highway and
airport engineering with special expertise in pavements. Upon graduating I
occasionally saw him at alumni/faculty
events and would always tell him that
he was the best instructor I ever had at
the University of Illinois. And, as always,
he would show his humble grin and politely take my compliment. I truly meant
every word. As with all of my instructors,
he was knowledgeable of his subject and
detailed in its presentation. His expectations were high. What set him apart was
his concern for each of the students in his
class. I always felt that he wanted us all to
succeed, that he wanted me to succeed.
He was extremely approachable and in
many ways treated his students as part
of his extended family. Once a semester he would invite the entire class to his
home for dinner. His wife and family were
always cordial, although they may have
dreaded having 20 or so people descending on their home. Professor Herrin would
take a photo of each person in the class
before they left his home. I asked him why
he did that. He told me that over his years
of teaching he kept albums with photos
of his students so that when prospective
employers called for references he could
more easily identify each of us. The photos helped him to jog his memories of us.
I trust that he only gave positive recommendations; I cannot imagine him doing
otherwise.
What continues to make the Civil and
Environmental Engineering department
a special experience and top-rated pro-
gram? Although sparkling classrooms
and well-equipped laboratories are extremely important, it becomes more obvious to me with each passing year that
the CEE department is much more about
the personal experience—about its eager
students, concerned faculty and accomplished alumni. One without the others
would not result in the continued excellence and achievement of the CEE department and its graduates. Over the last 10
years I have met many faculty members
who are cut from the same cloth as Professor Herrin. It is comforting to see that
today’s leaders on campus have inherited
the commitment, care and concern of
their predecessors. Although in my opinion there will never be another Professor
Herrin, I do know that in 2015 our CEE students still have access to faculty and staff
who care about them and want them to
succeed. I trust that the Illinois heritage of
student concern and nurturing will continue; it truly sets us apart.
Each of you should see for yourself the
quality of the CEE staff and student body.
During the upcoming year there will be
opportunities for alumni to interact with
faculty and students. I ask you to take
advantage of those moments and connect with the people that make the CEE
department a special place—an international leader in civil engineering education and research.
I imagine that each of you knew someone like Professor Herrin, someone who
made a special impact on you when you
attended the University of Illinois. As CEE
alumni we are the living legacy of all those
committed and caring professors, teaching assistants, laboratory technicians and
staff who guided us and enhanced our
experience on campus. I know that I will
always be in their debt. I also know that
when I make my next contribution to the
CEE department it will be with thoughts
of Professor Herrin and all his dedicated
colleagues. Thank you for your legacy of
excellence.
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GO ILLINI!
Although in my opinion
there will never be
another Professor Herrin,
I do know that in 2015
our CEE students still
have access to faculty
and staff who care about
them and want them
to succeed. I trust that
the Illinois heritage of
student concern and
nurturing will continue;
it truly sets us apart.
The smart bridge has captured the imagination of
our students. There is no shortage of opinions—
represented on these
pages by the surrounding
quotes—and
we welcome
them all.
“I heard that the bridge will have
intelligence, and the cables will text
or Facebook you if it loses a certain
percentage of the strength or starts
to corrode.”
“We need to conduct
a traffic study to
figure out the average
peak load of students
walking on the bridge
and how heavy
they will all weigh
together, assuming
the average of X
pounds per person.”
“We need to use sustainable
materials.”
“How about engineered woods,
recycled concrete, steel and glass?
Oh—how about using recycled jeans
for insulation?”
“No, my old jeans still have residual
value on eBay if I wash them.”
“I love
water. Can
we add
some water
features?”
“Should we
paint the
bridge orange
or blue?
It’s a very
difficult binary
decision.”
“Pizza guys will never
be lost again coming to
Newmark Lab, if we say
to deliver to
THE Bridge.”
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Why
a bridge?
As CEE envisions the facilities that will help us retain our
leadership position, why is a smart bridge part of the plan?
By Liang Liu
Associate Head
and Director of Undergraduate Studies
William E. O’Neil Faculty Scholar
T
he idea of constructing a bridge to connect the Newmark Civil Engineering
Laboratory and the HydroSystems Laboratory has a long history, dating back to when
the two buildings were being planned in the
1960s. As a part of the next phase of CEE’s 10to 15-year modernization plan, this bridge
connecting the two buildings will finally be
realized, nearly half a century later. The preliminary concept is to construct a functional,
aesthetic, inspiring and monumental bridge
to highlight and honor civil engineering
graduates who have dedicated their careers
to the design and construction of civil infrastructures that impact the lives of millions of
people on a daily basis.
The bridge will not only connect CEE’s
two main structures, but also serve as a living laboratory for education and research
in bridge design and engineering. Spanning 115 feet with the width of 16.5 feet, at
an elevation of 30.5 feet above ground, this
signature bridge will be a new gateway to
the north engineering quad, including the
new Electrical and Computer Engineering
building to the west and the iconic Beckman
Institute to the north. Instrumented with
state-of-the-art sensors on key structural
components, the smart bridge will provide students with opportunities to observe, understand and experiment with
the dynamic forces of a bridge. Incorporating innovative materials and advanced
computing, the bridge will provide a platform for experimental, modeling and simulation research, in addition to serving
as an interactive design tool. The bridge
design will also explore and showcase the
latest sustainable energy and environmental design options, including wind,
photovoltaic, geothermal and piezoelectric energy.
The proposed bridge will symbolically and physically connect CEE research
groups from the Hydrosystems Laboratory, which has housed the Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
area, and Newmark Laboratory, which has
traditionally been the home of the other
areas of study, including Construction
Engineering and Management, Construction Materials, Environmental Engineering and Science, Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering and Mechanics and Transportation Engineering.
Because the full renovation of the Hydro
Lab will include labs and classrooms to be
• a new campus landmark
• a living laboratory
• fully instrumented to
demonstrate the effects
of dynamic forces on the
built infrastructure
• showcasing the latest
sustainable energy and
environmental design
options
used by all areas of the department, including the newer cross-disciplinary programs of Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability, Societal Risk Management and
Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
Systems, this project will further promote
interdisciplinary collaboration among
faculty, students and researchers.
In early 2015, CEE Department Head
Benito J. Mariñas appointed a CEE Modernization Committee chaired by Professor Marcelo García. The committee has
sought recommendations from faculty,
staff, students and alumni. In July, the
University hired an A/E (Architectural/Engineering) firm to explore the proposed
conceptual designs, with the goal of completing a detailed design November 2016.
After construction, bidding and award,
actual construction is scheduled to start
in March 2017. The facility will open for
the incoming class of fall 2018.
Since 2014, I have worked with CEE
students Sarah A. Nelson (MS 14), Matthew C. McClone (BS 14, MS 15), Alexander M. Dowd (BS 15)—all alumni now—
and Alexandra H. Zach, a CEE junior, to
develop conceptual models to reflect the
collective wisdom, creativity and preference of CEE’s constituents, in hopes of
conveying a clear and coherent vision to
pass on to the A/E. As one faculty member put it, “We’d better be sure we design
and build it right. It might be another 50
years before we do this again.”
Knowing how to design and build it
right is never easy, because of the diverse
objectives and ever changing needs of
teaching, laboratories, research and student activities. Among the planned facilities of classrooms, computer laboratories,
design studio, hands-on laboratories and
student collaboration spaces, the “smart
bridge” has generated the most heated
debates and discussions—all civilized, of
course, thanks to our civil engineering
training. Some have favored a single-pier
cable-stayed bridge. Others have said
an elegant suspension bridge with selfanchoring cables should be built. Some
have preferred a curved bridge. Others
have vouched for a straight one. There is
no shortage of opinions—represented on
these pages by the surrounding quotes—
but we welcome them all.
If the bridge is to be successful in
all the ways we envision—as a practical teaching tool, as a demonstration of
what the most talented civil and environmental engineers can create, as an inspiring new campus landmark informing
all visitors that they are in the presence
of the world’s top civil and environmental engineering program—we will need
everyone’s help, both to imagine the
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bridge and to realize it.
“Did anyone
question the
soil strength for
“Can I step
your crazy design
on the floor
ideas? I need some
enough
borehole data.”
times to
power a
10W LED
light bulb
on the
bridge for
an hour?”
“Wait a minute, I
forgot the snow load.
I need to do the finite
element analysis
again.”
“Why not put offices on the bridge
and assign me there?”
“The bridge could light up at
night with LEDs corresponding
to the stress and strain of bridge
components measured by
wireless sensors.”
“How many wind turbines, solar
panels, and geothermal pipes will
be needed to be net-zero and
carbon neutral for Newmark and
HydroSystem Labs?”
“There are a lot
of ugly bridges
“Should we
out there.
consider
Please do not
earthquake
load?
add one more.”
Maybe we
can test a
model on
the strong
wall.”
“What
should we
name it?”
Give
To support the CEE Modernization Plan,
please contact Celeste Arbogast,
[email protected], (217) 333-6955 or
Benito Mariñas, [email protected],
(217) 333-6961.
Learning without
borders
A trip to East Africa gives students a close-up look at
the challenges facing underdeveloped countries.
In February 2015, 12 students in the CEE 449 class (Environmental Engineering
Lab) traveled to East Africa to learn about the issues facing rural communities in
developing countries. Led by professor and department head Benito Mariñas,
with support from the Safe Global Water Institute, the focus was on clean water,
proper sanitation practices, and clean and sustainable energy supply.
The students were divided into two groups and traveled separately to locations
in Kenya and Uganda. Students were able to interact with local residents, analyze water samples from a variety of sources, and learn about the economic,
educational and cultural roadblocks that may impede implementation of effective solutions. For the students who made the trip, it was a unique chance to see
first-hand how things they learn in class can have an impact on a global scale.
Since funding was not available for the entire class to make the journey, students
who were selected to participate were encouraged to keep an online blog in order to tell their classmates on campus about their day-to-day experiences. On
the following pages, read about some of their experiences in their own words.
The complete travel blog and photos can be viewed at
publish.illinois.edu/cee449watersanitationenergy/
“First stop, the equator.”
– Madeline
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KENYA
UGANDA
“Dust. That is THE word to
describe today. No matter how
hard you try, you cannot get rid
of any of the dust.” – Ellyn
DAY 2
TIM: When we finally reached Masaka, we
ate lunch together and then took the last
part of the drive to reach Peter Luswata’s
farm. Peter was a very welcoming man,
and has proven to be a very effective entrepreneur in his own right. We were able to
get a tour of his farm, including the biogas
digester, the pig unit, a protected water
well and some examples of cooking.
We were able to see how the biogas reactor fed a cookstove as well as providing
fuel for a light just outside of it. We were
also able to stop by a woman’s house to see
DANIEL: It is becoming clear that having
access to water treatment technology or
even improved drinking water itself does
not necessarily equate to consumption
and proper handling of clean drinking water. Other factors, including social, behavioral, and economic, are at work in Karagita
that cause many residents not to consume
this improved, defluoridated water. I assume that this situation is not endemic
to Karagita, but exists in subsistence-level
communities around the world. I spent
the week in Karagita trying to understand
what these factors are and to try to quantify their significance. Phantus, Mbandu,
and I systematically interviewed residents
at 5 of the 15 kiosks with a survey that we
developed. My hope is that we can use the
results to determine the most significant
factors that contribute to the decision to
purchase or not purchase defluoridated
water so that we can inform WSUP how
to most effectively address this issue and
thereby create positive behavior change.
her outdoor kitchen. A removed structure
from the main house was constructed in
order to do the wood-fire based cooking
because it did produce so much smoke.
However, charcoal based cooking was
okay in the main house.
around 8:30 am. Our end location for the
day was the refugee settlement, Oruchinga, and in order to get there we drove over
a mountain, making various stops on the
way. A member of Parliament, Honorable
Alex, joined us on the trek up the mountain
where we stopped first at a health center.
We were able to gain incredibly useful information about the availability of medications and vaccinations provided to the
community and the efforts of the health
center to educate the community.
REGGIE: As part of the sanitation team, Kate,
David, Lauren and I focused our efforts on
Peter’s digester. The underground digester
allows the pig waste to break down and
produce biogas which is piped up to a gas
stove and light. While the digester isn’t
nearly as fancy or efficient as the ones in
the U.S., it provides enough energy that
could cook meals for a family of five, according to Peter. Peter’s farm has spearheaded the anaerobic digester movement
in Eastern Africa and with the help of NGOs
and groups like the University of Illinois, he
has hopes of it spreading and benefitting
farmers throughout the area.
DAY 4
GABI: We started our day off early this
morning leaving the Lake View Hotel
Lesson 1: Engineering is a complex process.
Traditionally, engineers designed solutions
with technical and economic constraints
as their only considerations. This paradigm
must evolve to include social, cultural, behavioral and environmental constraints.
Lesson 2: Engineers do not have the tools
to measure economic, social, cultural and
behavioral phenomena, which is why it is
important to reach out to and collaborate
with people in other disciplines in order to
create and implement truly effective and
lasting solutions.
LAUREN M.: We finished eating and all
headed across the street to the secondary school to teach them about health and
sanitation through various games and activities. I was surprised by how many students there were at the school. In the classroom, Lauren V. led activities that showed
the school kids how easily bacteria can
spread, how you can’t always tell by looking at water that it is contaminated, and
the effects that high levels of fluoride in
water can have.
DAY 5
ANDREA: The Safe Global Water Institute
added a renewable energy focus this year.
We know it is sunny in Africa, but how sunny? There is wind, but how strong? The data
“At the lady’s home, I was swarmed
by the children as I took photos of the
kitchen. They often repeated the phrase
“No touch!” around me, but I think they
were daring each other to touch me as
many of them poked my neck.” – Tim
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www.safeglobalwater.com
we were looking for was not readily available. The lack of research and the desire
for specific site information led us to purchase a weather station for site evaluation.
The weather station will be used to measure the solar and wind energy potential
starting in the Oruchinga UN HCR refugee
settlement. Oruchinga is in the Kalagera
river valley in rural south-western Uganda.
In one or two years, when the river valley
data collection is complete, we hope to relocate the station to Omurutoma, a nearby
hilltop village.
HANNAH: As we were about to leave the
second house, Nyonito asked us what benefit the research would have on him and
the settlement. According to him, people
like us come talk to them and ask them
questions, but nothing ever changes. At
the 4th house, the women immediately
started speaking to me, saying that she
recognized me and that I had been at the
settlement before. It seems like “people
like us” come and go often, but I know that
we definitely have the ability to leave a sustainable mark on this settlement.
DAY 6
LIYING: When we asked them, “Are there
any problems with your drinking water?”
they answered mostly “no.” Nevertheless,
“Like good environmental engineers,
we went straight to the latrines to
take pictures and check conditions,
which must have seemed very odd
to the vendors who were setting up
for the day.” – David
there were problems apparent in the water such as a red color and solids settling.
Sometimes they are suffering from the unsafe water, but they have not realized that
is the cause. Water quality is not the only
problem. In a village located on the top of
the mountain, women and children need
to walk seven hours twice a day to fetch
water. During this time they are prone to
sexual assaults. Many of the children also
have potbellies, which is linked to malnutrition. I can see the significance of being
able to affordably provide safe drinking
water to everyone in the world.
DAVID: It shouldn’t go without mentioning
the warm welcome we received by all of
the people we have interviewed. We have
been invited to photograph and document
very personal aspects of their lives and this
has allowed us to better understand the issues faced by this community. The hospitality and graciousness of the people here
have helped us make the most of this incredible opportunity.
The annual CEE 449 research trip to
East Africa is possible thanks in part
to the support of the Safe Global
Water Institute (SGWI), under the
leadership of professor and department head Benito Mariñas. Not
enough funds are available for the
entire class to make the trip overseas, so students must go through
a selection process in order to win
a spot. Your gift can help more students take part in this life-changing
experience. Contact Vicki Dixon,
SGWI’s Director of Development, at
(217) 244-0857 or vdixon@illinois.
edu for more information.
“Our luggage is mostly field
equipment.” – Andrea
Under Cubstruction
Civil engineering alumnus leads restoration project for Wrigley Field
By Mike Koon
Photos by Josh Nielson
B
ill Bennett has fond childhood memories of Wrigley
Field—from his dad always telling him to stop and smell
the grass when coming up the stairs to his seat to the time
when Bennett was five years old and Hall of Famer Billy Williams tossed him a ball.
Today, perhaps no one knows the intimate details of the
101-year old ballpark better than Bennett. That’s because the
University of Illinois alumnus is leading Pepper Construction’s
$500 million renovation to the home of the Chicago Cubs.
Bennett, a native of suburban
Libertyville, Ill., began helping the Cubs plan the project
in 2009. The work actually began two years ago with a series
of structural improvements,
but kicked into high gear with
a complete overhaul of the
bleachers during this past winter and spring. The renovation,
dubbed “The 1060 Project” after
Wrigley’s address (1060 West
Addison), is expected to take
another four years to complete.
The conversation started
with the need to build a modern clubhouse for the team and
turned into a bigger vision for
the Ricketts family, the Cubs’
owners.
“The Ricketts know how important this facility is to this
neighborhood,” Bennett said. “When they acquired the Cubs,
they had the goals of bringing a World Series to the team, being a good neighbor, and preserving Wrigley Field. All their
decisions are based on these concepts. The preserving Wrigley part was something we could help with.”
Bennett added that for the Ricketts, the restoration centers on preserving the beauty, charm and historic features of
Wrigley Field that fans have cherished for more than a century, while upgrading the overall game-day experience.
“For six years, we’ve been talking about what that vision is,
how we can accomplish that vision, what it will cost, and how
we should schedule the project in multiple phases around
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the baseball season,” Bennett said.
While his collaboration with the Cubs began six years ago,
the foundation for Bennett’s role in the project was laid at
the University of Illinois. He completed a bachelor’s degree in
1991 and a master’s in 1993, both in civil and environmental
engineering, the top-ranked CEE program in the country.
“I could go on about my experiences at Illinois for a long
time,” Bennett said. “The research and the facilities there are
awesome, and the professors were some of the brightest,
most brilliant people on earth in
our industry. I learned concrete
from Bill Gamble, who wrote the
ACI code for concrete, and I sat
in on a lecture from Ralph Peck,
who is like the godfather of soils
engineering. That’s like learning
physics from Newton. In addition to their knowledge and expertise, their experience gave us
a more practical sense of what
engineering has to be.”
To say Bennett wears his Illinois colors on his sleeve would
be an understatement.
“When I was coming out of
school, I was in an interview and
this guy was explaining what I
could be doing if I got the job,”
Bennett said tongue-in-cheek.
“I told him I graduated from the
number one civil engineering
school in the country. We’re not talking about some secondrate institution like Stanford or MIT. We’re talking about the U
of I here. In all seriousness, I garner a lot of respect from the
industry because of my credentials from Illinois.”
For the next decade, Bennett established himself in the construction industry around the Midwest with stops in St. Louis,
Cincinnati, Columbus and Chicago. He has built hospitals,
hotels, schools, retail space and office buildings, including a
52-story structure on Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago.
“Every one of my projects has been a really cool experience,”
Bennett said. “That has helped my breadth of knowledge in
the construction industry. I think that while I don’t practice
Bill Bennett
B.S. Civil Engineering ‘91
M.S. Civil Engineering ‘93
engineering any more, I can speak
engineering, specifically structural
and geotechnical, which were my
emphases. I can understand the
process of design better than a lot
people who just have a construction
management degree.”
In 2004, a headhunter advised
Bennett of an opportunity at Pepper
and he jumped at the chance.
“When he said, ‘Yes it’s with Pepper,’ I said, ‘Keep talking,’” Bennett remembers. “The reputation at Pepper
is something that everybody knows.
I would say everyone in the industry has at
least one part of their body that wants to
work for Pepper because they’re the best.”
For Bennett, Project 1060 is both rewarding and challenging at the same time.
“Doing the work in multi-year phases,
mostly during the off-season, creates its
own fun,” Bennett said. “With most of the
work outside in Chicago weather, that
adds to the challenge. But it’s our job to
work through that. The deadlines are firm
because Opening Day is fixed on the calendar.”
From an engineering perspective, re-
storing an historic structure built before
World War I has been stimulating.
“At the base of the some of the columns
were cast-iron pyramids, which we replaced,” Bennett said. “It’s something we
won’t ever see in a structure in this day and
age. This is a mix of cast-in-place concrete
structural frame, cast-in-place concrete on
steel frame, and precast concrete on steel
frame and several parts of it are original. A
lot of the concrete is in disrepair. They do
patches and repairs every year, but they are
looking at holistic repair and/or replacement for the longevity of the ballpark.”
There have been other relics that have
been unearthed, which the Cubs
are collecting for posterity, including old construction equipment,
historic doors and windows, bottles
and remnants of the railroad which
once ran along the west side of the
stadium.
“It’s a lot of fun mixed in with a lot
of different types of emotion,” Bennett said of this once-in-lifetime opportunity. “I always tell myself that
this is a project that literally will never
happen again because the next oldest stadium to be restored is Dodger
Stadium (which opened in 1962). Nobody
in the industry will say that they did this
type of project ever. To have the memories
I had as a kid and to come here with my
children and hopefully my grandchildren
someday and say that this is something
that daddy had a part in restoring, there
can’t be anything more cool than that.” i
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New workshop invites top women
students to consider graduate school
F
orty-five top women students from
across the country were encouraged
to pursue graduate degrees and introduced to the grad program in CEE at Illinois Sept. 18-19 during the first annual
We Go CEE workshop, sponsored by the
department.
“Many students come from universities that don’t have a graduate program
so they haven’t been exposed to research
and don’t know about the opportunities
that graduate degrees provide,” said Assistant Professor Cassandra Rutherford,
who conceived of the event and directed
the inaugural one. “I also wanted to highlight the outstanding faculty, graduate
students, staff and alumni from the CEE
department at the University of Illinois. I
believe that our department is uniquely
qualified to provide this workshop due to
the large number of women faculty in the
department, the high caliber of current
women graduate students and the exceptional success of our women alumni.”
About a dozen alumnae and all of
the department’s 13 women faculty
members participated in the workshop.
Fourteen of the
student participants were from
CEE’s
undergraduate program, and the
rest hailed from
28 other schools
in 15 states.
CEE alumna
Sharon
Wood
(MS 83, PhD
86), dean of the
Cockrell School
of Engineering
at the University
CEE alumna Sharon Wood of Texas at Aus(MS 83, PhD 86)
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Participants in the We Go CEE workshop enjoy refreshments in the Newmark Lab crane bay.
rell Family Chair, delivered the keynote
address. Wood discussed the decisions
she made throughout her career, the fact
that she was the only woman in most of
her classes and the importance of finding
a mentor. She offered a quote from Maya
Angelou: “Success is liking yourself, liking
what you do and liking how you do it.”
Another key speaker was CEE Professor Tami Bond, the Nathan M. Newmark
Distinguished Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a 2014 winner of the MacArthur Fellowship. Bond
spoke during a networking dinner at the
Illini Union the first evening.
Four CEE alumnae participated in
a panel discussion about their various
educational and career paths: Francina Dominguez (MS 03, PhD 07), Karen
Kabbes (BS 77), Dana Mehlman (BS 99, MS
01) and Kathryn A. Zimmerman (BS 83, MS
85). Agricultural Engineering alumna Kay
Whitlock also participated. Several other
CEE alumnae attended the networking
dinner, including Nancy L. Gavlin (BS 76),
director of education for the American
Institute of Steel Construction; Meg C.
Griffin (BS 92), coordinator of CEE Online
programs; Paula C. Pienton (BS 85), director of transit for T.Y. Lin International and
a member of the CEE Alumni Association
Board of Directors; and Angela S. Wolters (BS 99, MS 00), assistant director of
Women in Engineering program for the
College of Engineering.
Department speakers gave details
about fellowships and assistantships, the
application process, entrepreneurship for
engineers and building your resume for
grad school. Other activities ranged from
lab tours to bowling in the Illini Union.
Currently, women make up about 27
percent of the CEE undergraduate student body. Increasing the diversity of
the student body in CEE is a priority for
the department, said Professor and Head
Benito Mariñas.
“Our discipline serves society, and in
order to serve society we have to represent society in our students and in our
faculty,” Mariñas said.
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Above, workshop participants took time
for a group photo in Newmark Lab’s crane
bay. In the front row at right is Assistant
Professor Cassandra Rutherford, who
planned and directed the workshop. At
left, Assistant Professor Ange-Therese Akono speaks with a student during the poster
session. Below, Illinois alumni conduct
a panel discussion on the various career
paths open to CEE graduates. They are,
from left, Katie Zimmerman, Kay Whitlock,
Dana Mehlman, Francina Dominguez and
Karen Kabbes.
Help CEE attract
top women students
One of the department’s primary
fundraising goals is to establish an
endowment fund to offer fellowships to
attract top women students to CEE at
Illinois. For more information, contact
Celeste Arbogast, [email protected]
(217) 333-6955 or Benito Mariñas,
[email protected] (217) 333-6961.
Ximing Cai | Lovell Professor
Youssef Hashash | Hall Professor
P
P
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rofessor Ximing Cai was invested April 8 as the Colonel Harry
F. and Frankie M. Lovell Endowed Professor.
Cai joined the faculty in 2002. He teaches undergraduate
and graduate courses in water resources engineering, surface
water hydrology and application of geographic information
systems, and river basin management. He is the Ven Te Chow
Faculty Scholar in Water Resources and the Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar. He holds a B.S. in Water Resources Engineering (1990) and an M.S. in Hydrology and Water Resources (1994)
from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and a Ph.D. in Environmental
and Water Resources Engineering (1999) from the University of
Texas at Austin.
Cai is a research pioneer in integrated hydrologic-economic
modeling for river basin management and water systems operations. His current research areas include coupled human-natural
system analysis with an emphasis on human interferences in hydrological processes, water-energy-food system modeling especially in dry areas, and sustainable water resources management, particularly in developing countries. He has authored or
co-authored more than 110 peer-reviewed journal papers, three
books and several monographs.
He currently serves as Editor for Water Resources Research,
the flagship journal of water resources, published by the American Geophysical Union and is on the editorial board of other major water journals. He has worked as a consultant to the World
Bank, the United Nations and other international agencies.
Harry F. Lovell (BS 32) was born on May 20, 1910, in Fulton
County, Ill. He was a member of the Reserve Officer Training
Corps at the University of Illinois and served in the U.S. Army Reserve until World
War II, when he
was called to active
duty and deployed
to the Philippines
and Japan. After
the war, he joined
the Army Corps
of Engineers. His
many tours of duty
included construction of airfields in
Morocco. After 31
years in the Army,
Lovell retired in
1961. He died on
Aug. 9, 2005, in
Sun City, Ariz. The
Lovell Professorship was estabXiming Cai with his wife, Tong Zhang; daughters
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rofessor Youssef
Hashash was invested April 23 as
the William J. and
Elaine F. Hall Endowed Professor.
Hashash joined
the faculty in 1998.
He has taught
courses in Geotechnical Engineering,
Numerical Modeling in Geomechan- Youssef Hashash with, from left, his daughter
ics, Geotechnical Dina; wife, So-young Kim; and daughter Sarah.
Earthquake Engineering, Tunneling in Soil and Rock, and Excavation and Support Systems. He holds a B.S. (1987), an M.S. (1988) and a Ph.D.
(1992), all in civil engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
His research focus includes deep excavations in urban areas, earthquake engineering, continuum and discrete element
modeling and soil-structure interaction. He also works on geotechnical engineering applications of visualization, augmented
reality, imaging and drone technologies. He has published more
than 80 journal articles and is co-inventor on four patents.
Professor Emeritus William J. Hall was born in Berkeley, Calif., on April 13, 1926. He attended the University of California
at Berkeley, Kings Point, and
served in WWII as a Merchant
Marine Midshipman from September 1944 until March 1945.
After the war, he attended the
University of Kansas in Lawrence, where he completed his
B.S. degree in civil engineering in 1948. Hall received his
M.S. degree (1951) and Ph.D.
(1954) from the University of
Hashash with Bill and Elaine Hall.
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He then joined the faculty and
served for 40 years. He was department head from 1984 until
1991. He retired in 1993.
Hall specialized in structures, materials and structural dynamics. His research centered on earthquake engineering and
on military structures. He was a member of the original design
team for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and was affiliated with the
project for the next 35 years. Other work involved blast and
shock studies for U.S. military protective facilities. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering in
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INVESTITURES
Endowed chairs and professorships help the department
retain top faculty. Professors selected as named professors
or chairs receive a significant career honor as well as
discretionary funds for their research and teaching.
Murugesu Sivapalan | Siess Professor
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rofessor Wen-Tso Liu
was invested April 8
as the Arthur C. Nauman
Endowed Professor.
Liu joined the faculty
in 2008. He holds a B.S.
in civil engineering from
the National Taipei University of Technology in
Taiwan, an M.S. in environmental science from
Rutgers University, an
M.Eng. in environmen- Wen-Tso Liu with, from left, his daughtal engineering from the ter, Sharon Tsubaki-Liu and his wife,
University of California Manami Tsubaki.
at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in
urban engineering from the University of Tokyo. He has taught
undergraduate and graduate courses in water quality control
engineering, biological principles in environmental engineering, environmental microbiology, wastewater biotechnology
and current topics in environmental biotechnology.
Liu’s work focuses on the water microbiome, studying the
ecological roles of microbes in different water systems including
watersheds, drinking water systems, and wastewater treatment
and reclamation systems. His research interests also include
enhanced biological phosphorus removal processes, development of molecular tools, membrane bioreactors and membrane
biofouling, biosensors, the microbial ecology of drinking water
distribution systems, the nexus of syntrophs and methanogens
in anaerobic digesters, and water and bioenergy recovery.
Liu serves as a member of the editorial board for several
leading journals in Environmental Microbiology such as Microbial Ecology and the ISME journal by the publisher of Nature.
Arthur C. Nauman (BS 34) was born on April 3, 1910, in Chicago. His career included
serving as a Colonel with
the U.S. Army and as a consulting engineer. The Nauman Professorship was established in 2000, after the
death of Nauman’s wife, Virginia L. Nauman in 1997. Nauman died in January 1989. i
At right, Sivapalan with four
generations of family, classmates and friends going back
50 years in Sri Lanka and
Nigeria, who traveled from all
over North America to attend
the investiture.
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Wen-Tso Liu | Nauman Professor
rofessor Murugesu Sivapalan was invested April 23 as the
Chester and Helen Siess Endowed Professor.
Before joining the faculty in 2005, Sivapalan’s career included
four years as a consulting civil engineer in Nigeria, West Africa,
and 17 years on the faculty of the University of Western Australia,
Perth. He holds a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of
Ceylon, Sri Lanka (1975), an M.Eng. in Water Resources Engineering from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (1977), and
M.A. (1983) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees in Civil Engineering from
Princeton University. He has served as Visiting Professor at the
Vienna University of Technology, Austria; the Delft University of
Technology, The Netherlands; the University of Technology Sydney, Australia; and Tsinghua University, China. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses covering both physical and
stochastic hydrology. Sivapalan holds appointments in both the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the
Department of Geography and Geographical Information Sciences.
Sivapalan's research focuses on making predictions in ungauged basins and associated scale issues, increasingly in the
context of human-induced environmental change. The increased focus on hydrologic change led him to launch the new
field of socio-hydrology that explores the dynamic feedbacks
between social and hydrological systems at the heart of future
water management challenges.
Chester P. Siess was born on July 23, 1916, in Alexandria, La.
He earned his B.S. (1936) from Louisiana State University and his
M.S. (1939) and Ph.D. (1948) degrees from Illinois, all in civil engineering. He spent 37 years on the U of I faculty, first in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and later in civil
engineering, where he was department head from 1973 until
1978, when he retired. The Siess Professorship was established in
2001. He died in 2004. He was preceded in death by his wife, Helen, in 1997. They are survived by their daughter, Judith Siess.i
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CEE at Illinois Online
Master of Science degree program enters
fifth year online
Now in its fifth year, CEE’s online program has seen tremendous growth with
increasing enrollment numbers each year. The goal of the program is to offer flexibility and convenience for students while maintaining the integrity and academic
rigor of CEE’s elite on-campus program. The non-thesis degree is offered in the
concentration areas of construction management, infrastructure, structures and
transportation, and several graduate certificates are available in these areas as
well.
What do students
say about CEE
Online?
“It’s almost the same as
sitting in class.”
Online students take the same classes as students on campus, watching recordings of lectures that are available a few hours after the class meets on campus. All
students share the same course management space, and often online students
are able to interact with on-campus faculty and students through discussion
threads and group projects.
“It’s convenient to
watch class on my own
schedule.”
Students report a high level of satisfaction with the program because they are
able to earn a graduate degree from our top-ranked program while working full
time and without relocating to the Urbana-Champaign campus. Faculty report
that added benefits of the program are the professional perspective and expertise that online students bring to the classes, as well as the classroom technology
improvements that benefit all students.
“The professors are very
responsive.”
To find out more about the program, including courses and areas of concentration, visit the CEE Online website: cee.illinois.edu/ceeonline.
“The quantity, breadth
and diversity of students
is terrific.”
CEE Online students:
hail from:
34 states and 22 countries
are employed by:
consulting firms
federal, state and local government agencies
military (all branches have been represented)
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view their lecture
recordings:
at home
on the train
while on the treadmill
at lunch
at the library
Tim Gripper, MS ‘15, studied in
his local library, the Library of
Congress, where he was able
to see the original source document of a British engineering
newspaper from 1895 to use
in a research project for his
construction planning class.
In spring 2015, Professor Youssef Hashash’s Tunneling in Soil and Rock class
traveled to Washington. Online and on-campus students met in Seattle to
tour the Northgate Link Extension tunneling project, part of the Sound Transit
light rail system in Seattle, and the University of Washington campus.
Faisal Al-Awar, MS 15, in his hometown of
Qarnayel, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, is the first
international student to complete a master’s
degree entirely online. Since graduating in May
2015, he has launched his own engineering firm,
FM Enterprises.
Jacquelyn Wong, MS
15, pictured here
with Department
Head Benito Mariñas,
had the opportunity
to go to Paris for a
week with other CEE
graduate students
as part of an international exchange
program with the
French Rail Company
SNCF. “It is definitely
one of my favorite
experiences of my
graduate program
and shows how
online students have
opportunities to be
included in special
campus programs.”
Gienell Declet-Martinez,
MS 14, with Professor Bill
Buttlar, director of CEE Online. Gienell is an engineer
with the Army Corps of
Engineers in New Orleans.
Brian Castro, MS 14, is an engineer with OMEGA & Associates
and works at the Jane Addams
Memorial Tollway as part of the
Corridor Construction Management team. “My master’s
degree helped me advance my
career by about 7-10 years. The
main reasons I chose CEE Online
were reputation, quality of the
programs and flexibility (given
my work schedule). I strongly
believe that Illinois satisfied and
exceeded my expectation in
these areas.”
Jakra Mahaprom, Railroad Engineering Certificate 2015,
from Thailand, visited the CEE Department and RailTEC
in May and is pictured here with railroad classmates and
Professor Christopher Barkan.
CEE AT ILLINOIS
Alumni Q&A
Tomorrow’s Illini civil and
environmental engineers
have a few questions for today’s.
This time, CEE senior Amanda Caldwell-Jacques
interviews CEE alumna Marilyn E. Tears (BS 80, MS 82)
Marilyn Tears (BS 80, MS 82) is the
ExxonMobil Development Company
Safety, Security, Health & Environment
(SSH&E) Manager, a position she has
held since April 2015. Prior to that position, she held project management
roles for the Deepwater Portfolio for
Hadrian South, Marine Well Containment Interim Response System and
most recently was Senior Project Manager for Julia Project, a subsea tie-back
project in water depths of more than
7,000 feet with oil production starting
in 2016. During her 33-year career with
ExxonMobil, Tears has held various
Upstream technical & supervisory positions, managed operations, planned
and supported offshore development
and global construction, and led project management and execution teams.
Tears is a leader in supporting inclusion and diversity at ExxonMobil.
She is a founding member of the team
that established the Upstream Women’s network at ExxonMobil. In 2011,
she was honored with the ExxonMobil
Upstream Women’s Leadership Role
Model award. Tears represents ExxonMobil on the Society of Women Engi-
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neers Corporate Partnership council.
Tears resides in Houston, Texas,
with her husband of 32 years, Nelson
Tears, a Senior Technical Consultant in
ExxonMobil Development Company
Drilling. They have two daughters.
In 2014, Tears established an endowed fund to provide scholarships
to CEE students. The “Duane Edward
and Phyllis Ann Erickson Memorial
Scholarship in Civil and Environmental
Engineering” honors her parents, who
were great proponents of education.
Amanda Caldwell-Jacques is a
senior at Illinois with an environmental
engineering primary and a construction management secondary. As the
president of the Water Environment
Federation-American Water Works Association student chapter and member of the CEE Student Committee,
Amanda has capitalized on numerous
opportunities provided by the CEE department. She is an Engineering 100
instructor for freshman CEE students
and is an undergraduate researcher
with Assistant Professor Roland Cusick.
Do you have a favorite memory about
the CEE department?
The dedication of the professors to help
me learn is what stands out about the
CEE department. The last day before
Christmas break my senior year I ran out
of money in my computer account and
Professor Leonard Lopez came back to
campus just to update my account so I
could finish my last design project. Professor Lopez’s dedication and kindness to
his students is an example of what made
my experience at CEE successful and enjoyable.
If you could, what piece of advice
would you give yourself on your
Illinois graduation day?
Be willing to try new opportunities. Embrace them fully even though at first
glance they may not be what you had in
your original plan. If I had not done this I
would have missed some of the best opportunities of my life.
Where was your favorite place to
study on campus? What made it great?
My favorite place to study was at the “old”
engineering library. You could find a desk
in the back of the library where you could
spread out your books and have quiet to
concentrate.
When and how did you know you
wanted to study civil engineering?
Work in the oil and energy industry?
I thought I wanted to be an architect
when I started college since I wanted to
“build things.” I spent my first year at University of Illinois in architecture. In my
first architecture class I realized I wasn’t
excited about most of the topics except
structural design. So I transferred to Civil
Engineering and focused on structural
design and construction management.
I went to work at Exxon when I graduated as it allowed me to be involved in
small designs and construction from the
start. In the beginning it wasn’t as much
about oil and gas but civil engineering
Marilyn E. Tears, ExxonMobil
Amanda Caldwell-Jacques, CEE senior
work and being able to “build things.”
The challenges and technology of oil and
gas work have kept me in the industry for
more than 30 years.
What is the best part about being a
CEE at Illinois alumna?
The bragging rights of being ranked the
best civil engineering college for so many
years that I’ve stopped counting.
Why do you give to CEE at Illinois?
I give to honor my parents and to give
back to a place that has made a difference in my life. My father, Duane Erickson, was a professor at the University of
Illinois and my mother, Phyllis Erickson,
was a grade school teacher in Urbana.
They taught me that through education
and hard work you could obtain the skills
to follow your dreams. CEE at Illinois gave
me the skills to follow my dreams and end
up with a career that has been beyond my
wildest dreams at graduation. Additionally, the University of Illinois has been a
big part of my life. I grew up in Urbana
and benefited from many of the activities
at the University
—after-school science
programs, Illini sporting events, apple orchards, Krannert Theater to name a few.
Is there a single project you have led
during your time with ExxonMobil
you are most proud of?
After working at ExxonMobil for more
than 30 years there are many that I am
very proud to have had a leadership role
in. The Hoover-Diana Project was a deepwater project located in nearly a mile
deep water in the Gulf of Mexico and
when built contained numerous industry
firsts. Although I was proud of the facility
we built, I was even more proud of the
operations team that I was responsible
for building to operate the facility. I managed the $1.2B asset for two years after
start-up and our team safely produced oil
and gas without environmental incident
while building a strong relationship with
regulatory agencies.
What is the best part of a typical work
day for you?
Finding a solution to the current challenge of the day, being able to go to the
fabrication site to see progress, getting to
take a coffee break or have lunch with a
co-worker, seeing a team member I have
coached be successful.
What has been the hardest part of
your career?
I think ending one position at ExxonMobil
and moving on to a new assignment is my
hardest challenge. Even though my new
position may be really exciting and one
I desired, it is still hard to give up something you have given your full effort to for
several years.
What excited you most during Julia
project?
My most recent project was the ExxonMobil Julia Project which is an ultra-deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico with significant step-out technologies. Every day
was a mix of problem-solving on unique
challenges with an extremely capable
and creative project team. The project
challenged me to use my experience but
stretched me to learn every day.
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Bruce Fouke
Illinois team solves ancient Roman water supply mystery
By Claire Sturgeon and Kristina Shidlauski
According to the wetted perimeter near
or hundreds of years, the Anio Novus Roma Vecchia, where the ancient Anio
aqueduct carried water 87 km (54 Novus aqueduct and travertine are well
miles) from the Aniene River of the Apen- preserved, the aqueduct was almost alnine Mountains down into Rome. Built ways full of water.
between AD 38 and 52, scholars strugStill, their estimate is significantly
gled to determine how much water the lower than previous estimates, which did
Anio Novus supplied to
not account for the travthe Eternal City—until
ertine.
now.
“We looked at the caBy studying limepacity of the aqueducts
to convey water—how
stone deposits that
formed from the flowmuch water we think
ing water within the
they were able to pass
aqueduct, called travthrough depending on
ertine, University of Ilhow deep the water
linois at Urbana-Chamwas—and then figured
paign researchers reout how these travertine
ported in the Journal of
deposits affected that
Archaeological Science
conveyance
capacity,”
Marcelo García
an actual estimate for the
said CEE Professor Marcelo
aqueduct’s flow rate of 1.4 m^3/s (± 0.4).
García, the M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Endowed
“At this rate, the aqueduct would Chair and director of the Ven Te Chow Hyhave supplied the city with 370 gallons drosystems Laboratory.
of water each second,” said lead author
The thickness of the travertine deposit
Bruce Fouke, a professor of geology and resulted in a smaller cross-section and the
microbiology and a member of the Carl R. rough surface also would have changed
Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Il- the resistance to the flow, García said. The
linois. “That’s enough water, per second, group considered these factors in their
to take a three-hour shower or to take hydraulic analysis and found that even a
seven baths.”
small amount of travertine deposit served
This buildup of travertine within the to significantly reduce the water flow.
aqueduct channel indicates the average
Former estimates have tried to recwater level, called the wetted perimeter. oncile flow rates recorded in AD 97 by
F
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Rome’s water commissioner Sextus Julius
Frontinus in his classic text entitled De
Aquis.
“We believe his data should not be
used, considering he did not have the
means to accurately measure water flux
and flow velocity,” Fouke said. “Furthermore, Frontinus’ data contained many
discrepancies, which he blamed on measurement error, water theft and fraud in
his water department.”
Other recent estimates have used an
average velocity. However, this new study
found differences in slope across the aqueduct that could have caused velocity to
vary by more than 1 m/s in some places.
In turn, this would dramatically change
estimates of the volume of water being
transported.
“Regardless of the different estimates,
researchers agree that these aqueducts
were the core pieces of infrastructure that
permitted the large-scale urbanization,”
Fouke said. “With this reliable water supply, Rome’s population was able to grow
between 600,000 to a million people during the first century AD.”
“Roman water engineering is in a class
of its own,” García said. “If you think about
it, they did everything without the means
we have today—without all the modern
techniques that we have. I think it’s a tribute to their ingenuity that they were able
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Overuse of aquifiers
could threaten global
food security
Liz Ahlberg, University of Illinois News Bureau
hirsty cities, fields and livestock drink
deeply from aquifers, natural sources
of groundwater. But a study of three of
the most-tapped aquifers in the United
States shows that overdrawing from these
resources could lead to difficult choices
affecting not only domestic food security
but also international markets.
Professor Ximing Cai and Assistant
Professor Megan Konar, along with graduate student Landon Marston and Lehigh
University professor Tara Troy, studied
groundwater consumption from three
main aquifer systems. Reliance on these
aquifers intensified so much from 2000 to
2008 that it accounted for 93 percent of
groundwater depletion in the U.S. They
published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The U.S. Geological Survey identifies
the Central Valley aquifer in California,
the High Plains aquifer in the Great Plains
states, and the Mississippi Embayment
aquifer in the lower
Midwest as being
managed unsustainably, which means
that water is being
phy and usage. For example,
extracted from the
when water was used to irriaquifer faster than it
gate a crop, the researchers
is replenishing.
tracked where those crops
“Deep groundwere shipped.
water is like natural
“When we think of water,
gas. If you use it, it
we
think of direct water, the
Megan Konar
takes a while to rewater that comes out of our
charge,” Cai said.
faucets. But we actually use
“Unsustainable usage means the water a lot of embodied water in our everyday
table is lowered, which makes it more dif- lives—the water footprint to produce a
ficult and more expensive to pump water product,” Konar said. “We looked at the
since we have to keep going deeper. It water implicitly being transferred bealso affects ecosystems associated with tween states and countries in the prodthe water table, such as streams and wet- ucts.”
lands.”
The researchers found that the vast
The researchers tracked water con- majority—91 percent—of embodied
sumption from the aquifers to see where groundwater from these three aquifers
the water was going, in terms of geogra- stayed within the U.S. The remaining 9
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percent was exported internationally.
They identified the states most heavily reliant on each aquifer, and the breakdown
of what was produced using water from
each aquifer. For example, the largest
percentage of water from the High Plains
aquifer irrigated grains, while the largest
amount from the Central Valley aquifer in
California went to meat production.
The researchers hope that having detailed information on how aquifer water
is used, and the complex economic and
environmental implications of that use,
can help policy makers in their decisions
about water resource management.
The U.S. Department of Defense and
the National Science Foundation supported this work.
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Student Organizations
Some of the many student organizations for civil and environmental engineers at Illinois tell what they’re up to and how alumni can get
involved. A more extensive list of CEE student organizations and links to their websites appear here: cee.illinois.edu/student_organizations.
American Concrete Institute
The American Concrete Institute (ACI) Student Chapter promotes student interest in all aspects of concrete. This year,
in addition to monthly meetings and networking events,
we will be traveling to both ACI National conventions, competing in student competitions, and are planning site visits
in order to expose our members to concrete work in the
field. If you would like to arrange to be a speaker or host our
members for a site visit, please contact [email protected].
American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-ofWay Association
The student chapter of the American Railway Engineering
and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) educates
and inspires students about the railroad industry. We hold
meetings with presentations by industry professionals, attend the AREMA Conference, and take field trips to observe
work being done on a variety of projects (bridges, track, repair shop, etc.). We also hold social activities such as cookouts and sporting events to network with other students.
For more information, contact [email protected].
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society of Civil Engineers is a student group that
encompasses all aspects of civil and environmental engineering. Membership in our chapter has increased more
than ten-fold in the past year, with 130+ paid student
members and many more attending events. This explosion
in membership is credited to aggressive event planning for
CEE students as well as the Great Lakes Regional Conference
the chapter participates in. For more information and updates, please contact us at [email protected].
Bridge to China
Bridge to China is a volunteer organization that helps design and construct infrastructures, both locally and abroad.
Two years ago we helped build a boardwalk in Allerton Park
and last year we traveled to Yunnan, China, over winter
break to finish the construction of a suspension bridge.
This year, we hope to once again partner with Wu Zhi Qiao
Charitable Foundation and send a team to China for site investigations and construction trips over summer break. For
more information, contact [email protected].
Chi Epsilon Honor Society
The Alpha Chapter of Chi Epsilon civil engineering honor
society provides students who excel in academics a place
to network with other students, faculty members and professionals. In addition to hosting several service and social
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events, the society holds general meetings where companies speak to students about their companies and projects.
Chi Epsilon is always looking for scholarship sponsors and
guest speakers. If interested, please contact President
Robert Getty at [email protected]. Visit their website at
https://sites.google.com/site/chiepsilonuiuc/home.
Civil China
Civil China is dedicated to providing help and guidance to
civil engineering students. Our organization aims for cultural integration between Chinese and American students and
serves as a platform for CEE alumni and students to interact.
This semester, Civil China will hold workshops, professor
lunches, a BBQ social event, Lego competition, graduation
banquet and much more. We are running this organization
non-profitably, so donations are always welcome to grow
our organization bigger. We would love to have alumni and
school officials to join our events and support us in any way.
Email Shuo Zhang for information: [email protected].
Concrete Canoe Team
The Boneyard Yacht Club (BYC), or more generally the concrete canoe team, is a group of multidisciplinary engineering students who grow into their roles as professional engineers through a yearlong project of designing and building
a concrete canoe. BYC’s mission is to create critical thinkers,
knowledgeable practitioners and devoted leaders. We seek
support from alumni and companies to aid in our goals of
engineering professionalism and regional and national
titles. Email John Visperas at [email protected].
Construction Management Association of America
The Construction Management Association of America
(CMAA) Illinois chapter is a student organization focused on
helping to prepare construction management students for
their careers after college. Our vision is to help encourage
student learning of the construction industry and construction practices through combined mentorship and exposure
opportunities. To achieve this vision, we host and participate in site visits, company presentations, workshops and
volunteering events.
Deep Foundations Institute
The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is an international
association of contractors, engineers, suppliers, academics
and owners in the deep foundations industry. Foundation
engineers play an important role in the design process
because the foundations they design provide support to
bridges and building structures. The mission of the DFI
chapter at Illinois is to promote foundation engineering by
providing information to other civil engineering students
through short courses, workshops and field trips.
Geotechnical Engineering Student Organization
The Geotechnical Engineering Student Organization (GESO)
provides students interested in the geotechnical industry
with a connection to practicing professionals and an environment to discuss their research interests. The chapter
hosts seminars which include student member presentations on their current research and industry speakers. This
year GESO plans to send 10 members to the annual GeoCongress conference in Phoenix, Ariz. For more information,
contact Scott Schmidt at [email protected].
Illinois Solar Decathlon
Illinois Solar Decathlon is one of the largest interdisciplinary projects on campus requiring collaboration from many
departments. Solar Decathlon is a prestigious biennial competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy that
challenges 20 teams of students from around the world to
design and build energy efficient, solar powered homes. Illinois placed as a grand winner finalist for its submission of
the SunCatcher cottage in the DOE sponsored 2015 Race to
Zero theoretical design competition. For more information,
please visit: www.solardecathlon.illinois.edu/.
Institute of Transportation Engineers
The University of Illinois ITE Student Chapter strives to promote the advancement of transportation and traffic engineering by fostering a close association between students,
professionals and the Institute. The Student Chapter hosts
guest speakers and attends field trips, conferences, and
social and networking events. If you wish to offer support,
through donating or getting involved in some way, please
feel free to contact us at [email protected].
International Association of Hydraulic Engineering
and Research
International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) is an 80-year-old independent organization
of engineers and scientists who work in the area of hydroenvironment sciences and their practical applications. The
IAHR student chapter organizes a series of academic events
including field trips to local hydraulic works and research
facilities, and professional development seminars as well
as a series of social events. For more information, visit our
website: https://sites.google.com/site/uiuciahriwra/ or
email [email protected].
International Water Resources Association
The International Water Resources Association (IWRA)
student chapter works locally to raise awareness of water
issues, promote interaction among students and faculty,
and provide members with networking opportunities. In
2014, IWRA started the annual Illinois Water Day, which
promotes discussion about local and global water issues
among students, faculty and community members, and
gives students an opportunity to present their research. We
invite alumni to participate in info sessions, seminars and
informal meetings with students. For information, contact
Fernanda Maciel at [email protected].
Steel Bridge Team
The Steel Bridge team is preparing for the regional competition at Illinois Institute of Technology. The competition
gives students an opportunity to design, model, fabricate
and construct a 1/10-scale bridge made entirely out of steel.
A 20-foot-long girder bridge has been chosen as the design
for this year’s bridge. This is designed to hold 2,500 pounds
of applied load and to be assembled in approximately 1015 minutes. For more information, please contact captain
Nana Ochiai at [email protected].
U.S. Green Building Council
U.S. Green Building Council student chapter recruits, connects and equips the next generation of green building
leaders. We provide LEED study sessions to prepare students for the LEED Green Associate Exam. We also organize
monthly general meetings to educate our members about
recent green building projects. We travel each fall to the
Greenbuild international conference which this year is being held in Washington, D.C. We host the Student Sustainability Initiatives Symposium every spring, which features
workshops, talks and tours. For information, write [email protected].
Water Environment Federation – American Water
Works Association
The Water Environment Federation – American Water
Works Association student chapter is an organization of
students who hope to work in the water industry after
graduation. The group attends conferences throughout
the year to network with practicing professionals and learn
more about the water industry. In the spring, we pick a realworld water problem and meet weekly to design a solution.
We then showcase our work at competitions and presentations at several conferences. We also visit local water treatment plants, and host professionals and professors as guest
speakers to talk about their work and research in the water
industry. To find out more visit http://publish.illinois.edu/
wef-awwa-uiuc/.
Civil China points the way toward getting
Chinese students more involved on campus
Civil China, CEE’s newest Registered Student Organization, was established in spring 2014 with the goal
of getting CEE’s Chinese students
more involved on campus, more organized to share information and better
integrated with their fellow students.
Zhongkai Hu (BS 14) and Michael
Yang, CEE senior, founded the group,
which drew about 50 people to its first
meeting, Hu said.
With the help of a group on the
social network WeChat, the students
disseminate information about campus, their group’s events, internship
opportunities and more. They even
publish alumni interviews in Chinese
on WeChat; it’s not atypical for these
to be viewed by several hundred people, Hu and Yang said.
In their first semester, the group
also published a yearbook, held a sale
of Chinese baked goods on the quad,
held a graduation banquet to which
CEE faculty were invited and even
swept the Engineers Week competi-
tions, beating out other student organizations in contests such as the tug-of-war
and karaoke.
“E-Week is one of the biggest social
events of Engineering Hall,” Hu said, “but
to my surprise there were so few Chinese
getting involved. They didn’t even know
what E-Week was.”
The group has helped Chinese students overcome the reticence caused by
language and cultural barriers to take advantage of everything Illinois has to offer,
Hu and Yang said. Working to establish
the organization made Hu’s final semester at Illinois his best ever, he said.
“I think this semester has been my
happiest semester,” he said.
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At top, members
of Civil China goof
around during their
official RSO photo
shoot at Engineering Hall. At left, their
serious shot. Above,
Zhongkai Hu, left, and
Michael Yang show
off the group’s first
yearbook.
department news
CEE alumni dinner held in Shanghai
T
he department held its firstever alumni event in China
on May 27. Eight members of the
CEE faculty, including department head Benito J. Mariñas,
were traveling in China at that
time as part of a trip to explore partnership opportunities with Chinese
universities. They took advantage of
that opportunity to host the CEE at Illinois Reception and Dinner at the Hyatt on the Bund in Shanghai.
The group of more than 60 guests
included CEE alumni, students, visiting
scholars and friends of CEE. CEE alumnus Yang Zhang (MS 07), CEO of Palmap Plus and secretary of the Shanghai University of Illinois alumni club,
welcomed the crowd, followed by an
address by Mariñas. In addition to Mariñas , CEE faculty who attended were Ximing Cai, Liang Liu, Wen-Tso Liu, Yanfeng Ouyang, Mark Rood, Bill Spencer
and Erol Tutumluer.
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Above, Associate Head Liang Liu, left, socializes
with guests at the Shanghai alumni dinner. Below,
Professor Benito Mariñas, left, with Bin Guo (PhD 12)
and Xuecheng Bian, professor at Zhejiang University.
At left, Professor Bill Spencer, right, visits with CEE
students, including Civil China president Zhongkai Hu,
far left.
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CEE prof’s work
will make Chicago
greener, smarter
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Three academic generations
Professor Paolo Gardoni directed the Risk and Reliability Symposium in Honor of Armen Der
Kiureghian Oct. 4-5 on the Illinois campus. Der Kiureghian, President of the American University
of Armenia, is a CEE alumnus and Gardoni’s Ph.D. adviser. He is considered one of the fathers of
modern risk and reliability analysis. Pictured from left: Colleen Murphy, Paolo Gardoni, M. Mae Ang,
Nelly der Kiureghian, Armen Der Kiureghian (PhD 76), Alfredo H. Ang (MS 57, PhD 59), who was Der
Kiureghian’s Ph.D. adviser at Illinois, Irene Strohbeen.
CEE students Kushagra Agrawal, Lauren Cannon,
Kelly Samara, and Shivani Soni were selected as
honorees for the Class of 2015 Senior 100 Honorary.
Professor Ximing Cai received the 2015 Service to the
Profession award by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The award honors outstanding leadership, activities and achievement in service to the profession in the
field of water resource planning.
CEE student Martha Cuenca was selected as a Virtual
Team Collaborator by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) to assist with the Nepal Reconnaissance Team.
Associate Professor C. Armando Duarte received the
2015 (inaugural) Raymond and Sidney Epstein Structural Engineering Faculty Award. The award is based on
the ICES scores from the previous two semesters.
Assistant Professor Ahmed E. Elbanna will receive a
one-year fellowship that will enable his research team
to collaborate on their project “At the Interface of Chemistry and Mechanics: Multiscale Modeling of Crack Dynamics in a New Class of Self-Healing Materials” with
the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Associate Professor Larry A. Fahnestock participated
in the National Academy of Engineering’s 2015 US
Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. The symposium
consists of 100 engineers from industry, universities
and government labs, representing the full range of
engineering fields. Topics covered were Optical and Mechanical Metamaterials, Cybersecurity, Engineering the
Search for Earth-like Planets and Forecasting Natural
Disasters.
Assistant Professor Mani Golparvar-Fard and his PhD
students Kevin Han and Jacob Lin received the Best
Conference Paper Award from the 2015 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering in
Austin, Texas, for their paper “A Framework for Modeldriven Acquisition and Analytics of Visual Data using
UAVs for Automated Construction Progress Monitoring.”
Paolo Gardoni has been promoted to full Professor.
Assistant Professor Jeremy S. Guest won a 2014 Excellence in Review Award by Environmental Science &
Technology for consistently providing both scholarly
and timely reviews over the past year.
Assistant Professor Jeremy S. Guest’s PhD student Brian Shoener won the 2015 MWH/AEESP Master’s Thesis
Award for his work on “Advancing sustainable wastewater treatment: Elucidating tradeoffs among emerging
resource recovery technologies through quantitative
sustainable design.” The award recognizes him for completing a top thesis in the environmental science and
engineering field during 2014.
Piyush Gupta, a PhD student with Associate Professor
C. Armando Duarte, won the Best Student Poster at
the 13th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics.
Professor Praveen Kumar has been elected a Fellow
of the American Geophysical Union. Only one in 1,000
members is elected to AGU Fellowship each year.
Associate Professor Liang Y. Liu, Associate Head and
Director of Undergraduate Studies, won an Engineering
Council Outstanding Advising Award.
Professor Arif Masud has been elected as Associate
Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and
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he streets of Chicago will be getting smarter, literally, through a
new UI LABSCity Digital project being
led by CEE Research Assistant Professor Joshua M.
Peschel. As part
of a unique interdisciplinary
effort, including
personnel from
the University of
Illinois, Argonne
National Laboratory and the
Josh Peschel
City of Chicago,
along with UI
LABS’s corporate partners, Peschel and
his team will develop the next generation of sensing and sense-making tools
for green storm water infrastructure.
The Smart Green Infrastructure
Monitoring project is a pilot project
by City Digital, a Chicago-based consortium focused on data-driven urban
innovation with the built environment.
It was also one of a handful of projects
nationwide highlighted by the White
House at its Smart Cities Forum Sept.
14, which kicked off Smart Cities Week.
Green infrastructure brings into
engineering design vegetation, soils
and natural processes to manage water and create healthier urban environments. Peschel’s project will measure
the health, performance and effectiveness of green infrastructure in the City
of Chicago by deploying new low-cost
sensors and innovative software tools
across five pilot urban streetscapes.
“The traditional way of monitoring
storm water infrastructure, if done at
all, is with expensive measurements
that are often very sparse in space
and time,” Peschel said. “This project
seeks to fill the data gaps by adding unique measurement techniques
and intelligence to these new green
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streets in Chicago.”
Full story at cee.illinois.edu/
peschelsmartcities.
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Astronautics. He was recognized for making fundamental contributions to the field
of Computational Mechanics and for application of advanced numerical methods to
Areospace Engineering.
Associate Professor Thanh H. (Helen)
Nguyen has been selected for a Fulbright Specialist
grant in Environmental Science at Ben Gurion University, Israel, and has also been awarded a fellowship by the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to conduct
research in Japan with her host researcher Professor
Daisuke Sano, Hokkaido University, for 30 days.
Associate Professor Yanfeng Ouyang won the 2015
American Society of Civil Engineers Walter L. Huber Civil
Engineering Research Prize, “For pioneering research on
transportation planning and management, particularly
as it relates to sustainable, resilient and safe design of
coupled complex transportation networks and infrastructure systems against internal and external risks
and uncertainties.”
Oscar Lopez-Pamies has been promoted to Associate
Professor.
Research Assistant Professor Joshua M. Peschel’s MS
student Chris Chini has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship for his proposed
PhD work. Chini will develop a new approach to examine and understand the resiliency of water management infrastructure systems, mapped to and modeled
as stress-strain diagrams, for broad stakeholder sensemaking and public policy decisions; it is the first major
student research initiative out of the new field Peschel
is establishing called human-infrastructure interaction.
John S. Popovics has been promoted to full Professor.
Professor Jeffery R. Roesler is the recipient of the 2015
Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award by the student Engineering Council Awards Committee. The award is given
in recognition of efforts to develop empathetic studentfaculty cooperation.
Professor Mark J. Rood won an Excellence in Guiding
Undergraduate Research campus award.
Professor Billie F. Spencer received the 2015 George
Housner Structural Control and Monitoring Medal “For
pioneering research in the development and implementation of seismic response control systems, as well as for
unwavering commitment to education and professional
service.”
Professor Billie F. Spencer was named a Distinguished
Professor at Yokohama National University.
Professor Timothy D. Stark delivered the 2015 James
M. Hoover lecture titled, “IHNC Floodwall Failures during
Hurricane Katrina: Recent Ruling (April 12, 2013)" during
the annual ASCE Iowa Section Geotechnical Section Conference in Ames on March 12, 2015. The research team’s
project, “Improvement for Determining the Axial Capacity of Drilled Shafts in Shale in Illinois,” by Stark, James
H. Long and Ahmed Baghdady, was named a High
Value Research project by the American Association of
State Highway and Transportation Officials Research
Advisory Committee.
Assistant Professor Ashlynn S. Stillwell won the 2015
CEE Faculty Undergraduate Advising Award, based on
students’ online votes of their faculty advisers.
Assistant Professor Ashlynn S. Stillwell was named
by the Girl Scouts of Central Illinois a 2015 Woman of
Distinction honoree in the greater Champaign area for
making a standout contribution to the community in
the area of STEM (science, technology, engineering and
math).
Assistant Professor Ashlynn S. Stillwell’s proposal
“Characterizing the Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
of Energy and Water Efficiency Measures in Buildings”
received a seed grant by the Siebel Energy Institute.
Academic Advisor Becky Stillwell won an Engineering
Council Outstanding Advising Award.
Professor Albert J. Valocchi received the campus Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching award.
CEE at Illinois gratefully thanks the lunch sponsors
for its fall 2015 Job Fair:
Bowman, Barrett & Associates Inc.
Civiltech Engineering Inc.
Hanson Professional Services
Manhard Consulting Inc.
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McShane Construction Company
RailPros Inc.
Union Pacific Railroad
W.E. O’Neil Construction Co.
CEE researchers
study Nepal
earthquake
T
he massive earthquake that struck
Nepal on April 25, 2015, was followed by more than 200 aftershocks
in the weeks that followed. The effect
of the original quake and aftershocks
was enormous: close to 9,000 deaths,
tens of thousands of injuries, extensive homelessness, and widespread
structural damage and destruction.
Researchers from the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering
received funding from a CEE Rapid Response Grant to investigate and assess
the damage first-hand. Their objectives are to understand the nature of
the damage, develop lessons learned
for enhancing seismic design and have
some impact on the rebuilding process.
Principal investigators for the project are Professor Youssef Hashash, Associate Professor Larry Fahnestock and
Research Assistant Professor Joshua
Peschel. They were assisted by CEE
doctoral students Sital Uprety and Sachindra Dahal, who traveled to Nepal
as part of the team in the weeks following the quake.
Hashash traveled to Nepal with the
Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association, a group of engineers and geologists sponsored by the
National Science Foundation to map
and survey areas affected by extreme
events. Their report, of which Hashash
was lead author, can be found on the
organization’s website: geerassociation.org. During this initial assessment
period, Hashash, Uprety and Dahal
documented landslides and damage
to hydroelectric plants in mountains
north and west of Kathmandu and liquefaction and building damage in the
Kathmandu Basin,
and identified key
locations for detailed study.
Fahnestock
focused on structural damages to
buildings in Kathmandu — his toric
and modern, engineered and nonengineered. In addition to surveying
these
structures
to
assess
levels of
CEE Ph.D. student Sital Uprety, left, and ProFahnefessor Youssef Hashash in Nepal, surveying damage,
a landslide and just-breached dam.
stock met with local practicing engineers, and faculty and students at Tribhuvan University and
Kathmandu Engineering College, to facilitate ongoing collaboration with the research team.
To complement observations of structural damage
around Kathmandu, the team plans to create models of several structures that were surveyed and use the models to estimate the level of shaking required to cause damage. Correlating these findings to the shaking caused by the quakes
in Nepal will help them understand the performance of the
buildings, provide insight into the effectiveness of current
local building codes and highlight areas where improvement is needed. Additionally, Peschel is using high-definition static and video imagery captured from aerial platforms
in Nepal to develop detailed 3-D models of the areas identified during the initial survey in order to help the researchers
gain a better understanding of the landslides caused by the
quakes.
Data from the project will be shared with Associate
Professor Helen Nguyen and Professor Tami Bond, who
are conducting parallel research studies into post-disaster water and air quality issues. While in Nepal, Nguyen
took water samples in Kathmandu and the surrounding areas for analysis and documented emergency water
sanitation and hygiene practices implemented by housei
holds and displaced families after the disaster.
Funded by unrestricted gifts to the department’s CEE Trust, the
CEE Rapid Response Grant program was developed to facilitate
rapid-response, high-impact research related to infrastructure
improvement and risk management in the aftermath of natural and human-made disasters. Previous grants have allowed
CEE researchers to study tornado damage in Oklahoma and
landslides and a bridge collapse in Washington.
alumni news
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2000s
Brenda K. Kerr (MS 00) has been named the first
female commanding officer for the U.S. Coast Guard’s
Base Portsmouth in Virginia. Kerr assumed the duties
and responsibilities as commanding officer.
Ryan K. Giles (MS 06, PhD 13) has accepted
a position as an assistant professor at Stony
Brook University.
Debra F. Laefer (MS 97, PhD 01) has launched Ireland’s
first full-service, commercial 3D printing hub, U3D.
Housed at the University College Dublin where she
teaches in the School of Civil Engineering, U3D offers
scan to print services, 3D printing classes, and all major
3D printing technologies including metal printing.
Chia-Ming Chang (PhD 11) has accepted a
position as an assistant professor at National
Taiwan University.
Jared M. Green (MS 02), Alan R. Poeppel
(BS 91, MS 93) and George E. Leventis (MS 85)
received a Diamond Award from the American Council of
Engineering Companies for their work on the New York
Police Academy development in College Point, NY. They
transformed a 30-acre tidal marshland into a state-ofthe-art facility for New York City police cadets.
Kenneth R. Hehn (BS 14) joined Hanson Professional
Services Inc.’s Chicago regional office as an engineer
intern.
Robert R. Holmes (PhD 03), a U.S. Geological
Survey hydrologist, received the 2015 Government
Civil Engineer of the Year Award for his outstanding
accomplishments. Holmes is the National Flood Hazard
Specialist and Coordinator at the USGS Headquarters.
Navid H. Jafari (MS 11) has joined the faculty of
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Hongki Jo (PhD 13) has accepted a position as an
assistant professor at the University of Arizona.
Mark C. Lee (BS 03) has joined the staff of Klingner
Architectural Group, a division of Klingner & Associates,
P.C., (Engineers-Architects-Surveyors) in Galesburg, Ill.
office. He will assume a position in the Architectural
Group as project engineer, and is working on various
projects in the office.
Jian Li (PhD 13) has accepted a position as an assistant
professor at the University of Kansas.
Lauren Linderman (MS 09, PhD 13) has accepted a
position as an assistant professor at the University of
Minnesota.
Paul P. Maandig (MS 2004), PE, structural and civil
engineer, recently celebrated 10 years of service with
Hanson Professional Service Inc.’s Chicago, Ill. regional
office.
Kaitlin E. Mallouk (MS 09) has started a tenure-track
instructor position in mechanical engineering at Rowan
University. Mallouk also won a 2014 Mara H. Wasburn
Early Engineering Educator Grant from the Women
in Engineering Division of the American Society of
Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Rowan University
Frances R. Lax Grant for Faculty Development. She also
had a paper coauthored with Drs. Smitesh Bakrania and
Krishan Bhatia be selected as a best paper in the Division
of Experimental and Laboratory-Oriented Studies for
the 2015 ASEE annual conference.
Kimberly D. Marsh (BS 15), civil designer, recently
joined Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s Springfield,
Ill. headquarters.
Fernando Moreu-Alonso (MS 05) has accepted a
position as an assistant professor at the University of
New Mexico.
Carlos D. Munoz (BS 14), EIT, engineer intern, recently
joined Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s Chicago,
IL regional office. He will be involved with tasks for
transportation projects such as quantity calculations,
construction observation and reviews to determine
compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Jennifer A. Rice (MS 05, PhD 09) received a CAREER
award for her proposal, Loading on Coastal Bridges
in Windstorms Using Rapidly Deployable Sensor
Network. The research goal is to establish a rapidly
deployable network of wireless sensors for extreme
event observations. Rice is an assistant professor in the
Corporate Partners Program
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering gratefully acknowledges the following companies who
contribute to CEE at Illinois as Corporate Partners. For information about the program, visit cee.illinois.edu/cpp.
Principal Partners
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Legacy Partners
Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering at University
of Florida.
Jared G. Thoele (BS 10, MS 11) PE, a civil engineer
at Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s Springfield, Ill.,
headquarters, earned his professional engineer license
in Illinois.
Nicholas E. Wierschem (MS 10 PhD 14) is an assistant
professor at the University of Tennesee.
Jeffrey J. Williams (BS 01) PE, CFM, water resources
engineer, celebrated five years of service with Hanson
Professional Services Inc.’s Chicago regional office.
Zachary P. Borrenpohl (BS 01) has joined Juneau
Associates, Inc. P.C. as a project engineer. He will be
responsible for environmental and water resource
engineering design and analysis.
1990s
Robert G. Chantome (BS 89, MS 90) PE, SE, senior
geotechnical engineer, recently celebrated 15 years of
service at Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s Springfield,
Ill., headquarters.
Esmeraldo B. Formantes (MS 98) has been promoted
to principal by global architecture and design firm
Callison at the company’s annual State of the Firm event.
David T. Lewandowski (BS 93) is a project engineer in
the Hillside, Ill., office of Professional Service Industries.
Andrew J. Martin (BS 98) has been promoted to
Manager, Design Center at Greeley and Hansen, a global
civil and environmental engineering, architectural, and
management consulting firm.
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. The next deadline is August
1, 2016. For more information, please visit our
alumni awards page of the CEE website at cee.
illinois.edu/CEEAAawards.
Members of the CEE Alumni Association board of directors toured the State Farm Center renovation
project Oct. 2, led by Junisa Brima of Turner-Clayco, far right. From left, they are: Nick Canellis, John
Conroyd, Jim Daum, Jim Klein, Dave Schoenwolf, Dana Mehlman, Al Staron, Julian Rueda and Dan
Whalen.
Dana B. Mehlman (BS 99, MS 01) a Chicago-based
attorney in the Environmental Practice of Hinshaw &
Culbertson LLP and a licensed professional engineer, has
been named to the National Law Journal’s inaugural list
of Energy & Environment Trailblazers. As noted by the
magazine, the list recognizes 51 professionals “who
have moved the needle in the legal arena in the energy
or environmental space.”
Milhouse Engineering & Construction Inc., whose
president and CEO is Wilbur C. Milhouse III (BS 94,
MS 95), has acquired Chicago-based Zroka Engineering,
P.C., a woman-owned structural engineering consulting
and design firm. Milhouse is now the largest African
American owned engineering and architectural
company in Chicago. Milhouse’s structural team will be
led by Deborah Zroka (BS 83), P.E., S.E., a structural
engineer with more than 30 years of experience working
in the transportation industry, including 23 years as a
business owner.
Paul R. Ruscko (BS 98) PE, has joined HR Green as a
Senior Project Manager.
Brian L. Umbright (BS 92, MS 94) PE, SE joined exp US
Services Inc. as Vice President of Transportation, leading
the structural group in Infrastructure.
Burt A. Wagner III (PhD 94) received the 2015
University of Illinois Loyalty Award for Exceptional
Alumni Service. The award is given to alumni who have
made significant notable and meritorious contributions,
and who have demonstrated exceptional loyalty,
commitment, dedication and service to the University of
Illinois for the advancement of their Alma Mater.
Robert A. Waller (BS 99) PE, LEED AP® is an assistant
vice president at Hanson Professional Services Inc.
Stanley C. Woodson (PhD 93) PE, joined Gannett
Fleming’s Security and Safety Services Team. Woodson,
a senior engineer and blast consultant, led teams in
conducting forensic investigations of explosive blast
events, such as the 1993 World Trade Center and 1995
Oklahoma City bombings, and participated in the
Pentagon rebuild retrofit program study following 9/11.
Robert D. Yehl (BS 97) was named water department
director for the city of Bloomington, Ill.
1980s
Todd J. Christopherson (BS 82, MS 84) has been
appointed president of Wenck Construction, Inc. (WCI)
of Golden Valley, Minn.
Mark R. Hoague (MS 85) PE, has joined Stanley
Consultants, a global consulting engineering firm, as a
Project Principal in the company’s Federal Business unit.
William A. Kitch (BS 82, MS 83) professor of
engineering at California State Polytechnic UniversityPomona, will be the first chair of the Texas Angelo State
University Department of Civil Engineering, set to begin
classes in Fall 2015.
Michael A. Kraman (MS 82) is CEO of the Transportation
Corridor Agencies, the government agency responsible
for the largest network of toll roads in California.
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James P. Messmore (BS 85) PE, senior vice president,
celebrated 20 years of service at Hanson Professional
Services Inc.’s Chicago, Ill., regional office.
John W. Nelson (BS 84) PE, regional vice president,
celebrated 15 years of service at Hanson Professional
Services Inc.’s Chicago, Ill. regional office.
Robert J. Risser Jr. (BS 87, MS 89) is president of the
Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institue.
Scott D. Schiff (MS 84, PhD 88) is the Director of
Projects at the Applied Technology Council.
Timothy C. Zahrn (BS 83), P.E. was awarded the 2014
Urban County Engineer of the Year by the National
Association of County Engineers.
1970s
Melba M. Crawford (BS 70, MS 73), an expert in
remote sensing and agronomy, serves on the board of
directors of Headwall Photonics. She is associate dean of
engineering for research, director of the Laboratory for
Applications of Remote Sensing, and chair of Excellence
in Earth Observation at Purdue University.
Larry W. Mays (PhD 76), a professor in the Arizona State
University School of Sustainable Engineering and the
Built Environment, won the prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz
International Prize for Water for achievements in water
resources engineering and surface water hydrology.
Sergio “Satch” Pecori (BS 73, MS 74) P.E., president
and chief executive officer at Hanson Professional
Services Inc., has joined the executive advisory board
of the National University Rail Center, a consortium of
seven partner colleges and universities that focuses on
rail transportation and engineering education, research,
technology transfer and workforce development.
Jane C. Penny (BS 79) is the first female president of
the Society of American Military Engineers.
Kamaluddin B. Rojiani (MS 73, PhD 78) has been
named associate professor emeritus of civil and
environmental engineering at Virginia Tech.
Mahendra P. Singh (PhD 72) Preston Wade Professor
in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and
Mechanics in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech,
has been named Preston Wade Professor emeritus.
John R. Wolosick (BS 78, MS 79) P.E., D.G.E., is president
of the Deep Foundations Institute.
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in memoriam
Continued from page 33
Arthur R. Robinson
Professor Emeritus
Professor
Emeritus
Arthur R. Robinson died
on October 15, 2015, in
Champaign. He was 85.
He was born in Brooklyn, NY, on Oct. 28, 1929. He had one
brother, Seymour, who preceded
him in death, and several nieces and
nephews. Arthur received his B.S.
degree from the Cooper Union in
New York City in 1951, and his M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois in 1953 and 1956. From
1957-60 he held positions at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
He joined the Illinois civil engineering department in 1960, achieving
the rank of professor in 1963. He retired in 1993.
With a strong background in applied mechanics and mathematics,
Robinson specialized in the fields of
dynamic elasticity, numerical methods analysis, non-linear structural
problems, EQ ground motions and
numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE),
the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, the American Academy of
Mechanics and the Seismological Society of America. His awards included
the University of Illinois Epstein Teaching Award, The ASCE Huber Research
Prize and the prestigious ASCE Moisseiff Award with his student Harry H.
West (PhD 67).
Robinson was author or co-author
of about 30 books, monographs and
formal publications, as well as an equal
number of widely disseminated technical reports in the areas cited.
He joined the Sinai temple in 1961,
and was heavily involved with their
activities, and that of affiliated organizations, during his entire career at the
University of Illinois, and thereafter in
retirement. —W.J. Hall
Anthony (Tony) F. Graziano
28-year staff member
Anthony (Tony) F. Graziano died
on July 25, 2015, in Wayzata, Minn.
He was 78. Graziano was a 1959
graduate of Carnegie Tech in Pittsburg, Penn., where he majored in
Metallurgy. His career included 28
years as a staff member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he held positions including Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, Director of the
Engineering Experiment Station and
Assistant to the President. He retired
in 1999. Graziano’s service to the CEE
department included helping with the
procurement of laboratory equipment,
locating funding sources and assisting with the remodeling of the Environmental Engineering and Science
research labs on the fourth floor of
Newmark Laboratory in the mid-1990s.
—W. J. Hall
Moreland Herrin
Professor Emeritus
Moreland Herrin, former CEE faculty member, died July 6, 2015, in Urbana, Ill. He was 92.
Born Nov. 14, 1922, in Morris, Okla.,
Herrin attended Oklahoma State University (OSU), majoring in civil engineering. He served in WWII as an intelligence officer with the 8th Air Force
in Wycombe, England. After the war,
he remained in the Air Force Reserve,
eventually retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He continued his schooling at
OSU, focusing on weather and civil engineering. He received his B.S. in 1947
and his M.S. in 1949. After some time
with a consulting firm, he entered Purdue University and received his Ph.D.
degree in 1954. He taught first at OSU
and in 1958 accepted a position at the
University of Illinois, where he served
on the faculty for more than 30 years.
Herrin
taught
transportation
courses and researched asphalt and
asphalt-aggregate materials, asphaltsoil stabilization and related environmental measures for highways and
airfields. His research drew national
attention. He was an assistant materi-
2000s
Bartosz J. Czernikiewicz (BS 10) died May 25. He
worked as a mining engineer for Kiewit Corporation.
1960s
als engineer on the famous American Association of State Highway Officials road
test; assisted the Illinois Department of
Transportation (IDOT) with advice on stability of pavements with various asphaltic
compositions, and for many years was
director of Illinois’ cooperative transportation program between IDOT and the U
of I. He began the Illinois Bituminous Paving Conference. Nationally, Herrin was for
some time chairman of the Bituminous
Division of the Transportation Research
Board, National Academy of Sciences. He
was sought widely as a consultant.
He is survived by his wife, Nancy; two
daughters, Jeannie Plondke and Gwen
Herrin; one son, Stanley; a brother; four
grandchildren; one step-grandchild; and
six great-grandchildren. —W. J. Hall
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Arthur Feldman (MS 54, PhD 60) died January 4.
He taught at the University of Illinois as an Assistant Professor. He worked at Martin Marietta for 36
years, retiring in 1999. His work included designing
and building the lunar drill stems used during the
Apollo moon missions for the NASA space program.
John W. Hutchinson (BS 51, MS 54, PhD 61) died
September 8. He taught at the University of Illinois
from 1954-1964, when he joined the faculty of the
University of Kentucky College of Engineering. He
retired in 1989.
Michael J. Mathews (MS 67) died May 5. He retired from the Army Reserves Corp of Engineers as a
Lieutenant Colonel. He was a long time employee of
the City of Fort Worth, where he worked as Chief of
Architectural and Design Services.
Friends
John E. Baerwald, former CEE faculty member and
noted transportation engineer, died April 27. He was
89. Baerwald taught for 28 years on the CEE faculty.
He served as president of the Institute of Traffic Engineers and on numerous Transportation Research
Board standing committees. He authored more than
100 articles and papers in professional journals.
2015
CEE Student Awards
AA. Epstein Award in Civil Engineering
Luke Livers
Juzer Millwala
Alvord, Burdick, and Howson Scholarship
Matthew Tan
Anna Lee and James T.P. Yao Scholarship
Xiaodan Du
Outstanding Student Award
Megh Patel
Bates and Rogers Scholarship
Turbold Baatarchuluu
Eduardo Hanon
Bob Zieba Memorial Scholarship
Rohini Gupta
Bowman, Barrett and Associates
Outstanding Scholar Award
Weixi Li
C.S. and Ruth Monnier Scholarship
Lama Aoudi
Dan Chung
Luis Garay
Alexandra Zach
CEEAA Undergraduate Service Leadership
Scholarship
Jessica Filangeri
CH2M Hill Transportation Endowed
Scholarship
Christian Thompson
Charles E. DeLeuw Travel Award
Sebastian Arias
Samantha Chadwick
Earle J. Wheeler Scholarship
Qingjin Fan
Brandon Lung
Chester P. Siess Award
Yanning Li
Jeff Wallace
Eli W. Cohen - Thorton Tomasetti
Foundation Scholarship
Jon Stricker
Chicago Outer Belt Contractors Association
Scholarship
Arthur Tseng
Eric J. Kerestes Memorial Scholarship Fund
Dennis Thurow
Civil Engineering Class of 1943
Undergraduate Leadership Award
Alyssa Martinez
Clement C. Lee Outstanding Scholar Award
in Honor of Houssam Mahmoud Karara
Christine Daul
Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute
Scholarship
Jiaxin Xu
Crawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc. Scholarship
Jesus Flores
Dan and Mary Guill Scholarship
Justin Vogel
Deep Foundations Institute Educational
Trust Berkel & Company Contractors Inc.
Scholarship
Shangyang Fang
Marina Nakajima
Vincent Wenzel
George L. Farnsworth Jr. Scholarship
Amanda Caldwell-Jacques
Jingxuan Ge
Elaina Plinke
Wei Quan
Rebecca Ventura
Geotechnical Scholarship Gift
Zhenbang Li
Glenn E. and Helen L. Stout Water
Resources Research Award
Kexuan Wang
Golf Course Builders Association of
America
Rebecca Nothof
Grant W. Shaw Memorial Scholarship
Carlos Martinez
Fangyu Wu
Harold R. Sandberg Scholarship
Hannah Lohman
Left to right: Calvin Smith receives the Road Builders Charities Scholarship, presented by Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate
Studies Liang Liu. Dan and Mary Guill present the Dan and Mary Guill Scholarship to Justin Vogel. Kelly Samara and Brian Nicolls receive the Ira
O. Baker Prize, presented by Department Head Benito Mariñas. Dennis Thurow receives the Eric J. Kerestes Memorial Scholarship Fund, presented
by Bob and Carol Kerestes.
Harvey Hagge Concrete Scholarship llinois
Ready Mix Concrete Association
Daniel King
Koch Scholarship in Civil and
Environmental Engineering
Wenjing Wu
Henry T. Heald Award
Megh Patel
Leigh F. Zerbee Scholarship Civil
Engineering
Joshua Meggison
Corey Maisch
Will Ripka
Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association
Scholarship
Megan McGovern
Jose Riveria-Perez
Illinois Association of County Engineers
Eric Etzwiler
Omer Rehman
Thomas Roadcap
Nicole Vail
Industry Advancement Foundation
of Central Illinois Builders of the AGC
Scholarship
Julia Chang
Ira O. Baker Memorial Scholarship
Enrique Aragon
Aaron Dunton
Cooper Tonachel
Ira O. Baker Prize
Kelly Samara
Brian Nicolls
Jack and Kay Briscoe Scholarship
Courtney Ackerman
Michael Pugh
John B. Felmley Engineering Scholarship
Ryan Smith
Joseph C. and Marianne J. Geagea Civil and
Environmental Engineering Scholarships
Amanda Darmosaputro
Ilana Slutsky
Klein and Hoffman Inc. Scholarship in
honor of Frank Klein
Konstandinos Zavos
Loreta and Silvio Corsetti Memorial
Scholarship and Fellowship Fund
Michael Valentino
Maren Somers Memorial Engineering
Scholarship
Kazami Brockman
Shelby K. Willis Engineering Education
Scholarship
Cody Simpson
Aliaa Taha
Walker Parking Consultants Scholarship
Anna Marie Cowan
Walter E. Hanson Graduate Study Award
Mitchell Knapp
Walter L. and Carole A. Crowley Scholarship
Brian Nicolls
Kelly Samara
Maude E. Eide Memorial Scholarship
Allison Densler
Sylwia Kokoszka
Jessica Villie
Hannah Lohman
Wayne C. Teng Scholarship
Paolo Emmanuel Araneta
Yuan Hu
Niran Khurana
Cory Mosiman
Natsuki Okuda
Luis Pelayo
Vivian Wong
Max Whitman APWA Memorial Scholarship
John Conway
William A. Oliver Endowed Scholarship
Lucas Djehdian
Melih T. Dural Undergraduate Research
Prize
Zhengboyang Gao
William C. Ackermann Sr. Civil Engineering
Scholarship
Andrew Unander
John Walker
William E. O’Neil Award
Ernest-John (EJ) Ignacio
Michael William Bartos Ed. D. Memorial
Scholarship
Chun Wang
Moreland Herrin Scholarship
Kimberly Marsh
Norman Carlson Scholarship
Darkhan Mussanov
RJN Foundation Civil Engineering
Scholarship
Marcus Sanders
William E. Stallman Scholarship in Civil and
Joshua Dormeier
William John MacKay Award
Guillermo Acevedo
Tariq Shihadah
Jessica Steslow
Road Builders Charities Scholarship
Calvin Smith
Left to right: Brian Umbright presents the Wayne C. Teng Scholarship to Cory Mosiman, Niran Khurana, Luis Pellayo, Vivian Wong, Yuan Hu
and Paolo Emmanuel Araneta. Tom Smiles presents the A. Epstein Award in Civil Engineering to Luke Livers and Juzer Millwala. Lama Aoudi and
Alexandra Zach receive the C.S. and Ruth Monnier Scholarship, presented by Liang Liu.
President’s
Council
Individual
Donors
The Department of
Civil and Environmental
Engineering thanks its
alumni and friends who
have made it possible for
our students and faculty
to pursue their education
and research in the best
CEE department in the
country. We could not do
it without your support.
We 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, 2015, and who have given to
the department.
Friends:
Lalit R. Bahl and Kavita Kinra
David Boyce
Lynd W. Corley
Walter L. and Carole A. Crowley
Helen F. Grandone
Marilyn Smith Brown Hunt
George-Anne Oliver Kelly
Wendel F. Kent
Narbey Khachaturian
David A. Lange
Jon C. and Judith S. Liebman
Paul M. and Susan N. Mayfield
Mary Barlow Medearis
Bernard M. Murphy
Daniel Q. Murphy
James H. Murphy
Kevin L. Murphy
Margaret M. O’Donoghue and Steven
A. Veazie
William E. O’Neil
Vernon L. Snoeyink
Lois G. Stevens
Albert J. Valocchi
1995
Donors to any fund in the
Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering from
July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2015, are
listed here. We strive to make these
lists as accurate as possible. If your
name is listed incorrectly or omitted,
please accept our apologies. For
corrections or further information
about making a gift, please contact
Celeste Arbogast, (217) 333-6955,
[email protected].
Wilbur C. Milhouse III
1991
Brian E. and Lin Healy
1987
David G. and Janet S. Peshkin
1984
Larry C. and Rhonda S. Wesselink
1983
Bartholomew E. and Deborah A. Weldon
1982
Tracy K. and Kathy P. Lundin
Donald E. Manhard Jr. and Patricia M.
Manhard
Julian Rueda
Marilyn E. Tears
J. Dennis and Sally S. Wermcrantz
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1981
Kevin J. and Carey A. Dulle
1980
William F. Baker
John L. and Karen E. Carrato
James K. and Rebecca S. Clinard
1979
Susan Douds and Jack L. Goertz
Bruce A. Johnson
Stuart A. Klein
1978
Thomas L. Hannula
Stanley M. Herrin and Elizabeth A. Small
Steve R. and Lorie R. Raupp
Damon S. Williams
1977
James J. Brown and Emi K. Kawasaki
Perry C. and Linda S. Hendrickson
William J. Nugent
1976
Robert W. and Andrea C. Cusick
Jeffrey A. and Kristin L. Liggett
1975
1967
Arthur R. Jensen Jr. and Judith B. Jensen
Thomas E. and Johnyne C. Rees
Larry B. Salz
1966
Norman Allen and Lee Ann Dobbs
Richard A. Pattarozzi
Marvin A. and Karen K. Wollin
1965
Larry M. and Rose Marie Sur
Richard A. and Charlotte Wiseman
1964
Marshall Ray Thompson
1962
Stanley T. and Phyllis Williams Rolfe
1961
Neil Middleton and S. Ann Hawkins
William A. Huston Jr. and Delores
Huston
Thomas K. Liu and Olive M. Chen-Liu
Robert W. and Donna Mikitka
1960
Leslie J. and Theodora I. Benson
Dan and Mary Guill
Phillip L. Gould
Lyle W. and Nancy M. Hughart
Norman C. and Sharon L. Riordan
1974
1959
Richard Cramond Jr. and Helen A.
Cramond
Robert M. and Cheryl Ann Magnuson
Richard J. and Linda J. Sieracki
1973
Thomas C. H. Lum
Joseph H. Pound
1958
Benjamin A. Jones Jr.
Ronald W. Crockett
Robert W. and Cheryl Y. Hahn
James L. and Doris I. Willmer
1957
1972
Dean J. Arnold
Thomas J. Byrne and Jane Armstrong
Jerry J. Felmley
1971
1954
Fred and Paula Garrott
Joseph M. and Patricia A. Kaiser
Bengt I. and Kathryn A. Karlsson
1969
Ronald R. and Margaret M. Watkins
1955
Maurice A. and JoAnn Wadsworth
1952
John E. Barrett
Barry J. and Pauline G. Dempsey
Richard J. Erickson
1951
1968
1950
Paul D. and Barbara C. Koch
Robert G. and Flo Anne O’Brien
George K. Varghese
William K. Becker
Burton A. Lewis
William E. and Margarite D. Stallman
1949
Wendall Lee Rowe
1948
Melvin and Theda Febesh
1943
Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein
Dean’s Club
1984
1983
1963
1982
Kenneth M. Floody
Charles E. Gullakson
William A. Kitch
1960
1981
David A. and Frances K. Sabatini
CEE gratefully acknowledges the
Contributors of 2014-2015. Below
are those who gave up to $499 to
CEE from July 1, 2014, to June 30,
2015.
1982
1956
1979
Friends:
1983
C. Wayne Swafford
The department is honored
to acknowledge members of the
Dean’s Club of 2014-2015. Listed
below are those who gave $1,000
or more to CEE from July 1, 2014, to
June 30, 2015.
1980
Friends:
1977
Tami C. Bond
David J. and Laura M. O’Connor
Michael E. Webber
2004
George Avery Grimes
Tjen N. Tjhin
2002
Franco Gomez-Ramirez
1998
Jeffery R. and Sandra E. Roesler
1997
Preetindar Kaur Ghuman
1994
Ron Juamiz Esmilla
1993
Henry Matt Bellagamba
1992
John A. and Gail L. Balling
1990
Robert Scott Trotter
1989
Robert J. Risser Jr. and Martha A.
Boling-Risser
1987
Rudolph Pio and Susan Irene Frizzi
1985
Mark E. Bartos
George E. Leventis
Contributors
1965
Manuel Gomez-Achecar
Colleen E. Quinn
Frederick B. Plummer Jr.
Siu-Wang Stephen Huang
James O. Jirsa
Blaine F. and Kathryn G. Severin
Roy E. Olson
Keiichiro Hayashi
Sponsoring
Associates
1978
The department gratefully
acknowledges the Sponsoring
Associates of 2014-2015. Listed
below are those who gave $500 to
$999 to CEE from July 1, 2014, to
June 30, 2015.
James M. and Suellen Daum
Alan J. and Karen A. Hollenbeck
John P. and Catherine M. Kos
Michael G. and Bette Wallerstein
Lombard
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The 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, 2014, to June 30, 2015. This list includes
organizations that made gifts directly to the department, as well as those who matched gifts made by their employees. CEE Corporate Partners
are denoted in bold.
Accutest Laboratories Inc.
AECOM Technology Corporation
Aestus LLC
Alfred Benesch & Company
Allen Engineering Company
Alpha Analytical Inc.
AMEC-Environment & Infrastructure
Ameren
American Public Works Association
Chicago Metropolitan Chapter
ANCRiSST
Apple Junction Design Services PLC
Applied Research Associates Inc.
ARCADIS
ARCS Foundation Inc. Illinois Chapter
Association of American Railroads
Ball Corporation
Barr Engineering Company
Bartos Architecture Inc.
Bassler Family Trust
Bechtel Corporation
BELFOR Environmental Inc.
BlueScope Foundation
BNSF Railway Company
The Boeing Company
BP Foundation
Canadian National Railroad
Canadian Railway Pacific Limited
Carollo Engineers
Cascade Drilling LP
The Catholic Foundation for the Diocese
of Green Bay Inc.
Center for Toxicology and Environmental
Health LLC
Century Group Inc.
CH2M Hill Companies Ltd.
Chase Environmental Group
Chevron Corporation
Clayco Inc.
Clean Harbors Environmental
Services Inc.
Climate and Health Research Network
Coleman Industrial Construction Inc.
Conestoga-Rovers & Associates Inc.
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Advancement of Hydrologic Science
Inc (CUAHSI)
Crawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc.
CRSI Foundation
CSX Good Government Fund PacMatch
CSX Transportation Inc.
CTC Inc.
Deep Foundations Institute Educational
Trust
Dell Employee Giving Program
Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable
Foundation
EA Engineering, Science, and
Technology Inc.
Earthquake Engineering Research
Institute
EMR Inc.
Envirocon Inc.
Environmental Management Specialists
Environmental Works Inc.
EnviroScience Inc.
ERM-West Inc.
Ernst & Young Foundation
Exelon
Expanded Shale, Clay and Slate Institute
Exponent
Exxon Mobil Corporation
ExxonMobil Foundation
Fabricated Geomembrane Institute
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Forell/Elsesser Engineers Inc.
Fullerton Engineering Consultants
Inc.
Gannett Fleming Companies
GE Foundation
GEI Consultants Inc.
Geo-Cleanse International Inc.
Geosyntec Consultants
GHD
Golder Associates Ltd.
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Hanson Professional Services Inc.
Hatch Mott MacDonald
HDR Engineering Inc.
HNTB Corporation
Hulcher Services Inc.
Hydro-Engineers LLC
ICF International
Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association
Illinois Association of County
Engineers Inc.
Illinois Road & Transportation Builders
Assoc Road Builder Charities
Industrial Maintenance Group Inc.
Industry Advancement Foundation
Central Illinois Builders Chapter
Intel Corporation
Intel Foundation
John Deere Foundation
Jones & Stokes
JRW Bioremediation LLC
Kennedy/Jenks Consultants Inc.
Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc.
Lancaster Laboratories Environmental
Langan Engineering &
Environmental Services Inc.
Lockheed Martin Foundation
LT Resources Inc.
Manhard Consulting Ltd.
Marine Research Specialists
Marino Engineering Associates Inc.
Marion Environmental Inc.
Marshall Miller & Associates Inc. dba
Cardno MM&A
Microsoft Corporation
Mike & Dorothy Vondra Foundation
Milhouse Engineering & Construction Inc.
Morton Suggestion Company
Network for Good
Norfolk Southern Foundation
Northrop Grumman Foundation
Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc.
O’Neil Industries Inc.
OSI Environmental LLC Oil Skimmers Inc.
Pace Analytical Services Inc.
PeroxyChem LLC
Phillips 66
Pinnacle Engineering Inc.
Polk Bros. Foundation
Polystar Containment
The Procter & Gamble Fund
R. Horn Associates
Ramboll Environ
Regenesis Bioremediation Products
Regions Bank
Richard J. and Linda J. Sieracki
Foundation
RiverStone Group Inc.
The RJN Foundation Inc.
Sargent & Lundy LLC
Schlumberger Foundation Inc.
Schwab Charitable Fund
Shell Oil Company Foundation
The Sidney Epstein and Sondra Berman
Epstein Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Southern Company Services Inc.
St. Paul United Church of Christ
Stone Energy Corporation
Summit Contracting LLC
Sunpro Inc.
SWS Environmental Services
Terracon Foundation
TestAmerica Laboratories Inc.
Tidewater Inc.
Transportation Technology Center Inc.
TRC Inc.
Turner Construction Company
Union Pacific Railroad
Vanguard Charitable Endowment
Program
W. E. O’Neil Construction Company
Walker Parking Consultants/
Engineers Inc.
Walsh Construction Company
Waterborne Environmental Inc.
The Watkins Family Foundation
WaveTrain Systems
William Kitch Engineering
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc.
YourCause, LLC Trustee for Chevron
Matching Employee Funds
Celebrating 50 Years
The 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the covered bridge over the
Sangamon River at Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve Park in Mahomet,
Ill., was marked in August, 2015, with a seminar and dedication ceremony.
The bridge was designed by CEE at Illinois Professor Emeritus German
Gurfinkel in the 1960s. Gurfinkel talked about the design process and
challenges in front of a packed lecture hall, after which he answered
questions from audience members. Following Gurfinkel’s presentation,
the crowd moved to the Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve where a ceremony was held at the bridge to dedicate a new plaque commemorating
the bridge’s history.
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