Events
2016 Spring Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 03-11-16 | Jeffrey Sriver, Chicago Department of Transportation Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible, |
"Chicago Department of Transportation – An Overview with Details on Two Key Projects, CREATE and Union Station" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 03-04-16 | Shobha K. Bhatia, Syracuse University Host: Dr. Krishna Reddy, |
"Actively Engaging the Millennial Students in Undergraduate Geotechnical Engineering Education" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 02-26-16 | Greg Mulac and Brad Carter, Turner Construction Company Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin, |
"Overview of Turner Construction and Project Case Study" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 02-12-16 | Dr. Umakant Mishra, Argonne National Laboratory Host: Dr. Ben O'Connor, |
"Benchmarking Earth System Models: An Emerging Domain in Earth System Science" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 02-05-16 | Dr. Shruti K Mishra, Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible |
"Integrated Assessment Approach for Valuation of Externality to Inform Policy" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 1-29-16 | Charles R. Stack, MPH, DrPH Candidate, UIC School of Public Health Host: Dr. Krishna Reddy |
"Practical Applications of Biological Odor Filtration" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 1-22-16 | Dr. Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, University of Illinois at Chicago Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin |
"Energy Storage at Atomic Resolutions" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 1-15-16 | Gregório Luis Silva Araujo, University of Brasilia, Brazil Host: Dr. Krishna Reddy |
"Geosynthetic Encased Columns for Embankments on Soft Soils" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
2015 Fall Seminars
Date |
Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09-25-15 | John Mulrow, Former Director, Plant Chicago and Ph.D. Candidate, Civil Engineering Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible |
"Building a Local Circular Economy in Chicago" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 09-24-15 | Janet Attarian, Chicago’s Department of Transportation Host: ASCE’s Illinois Section Environmental Water Resource Institute |
"Cermak Road Sustainable Streetscape" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 5:30 - 7 p.m. Cost: $25 per person or $10 for students Register at http://www.isasce.org/technical-groups/ewri/ |
| 09-18-15 | Dr. Donald E. Yuhas, Industrial Measurement Systems Inc. Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin |
"Temperature and Heat Flux Measurement Methods Using Ultrasound" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 09-11-15 | Dr. M.T. Mathew, Rush University Medical Center Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin |
"Acoustic Emission (AE) as a Diagnostic Method for Hip Implant Performance in Orthopedics: Perspective Review and Initial Outcomes" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 10-28-15 | Dr. Andrew Dombard, UIC Department of Earth and Environmental Science Host: Dr. Craig Foster |
"Mechanics of Impact Cratering and the Stories They Tell" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 10-23-15 | Dr. Brian Ziebart, UIC Department of Computer Science Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible |
"Supervised Machine Learning as an Adversarial Game" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 10-16-15 | Dr. Ting Lin, MU’s Institutional Representative, Southern California Earthquake Center Host: Dr. Craig Foster |
"Multi-Hazard Sustainability: Opportunities for Investigating Hazards in Engineering" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 10-9-15 | Dr. Adilson E. Motter, Northwestern University Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible |
"Controlling Complex Networks Away from Equilibrium" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1043 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 10-6-15 | Mohammad Amin Hashemian, PHD Candidate |
PHD Thesis Defense: "Reaction Current Phenomenon in Bifunctional Catalytic Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 2 p.m. |
| 10-2-15 | Dr. Eugene Mohareb, Lecturer, University of Reading Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible |
"The Importance of Food in Direct & Upstream Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation in Cities" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 11-20-15 | Dawn Cosentino, Water Resource Expert at PRIMERA Host: Dr. Craig Foster |
"IDOT's Phase 1 Process: IL 102 over Rayns Creek Bridge Replacement Project." 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 11-13-15 | Dr. Max Berkelhammer, UIC Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible |
"Where Land and Sky Meet; Atmosphere-Surface Interactions Across Space and Time." 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 11-06-15 | Dr. Lili Du, IIT Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Host: Dr. Bo Zou |
"Distributed Coordinated in-Vehicle Online Routing Using Mixed-Strategy Congestion Game" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
| 12-04-15 | C.S. Chen, University of Southern Mississippi Host: Dr. Sheng-Wei Chi |
"A Modified Method of Approximate Particular Solutions for Solving Partial Differential Equations" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF 11 a.m. - noon |
2015 Spring Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 04-17-15 | Distinguished Speaker Dr. Roy Haggerty, Oregon State University. Host: Dr. Ben O'Connor |
"Water Resources Outlook for 21st Century in the Willamette Basin of the Pacific Northwest (USA)" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 04-10-15 | Dr. Dimitrios Zekkos, University of Michigan. Host: Dr. Krishna Reddy |
"Seismic Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 04-03-15 | Dr. C. Armando Duarte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Host: Dr. Sheng-Wei Chi |
"Recent Developments in the Generalized Finite Element Method for the Simulation of 3-D Hydraulic Fracture Propagation and Interactions" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 03-20-15 | Dr. Charles J. Carter, PESE, The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). Host: Dr. Mustafa Mahamid |
"Innovations in Steel" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 03-13-15 | Mr. Matthew Huffman, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd. Host: Dr. Craig Foster |
"Phase I Engineering: Introduction and Case Studies" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 03-06-15 | Dr. Amanda Stathopoulos, Northwestern University. Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible |
"Reported or calculated travel model inputs? Modeling errors in travel time in transport mode choices" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 02-27-15 | Dr. Greg Newmark, Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT). Host: Dr. Bo Zou |
"Income, Location Efficiency, and VMT: Considering California’s Affordable Housing as Climate Change Policy" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 02-27-15 | Distinguished Lecture Series City of Chicago Water Commissioner Thomas Powers, P.E. Host: CME Department |
"Water Infrastructure Renewal in Chicago" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 3:00pm - 4:00pm. |
| 02-20-15 | Dr. Youssef Hashash, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). Host: Dr. Krishna Reddy |
"Geotechnical Aspects of October 2012 Hurricane Sandy along the US East Coast" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 02-13-15 | Dr. Greg Wagner, Northwestern University. Host: Dr. Eduard Karpov |
"Computational Approaches to Large-Scale Multi-Physics Simulations: Methods and Tools for National Laboratory Applications" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 02-06-15 | Dr. Brent Stephens, Illinois Institute of Technology. Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible |
"Energy and air quality in the built environment" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 02-05-15 | Dr. Sean Vitousek, U.S. Geological Survey. Host: Dr. Karl Rockne |
"Modeling Environmental Fluid Mechanics: Challenges in simulating hydrodynamics, waves, and sediment transport" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 4:00pm - 5:00pm. |
| 01-30-15 | John Pearson, S.E., P.E., Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.. Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin |
"Full Scale Testing of Structures and Components" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 01-29-15 | Dr. Meead Saberi, Monash University, Australia. Host: Dr. Bo Zou |
"Developing an Integrated Transportation Infrastructure Decision Support Platform: Focusing on Big and Open Data Visualization" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 1:00pm - 2:00pm. |
| 01-23-15 | Dr. Daniel C. Simkins, Jr., University of South Florida, Formerics, LLC. Host: Dr. Sheng-Wei Chi |
"Florida Is Not Just Retiree's, Oranges And Beaches: Computational Mechanics Research At USF" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:30am - noon. |
| 01-16-15 | Dr. Jamshid Mohammadi, IIT. Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin |
"Urban Systems Engineering — Research on Infrastructure Network Management" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1043 ERF, 11:30am - noon. |
Past Seminars
2014 Fall Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11-11-14 | Dr. Ayhan Irfanoglu, Purdue University. Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin |
"Analysis, Analytics, and Engineering Judgement in Understanding the Collapse of WTC-1" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1043 ERF, 3:30pm - 4:30pm. |
| 11-07-14 | Dr. William Baker, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP. Host: Dr. Mustafa Mahamid |
"Geometry and Structure” 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 10-31-14 | Dr. Giuseppe Buscarnera, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University. Host: Dr. Craig Foster |
“An energy-based approach to model grain crushing in partially saturated granular soils” 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 10-24-14 | Dr. David Kosnik, Emergent Solutions, CTLGroup and Research Engineer, Northwestern University. Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin |
"Diagnosis of Movable Structures by Acoustic Emission Monitoring" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 10-17-14 | Dr. George Wells, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Host: Dr. Karl Rockne |
"The Nitrogen Challenge: New Players, Processes and Paradigms in the Quest for Sustainable Nutrient Pollution Prevention" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 10-10-14 | Dr. Kurt Spokas, Research Soil Scientist, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota Host: Dr. Krishna Reddy |
"Examining biochar’s impact in soil: More than meets the eye" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 10-3-14 | Dr. David Levinson, Professor, University of Minnesota and Director of NEXUS Research Group Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible |
"The Transportation Experience: From Steamboats to Streetcars” 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047, ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 9-26-14 | Shih-Po Lin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, UIC Host: Dr. Sheng-Wei Chi |
"Micro-crack informed stochastic multiscale damage modeling" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047, ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 9-19-14 | John Fortmann, Region One Engineer at IDOT and Deputy Director of Highways Host: Dr. Karl Rockne |
"Circle Interchange Rehabilitation Project" 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
2012 Fall Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8-28-12 | Albert T. Yeung, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong |
Environmental Improvements on Pile Installation in Hong Kong and Macau 842 West Taylor Street, Rm. 1047ERF |
| 8-29-12 | Kaniraj Shenbaga, Professor Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia |
Electro-osmotic Consolidation of Peat and Organic Soils of Sarawak, Malaysia Science and Engineering South (SES) Building, Room 138 |
| 8-30-12 | Albert T. Yeung, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong |
Green Management of Construction and Demolition Materials in Hong Kong 842 West Taylor Street, Rm. 1047ERF |
2012 Spring Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2-3-12 | Dr. Al Ghorbanpoor Professor University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) |
Distinguished Guest Speaker: Corrosion and its Detection in Tendons of Segmental Concrete Bridges |
2011 Fall Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11-4-11 | Dr. Robert E. Paaswell Professor City College of New York |
Distinguished Guest Presentation: Emerging Context of Transportation Planning and Design: How must we think in 2011 |
| 11-7-11 | Dr. Yuanjie Li Professor Xi'an Jiatong University, China |
Doping and Characterization of Zinc Oxide Based Thin Films for Optoelectronic Device Applications |
2011 Summer Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 7-22-11 | Dr. Aftab Mufti Professor University of Manitoba, Canada |
Distinguished Guest Presentation: A Method to Estimate Effective Modules of Elasticity and Shear Modulus for Brick Masonry Walls |
2011 Spring Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 3-24-11 | Maria Feng Professor University of California, Irvine |
Distinguised Lecture Series: Intelligent and Sustainable Civil Infrastructure |
2010 Fall Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10-15-11 | Hermann Nienhaus Professor University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
Distinguised Lecture Series:Conversion of chemical energy into electricity in chemoelectronic devices |
| 10-22-11 | Richard Brachman Associate Professor Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada |
Physical response of landfill geosynthetics |
| 10-26-11 | Mark Milke Reader, Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury |
Disaster Waste Management: A Systems Approach |
| 10-29-11 | Imad Al-Qadi Professor, Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Development and Implementation of Ground Penetrating Radar |
2010 Spring Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 3-1-10 | Daniel Sperling Professor & Director Institute of Transportation Studies UC, Davis |
Two Billion Cars: Is it Sustainable? |
| 3-17-10 | Deb Niemeier Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering UC, Davis |
California Bellwether or Bust? |
| 4-2-10 | Oliver Gao Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering Cornell University |
From Transportation Emissions Control to Public Hearth - Are We Doing the Right Thing, and Doing it Right? |
| 4-9-10 | Craig H. Benson PhD , PE, DGE, F ASCE Chairman and Distinguished Professor, Geological Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Prediction in Geoenvironmental Engineering:How Good are our Models? |
| 4-15-10 | Victor Giurgiutiu Professor, Mechanical Engineering University of South Carolina |
Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors - Concepts & Applications |
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