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---++ 2016 Spring Seminars
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| *Date* | *Presenter* | *Title* |
| 03-18-16 | Dr. Kimberly A. Gray, <br />Northwestern University <br />Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible, | "Imagining the Urban Future: Two Scenarios of Change" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 03-11-16 | Jeffrey Sriver, <br />Chicago Department of Transportation <br />Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible, | "Chicago Department of Transportation – An Overview with Details on Two Key Projects, CREATE and Union Station" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 03-04-16 | Shobha K. Bhatia, <br />Syracuse University <br />Host: Dr. Krishna Reddy, | "Actively Engaging the Millennial Students in Undergraduate Geotechnical Engineering Education" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 02-26-16 | Greg Mulac and Brad Carter, <br />Turner Construction Company <br />Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin, | "Overview of Turner Construction and Project Case Study" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 02-12-16 | Dr. Umakant Mishra, <br />Argonne National Laboratory <br />Host: Dr. Ben O'Connor, | "Benchmarking Earth System Models: An Emerging Domain in Earth System Science" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 02-05-16 | Dr. Shruti K Mishra, <br /> <br />Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible | "Integrated Assessment Approach for Valuation of Externality to Inform Policy" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 1-29-16 | Charles R. Stack, <br />MPH, DrPH Candidate, UIC School of Public Health <br />Host: Dr. Krishna Reddy | "Practical Applications of Biological Odor Filtration" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 1-22-16 | Dr. Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, <br />University of Illinois at Chicago <br />Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin | "Energy Storage at Atomic Resolutions" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 1-15-16 | Gregório Luis Silva Araujo, <br />University of Brasilia, Brazil <br />Host: Dr. Krishna Reddy | "Geosynthetic Encased Columns for Embankments on Soft Soils" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |

---++ 2015 Fall Seminars
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| *Date* | *Presenter* | *Title* |
| 12-04-15 | C.S. Chen, <br />University of Southern Mississippi <br />Host: Dr. Sheng-Wei Chi | "A Modified Method of Approximate Particular Solutions for Solving Partial Differential Equations" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 11-20-15 | Dawn Cosentino, <br />Water Resource Expert at PRIMERA <br />Host: Dr. Craig Foster | "IDOT's Phase 1 Process: IL 102 over Rayns Creek Bridge Replacement Project." <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 11-13-15 | Dr. Max Berkelhammer, <br />UIC Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences <br />Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible | "Where Land and Sky Meet; Atmosphere-Surface Interactions Across Space and Time." <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 11-06-15 | Dr. Lili Du, <br />IIT Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering <br />Host: Dr. Bo Zou | "Distributed Coordinated in-Vehicle Online Routing Using Mixed-Strategy Congestion Game" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 10-28-15 | Dr. Andrew Dombard, <br />UIC Department of Earth and Environmental Science <br />Host: Dr. Craig Foster | "Mechanics of Impact Cratering and the Stories They Tell" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 10-23-15 | Dr. Brian Ziebart, <br />UIC Department of Computer Science <br />Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible | "Supervised Machine Learning as an Adversarial Game" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 10-16-15 | Dr. Ting Lin, <br />MU’s Institutional Representative, Southern California Earthquake Center <br />Host: Dr. Craig Foster | "Multi-Hazard Sustainability: Opportunities for Investigating Hazards in Engineering" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 10-9-15 | Dr. Adilson E. Motter, <br />Northwestern University <br />Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible | "Controlling Complex Networks Away from Equilibrium" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1043 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 10-6-15 | Mohammad Amin Hashemian, <br />PHD Candidate <br /> | PHD Thesis Defense: "Reaction Current Phenomenon in Bifunctional Catalytic Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />2 p.m. |
| 10-2-15 | Dr. Eugene Mohareb, <br />Lecturer, University of Reading  <br />Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible | "The Importance of Food in Direct & Upstream Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation in Cities" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 09-25-15 | John Mulrow, <br />Former Director, Plant Chicago and Ph.D. Candidate, Civil Engineering <br />Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible | "Building a Local Circular Economy in Chicago" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 09-24-15 | Janet Attarian, <br />Chicago’s Department of Transportation <br />Host: ASCE’s Illinois Section Environmental Water Resource Institute | "Cermak Road Sustainable Streetscape" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />5:30 - 7 p.m.<br /> Cost: $25 per person or $10 for students<br /> Register at http://www.isasce.org/technical-groups/ewri/|
| 09-18-15 | Dr. Donald E. Yuhas, <br />Industrial Measurement Systems Inc. <br />Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin | "Temperature and Heat Flux Measurement Methods Using Ultrasound" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |
| 09-11-15 | Dr. M.T. Mathew, <br />Rush University Medical Center <br />Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin | "Acoustic Emission (AE) as a Diagnostic Method for Hip Implant Performance in Orthopedics: Perspective Review and Initial Outcomes" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF <br />11 a.m. - noon |


---++ 2015 Spring Seminars
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| *Date* | *Presenter* | *Title* |
| 04-17-15 | *Distinguished Speaker* <br />Dr. Roy Haggerty, <br />Oregon State University. <br />Host: Dr. Ben O'Connor | "Water Resources Outlook for 21st Century in the Willamette Basin of the Pacific Northwest (USA)" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 04-10-15 | Dr. Dimitrios Zekkos, <br />University of Michigan. <br />Host: Dr. Krishna Reddy | "Seismic Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills" <br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 04-03-15 | Dr. C. Armando Duarte, <br />University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<br />Host: Dr. Sheng-Wei Chi | "Recent Developments in the Generalized Finite Element Method for the Simulation of 3-D Hydraulic Fracture Propagation and Interactions"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 03-20-15 | Dr. Charles J. Carter, PESE, <br />The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).<br />Host: Dr. Mustafa Mahamid | "Innovations in Steel"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 03-13-15 | Mr. Matthew Huffman, <br />Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.<br />Host: Dr. Craig Foster | "Phase I Engineering: Introduction and Case Studies"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 03-06-15 | Dr. Amanda Stathopoulos, <br />Northwestern University.<br />Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible | "Reported or calculated travel model inputs? Modeling errors in travel time in transport mode choices"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 02-27-15 | Dr. Greg Newmark, <br /> Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT).<br />Host: Dr. Bo Zou | "Income, Location Efficiency, and VMT: Considering California’s Affordable Housing as Climate Change Policy"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 02-27-15 | *Distinguished Lecture Series* <br />City of Chicago Water Commissioner Thomas Powers, P.E.<br />Host: CME Department | "Water Infrastructure Renewal in Chicago"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 3:00pm - 4:00pm. |
| 02-20-15 | Dr. Youssef Hashash, <br />University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC).<br />Host: Dr. Krishna Reddy | "Geotechnical Aspects of October 2012 Hurricane Sandy along the US East Coast"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 02-13-15 | Dr. Greg Wagner, <br />Northwestern University.<br />Host: Dr. Eduard Karpov | "Computational Approaches to Large-Scale Multi-Physics Simulations: Methods and Tools for National Laboratory Applications"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 02-06-15 | Dr. Brent Stephens, <br />Illinois Institute of Technology.<br />Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible | "Energy and air quality in the built environment"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 02-05-15 | Dr. Sean Vitousek, <br />U.S. Geological Survey.<br />Host: Dr. Karl Rockne | "Modeling Environmental Fluid Mechanics: Challenges in simulating hydrodynamics, waves, and sediment transport"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 4:00pm - 5:00pm. |
| 01-30-15 | John Pearson, S.E., P.E., <br />Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc..<br />Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin | "Full Scale Testing of Structures and Components"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 01-29-15 | Dr. Meead Saberi, <br />Monash University, Australia.<br />Host: Dr. Bo Zou | "Developing an Integrated Transportation Infrastructure Decision Support Platform: Focusing on Big and Open Data Visualization"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 1:00pm - 2:00pm. |
| 01-23-15 | Dr. Daniel C. Simkins, Jr., <br />University of South Florida, Formerics, LLC.<br />Host: Dr. Sheng-Wei Chi | "Florida Is Not Just Retiree's, Oranges And Beaches: Computational Mechanics Research At USF"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:30am - noon. |
| 01-16-15 | Dr. Jamshid Mohammadi, <br /> IIT.<br />Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin | "Urban Systems Engineering &mdash; Research on Infrastructure Network Management"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1043 ERF, 11:30am - noon. |

---++ Past Seminars

---++ 2014 Fall Seminars
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| *Date* | *Presenter* | *Title* | 
| 11-11-14  | Dr. Ayhan Irfanoglu, <br />Purdue University.<br />Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin | "Analysis, Analytics, and Engineering Judgement in Understanding the Collapse of WTC-1"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1043 ERF, 3:30pm - 4:30pm. |
| 11-07-14  | Dr. William Baker, <br />Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP.<br />Host: Dr. Mustafa Mahamid | "Geometry and Structure&rdquo;<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 10-31-14  | Dr. Giuseppe Buscarnera, <br />Assistant Professor, Northwestern University.<br />Host: Dr. Craig Foster | &ldquo;An energy-based approach to model grain crushing in partially saturated granular soils&rdquo;<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 10-24-14  | Dr. David Kosnik, <br />Emergent Solutions, CTLGroup and Research Engineer, Northwestern University.<br />Host: Dr. Didem Ozevin | "Diagnosis of Movable Structures by Acoustic Emission Monitoring"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 10-17-14  | Dr. George Wells, <br />Assistant Professor, Northwestern University <br />Host: Dr. Karl Rockne | "The Nitrogen Challenge: New Players, Processes and Paradigms in the Quest for Sustainable Nutrient Pollution Prevention"<br /> 842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 10-10-14  | Dr. Kurt Spokas, <br />Research Soil Scientist, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota <br />Host: Dr. Krishna Reddy | "Examining biochar&rsquo;s impact in soil: More than meets the eye"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 10-3-14  | Dr. David Levinson, <br />Professor, University of Minnesota and Director of NEXUS Research Group<br />Host: Dr. Sybil Derrible | "The Transportation Experience: From Steamboats to Streetcars&rdquo;<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047, ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 9-26-14  | Shih-Po Lin, <noautolink>PhD, <br />Postdoctoral Fellow, UIC<br />Host: Dr. Sheng-Wei Chi | "Micro-crack informed stochastic multiscale damage modeling"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047, ERF, 11:00am - noon. |
| 9-19-14  | John Fortmann, <br />Region One Engineer at IDOT and Deputy Director of Highways<br />Host: Dr. Karl Rockne | "Circle Interchange Rehabilitation Project"<br />842 W. Taylor St. Room 1047 ERF, 11:00am - noon. |

---+++ 2012 Fall Seminars
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| *Date* | *Presenter* | *Title* |
| 8-28-12 | Albert T. Yeung, <br />Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong  | [[%ATTACHURL%/August28-2012-Albert-Yeung-Seminar-Announcement.pdf][Environmental Improvements on Pile Installation in Hong Kong and Macau]]<br />842 West Taylor Street, Rm. 1047ERF |
| 8-29-12 | Kaniraj Shenbaga, <br />Professor <br /> Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia | [[%ATTACHURL%/August29-2012-Kaniraj-Shenbaga-Seminar-Announcement.pdf][Electro-osmotic Consolidation of Peat and Organic Soils of Sarawak, Malaysia]]<br />Science and Engineering South (SES) Building, Room 138 |
| 8-30-12 | Albert T. Yeung, <br />Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong  | [[%ATTACHURL%/August30-2012-Albert-Yeung-Seminar-Announcement.pdf][Green Management of Construction and Demolition Materials in Hong Kong]]<br />842 West Taylor Street, Rm. 1047ERF |

---+++ 2012 Spring Seminars
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| *Date* | *Presenter* | *Title* |
| 2-3-12 | Dr. Al Ghorbanpoor <br />Professor <br /> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) | [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/bin/view/CME/GhorbanpoorAbstract][Distinguished Guest Speaker: Corrosion and its Detection in Tendons of Segmental Concrete Bridges]] |

---+++ 2011 Fall Seminars
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| *Date* | *Presenter* | *Title* |
| 11-4-11 | Dr. Robert E. Paaswell <br />Professor <br /> City College of New York | [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/bin/view/CME/PaaswellAbstract][Distinguished Guest Presentation: Emerging Context of Transportation Planning and Design: How must we think in 2011]] |
| 11-7-11 | Dr. Yuanjie Li <br />Professor <br /> Xi'an Jiatong University, China | [[https://www.cs.uic.edu/bin/view/CME/YuanjieAbstract][Doping and Characterization of Zinc Oxide Based Thin Films for Optoelectronic Device Applications]] |

---+++ 2011 Summer Seminars
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| *Date* | *Presenter* | *Title* |
| 7-22-11 | Dr. Aftab Mufti <br />Professor <br />University of Manitoba, Canada | [[%ATTACHURL%/Mufti_Abstract.pdf][Distinguished Guest Presentation: A Method to Estimate Effective Modules of Elasticity and Shear Modulus for Brick Masonry Walls]] |

---+++ 2011 Spring Seminars
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| *Date* | *Presenter* | *Title* |
| 3-24-11 | Maria Feng <br />Professor <br />University of California, Irvine | [[https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0AZZQGiEmMR9NZGhya2c2c21fMGZucXJqamY3&hl=en][Distinguised Lecture Series: Intelligent and Sustainable Civil Infrastructure]] |

---+++ 2010 Fall Seminars
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| *Date* | *Presenter* | *Title* |
| 10-15-11 | Hermann Nienhaus<br />Professor<br />University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany | [[SeminarNienhaus][Distinguised Lecture Series:Conversion of chemical energy into electricity in chemoelectronic devices]] |
| 10-22-11 | Richard Brachman<br />Associate Professor<br />Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada | [[SeminarBrachman][Physical response of landfill geosynthetics]] |
| 10-26-11 | Mark Milke <br />Reader, Civil and Natural Resources Engineering<br />University of Canterbury | [[SeminarMilke][Disaster Waste Management: A Systems Approach]] |
| 10-29-11 | Imad Al-Qadi<br />Professor, Engineering<br />University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | [[SeminarAlQadi][Development and Implementation of Ground Penetrating Radar]] |

---+++ 2010 Spring Seminars
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| *Date* | *Presenter* | *Title* |
| 3-1-10 | Daniel Sperling <br />Professor & Director Institute of Transportation Studies<br />UC, Davis | [[SeminarSperling][Two Billion Cars: Is it Sustainable?]] |
| 3-17-10 | Deb Niemeier<br />Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering<br />UC, Davis | [[SeminarNiemeier][California Bellwether or Bust?]] |
| 4-2-10 | Oliver Gao<br />Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering<br />Cornell University | [[SeminarGao][From Transportation Emissions Control to Public Hearth - Are We Doing the Right Thing, and Doing it Right?]] |
| 4-9-10 | Craig H. Benson<br />PhD , PE, DGE, F ASCE<br />Chairman and Distinguished Professor, Geological Engineering<br />University of Wisconsin-Madison | [[SeminarBenson][Prediction in Geoenvironmental Engineering:How Good are our Models?]] |
| 4-15-10 | Victor Giurgiutiu<br />Professor, Mechanical Engineering<br />University of South Carolina | [[SeminarGiurgiutiu][Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors - Concepts & Applications]] |
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