CEE Magazine Fall 2015

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering College of Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignFall 2015

Why a bridge?The case for a new campus landmark for CEEAlumni news and features

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Positioning ourselves to lead/Benito Mariñas

Legacy/Allen J. Staron (BS 74)

Why a bridge?

Learning without borders

Under Cubstruction at Wrigley Field

Top women students consider grad school at We Go CEE

Four faculty invested as endowed professors

CEE’s online program is five

Alumni Q&A with Marilyn Tears (BS 80, MS 82)

Illinois team solves ancient Roman water supply mystery

Overuse of aquifers could threaten global food security

Student organizations

New student organization: Civil China

Department news: First alumni event held in China

Project will make Chicago smarter, greener

CEE teams study Nepal earthquake

Alumni news

In memoriam

2015 student awards

Individual donors

Corporate and foundation donors

Local bridge designed by CEE prof marks 50 years

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By Benito Mariñas

ivan racheff Professor of environMental engineering and head

Dear CEE at Illinois Alumni and Friends,The civil and environmental en-

gineering 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 Illi-nois to continue playing a prominent and exemplary role in training future genera-tions of leaders in the CEE profession we must modernize our human resources, our curricula and our infrastructure.

CEE faculty and staff started the de-velopment of a modernization strategic plan for CEE at Illinois at a full-day stra-tegic retreat on Friday October 16, 2015. This strategic plan provides a guiding platform aiming at identifying human re-sources needs, developing new curricula and research programs, and creating the state-of-the art facilities needed for pro-grammatic 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 stra-tegic 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 be-come more representative of the increas-ingly 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

Help shape the future of CEE at Illinois.cee.illinois.edu/alumni/gift

CEE Modernization Planstate-of-the-art classrooms

hands-on, upgraded laboratoriescollaborative spaces

ADA complianceexpansive lobby

modernized exteriorsupport 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) 333-6955, [email protected] or visit cee.illinois.edu/alumni/gift.

Positioning ourselves to lead


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.

to become more competitive in attract-ing a diverse group of top applicants to our CEE undergraduate program.

We are also engaged in attracting di-verse top talent to our graduate program. We are most grateful to the many alumni and current graduate students and facul-ty that recently interacted with a group of 45 top women seniors from 30 universi-ties and 15 states who participated in the inaugural We Go CEE (Women Exploring Graduate Opportunities in CEE) work-shop, featured elsewhere in this maga-zine. 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 stu-dents. 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 stra-tegic plan that I would like to share with you at this time is the modernization of our facilities, which is needed to imple-ment 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 instruc-tional laboratories in support of curricu-lar changes. Our primary goal in updat-ing our facilities is to give our students a modern, second-to-none educational experience in CEE, but the new facili-ties 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 mod-ern 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 opportu-nity to honor our prominent alumni and friends who are leaders in the CEE profes-sion, 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 recog-nizing faculty that had a pivotal impact in their educational experience at Illinois and in their careers thereafter, and hon-oring the members of the CEE at Illinois family that have made milestone con-tributions 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/instruc-tional bridge and the CEE Alumni center.

Over the course of our nearly 150-year history, CEE at Illinois achieved a leader-ship position in the education of civil and environmental engineers, research that built this nation’s infrastructure and ser-vice 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 sup-port 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 continua-tion of our CEE Modernization Plan so that the preeminent role of CEE at Illinois will continue for the next 150 years. i

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.

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CEEAA Board of Directors

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

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

Second Vice President and SecretaryJohn P. Kos, P.E., (BS 77)H.W. LochnerChicago

Past PresidentTracy K. Lundin, P.E., (BS 80, MS 82)FermilabBatavia, Illinois

DirectorsDaniel F. Burke (BS 92, MS 93)City of Chicago DOTChicago

David Byrd, P.E., (BS 01, MS 06)Bully and Andrews General ContractorsChicago

Nick Canellis (BS 94)Turner ConstructionChicago

Lynne E. Chicoine, P.E., (BS 78, MS 80)Water Environment Services of Clackamas CountyOregon 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 & AssociatesChicago

James K. Klein, P.E., S.E., (BS 78)Illinois Department of TransportationSpringfield

Dana B. Mehlman, P.E., (BS 99, MS 01)Hinshaw & Culbertson LLPChicago

Paula C. Pienton, P.E., S.E., (BS 85)T.Y. Lin International GroupChicago

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

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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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

LegacyBy allen J. staron, P.e., (Bs 74)President, cee aluMni association Board of directors


It was with great sadness that I recent-ly learned of the passing of Professor

Emeritus Moreland Herrin. I had the privi-lege of taking two courses taught by Pro-fessor Herrin when I was a civil engineer-ing 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 Pro-fessor Herrin one of the giants in the Uni-versity’s Civil Engineering department at that time.

He was a leader in both highway and airport engineering with special exper-tise 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 po-litely 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 expecta-tions 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 semes-ter 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 descend-ing 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 pho-tos helped him to jog his memories of us. I trust that he only gave positive recom-mendations; 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 ex-tremely important, it becomes more ob-vious to me with each passing year that the CEE department is much more about the personal experience—about its eager students, concerned faculty and accom-plished alumni. One without the others would not result in the continued excel-lence and achievement of the CEE depart-ment and its graduates. Over the last 10 years I have met many faculty members who are cut from the same cloth as Pro-fessor 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 opin-ion there will never be another Professor Herrin, I do know that in 2015 our CEE stu-dents 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 con-tinue; 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 con-nect with the people that make the CEE department a special place—an interna-tional leader in civil engineering educa-tion and research.

I imagine that each of you knew some-one 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, teach-ing 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.

GO ILLINI! i

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.

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The idea of constructing a bridge to con-nect the Newmark Civil Engineering

Laboratory and the HydroSystems Labora-tory 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 10- to 15-year modernization plan, this bridge connecting the two buildings will finally be realized, nearly half a century later. The pre-liminary 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 infra-structures 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 liv-ing laboratory for education and research in bridge design and engineering. Span-ning 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

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

Institute to the north. Instrumented with state-of-the-art sensors on key structural components, the smart bridge will pro-vide students with opportunities to ob-serve, understand and experiment with the dynamic forces of a bridge. Incorpo-rating innovative materials and advanced computing, the bridge will provide a plat-form for experimental, modeling and sim-ulation research, in addition to serving as an interactive design tool. The bridge design will also explore and showcase the latest sustainable energy and environ-mental design options, including wind, photovoltaic, geothermal and piezoelec-tric energy.

The proposed bridge will symboli-cally and physically connect CEE research groups from the Hydrosystems Labora-tory, which has housed the Environmen-tal 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, Construc-tion Materials, Environmental Engineer-ing and Science, Geotechnical Engineer-ing, Structural Engineering and Mechan-ics and Transportation Engineering. Because the full renovation of the Hydro Lab will include labs and classrooms to be

Why a bridge?

“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.”

“Pizza guys will never be lost again coming to Newmark Lab, if we say

to deliver to THE Bridge.”

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“I love water. Can we add some water features?”

“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.”

“Should we paint the

bridge orange or blue?

It’s a very difficult binary

decision.”

“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.”

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.

used by all areas of the department, in-cluding the newer cross-disciplinary pro-grams of Energy-Water-Environment Sus-tainability, 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 Mod-ernization Committee chaired by Profes-sor Marcelo García. The committee has sought recommendations from faculty, staff, students and alumni. In July, the University hired an A/E (Architectural/En-gineering) firm to explore the proposed conceptual designs, with the goal of com-pleting 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), Mat-thew C. McClone (BS 14, MS 15), Alexan-der 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 prefer-ence of CEE’s constituents, in hopes of conveying a clear and coherent vision to pass on to the A/E. As one faculty mem-ber 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 stu-dent activities. Among the planned facili-ties 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 self-anchoring 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 practi-cal teaching tool, as a demonstration of what the most talented civil and envi-ronmental engineers can create, as an in-spiring new campus landmark informing all visitors that they are in the presence of the world’s top civil and environmen-tal engineering program—we will need everyone’s help, both to imagine the bridge and to realize it. i

To support the CEE Modernization Plan, please contact Celeste Arbogast, [email protected], (217) 333-6955 or Benito Mariñas, [email protected], (217) 333-6961.

Give

“Why not put offices on the bridge and assign me there?”

“Can I step on the floor enough times to power a 10W LED light bulb on the bridge for an hour?”

“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

out there. Please do not

add one more.”


“Did anyone question the

soil strength for your crazy design

ideas? I need some borehole data.”

“What should we name it?”

“Wait a minute, I forgot the snow load. I need to do the finite element analysis again.”

“Should we consider earthquake load? Maybe we can test a model on the strong wall.”

“The bridge could light up at night with LEDs corresponding

to the stress and strain of bridge components measured by

wireless sensors.”

• 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

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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, an-alyze water samples from a variety of sources, and learn about the economic, educational and cultural roadblocks that may impede implementation of effec-tive 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 or-der 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/

Learning without borders

“First stop, the equator.” – Madeline


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DAY 2TIM: 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 entre-preneur 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 reac-tor 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

“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

KENYA

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.

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, ac-cording to Peter. Peter’s farm has spear-headed 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 4GABI: We started our day off early this morning leaving the Lake View Hotel

around 8:30 am. Our end location for the day was the refugee settlement, Oruchin-ga, 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 in-formation about the availability of medi-cations and vaccinations provided to the community and the efforts of the health center to educate the community.

LAUREN M.: We finished eating and all headed across the street to the second-ary school to teach them about health and sanitation through various games and ac-tivities. I was surprised by how many stu-dents there were at the school. In the class-room, Lauren V. led activities that showed the school kids how easily bacteria can spread, how you can’t always tell by look-ing at water that it is contaminated, and the effects that high levels of fluoride in water can have.

DAY 5ANDREA: The Safe Global Water Institute added a renewable energy focus this year. We know it is sunny in Africa, but how sun-ny? There is wind, but how strong? The data

“Dust. That is THE word to describe today. No matter how hard you try, you cannot get rid

of any of the dust.” – Ellyn

UGANDA

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 wa-ter. Other factors, including social, behav-ioral, and economic, are at work in Karagita that cause many residents not to consume this improved, defluoridated water. I as-sume 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 quan-tify 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.

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, be-havioral 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.

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 depart-ment head Benito Mariñas. Not enough funds are available for the entire class to make the trip over-seas, so students must go through a selection process in order to win a spot. Your gift can help more stu-dents take part in this life-changing experience. Contact Vicki Dixon, SGWI’s Director of Development, at (217) 244-0857 or [email protected] for more information.

“Our luggage is mostly field equipment.” – Andrea

www.safeglobalwater.com

there were problems apparent in the wa-ter such as a red color and solids settling. Sometimes they are suffering from the un-safe 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 malnu-trition. 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 is-sues faced by this community. The hospi-tality and graciousness of the people here have helped us make the most of this in-credible opportunity.

we were looking for was not readily avail-able. The lack of research and the desire for specific site information led us to pur-chase a weather station for site evaluation. The weather station will be used to mea-sure 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 re-locate the station to Omurutoma, a nearby hilltop village.

HANNAH: As we were about to leave the second house, Nyonito asked us what ben-efit 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 sus-tainable mark on this settlement.

DAY 6LIYING: 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


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By Mike koon

Photos By Josh nielson

Bill 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 Wil-liams 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 help-ing the Cubs plan the project in 2009. The work actually be-gan two years ago with a series of structural improvements, but kicked into high gear with a complete overhaul of the bleachers during this past win-ter 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 mod-ern clubhouse for the team and turned into a bigger vision for the Ricketts family, the Cubs’ owners.

“The Ricketts know how im-portant 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, be-ing a good neighbor, and preserving Wrigley Field. All their decisions are based on these concepts. The preserving Wrig-ley part was something we could help with.”

Bennett added that for the Ricketts, the restoration cen-ters on preserving the beauty, charm and historic features of Wrigley Field that fans have cherished for more than a cen-tury, 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

Under CubstructionCivil engineering alumnus leads restoration project for Wrigley Field

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 addi-tion to their knowledge and ex-pertise, their experience gave us a more practical sense of what engineering has to be.”

To say Bennett wears his Illi-nois 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 second-rate 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 con-struction 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


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 Pep-per,’ I said, ‘Keep talking,’” Bennett re-members. “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 re-warding 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 cal-endar.”

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 re-placed,” 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 replace-ment for the longevity of the ballpark.”

There have been other relics that have

been unearthed, which the Cubs are collecting for posterity, includ-ing 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,” Ben-nett said of this once-in-lifetime op-portunity. “I always tell myself that this is a project that literally will never happen again because the next old-est 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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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 Profes-sor Tami Bond, the Nathan M. Newmark Distinguished Professor in Civil and Envi-ronmental Engineering and a 2014 win-ner 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: Fran-cina Dominguez (MS 03, PhD 07), Karen Kabbes (BS 77), Dana Mehlman (BS 99, MS

Forty-five top women students from across the country were encouraged

to pursue graduate degrees and intro-duced to the grad program in CEE at Il-linois Sept. 18-19 during the first annual We Go CEE workshop, sponsored by the department.

“Many students come from universi-ties 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 As-sistant Professor Cassandra Rutherford, who conceived of the event and directed the inaugural one. “I also wanted to high-light 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 ex-ceptional 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 partici-pants were from CEE’s under-graduate pro-gram, 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 of Texas at Aus-tin and the Cock-

New workshop invites top women students to consider graduate school

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), direc-tor of transit for T.Y. Lin International and a member of the CEE Alumni Association Board of Directors; and Angela S. Wolt-ers (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

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lab tours to bowling in the Illini Union. Currently, women make up about 27

percent of the CEE undergraduate stu-dent 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 repre-sent society in our students and in our faculty,” Mariñas said. i

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 Ako-no 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.

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Ximing Cai | Lovell Professor

Professor 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 Wil-lett Faculty Scholar. He holds a B.S. in Water Resources Engineer-ing (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 opera-tions. His current research areas include coupled human-natural system analysis with an emphasis on human interferences in hy-drological processes, water-energy-food system modeling es-pecially in dry areas, and sustainable water resources manage-ment, 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 Ameri-can Geophysical Union and is on the editorial board of other ma-jor 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 Re-

serve 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 construc-tion 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 Professor-ship was estab-lished in 2007. i

Professor Youssef Hashash was in-

vested April 23 as the William J. and Elaine F. Hall En-dowed Professor.

Hashash joined the faculty in 1998. He has taught courses in Geotech-nical Engineering, Numerical Model-ing in Geomechan-ics, Geotechnical Earthquake Engi-neering, Tunneling in Soil and Rock, and Excavation and Sup-port 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 ar-eas, earthquake engineering, continuum and discrete element modeling and soil-structure interaction. He also works on geo-technical 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, Ca-lif., on April 13, 1926. He attended the University of California

at Berkeley, Kings Point, and served in WWII as a Merchant Marine Midshipman from Sep-tember 1944 until March 1945. After the war, he attended the University of Kansas in Law-rence, where he completed his B.S. degree in civil engineer-ing in 1948. Hall received his M.S. degree (1951) and Ph.D. (1954) from the University of 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 dy-namics. 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 elect-ed to membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 1968, one of the youngest members ever elected. i

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Professor 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 Uni-versity of Technology in Taiwan, an M.S. in envi-ronmental science from Rutgers University, an M.Eng. in environmen-tal engineering from the University of California 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 engineer-ing, 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, develop-ment 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 Micro-bial Ecology and the ISME journal by the publisher of Nature.

Arthur C. Nauman (BS 34) was born on April 3, 1910, in Chi-cago. His career included serving as a Colonel with the U.S. Army and as a con-sulting engineer. The Nau-man Professorship was es-tablished in 2000, after the death of Nauman’s wife, Vir-ginia L. Nauman in 1997. Nau-man died in January 1989. i

Professor 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 Engineer-ing 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 Syd-ney, Australia; and Tsinghua University, China. He has taught un-dergraduate 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 Sci-ences.

Sivapalan's research focuses on making predictions in un-gauged basins and associated scale issues, increasingly in the context of human-induced environmental change. The in-creased 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 en-gineering. He spent 37 years on the U of I faculty, first in the De-partment 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, Hel-en, in 1997. They are survived by their daughter, Judith Siess.i

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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.

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CEE at Illinois 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 flex-ibility 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.

Online students take the same classes as students on campus, watching record-ings 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.

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 exper-tise that online students bring to the classes, as well as the classroom technology improvements that benefit all students.

To find out more about the program, including courses and areas of concentra-tion, visit the CEE Online website: cee.illinois.edu/ceeonline.

Master of Science degree program enters fifth year online

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hail from: 34 states and 22 countries

are employed by: consulting firms

federal, state and local government agenciesmilitary (all branches have been represented)

Tim Gripper, MS ‘15, studied in his local library, the Library of Congress, where he was able to see the original source doc-ument of a British engineering newspaper from 1895 to use in a research project for his construction planning class.

CEE Online students:

What do students say about CEE

Online?

“It’s almost the same as sitting in class.”

“It’s convenient to watch class on my own

schedule.”

“The professors are very responsive.”

“The quantity, breadth and diversity of students

is terrific.”


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.

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.

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.

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 inter-national 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.”

Brian Castro, MS 14, is an engi-neer with OMEGA & Associates and works at the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway as part of the Corridor Construction Man-agement 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.”

CEE Online students:

Gienell Declet-Martinez, MS 14, with Professor Bill Buttlar, director of CEE On-line. Gienell is an engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans.

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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. Pro-fessor Lopez’s dedication and kindness to his students is an example of what made my experience at CEE successful and en-joyable.

If you could, what piece of advice would you give yourself on your Illinois graduation day? Be willing to try new opportunities. Em-brace 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 op-portunities 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 Uni-versity 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 gradu-ated 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 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 po-sition, she held project management roles for the Deepwater Portfolio for Hadrian South, Marine Well Contain-ment Interim Response System and most recently was Senior Project Man-ager 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 po-sitions, managed operations, planned and supported offshore development and global construction, and led proj-ect management and execution teams.

Tears is a leader in supporting in-clusion and diversity at ExxonMobil. She is a founding member of the team that established the Upstream Wom-en’s network at ExxonMobil. In 2011, she was honored with the ExxonMobil Upstream Women’s Leadership Role Model award. Tears represents Exxon-Mobil on the Society of Women Engi-

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 en-dowed 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 construc-tion management secondary. As the president of the Water Environment Federation-American Water Works As-sociation student chapter and mem-ber of the CEE Student Committee, Amanda has capitalized on numerous opportunities provided by the CEE de-partment. She is an Engineering 100 instructor for freshman CEE students and is an undergraduate researcher with Assistant Professor Roland Cusick.

Alumni Q&ATomorrow’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)

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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 differ-ence in my life. My father, Duane Erick-son, 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. Addition-ally, 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 or-chards, 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 deep-water 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 man-aged 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 chal-lenge 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 some-thing you have given your full effort to for several years.

What excited you most during Julia project? My most recent project was the ExxonMo-bil Julia Project which is an ultra-deepwa-ter project in the Gulf of Mexico with sig-nificant 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. i

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By claire sturgeon and kristina shidlauski

For hundreds of years, the Anio Novus aqueduct carried water 87 km (54

miles) from the Aniene River of the Apen-nine Mountains down into Rome. Built between AD 38 and 52, scholars strug-gled to determine how much water the Anio Novus supplied to the Eternal City—until now.

By studying lime-stone deposits that formed from the flow-ing water within the aqueduct, called trav-ertine, University of Il-linois at Urbana-Cham-paign researchers re-ported in the Journal of Archaeological Science an actual estimate for the aqueduct’s flow rate of 1.4 m^3/s (± 0.4).

“At this rate, the aqueduct would have supplied the city with 370 gallons of water each second,” said lead author Bruce Fouke, a professor of geology and microbiology and a member of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Il-linois. “That’s enough water, per second, to take a three-hour shower or to take seven baths.”

This buildup of travertine within the aqueduct channel indicates the average water level, called the wetted perimeter.

Illinois team solves ancient Roman water supply mystery

According to the wetted perimeter near Roma Vecchia, where the ancient Anio Novus aqueduct and travertine are well preserved, the aqueduct was almost al-ways full of water.

Still, their estimate is significantly lower than previous estimates, which did

not account for the trav-ertine.

“We looked at the ca-pacity of the aqueducts to convey water—how much water we think they were able to pass through depending on how deep the water was—and then figured out how these travertine deposits affected that conveyance capacity,”

said CEE Professor Marcelo García, the M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Endowed Chair and director of the Ven Te Chow Hy-drosystems Laboratory.

The thickness of the travertine deposit resulted in a smaller cross-section and the rough surface also would have changed the resistance to the flow, García said. The group considered these factors in their hydraulic analysis and found that even a small amount of travertine deposit served to significantly reduce the water flow.

Former estimates have tried to rec-oncile flow rates recorded in AD 97 by

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. “Further-more, Frontinus’ data contained many discrepancies, which he blamed on mea-surement 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 aq-ueduct 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 sup-ply, Rome’s population was able to grow between 600,000 to a million people dur-ing 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 trib-ute to their ingenuity that they were able to engineer such things.” i

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Thirsty 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 grad-uate 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 Proceed-ings 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 Mis-sissippi Embayment aquifer in the lower Midwest as being managed unsustain-ably, which means that water is being extracted from the aquifer faster than it is replenishing.

“Deep ground-water is like natural gas. If you use it, it takes a while to re-charge,” Cai said. “Unsustainable usage means the water table is lowered, which makes it more dif-ficult and more expensive to pump water since we have to keep going deeper. It also affects ecosystems associated with the water table, such as streams and wet-lands.”

The researchers tracked water con-sumption from the aquifers to see where the water was going, in terms of geogra-

phy and usage. For example, when water was used to irri-gate a crop, the researchers tracked where those crops were shipped.

“When we think of water, we think of direct water, the water that comes out of our faucets. But we actually use

a lot of embodied water in our everyday lives—the water footprint to produce a product,” Konar said. “We looked at the water implicitly being transferred be-tween states and countries in the prod-ucts.”

The researchers found that the vast majority—91 percent—of embodied groundwater from these three aquifers stayed within the U.S. The remaining 9

percent was exported internationally. They identified the states most heavily re-liant 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 de-tailed 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 sup-ported this work. i

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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 InstituteThe American Concrete Institute (ACI) Student Chapter pro-motes 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, com-peting 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-of-Way AssociationThe 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, at-tend the AREMA Conference, and take field trips to observe work being done on a variety of projects (bridges, track, re-pair shop, etc.). We also hold social activities such as cook-outs 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 engi-neering. 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 up-dates, please contact us at [email protected].

Bridge to ChinaBridge to China is a volunteer organization that helps de-sign 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 in-vestigations and construction trips over summer break. For more information, contact [email protected].

Chi Epsilon Honor SocietyThe 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 pro-fessionals. In addition to hosting several service and social

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events, the society holds general meetings where compa-nies 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 ChinaCivil China is dedicated to providing help and guidance to civil engineering students. Our organization aims for cultur-al 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 TeamThe Boneyard Yacht Club (BYC), or more generally the con-crete canoe team, is a group of multidisciplinary engineer-ing students who grow into their roles as professional engi-neers 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 AmericaThe 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 construc-tion practices through combined mentorship and exposure opportunities. To achieve this vision, we host and partici-pate in site visits, company presentations, workshops and volunteering events.

Deep Foundations InstituteThe 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 OrganizationThe Geotechnical Engineering Student Organization (GESO) provides students interested in the geotechnical industry with a connection to practicing professionals and an en-vironment to discuss their research interests. The chapter hosts seminars which include student member presenta-tions on their current research and industry speakers. This year GESO plans to send 10 members to the annual Geo-Congress conference in Phoenix, Ariz. For more information, contact Scott Schmidt at [email protected].

Illinois Solar DecathlonIllinois Solar Decathlon is one of the largest interdisciplin-ary projects on campus requiring collaboration from many departments. Solar Decathlon is a prestigious biennial com-petition 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. Il-linois 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 EngineersThe University of Illinois ITE Student Chapter strives to pro-mote the advancement of transportation and traffic engi-neering 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 ResearchInternational Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Re-search (IAHR) is an 80-year-old independent organization of engineers and scientists who work in the area of hydro-environment 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 AssociationThe 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 TeamThe Steel Bridge team is preparing for the regional com-petition 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 10-15 minutes. For more information, please contact captain Nana Ochiai at [email protected].

U.S. Green Building CouncilU.S. Green Building Council student chapter recruits, con-nects and equips the next generation of green building leaders. We provide LEED study sessions to prepare stu-dents 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 be-ing held in Washington, D.C. We host the Student Sustain-ability Initiatives Symposium every spring, which features workshops, talks and tours. For information, write [email protected].

Water Environment Federation – American Water Works AssociationThe 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 real-world water problem and meet weekly to design a solution. We then showcase our work at competitions and presenta-tions at several conferences. We also visit local water treat-ment 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 Regis-tered Student Organization, was es-tablished in spring 2014 with the goal of getting CEE’s Chinese students more involved on campus, more orga-nized 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 cam-pus, 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 peo-ple, 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 organi-zations 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 stu-dents overcome the reticence caused by language and cultural barriers to take ad-vantage of everything Illinois has to offer, Hu and Yang said. Working to establish the organization made Hu’s final semes-ter at Illinois his best ever, he said.

“I think this semester has been my happiest semester,” he said. i

At top, members of Civil China goof around during their official RSO photo shoot at Engineer-ing Hall. At left, their serious shot. Above, Zhongkai Hu, left, and Michael Yang show off the group’s first yearbook.

CEE alumni dinner held in Shanghai

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.

The department held its first-ever alumni event in China

on May 27. Eight members of the CEE faculty, including depart-ment head Benito J. Mariñas, were traveling in China at that

time as part of a trip to explore part-nership opportunities with Chinese universities. They took advantage of that opportunity to host the CEE at Il-linois Reception and Dinner at the Hy-att on the Bund in Shanghai.

The group of more than 60 guests included CEE alumni, students, visiting scholars and friends of CEE. CEE alum-nus Yang Zhang (MS 07), CEO of Pal-map Plus and secretary of the Shang-hai University of Illinois alumni club, welcomed the crowd, followed by an address by Mariñas. In addition to Mari-ñas , CEE faculty who attended were Xi-ming Cai, Liang Liu, Wen-Tso Liu, Yan-feng Ouyang, Mark Rood, Bill Spencer and Erol Tutumluer. i

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CEE prof’s work will make Chicago greener, smarter

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 Engi-neers. The award honors outstanding leadership, activi-ties 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 Re-search Institute (EERI) to assist with the Nepal Recon-naissance Team.

Associate Professor C. Armando Duarte received the 2015 (inaugural) Raymond and Sidney Epstein Struc-tural 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 Chem-istry and Mechanics: Multiscale Modeling of Crack Dy-namics 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 Me-chanical 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 Interna-tional Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering in Austin, Texas, for their paper “A Framework for Model-driven 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 Ex-cellence 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 Bri-an Shoener won the 2015 MWH/AEESP Master’s Thesis Award for his work on “Advancing sustainable wastewa-ter treatment: Elucidating tradeoffs among emerging resource recovery technologies through quantitative sustainable design.” The award recognizes him for com-pleting 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 Me-chanics.

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

The streets of Chicago will be get-ting smarter, literally, through a

new UI LABSCity Digital project being led by CEE Research Assistant Profes-sor Joshua M. Peschel. As part of a unique in-terdisciplinary effort, including personnel from the University of Illinois, Argonne National Labo-ratory and the City of Chicago, along with UI LABS’s corporate partners, Peschel and his team will develop the next genera-tion 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 con-sortium 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 wa-ter and create healthier urban environ-ments. Peschel’s project will measure the health, performance and effective-ness 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 add-ing unique measurement techniques and intelligence to these new green streets in Chicago.” iFull story at cee.illinois.edu/peschelsmartcities.

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Three academic generationsProfessor 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.

The massive earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, was fol-

lowed 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, exten-sive homelessness, and widespread structural damage and destruction. Researchers from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering received funding from a CEE Rapid Re-sponse Grant to investigate and assess the damage first-hand. Their objec-tives are to understand the nature of the damage, develop lessons learned for enhancing seismic design and have some impact on the rebuilding pro-cess.

Principal investigators for the proj-ect are Professor Youssef Hashash, As-sociate Professor Larry Fahnestock and Research Assistant Professor Joshua Peschel. They were assisted by CEE doctoral students Sital Uprety and Sa-chindra Dahal, who traveled to Nepal as part of the team in the weeks follow-ing the quake.

Hashash traveled to Nepal with the Geotechnical Extreme Events Recon-naissance Association, a group of engi-neers 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: geerassocia-tion.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 liq-uefaction and building damage in the

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CEE researchers study Nepal earthquake

Astronautics. He was recognized for mak-ing fundamental contributions to the field of Computational Mechanics and for appli-cation 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 Universi-ty, 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 infra-structure 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 Sci-ence Foundation Graduate Fellowship for his proposed PhD work. Chini will develop a new approach to exam-ine and understand the resiliency of water manage-ment infrastructure systems, mapped to and modeled as stress-strain diagrams, for broad stakeholder sense-making 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 Engi-neering Council Awards Committee. The award is given in recognition of efforts to develop empathetic student-faculty 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 implemen-tation 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 Con-ference in Ames on March 12, 2015. The research team’s project, “Improvement for Determining the Axial Capac-ity 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 Ex-cellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching award.

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CEE at Illinois gratefully thanks the lunch sponsors for its fall 2015 Job Fair:

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Kathmandu Basin, and identified key locations for de-tailed study.

F a h n e s t o c k focused on struc-tural damages to buildings in Kath-mandu — histor ic and modern, engi-neered and non-engineered. In ad-dition to surveying these structures to assess levels of damage, Fahne-stock met with lo-cal practicing engi-

neers, and faculty and students at Tribhuvan University and Kathmandu Engineering College, to facilitate ongoing col-laboration with the research team.

To complement observations of structural damage around Kathmandu, the team plans to create models of sev-eral structures that were surveyed and use the models to es-timate the level of shaking required to cause damage. Cor-relating 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 improve-ment is needed. Additionally, Peschel is using high-defini-tion static and video imagery captured from aerial platforms in Nepal to develop detailed 3-D models of the areas identi-fied 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-disas-ter water and air quality issues. While in Nepal, Nguyen took water samples in Kathmandu and the surround-ing areas for analysis and documented emergency water sanitation and hygiene practices implemented by house-holds and displaced families after the disaster. i

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 natu-ral and human-made disasters. Previous grants have allowed CEE researchers to study tornado damage in Oklahoma and landslides and a bridge collapse in Washington.

CEE Ph.D. student Sital Uprety, left, and Pro-fessor Youssef Hashash in Nepal, surveying a landslide and just-breached dam.

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CoRpoRATE pARTNERS pRoGRAMThe 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.

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2000sChia-Ming Chang (PhD 11) has accepted a position as an assistant professor at National Taiwan University.

Ryan K. Giles (MS 06, PhD 13) has accepted a position as an assistant professor at Stony Brook 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-of- the-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.

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.

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.

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

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

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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.

1990sRobert 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.

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.

1980sTodd 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 University-Pomona, 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.

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.

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Anthony (Tony) F. Graziano died on July 25, 2015, in Wayzata, Minn. He was 78. Graziano was a 1959 graduate of Carnegie Tech in Pitts-burg, Penn., where he majored in Metallurgy. His career included 28 years as a staff member at the Uni-versity of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-paign, where he held positions in-cluding Associate Dean of the Col-lege of Engineering, Director of the

Professor Emeritus Arthur R. Robinson died on October 15, 2015, in Champaign. He was 85.

He was born in Brook-lyn, 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 Univer-sity of Illinois in 1953 and 1956. From 1957-60 he held positions at the Uni-versity of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He joined the Illinois civil engineer-ing department in 1960, achieving the rank of professor in 1963. He re-tired in 1993.

With a strong background in ap-plied mechanics and mathematics, Robinson specialized in the fields of dynamic elasticity, numerical meth-ods analysis, non-linear structural problems, EQ ground motions and numerical solutions of ordinary dif-ferential equations.

He was a member of the Ameri-can Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE),

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.

1970sMelba 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.

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 assist-ing with the remodeling of the Envi-ronmental Engineering and Science research labs on the fourth floor of Newmark Laboratory in the mid-1990s. —W. J. Hall

Anthony (Tony) F. Graziano28-year staff member

Arthur R. RobinsonProfessor Emeritus

the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Academy of Mechanics and the Seismological So-ciety of America. His awards included the University of Illinois Epstein Teach-ing Award, The ASCE Huber Research Prize and the prestigious ASCE Mois-seiff 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 tech-nical reports in the areas cited.

He joined the Sinai temple in 1961, and was heavily involved with their activities, and that of affiliated organi-zations, during his entire career at the University of Illinois, and thereafter in retirement. —W.J. Hall

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Moreland Herrin, former CEE fac-ulty member, died July 6, 2015, in Ur-bana, Ill. He was 92.

Born Nov. 14, 1922, in Morris, Okla., Herrin attended Oklahoma State Uni-versity (OSU), majoring in civil engi-neering. He served in WWII as an intel-ligence officer with the 8th Air Force in Wycombe, England. After the war, he remained in the Air Force Reserve, eventually retiring as a lieutenant col-onel. He continued his schooling at OSU, focusing on weather and civil en-gineering. He received his B.S. in 1947 and his M.S. in 1949. After some time with a consulting firm, he entered Pur-due 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, asphalt-soil stabilization and related environ-mental measures for highways and airfields. His research drew national attention. He was an assistant materi-

Bartosz J. Czernikiewicz (BS 10) died May 25. He worked as a mining engineer for Kiewit Corporation.

Arthur Feldman (MS 54, PhD 60) died January 4. He taught at the University of Illinois as an Assis-tant 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 re-tired 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.

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 En-gineers and on numerous Transportation Research Board standing committees. He authored more than 100 articles and papers in professional journals.

Moreland HerrinProfessor Emeritus

als engineer on the famous American As-sociation of State Highway Officials road test; assisted the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) with advice on sta-bility of pavements with various asphaltic compositions, and for many years was director of Illinois’ cooperative transpor-tation program between IDOT and the U of I. He began the Illinois Bituminous Pav-ing 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

1960s

2000s

Friends

2015AA. Epstein Award in Civil Engineering

Luke Livers Juzer Millwala

Alvord, Burdick, and Howson ScholarshipMatthew Tan

Anna Lee and James T.P. Yao ScholarshipXiaodan Du

American Society of Civil Engineers Outstanding Student Award

Megh Patel

Bates and Rogers ScholarshipTurbold Baatarchuluu Eduardo Hanon

Bob Zieba Memorial ScholarshipRohini Gupta

Bowman, Barrett and Associates Outstanding Scholar Award

Weixi Li

C.S. and Ruth Monnier ScholarshipLama 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 AwardSebastian Arias Samantha Chadwick

Chester P. Siess AwardYanning Li Jeff Wallace

Chicago Outer Belt Contractors Association Scholarship

Arthur Tseng

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. ScholarshipJesus Flores

Dan and Mary Guill ScholarshipJustin Vogel

Deep Foundations Institute Educational Trust Berkel & Company Contractors Inc. Scholarship

Shangyang Fang Marina Nakajima Vincent Wenzel

Earle J. Wheeler ScholarshipQingjin Fan Brandon Lung

Eli W. Cohen - Thorton Tomasetti Foundation Scholarship

Jon Stricker

Eric J. Kerestes Memorial Scholarship FundDennis Thurow

George L. Farnsworth Jr. ScholarshipAmanda Caldwell-Jacques Jingxuan Ge Elaina Plinke Wei Quan Rebecca Ventura

Geotechnical Scholarship GiftZhenbang 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 ScholarshipCarlos Martinez Fangyu Wu

Harold R. Sandberg ScholarshipHannah 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.

CEE Student Awards


Harvey Hagge Concrete Scholarship llinois Ready Mix Concrete Association

Daniel King

Henry T. Heald AwardMegh Patel

Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association Scholarship

Megan McGovern Jose Riveria-Perez

Illinois Association of County EngineersEric Etzwiler Omer Rehman Thomas Roadcap Nicole Vail

Industry Advancement Foundation of Central Illinois Builders of the AGC Scholarship

Julia Chang

Ira O. Baker Memorial ScholarshipEnrique Aragon Aaron Dunton Cooper Tonachel

Ira O. Baker PrizeKelly Samara Brian Nicolls

Jack and Kay Briscoe ScholarshipCourtney Ackerman Michael Pugh

John B. Felmley Engineering ScholarshipRyan 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

Koch Scholarship in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Wenjing Wu

Leigh F. Zerbee Scholarship Civil Engineering

Joshua Meggison Corey Maisch Will Ripka

Loreta and Silvio Corsetti Memorial Scholarship and Fellowship Fund

Michael Valentino

Maren Somers Memorial Engineering Scholarship

Kazami Brockman

Maude E. Eide Memorial ScholarshipAllison Densler Sylwia Kokoszka Jessica Villie Hannah Lohman

Max Whitman APWA Memorial ScholarshipJohn Conway

Melih T. Dural Undergraduate Research Prize

Zhengboyang Gao

Michael William Bartos Ed. D. Memorial Scholarship

Chun Wang

Moreland Herrin ScholarshipKimberly Marsh

Norman Carlson ScholarshipDarkhan Mussanov

RJN Foundation Civil Engineering Scholarship

Marcus Sanders

Road Builders Charities ScholarshipCalvin Smith

Shelby K. Willis Engineering Education Scholarship

Cody Simpson Aliaa Taha

Walker Parking Consultants ScholarshipAnna Marie Cowan

Walter E. Hanson Graduate Study AwardMitchell Knapp

Walter L. and Carole A. Crowley ScholarshipBrian Nicolls Kelly Samara

Wayne C. Teng ScholarshipPaolo Emmanuel Araneta Yuan Hu Niran Khurana Cory Mosiman Natsuki Okuda Luis Pelayo Vivian Wong

William A. Oliver Endowed ScholarshipLucas Djehdian

William C. Ackermann Sr. Civil Engineering Scholarship

Andrew Unander John Walker William E. O’Neil AwardErnest-John (EJ) Ignacio

William E. Stallman Scholarship in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Joshua Dormeier

William John MacKay AwardGuillermo Acevedo Tariq Shihadah Jessica Steslow

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.

CEE Student Awards

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IndividualDonors

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.

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].

President’s CouncilWe thank those who have joined the University of Illinois President’s Council with a commitment of $25,000 or more. Below are members who joined before June 30, 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. CrowleyHelen F. Grandone Marilyn Smith Brown Hunt George-Anne Oliver Kelly Wendel F. Kent Narbey Khachaturian David A. Lange Jon C. and Judith S. LiebmanPaul M. and Susan N. Mayfield Mary Barlow Medearis Bernard M. Murphy Daniel Q. Murphy James H. MurphyKevin L. MurphyMargaret M. O’Donoghue and Steven

A. Veazie William E. O’Neil Vernon L. SnoeyinkLois G. StevensAlbert J. Valocchi

1995Wilbur C. Milhouse III

1991Brian E. and Lin Healy

1987David G. and Janet S. Peshkin

1984Larry C. and Rhonda S. Wesselink

1983Bartholomew E. and Deborah A. Weldon

1982Tracy K. and Kathy P. LundinDonald E. Manhard Jr. and Patricia M.

ManhardJulian RuedaMarilyn E. Tears J. Dennis and Sally S. Wermcrantz

1981Kevin J. and Carey A. Dulle

1980William F. Baker John L. and Karen E. CarratoJames K. and Rebecca S. Clinard

1979Susan Douds and Jack L. Goertz Bruce A. Johnson Stuart A. Klein

1978Thomas L. Hannula Stanley M. Herrin and Elizabeth A. Small Steve R. and Lorie R. Raupp Damon S. Williams

1977James J. Brown and Emi K. KawasakiPerry C. and Linda S. Hendrickson William J. Nugent

1976Robert W. and Andrea C. Cusick Jeffrey A. and Kristin L. Liggett

1975Leslie J. and Theodora I. Benson Dan and Mary Guill

1974Richard Cramond Jr. and Helen A.

Cramond Robert M. and Cheryl Ann Magnuson Richard J. and Linda J. Sieracki

1973Ronald W. CrockettRobert W. and Cheryl Y. HahnJames L. and Doris I. Willmer

1972Dean J. Arnold

1971Fred and Paula GarrottJoseph M. and Patricia A. Kaiser Bengt I. and Kathryn A. Karlsson

1969Barry J. and Pauline G. DempseyRichard J. Erickson

1968Paul D. and Barbara C. Koch Robert G. and Flo Anne O’Brien George K. Varghese

1967Arthur R. Jensen Jr. and Judith B. JensenThomas E. and Johnyne C. Rees Larry B. Salz

1966Norman Allen and Lee Ann Dobbs Richard A. PattarozziMarvin A. and Karen K. Wollin

1965Larry M. and Rose Marie Sur Richard A. and Charlotte Wiseman

1964Marshall Ray Thompson

1962Stanley T. and Phyllis Williams Rolfe

1961Neil Middleton and S. Ann Hawkins William A. Huston Jr. and Delores

Huston Thomas K. Liu and Olive M. Chen-LiuRobert W. and Donna Mikitka

1960Phillip L. Gould Lyle W. and Nancy M. HughartNorman C. and Sharon L. Riordan

1959Thomas C. H. Lum Joseph H. Pound

1958Benjamin A. Jones Jr.

1957Ronald R. and Margaret M. Watkins

1955Thomas J. Byrne and Jane ArmstrongJerry J. Felmley

1954Maurice A. and JoAnn Wadsworth

1952John E. Barrett

1951William K. Becker

1950Burton A. LewisWilliam E. and Margarite D. Stallman

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1949Wendall Lee Rowe

1948Melvin and Theda Febesh

1943Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein

Dean’s ClubThe 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.

Friends:Tami C. BondDavid J. and Laura M. O’Connor Michael E. Webber

2004George Avery Grimes Tjen N. Tjhin

2002Franco Gomez-Ramirez

1998Jeffery R. and Sandra E. Roesler

1997Preetindar Kaur Ghuman

1994Ron Juamiz Esmilla

1993Henry Matt Bellagamba

1992John A. and Gail L. Balling

1990Robert Scott Trotter

1989Robert J. Risser Jr. and Martha A.

Boling-Risser

1987Rudolph Pio and Susan Irene Frizzi

1985Mark E. Bartos George E. Leventis

1984Manuel Gomez-Achecar Colleen E. Quinn

1983Kenneth M. Floody Charles E. Gullakson William A. Kitch

1982C. Wayne Swafford

1980Lynne E. Chicoine James Robert Harris

1978Dennis D. BeckmannMark H. Erwin

1977James M. and Suellen DaumAlan J. and Karen A. HollenbeckJohn P. and Catherine M. KosMichael G. and Bette Wallerstein

Lombard Kevin S. Stotmeister

1976James T. Braselton

1975Thomas D. O’Rourke

1974David and Diane M. DarwinVernon E. Dotson Michael Ray Lewis Douglas J. and Jacqueline A. Nyman

1973Glenn E. Frye

1972Bruce R. and Lois D. Ellingwood

1971Thomas L. and Margaret V. RoscettiJohn E. Schaufelberger

1969Alan B. Butler Michael W. Shelton

1968Hershell Gill Jr.

1966Maynard A. and Mona C. Plamondon

1965Frederick B. Plummer Jr.

1963James O. Jirsa

1960Roy E. Olson

1956Keiichiro Hayashi

Sponsoring AssociatesThe 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.

Friends:David A. Friedman Jimmey L. Kaiser Erich and Melissa Plondke

2009Rory A. Polera

2006Robert Alan Rodden

2001David L. Byrd Dana Beth Mehlman

1994Jason E. Hedien

1993Gregory T. and Lori W. BuchananKai Tak and Alisa Ocker Liu

1992Ranji S. Ranjithan

1990Howard P. and Nenita U. Walther

1986Kristina A. Lang Sharon L. Wood

1985John E. ConroydPaula C. Pienton

1984David W. and Elizabeth W. Snyder

1983Siu-Wang Stephen Huang

1982Blaine F. and Kathryn G. Severin

1981David A. and Frances K. Sabatini

1979Christina Kochanski Drouet

1978Gary W. Ehlert

1977Michael T. McCulloughTakehira Takayanagi

1975Ghulam M. BajwaGary S. Brierley Robert R. Goodrich Jr.

1974Luke Cheng Richard Alan Guinn

1973Lawrence Paul Jaworski

1972Robert C. and Joan B. Bauer

1971Charles H. Dowding IIIJohn Ramage

1970John F. and Linda S. Harris

1969William J. Pananos

1965John R. Abbott Salah Y. and Frances M. Khayyat

1962H. S. HamadaRichard N. Wright III and Teresa Rios

Wright

1955Glenn E. and Mary Lou Nordmark

1954Ashley B. Craig Jr. Robert A. and Frances A. Fosnaugh

ContributorsCEE 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.

Friends:Celeste ArbogastLee W. Bailey Elizabeth Lyman BarkanSandra K. BradfordWilliam G. and Barbara J. Buttlar Julie A. Carbray George L. Chadderdon III Janice M. Decker Jane S. Derby Kathleen E. Eaton Carol A. and Robert L. HajekNancy L. HansenRolfe B. Jenkins John Edward and Elizabeth Ann Kelley Sarah KimLiang Y. LiuSusan Bahrenburg MatthewsKathy Culver Nickell N. Jean PlondkeRobert N. QuadeWilma J. Reed Donald H. and Betty L. Rice Mark J. RoodJohn ShapleyKristina Shidlauski Brian J. Sinclair John F. Southwood Lee A. Spacht Deborah SpitzerNancy D. ToomeyRobert C. and Kathleen Ann WatermanArnold R. and Nancy A. Wieczorek Karen A. WitterLeo G. Woerner Betsy P. (dec) and Kam Wu Wong Leon J. Wood

2014John D. Gallagher Jr.Eric Lo Megan E. Wallace

2013Adam R. Blumstein Jason L. Frericks Yesenia G. GramajoHongki JoTimothy J. Truster


2012Julie L. FryCaitlin E. Jankovich Thomas J. Thoren

2011Ava H. Strough

2010Philip T. Hyma Calvin and Lindsay M. Young

2009James H. Long Elizabeth Caitlin Richter

2008Jordan J. and Jennifer J. Card Michael D. Gustavson Terence V. ProfitaJeffrey D. Viano

2007Janice M. Wenzel

2006Colin C. Coad Kurt A. Keifer James F. Meister

2005David M. Boddy Edward W. East Andrew J. Keaschall Darren A. LytleNeftali MendozaDavid A. and Carolyn J. TayabjiSchaun L. and Chisaki Muraki-

Valdovinos

2004Peter A. and Meghan Byler

2003Craig A. AlteriJason M. Curl Jason C. and Meggie D. Fuehne James A. and Becky Ann Webb Zhanping You

2002Robert J. BielaskiKevin P. Huberty Eric O. and Shannon Johnson Matthew Robert Pyles

2001Katherine D. Dombrowski Jonathan E. and Michelle A. Lewis

Thomas E. Riordan Mark S. and Tracey L. Salvatore

2000Christian M. Carrico Wayne M. Helge Andrew J. and Karen H. Martin Joshua E. Saak Kimberly A. Schmidt

1999James P. and Nancy E. Hall Thomas J. Mitoraj Simon S. Shim Aaron T. and Brandee L. Toliver

1998Pat Arnett John R. Hayes Jr. Matthew J. Niermann Matthew John Pregmon Paul R. and Lisa A. Ruscko Michael M. and Chloe S. Wieczorek

1997Brian S. and Elaine M. Chaille Hector Estrada Brian S. Heil John A. Kerrigan Todd C. Missel Jeffrey B. NaumannKeri A. Nebes Ryan M. Thady Tracy L. Willer

1996John A. and Ember A. Fry Joel M. KrettekJason Jerome and Michelle Martin-

KrohnEric B. Williamson

1995Kevin R. Collins Mark C. Mirek Richard T. and Carri R. Nickel Anthony and Kellie S. SakTheodore F. Szyszka Jr.

1994Nicholas L. Canellis Gregory B. and Laura B. Heckel Bryan J. and Joyce P. McDermott

1993Daniel F. BurkeJames W. Carter III David T. Lewandowski Pete J. Prommer

Monty J. and Rebecca Ellen Perrine-Wade

1992Sava S. and Sponenka Nedic William M. Rexroad II

1991Douglas M. Buske Ronald Michael HubrichGary J. Huels Robert L. and Debra V. Keiser David M. Riordan Sophie B. SaccaSusan M. Wallner

1990Matt R. Fauss Joseph W. and Janet L. Vespa

1989Edward M. Brazle John W. and Michelle S. HackettCharles D. and Dorothy Delahanty-

Zapinski

1988Kevin J. and Victoria L. Ahern Scott D. SchiffAlan D. StuemkeLisa J. Taccola

1987Fariborz Barzegar-Jamshidi Kevin W. KleemeyerChristine M. KleppJames M. LaFaveTimothy G. LaGrow Frank Russell and Laura Anne Phillips-

Manella

1986Michael J. Cronin John S. Fraser T. and Cynthia A. KnoxAndrew J. Querio John E. SatoDavid T. Soong and Joanne W. Chou Edmund H. Tupay Jr.

1985Brian T. and Claire A. Aoki Charles R. Conlon Richard D. and Barbara L. Conrath James J. Fung David L. Greifzu Melissa A. KennedyAnthony G. Myers Brian E. Peck

Ronald J. and Jennifer G. RomanAmy M. Schutzbach Peter J. Stork Daniel J. Whalen

1984Marc P. BeislerDelph A. Gustitus Irvin P. Kirkwood Marcia Y. Liao-Wang Mark S. and Ellen R. Wylie

1983Robert E. Bassler III James A. and Carol A. Fischer John M. Heinz Richard J. Kerhlikar David E. McCleary Daniel C. Powers Brian D. Smith Robert H. and Anjali M. SuesMichael S. and Dawn M. Szatkowski Brian R. Welker

1982Ronald J. BoehmJeffrey R. Livergood James M. NauDonald J. Nelson Thomas S. PalanskyJoseph C. Pickett Gerald L. SiekerkaThomas J. Waldron IIIDale R. WilhelmKevin M. and Margaret A. WilsonJohn A. and Lynn D. Worley

1981Paul R. Bourke Mark D. Bowman James M. Casey Shoou-Yuh ChangMichael S. Cheney Guy W. MarshLinda MusserDaniel R. RehakRichard G. Stratton Jr. Frank R. Wengler

1980Keith W. Benting Paul H. BoeningMarco David and Mary Lynn BoscardinDaniel G. and Carlyn V. BuehlerRichard P. Byrne Michael D. and Mary T. GrimmJames F. Hall Christopher P. JepsenMichael S. Kesselmayer

Jack P. Moehle Carl M. Nagata Daniel J. and Elizabeth H. Rubel Timothy Joseph and Mary Jo SheehanYa-Hu Shen Steven J. SierackiRobert W. SteenJames B. Sullivan Timothy P. TappendorfGeorge Ziska Jr.

1979Carl A. and Margaret Ellen EriksonTheodore P. Georgas Michael W. McCoy Mary L. Miller James T. Olsta John C. SingleyJohn R. and Maureen K. Wolosick

1978Roger W. Baugher Dennis J. Benoit Darrell J. Berry Lawrence K. CunninghamRichard C. Frankenfield Paul M. Godlewski James K. Klein Charles D. Morris Neil A. and Barbara Parikh David W. Reed and Sheryl A. CambronDavid A. Schoenwolf James E. SurdykCharles A. Zalesiak

1977Eric E. Bachtell Jose R. Danon David L. Dunn Wayne G. and Carol L. Hood Robert W. Hutson Byung R. and Young H. KimMichael J. KoobEdward B. LaBelle Joel C. and Helen J. Maurer Daniel K. Moss Charles E. PeabodyDietmar Scheel Thomas G. Struttmann

1976Dennis W. Dreher Larry A. Greep Patrick Kielty Dennis D. and Kristine L. Lane Richard W. Liesse Larry W. Mays Douglas C. NoelDavid E. Rensing

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Joel Smason Edward J. TuneliusWilliam W. Wuellner Jr. and Pamela R.

Wuellner

1975Larry A. Bolander Michael P. Fallon Gautam and Susan A. GhoshGary J. and Susan S. Klein Mark T. MasarikRichard W. Myhre Douglas W. Ounanian Elias Zewde

1974Robert J. Andres George T. and Susan R. Bachman Andrew D. Cohn Kent R. Gonser Edward C. Gray Patrick W. Healy Robert W. Horvath Kevin J. and Margaret M. Kell Billy J. MurphyGary A. Rogers Allen J. and Paula L. StaronRobert H. WickleinPatrick F. and Carol B. Wilbur

1973Thomas A. and Colleen A. Broz Martin G. Buehler Philip A. and Kathleen McMahon Gazda John H. Gulledge Daniel W. and Maria Halpin Robert B. and Eileen F. Hunnes Jeffry E. and Arlene S. LambClinton C. and Rae J. Mudgett Toan T. Nguyen Richard C. ReedRichard S. Weiss James K. Wight Theodore R. Williams

1972Thomas J. Cech Reggie K. ChongSteven D. and Janet Sue CoenJames A. HanlonKenneth L. Kulick Daryl D. and Deborah M. MoellerRichard J. and Barbara V. Zdanowicz

1971Patrick P. BrennanGregory D. and Kathryn T. Cargill Peter A. Lenzini

Wayne F. and Cheryl Trapp MachnichGregory C. Martin Stephen W. and Martha S. Moulton Dennis D. Niehoff William A. Rettberg Charles W. Roeder Lee J. and Judith W. Scherkenbach Gary A. Wilken Lyle D. Yockey

1970William D. BergMarvin E. and Lela L. Criswell Robert L. Fark Roger R. and Lorel Beth FittingDouglas A. Foutch Richard J. MannWilliam E. McCleish Jerry F. ParolaThomas W. Puddicombe Earl J. Schroeder James E. Schwing Robert F. Wood

1969Jeffrey E. and Barbara G. AndersonHarold T. BrownEdwin G. and Patsy Burdette Yuan Chun Eugene ChangTony Girolami Jerome E. HeinzTerry W. Micheau Eric C. Pahlke Alan and Susan C. Zimmer

1968Clyde L. Anderson Robert L. Carter John P. ElbertiJames M. FisherThomas F. HintzCarl H. JohnsonWilliam N. LaneJames R. Levey Donald F. MeinheitRobert W. and Patricia C. NowakRaman K. and Parimala K. Raman Roger W. Wright

1967Lonnie E. Haefner Harry J. Woods Jr.

1966Charles H. and Catherine W. Allen Donald R. Aukamp Danny N. Burgess Allan W. and Susan Crowther

Jerry R. DivineEmmanuel Drake Paul David Ellis German R. Gurfinkel Dennis R. Lagerquist Michael R. and Sandra J. McLamore

1965Ernest J. Barenberg Gregory R. Erhard Donald D. Oglesby E. Douglas Schwantes Jr. Clarence R. Warning Mehdi S. Zarghamee

1964Paul D. and Amelia R. Andresen George A. Brunner Judith L. HamiltonStewart W. JohnsonDarrell G. Lohmeier Theodore W. NelsonRobert L. Nickerson Kenneth G. Nolte Russell Ramon RudolphCharles E. and Jean SandbergDonald R. Sherman

1963Robert L. Almond William A. KreutzjansCharles W. Larsen David M. LeeStanley L. PaulAllen N. and Marinell E. ReevesRobert E. Shewmaker

1962J. Dewayne Allen Ned H. BurnsBing C. ChinJohn T. Gannon Stephen J. Madden III and Janet M.

MaddenJoseph A. Morrone Shamsher Prakash

1961Walter L. Allen Jr. William L. Hartrick Harry Moore Horn Wayne L. and Margaret F. Johnson John A. Kuske Richard F. Lanyon Jack C. Marcellis William Mirza Dick A. Peterson James A. Tambling Raymond E. Untrauer

1960Harold J. Abramowski Guy J. Marella Martin K. PayneWallace W. Sanders

1959William M. and Lois Jane CazierRobert L. Dineen Donald McDonaldWalter A. Von Riesemann

1958John M. and Elly J. Brandt Philip C. Brumbaugh Richard A. Davino Gregorio HernandezRobert H. MeyerFrank A. Perry Jr.

1957Robert C. Brozio Pedro Jimenez-QuinonesWilliam P. Taylor Robert K. Wen Virgil A. and Betty Wortman

1956Robert W. and Ruth Hawkins BeinJohn F. Dreher Robert E. and Aneita Atwood Gates Robert G. Grulke Everett E. McEwen Miroslaw Noyszewski

1955Ralph J. Horn Ronald A. and Lois Wisthuff

1954Edward Robert and Mary Massey

Baumann Leo R. DiVita Paul A. and Sharon L. Kuhn Ronald J. SwoffordRoger H. Wood Michael and Dorothy Zihal

1953Charles L. Sheppard Donald E. and Doris J. ThompsonAnestis S. and Katherine E. Veletsos Clement D. Zawodniak

1952Arthur M. Kaindl

1951Tung Au Samuel J. and Jane Errera

Gerald E. and Evelyn L. HannJoseph J. Jeno Henry J. KarpinskiFrederick F. Kwasnik Dean C. Merchant Wayne V. and M. Oriana Miller John W. Ratzki

1950Philip G. and Kathryn L. DiersteinJohn R. Ross

1949Donald W. KaminskiWalter L. Kevern Russell O. Lightcap

1948Walter W. Giffhorn Jr. and Carol Giffhorn

1947Harold Clinton Ward M. Dobbin Bernard J. Krotchen Wilho E. Williams

1946Anthony N. Konstant

1943William A. Hickman

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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 CorporationAestus LLC Alfred Benesch & Company Allen Engineering CompanyAlpha Analytical Inc.AMEC-Environment & Infrastructure AmerenAmerican Public Works Association

Chicago Metropolitan Chapter American Society of Civil EngineersANCRiSST Apple Junction Design Services PLCApplied Research Associates Inc. ARCADISARCS Foundation Inc. Illinois Chapter Association of American Railroads Ball CorporationBarr Engineering Company Bartos Architecture Inc.Bassler Family TrustBechtel CorporationBELFOR Environmental Inc. BlueScope FoundationBNSF Railway CompanyThe Boeing Company BP FoundationCanadian National RailroadCanadian Railway Pacific Limited Carollo Engineers Cascade Drilling LPThe Catholic Foundation for the Diocese

of Green Bay Inc.Center for Toxicology and Environmental

Health LLCCentury Group Inc. CH2M Hill Companies Ltd. Chase Environmental GroupChevron CorporationClayco Inc. Clean Harbors Environmental

Services Inc.Climate and Health Research NetworkColeman Industrial Construction Inc.Conestoga-Rovers & Associates Inc.

Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc (CUAHSI)

Crawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc.CRSI FoundationCSX Good Government Fund PacMatch CSX Transportation Inc. CTC Inc. Deep Foundations Institute Educational

TrustDell Employee Giving ProgramDonald & Patricia Manhard Charitable

Foundation EA Engineering, Science, and

Technology Inc.Earthquake Engineering Research

Institute EMR Inc. Envirocon Inc.Environmental Management SpecialistsEnvironmental Works Inc.EnviroScience Inc.ERM-West Inc.Ernst & Young Foundation ExelonExpanded Shale, Clay and Slate InstituteExponent Exxon Mobil Corporation ExxonMobil FoundationFabricated Geomembrane Institute Fidelity Charitable Gift FundForell/Elsesser Engineers Inc.Fullerton Engineering Consultants

Inc. Gannett Fleming CompaniesGE FoundationGEI Consultants Inc.Geo-Cleanse International Inc.Geosyntec ConsultantsGHD Golder Associates Ltd.The Greater Cincinnati Foundation Hanson Professional Services Inc.Hatch Mott MacDonaldHDR Engineering Inc.

HNTB CorporationHulcher Services Inc.Hydro-Engineers LLCICF International Illinois Asphalt Pavement AssociationIllinois Association of County

Engineers Inc.Illinois Road & Transportation Builders

Assoc Road Builder Charities Industrial Maintenance Group Inc.Industry Advancement Foundation

Central Illinois Builders ChapterIntel Corporation Intel FoundationJohn Deere FoundationJones & StokesJRW Bioremediation LLC Kennedy/Jenks Consultants Inc.Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. Lancaster Laboratories EnvironmentalLangan Engineering &

Environmental Services Inc.Lockheed Martin Foundation LT Resources Inc. Manhard Consulting Ltd.Marine Research SpecialistsMarino Engineering Associates Inc.Marion Environmental Inc.Marshall Miller & Associates Inc. dba

Cardno MM&AMicrosoft CorporationMike & Dorothy Vondra Foundation Milhouse Engineering & Construction Inc.Morton Suggestion CompanyNetwork for GoodNorfolk Southern FoundationNorthrop Grumman FoundationNorthwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc. O’Neil Industries Inc. OSI Environmental LLC Oil Skimmers Inc. Pace Analytical Services Inc.PeroxyChem LLCPhillips 66 Pinnacle Engineering Inc. Polk Bros. Foundation

Polystar ContainmentThe Procter & Gamble FundR. Horn Associates Ramboll EnvironRegenesis Bioremediation Products Regions BankRichard J. and Linda J. Sieracki

FoundationRiverStone Group Inc.The RJN Foundation Inc. Sargent & Lundy LLCSchlumberger Foundation Inc.Schwab Charitable FundShell Oil Company FoundationThe Sidney Epstein and Sondra Berman

Epstein FoundationSilicon Valley Community FoundationSouthern Company Services Inc.St. Paul United Church of Christ Stone Energy Corporation Summit Contracting LLC Sunpro Inc.SWS Environmental Services Terracon FoundationTestAmerica Laboratories Inc.Tidewater Inc.Transportation Technology Center Inc. TRC Inc. Turner Construction CompanyUnion Pacific RailroadVanguard Charitable Endowment

ProgramW. E. O’Neil Construction Company Walker Parking Consultants/

Engineers Inc.Walsh Construction Company Waterborne Environmental Inc.The Watkins Family FoundationWaveTrain Systems William Kitch EngineeringWiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc. YourCause, LLC Trustee for Chevron

Matching Employee Funds

Corporate and Foundation Donors

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Celebrating 50 YearsThe 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 cer-emony was held at the bridge to dedicate a new plaque commemorating the bridge’s history.

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