Khaled El-Rayes

Associate Professor

3112 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

Phone: (217) 265-0557

Fax: (217) 265-8039

Email: elrayes@uiuc.edu

Personal website: http://cee.uiuc.edu/people/elrayes/

Khaled El-Rayes holds a B.Sc. (Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt 1987), M.Eng. (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 1993) and a Ph.D. (Concordia University 1998), all in civil engineering. He has been on the faculty of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2000. He has over 20 years of professional experience in both academia and the construction industry. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he served on the faculty of the departments of Civil Engineering at Concordia University and the University of Newfoundland in Canada.

Dr. El-Rayes has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the area of construction engineering and management including: construction planning and control, construction optimization and decision making, project management, project planning and control, construction equipment planning and methods, construction processes, engineering economics and management principles, building engineering systems, building economics, engineering design and technical engineering drawing. In recognition of his teaching effectiveness, Dr. El-Rayes has been repeatedly named to the “Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students” at UIUC.

Dr. El-Rayes has research interests in construction optimization, decision support systems, information technologies, highway construction, and construction productivity. He has over 70 publications in these areas including more than 30 journal papers. Dr. El-Rayes is an assistant specialty editor in the area of information technology for the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. He also served as the Chair of the ASCE Construction Research Council, which is widely recognized as the premier national forum for Construction Engineering and Management research and it includes in its membership more than 150 professors and scholars.

The research contributions of Dr. El-Rayes have been recognized nationally and internationally, receiving several research awards including the ASCE Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize in 2007, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2003, the Faculty of Engineering Doctoral Prize from Concordia University in 1998, and the Project Management Institute Excellence Award in 1993.