Erol Tutumluer

Associate Professor
Paul Fraser Kent Faculty Scholar

1205 Newmark/122 ATREL

Phone: (217) 333-8637

Fax: (217) 333-1924

Email: tutumlue@uiuc.edu

Personal website: https://www.cee.uiuc.edu/research/tutumluer

Erol Tutumluer holds a B.S. (Bogazici University 1989), 2 M.S. degrees (Duke University 1991 and Georgia Tech 1993), and a Ph.D. (Georgia Tech 1995), all in civil engineering. He has been on the faculty of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois since 1996. At Georgia Tech, he taught Engineering Science and Mechanics courses as an instructor. In 1996, Dr. Tutumluer also worked as a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois. He currently serves as the Graduate Admissions Coordinator for Transportation.

Dr. Tutumluer has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in transportation soils engineering, pavement analysis and design, subgrade soil and aggregate behavior, and introduction to transportation engineering. He is the co-editor of two ASCE Geotechnical Special Publications on recent advances in materials characterization of transportation systems.

Dr. Tutumluer has research interests in testing and modeling of pavement and railroad track geo-materials, characterization of aggregates using video-imaging techniques, modeling of particulate media using discrete and finite element methods, artificial intelligence in the form of neural network modeling, and mechanistic based pavement design. He has conducted several studies on anisotropy and stress dependency of aggregates affecting structural response and performance of flexible pavements with unbound aggregate layers sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), US Army Corps of Engineers, and the International Center for Aggregates Research (ICAR). Dr. Tutumluer has also been working on size, shape, and angularity characterization of aggregates using video-imaging techniques sponsored jointly by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), and more recently by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP).

Dr. Tutumluer is an affiliate of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA), Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT), and American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). He currently serves on TRB committees A2J03, A2L02, and A2K05, as a steering committee member on ASCE Geo-Institute’s Pavements Committee, and chairs TRB’s A2K05(1) subcommittee on “Applications of Nontraditional Computing Tools Including Neural Nets.”

In 1997, Dr. Tutumluer was named General Electric Scholar by the University of Illinois and later that year received a certificate of recognition as an Engineering Education Scholar by the National Science Foundation. In subsequent years, he was named General Electric Fellow (1999) and Collins Fellow (2000) by the Academy of Excellence in Engineering Education program administered at the University of Illinois. Dr. Tutumluer is a year 2000 recipient of the TRB’s prestigious Fred Burgraff award for Excellence in Transportation Research.