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AREMA 2007
Chicago - September 9-12
The 2007 AREMA Annual Conference was held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, IL. UIUC faculty member, Erol Tutumluer, and Railroad Engineering Program graduate student, Daniel Peltier, both presented papers, as did UIUC alumnus, Kevin Day of CN. The title and links to their papers are below. A number of students in the UIUC Railroad Engineering Program attended the conference and had the opportunity to meet some of their predecessors who are now working in engineering positions in the railroad industry (photo below).
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Past and present Railroad Engineering students attended the 2007 AREMA conference. From left to right: Yung-Cheng Lai, Matt Keller - BNSF, Jeremiah Dirnberger - CP , Jeff Herbeck - CN, Athaphon Kawprasert, Travis Painter, Dan Peltier, John Zeman, Rapik Saat, Riley Edwards, Mike Wnek, and Bryan Schlake. |
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Bill Wimmer, UP Vice President of Engineering, meets UIUC Railroad Engineering students |
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Scholarships:
Four UIUC students were awarded scholarships at the conference. Please click here for student scholarships and here for the article.
Papers presented at AREMA:
Peltier, D., Barkan, C.P.L. , Downing, S., Socie, D. Measuring Degradation of Bonded Insulated Rail Joints. Proceedings of the AREMA 2007 Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (September 2007).
Tutumluer, E., Huang, H., Hashash, Y., Ghaboussi, J. Discrete Element Modeling of Railroad Ballast Settlement. Proceedings of the AREMA 2007 Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (September 2007).
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