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In The News
2008 Railroad Engineering Education Symposium
To foster the growth of rail engineering education within universities, the AREMA Foundation and AREMA Committee 24 - Education and Training, is organizing an event called the Railway Engineering Education Symposium. The goal of the event is to provide engineering professors with rail curriculum to take back to the classroom. The professor workshop will be held from June 8-11, 2008, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The symposium will include two days of discussion on railroad engineering materials, current and future research, and provide one day for a visit to local railroad facilities.
2008 Dr. W.W. Hay Award for Excellence
The selection process for the tenth Dr. W.W. Hay Award of Excellence has begun and this year's chair, Michael W. Franke, a former student of Dr. Hay, has issued a call for entries.
Entries should be received no later than June 15, 2008 Click here for more information
CTA - Fellowship for Summer 2008
The Chicago Transit Authority is initiating the inaugural Presidential Fellowship this upcoming summer. The program seeks highly-skilled and motivated graduate students the opportunity to both learn from and contribute to the CTA's mission to providing quality and affordable transit services to residents in the Chicago area. They are targeting students from top graduate programs in policy engineering transportation studies and public and business administration to join the program.
University of Kentucky Students and Faculty Visited UIUC
The Univeristy of Kentucky students and faculty visited the railroad engineering program March 7-11, 2008.
Engineering Open House - March 7-8, 2008
Engineering Open House (EOH) is an annual event organized entirely by engineering students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is held each spring semester, and draws estimated crowds of 20,000 people including, students, teachers, parents and families, from all over Illinois (and beyond). The Railroad Engineering Program participates in EOH each year by working with major railroads who to set up various exhibits and displays of railroad technology.
Alumnus returns to teach railroad engineering
Winter 2008 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
TRB 87th Annual Meeting - January 2008
Railroad Engineering faculty and students attended the TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC to present papers and attend sessions
INFORMS - November 2007
Railroad Engineering students went to the INFORMS meeting in Seattle, WA to present papers.
2007 AREMA Annual Conference - September 2007
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 here . 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
Railroad Job Fair - September 6, 2007
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Railroad Engineering Department and Engineering Career Services hosted a Railroad Engineering Job Fair.
International Heavy Haul Association 2007
Railroad Engineering Students went to Kiruna, Sweden to present papers.
Teaching and Research Position in Railroad Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time Lecturer in its railroad engineering program.
Hay Railway Engineering Collection Dedicated
The William W. Hay Railway was dedication on September 29th, 2006 in the Grainger Engineering LIbrary.
Illinois Engineer presents the American Railroads Experience
La Opinion, Granada, Spain. 5/24/06
Lean Railroading
Productivity Press 2006
William Hay Railroad Engineering Collection dedicated at Grainger
Fall/Winter 2006 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Hanson Inc. gift will help expand, improve rail program
Fall/Winter 2006 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Letter from Luc Aliadière, UIC Chief Executive
Mads Bergendorff, Senior Advisor for
Environment at UIC, 2001 – 2005
Keynote Speaker at the 2004 Railroad
Environmental Conference at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
Safe, Efficient Rail Transport
Fall/Winter 2005 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Union Pacific Railroad Gift to Support Rail Grad Research, Diversity
Fall/Winter 2005 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Career in Rail Prompts Gift for Scholarships
Fall/Winter 2005 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Norfolk Southern Corporation’s gift sponsors Hay seminars
Fall/Winter 2005 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Barkan named George Krambles Faculty Fellow
Fall/Winter 2005 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Those Who Can, Teach
Trains Magazine, May 2005
Amtrak President David Gunn Lectures at UIUC
Spring/Summer 2005 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
CN gift supports railroad program Spring
Spring 2003 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
Transit leader's life inspires scholarship
Spring 2003 CEE Alumni Associate Newsletter
On Track
Spring 2003 CEE Alumni Association Newsletter
William W. Hay Railroad Engineering Collection
Friendscript Volume 23, Issue 2, Winter 2001
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