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William W. Hay Railroad Engineering SemInar Fall Semester - 2007
Sponsored By
Date	Name and Company	Title (click on title for .PPT file if available)	Room
8/24	David Bilow Portland Cement Association	Testing of Slab Track Under Heavy Axle Loads	Grainger 233 @ 12
9/7	Gordon Trafton CN	Scheduled Railroading	Grainger 233 @ 12
9/21	Hai Huang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Image-aided DEM Modeling for Railroad Ballast	Grainger 233 @ 12
10/19	Chuck Allen Norfolk Southern	Automation of an Archaic Railroad Crossing - Brighton Park Project in Chicago	Grainger 233 @ 12
11/1	Jerry Rose University of Kentucky	Railway Trackbed Research at the University of Kentucky	B226, Newmark Engineering Lab
11/2	Jim Marty URS Corporation	Progressing a New Railroad Route in the 21st Century	Grainger 233 @ 12
11/9	William Garfield Bechtel SAIC Company	Environmental Responsibility and Safety Protocols for Field Investigation of a New Railroad Line	Grainger 233 @ 12
11/16	Hamid Sharif University of Nebraska-Lincoln		Postponed Date TBD
11/30	Dharma Acharya CSX Transportation	Applications of Operations Research Models and Advanced Technologies at CSX (PPT not available)	Grainger 233 @ 12

William W. Hay Railroad Engineering SemInar Spring Semester - 2007
Sponsored By
Date	Name and Company	Title (click on title for .PPT file if available)	Room
1/26	M. Rapik Saat University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	Optimizing Tank Car Safety Design to Reduce Hazardous Materials Transportation Risk	Grainger 335 @ 12
2/9	Wei Xie University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Scattering Analysis of Railroad Ballast Using Ground-Penetrating Radar	Grainger 335 @ 12
2/23	Gary Potts and Riley Edwards Hanson Professional Services Inc./ Hanson Wilson Inc.	Design and Construction of Intermodal Terminals (PPT not available)	Grainger 335 @ 12
3/9	Larry Milhon BNSF	ETMS and Safety	Grainger 335 @ 12
3/30	Bill Shust Objective Engineers, Inc.	Shock and Vibration in Rail and other Transport Modes	Grainger 335 @ 12
4/13	Roger Baugher BNSF	Improving Railroad Network Routing	Grainger 335 @ 12
4/27	Larry Etherton NS	The Road to the Austell: Lessons Learned Constructing a New Intermodal Terminal	Grainger 335 @ 12
5/11	Bob Leilich	Case Studies of Building Two New Western US Railroads - Works in Progress	Grainger 335 @ 12


William W. Hay Railroad Engineering SemInar Fall Semester - 2006 Sponsored By
Date	Name and Company	Title (click on title for .PPT file if available)	Room
9/8	Yung Cheng Lai - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	Optimizing the Aerodynamic Efficiency of Intermodal Freight Trains	Grainger 335 @ 12
9/22	Linda Morgan - Covington & Burling	The Policy and Politics of Transportation .PPS and PDF	Grainger 335 @ 12
9/28	William W. Hay Library Dedication Ceremony		Grainger 2nd Floor
10/6	Robert Gallamore - Retired Northwestern University; Private Consultant	Enduring Enterprise : A Survey Economic History of the North American Railway Industry in the 20th Century .PPS and PDF	Grainger 335 @ 12
10/20	Earl Currie	Human Factor Issues on Today's Railroads	Grainger 335 @ 12
11/3	Rainer Dronzek - TranSystems	Railroad Simulation Modeling	Grainger 335 @ 12
11/17	Shane Farritor - University of Nebraska	Real Time Measurement of Vertical Track Modulus from a Moving Railcar	Grainger 335 @ 12
12/1	Chuck Gullakson - CSX Transportation	Programmed Rail Grinding on CSX	Grainger 335 @ 12
12/15	Dennis Buda - Detroit Edison Energy	Wayside Detection of Railcars: The Detroit Edison Experience	Grainger 335 @ 12

William W. Hay Railroad Engineering Seminar Fall Semester - 2006 (pdf file)

William W. Hay Railroad Engineering SemInar Spring Semester - 2006
Sponsored By
Date	Name and Company	Title (click on title for .PPT file if available)	Room
1/27	Mike Franke Amtrak	The Challenges of Managing Railway Capacity	Grainger 335 @ 12
2/10	Jeffrey McCracken and Chuck Johnson Norfolk Southern Corporation	Restoring Norfolk Southern Rail Service to New Orleans Following Hurricane Katrina	Beckman 5602 @ 12
2/24	Ted Glickman George Washington University	Optimal Vendor Selection in a Multiproduct Supply Chain with Truckload Discounts	Grainger 335 @ 12
3/10	Bill Thompson AAR	CREATE Update	Grainger 329 @ 12
3/10-11	EOH	Engineering Open House	Newmark Lab.
3/31	Narendra Ahuja UIUC	Railcar Inspections using Computer Vision	Grainger 329 @ 12
4/14	Stephen Dick Hanson Professional Services	Steel Railway Bridge Fatigue and the Evolution of Railway Car Loadings	Grainger 335 @ 12
4/28	Bob Kollmar HDR	The Balancing Act—The Fine Art of Using Unbalance to Maximize the Efficiency of Railroad Infrastructure	Grainger 335 @ 12
5/12	Jeremiah Dirnberger UIUC	Improving Railroad Classification Terminal Performance Using Concepts of "Lean Railroading "	Grainger 335 @ 12

William W. Hay Railroad Engineering Seminar Spring Semester - 2006 (pdf file)

Fall 2005 Railroad Seminar Schedule
Date	Name and Company	Title	Room
August 26th	Mike Koob - UIUC	Vibration Technique for Estimation of Neutral Temperature in Continuously Welded Rail	Grainger 335 @ 12:00
September 2nd	Pooja Anand - UIUC	Environmental Risk Analysis of Chemicals Transported in Railroad Tank Cars	Grainger 335 @ 12:00
September 16th	Darrell Socie - UIUC	Smart Sensors	Grainger 335 @ 12:00
September 30th	Dave Davis - TTCI		Grainger 335 @ 12:00
November 4th	Robert Moore - HNTB	Lidar Arial Mapping	Grainger 335 @ 12:00
November 18th			Grainger 335 @ 12:00
December 2nd	Chris Barkan - UIUC		Grainger 335 @ 12:00
December 16th	Mike Garcia - IDOT	You Want to Do What!!! (Rehabilitation of an exisiting freight railroad line to a 110 mph HSR line in Illinois - Lessons learned.)	Grainger 335 @ 12:00

Spring 2005 Railroad Seminar Schedule
Date	Name and Company	Title	Room
January 28th	J. Lee Hutchins - ENSR	Railroad Freight Transportation: Local Community and Environment	Grainger 335 @ 12:00
February 3rd	David Ferryman - US CN	Current CN Railroad Engineering Projects	Newmark 1233 @ 6:00
February 10th	David Gunn - Amtrak	1st Annual George Krambles Seminar Amtrak: Managing Intercity Rail Passenger Service	Beckman 5602/5269 @ 2:00
February 25th	Mark Walburn - Transystems	Railroad Engineering and its Key Role in Passenger and Freight Multi-Modal Facilities	Grainger 335 @ 12:00
March 4th	Carl Hanson - HMMH	Wheel/Rail Noise and Vibration	Grainger 335 @ 12:00
March 11th	EOH - CEE Dept., CN, Norfolk Southern	Engineering Open House	Newmark Engineering Lab.
April 1st	Mike Gorman - University of Dayton	Optimizing Rail Maintenence Gang Scheduling on the BNSF	Grainger 329 @ 12:00
April 15th	David Burns - RR Industrial Eng. Consultant	Railroad Profitability: Short-term and Long-term Issues	Grainger 335 @ 12:00
April 29th	Robert Anderson - UIUC	Quantitative Analysis of Factors Affecting Railroad Accidnet Probability and Severity	Grainger 335 @ 12:00