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Welcome to UIUC Home of the Center of Excellence for Airport Technology

Welcome to UIUC Home of the Center of Excellence for Airport Technology. “…we can see a long way in all directions…. “Our commerce, our ideas, come and go in all directions…. “Here there are no barriers…no rigid patterns of thought…”. Surveying the Boneyard Creek.

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Welcome to UIUC Home of the Center of Excellence for Airport Technology

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  1. Welcome to UIUCHome of the Center of Excellence for Airport Technology

  2. “…we can see a long way in all directions…

  3. “Our commerce, our ideas, come and go in all directions…

  4. “Here there are no barriers…no rigid patterns of thought…”

  5. Surveying the Boneyard Creek

  6. Urbana boarding house residents

  7. John Milton Gregory First regent of the University of Illinois

  8. “True education is always liberal.”

  9. Altgeld Hall (1897) Served as the University’s first library (but was quickly outgrown)

  10. Grainger Engineering Library (1994)

  11. The photoelectric photometer First used in the University’s Astronomical Observatory

  12. Electrical Engineering Professor Joseph Tykociner invents the first sound-on-film technology through a double feature motion picture that included ringing a bell and reading the Gettysburg Address. Tykociner's invention is still used for sound on film today.

  13. Physics Professor, Donald Kerst, invented the first betatron and used it to determine the basic properties of uranium and plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

  14. PLATO

  15. John Bardeen1908-1991 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics with W.H. Brattain and W. Shockley for the invention of the transistor and the 1972 Nobel Prize with L.N. Cooper and J.R. Schrieffer for the theory of superconductivity

  16. Made the compact disc possible, and invented Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) Nick Holonyak, Jr.

  17. Steve Dorner, developer of Eudora

  18. NCSA team and Marc Andreesendeveloped first graphical browser in 1993

  19. The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  20. Our proud history

  21. Arthur N. Talbot • Pioneer in concrete research and construction • Author of University of Illinois Bulletin No. 1 “Tests of Reinforced Concrete Beams” • In 1890 he was appointed as the first head of the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (TAM) Department • S.S. Arthur Newell Talbot World War II concrete steamship

  22. Hardy Cross • Developed the method of moment distribution for statically indeterminate frames which revolutionized structural analysis

  23. Nathan M. Newmark • Civil Engineering Professor Nathan Newmark designed the first earthquake-proof skyscraper, the 600-foot Latino-American Tower in Mexico City • Chairman of Digital Computer Lab (1947-57) during the development of one of the first supercomputers (ILLIAC-II)

  24. Notable Figures in CE History • Ralph Peck • Pioneer in foundation engineering • Ven T. Chow • Founding father of channel hydraulics John B. Webb Clement C. Williams Frederick H. Newell Ira O. Baker

  25. Engineering Facilities and Landmarks

  26. Beckman Institute

  27. Engineering Hall and the Alma Mater

  28. Grainger Engineering Library

  29. Campus Landmarks

  30. Current Researchin CEE

  31. Advanced Transportation Loading System (ATLaS) • The ATLaS simulates wheel loads on pavements

  32. NEES and MUST-SIM • Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) • Multi-Axial Full-scale Sub-Structuring Testing & Simulation Facility (MUST-SIM)

  33. TARP and River models • Hydrosystems researchers in the department are developing technology for Chicago’s Tunnel and Reservoir plan (TARP) and the Chicago River

  34. 17’ BRANCH TUNNEL MEETS 27’ MAIN TUNNEL

  35. Q1 Q3 Q2 Q1 Q3 Q2 Q2 + Q1 Q3 Q2 + Q3 Q3

  36. WaterCAMPWS • Water quality research

  37. Other major research centers at UIUC • Center for Advanced Cement Based Materials (ACBM) • Mid-America Earthquake Center

  38. …the next endeavor

  39. Thank you

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