CEAT Faculty and Students Receive Awards
Professor Edwin E. Herricks - FAA Aviation Research Award
The FAA presented Dr. Edwin E. Herricks with the FAA Excellence in Aviation Research Award for 2008 on Thursday, February 19, 2009 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. The FAA Director of Research and Technology Development, Barry Scott, spoke at the ceremony and presented the award to Herricks. Herricks leads the Airport Safety Program for CEAT, supporting the FAA airport technology research and development team’s many high-profile programs for more than a decade. His research and development of bird radar systems at airports, foreign object debris detection (FOD) systems, wildlife hazard mitigation systems and other critical new technologies are revolutionizing airport safety. Dr. Herricks has devised effective protocols that introduce experimental radar systems into the broad operational landscapes of the complex airport environment.
Professor Jeffery Roesler - TRB Concrete Materials Section Best Paper Award
Professor Jeffery Roesler of our CEAT Faculty research group and the CEE Department's Transportation Engineering group, and his advisee and co-author, Francisco Evangelista (CEAT Ph.D Student), and Professor Glaucio Paulino, CEE Departments's Transportation Engineering group, are recipients of the Transportation Research Boards (TRB) 2009 Best Paper by the Concrete Materials Section. Their TRB paper, number 09-0870, "Numerical Simulations of Fracture Resistance of Functionally Graded Concrete Materials,” was reviewed by the Concrete Materials and Placement Techniques Committee. The award was presented by the chair at the Concrete Materials and Placement Techniques Committee Meeting during the TRB 88th Annual Meeting on Tuesday, January 13, 2009.
Professor Erol Tutumluer - TRB Geology and Properties of Earth Materials Section Best Paper Award
Professor Erol Tutumluer of our CEAT Faculty research group and the CEE Department's Transportation Engineering group, and his advisee and co-author, Phillip Donovan, are recipients of the Transportation Research Boards (TRB) Geology and Properties of Earth Materials Section Best Paper Award for their paper, "Use of Falling Weight Deflectometer Testing to Determine Relative Damage in Asphalt Pavement Unbound Aggregate Layers." This paper was based on research findings in the CEAT project "Analysis of NAPTF Trafficking Dynamic Response Data For Pavement Deformation Behavior." The award was presented at the Mineral Aggregates Committee Meeting during the TRB 88th Annual Meeting on Monday, January 12, 2009.
CEAT PhD Student, Phillip Donovan - FAA Student of the Year Award
The FAA presented the DOT FAA Centers of Excellence Student of the Year Award to Phillip Donovan, UIUC CEE PhD candidate, on Thursday, February 19, 2009 on the UIUC campus. Phil is performing research on the influence of offset wheel loads on the strength and durability of unbound aggregate layers in airport pavements. His work has contributed to the FAA project on Analysis of NAPTF Trafficking Dynamic Response Data for Pavement Deformation Behavior by identifying trends in the accumulation of permanent deformation due to aircraft wander. Phil is a major in the US Air Force and is a licensed engineer. His research work is sponsored by the FAA through CEAT.
Phil Donovan was also the co-author with Professor Erol Tutumluer, his adviser and co-author, who are recipients of the Transportation Research Boards (TRB) Geology and Properties of Earth Materials Section Best Paper Award for their paper, "Use of Falling Weight Deflectometer Testing to Determine Relative Damage in Asphalt Pavement Unbound Aggregate Layers." This paper was based on research findings in the CEAT project "Analysis of NAPTF Trafficking Dynamic Response Data For Pavement Deformation Behavior." The award was presented at the Mineral Aggregates Committee Meeting during the TRB 88th Annual Meeting on Monday, January 12, 2009.