Welcome to UIUCHome of the Center of Excellence for

Airport Technology

“…we can see a long way in all

directions…

“Our commerce, ourideas, come and go in all directions…

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

Surveying the Boneyard Creek

Urbana boarding house residents

John Milton Gregory

First regent of the University of Illinois

“True education is always liberal.”

Altgeld Hall (1897)

Served as the University’s first library (but was quickly outgrown)

Grainger Engineering Library (1994)

The photoelectric photometer

First used in the University’s Astronomical Observatory

• 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.

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

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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

Made the compact disc possible, and invented Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)

Nick Holonyak, Jr.

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Steve Dorner, developer of Eudora

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NCSA team and Marc Andreesendeveloped first graphical browser in 1993

The Department of Civil and Environmental

Engineering

Our proud history

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

Hardy Cross• Developed the method of

moment distribution for statically indeterminate frames which revolutionized structural analysis

• 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)

Nathan M. Newmark

Notable Figures in CE History

• Ven T. Chow– Founding father of

channel hydraulics

• Ralph Peck– Pioneer in

foundation engineering

Ira O. Baker

Clement C. Williams

John B. Webb

Frederick H. Newell

Engineering Facilities and Landmarks

Beckman Institute

Engineering Hall and the Alma Mater

Grainger Engineering Library

Campus Landmarks

Current Researchin CEE

Advanced Transportation Loading System (ATLaS)

• The ATLaS simulates wheel loads on pavements

NEES and MUST-SIM

• Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)

• Multi-Axial Full-scale Sub-Structuring Testing & Simulation Facility (MUST-SIM)

TARP and River models

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

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WaterCAMPWS• Water quality research

Other major research centers at UIUC

• Center for Advanced Cement Based Materials (ACBM)

• Mid-America Earthquake Center

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…the next endeavor

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