Tuesday, July 12th, 2016 Railway Engineering Education Symposium (REES)

7:45	Registration (Newmark Lab - 2nd Floor Lobby)
8:15	Safety Briefing (Room 2311) Tyler Dick, UIUC AREMA Welcome (Room 2311) Mike Pochop, Hanson Professional Services UIUC/NURail Welcome (Room 2311) Chris Barkan, NURail Center Director, UIUC
8:30	REES: Past, Present and Future (Room 2311) Pasi Lautala, Michigan Tech
9:00	Parallel Modules 1. Track Structure Design Tutorial – Conrad Ruppert, UIUC (Room 1311) 2. Introduction to Motive Power – Tyler Dick, UIUC (Room 2312)
10:15	Break (2nd Floor Lobby)
10:30	Parallel Modules 1. Track Geometry Tutorial – Pasi Lautala, Michigan Tech & Tyler Dick, UIUC (Room 1311) 2. Train Performance Simulation Tutorial & Vehicle Dynamics Tutorial – Dave Clarke, UTK (Room 2312)
11:45	Networking Lunch (NCEL Crane Bay)
12:45	Parallel Modules 1. Interactive Classroom Activities – Pasi Lautala, Michigan Tech (Moderator) (Room 1311) 2. Signal & Communication Tutorial – Chris Barkan, UIUC (Room 2312)
14:00	Parallel Modules 1. Rail Bridge Design – Mat Fletcher, Hanson & Dimitris Rizos, USC (Room 1311) 2. Railway Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Course Content Development: Discussion – Bryan Schlake, Penn State Altoona (Moderator) (Room 2312)
15:15	Break (2nd Floor Lobby)
15:30	Railway Curriculum and Program Development Discussion (Room 2311) John Betak, UT - Austin/Rutgers (Moderator)
17:00	Dinner and Keynote Address (Room 2311) Brian Lindamood, Director of Capital Projects, Alaska Railroad & AREMA President

Wednesday, July 13th, 2016 – REES Field Visit

7:30	Depart Campus (NCEL Lobby)
9:00	Field Visit to Railway Facilities (Norfolk Southern Yard and Dispatching Center, Decatur IL)
11:30	Depart Decatur for Champaign (NS tour attendees receive box lunch on the bus)
12:00	UIUC RailTEC Research & Innovation Lab (RAIL) tour attendees depart (NCEL Lobby) (Lunch on your own.)
12:30	RAIL Tour (North Champaign)
13:30	Arrive Campus (NCEL Lobby)

         Developing the Next Generation of Railroaders

14:30	Safety Briefing (Room 2311) Tyler Dick, UIUC STEM: The Root of Railway Engineering Education (Room 2311) Tyler Dick, UIUC
14:45	Outreach to Women, Minority and K-12 Students: Invited Presentations (Room 2311) 14:45 NovaCANE & Other Outreach Programs – Leslie McCarthy, Villanova University 15:00 Minority Outreach at GSU – Ellen Foster Curtis, Governors State University 15:15 WeGoCEE – Cassandra Rutherford, UIUC
15:30	Outreach and Increasing Student Awareness of Railway Careers Discussion/Workshop (Room 2311) Leslie McCarthy, Villanova University (Moderator) Interactive workshop and small group discussions
16:30	Break & Walk to Illini Union, Group Photo
17:00	Reception, Poster Session & Interactive K-12 Exhibits (Illini Union 314A/B)
17:45	3 Minute Thesis Competition (Illini Union 314A/B) Conrad Ruppert, UIUC (Moderator) Chen-Yu Lin (UIUC) - Fault Tree Analysis of Adjacent Track Accidents on Shared-Use Rail Corridors Maen Farhat (UIC) - Innovative Fully Precast Retaining Wall System for Highway and Railroad Applications Ahmed El-Ghandour (UIC) - Coupled Finite Element and Multibody Dynamics for Studying Bridge Approaches Sumanth Kalluri (Mich Tech) - Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Road and Multimodal Transportation Options – A Case Study of the Copperwood Project
18:30	Dinner and Keynote Address (Illini Union 314A/B) “Engineering at CSX:  We Make Tomorrow’s Moves Possible” Chuck Gullakson, Assistant Chief Engineer, CSX Transportation (Keynote Speaker)

Thursday, July 14th, 2016 – Rail Industry & Academia: Strengthening Bonds

7:45	Safety Briefing (Room 2311) Conrad Ruppert, UIUC Opening Remarks (Room 2311) Chris Barkan, NURail Center Director, UIUC
8:00	Recruitment and Workforce Development: Discussion Panel (Room 2311) Pasi Lautala, Michigan Tech (Moderator) Industry panel with reactions to 2015 workshop on improving coordination between academia and industry on student placement
9:45	Break (2nd Floor Lobby)
10:00	Experiential Learning through Collaborative Research with Industry: Invited Presentations (Room 2311)         Conrad Ruppert, UIUC (Moderator) 10:00 Collaborative Track Research at the University of Kentucky: Partnerships for Productivity - Reg Souleyrette, UK 10:20 Industry Collaboration through Senior Design/Enterprise Projects - Pasi Lautala, Michigan Tech 10:40 NURail Collaborative Research Projects at UIC - Mohsen Issa, UIC 11:00 RailTEC Infrastructure Group Approach to Experiential Learning -  Riley Edwards, UIUC
12:00	Box Lunch & Student Leadership Council Update (Room 2311) Tyler Dick & Chen-Yu Lin, UIUC
13:00	"Beyond Traffic 2045" and the Future Roadmap for Railway Research: Discussion/Workshop (Room 2311) Conrad Ruppert, UIUC (Moderator) Interactive workshop and small group discussions on how academic research relates to challenges facing the railway transportation mode over the next 30 years as identified by U.S. DOT in “Beyond Traffic 2045”: -How we move -How we move things -How we move better -How we adapt
14:15	Closing Remarks Chris Barkan, NURail Center Director, UIUC
14:20	Adjourn General Session
14:30	Executive Advisory Board (EAB) Meeting – Members Only (Conference Room 3350)
14:30	NURail PI Meeting – Closed Session (Conference Room 3218)
15:00	EAB & NURail PI Meeting – Closed Session (Conference Room 3350)
16:30	Adjourn