| 8:30am | Tour of Metra/Amtrak Operations Center – Preregistration Required (Jody Plahm, UIC, and Greg Godfrey, Amtrak) |
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| 9:30am | Tour of Metra/Amtrak Operations Center – Preregistration Required (Jody Plahm, UIC, and Greg Godfrey, Amtrak) |
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| 11:00am - 7:00pm | Registration | UIC Student Center West - 2nd floor lobby |
| 1:00pm - 1:30pm | Student Leadership Council meeting Tyler Dick, UIUC (Moderator) |
206AB |
| 1:00pm – 1:30pm | NURail Affiliate Member Presentation Pasi Lautala, Michigan Tech (Moderator) Dimitris Rizos, University of South Carolina (Moderator) |
Thompson A |
| 1:30pm – 3:00pm | Technical Advisory Committee discussion Conrad Ruppert, UIUC (Moderator) |
Thompson A |
| 3:00pm – 3:15pm | Break | 2nd Floor Lobby |
| 3:15pm – 4:30pm | Improving Student Placement in Rail Industry Discussion/Workshop David Clarke, UTK (Moderator) |
Thompson A |
| 4:30pm – 5:30pm | SDP breakouts/workshop | |
| 1. Vehicle - Track Interaction Conrad Ruppert, UIUC (Moderator) |
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| 2. Safety and Risk Rapik Saat, UIUC (Moderator) |
206AB | |
| 3. Network Capacity Planning David Clarke, UTK (Moderator) |
213AB | |
| 4. Urban, Regional and HSR Passenger & Funding and Economic Development Stephen Schlickman, UIC (Moderator) Joseph Sussman, MIT (Moderator) |
216AB | |
| 5. Multimodal Freight Transport Reginald Souleyrette, UK (Moderator) |
Thompson A | |
| 5:30pm - 6:00pm | SDP Wrap-up Conrad Ruppert, UIUC (Moderator) |
Thompson A |
| 6:00pm | Reception and Poster Session | Thompson C |
| 6:15pm | 3-Minute Thesis Competition Conrad Ruppert, UIUC (Moderator) |
Thompson C |
| 1. Sandeep Sasidharan "Infrastructure-less Indoor Navigation System" |
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| 2. Sam Levy "Capacity Challenges on the California High-Speed Rail Shared Corridors" |
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| 3. Hamed Pouryousef "Hybrid Optimization of Train Schedules (HOTS) Model" |
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| 4. Samantha Chadwick "Predicting Derailments at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings" |
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| 7:00pm | Dinner and Keynote Address Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mitra Dutta Vice Chancellor for Research, Distinguished Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, UIC |
Thompson B |
| 6:30am - 9:00am | Registration | 2nd floor lobby |
| 7:00am - 7:30am | Breakfast | 2nd floor lobby |
| 7:30am – 7:45am | Welcoming Remarks | Thompson A |
| Ahmed Shabana, UIC, and Steve Schlickman, UIC | ||
| Christopher Barkan, NURail Center Director, UIUC | ||
| 7:45am – 8:30am | Education Showcase: NURail Graduates in Action | Thompson A |
| Placement statistics (NURail and non-NURail students) Additional Student Testimonials Pasi Lautala, Michigan Tech (Moderator) |
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| Student Testimonials and Panel Discussion Michael McHenry, UK/TTC Brandon Van Dyk, UIUC/Vossloh Marcella Bondie, UIC-CUPPA Joel Carlson, MIT/Consultant Garrett Fullerton, UIUC/CN Ahmed Aboubakr, UIC-COE/Gamma Technologies |
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| 8:30am – 9:30am | Research Showcase – Part 1 Conrad Ruppert, UIUC (Moderator) |
Thompson A |
| 8:30am Craig Foster, UIC-COE "Coupled Multibody and Finite Element Modeling for Simulating Vehicle-Track-Substructure Interaction" |
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| 8:50am Chen-Yu Lin and Rapik Saat, UIUC "Shared Rail Corridor Adjacent Track Accident Risk Analysis" |
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| 9:10am Pasi Lautala and David Nelson, Michigan Tech "Exposing Undergraduate Students for Railway Research/Development" |
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| 9:30am – 9:40am | Group Photo | Courtyard |
| 9:40am – 10:00am | Break | 2nd floor lobby |
| 10:00am – 11:30am | Research Showcase – Part 2 Conrad Ruppert, UIUC (Moderator) |
Thompson A |
| 10:00am Reginald Souleyrette, UK "Rail Crossing Improvement Strategies" |
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| 10:20am Joseph Sussman, MIT "Rail as a Complex Sociotechnical System" |
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| 10:40am James Labelle, UIC-CUPPA "Off Peak Delivery Project" |
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| 11:00am Asad Khattak, UTK "Trespassing Crash Injury - Role of Pre-crash Behaviors" |
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| 11:30am – 12:30pm | Lunch & NURail Partner Student Organization Highlights Partner Student Organization Highlights Tyler Dick, UIUC (Moderator) NURail Student Leadership Council Samuel Levy, MIT (Moderator) Presentation on Student Collaboration James O’Shea, UIC (Moderator) Teng "Alex" Wang, UK (Moderator) |
Thompson B |
| 12:30pm – 1:45pm | Outreach, Workforce Development and Tech Transfer Showcase: NURail in Action Christopher Barkan, NURail Center Director, UIUC (Moderator) Click here to watch a recording of this session. |
Thompson A |
| Company/Industry Testimonials and Panel Discussion Doug Whitley, Supply Chain Innovation Network of Chicago Robert VanderClute, Association of American Railroads Ryan Kernes, GIC Nikkie Johnson, Michigan DOT Sergio "Satch" Pecori, Hanson Professional Services Inc. Michael McLaughlin, Chicago Transit Authority Vinaya "Vinny" Sharma, Sharma & Associates Michael Franke, Amtrak |
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| 1:45pm | Closing Remarks Christopher Barkan, NURail Center Director, UIUC |
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| 1:50pm | General Public Adjourn | |
| 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Executive Advisory Board Members – Closed Session | 204 |
| 2:00pm - 2:30pm | NURail Principal Investigators Meeting | 206AB |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Executive Advisory Board with NURail Partners – Closed Session | 206AB |