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Elections for 2017-2018!

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Elections for 2017-2018
Date: Tuesday, May 2nd
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Newmark, Rm. 2310

This is the meeting where we will determine the President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, Webmaster/Publicist, and Graduate Mentor for the 2017-2018 school year for our ACI chapter. Pizza will be provided of course!

ACI Illinois and ACI@UIUC Joint Dinner

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Joint Dinner between ACI Illinois and ACI@UIUC Chapters
Date: Tuesday, March 7th
Time: 6pm
Location: Crane Bay, Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

Concrete: Increasing Performance Leads to Sustainability
Presented by: Sarah Kilroy, P.E.
S.T.A.T.E. Testing, LLC

Ms. Kilroy started her studies towards becoming a civil engineer at the University of Miami – Coral Gables but quickly realized The U of I was the best place to earn a degree in Civil Engineering. Eventually graduating from The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, College of Engineering in 2012, she is very proud to be an Illini. After graduating with her bachelor’s degree, she started at S.T.A.T.E. Testing, LLC; a materials engineering and testing firm based in East Dundee, IL (north-west of Chicago). She has worked with many different local agencies including The City of Chicago DOT and Illinois DOT but spent the majority of the last four years working directly for the IL Tollway Materials Department headed by Steve Gillen. Her main role with the Tollway has been to further develop and manage the Tollway’s Independent Assurance (IA) Program on the I-90 Jane Addams Memorial Tollway widening and reconstruction from 2013 through 2016. During this time, she has performed and managed a significant amount of non-destructive testing with MIT Scan technology. It is a passion of hers to speak out on the importance of dowel bar alignment in jointed plain concrete pavements. She has helped pilot the Tollway’s Portland Cement Concrete Pavement Performance Related Specification testing program in the field and through related training.

Anyone interested in concrete is invited! Dinner and beverages will be provided during the meeting. Please note that the dress code is business casual.

See you there!

LaTeX From Scratch (Workshop)

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Date: Saturday, March 4th
Time: 9am – 12pm
Location: 1310 Newmark

Want to learn LaTeX to give your papers and theses impeccable? Contact us to sign up for the LaTeX From Scratch workshop, hosted by ACI and T&DI at UIUC! The tentative list of topics includes:

General: Headers, Footers, Paragraphs, and References
Thesis: Title, Table of Contents, Chapters, Sections, Subsections, Math, etc…
Graphics: Figures (png eps), Sub figures, Reference labels, Table (inbuilt Macros) and short tables, Referencing Codes etc…

Bhavesh Shirmali will be the speaker for this workshop. He is a second year MS student in the CEE Department researching continuum mechanics, applied mathematics, and scientific computing.

Mathematica Workshop

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Date: Saturday, Feb. 11
Time: 9am to 12pm
Location: 2311 NCEL
Food: Pizza, of course!

Mathematica is a useful tool for efficiently solving symbolic and lagebraic problems that cannot be solved by hand. Nathan Shauer, one of our graduate research assistants and PhD candidates, will be teaching this workshop. He has 3 years of coding and modeling experience in Brazil, and receivd his BS in Civil Engineering in Brazil. He joined our structural engineering group 3 years ago.

Please sign up asap by copying and pasting the following link. We have a 30 person limit!
https://goo.gl/forms/1eA9LtBJNw6n3MSv2

If you do not have Mathematica, employees can download the software for free on Webstore and students can download Mathematica Online for free on Webstore.