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roberto sarmiento is recognized by the special libraries association
Roberto Sarmiento of the Northwestern University Transportation Library is the 2009 winner of the Professional Achievement Award from the Transportation Section of the Special Libraries Association. This award has been given since 1982 and acknowledges not only service to the association itself but to transportation libraries and librarianship worldwide. The award was publicly conferred during the recent 100th Annual meeting of SLA in Washington, D.C.
iTI Mourns the loss of research engineer
daniel hogan
Dan Hogan has been a Research Engineer with ITI since 1993. He was the REG's resident expert in welding, machine shop work, and photography. He was heavily involved with Civil Engineering student activities, most notably Northwestern's student ASCE chapter. He will be greatly missed by everyone at ITI and beyond.
Chicago Tribune Obituary
Tracking the REG: June, 2009
This month, ITI sponsored The Midwest Bridge Working Group Spring 2009 session. ITI Research Engineers were present to provide video documentation of the event as well as attend the session. The meeting was held on Tuesday June 2 at the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) District One Division Office in Schaumburg, IL. The meeting ended with a tour of the IDOT traffic control center. The following day, Working Group attendees went on a field trip to a forthcoming IDOT lift bridge rehabilitation project. For more information visit the Midwest Bridge Working Group Website.
Tracking the REG: May, 2009
This month, the REG made several visits to the One Museum Park West construction site in downtown Chicago to add sixteen additional sensors to Professor Richard Finno's structural health monitoring system. As the construction proceeds, the REG adds more and more sensors until the construction is complete. The sensors, vibrating wire strain gages on "sister" bars, measure the load carried by each section of basement slab as soil is excavated from beneath it as part of a top-down construction operation.
Tracking the REG: April, 2009
In May, The REG traveled to Naples, Florida, to update the instrumentation in a test structure near a limestone mine used for Prof. Dowding's research into the effects of blast-induced ground motion, weather, and occupant activity on structures. The REG installed new structural response transducers in two rooms and also installed a wind speed and direction sensor outside to allow direct correlation of wind loading to structural response.
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Supporting the ASCE student Chapter Infrastructure tour of San Francisco, March, 2009
This month, a portion of the REG traveled with the Northwestern University Student ASCE Chapter to San Francisco, CA, to tour various infrastructure projects around the area. Students toured the multi-billion dollar San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge project currently underway, Caltrains stations and maintenance facilities, and other projects of interest.
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November 12-13, 2009
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