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- Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
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- UIC Distinguished Professor and Department Head
Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian is a UIC Distinguished Professor of transportation systems and head of the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering. He received his PhD from University of Toronto in 2002 and has been at UIC since 2003.
Mohammadian's research covers various areas of transportation systems including travel behavior analysis, travel surveys, computational analysis of transportation systems, freight and logistics modeling, and agent-based microsimulation models. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 scholarly publications in scientific journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, and reports. He is an editor of the Journal of Transportation Letters and has served as committee chair of the Traveler Behavior and Values committee (ADB10) of the National Academies' Transportation Research Board. He chaired two Transportation Research Board subcommittees: Behavioral Processes (ADB10-4) and New Technologies in Travel Surveys (ABJ40-4).
Mohammadian has received the Ryuichi Kitamura Paper Award, Fred Burggraf Award, and Charley V. Wootan Award, recognizing his contributions to transportation research. He has advised 22 PhD students and has received the Harold Simon Teaching Award, Teaching Recognition Program Award, and the Edmund M. Burke Outstanding Faculty Award, along with the UIC College of Engineering's faculty teaching, advising, and research awards. Mohammadian served as the vice chair of the University of Illinois Senate Conference and as vice chair of UIC's Senate for several years.
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- Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
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- UIC Distinguished Professor
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- Graduate Program Coordinator
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- Clinical Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Construction Engineering and Management Program
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- Senior Vice President, Sargent & Lundy Nuclear Power Technologies
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- Chief Bridge Engineer, Chicago DOT
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- Deputy Operations Manager / Construction Executive, Turner Construction Company
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- President, Brindley Engineering Corp
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- President / CEO, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd
- Professor of Practice
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- Transportation Group Leader, Patrick Engineering Inc
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- Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
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- Engineering
- Professor of Practice
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- Associate Professor / Materials Engineering
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- Senior Civil Engineer, T.Y. Lin International, Inc
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- Clinical Professor and Director of the Construction Engineering and Management Program at UIC
- Clinical Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Construction Engineering and Management Program
Dr. Hossein Ataei is Clinical Professor and Director of the Construction Engineering and Management Program at UIC. He is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies at Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering Department. Ataei is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (F.ASCE). He is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the United States (States of Nevada, Texas, and Wyoming) and a registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Canada (Provinces of British Columbia and Ontario). Ataei's academic and professional interests are in the fields of Construction Engineering and Project Management, Forensic Engineering, Construction Claims, Construction Financial Management, and Professional Engineering Education. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Ataei worked in project management, business administration, engineering management consulting for large infrastructure projects with the leading global Engineering, Procurement, and Construction firms. Dr. Ataei serves the engineering profession as an ABET Accreditation Program Evaluator (PEV) for Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering programs across the US and internationally. He has a PhD in civil engineering from University of Southern California, and holds masters degrees in Civil Engineering (MSCE), Construction Management (MCM), and Business Administration (MBA). The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE - Illinois Section) awarded Dr. Ataei as the "2021 Construction Engineering Person of the Year."
Research Interests
Construction Engineering and Management
Integrated Project Management in Civil and Construction Engineering
Forensic Engineering
Professional Engineering Education, and Engineering Ethics and Professionalism
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- Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- Senior Program Manager, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
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- Parsons / Patrick Engineering
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- Vice President, Transystems
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- Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
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- Managing Partner, Orion Engineers, LLC
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- Project Manager, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Technical Services Supervisor
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- Clinical Associate Professor
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- Technical Services Supervisor
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- Assistant Professor / Materials Engineering
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- Technical Services Supervisor
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- Professor, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
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- Vice President, Clark Dietz, Inc
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- Assistant Vice President, F.H. Paschen
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- Visiting Assistant Professor
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- Principal, Unit Manager, and Associate Director of Practice Development, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates
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- Office Support Specialist
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- Research Associate Professor / Civil Engineering
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- Associate Professor, Richard and Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering
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- UIC Distinguished Professor and Department Head
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- Research Associate Professor
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- Senior Project Manager, Lochner
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- Secretary, Illinois Department of Transportation
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- Professor, University Scholar & Distinguished Researcher
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- Office Support Specialist
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- Technical Services Supervisor
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- Graduate Program Coordinator
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- Assistant Professor in the Civil and Materials Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Chicago
Sara Kadkhodaei is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Materials Engineering department at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She received her B.Sc degree in Civil Engineering in 2009 from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry and in Materials Science from Brown University in 2013 and 2016, respectively. She was a postdoctoral research associate under the supervision of Prof. A. van de Walle at Brown University until January 2019. Dr. Kadkhodadei's research interest is in developing theoretical models to predict phase stability and understand the underlying mechanism for different materials-related phenomena. In addition, her research focuses on the development of software toolkits and high-throughput computational and machine-learning frameworks.
S. Kadkhodaei and A. van de Walle. Free energy calculation of mechanically unstable but dynamically stabilized bcc titanium. In Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Materials Science, MRS Fall 2014 Meeting & Exhibition, BOSTON, MA, USA, 2014.
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- Clinical Associate Professor
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- Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
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- Chief of the Engineering and Construction Division, USACE, Chicago District
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- Visiting Assistant Professor
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- President, Infrastructure Engineering, Inc
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- Instrument & Measurement Technician
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- Professor and Director, the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy
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- Professor and Director, the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy
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- Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
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- Instrument & Measurement Technician
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- Engineering Manager, Parsons