The National University Rail Center of Excellence (NURail CoE) was well represented at the 104th Annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) meeting in Washington, D.C. on 5-9 January 2025. NURail CoE partners from University of Delaware, Kansas State University, Michigan Technological University, Morgan State University, Rutgers University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Illinois-Chicago, and […]
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NURail CoE partners present research at University of Delaware’s Big Data Conference
The University of Delaware, one of the nine university partners in the National University Rail Center of Excellence (NURail CoE), a federally funded consortium led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hosted the Big Data Conference on December 11-12, in Newark, Delaware. Approximately 160 guests — which included representatives from the Federal Railroad Administration, […]
Michigan Tech Professor Tran shares research work with UIUC’s RailTEC students
Dr. Quang Tran, an assistant professor at Michigan Technological University (MTU) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni, visited with RailTEC students Neeraj Thakur, Coleman Froehlke and Alex Roskov and Assistant Professor J. Riley Edwards this week on UIUC’s campus. The group discussed shared research interests, and Tran also presented the research work his team […]
USDOT-funded NURail Center of Excellence to advance ‘future of rail transportation’
Federal and state dignitaries, including Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Amit Bose, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, U.S. Representative Nikki Budzinski, Illinois Department of Transportation Secretary Omer Osman, and University of Illinois officials attended the ribbon-cutting event. The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign officially kicked off the University-led National University Rail Center […]