8/29/2022
CEE alumnus Halil Ceylan (MS 95, PhD 02) is one of three individuals from across campus who has been awarded the University of Illinois Alumni Association’s Alumni Achievement Award for 2022.
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CEE at Illinois alumnus Halil Ceylan (MS 95, PhD 02) is one of three individuals from across campus who has been awarded the University of Illinois Alumni Association’s (UIAA) Alumni Achievement Award for 2022. The award is the highest honor bestowed upon alumni by the University of Illinois Alumni Association on behalf of the University of Illinois. It is presented to those alumni who have attained outstanding success and national or international distinction in their chosen profession or life’s work, and whose accomplishments reflect admirably on or bring honor to their Alma Mater.
“CEE is very proud one of our own alumni won the highest honor conferred by the UIAA,” said CEE Department Head Ana P. Barros. “Professor Ceylan earned his Ph.D. in CEE exactly 20 years ago, and has since built an impressive career in transportation engineering. In 2021, he received the CEEAA Distinguished Alumnus award and the James Laurie Prize for significantly advancing transportation engineering with his career contributions in smart, sustainable and resilient transportation infrastructure systems from ASCE. We are thrilled!”
Ceylan is the Pitt-Des Moines Inc. Professor in Civil Engineering and the founding Director of the Program for Sustainable Pavement Engineering and Research at Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University (ISU), where he has been teaching, conducting research, and mentoring graduate students and research staff as a faculty member since 2002. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineering, and Chair of the Geo-Institute’s Pavements Committee and Transportation and Development Institute’s UAS Impacts Task Force Committee. Ceylan received the CEE Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2021, for "demonstrated leadership, significant noteworthy research achievements, education, mentoring and training of next generation engineers; and for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the field of transportation engineering."
The other UIUC alumni receiving this award are David Hafemeister (MS 60, PhD 64) from the Grainger College Department of Physics; and Amber McReynolds (BS 01) from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. The UIAA will honor these three alumni, as well as winners of other 2022 UIAA awards, at the UIAA’s annual Awards Gala on October 13, 2022.