Engineering Open House (EOH) is an annual event organized entirely by engineering students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is held each spring semester, and draws estimated crowds of 20,000 people including, students, teachers, parents and families, from all over Illinois (and beyond). The Railroad Engineering Program participates in EOH each year by working with major railroads who to set up various exhibits and displays of railroad technology. In 2008, Norfolk Southern and Canadian National (CN) each had displays in Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory.
CN Human Resources personnel met students interested in the rail industry.
Eric Maple from CN explains the dispatching system to a classroom full of EOH attendees.
UIUC graduate student Mark Dingler & CN’s Eric Maple demonstrate CN’s train dispatching system.
An officer from CN explains train safety to EOH students.
CN provided special railroad EOH t-shirts for students visitors to their train dispatching demonstration.
The Norfolk Southern Locomotive Simulator
Vehicle was station just outside of Newmark Lab.
Ronnie Combs of NS explains some of the technology used to train locomotive engineers.
Tickets for students to take a hand at the throttle of the Norfolk Southern locomotive simulator.
Dave Carter teaches a middle-school student about locomotive operation in the NS simulator.
Shane Rice and James Erickson from Norfolk Southern explain the NS truck to students.
Graduate student, Dan Peltier, assisting NS Engineering staff explaining use of railroad track tools to a group of students and parents.
Darwin Schafer explains how railroaders use their tools when they are out in the field.
(From L to R) Bryan Schlake, Darwin Schafer, Dan Peltier, and Mark Dinger at EOH helping to direct traffic to the railroad engineering displays.
John Hart explains his machine vision poster to students attending EOH.
(L to R) John Hart, John Zeman, and Ester Resendiz discuss their machine vision posters.
Ester Resendiz explains her project to some young EOH attendees.
Steven Sawadisavi and Esther Resendiz presented posters describing their research developing machine vision for railroad track inspection.
