SUE MCNEIL

Sue McNeil is Director of the Urban Transportation Center and Professor in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to joining UIC, she was a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research and teaching interests focus on transportation infrastructure management with emphasis on the application of advanced technologies, economic analysis, analytical methods, and computer applications. Other projects relate to brownfield development. She has also developed a graduate course titled Infrastructure Management. Dr McNeil initiated and chaired (1988-1993) the ASCE Urban Transportation Division Committee on Transportation Facilities Management She is an Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems. Professor McNeil was a Presidential Young Investigator from 1987 to 1992. In 1994 she was awarded the Benjamin Teare teaching award. She is a registered professional engineer.

Education

Degrees Field Institution and Date Awarded

Ph.D Civil Engineering Carnegie-Mellon University - Dec 1983, Pittsburgh, PA

M.S. Civil Engineering Carnegie-Mellon University - May 1981, Pittsburgh, PA

B.E.(Hons I) Civil Engineering University of Newcastle - Dec 1977, N.S.W. Australia

B.Sc. Mathematics University of Newcastle - Dec 1975, N.S.W. Australia

Academic Positions Held:

2000 – present Director Urban Transportation Center

Professor Urban Planning and Policy

Professor Civil and Materials Engineering

1999 – 2000 Braun Intertec Visiting Department of Civil Engineering

Professor University of Minnesota

1994 - 2000 Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Engineering and Public Policy

1990 - 1994 Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,

1988 - 1990 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,

Carnegie-Mellon University

1985 - 1988 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1984 - 1985 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering,

Princeton University

1981 - 1981 Instructor, Department of Civil Engineering,

Carnegie-Mellon University

Current Areas of Research

Assessment of the impacts of ownership and contracting mechanisms on infrastructure life cycle performance,

Development of performance specifications for side collisions warning systems for transit buses.

Development of tools to support infrastructure renewal associated with brownfield site development.

Economic analysis calculator for land reuse.

Awards and Honors

American Association of University Women- Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1982.

National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator - 1987-1992

Outstanding Civil Engineering Professor of the Year, ASCE Pittsburgh Section - 1992

Benjamin Teare Teaching Award, 1994.

Teaching Experience

Innovation and Design in Civ Engg Infrastructure Management

Traffic Flow Theory and Operations Public Investment Planning and Pricing

Engineering Economics Computer Applications in Civil Engg

Computer Applications of Statistics Project Management

Brownfield Development

Selected Publications

Kristen Sanford and Sue McNeil, “Infrastructure and Public Works Education: One Size Does not Fit All,” to Appear in the Journal of Public Works Management and Policy in 2001.

Daisuke Mizusawa and McNeil, Sue, "A Conceptual Framework for Asset Management for Japanese Highways," To be presented at 20th ARRB Conference, Melbourne, Australia, March, 2001.

C. Mertz, S. McNeil, and C. Thorpe, "Side Collision Warning Systems for Transit Buses" Proceedings IV 2000, IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, October, 2000.

McNeil, Sue, Mary LynnTischer and Allan DeBlasio, "Asset Management: What is the Fuss?" to appear in Transportation Research Record in 2000.

Adjo Amekudzi and Sue McNeil, "Capturing Model and Data Uncertainties in Infrastructure Performance Estimation," Journal of Transportation Engineering, 2000.

Amekudzi, Adjo, Pannapa Herabat, Kristen Sanford and Sue McNeil, "Educating Students to Manage Civil Infrastructure Systems" Presented at the ASEE conference, May, 2000.

McNeil, Sue, " Vehicle Safety: Transit Buses and Garbage Trucks," Proceedings of the Mid-Continent Transportation Symposium, May, 2000.

Sanford, Kristen and Sue McNeil, "A Practice Oriented Approach to Developing a Data Requirements Model for Bridge Condition Assessment," Transportation Research Record No 1642, 1998.

Lange, Deborah, S. McNeil, J. Pletnicka, J. Horakova, ”Brownfield Prevention: A Case Study in Ostrava, Czech Republic”, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium and Exhibition on Environmental Contamination in Central and Eastern Europe, Warsaw, Poland, September 1998.

Adjo Amekudzi, Paul Fischbeck, James Garrett, Haris Koutsopoulos, Sue McNeil, Mitchell Small, “Computer Tools to Facilitate Brownfield Development”, Public Works Policy & Management, January, 1998.

Heiler, Michael and Sue McNeil, “Interpreting Ground Penetrating Radar Pavement Data” Proceedings of the ASCE Conference on “Infrastructure Condition Assessment: Art, Science and Practice”, Boston, August 1997.

McNeil, Sue, “Management Systems Data Requirements: Boon or Burden?” Proceedings of the ASCE Transportation Congress, San Diego, October, 1995.

Sanford, K., J. Tarr and S. McNeil, “Crisis Perception and Policy Outcomes: Comparison Between Environmental and Infrastructure Crises,” Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Vol 1, No 4, Dec, 1995.

Hendrickson, C. and S. McNeil, “Project Selection from Alternatives,” The Engineering Handbook, A CRC Press Inc. Publication, 1995.

McNeil, Sue, Michael Markow, Lance Neumann, Jeffrey Ordway and Donald Uzarski, “Emerging Issues in Transportation Facility Management," Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol 118, No 4, July, 1992.