Christopher P. L. Barkan
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois
United States of America
Biography
Christopher P.L. Barkan is Professor, Executive Director of the Rail Transportation and Engineering Center (RailTEC), and George Krambles Faculty Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.A. (1977) from Goddard College and his M.S. (1984) and Ph.D. (1987) from the State University of New York at Albany. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center before joining the Association of American Railroads (AAR) in 1988 where he worked for 10 years in the Research & Test and the Safety & Operations departments in Washington, D.C. He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in 1998.
Research Interest
Structural Engineering, Societal Risk Management
Publications
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Barkan, C.P.L., P.T. Kostecki, and E.J. Calabrese (Eds.) 1997. Principles and Practices for Diesel Contaminated Soils: Volume VI. Amherst Scientific Publishers, Amherst, MA. 121 pp.
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Andes, R.P., C.P.L. Barkan, P.T. Kostecki, and E.J. Calabrese (Eds.) 1998. Principles and Practices for Diesel Contaminated Soils: Volume VII. Amherst Scientific Publishers, Amherst, MA. 182 pp.
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Reis, H. and C.P.L. Barkan 2002. (Eds.) Nondestructive Testing for the Railroad Industry, Topics on Nondestructive Evaluation (TONE) Series -Volume 5, The American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Columbus, Ohio. 267 pp.
