Professor, Associate Department Head, and Director of the Center of Excellence for Airport Technology, University of Illinois

Dr. Lange has been on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Narbey Khachaturian Faculty Scholar since 1992. He teaches in the area of civil engineering materials, repair of civil structures, systems engineering, and engineering economics. His research focuses upon behavior of concrete materials in concrete pavement applications, characterization of microstructure of porous materials, early age properties of concrete, and water transport in repair and masonry materials. Dr. Lange is a fellow of the American Concrete Institute and a fellow of the American Ceramic Society. He formally served as Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Cement Based Materials (ACBM), and remains active in ACBM research activities. Dr. Lange was a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award and has been recognized for his excellence in teaching at UIUC. He has been awarded two Portland Cement Association Faculty-Student Fellowships. From 1981 to 1987 he worked as an engineer at Boeing Military Airplane Company, Wichita, Kansas. Dr. Lange earned his MBA from Wichita State University in 1984 and his Ph.D. in 1991 from Northwestern University.