You are here: Home › Big Data in Railroad Maintenance Planning: Evolving Science, Evolving Applications › CEE-Railroad_Big_Data_Conference-121516 CEE-Railroad_Big_Data_Conference-121516 3rd annual Railroad industry Big Data conference hosted by the University of Delaware Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and featuring talks by industry professionals on the impact and use of “Big Data” and analytics on railroad maintenance engineering. Pictured: David Staplin, Deputy Chief Engineer Amtrak (retired) and Chairman of the Railroad Advisory Board at University of Delaware. – (Evan Krape / University of Delaware)