Rate My Professor Joseph Tillman

Joseph Tillman serves as Instructor and Program Coordinator of Construction Management in the School of Technology at Eastern Illinois University. His faculty profile appears across several programs, including Construction Management, the Bachelor of Applied & Art Science in Applied Engineering, Engineering Technology, and listings under the Physics department. Located in Klehm Hall, Tillman provides academic advising for Construction Management students and is the primary contact for the program, featured on pages for program highlights, honors program, gallery, and course rotation. The course rotation lists offerings such as TEC 3414 – Project Management and TEC 2004G – Materials Science and Evaluation under his program's department contact details.

Tillman's scholarly contributions focus on renewable energy technologies, particularly vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT). He authored 'Improvements to Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Blades to Aid in Self-Starting' in 2011, cataloged as an other contribution in Eastern Illinois University Scholars @ EIU. He also co-authored 'Wind Power Technologies: A Need for Research and Development in Improving VAWT’s Airfoil Characteristics,' published in the Journal of Industrial Technology, Volume 27, in 2011, with Rigoberto Chinchilla and Samuel Guccione, both from Eastern Illinois University. These works are preserved in EIU's Faculty Research & Creative Activity repository in The Keep. Tillman serves as advisor for the Society of Women Engineers - EIU Chapter. He chaired the search committee for the Assistant Professor position in Engineering Technology & Industrial Technology. University spotlights, such as those from EIU Lumpkin College on Instagram, highlight him as an Engineering Technology instructor who previously worked as an adjunct at EIU. His teaching spans departments including TEC, CMG, and EGT.