On October 2, 1996, Roger M. Boisjoly, a former engineer in the space shuttle program, gave a talk on the Challenger Shuttle disaster, which occurred on January 26th, 1986.
This was a part of the CSEP 20th anniversary events.

20th Anniversary Speaker, Chicago Commissioner of Transportation, with Director Vivian Weil.

On March 26 1997 on IIT's main campus, William J. LeMessurier, one of the nation's leading structural Engineers told the dramatic story of when he "blew th whistle" on himself in 1978. This lecture was co-sponsored by the CSEP, college of Architecture and the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, and was part of the Ethics Center's 20th anniversary celebration.

At the close of an engineering workshop at Kuwait University in Nov., 1996 for forty faculty members from the engineering science and administrative science faculties, Vivian weil is presented with an award for co-conducting the workshop with CSEP's Michael Davis who also received an award.