Month: June 2019

Students: Candace Brakewood (GaTech) Advancing Science in America Fellowship, Fall 2012 Grady Carrick, Doctoral student (UF) STC Poster Competition at TRB, January 2012 Amy Cavaretta, Master’s student (UF) Thomas J. O’Bryant Fellow, Eno Center for Transportation, Washington, D.C., 2012 Harley Cooper, M.S. 2012 (UNC Chapel Hill) Elsie Van Dyke Dewitt Fellow, 2011-2012 Shannon Denny, Undergraduate […]

Faculty: Dr. Randal Guensler (GaTech) Research Innovation Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil Engineering, Atlanta, GA Dr. Robert W. Peters (UAB) Emmett B. Carmichael Award, Alabama Academy of Science for Outstanding Paper, Journal of Alabama Academy of Science Dr. Daniel Rodriguez (UNC Chapel Hill) Excellence in Safety Research for Active Living Poster Award, […]

Faculty: Dr. Virginia Sisiopiku (UAB) Fellow, Institute of Transportation Engineers Dr. Scott Washburn (UF) College of Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Adviser/Mentoring Award for 2014-2015 Students: Gauen Alexander (UAB) ALSITE Billy T. Jones Memorial Scholarship, 2014 Margaret-Avis Akofio-Sowah (GaTech) Leadership Legacy Graduate Scholarship Thomas Chase, Pruthvi Manjunatha and Don Watson 2nd Place, UF Traffic Bowl Team, 2014 Xuanwu […]

Faculty: Dr. Lily Elefteriadou (UF) ASCE James Laurie Prize Students: Thomas Chase (UF) ITE FL Section Institute Traffic Scholarship Xuanwu Chen (FIU) 3rd Place, STRIDE Student Poster Competition, TRB 2015; Poster title: Improved Macroscopic Vehicle Emission Model Utilizing MOVES Estimation based on Operation Mode Distribution Somaye Fakharian Qom (FIU) 3rd Place, Best Student Essay Award, Intelligent Transportation […]

Staff: Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S. (UF) Administrative Leadership Award, Council of University Transportation Centers/American Road & Transportation Builders Association Students: Jack Cabe (GaTech) 3rd Place Student Paper, American Planning Association/Transportation Planning Division; Title: An Evaluation of “Road Diet” Projects on 5-Lane and Greater Roadways Chelsea Dyess (GaTech) 3rd Place Winner, STRIDE Student Poster Competition, TRB 2016, Washington, […]

Faculty: Chris Cunningham (NCSU) Jay Quinn Technical Excellence Award, North Carolina Section of ITE Dr. Mohammed Hadi (FIU) Paper Award, Transportation Research Board Freeway Operations Committee College of Engineering Faculty Research Award Dr. Dimitra Michalaka (The Citadel) ITE Legacy Fund Scholarship Dr. Virginia Sisiopiku (UAB) Educator of the Year, Engineering Council of Birmingham (ECOB) Shannon […]

Faculty: Dr. Kweku Brown (The Citadel) Vice Chair of Engineering Graphics Division, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Southeast Section (SE) Dr. William J. Davis (The Citadel) Graham Copeland Professor of Civil Engineering, Chair of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Director of Construction Engineering at The Citadel Dr. Mohammed Hadi (FIU) Best Paper Award, Transportation […]

Faculty: Dr. Lily Elefteriadou (UF) ASCE Harland Bartholomew Award Recognition for Past President of the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Students: Leila Azizi, FIU 3rd Place, STRIDE Student Poster Competition, TRB Poster Title: “Use of Connected Vehicle Data for the Estimation of Safety Performance Considering Emerging Technology Adoption” Abhilasha Jairam Saroj, GaTech 2nd Place, […]

PIs: Nina Barker, UFTI/T2 and Leslie Washburn, P.E., UFTI The University of Florida STRIDE effort will participate in the four K-12 outreach activities and propose another activity. We will work with local engineering firms and alumni to subsidize these outreach activities whenever possible with sponsorship and donations, which can be counted as STRIDE match funds. […]

PI: Virginia Sisiopiku, Ph.D. The proposed project expands K-12 engineering workforce development and outreach efforts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) that introduce transportation engineering as a career to students and parents. Exposing young students and parents to transportation will help to recruit more and brighter students to the transportation field. The proposed […]