2015 Awards

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 Systems (ITS America), June 2015

Homa Fartash (FIU)
– 1st Place, Anne Brewer Scholarship, ITS Florida
– South Florida WTS Travel Award, WTS South Florida Chapter
– 2nd Place, FSITE Poster Competition

Clark Letter (UF)
– 2nd Place, STRIDE Student Poster Competition, TRB 2015; Poster title: Efficient Control of Automated Vehicles at Freeway Merge Segments
– STRIDE Student of the Year, Presented at the CUTC Awards Banquet, Washington, D.C., January 2016

Eleftheria (Ria) Kontou (UF)
Frankee Hellinger Graduate Scholarship, WTS Central Florida

Md Shahadat Iqbal (FIU)
– 1st Place, STRIDE Student Poster Competition, TRB 2015; Poster title: Predicting Arterial Breakdown Probability: A Data Mining Approach
– 2nd Place, Anne Brewer Scholarship, ITS Florida

Don Watson (UF)
Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship

Yinan Zheng (UF)
WTS Central Florida Chapter Frankee Hellinger Graduate Scholarship, 2015