CEE News

A Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student receives two Awards

Neha Mittal, a Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student, received the Greater New York Women\'s Transportation Seminar (WTS-GNY) 2005 \"Leonard Braun Memorial Graduate Scholarship\" Award in the amount of $2,500. In addition, Neha also received a University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) Scholarship Award in the amount of $1,000.

A Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student has been selected to be an Eno Fellow.

Michail Gkolias, a Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student, has been selected to be an Eno Fellow by the Eno Transportation Foundation’s Board of Regents. Michail ranked second among 54 exceptional candidates. The Eno Transportation Foundation was founded in 1921 by William Phelps Eno who pioneered the field of traffic management in the United States and Europe. Mr. Eno sought to promote safe mobility by ensuring that traffic control became an accepted role of government and traffic engineering a recognized professional discipline.

A Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student receives September 11 Memorial Program Award

Jeevanjot Singh, a Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student, was declared one of the winners of the inaugural September 11 Memorial Program Awards for Transportation Planning presented by the New York
Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) for 2005-2006.

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) established the September 11th Memorial Program for Regional Transportation Planning to honor the memory of three employees it lost during the attack on the World Trade Center. The program was established to educate and motivate people interested in transportation technology and planning and to encourage innovations in planning activities throughout the NYMTC region.

Meeting USDOT Secretary Norman Mineta

Patrick Szary, Associate Director, Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT), and Matthew Bryant, Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student, met USDOT Secretary Norman Mineta at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 85th Annual Meeting held in Washington, D.C. in January. The TRB Annual Meeting is a premier transportation research event that many of our faculty attend. This year the meeting attracted more than 9,000 transportation professionals from around the world.