NTC's Huong Pham received one of the fall 2019 travel grants from the UNL College of Engineering. The award requires applicants to be enrolled in a MS or PhD program in the College of Engineering and must be a first-author on a technical poster or paper for a remote conference or meeting to be presented there. Huong was able to use the fellowship towards her Congrès International de Géotechnique - Ouvrages - Structures (CIGOS) conference trip in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Transportation System Engineering and PhD student and NTC research associate Ernest Tufuor was the first author on a paper that received the 2019 Best Paper Award from the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service. The paper was chosen from the top-ranked papers accepted for publication in TRB. After being presented to the committee at the 98th TRB annual meeting in 2019, “Validation of the Highway Capacity Manual Urban Street Travel Time Reliability Methodology using Empirical Data” was selected as the best paper.
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Santos Ramos, a Ph.D. graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, finished his dissertation project summer 2019 with the Nebraska Department of Defense. In his last step towards graduation he presented and defended the project early August to his advisor Dr. Laurence Rilett, and professors Dr. Aemal Khattak and Dr. Albert Ratner.
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MATC partners with Lincoln-Omaha-Council Bluffs Association of Transportation Engineers (LOCATE) every year for a meet and greet between its members’ organizations and transportation engineering students. This was one of our best turn outs with the booths staying busy for the duration of the meet and greet.
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In Fall 2019 five graduate students, each conducting research at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF), were awarded a Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship. The award is merit based with 150-200 winners annually, making five from the same university a significant acknowledgement.
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As an integral part of the Midwest Pooled Fund Research Program, Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF) has been a leader in the development of crashworthy safety structurers across the United States. The program meets twice a year, one webinar and one in person, to review progress on existing research and discuss projects for the upcoming fiscal year.
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Santos Ramos, a Ph.D. graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, finished his dissertation project summer 2019 with the Nebraska Department of Defense. In his last step towards graduation he presented and defended the project early August to his advisor Dr. Laurence Rilett, and professors Dr. Aemal Khattak and Dr. Albert Ratner.
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