Fall 2023 News

Welcome to the December issue of our newsletters, where we proudly showcase the expertise and impactful work of NTC-affiliated faculty and students in the area of infrastructure resilience.
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Dr. Chung Song’s project “Erosion Resistant Rock Shoulder” looked at the effect of flooding and climate change on highway shoulder rocks by testing and developing new methods to evaluate erosion resistance.
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Dr. Steven Corns’s research developed deep learning models to predict river gauge heights in unmonitored locations in Missouri. By using publicly available data from 20 different catchment areas. His project formed a model to efficiently and accurately predict river water level values up to four hours ahead of a flooding event.
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In his project titled “Nebraska Balanced Mix Design”, Dr. Hamzeh Haghshenas Fatmehsari worked to develop a preliminary framework for evaluating asphalt mixtures against three main types of distresses, namely rutting, fatigue cracking, and moisture susceptibility.
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In “A Machine Learning-Based System for Predicting Peak Flowrates of Nebraska Streams”, Dr. Tirthankar Roy addresses the outdated regression equations used to calculate flood attributes in Nebraska basins.
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Dr. Christine Wittich joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in January 2017 and established her lab focused on structural engineering for natural hazards and extreme events. She teaches courses in structural engineering, structural dynamics, steel design, and infrastructure assessment techniques.
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Shivendra Srivastava is pursuing a Doctorate degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering, specializing in water resources. His professional interests include Water Resources Management, Agriculture Management, and Socio-Hydrology.
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Mr. Todd Litman was welcomed to campus the week of October 26 and 27 to share his work with a civil engineering class, partake in the Transportation Engineering Seminar Series, and host a Complete Streets Workshop.
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The Mid-America Transportation Center for Transportation Safety and Equity (MATC-TSE), led by Director Dr. Aemal Khattak, received the US Department of Transportation $15 million grant administered through the US Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Centers program.
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Students, faculty, and staff at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF) have accomplished much in this past year as individuals and part of the University as a whole.
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