CENE Professor conducts Transportation Research that could benefit you!
Professor Ed Smaglik is spearheading two transportation research projects that could improve traffic flow. Funded by the NAU Intramural Grant Program, the first project is in the area of flow based traffic control. State of the practice traffic engineering only provides information to a traffic controller regarding whether or not a vehicle is present in a defined area, not how efficient that area is. This project expands on work completed as part of NCHRP 3-66, Phase 1, simulating the proposed algorithm developed as part of this research, with the goal of determining what impacts this type of control will have on traffic measures of effectiveness.
Also, the Arizona Department of Transportation will be funding a project to develop performance measures for a signalized intersection by leveraging the existing infrastructure at a signalized intersection. By enhancing the traffic control cabinet at a signalized intersection, data can be collected and then used to analyze a signalized intersection with greater precision than current practice. This is Phase I of a 3 phase project, with the ultimate goal of developing a portable data collection module that the sponsor can deploy at locations around the state, providing additional traffic data at minimal extra cost. Phase II was selected for funding for FY09, and is expected to commence in Summer 2009.
ASCE Student Competition in Hawaii
ASCE Students will be heading to Honolulu, Hawaii in early April to compete in the 2009 Pacific Southwest Regional Conference. Some of the competition categories include the Concrete Canoe, the Steel Bridge, and the Environmental Competition.
Our ASCE students have won the Environmental Competition the last two years in a row!
For more information visit http://pswrc2009.asce-uhmanoa.org/.
Students working on the steel bridge capstone project
2009 Lyman A. Ripperton Environmental Educator Award goes to one of our own!
William M. Auberle, Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Environmental Sciences and Studies, has been awarded the annual Lyman A. Ripperton Environmental Educator Award by the Air and Waste Management Association for 2009. The Lyman A. Ripperton Award is awarded for distinguished achievement as an educator in some field of air pollution control. It is awarded to an individual, who by precept and example, has inspired students to achieve excellence in all their professional and social endeavors. It recognizes the abilities that only a few in the education profession possess -- to be able to teach with rigor, humor, humility, and pride.
Professor Auberle has been at NAU since 1991 when he arrived to begin the program in Environmental Engineering. He also started the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) and has been instrumental in the initiation of numerous other environmental programs at NAU.
CENE Professor to represent NAU at Global Education Forum
Dr. Paul Trotta, CENE Professor and Advisor to Engineers Without Borders at NAU (EWB-NAU), will be representing NAU at a Global Education Forum in Philadelphia on March 20th. NAU has received a special invitation to participate in this event sponsored by the American Association of Universities and Colleges (AAUC). NAU’s goals relating to Global Education, Diversity, and Sustainability are epitomized by the activities of NAU’s chapter of EWB and the common themes of NAU and EWB will be presented in dialogue forums and poster sessions.
Professor Trotta shakes hands with the village Chief
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News from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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2009 Lyman A. Ripperton Environmental Educator Award
2009 Pacific Southwest Regional Conference
More photos of steel bridge capstone project
NAU EWB - Top Chapter in the Nation for Donations to Parade Magazine's Network For Good
Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP)
