Florida Department of Transportation District 7 Program Management and Specialty Engineering Seminar
On Friday, March 5, 2021, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Kelli Bradley and Megan Miller will present the seminar “Florida Department of Transportation District 7 Program Management and Specialty Engineering” To view the seminar, click on this link: Join...
Managing Epidemics by Managing Mobility
Assistant Professor Samitha Samaranayake from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University recently won a NSF grant for his project titled, “Managing Epidemics by Managing Mobility.” Other collaborators on this project are Daniel...
UTEP Tracks Traffic-Related Air Pollution Near Regional School Zones
Last Updated on October 07, 2020 at 12:00 PM Originally published October 07, 2020 By Christina Rodriguez UTEP Communications The University of Texas at El Paso’s Department of Civil Engineering was awarded $30,000 by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality...
Drone Integration – Where are we now and where are we headed?
An upcoming webinar hosted by USF will be held virtually on Friday, October 2nd at 12 noon ET via Microsoft Teams (conference ID is 495 510 442#) Mr. Jay Merkle, Executive Director of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration...
CTECH researcher and UTEP M.S. candidate, Emiliano Ruiz, Strives to Optimize Airport Security Screening Checkpoints
Anahy Diaz | September 18, 2020 Emiliano Ruiz Emiliano Ruiz is the definition of hard work. As a civil engineering graduate student at The University of Texas at El Paso, Ruiz has strived to achieve success and help his community by working alongside engineering...
Steep NYC traffic toll would reduce gridlock, pollution
By Blaine Friedlander June 22, 2020 New York City is among the most congested traffic spots in the world. Soon, in an effort to ease some of the Big Apple’s legendary gridlock – and make the air more breathable – driving a car into midtown Manhattan will cost you. New...
Smart parking software could ease congestion, save time
By Melanie Lefkowitz June 8, 2020 New smart parking software developed by Cornell researchers, which matches drivers with parking garage spots based on travel time and other factors, could reduce congestion and emissions while saving drivers the time of circling to...
Cornell farm tractor gets clean, green biodiesel makeover
ProvidedLawrence Li ’21 installs the Optimus Technologies’ Vector System, which allows biodiesel to power this 2006 John Deere tractor. By Blaine Friedlander May 21, 2020 A week before the Ithaca campus shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, members of an...
CTECH Awards the 2020 CTECH Ph.D. Dissertation to Cornell Grad Student
Anne M. Burton was awarded Cornell’s 2020 CTECH Ph.D. Dissertation Award. She is working towards her Ph.D. in Economics with Professor John Cawley. Her dissertation title is “Do Uber and Lyft Reduce Drunk Driving Fatalities?” The project investigates whether Uber and...
Smart intersections could reduce autonomous car congestion
By Melanie Lefkowitz December 16, 2019 In the not-so-distant future, city streets could be flooded with autonomous vehicles. Self-driving cars can move faster and travel closer together, allowing more of them to fit on the road – potentially leading to congestion and...