Eugene Jud Receives ITE Western District Outstanding Educator Award

ITE International Director Jenny Grote visited the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering today to formally present the 2014 ITE Western District Outstanding Educator Award to our own Eugene Jud. We were pleased that (l-r) Prof. Dan Jansen, CEE Department Chair and Kaylinn Roseman, 2013-2014 ITE Student Chapter President, joined Eugene and Jenny for the ceremony. We all congratulate Eugene for this honor and thank him for his dedicated service to Cal Poly and to our students!

Victor Knoop from TU Delft Visits Cal Poly

We were very pleased to welcome Dr. Victor Knoop, Assistant Professor from the Department of Transport and Planning at the Delft University of Technology to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo today! Victor presented his research on lane changing to students in CE 528 Transportation Economics and Analysis. I was honored that Victor was my first visitor! We had a great presentation and discussion of lane changing in today's traffic management strategies as well as we transition to further automation and connectivity in transportation.

Peter DeFazio Transportation Hall of Fame Award

It was a great honor to receive the Peter DeFazio Transportation Hall of Fame Award on September 15, 2014 from the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC). Past recipients included: Dick Feeney, Stefano Viggiano, Gail Achterman, Andy Cotugno and Bruce Starr. The award is shared with students, predecessors, colleagues, supporters, agency colleagues and many others. I know that OTREC will continue to be at the forefront of innovative and collaborative multimodal transportation research and education!

Cal Poly Week of Welcome

It was great to meet the freshman class of Cal Poly Civil and Environmental Engineering students during their annual Week of Welcome (WOW) on September 17, 2014 in the Main Rec Center Gym. They met their professors, department chair and student leaders for all of the CEE clubs. This was followed by lunch and further WOW activities. I'm looking forward to a great year!

Ogden Transport Lecture

I was honored to be selected to deliver the 2014 Ogden Transport Lecture, at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne Australia, sponsored by the Institute of Transport Studies (ITS), Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University on August 27, 2014. This lecture series honors Prof. Ken Ogden who founded the ITS at Monash in 1969. I appreciated the opportunity to meet Prof. Ogden and many other leaders in the transport arena in the State of Victoria. I also thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to meet with many of the Monash students who are focusing their research in the transport area. Prof. Majid Sarvi and his colleagues were wonderful hosts, and I truly appreciated their hospitality. A special treat was to see Dr. Meead Saberi who was my student at Portland State University, who went on to receive his Ph.D. at Northwestern University and is now a Lecturer at Monash. Many thanks to all for a wonderful experience.