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This upcoming summer graduation we will be saying goodbye to Yinan Zheng, who will be graduating with her Ph.D. in civil engineering. Zheng’s friendly and radiant personality will certainly be missed by faculty and fellow students. Zheng has been a great student, skillfully balancing her graduate studies and research with extra-curricular activities such as serving […]

A few months ago, we spotlighted one of our master’s students, Larry Dorilus. Now we are saying a bittersweet goodbye to him as he graduates this spring, but the Gator Nation will never be far from his mind. “There are two kinds of people in this world,” he explained. “Florida Gators and those that wish […]

The University of Florida, along with the University of North Florida and the City of Jacksonville, has partnered with the MetroLab Network. Made up of 35 city-university partnerships, their focus is to bring data, analytics, and innovation to local government. Launched in 2015 as part of the Obama administration’s Smart Cities initiative, it is supported […]

It’s hard to believe this all began in 1986 as a grant from the Federal Highway Administration to create the McTrans Center. With the introduction of personal computers and the proliferation of software for the traffic engineering and transportation planning profession, a mechanism was needed to connect research to practice – and McTrans is still […]

Transportation is expansive, and there’s a place for everyone. Though Samantha Taningco didn’t quite know her place when she came to the University of Florida in 2009. A Civil Engineering major, she was interested in structures but wasn’t sure what path she wanted to take. That was until she took Introduction to Transportation with Dr. […]

  Each year the University of Florida’s Benton Engineering Council (BEC) organizes an Engineering Fair (E-Fair) to promote engineering education amongst K-12 students. This two-day event takes place during BEC’s Engineering Week and allows UF engineering student groups to interact with visiting K-12 students using hands-on activities that the student groups create. This year’s E-Fair […]

Vishal Khanapure’s title at the McTrans Center is computer research specialist, and it truly does fit him. The McTrans Center at the University of Florida Transportation Institute distributes and supports a variety of software programs for traffic engineering and transportation planning applications, with training courses also available. Passionate about his work, Khanapure assists in various […]

If you have ever had a question or needed some information about the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2010) or the Highway Capacity Software (HCS 2010), all you have to do is ask us.  McTrans has been involved with the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Highway Capacity and Quality of Service (HCQS) committee for about thirty years […]

It has been a busy year for civil engineering doctoral student Deja Jackson- and it’s only March!  Jackson has been named one of three students selected from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering to receive the Committee 200 (C200) Scholar Award. It was announced at the Powered to Lead: Transforming the Future as Women Summit […]

Congratulations to University of Florida students Megan McGinley,  Eleftheria Kontou and Yinan Zhang for receiving scholarships from WTS Central Florida and WTS South Florida. Frankee Hellinger Undergraduate Scholarship, 2016 (WTS Central Florida): Megan McGinley Megan McGinley graduated from UF with a B.S. in civil engineering during the 2015-2016 school year. She is now attending UF […]