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A room packed with engineering students and transportation professionals sat intently listening to three experts present on automated and connected vehicles (AV/CV) at the 5th Annual WTS Transportation Symposium. This topic, currently sizzling hot in the transportation industry, was addressed from the academic, public and private sector perspectives. Automated vehicles (AV) are at the top […]

Passionate. Thoughtful. Caring. These are just some ways to describe Griffith Jones, a clinical associate professor of science education at the UF College of Education. He is someone who has devoted his life to teaching science and spreading awareness about driver safety. Jones’ own education began at a small liberal arts college known as Florida […]

On October 13, 2015 Dr. Lily Elefteriadou traveled to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Annual Convention in New York City to receive her previously announced 2015 James Laurie Prize. This prize was awarded to her for her contributions in advancing the field of transportation engineering and “For outstanding leadership as one of the […]

Jackson is a first-year civil engineering doctoral student from South Carolina, specializing in transportation, who entered the program this past fall. She is projected to complete her degree in four to five years and is currently working on research studies on autonomous vehicles. “Specifically, I am looking at the various perceptions of vehicle safety and […]

Born, raised and educated in Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Myoseon Jang’s life has been as bustling as the city she’s from. Though here at the University of Florida, we are familiar with her research in air pollution, that isn’t the area she got started in. After completing her bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Ewha Women’s […]

Have you ever tried to drive through campus on a Gator Gameday? You’ll find it impossible – not just because there are thousands of gator fans crowding the campus, but also because there are road blockades and police directing you elsewhere. To some who don’t enjoy the games, this can be pretty inconvenient or downright […]

The American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) has awarded UFTI’s very own Dr. Lily Elefteriadou with the Ethel S. Birchland Lifetime Achievement Award. ARTBA advocates for strong investment in the U.S. transportation design and construction industry. It also hosts the Women Leaders in Transportation Design and Construction (WLTDC) Council, which promotes leadership and career […]

Applications for the STRIDE Transportation Research Internship Program for summer 2016 are now accepted. Juniors and seniors who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents with a 3.0 GPA or above are eligible to apply. The internship program is designed for students to learn about transportation engineering and participate in cutting-edge research. This is a paid […]

REMINDER! Prospective Ph.D. Students – Your application is due December 15th Through the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (HWCOE), the UFTI has six fellowships available in the amount of $6,000 each for students from any department in the HWCOE accepted into a Ph.D. program and who will be conducting transportation-related research. This one-time fellowship named […]

On Friday, October 9, 2015, seven students attended the American Concrete Institute’s (ACI) Concrete Field Testing Technician training and certification course on the University of Florida (UF) campus in Gainesville. The attendees were a mix of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students under the supervision of Dr. Chris Ferraro, P.E., in the Engineering School of Sustainable […]