Category: Honors and Awards

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator Autonomous vehicles (AVs) use a range of sensors to understand and navigate their environment. They use cameras and other technologies to detect the positions and distances of nearby vehicles, pedestrians, animals and road objects, allowing them to drive safely on our streets and highways. But what happens when […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator, UFTI The UF Institute of Transportation Engineers (UFITE) student chapter has won the Florida Puerto Rico ITE (FLPRITE) District Traffic Bowl competition once again, marking an exciting eight-year consecutive winning streak that speaks to the quality of its students and transportation program. “It feels so surreal to stand […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator, UFTI Two-lane roads were the main source of transportation infrastructure on Lesvos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, where Dimitra Michalaka was born. At age 12, while traveling through Italy with her family, she remembers sitting at the back of a tour bus, watching how bridges crossed […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., UFTI Research/Communications Coordinator Amanda Carpenter, Stacy Hill, and Daniel Soto each came to the Transportation Leadership program from very different careers within the transportation industry, representing areas such as construction, policy, and consulting. In December 2025, the students graduated with master’s degrees in civil engineering, specializing in transportation leadership, demonstrating […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator, UFTI Congratulations to Renan Favero for winning the Daniel B. Fambro Student Paper Award at the Florida-Puerto Rico Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) District Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, on August 12, 2025. Renan Favero is a doctoral student in transportation engineering, conducting research on autonomous shuttles. “This […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator, UFTI Bryce Grame and Gustavo Zschaber, both University of Florida civil engineering graduate students specializing in transportation engineering, won first place during the 3-Minute Student Pitch Competition held as part of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) International Meeting in Orlando, Florida, Aug. 10 – 13. This year, […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator, UFTI The University of Florida Institute of Transportation Engineers (UFITE) Student Chapter recently claimed its second T-Bowl title in 12 years. The competition was held on Aug. 11 during the ITE Annual Meeting in Orlando. Modeled after TV’s “Jeopardy,” the ITE International Collegiate Traffic Bowl – known as […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator Five students graduated on Monday, May 5, from UF’s online master’s degree in civil engineering with a concentration in transportation leadership. To celebrate this very important moment in their lives, the graduates were honored with a reception at the I-STREET Living Lab, the location for UF’s real-world testbed […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., UFTI Research & Communications Coordinator Ian Moore, a student in the online Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) degree program at UF, won second place in the American Planning Association’s (APA) Transportation Planning Division Student Paper Competition for his paper titled “A Review of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Alaska’s […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., UFTI Research & Communications Coordinator Scott Washburn, Ph.D., P.E., a respected faculty member at UF’s Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). This prestigious recognition honors Washburn for decades of leadership and outstanding contributions to the field […]