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The WTS Florida Gator Student Chapter at UF hosted a workshop titled “Harmonizing Life: Words, Work and the World Around Us”, which was presented by Marsha Anderson Bomar, a principal at Stantec. The workshop was held on the evening of March 24, 2015 at a classroom in the UF College of Engineering. The audience included […]

Trey Hamilton, Ph.D., is a professor in the Structural Engineering group in the Department of Civil Engineering at UF. He is an affiliate faculty with the UFTI and a member of its Internal Steering Committee. Hamilton specializes in sustainable structure design, specifically in the durability of reinforced and prestressed concrete. “I look at existing structures […]

UFTI’s T2 Center is a leader in training Florida’s transportation workers, particularly in the area of asphalt pavement construction. With several million miles of roads requiring frequent maintenance and resurfacing, asphalt training on its mixtures, materials and applications is of particular importance to the state. The Florida Department of Transportation recently needed their Construction Training […]

Yinan Zheng is a third year Ph.D. student in UF’s transportation program. She was always interested in engineering, as both her parents were engineers. She completed her undergraduate degree in civil engineering in China, but wasn’t sure what her focus would be. She did know one thing – she wanted to learn from a particular […]

Due to the high number of injuries and fatalities on Florida’s roadways, the state is the focus of many national safety initiatives. One such initiative is to offer Road Safety Assessments (RSAs) courses at no cost to Community Traffic Safety Team (CTST) members. The courses are currently managed through the UFTI’s T2 Center. The RSA […]

Dr. Lily Elefteriadou has been selected by the Transportation and Development Institute to receive the 2015 James Laurie Prize for her contributions in advancing the field of transportation engineering and “For outstanding leadership as one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of traffic operations, traffic flow theory and simulation and her research which […]

The McTrans Center is well known internationally for its software, so programmers are the first personnel to come to mind. But McTrans has found that UFTI students are ideally suited to test software during implementation. “McTrans has been funding students to assist in several facets of the software development process from the beginning,” said Bill […]

Sandra Winter, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor in the UF Department of Occupational Therapy (OT). She has been affiliated with the transportation program for various years, while working on a project developing a safe driving behaviors measure for older adults, which was funded by a grant from a 2007 USDOT University Transportation Center (UTC) […]

Transportation professionals are able to expand their knowledge and qualifications in transportation planning and engineering with the Transportation Operations & Planning Certificate. The nine-credit certificate includes courses in transportation systems operations, highway capacity analysis and transportation policy and planning. Students take three of the four available courses and receive a “B” or better. The courses […]

The deadline to apply for the TRIP internship program is just around the corner, so if you are interested, apply by March 18, 2015.  The summer internship begins May 21, 2015 and ends July 31, 2015. Undergraduate students that are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and hold junior or senior status are eligible to apply.  […]