T&DI News
UCLA coaching legend Sue Enquist said, “Life is a team sport; it's not about you”. Right now, United States sports fans have the opportunity to watch great teams compete in multiple sports including baseball, football, hockey, basketball and soccer (fútbol). If you watch the best of these teams, you will see individual players flawlessly performing their assigned roles while seamlessly working together to achieve excellence. Many of us play a role on a team delivering excellence in transportation and development. These teams often have more than...
November 20, 2024
This position is elected by the membership of T&DI. The Governor is expected to participate in the monthly Board meetings (2 face-to-face meetings annually and monthly teleconferences in-between. The face-to-face meetings are generally 1.5 days and the teleconferences generally last no more than 90 minutes.) In the first year, the governor acts as the Institute's Treasurer. The Treasurer works with the Institute Director on...
November 20, 2024
As the new ASCE year begins, it is my pleasure to serve as T&DI president and I look forward to the coming year. As I write this, it is less than a week since Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida. First and foremost, I want to extend my thoughts and prayers to those affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton and to those who continue to rebuild in the aftermath of these and other extreme weather events. As ASCE past president Marsia Geldert-Murphey stated in her message following Hurricane Helene “civil engineers will be there..."
October 24, 2024
Navneet Garg, Ph.D., F.ASCE, program manager for the National Airport Pavement and Materials Research Center at the Federal Aviation Administration, joins T&DI’s FY25 Board as ASCE President-Elect’s appointee. Garg works in the FAA’s Airport Technology Research & Development arm. His journey and career in civil engineering has been a rewarding one, helping him...
September 18, 2024
On behalf of the Jack E. Leisch Fellowship committee, T&DI is pleased to announce Francisca Kasubi, a Ph.D. Candidate at Florida International University, as the recipient of the 2024 Jack E. Leisch Fellowship. The Jack E. Leisch Fellowship is a memorial to the outstanding professional accomplishments and contributions of Jack E. Leisch, M. ASCE, to the fields of geometric design, traffic engineering, and transportation planning. Ms. Kasubi’s research focuses on traffic operations to mitigate the...
July 11, 2024
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Jianming Ma, Ph.D., P.E., PMP, M.ASCE, has been elected for the 4-year position on the Board of Governors of Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI) of ASCE. His term will commence October 1, 2024. With his election, he will be on track to serve as T&DI’s President for FY26.
May 23, 2024
John Corbin has been appointed to serve a two-year term on the FY25 Board of Governors, with term beginning on October 1, 2024. Mr. Corbin is the Emerging Mobility Technologies Program Manager within the Office of Operations of the Federal Highway Administration. He is also adjunct faculty in engineering at...
April 17, 2024
Jianming Ma, Ph.D., P.E., PMP, M.ASCE, has been selected by T&DI’s Board of Governors as the Official Nominee for the 4-year position on the Board of Governors, commencing October 1, 2024. Additional nominees for the 4-year position on T&DI’s Board of Governors may be submitted through a petition process, the details of which are provided below.
March 18, 2024
Dr. Tutumluer is the Abel Bliss Professor in Engineering, Paul F. Kent Endowed Faculty Scholar, and Director of International and ZJUI Education Programs in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a trailblazer in the realm of...
February 07, 2024
Dr. Heng Wei is currently a professor of transportation systems and engineering, the director of the civil engineering program, and the founding director of the Advanced Research on Transportation Engineering and Systems (ART-Engine S Lab) at the University of Cincinnati (UC). Prior to joining UC in 2004, Dr. Wei was a...
February 07, 2024