Education and Workforce Development is one of the special initiatives of the Board of Governors of the Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI) of ASCE.

The purpose of this initiative is to provide educational opportunities to enhance the career development and continuing professional development of persons involved in the Transportation & Development Institute. In addition, study emerging issues that may impact the practice of transportation engineering and bring them to the attention of the T&DI Technical Committees for action.

Ilgin Guler 2024  

Meet the chair

Ilgin Guler, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE

Dr. S. Ilgin Guler serves as the Chair of T&DI’s Education and Workforce Council. Ilgin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Guler has over 10 years of research, teaching and industry experience on traffic operations. Her research interests include multi-modal urban traffic operations and control, intelligent transportation systems, connected and autonomous vehicles and infrastructure management. Dr. Guler serves as an active member of the Transportation Research Board’s Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics committee (AHB 45) and serves on the Editorial Board of Transportation Research Part C,  as an Editorial Board Editor for Transportation Research Part B, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology.