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C2SMART’s Interns
Mentoring the next generation of transportation engineers.
For the second summer in a row, C2SMART welcomed four students from the ARISE program to its lab. The program, based at NYU Tandon, brings academically strong New York City high school students with an interest in STEM subjects to campus for a full-time seven-week program, including a month spent par- ticipating in research in a lab with a graduate student mentor.
During the summer 2019 program, Ph.D. students Suzana Duran Bernardes and Reuben Juster served as the intern mentors, teaching them to use SQL, GIS and a transportation-specific software. The students then put those skills into practice on multiple research projects, including building on an existing project fo- cused on bike safety by investigating the effect of car proximity on cyclist stress levels.
In addition to the ARISE interns, the Center had several undergraduate interns this year, including: Tania Bteish, American University of Beirut; Sara Alanis, NYU Abu Dhabi; Alicia Ting Luo, NYU Shanghai; and Matthew Shen, NYU Tandon. Prof. Joseph Chow, systems engi- neer Abdullah Kurkcu and Ph.D. candidate Jingqin Gao supervised and mentored the interns.
C2SMART Faculty Judge Forbes Idea Incubator Challenge
Deputy Director Joseph Chow and C2SMART PI Sarah Kaufman served as judges for the Forbes Idea Incubator Challenge, an event sponsored by Audi in which female students at NYU Tandon pitched concepts for ways to address the impact that electric vehicles and related infrastructure will have on urban mobility. The event is an extension of Audi’s sponsorship of the 2018 Forbes Women’s Summit, held in New York June 18-19.
The winning team, made up of Tandon undergraduate students Tasmia Anika, Aida Mehovič, Nicole Lyons, and Vidya Gopalakrishna, devised an idea for a system that would split power distribution at electric vehicle
charging stations. Their proposed device would both allow more vehicles to be charged at existing power stations and provide data to city planners that could be used to optimize further infrastructure development.
“Given that one of our criteria was the feasibility of the solution, they really excelled in that category,” Dr. Chow said of the team.
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