ITE Student Chapters around the United States are reaching out to high school students to help them get a head start in higher education in STEM through special mentoring and outreach programs. The ITE National STEM Committee reached out to Suzana Duran Bernardes, a Ph.D. candidate in NYU Tandon’s Transportation Engineering and Planning program, a…
2020 brought a wealth of challenges to educators and students alike: quarantine, virtual learning, and a necessary shift of research practices and possibilities. Throughout, C2SMART’s student researchers rose to the occasion again and again, and we are proud of the incredible work they produced. We are thrilled to congratulate our incredible students on being awarded…
Di Yang wins Northeastern District Student Paper Award! C2SMART is proud to announce that student researcher Di Yang has been selected for the Institute of Transportation Engineers Northeastern District Daniel B. Fambro Student Paper Award in recognition of his paper, “A novel representation and discrimination of traffic risk of signalized intersections: An exploratory study using functional data analysis”. Di…
C2SMART Student Researcher Wins Outstanding Dissertation Award C2SMART is proud to share that student researcher Zhengbo Zou’s dissertation, entitled “Towards Emotionally Intelligent Buildings: An Integrated Approach to Quantify Human Emotions in Designed Spaces” has received an Outstanding Dissertation Award from NYU in the urban studies category. The dissertation, which explores how to improve built environments…
ITE/ITS Women in Transportation Forum Spring 2021 On February 24th, the NYU ITE/ITS Student Chapter hosted the third annual Women in Transportation panel. The event started with a short Trivia game about women representation in the transportation field. The panelists shared their advice for women to succeed in leadership positions, their experiences with gender inequality,…
Running Successful Student Chapters: Experiences from NYU and Cal Poly SLO On Tuesday, January 26, current ITE co-President, Logan Wagner and former chapter President Jannie Gao hosted a webinar on running successful ITE student chapters, along with Katie Lee and Cody Lim from Cal Poly SLO. The hosts shared anecdotal experiences of the two chapters…
Haoran Su Receives Eisenhower Fellowship Since its inception in 1983, the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) has supported students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines. This program benefits the transportation workforce by attracting the nation’s brightest minds to the field of transportation, encouraging future transportation professionals to seek advanced degrees, and helping to retain top…
Dan McCabe Named C2SMART’s 2020 Outstanding Student of the Year The C2SMART Center has selected Dan McCabe, a master’s student in the Transportation Engineering at University of Washington, as its 2020 Outstanding Student of the Year. This annual award recognizes a student from one of C2SMART’s consortium member schools based on accomplishments in three areas:…
TransportationCamp 2020 TransportationCamp NYC 2020 returned to C2SMART and NYU Tandon to foster open conversations on mobility and collaborate to address the radical changes experienced by transportation globally. Transportation Camp is an unconference–unlike a traditional conference, the specific session topics were determined by participants, which provided each attendee an opportunity to lead and shape the…
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Shipping and Trucking Industry Student Voices is a student-driven blog series for which students share research and provide their opinions on all matters smart cities and transportation; this post comes from Siva Sooryaa Muruga Thambiran, a Senior, pursuing a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Tandon. The COVID-19 pandemic…