Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

Congratulations to Chandra Bhat for being selected by the Student Engineering Council to receive the Most Outstanding Faculty Award for Civil Engineering. Congratulations to Ken Stokoe for being selected to receive the 2010 H. Bolton Seed Medal from the Geo-Institute of ASCE. He was recognized “for contributions to geotechnical earthquake engineering including the behavior of [...]

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C. Michael Walton, Professor in Transportation Engineering, was recently awarded the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Road Hand Award. This award is an honored TxDOT tradition to acknowledge those who have made improvements to Texas transportation a labor of love. In the early days of the 20th century, anyone who helped build roads was called [...]

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Joseph A. Yura, emeritus professor, was inducted as an honorary member into the Adademy of Distinguished Alumni. Although he did not attend UT-Austin, his outstanding service to the department as a faculty member is recognized. Each of the new inductees received at least one degree from the department and are outstanding in their field, leaders [...]

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Dr. Richard Klingner, UT Austin. Richard Klingner, an expert in earthquake-resistant design at the University of Texas at Austin, conducted what the industry considers the definitive tests of AAC and was quoted on CNN in an article about the eco-friendly building material. “In my opinion, testing done by me and others has demonstrated that ductile [...]

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Read more about cyling perceptions in an article orginally posted to the Cockrell School of Engineering Website. Archived here.

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UT’s Center for Transportation Research hosted its annual symposium on Wednesday, April 8, 2009. The theme of this year’s symposium was “Back to Basics.” CTR researchers addressed the future pavement and bridge needs in 2030, TxDOT revenue and expenditure trends, vehicle operating costs, stormwater quality improvements, and concrete durability. See photos from the event.

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