On March 19, the University of California-Berkeley’s transportation engineering faculty and students hosted myself and four other potential graduate students. This was not the main visitation for prospective transportation students, which on April 10 clashed with my family trip to Cleveland, but instead was an Open House for the entire Civil and Environment Engineering (CEE) [...]
This year’s Fulbright Annual Report mentions my experience in its short section on Bangladesh. Each country has one to two short blurbs about Fulbright Scholars and Fulbright Students that visited in the last year. Also in the Bangladesh section is a blurb about Dr. Ahrar Ahmed from Black Hills State University in South Dakota. I [...]
On March 13, the University of Texas’s transportation engineering faculty and students hosted myself and two other potential graduate students. The students held a cookout on Thursday night and I was introduced to 20+ folks in the program at one time. For this visit, graduate students offered up their places for us to stay, so [...]
Last week Dr. Moshe Ben-Akiva from MIT called me to let me know I was accepted into their Master of Science in Transportation program. In the follow-up email they informed me I would be funded through the MIT Energy Initiative Fellowship. This was the last school I was waiting to hear from. Their visitation is [...]
On March 6, Georgia Tech’s transportation engineering faculty and students hosted myself and three other potential graduate students. The students of the program gave us a tour of campus and the Sustainable Education Building which houses the transportation labs and faculty offices. In the afternoon I had the opportunity to talk with five faculty members, [...]
The end of February marked my last day at the Regional Plan Association. On February 26 I presented my study on high speed rail in the Northeast Corridor to RPA staff and one of my interviewed stakeholders. I have taken comments from the presentation and used them to update my report. I still have more [...]