The Georgia Tech Civil and Environmental Engineering Department’s newsletter included a writeup about the four NSF Graduate Research Fellowships recipients in the transportation group this year. The other three students besides myself are all in my graduate office: Brent Weigel, J.P. O’Har, and Brittany Luken. The article also congratulates the other two students in our [...]
In December of last year, Robert Milton visited our research group at Georgia Tech. As the former CEO of Air Canada, he arranged for us to travel to Montreal and spend a day at Air Canada’s headquarters.
During our recent visit, we met with the Vice President of Network Planning and the Vice President of Revenue [...]
In June, back at the Fulbright Pre-departure Orientation in Washington, D.C. which I helped facilitate at, I was interviewed by Fulbright staff for a series of videos they were producing about the Fulbright experience. They told me they’d let me know when it was up, but it actually got posted over three weeks ago! Check [...]
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 [...]
An article I wrote for the Regional Plan Association is published this week in their online publication Spotlight On The Region.
The title is Boarding Buses in Bangladesh, a description of the transportation system in Dhaka, the unique aspects of the buses, and the infrastructure challenges Dhaka faces to update its system to meet its swelling [...]
An article I wrote at the request for stories by the U.S. Fulbright program was chosen to be featured on the front page of the U.S. State Department’s Fulbright program website. It also is featured in the top bar of the Bangladesh specific page. I wrote about my experience during Ekushey February here in Dhaka, [...]
My blog was featured in the May 2008 issue of North Carolina State University’s Engineering Department’s E-newsletter. The article is titled Blogging from Bangladesh: Alumnus chronicles life in Asia and it did a great job of covering all aspects of my time here. It references some of the more exciting blog posts I’ve had in [...]
My blog EngineerRower in Bangladesh was featured on the front page of the IIE’s U.S. Fulbright Program’s website from March 25. The (very) short news posting mentions my project but also my nightly badminton games!