This past week was the Ph.D Written Comprehensive Exam for the transportation engineering group. The four day test was intended to measure our ability to think through transportation problems, evaluate our ability to develop a research idea, and assure we have the technical abilities to proceed with the Ph.D program. Overall, there was a significant [...]
Last week was the final meeting of the school year for the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Georgia Tech student chapter. Our chapter recently won Chapter of the Year for the Southern District (composed of 9 states) as well as the Traffic Bowl competition at the SDITE Annual Meeting. It was the first time in many years [...]
My graduate studies are now in their second semester at Georgia Tech. This semester I am taking the following courses, the first of which is required for my curriculum. They are listed below along with the instructors’ names.
CEE 6605 - Transportation Administration and Policy (Dr. Michael Meyer)
CEE 6631 - Signalized Intersections (Dr. Michael Hunter)
CP 6514 [...]
My first semester at Georgia Tech wrapped up well. 15 credit hours of coursework was certainly challenging, but taking this heavy load now is going to free up time for research in future semesters.
It was my first season on Georgia Tech Crew. The team’s rowing stroke took some getting used to, but being on the [...]
This past month I was awarded a scholarship from the Georgia Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, one of four students in the state to receive one. Three of us were from Georgia Tech and a fourth was from Southern Polytechnical State University.
Yesterday we attended the monthly meeting of the Georgia Section of the [...]
I have made the decision to pursue a Ph.D here at Georgia Tech. This decision has come after several months of tossing the idea around in my head, conversations with professors and fellow students, and discussing it with my family. My advisor does not think it too ambitious to complete an MS in Civil Engineering [...]
My graduate studies have begun this week at Georgia Tech. I have received my desk in the transportation lab, spoken with my advisor about possible research topics, and begun classes. This semester I am taking the following courses, the first four of which are required for my curriculum. They are listed below along with the [...]
My graduate school decision process is finally complete, I have chosen to attend Georgia Tech starting this autumn. My advisor will be Dr. Michael Meyer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. At Georgia Tech, I intend to pursue a dual degree program to earn a Master of Science in Civil Engineering and a [...]
On April 3, I attended MIT’s visitation day for prospective students in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. After a breakfast for all students visiting the department, those of us who were accepted into the Master of Science in Transportation program, about twenty of us, were taken by Dr. Joseph Sussman to go through our [...]
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) [...]