http://www.donaldkatz.com EngineerRower Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:20:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The paper which I presented at the Transportation Research Board annual meeting has been chosen to be published in the the Transportation Research Record. The paper, entitled “Levels of Overcrowding in the Bus System of Dhaka, Bangladesh”, was co-authored by my advisor at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/03/03/first-paper-publication/ This past week I presented a version of my paper "Levels of Overcrowding in the Bus System of Bangladesh" at the Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference. The conference is put on by the Student Government Association and is hosted in the Georgia Tech Hotel. 300 posters were up by ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/02/13/gtric-2010/ 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 ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/02/08/semester-2-at-georgia-tech/ Along with the Georgia Tech chapter of ITE, I attended the Transportation Research Board's 89th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. from January 10-14. Over 10,000 transportation professionals, educators, and students attend this conference which is held in three hotels along Connecticut Avenue (Marriot, Omni Shoreham, and Hilton). This was my third ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/01/26/trb-2010/ Over the winter break I traveled to Israel on the Taglit Birthright Israel trip. My sister and I had been planning for years to take this trip together, and we chose this winter immediately after her graduation to go. We decided to travel with the group from her alma mater, ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/01/25/birthright-trip-to-israel/ 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 ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2009/12/21/first-graduate-semester-complete/ Last Friday, Robert Milton, Chairman and former CEO of Air Canada, paid our air traffic/airport lab a visit.  A lifelong aviation enthusiast, Mr. Milton graduated from Georgia Tech in 1983 and worked for nearly a decade in several areas of the airline industry, before finding his way to Air Canada ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2009/12/16/robert-milton-visit/ 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 ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2009/12/11/georgia-section-ite-scholarship/ 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 ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2009/11/17/phd-at-georgia-tech/ I received notice today that my paper on my overcrowded Bangladesh bus research has been accepted to be presented at the Transportation Research Board 2010 Annual Meeting. The paper is titled "Levels of Overcrowding in the Bus System of Dhaka, Bangladesh" and is co-authored by my advisor at the Bangladesh ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2009/10/21/paper-accepted-to-trb/