http://www.donaldkatz.com EngineerRower Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:40:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en These past two weeks I visited Lisbon, Portugal for the 12th World Conference on Transport Research. I attended the conference along with my advisor Dr. Michael Meyer and fellow Ph.D student J.P. O'Har. The conference, with over 1500 attendees, was held at the Centro de Congressos de Lisboa along the ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/07/18/world-conference-on-transport-research-2010/ Earlier this month I visited Helsinki, Finland for the annual Helsinki Summer School in Transportation. This summer workshop is held at Aalto University School of Science and Technology. It is organized by Dr. Antti Talvitie, a professor at Aalto University, and Dr. Shinya Kikuchi, a professor at Virginia Tech's National ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/06/21/helsinki-summer-school-in-transportation-2010/ A fellow student in my department who recently earned a Fulbright Scholarship pointed out to me the back cover of his recently received orientation booklet. There were two color photographs on the back, and one was of me pedaling a rickshaw in Dhaka in 2008. It was taken during my ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/05/25/fulbright-orientation-booklet/ 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 ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/05/21/mentioned-in-georgia-tech-civil-engineering-news/ 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. ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/05/16/phd-written-comprehensive-exam/ 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 ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/05/06/ite-presentation-and-new-role/ I received notice this past week from the National Science Foundation that I earned a fellowship in this year’s Graduate Research Fellowship competition. This was the second year I applied; I received an Honorable Mention in 2009. I will be using the fellowship for my Ph.D work at Georgia Tech. http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/04/11/nsf-fellowship/ A new page for the website is now up. Over the past couple of months I slowly put together a sort of rowing resume, listing out the clubs I have been a part of, coaches I've rowed under, and leadership roles I have served. I may add in the results ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/03/23/new-rowing-section/ 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 ... http://www.donaldkatz.com/2010/03/20/visiting-air-canada/ 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/