Education
Workforce Development | K-12 Activities | Go! Magazine | Workforce Development Summit | Undergraduate and Graduate Activities | Study Abroad | Transportation Scholars Program | Award-winning Transportation Student Association | Tom Maze Transportation Seminar | Students “Flip” over Transportation Course | Midwest Transportation Workforce Summit | Honing Students’ Presentation Skills
Workforce Development
K-12 Activities
A major element of the MTC's mission is providing educational enrichment experiences to K-12 and university students to help them prepare for careers in transportation.
The MTC sponsors many activities to inspire K–12 students to consider careers in transportation. The following briefs and articles tell some of the story:
- Ready, Set, Build: Central Iowa’s Bridge Building Challenge
See also the January 2016 e-newsletter article: Teamwork the focus of student bridge-building challenge - Teaching in the Fast Lane Workshop for Elementary Teachers
See also “Impacts of Teaching in the Fastlane” story - Go! Further Workshop for High School Students
- Transportation Institute for High School Educators
- AASHTO TRAC™ & RIDES activities
- STEM “Learning Jet”
- Research Experience for Teachers
- Math and Science Conference
"I had a general idea before this class started that engineers are problem solvers who love tackling challenging projects, but I really had no idea how the process worked or how specialized it can be. I had never really considered how I could work the terms engineer or engineering into my classroom vocabulary, but now I intend to use them as much as possible."
Go! Magazine

One regular feature of Go! is the web comic Dot's Adventures with Transportation.
The MTC sponsors Go! magazine, a free online publication for teens and young adults that explores the world of transportation and transportation-related careers. Go! offers entertaining and informative articles, a database of transportation careers and educational opportunities, and links to other resources.
Visit Go!'s Facebook page here.
Visit Go!'s Twitter page here.
Workforce Development Summit
On December 7-8, 2015, Shauna Hallmark and Nicole Oneyear represented the Midwest Transportation Center (MTC) at the Midwest Transportation Workforce Summit in Madison, Wisconsin. The event was attended by public and private sector stakeholders in transportation, education, economic development, and other areas seeking to work together to enhance transportation workforce recruitment and development.
Undergraduate and Graduate Activities
Study Abroad
The MTC co-sponsors study abroad opportunities for eligible university students. In May 2015, 10 students took a two-week course “Advanced Topics in Transportation Engineering” at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Taking advantage of Istanbul’s varied public transit system, they made field trips to one of the largest airport construction projects ever undertaken, the regional transit center, and several ancient civil engineering projects including the Haggia Sophia, Roman walls, aqueducts, and an underground cistern.
A similar program is being planned for May 2016 in Rome, Italy.
MTC students and faculty at the Third Bosphorus Bridge construction site in Istanbul
Transportation Scholars Program
The MTC’s Transportation Scholars Program, offered at Iowa State and partner institutions the University of Missouri at Columbia and St. Louis, helps attract high-quality students into transportation-related academic disciplines. Through a “learning laboratory” approach to education, scholars are immersed in research, networking opportunities, and other activities beyond their regular coursework.
Transportation scholars must
- Maintain a 3.0 grade point average
- Participate in a research project or research group (MTC assistantships are provided)
- Attend weekly seminars in spring semester (Tom Maze Transportation Seminar (TRANS 691) described below)
- Participate in one or more transportation student organizations
- Participate in student research paper/poster contest(s)
In addition, scholars are strongly encouraged to do the following:
- Participate in the weekly Transportation Graduate Student Research Seminar during the fall semester (see below)
- Present research results at a conference or through a journal article
- Mentor other students or participate in K–12 workforce development activities
- Participate in the Leadership Institute, a set of online self-directed courses for public agency managers
Scholar activities are highlighted in MTC News. Recent Scholar-focused stories include the following:
Ken Bao named Student of the Year
Student highlight: Nicole Oneyear
Student highlight: Bo Wang
Students receive best paper award at TRB
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Timothy Cope named Student of the Year
Award-winning Transportation Student Association
MTC Transportation Scholars can meet several requirements of the program through membership in the Transportation Student Association (TSA), ISU's student chapter of the Institute for Transportation Engineers (ITE).
The TSA currently has 37 members and three faculty advisors. Dr. Peter Savolainen is the ITE representative, Dr. Jing Dong is the university advisor, and Dr. Anuj Sharma is the ITS America representative. Several recent TSA accomplishments include the following:
- A team of TSA students won the best paper award through the TRB Data Contest.
- For the third consecutive year the TSA won the Outstanding Student Chapter Award in the Missouri Valley Section of ITE (MOVITE).
- TSA members Georges Bou-Saab (president) and Amrita Goswamy won first and second place, respectively, in MOVITE’s best research poster and best research paper competitions.
- In June 2015, three of 10 TSA members who attended ITE’s Midwestern District meeting competed in the Collegiate Traffic Bowl and, for the second consecutive year, TSA walked off with the win. Their prize included financing to travel to the national finals in Hollywood, Florida, August 2–5, 2015.
- TSA members Ellen Nightingale and Patty Thompson were awarded highly competitive Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships.
- Last year members recruited 14 new members after making presentations and generating interest at several venues.
"Your students are doing an incredible job of conducting activities on campus...
and their research is phenomenal."
Tom Maze Transportation Seminar
Named for MTC founder Tom Maze, the spring weekly seminar series (TRANS 691) features nationally recognized speakers. The series is broadcast online in real time to students at MTC partner institutions; broadcast location rotates among ISU, UMC, and UMSL.
See the schedule for spring 2017 below, with links to recorded Adobe Connect presentations.
2018 Presentations
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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1/19 | Elizabeth Luiken, Iowa State University Dean of Students Office | Academic Integrity at Iowa State |
1/26 | Daniel McGehee, National Advanced Driving Simulator Laboratories, University of Iowa | The History and Future of Automated Driving |
2/2 | Timothy Taylor, Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky | $1.7 Trillion Dollars for Infrastructure... Who Will Build It? |
2/9 | David Garber, Florida International University | The Strut-and-Tie Method: A Way to Design Any Concrete Bridge Member (Overview and Recent Developments) |
2/16 | Scott Marler, Office of Traffic and Operations, Iowa DOT | Introductions - Iowa DOT's New Highway Operations Bureau |
2/23 | Eric Fitzsimmons, Kansas State University | Introduction to Railroad Engineering, Kansas Short Line KDOT Study, and Lessons Learned Working with the Rail Industry as a Professor |
3/2 | David Lorenzen, Chief of Motor Vehicle Enforcement for the Iowa DOT | Motor Vehicle Enforcement Activities in Iowa |
3/9 | Girish Chowdhary, Distributed Autonomous Systems Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | The Robots are Coming—to your Farm! |
3/16 | ISU Spring Break, No Presentation | |
3/23 | Luke Harvey, NVIDIA | Deep Learning and Self-Driving Cars |
3/30 | James Ritter and Mike Curtit, Jacobs Engineering | St. Louis Safety Design-Build Project |
4/6 | Timothy Lomax, Texas A&M Transportation Institute | Turning Lots o' Data into Big Data |
4/13 | Mark Hallenbeck, Washington State Transportation Center | Automated Vehicles, the Hype, the Reality, and Possible Futures |
4/20 | Kiel Ova, Traffic Technology Services (TTS) | Deploying an Information Service for Connected Automated Vehicle Applications |
4/27 | Kevin Lee, Kittelson & Associates, Inc. | TBA |
See presentations from previous years
2017 Presentations
- Jim Nelson, Iowa DOT Office of Bridges and Structures and Travis Hosteng, Research Specialist, Institute for Transportation Bridge Engineering Center, Construction of the Massena Bridge and Development of an ABC Integral Abutment Connection
- Peng Wei, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, Low-Altitude UAS Traffic Coordination with Dynamic Geofencing
- Cathy Burrow, Supply Chain Director, Hallmark Cards, Global Logistics - The Hallmark Story: It's Much More than Greeting Cards
- Sebastien Pouliot, Associate Professor of Economics, Iowa State University, Estimating willingness to pay for E85
- Cara Harmann, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Naturalistic and virtual approaches to studying bicyclist risk exposure
- Seung Jae Lee, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Florida International University, Computational Discrete Mechanics for Transportation and Bridge Engineering
- Johanna Amaya-Leal, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain & Information Systems, Iowa State University, Improving Freight Systems in Urban Areas
- John Conway, STEM Alliance Executive Board Member and Future City Team Mentor, How One Can Get From a Converted Gas Station and Transcend to a Life as a Professional Engineer
- Raj Rajesh, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Novel Sensors, New Estimation Algorithms and Active Controls: Technologies for Improving Highway Vehicle Safety and Mobility
- Kumares C. Sinha, Edgar B. and Hedwig E. Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, Current Trends and Future Prospects for Transportation Systems
- Skylar Knickerbocker, Research Engineer, Iowa State University, REACTOR Laboratory Activities
- Bijan Khaleghi, Washington State DOT Office of Bridges and Structures, Innovation in Bridge Design and Construction
- Wendell Cox, Senior Fellow with the Center for Opportunity Urbanism in Houston, World Urban Areas and Urban Mobility
- Carlos Sun, Professor of Civil Engieering, University of Missouri, What Do Steven Spielberg and James Cameron Have to do with Transportation Research?
2016 Presentations
- Jennifer Harper, Missouri Department of Transportation, The Road to Tomorrow — High Tech Approach to Rebuilding I-70
- Dr. Glenn Washer, ThermalStare LLC, Time-lapse Thermographic Imaging for Bridge Inspection
- Mary C. Lamie, St. Louis Regional Freight District, Developing St. Louis as a Major Freight District
- Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, Lambert Airport, St. Louis, Missouri, The Future of Lambert and other Mid-sized Airports in North America
- Darcy Bullock, Purdue University, Using Real-Time Probe Vehicle Data to Manage Unplanned Detour Routes (.pdf download)
- Dr. Kingsley Lau, ABC-UTC, Florida International University, Corrosion Studies, Post Tensioned Bridges (.pdf download)
- Mark Eye & Mike Adams, MU Extension, Transportation Workforce Development Study with: ISU, MU,UW
- Michael Pawlovich, Office of Traffic and Safety, Iowa Department of Transportation, Future Iowa Safety Analysis/Analytics (.pdf download)
- Mike LaViolette, HDR Inc., Construction of the Tappan Zee Bridge
- Mark Mahan and Ron Bromenschenkel, ABC-UTC, California Department of Transportation, Seismic Design (.pdf download)
- Mark Ritchey and Dusty Hoffman, Missouri Highway Patrol, Predictive Analytics the Proactive Use of Highway Crash Records
- Michael B. Johnson, P.E., California Department of Transportation, Transportation Asset Management
- Ryan Fries, University of Illinois, Edwardsville, Traffic—Freight—Safety Issues in the Bi-state St. Louis Metro Area
2015 Presentations
- Neal Hawkins, Institute for Transportation, InTrans Traffic Operations Laboratory
- Shauna Hallmark, Institute for Transportation, MTC Scholars Program
- Lesley Hoffarth, President/ED Forest Park Forever, Transportation Issues in a "Different" Setting
- Neil Pederson, Executive Director of TRB, Involvement with the Transportation Research Board; Delivery of Complex Projects
- Christopher Anderson, Climate Science Program, Iowa State University, What Defines Actionable Science for Climate Change Planning in Transportation?
- Scott Smith, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Marking the Heartland Globally Competitive and Economically Relevant 50 years from Now
- Michael Edwards, PRC Industries, Inc, The Role of Transportation and Reverse Logistics Analytics in Achieving Corporate Sustainability
- Daniel G. Fritz, McMahon Berger, Labor Attorneys, St. Louis, Transportation Labor and the National Labor Relations Board
- Mark Wright, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University Strategies for building the next-generation biofuel supply chain
- Jim Noble and Ron McGarvey, University of Missouri, Columbia, Center for Excellence in Logistics and Design (CELDi) and NSF Program
- Jiangping Zhou, ISU, Department of Community & Regional Planning, Big Data and Collaborative Research Via a Visual Lab-The Strength of Weak Ties
- David Yang, FHWA, Human Factors Research
- Shawn Leight, CBB Transportation Planners and Engineers, Practicing Traffic Engineer Looks into the Future
- Nir Keren, ISU, Virtual Reality Application Center, Human Factors, Naturalistic Behavior, and Virtual Reality: What We Have Learned from Observing Firefighters
2014 Presentations
- Karen Clawson, Mid America Regional Council, Kansas City Street Car Project
- Ed Hassinger, Missouri DOT, What the Future Holds
- Carlos Schwantes, Univeristy of Missouri, St. Louis, Historical Perspective on Today's Railroads
- Kevin Schoeben, Illinois Department of Transportation, Marine Highways
- Derek Vap, HNTB, Traffic Engineering/Modeling
- Ken Warbritton, Missouri DOT, How to Repair/Replace 802 Bridges in 3 Years
- Nicole Oneyear and Skylar Knickerbocker, Iowa State University, ISU's SHRP2 research and massive data collection effort
- Mike Steenhoek, Soy Transportation Coalition, Freight Movement in the Midwest and the USA
- Tony Furst, FHWA, Safety at FHWA
- David Noyce, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Human Factors in Transportation Safety
- Carlos Sun, University of Missouri, The Toll Road Not Taken
2013 Presentations
- Josh Doerhoff, Emery Sapp and Sons, National Award Winning Accelerated Bridge Construction Project on I-44
- John Selmer, Iowa DOT, Iowa DOT's Perspective on Asset/Performance Measurement
- Neal Hawkins, Institute for Transportation, SHRP2 Development of a Roadway Information Database
- Rick Miller, Kansas DOT, Automating Kansas Pavement Condition Data Collection
- Carlos Schwantes, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Impact of Railroads in the US
- Deb Miller, Cambridge Systematics, PDF
- Glen Harrison, University of Kansas, Modeling Freight Flows
- Steven A. Buckley, P.E., Kansas DOT, The State of Safety in the State of Kansas
- Pete Stephanos, FHWA, FHWA Operations Performance Measurement
- Greg Cecil, Columbia Regional Airport Advisory Board, Columbia Regional Airport: Challenges of Smaller Regional Airports
- Thomas Hoback, The Indiana Rail Road Company, Rail Transportation
- John Craig, HDR Consultants, Oregon's Bridge Project a "DOT within a DOT"
- Wendell Cox, Wendell Cox Consultancy, Transportation and Economics
- Tom Welch, Iowa DOT (retired), Traffic Safety
2011 Presentations
- Shauna Hallmark, Chris Albrecht, Introduction to the Tom Maze Transportation Seminars
- Rema Nilakanta, Go! Magazine, Go!: extending transportation to K-12
- Dr. Dan McGehee, Driver Distraction: Definitions and Data
- A.J. Million, Transportation Librarian at MoDOT, "Seven Strategies for Search”
- Chuck Taylor, Awake! Consulting, Logistics and the supply chain industry
- Jeremy Vortherms, Chief Safety Engineer for Iowa DOT, Safety Focus in Iowa
- Professor Wilfrid Nixon, Sustainability in Winter Maintenance
- Wes Bolton - All State Consultants
Rick Kaufmann – City of Columbia, How roundabouts solve traffic problems - Ken Warbritton, Missouri Department of Transportation, Implementing design-build
- Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, Airport Director, Lambert-St. Louis Int'l Airport, Federal Perspective on Asset Management
- Peter Appel, U.S. DOT RITA, TBD
- Kent Lande, Louis Berger Group, The Role for Engineers in Nation Building
- Forrest Van Schwartz, Global Transportation Consultancy, TBD
- Carlos Sun – Law Journal Paper, Is Robo-Cop a Cash Cow?
2010 Presentations
- Shauna Hallmark, Chris Albrecht, ISU, Introduction to the Tom Maze Transportation Seminars
- Jon Luer, Burns and McDonnell, Alternate Intersection and Interchange Designs
- Paul Hanley, University of Iowa, Mileage Charges
- Tim Brown, University of Iowa, Adaptive Cruise Control
- Ted Curtis, City of Columbia, MO, Implementation of Non-Motorized Transportation
- Jerry Roche, FHWA Iowa, "Safety Edge" Pavement Edge Treatments
- Corinne Peek-Asa, University of Iowa, Injury Prevention in Transportation
- Tim Matisziw, University of Missouri, Access to Air Transportation in the US
- Doug Couto, Citrix, Information Systems and Emerging Technologies
- Pete Rahn, Missouri DOT, Missouri DOT's Focus
- Butch Wlaschin, FHWA, Federal Perspective on Asset Management
- Don Hillis, Missouri DOT, Traffic and Safety Programs in Missouri
- Chris Monsere, Portland State University, Evaluation of Bike Boxes at Signalized Intersections: Initial Findings
- Tim Klein, RITA, How Research Results Affect Policy
- Howard Preston, CH2M Hill, Mn/DOT County Road Safety Plans
2009 Presentations
- Jason Sims, KC Scout, IT/Safety
- Elizabeth Westlake, University of Iowa, Teen Driving Project
- Shauna Hallmark, Iowa State University, Naturalistic Driver Safety Evaluation
- Nadia Gkritza, Iowa State University, Economic Development Effects of Highway Investment
- Mara Campbell, MoDOT, MoDOT's Tracker Performance Measurement Tool
- James Noble, University of Missouri, and Rod Massman, Missouri DOT, Amtrak St. Louis to Kansas City Rail Capacity Solution
- John Woodrooffe, University of Michigan, The Essentials of Truck Safety
- Stuart Anderson, Iowa DOT, Economics and Transportation Funding
- Tim Neuman, CH2MHill, Developing Tools for Highway Safety – the NCHRP 500 Series Guidance Documents
- Brian Kinsey, Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, "Branding" the airport and making it a cargo hub for China
- Keith Knapp, University of Minnesota, Improving Rural Roadway Safety: Enactment to Engineering
- Fred Mannering, Purdue University, Risk Compensation and Effectiveness of Vehicle
- Howard Preston, CH2MHill, Investment in Safety Improvements
2008 Presentations
- Nemmers/Vap/McDonald (UMC), Safety Corridors National Summary Synthesis, 1.6 mb pdf, Iowa Summary 913 kb pdf
- John Donahue (MoDOT) and Dean Bierwagen (Iowa DOT), Rapid Concrete Pavement Replacement: A Safety Strategy Precast Panels Design, Casting, Placing (Iowa DOT) 1.3 mb pdf, I-57PrecastPost-Tensioned Pavement (MoDOT) 10 mb pdf, Instrumentation and Monitoring of Precast Prestressed Concrete Pavement (UMC) 735 kb pdf
- Lesley Hoffarth (MoDOT), Total Highway Closure as an Option During Reconstruction
- Rudy Umbs (FHWA) Your Legacy in Highway Safety 2.2 mb pdf
- Kevin Blanshan (Waterloo/Cedar Falls MPO) and Tom Kane (Des Moines MPO), Metropolitan Planning Organizations: Today’s Challenges and Tomorrow’s Directions 4.6 mb pdf
- Ron Achelpohl (MARC), Highway Safety in the Kansas City Region
- Linda Boyle (University of Iowa), Human Factors Research in Highway Safety
- Stuart Anderson (Iowa DOT) State DOT Revenue Shortfalls and Strategies 1.1 mb pdf
- Howard Preston (CH2M Hill) State Strategic Highway Safety Plans: Lesson Learned 2.3 mb pdf
- Edwards/May (Springfield, MO MPO) and Johnson (UMC), Springfield, Missouri Activity Center Based-Planning and Cost Calculator
- Eric Wright (Iowa DOT) How Land Developers Look at Transportation Systems and Access 1.7 mb pdf
- Doug Harwood (Midwest Research Institute) and Peter Kissinger (AAA Foundation for Transportation Safety), AAA's Road Safety Programs.
2007 Presentations
- Hillary Isebrands (ISU CTRE) European Scanning Tour on Rural High Speed Roundabouts 1.5 mb pdf
- Susan McCubbins/Josh Scott (MoDOT) I-435 and Front St. Interchange in Kansas City (An Innovative Design)
- Carlos Schwantes (UMSL) What We Can Learn From Transportation History
- Chris Gutierrez (Kansas City SmartPort) International Intermodal Freight
- Robert C. Brown(ISU Office of Biorenewables,) Biofuels and Transportation 1.5 mb pdf, ISU's Bioeconomy Initiative 946 kb pdf
- James Cooper (University of Glasgow, Scotland), Public Transportation in Low Density Rural Areas
- Mike Tully and Sunshine Yang (Aerial Services, Inc.), Photogrammetry and Transportation Data Acquisition
- Larry Frevert (National President Elect of American Public Works Assn. and HDR, Inc.)
- Libby Ogard (Prime Focus LLC), Leveraging Private Sector Railroad Assets
- Gary Davis (University of Minnesota), Crash Causation
- Allen Hines (Consultant ), Crash Reconstruction
- Dick Hemmingsen (Initiative for Renewable Energy and Environment, University of Minnesota), The Future of Transportation Energy
- Kevin Keith (MoDOT Chief Engineer), Missouri DOT’s 800 Bridge Program
2006 Presentations
- Steven Chien (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Microscopic Traffic Simulation 5.4 mb pdf
- Brian Chandler (Missouri DOT), Midwest Highway Safety Scanning Tour 2.1 mb pdf
- Alexander Kurgansky (Consultant to US Environmental Protection Agency SmartWay Transportation Partnership), Freight Transportation Energy and Environmental Issues 1.8 mb pdf
- Mike McGee (Federal Highway Administration), Woodrow Wilson Bridge Reconstruction Project, Washington, D.C. 3.2 mb pdf;Wilson Bridge project website
- Rich Pirog (Aldo Leopold Center), Transportation Sustainability Issues 968 kb pdf;Iowa Produce Market Potential Calculator website
- Chris Fulcher (Community Information Resource Center and Center for Agriculture, Resource and Environmental Systems), Integrated GIS for Planning and Public Policy Decision Making 1.6 mb pdf
- Ron Vititoe, Barrier Systems, Inc., Improving Traffic Flow with Movable Barriers 10.2 mb pdf
- Gerald Rawling (Chicago Area Transportation Study/CATS), Chicago Freight Hub Issues 1.5 mb pdf
- Kevin Dolliole (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis Airport and Aviation Issues 9.5 mb pdf
- Earl Newman (Springfield, Missouri), Report from the Vice President (1.9 mb pdf) of ITE
- Wes James, National Ag-Based Lubricant Center, University of Northern Iowa, The National Ag-Based Lubricant Center (NABL) and Transportation Sustainability 5.4 mb pdf
- Ben Allen (Iowa State University Provost) and Neil Burke , Future Freight Capacity Needs 81 kb pdf
- James Brunke (The Boeing Company), Boeing Company Supply Chain Issues 1.5 mb pdf
- Michael Dreznes (Quixote Corporation), Utilizing Forgiving Highways to Reduce “Needless Deaths”
- Joe Pestka (Missouri DOT) and Michelle McEnany (Iowa DOT), McEnany: Airports and Their Impact on the Economy 6 mb pdf
2005 Presentations
- Omar Smadi (Iowa State University), How State DOTs Use Infrastructure Management Systems 10.9 mb pdf
- Jay Thompson (Transportation Business Associates), Profitability and Productivity in the Trucking Industry 190 kb pdf
- Tom Welch (Iowa DOT), Managing Highway Safety 4 mb pdf
- Dr. Bill Ankner (Missouri Transportation Institute), Transportation Financing
- Dan Franklin (Iowa DOT), Transportation Funding: A State Perspective 116 kb pdf
- Wendell Cox (Wendell Cox Consultancy), Myths of Public Transportation
- Admiral Lou Smith (US Navy, Ret.), Asset Management in the Military and Education: What Transportation Professionals Can Learn
- Dan Murray (American Transportation Research Institute), Freight Performance Measures and Freight Security 157 kb pdf
- Larry Salci (Metro St. Louis CEO), Managing Large Public Transportation Systems
- Mark Taylor (Federal Highway Administration, Federal Lands Division), Innovative Highway Designs 8.9 mb pdf
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Kevin Mahoney, John Adams, and Sandra Larson (Iowa DOT), Issues Future Transportation Professionals Will Face:
- Kevin Mahoney's presentation about the Iowa DOT Highway Division 5 mb pdf
- Iowa River bridge construction video 13 mb Windows Media file
- John Adam's presentation about future challenges 1.7 mb pdf
- Sandra Larson's presentation about the Bureau of Research and Technology 1.1 mb pdf
- Commander Suzanne E. Englebert (US Coast Guard), Inland Ports and Waterways
- Reg Souleyrette (Iowa State University), Road Safety Risk Rating
- Bill Halsband (Mammoet), Heavy Lifting Systems In Construction
2004 Presentations
- Terry Browne (Collins Engineering), Underwater Bridge Inspection (Part 1 5.4 mb pdf , Part 2 4.9 mb pdf)
- Matt Shands (Transportation Policy Institute), Asset Management as Communications ( 5.4 mb pdf, 1.2 mb pdf)
- Glen Washer (FHWA Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center), Non Destructive Evaluation in Condition Assessment for Asset Management
- Terry Wipf and Brent Phares (Iowa State University), Bridge Health Monitoring: Present and Future (9.5 mb pdf)
- Mike Smid (Yellow Freight), The Trucking Industry
- Ernest Barenberg (University of Illinois) and Dulci Rufino (ERES Consultants), PCC Pavement Issues (Rockford airport, 7.2 mb pdf; design criteria, 17 kb pdf; Denver airport, 7.4 mb pdf)
- Mark Ward (John Deere), Global Logistics
- Steve Andrle and Dennis Kroeger (Iowa State University), Winter Maintenance Management—The MDSS System (3.9 mb pdf)
- Tom Maze (Iowa State University), The Science of Asset Management (1.3 mb pdf)
- David Plazak and Reg Souleyrette (Iowa State University), Process to Identify High Priority Corridors for Access Management Near Large Urban Areas in Iowa (2.7 mb pdf)
(NOTE: These speakers were emergency substitutes for the previously scheduled Chris Huffman of the Kansas DOT; however, the main topic remained the same.) - Keith Herbold (Federal Highway Administration), Pavement Preservation and Asset Management ( 2.3 mb pdf)
- Wayne McDaniel (PB Consultants), GASB 34 Modified Approach Implementation (part 1, 14.3 mb pdf; part 2, 9.4 mb pdf)
- Joseph Kellett (US Army Corps of Engineers), US Army Corps of Engineers: Overview and Opportunities
- Stuart Anderson (Iowa Department of Transportation), Iowa DOT’s Long Range Transportation Plan Update
- Donald Broughton (A. G. Edwards), Financial Health of Transportation
2003 Presentations
- Mei Meiarashi, Public Works Research Institute of Japan, Infrastructure Asset Management Overseas
- Yiannis Papelis, National Advanced Driving Simulator, Human Factors and Advanced Driving Simulation
- Daryl Smith, Kirk Henderson, Greg Houseal, Native Roadside Vegetation Center, UNI, Native Roadside Vegetation
- Katie Zimmerman, Applied Pavement Technologies, Pavement Management (4.9MB **pdf)
- Tom Ryan, Missouri Department of Transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems in the St. Louis Metro Area
- Steve Chase, FHWA Turner Fairbank Laboratories, Observations on the Future of Bridge Technology (4.5MB *pdf)
- Brad Hagen, Waterloo Regional Airport, Regional Airport Management (3.4MB **pdf)
- Howard Preston, Howard R. Green Company, Performance Measures in Highway Corridor Planning and Design
- Gene Amparano, FHWA-NHTSA Liaison, Kansas City, Highway Safety in the Midwest
- John Craig, Nebraska Dept. of Roads, AASHTO Asset Management Activities (4.8MB **pdf)
- Ken Welch, Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha, Asset Management in the Railroad Industry
- Robert Rasmussen, Transtec Group, Inc., Advanced Pavement Materials, Analysis, and Design (1.4MB *pdf)
- Susan Stauder, Regional Commerce and Growth Association, Public Transportation Use of Intelligent Transit Systems
- Chris Yarnell, Cole County, Missouri Public Works, Asset Management Deployment in Central Missouri
- Don Taylor, McAninch Corporation, and Ed Jaselskis, ISU, Advanced Construction Technologies: Stakeless Grading and Laser Scanning
2002 Presentations
- Kenneth Peters, State of Iowa, Information Assurance and Security and Its Relationship to Transportation (3 MB pdf)
- Dr. Michael Barker, University of Missouri-Columbia, FEMA First Response: Report from "Ground Zero" in New York City
- Jim Lafrenz, American Concrete Paving Association, Terrorism and Design of the Built Environment (1.6 MB pdf)
- Steve Stockham, Joplin, Missouri Airport, The City of Joplin: A Decade of Change,(2.2 MB pdf)
- Bill Flannery, Des Moines International Airport, Aviation Security: Past, Present, and Future
- John Snyder, Livingston Aviation, The Air Charter Business
- Tom Rummel, Texas DOT, Security Activities at the Texas DOT Related to Bridges (647 KB pdf)
- Eric Gabler, Federal Highway Administration, Economics and Engineering: Asset Management Fundamentals (217 KB pdf)
- Louis Lambert, Michigan DOT, Implementing Asset Management in a State DOT (1.3 MB pdf)
- Floyd Barwig, Iowa Energy Center, Energy Issues in Transportation(1.7 MB pdf file)
- Lisa Skubal, Cedar Valley Economic Development Corporation, and Cindy Angel, University of Northern Iowa's, Institute for Decision Making, Transportation and Economic Development: Site Selection
- Ellen Gordon, Homeland Security for Iowa, Security and Transportation After September 11 (91k pdf)
- Steve Lanter, Lanter Trucking, Managing a Modern Logistics Company Today
- Dr. David Forkenbrock, University of Iowa Public Policy Center, Re-inventing Highway Taxes and Finance (73k pdf)
Students “Flip” over Transportation Course (CE 355)
The ISU undergraduate course Principles of Transportation Engineering (CE 355) is now a “flipped” course: The traditional lecture content is provided through video lectures, and traditional outside-of-classroom content, such as homework, is brought into the classroom as practical, hands-on problems.
The video lecture content is being used by other undergraduate and graduate courses at ISU and disseminated to other universities as a part of MTC’s educational outreach activities.
Midwest Transportation Workforce Summit: December 7–8, 2015, Madison, Wisconsin
As a member of the University of Wisconsin–Madison led Midwest Transportation Workforce Center, the MTC helped plan the December 7–8, 2015, Midwest Transportation Workforce Summit in Madison and gave presentations on MTC K–12 activities like Go! magazine, Teaching in the Fast Lane, etc.
Honing Students’ Presentation Skills
A new MTC initiative at ISU is the weekly Transportation Graduate Student Research Seminar. Led by Dr. Peter Savolainen, graduate students in transportation present their research results before an audience of their peeers, allowing them to develop their presentation skills and receive feedback from other students and faculty on their research.
Each transportation student must participate in this seminar at least once during their degree program. Periodically, the series includes presentations from faculty members and other invited speakers.
PI and Partner Resources
News
Tom Maze seminar sessions continue Friday, 04/18/2018
InTrans hosts Traffic and Safety Focus Group, 02/08/2018
GO! Magazine’s August issue further explores Seven Great Transportation Feats, 08/04/2017
GO! Magazine’s July issue covers Seven Great Transportation Feats, 07/07/2017
Midwest Transportation Center
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