Nuzhat Azra recently received the Ellis L. Mathes scholarship award during the 2018 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Intermountain Section Annual Meeting. The Intermountain Section annually awards two students in the area (Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Utah) who are enrolled in an engineering curriculum with an emphasis in transportation. A brief description of the award […]

Ph.D. student Rob Sowby recently won the doctoral category in the J. Paul Riley Student Paper Competition, sponsored by the Utah Section of the American Water Resources Association (AWRA). The competition, covering a variety of interdisciplinary water topics, included written papers and oral presentations on March 28 at the BYU Salt Lake Center. Sowby’s entry, […]

The Rocky Mountain Section of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) recently selected Dr. Schmucker to receive this year’s Outstanding Teaching Award. This important distinction is based on letters of support from students and faculty recommendations. Congratulations to Dr. Schmucker for the dedication to teaching it takes to receive this fine distinction.

Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, the winding 7-mile road that cuts through the Wasatch Mountains to Snowbird and Alta ski resorts, is facing catastrophic traffic congestion. Already, more than 6,600 vehicles and 12,400 people go into the canyon on peak days, and only 4 percent of those users take public transportation, according to the Utah Department […]

The Career & Professional Development Center at the University of Utah honored five faculty members from the College of Engineering Friday, April 13, with this year’s Career Services Faculty Recognition Award. In all, 20 faculty members were recognized across the U campus. The award is given to faculty who contribute to students’ career development and […]

Two University of Utah engineering students will receive the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award from the U’s Office of Undergraduate Research Office. Gemma Clark, a student in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, will receive the award for the Honors College while Jayden Plumb from the Department of Mechanical Engineering will receive the award for […]

A poster by Ph.D. student Rob Sowby won the Graduate Research category at the 2018 Intermountain Sustainability Summit held March 1st at Weber State University. With faculty advisor Dr. Steve Burian, Sowby is quantifying the energy requirements of public water systems and developing new techniques to analyze and manage their energy use.

Zhuo Chen, a former Ph.D. student in transportation (advisor: Dr. Cathy Liu), is selected as one of the Top 5 finalists for the 2018 COTA Best Dissertation Award. COTA (Chinese Overseas Transportation Association) best dissertation award is established to recognize outstanding students with Chinese nationalities for their accomplishments of pursuing doctoral degrees in the transportation […]

The Utah State Board of Regents has selected Ruth V. Watkins as the 16th president of the University of Utah. Watkins is the first woman to lead the University of Utah — the state’s oldest, largest and only Research 1 higher education institution — in its 168-year history. (Jerilyn S. McIntyre served as interim president […]

The following article by College of Engineering Dean Richard B. Brown and College External Relations and Development Director Marilyn Davies was published in the November/December issue of PE Magazine, the official publication of the National Society of Professional Engineers. It details Utah’s explosive business and tech sector growth. How does a state with just over […]