Dr. Daniel Fagnant explains why self-driving cars will help ease traffic patterns in a recent article, 5 reasons self-driving taxis are going to be amazing, from www.vox.com. “In recent years, lots and lots of pundits — including me — have speculated about how self-driving cars will change American cities. But almost all the talk has been just that — speculation. Because we can’t […]

The Utah Chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) awarded its 2014 Educator of the Year to Professor Richard J. Porter at the ITE Utah Chapter Annual Conference on January 22nd. The event was held at the Rice Eccles Stadium. There were over 200 transportation professionals from public agencies, consultants, academia, students, and vendors.

This year the CE Academy Banquet will be held on Tuesday, April 28th at the Jewish Community Center in Salt Lake City. There will be a social hour from 5:30- 6:30 pm, dinner at 6:30 pm and a presentation starting at 7:00 pm. This banquet will feature keynote speaker, Lane Beattie, who is the president […]

University of Utah civil and environmental engineering student Jeffrey Taylor has devoted four years of research for his master’s thesis on determining how motorists react on the nation’s roads, and he hopes one day he can help reduce the number of crashes by better predicting how drivers react. His thesis, a methodology for estimating how […]

Youcan Feng, Ph.D. candidate in water resources, received one of this year’s Utah Water Users Association scholarships, which is awarded annually to two students who study in Utah and plan to pursue a water resources career. The scholarship winners were announced at the 21st Annual Utah Water Summit sponsored by the Utah Water Users Association […]

Dr. Otakuye Conroy recently hosted two students from the Native American Research Internship program. The program places Native American undergraduates in health-related research labs for a 10-week paid internship, and is run through the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah. One student, Delilah Robb, won the undergraduate poster competition at the Association of American […]

The upcoming University of Utah’s annual Engineering Day is designed to leave local high school students with one important thought — there is a world of possibilities to explore here. This year’s event, which is being sponsored by Rio Tinto, will be held Saturday, Oct. 11, starting at 9 a.m. in the Warnock Engineering Building […]

Just as certain viruses infect humans, there also are viruses that infect only bacteria. Unlike human viruses, however, which are non-discriminatory and will infect any number of different people, these viruses, known as bacteriophages, are “host-specific,” meaning each will attack only one particular bacteria. “Wherever bacteria exist, there are bacteriophages,” says Ramesh Goel, an associate […]

Dr. Steven Bartlett had a busy summer traveling to China and Turkey to present various topics regarding the use of EPS geofoam for Civil Engineering applications. Topics included the protection of pipelines from earthquakes using EPS geofoam, which was presented at GeoShanghai 2014 (Protecting Pipelines). In Turkey, Dr. Bartlett also presented to several conferences and […]

Dedicated, hardworking, intelligent, motivated, and successful. These are the words colleagues use to describe Amanda May as she helps guide young minds through the path of achieving success here at the University of Utah. As the department’s academic advisor, Amanda connects with both undergraduate and graduate students to make sure they are on the right […]