On May 15th, 2009, the fifteen undergraduate students selected to participate in the UNL MATC Summer Intern Program this summer met with their sponsors and the faculty coordinators at an orientation luncheon on UNL's campus. The popular internship program, which runs from May 18 through August 14, allows students to gain practical engineering experience by working for transportation firms and agencies primarily located in the Midwest.
Expanding the outreach efforts of ITS Heartland, the Board of Directors voted to establish a Student Paper Contest open to all of the public universities in the Heartland area. The goal of the new outreach effort was to increase the level of connection and involvement with students, who will be the next generation of professionals in the industry.
Students were invited to submit papers on work they were completing, with the first place winner having the opportunity to present his or her work at the 2009 conference in Topeka. Papers were judged by a panel from the Board of Directors.
The inaugural winner of the contest was Chung-Jen Hsu, a graduate student at the Mid-America Transportation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He wrote "An Analytical Evaluation of Transmission Range in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks." Chung-Jen received the first place prize of $1,000 and presented his paper on Wednesday, March 31, 2009.
The second place winner was Hang Yue, a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Hang received a prize of $300.
Congratulations to all and we look forward to the contest again next year.
Renovation of Whittier Junior High – the Future Home of MATC
Renovation is currently underway on the Whittier Junior High School building. After NU regents approved plans for $23.75 million renovation in June, 2007, work began in September of 2008 and is expected to be completed by February, 2010. The renovated building, which offers 73,000 square feet of space on three floors, will be home to the Nebraska Transportation Center as well as the Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research and the Mid-America Transportation Center. Whittier, completed in 1923 as one of the first junior high schools in the U.S., has been closed since 1977.
Professor Andrzej Nowak organized the US-Poland Workshop on Concrete Structures and Materials on October 8-14, 2006. The program included international conference Dni Betonu (Concrete Days) ...
