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Outreach Every year, UAF's College of Engineering and Mines hosts an engineering week open house, giving the Fairbanks community the chance to learn more about topics in the realm of engineering. This year, 500 participants attended the open house, held last Feb. 24, in the university's Engineering Learning and Innovation Facility. Attendees got to drive and race remote control cars on tracks that included roundabouts provided by the Center for Safety and Equity in Transportation Tier who, by doing so, started a conversation about road safety concepts and engineering concerns. The Center for Environmentally Sustainable Transportation in Cold Climates' activity called, "Making Concrete", in which participants made playdough by following instructions, appropriately measuring out ingredients, and mixing materials together, was aimed at teaching participants about the materials used in building roadways. Last April, PacTrans participated, with its annual booth, at the UW College of Engineering Discovery Days, a two-day event that exposes elementary, middle, and high school students to opportunities in engineering and attempts to raise their interests in STEM related topics. The PacTrans' activity, Rush Hour, which combined problem solving with mobility in transportation, received hundreds of participants. Several of UW's transportation engineering labs, including the Smart Transportation Applications and Research (STAR) lab and the Sustainable Transportation lab, were in attendance. The STAR lab presented demos using traffic signalization, controlled boxes, a driving simulation, and video detection, while the Sustainable Transportation lab offered interactive activities introducing students to the concept of electrification and charging networks. PACTRANS STUDENT RESEARCH SELECTED FOR THE ENO FUTURE LEADERS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE At the University of Washington, PacTrans hosts a competition in which advisors can nominate graduate students to be a part of the Eno Future Leaders Development Conference (LDC), which gives students in the transportation field a first-hand look at how national transportation policies are developed. This year, the UW selected Elyse O'Callaghan Lewis, a National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellow and a PhD candidate working under Dr. Don MacKenzie's Sustainable Transportation Lab, to apply for the Eno LDC. Elyse was chosen by Eno as one of the twenty graduate students who had the opportunity to attend the LDC held in D.C. last May. Lewis's research focuses on sustainable urban transportation development topics, such as human factors related to mode choice, the impact of the shared economy on transportation networks, measures of social equity, and the impact of newly-formalized public transit systems on informal settlement integration in Latin American cities. Education and Workforce Development continued from page 23 PACTRANS PROMOTES STEM AND TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING AT UW DISCOVERY DAYS PACTRANS MEMBER UAF HOSTS ENGINEERING WEEK OPEN HOUSE 24 Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium

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