PACTRANS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS
This year PacTrans was honored to be able to sponsor several of its consortium universities' student teams,
each of which performed very well:
• UAF's steel bridge team placed 6th overall at the 2016
National Student Steel Bridge Competition
• UW's concrete canoe team placed 10th at the 2016 National
Concrete Canoe Competition
• UI's clean snowmobile team placed 7th at the Internal
Combustion Class at the SAE International Clean Snowmobile
Challenge
• UW's Hyperloop Team competed in the first-ever SpaceX
Hyperloop Pod Competition on January 29 through 30.
The UW team was one of only 26 team who advanced to the
building phase of the competition, and at the competition
they were awarded the Safety Subsystem Technical Excellence
Award for its pod design.
PACTRANS DIRECTOR ELECTED TO ASCE T&DI
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Yinhai Wang, Ph.D., M.ASCE has been elected to the prestigious role on the Transportation &
Development Institute's Board of Governors as the Official Nominee for the 4-year position
on the Board of Governors, commencing October 1, 2016, and will serve as President of
T&DI in 2018. Dr. Wang is a longtime contributor to ASCE T&DI. He was a member on the
T&DI Board of Governors (BOG) from 2013 to 2015 and is currently an associate editor for
two ASCE journals: Journal of Transportation Engineering and Journal of Computing in Civil
Engineering. He has also been a member on the Advanced Technology Committee since 2008.
Congratulations Dr. Wang!"
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