University of Washington

The GRFP is highly competitive, with a success rate of approximately 14%. Perhaps more remarkably, in 2016 only ten GRFP fellowships were awarded to civil engineering students nationwide. PACTRANS STUDENT RESEARCHER FROM UW AWARDED NSF FELLOWSHIP Elyse O'Callaghan Lewis is a graduate student at the University of Washington researching under Don MacKenzie in the Sustainable Transportation Lab. Elyse was recently awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Elyse is a master's student in transportation engineering, and she proposed to address the question: How do centralized transit systems compared to informal transit systems affect life quality of slum residents in Latin American Cities? She proposed to address this question by integrating case study and network analysis methods, based on surveys and mobile data logging technologies. OSU PACTRANS FELLOW WINS ENGINEERING STUDENT OF THE YEAR Each year the Oregon State University Civil Engineering department awards one graduate the CE Outstanding Student Award. This past year, the award was given to a PacTrans Fellow, Amy Wyman. Ms. Wyman was not only a scholar, but an English tutor, and as well DJ. She conducted UHC research on traffic signal countdown timers and the visual attention of drivers as well as tsunami evacuation modeling of seaside communities using the OSU driving and bicycling simulator. Additionally, she hosted a weekly radio show of new music on KBVR 88.7 fm Corvallis. Ms. Wyman was presented the award by her UHC advisor, PacTrans Associate Director, Dr. David Hurwitz, during the CE Graduation Celebration in June. PACTRANS-SUPPORTED OSU ITE STUDENT CHAPTER BRINGS HOME GOLD IN STATE TRAFFIC BOWL, 2ND IN WESTERN DISTRICT This past November 2016, the Oregon State University Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) student chapter won first place in the 25th annual Oregon ITE Traffic Bowl in Portland, Oregon. The team consisted of M.S. student Joseph Calveria, Ph.D. student Alireza Mostafizi, Ph.D. student Shangjia Dong, and M.S. student David Covey. They were in second place heading into final jeopardy and wagered all their points to win the competition. The team earned a $500 cash prize for their first place finish. Portland State University took second place and the Oregon Institute of Technology earned third place. Then in early 2017, they placed 2nd in the Western District Student Traffic Bowl. This event tests knowledge and expertise in areas of both transportation engineering and transportation planning. The OSU Student chapter was seeded first of twelve chapters coming out of the qualifying exam, they won their first round, which placed them in the finals, and ultimately earned second place overall. 28 Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium

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