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INFORMATION FOR OREGON FACULTY PARTNERS
Summary of Recent Research Projects (coming soon)
Faculty Partner News [link]
How To Get Involved:
- Join our Transportation Email list
- Submit a one page bio to our partners page (sample)
- Attend the faculty retreat (to be announced)
- Submit a research proposal (timeline to be announced)
List of Current Interested Faculty [Summary Table]:
Portland State University
- Sy
Adler, USP--planning institutions, processes, and implementation
approaches for land use, transportation, health care, scenic and natural
resources, and energy issues [email]
- Soyoung
Ahn, CEE--operations, control, intelligent transportation systems
[email]
- Jennifer
Allen, GSR--sustainable/green transportation e.g. transit, bicycle-pedestrian,
local agriculture distribution [email]
- Robert
Annear, CEE--water resources [email]
- Dean
Atkinson, CHEM--air quality/climate change [email]
- Talya Bauer, SBA--training and assessment [email]
- Robert
Bertini, CEE/USP--new data sources, sensor technology, data analysis,
data fusion; traffic flow theory and macroscopic modeling; performance
measures and evaluation of transportation systems, programs and policies;
safety data analysis and improvements for pedestrians and bicyclists;
multimodal traveler information, routing and control; and sustainability
through new mobility services and alternative fuels [email]
[profile]
- Andrew
Black, CS--programming languages, operating systems, object-oriented
systems and distributed computing [email]
- Claudia
Black, Criminal Justice and Criminology [email]
- Randy
Bluffstone, ECON-- environmental and resource economics, including
pollution policies in developing and transition economies, environmental
liability and privatization, deforestation in low-income countries
and the economics of suburban sprawl [email]
- Michael Bowman, LIB [email]
- Leland
Buddress, SBA--international supply and logistics and forecasting
[email]
- Michael
Dawson, SOC--alternatives/energy; mass transit [email]
- Lois
Delcambre, CS--object-oriented and other database data models
with an emphasis on the structural aspects [email]
- Jack
Devletian, MME--welding/materials [email]
- Jennifer
Dill, USP--transportation and environmental planning, travel behavior,
air quality, and transportation-land use interactions [email]
[profile]
- Peter
Dusicka, CEE--seismic performance and design of structures, lifelines
and non-structural components; implementation of innovative materials
and special devices in bridge and building structural systems; large-scale
laboratory testing utilizing STAR Lab shake table and other equipment
[email]
- Debi
Elliot, RRI/SRL--Director, Survey Research Laboratory, survey
research: instrument development, data collection (e.g., individual
interviews, focus groups, telephone surveys), data management, data
analysis, and dissemination [email]
- Marek
Elzanowski, MTH--rational mechanics, differential geometry, hyperbolic
waves [email]
- Michael Emch,
GEOG--land-use land-cover change [email]
- Stephanie Farquhar, SCH--community-based participatory research to address issues of social and environmental equity as it relates to health. [email]
- Robert
Fountain, MTH--mathematical & applied statistics (estimation
theory, sampling theory, multivariate analysis) [email]
- Elaine Hallmark,
NPCC-SOG--collaborative processes [email]
- Carol
Hasenberg, CEE--student projects and bicycle programs [email]
- Deborah
Howe, USP--creation of affordable housing alternatives, neighborhood
and community development, land use planning implementation and impact,
community planning for an aging society, and the evolution of the
Oregon land use planning system [email]
- Rose Jackson, LIB [email]
- Keith James, PSY--creativity, innovation, & change, workplace identity, Native community development and occupational health psychology [email]
- Bin
Jiang, MTH--research in transport flow [email]
- Karen
Karavanic, CS--operating systems, middleware, and performance
modeling and analysis [email]
- Jong
Sung Kim, MTH--survival analysis, nonparametric and semiparametric
models, variance estimation, biostatistics [email]
- Sean
S. Kohles, MME--trauma biomechanics and identification of injury
mechanisms, multiscale reparative bioengineering [email]
- Gerardo
A. Lafferriere, MTH--research issues in control theory [email]
- B.
Kent Lall, CEE--traffic operations [email]
- David
Maier, CS--data and information management [email]
- Chris
Monsere, CEE--safety, freight, operations [email]
[profile]
- Wendelin
Mueller, CEE--behavior of transmission structures; graphical user
interfaces [email]
- Ryan
Olson, OHSU/CROET--safety and health for drivers and transportation
workers [email]
- Connie
Ozawa, USP--environmental policy and management, planning theory
and practice, negotiation and dispute resolution; the use of scientific
and technical information in public decision making, the role of the
professional, and public participation methods; regional planmaking
process, interagency coordination of environmental reviews [email]
- Mellie Pullman,
SBA--service operations management [email]
- Brian
Renauer, Criminal Justice and Criminology [email]
- Tony
Rufolo, USP--state and local finance, transportation, labor, economic
development, government forecasting and budgeting [email]
- David
Sailor, MME--emissions/urban modeling [email]
- Trevor
Smith, CEE--the role played by in situ tests in improving the
quality of input to geotechnical numerical schemes [email]
- James
Strathman, CUS/USP--regional science and transportation planning
[email]
- Ron Tammen, SOG--homeland security work on rails, ports, maritime[email]
- Donald Truxillo, PSY--assessment of hiring procedures, affirmative action, substance abuse screening, and employee training [email]
- Kristin
Tufte, CS/CEE--intelligent transportation systems [email]
- Peter
Veerman, MTH--dynamical systems, mathematical physics, fractal
geometry [email]
Oregon Institute of Technology
- Roger Lindgren, CE--
traffic flow theory, microscopic simulation of urban and rural traffic, pavement design and analysis
[email]
- Harriet Cornachione, CE--engineering geology, seismic hazards for roads and bridges, mapping and GIS [email]
- Mason Marker, Geomatics--route surveying, geometric design, GIS, GPS [email]
Oregon State University
- Chris Bell, CCEE--transportation materials; pavement design and evaluation; and heavy vehicle monitoring and management [email]
- Mike Bailey , EECS--computer graphics and vision
[email]
- Kevin Boston, FE--forest transportation planning, forest road design and management systems and supply chain management for the primary forest industry
[email]
- Steve Dickenson, CCEE--geotechnical earthquake engineering and geotechnical aspects of port and harbor engineering; deep foundations, soil improvement for seismic hazard reduction, and dynamic soil-structure interaction
[email]
- Karen Dixon, CCEE--transportation design, operations, and safety with particular emphasis on creating a transportation infrastructure that serves all prospective users
[email]
- Toni Doolen, IME--manufacturing systems design, lean manufacturing, work group effectiveness, mobile technology in education, error management and error reduction, survey design and methodology, statistical quality control
[email]
- Alan Fern, CS--machine learning/data mining [email]
- John Gambatese, CCEE--construction safety, constructability, design-construction interrelationship, life cycle properties of constructed facilities, and temporary construction structures; construction automation, alternative contracting methods, and sustainability
[email]
- Steve Garets, Team Oregon--motorcycle safety and training [email]
- Chris Higgins, CCEE--Passive structural control, structural testing, steel structures and connections, earthquake and wind engineering, repair and retrofit of structures, high-performance materials, historic structures and materials. [email]
- Kate Hunter-Zaworski, CCEE--intelligent transportation systems, general aviation systems and infrastructure, advanced public transportation systems and accessible transportation; international reputation in mobility aid securement
[email]
- David Kim, IME--applied operations research; production system design and optimization; performance evaluation of production systems; scheduling heuristics; discrete event dynamic systems; facility layout of engineering organizations
[email]
- Robert Layton [email]
- Virginia Lesser, Stat--sampling; survey methodology; environmental statistics; applied statistics
[email]
- Logen Logendran, IME--production and inventory control, cellular manufacturing, group scheduling, flexible manufacturing systems, integration of design and manufacturing, applied operations research
[email]
- Jim Lundy, CCEE--properties and uses of Portland cement and polymer-modified concretes; use of waste materials in construction; asphalt material characterization, composites, and the design, specification, construction, and rehabilitation of pavements
[email]
- Starr McMullen, Econ--transportation economics and policy; economics of governmental regulation/deregulation Issues
[email]
- Ron Metoyer, EECS--interactive character content for training, education, games, and visualization; methods for real-time motion capture, data resequencing, tangible interfaces for character manipulation, and pose-distance metrics for comparing motion poses
[email]
- Tom Miller, CCEE--earthquake engineering, timber structures and cold-formed steel structures; finite element modeling of fiber-reinforced-polymer strengthened reinforced concrete bridges, behavior of cold-formed steel wall studs, and modeling and behavior of residential timber structures
[email]
- Toshi Minoura, EECS--concurrency and recovery schemes for distributed database systems; active object systems; web-based GIS/database applications
[email]
- Tom Plant, EECS-- fiber optic sensors; micromachining technology and applications; electroluminescent display devices; optoelectronic devices (photodetectors, diode lasers); optical properties of materials
[email]
- David Porter, IME--information systems engineering, wireless communications, intelligent transportation systems, automatic data collection, manufacturing systems, supply chain engineering, e-commerce
[email]
- Mike Quinn, EECS-- graphics and education
[email]
- Skip Rochefort, ChE--polymer science, biomaterials, polymer processing, getting high school students interested in engineering careers
[email]
- Dave Rogge, CCEE--estimating and cost control; planning and scheduling; construction labor productivity; asphalt materials; alternative methods for project delivery; and construction computer applications
[email]
- Michael Scott, CCEE--nonlinear structural analysis and dynamics, structural response sensitivity, object-oriented software design, parallel computing, numerical methods
[email]
- Todd Scholz, CCEE--civil engineering materials, construction equipment and methods, pavement design, mechanistic analysis of pavement structures, performance-related and performance-based specifications, warranties, quality control/quality assurance, pavement management systems, geographical information systems, life cycle cost analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, engineering software applications development
[email]
- John Sessions, FE--wood transportation, optimal bucking practices, timber harvest scheduling, timber supply, scheduling of silviculture practices, fire risk reduction, logging mechanics, international forestry
[email]
- David Sillars, CCEE--interorganizational relationships in the construction industry; cultural factors in facility delivering; project delivery alternatives; strategic organizational structuring at the project and enterprise level
[email]
- Prasad Tadepalli, EECS--[email]
- Weng-Keen Wong, CS-- machine learning/data mining [email]
- Harry Yeh, CCEE--environmental fluid mechanics, ocean and coastal wave phenomena, flow-structure interactions, tsunami induced scour, wind turbulence, structure control (tuned liquid dampers), physical processes in lakes and oceans and tsunami hazard mitigation
[email]
- Solomon Yim, CCEE--deterministic and stochastic modeling, analysis, simulation, and design of nonlinear dynamical fluid/structure systems; applications in structural, ocean and earthquake engineering. current projects include deterministic and stochastic analyses of structural and ocean systems
[email]
- Lei Zhang, CCEE--traffic operations [email]
University of Oregon
- David Hulse, LA--land use planning andGIS [email] [profile]
- Marc Schlossberg, PPPM--transportation planning, GIS [email]
- Steve Fickas, CIS--wearable computers in transit settings [email]
- McKay Sohlberg, ED--wearable computers for people with head injuries in transit settings [email]
- Megan Smith, Director, Community Service Center [email]
- Jean Stockard, PPPM--department chair [email]
- Michael Hibbard, PPPM--community and regional planning [email]
- Wesley Wilson, ECON [email]
- Infographics Lab - One of their projects involves ODOT on a set of pilot studies in Central Oregon to begin a statewide Transportation Framework layer in cooperation with the Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Office. The goals are to develop, standardize, and implement a methodology for integrating road linework and data to facilitate more effective collaboration among state, federal, and local road authorities.
- Michael Engelmann, Project Manager [email]
- Jim Meacham, Research Director [email]
- Research Division of the Museum of Anthropology, a self-supporting division of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History. It conducts archaeological research under contract with state agencies and corporations, in compliance with federal and state cultural resource protection laws. The Museum currently conducts archaeological work for the Oregon Department of Transportation and the Oregon State Parks and Recreation Division.
- Tom Connolly, Research Division Director [email]
- Oregon Natural Hazards Workgroup
- Andre LeDuc, Director [email]
Eastern Oregon University
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RESOURCES
UTC Program Research Themes
Highway Research and Technology: The Need for Greater Investment [pdf] FTA National Research and Technology Program [link]
DOT Strategic Plan [link]
DOT RD&T Plan [link]
Meeting Materials
University of Oregon
August 9, 2005
• Presentation [pdf]
• Notes [coming soon]
Oregon State University
September 6, 2005
MU207, 2-4 pm
• Presentation [pdf]
• Notes [coming soon]
Portland State University
October 14, 2005
• Presentation [pdf]
Faculty Profile Template [doc]
ODOT Research Program
ODOT Research Priorities
Transportation Workforce Development
ODOT Stage 2 2007
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