Professor Alexandre Bayen was featured on a panel discussing the societal impacts of the New Mobility, the massive ongoing transformation in how the world moves people, things, and data.
The panel is part of the events around the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
See also: New Index Shows Urban Growth is Inextricably Tied To Future Mobility Innovation (Forbes, 1/23/19)
Calling aspiring transportation planners and engineers!
We are currently accepting applications for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) Sustainable Streets Division’s summer internship program until Wednesday, February 13, 2019. Gain valuable on-the-job experience under the guidance of experienced transportation professionals. Interns will participate in a variety of transportation planning and engineering activities including:
Interested applicants must complete and submit all application materials online at sfstudentintern.org. Please feel free to share with your peers! If you have any questions about the program or application process, please do not hesitate to contact us at ssdinternship@sfmta.com.
Are you interested in making places better for walking and biking? Are you curious about how a city decides where to put its bike lanes? How about new pedestrian crossings? If so, we’re looking for someone like you to spend time this summer learning about pedestrian and bicyclist planning and design while working on real projects as an Intern at Toole Design Group.
We’ll offer you:
• Opportunities to work on a wide range of project types and work products.
• Company-wide trainings on core skills and industry best practices.
• New or growing skills with design programs such as AutoCAD and Microstation, graphic design/simulation programs in the Adobe Suite, and analysis/mapping programs such as ArcMap and QGIS.
• Attendance at key project meetings, and opportunities for field visits to project sites.
• Career mentorship from the best in the business.
• Colleagues who love what they do and want you to learn about this field that we care so much about.
Requirements:
• Undergraduate: Current enrollment as a third year or higher.
• Masters’: Current or upcoming enrollment in a related program field.
• Recent graduate: Degree in a related field or demonstrated passion for the field.
• Ability to quickly pick up new concepts, skills, and programs.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
• Experience in an office environment a plus.
CEE alumnus Dr. Farhang Ostadan was selected by ASCE's Energy Division to receive the Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. Energy Award for "significant contributions to practice, research and codification activities for advancing soil-structure-interaction analysis and seismic analysis in the energy industry, in particular the nuclear power industry."
Carlos Daganzo, Chancellor's Professor of the Graduate School, delivered the CEE Faculty Distinguished Lecture on Feb. 28.
He spoke on Four Physics Stories and their Effect on China's Future Mobility.
Watch complete lecture.
Professor Slav Hermanowicz has been appointed a new Associate Co-Director for Outreach of the Tsinghua Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI).
TBSI is a joint venture between two premier universities to conduct research and graduate education on both campuses.
It has now 67 faculty and over 350 graduate students in three centers: Environmental Science & New Energy, Data Science & Information Technology, and Precision Medicine & Healthcare Center.
Project Engineer at Camden, So. Cal office.
