A Ph. D Student Won First Place MOVITE 2009/2010 Student Paper Award
SIUE Civil Engineering Ph.D. student Jiguang Zhao has won First Place in the Missouri Valley Section-Institute of Transportation Engineers (MOVITE) 2009/2010 student paper competition (Thomas J. Seburn Award). The title of the winning paper is "Safety Issues of Left Side Off-Ramps on Freeways". Mr. Zhao's advisor is Dr. Huaguo Zhou, Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering department. The award will be presented to Mr. Zhao at the 2009 Fall MOVITE meeting to be held September 2009 in Springfield, Missouri.
A Ph. D Student won the Illinois Section Institute of Transportation Engineers (ILITE) 2009 Scholarship
Jiguang Zhao, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil Engineering, won the Illinois section Institute of Transportation Engineers (ILITE) 2009 Scholarship. This scholarship is the highest student award from ILITE. Jiguang was selected among many qualified candidates from the University of Illinois (Urbana and Chicago campuses), Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He was selected for the award, on the basis of academic performance, education plans, career goals, activities, and record of leadership. Zhao is among the first group of doctoral students recruited by the SIUE Department of Civil Engineering after the School of Engineering started the Cooperative PhD program with SIU Carbondale in Spring 2008. His major is transportation engineering and his advisor is Dr. Huaguo Zhou.
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