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Student Accomplishments

Awards

Olivia Posner receives the WTS Maggie Walsh Leadership Legacy Scholarship
Olivia Posner receives the WTS Maggie Walsh Leadership Legacy Scholarship

Joshua Davidson

2022 CUTC Outstanding Student of the Year Award

Samira Binte Bashar 
 UTSOA Community and Regional Planning Engaged Practice Award (2021)

Tressa Olsen
UTSOA Community & Regional Planning Community Design (2021)

Rydell Walthall
 UTC Student of the Year (2021)

Jordan McGee
Eno Fellow, Transportation Leadership Development Conference (2021)

Samira Binte Bashar 
 UTSOA Community and Regional Planning Engaged Practice Award (2020)

Samira Binte Bashar 
AICP Outstanding Student Award (2020)

Samira Binte Bashar 
UTSOA Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award (2020)

Nadia Carlson 
Women in Transportation Helen M. Memorial Scholarship, Heart of Texas (2019)

Luke Hassall
UTC Student of the Year (2019)

Nicole McGrath
Eno Fellow, Transportation Leadership Development Conference (2019)

Sagnika Das
UTSOA Community & Regional Planning Engaged Practice Award (2019)

Nicole McGrath
UTSOA AICP Outstanding Student Award (2019)

Louis Alcorn, Chris Bischak, Liang Chen, Ziqi Liu, Nicole McGrath, Evan Scott, and Paulina Urbanowicz-Pollock
UTSOA CRP Community Design Award for the Georgetown Bicycle Master Plan Practicum (2019)

Olivia Posner
WTS Maggie Walsh Leadership Legacy Scholarship, Heart of Texas Chapter (2019)

Chris Bischak
UTC Student of the Year (2018)

Paulina Urbanowicz-Pollock
Eno Fellow, Transportation Leadership Development Conference (2018)

Brendan Goodrich
UTC Student of the Year (2017)

Greg Griffin
Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program grant (2017-2018)


Final Reports/Theses/Presentations

CM2 Planning for Megaregions Presentation
CM2 Planning for Megaregions Presentation

 

Shunhua Bai, Junfeng Jiao, Yefu Chen

Mapping the Intercounty Transmission Risk of COVID-19 in New York State

 

Rydell Walthall

Rail electrification’s potential for emissions abatement in the freight industry : a case study of a transcontinental rail corridor

 

Tressa Olsen

Dialed in : how the 9th Street BMX Trails in Austin became a model for DIY Urbanism and flexible urban planning

 

Liang Chen, Ziqi Liu, Evan Scott, Aaron Sessions, Paulina Urbanowicz-Pollock
Planning for Megaregions Studio

 

Kyle Smith
The SACOG Project Performance Assessment Tool : shaping the research agenda

 

Paulina Urbanowicz-Pollock
An international analysis of sustainable urban freight transportation planning efforts

 

Chris Bischak
The impact of transportation network companies on urban transportation systems

 

Ian Becker
Evaluating a new model : the participation of private equity in the preservation of unsubsidized multifamily housing for middle-income renters

 

Aysha Minot
Transportation network companies as cost reduction strategies for paratransit

 

Caleb Roberts 
How the artistic dividend can improve economic development in historically segregated Black communities

 

Meiqing Li and Juan Pablo Benitez Gonzalez 
Reimagining the Public Realm: Intervention Proposals for Low-Income Neighborhoods in Querétaro, México

 

Cesar N. Yahia
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Path Planning for Traffic Estimation and Detection of Non-Recurrent Congestion

 

Brendan Goodrich
Development Interest and Action Regarding Transit Oriented Development in the Texas Triangle


Job Placements

Sagnika Das at UT Austin Commencement
Sagnika Das at UT Austin Commencement

Our student researchers have gone on to work for the following public agencies, non-profit organizations, and private companies after graduation:

University of Texas at San Antonio
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County
Texas Low Income Housing Information ServiceJetBlueKLD Engineering, PC
Noblis, Inc.
CDM Smith
WSP USA
Sasaki Associates
Ernst & Young

Texas Water Development Board
and more…

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