Lighting the way to safer driving
An MU team combined field and simulator studies on the effectiveness of four light-color configurations in catching driver attention in work zones.
Driver distractions in work zones can be costly
Drivers are 29 times more likely to be in a collision or narrowly avert one if distracted for any length of time while passing through a work zone.
A fine fellow: Grad student receives prestigious federal fellowship
Jacob Kaltenbronn wasn’t going to grad school. Then he did undergraduate research. And now, he’s the recipient of a prestigious graduate fellowship.
Mizzou Engineering duo wins national Traffic Control Device Challenge
Jacob Kaltenbronn and Zhu Qing’s design was a vision-based pedestrian indicator light which would help drivers be more aware of pedestrians.
Get smart: Phones collect critical road surface data
What if smartphones could tell your department of transportation the quality of the roads you drive on? Two Mizzou Engineers are working to answer that question.
MU Engineering professor helps solidify new bridge inspection standards
Mizzou Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Glenn Washer has long been a proponent of common-sense, risk-based federal bridge inspection standards.
Professor touts underground pipeline system at international conference
Jim Noble recently traveled halfway around the world to present research results that addresses key sustainability issues in the smart cities domain through moving cargo flow underground. The MU Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering professor and his former graduate student, Gaohao Luo of the Norfolk Southern Corporation, presented “Underground Freight Pipeline System Logistic Network Design” […]
Turning wrong turns into the right alert system
by Megan Schaltegger What began as a class project resulted in a major win for five MU Engineering students at this year’s Transportation Research Board meeting in Washington D.C. Jacob Kaltenbronn, Katy Harlan, Robert Gallup, Elizabeth Farr and Kaitlin Windsor created a device proposal that would curve wrong way driving for their Transportation Safety course. […]
Mizzou Engineering duo presents at national ASEE conference
Alaaeldin Elsisi and Hesham El-Emam participated in the GEM-ASEE Doctoral Engineering Research Showcase, hosted by the American Society for Engineering Education, on Jan. 22 and 23 in Washington, D.C. The Showcase is a unique event which invites “doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and new faculty to display their leading-edge technical research and connect with potential agency sponsors […]
Flagging down a competition victory
MU Civil Engineering graduate students Zhu Qing and Siyang Zhang earned first-place honors for their poster, “Evaluation of Automated Flagger Assistance Devices in Missouri.”