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Twelve Winners Selected for the TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program Graduate Research Awards
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Twelve Winners Selected for the TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program Graduate Research Awards
News Release| November 18, 2024
WASHINGTON - The Transportation Research Board's Airport Cooperative Research Program today announced the winners of its annual ACRP Graduate Research Awards. The prestigious awards focus on applied research on airport and related aviation system issues to help the public sector improve the quality, reliability, safety, and security of the U.S. civil aviation system.
ACRP Graduate Research Awards stimulate thought, discussion, and research by those who will become part of the future airport industry workforce. Now in its 18th year, the program is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration and managed by TRB. This year's 12 graduate student awardees represent eight universities from across the U.S. Their research focuses on a wide variety of topics including fuel emissions, pavement, urban air mobility, and air service schedules.
The award offers winners a $12,000 stipend; the opportunity to present their work at TRB's annual meeting, to be held in Washington, D.C., in January 2025; and the possibility to have their final research paper published in TRB's journal, Transportation Research Record. Awardees are also assigned a panel of experts to advise them throughout their research.
The 2024-2025 recipients of the ACRP Graduate Research Awards are:
ACRP Graduate Research Awards stimulate thought, discussion, and research by those who will become part of the future airport industry workforce. Now in its 18th year, the program is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration and managed by TRB. This year's 12 graduate student awardees represent eight universities from across the U.S. Their research focuses on a wide variety of topics including fuel emissions, pavement, urban air mobility, and air service schedules.
The award offers winners a $12,000 stipend; the opportunity to present their work at TRB's annual meeting, to be held in Washington, D.C., in January 2025; and the possibility to have their final research paper published in TRB's journal, Transportation Research Record. Awardees are also assigned a panel of experts to advise them throughout their research.
The 2024-2025 recipients of the ACRP Graduate Research Awards are:
Shafkat Bin Jafar is a doctoral student at Washington State University, Pullman. His paper is titled "Study of Foamed Glass Aggregate for Rapid Airfield Pavement and Structure Construction." Haifang Wen is his faculty mentor.
Gabriel Cedraz Diniz is a doctoral student at Georgia Institute of Technology. His paper is titled "A new normal? An analysis of scheduled air service in small and non-hub airports in the U.S. after COVID-19." Laurie Anne Garrow is his faculty mentor.
Oluwaseyi Dasho is a doctoral student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His paper is titled "Monitoring Vertical Land Motion at San Francisco International Airport Using Satellite Radar Interferometry." Manoochehr Shirzaei is his faculty mentor.
Onyinye Ezeifeka is a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati. Her paper is titled "Evaluating Sustainable Aviation Fuel Emissions in Turbine Engines: Organic Pollutant Composition and Potential Health Implications for Aviation Industry Workers." Yevgen Nazarenko is her faculty mentor.
Cesar Gomez-Avila is a master's student at Texas Tech University. His paper is titled "Cost-Effective Optimization of Stormwater Control Measures for PFAS Removal in Airport Runoff through Sorbent Integration." Danny Reible is his faculty mentor.
Clayton Malone is a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His paper is titled "Nondestructive Evaluation of Airfield Pavements with High-Speed Acoustic Scanning System." Jinying Zhu is his faculty mentor.
Shubham Modi is a doctoral student at University of New Hampshire. His paper is titled "Integrating Machine Learning Techniques with Balanced Mix Design for Enhanced Quality Control of Airfield Pavements." Eshan V. Dave is his faculty mentor.
Jeongwoo Park is a doctoral student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His paper is titled "Analyzing the Impact of Small Airport Runway Length Requirements due to Climate Change." Antonio A. Trani is his faculty mentor.
Amy Rose-Tejwani is a doctoral student at the George Mason University. Her paper is titled "Development of an Ensemble Forecast of Upper Tropospheric Ice Supersaturation towards Aircraft-Induced Cloud Abatement." Lance Sherry is her faculty mentor.
Amirhossein Samavatekbatan is a doctoral student at Utah State University. His paper is titled "Developing a Framework for Vertiport Site Selection in Urban Air Mobility." Brent Chamberlain is his faculty mentor.
Gustavo Sanchez Cortes is a doctoral student at Purdue University. His paper is titled "Airport Risk Assessment of Using eVTOL Aircraft for Air Taxi Operations." Mary E. Johnson is his faculty mentor.
Ardalan Tajbakhsh is a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University. His paper is titled "Autonomous Multi-Agent Navigation in Mixed Environments: Application to Airport Ground Operations." Aaron M. Johnson is his faculty mentor.
The Airport Cooperative Research Program is an industry-driven, applied research program that develops near-term, practical solutions to airport challenges. The program is managed by the Transportation Research Board, which is a program unit of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - private, nonprofit institutions that provide independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions related to science, engineering, and medicine. The National Academies operate under an 1863 congressional charter to the National Academy of Sciences, signed by President Lincoln. For more information, visit https://www.nationalacademies.org/.
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Paul Mackie, Director of Communications and Media
Transportation Research Board
202-841-2953; e-mail [email protected]
Paul Mackie, Director of Communications and Media
Transportation Research Board
202-841-2953; e-mail [email protected]
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