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Each year, NIATT honors one especially outstanding graduate student by naming that person
Student-of-the-Year.
Students are selected based on the technical merit of their
research, academic performance, and professionalism and leadership. The US
Department of Transportation (DOT) recognizes the student-of-the-year from each
university transportation center at a special ceremony during the annual Transportation Research Board
meeting in Washington, DC. The student
also receives $1000 cash award and a trip to DC for the annual TRB
conference.
2008 Outstanding Graduate
Guillermo Madrigal's
research with Dr. Michael Dixon focuses on how cycle failure can
be used as a
performance measure.
Guillermo has been an outstanding leader in UI's student chapter of the
Institute for Transportation Engineers. As sjn undergraduate, he served
as chapter president and oversaw the organization of a field trip to
Washington, DC. In DC, the seven participating students visited ITE
international headquarters, attended a transportation experts panel and
visited the Wilson bridge.
In 2006, he took the lead in organizing a two-day student conference in
Boise, Idaho. This yearly conference involves graduate and undergraduate
students from five universities in the Northwest, and each university
takes a turn as host. Guillermo worked with other members of the ITE
chapter to plan the program and contact students at other universities,
urging them to participate.
Guillermo is always willing to help--he's assisted setting up data
collection equipment for a study being conducted by other students; he
assisted with the 7th annual Traffic Signal Summer Workshop, and most
recently, introduced a group of twelve Idaho Transportation Engineers to
VISSUM during an all-day training session
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