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July 2, 2003
The Board of Directors of CTRF is pleased to announce the four scholarship
winners that are being awarded scholarships for the 2003-2004 academic
term.
Isabelle Beaulac, Laval University, Department of Civil Engineering
Lina Kattan, University of Toronto, ITS Department, Ph.D.
Laurel Richl, University of British Columbia, Dept of Civil
Engineering
Christine Wickens, York University, Department of Psychology
Bios will be posted in due course for each of these scholarship winners. The
winners will be "matched" to our corporate sponsors to be granted
the "named scholarships" shortly. CTRF wishes to thank
once again the sponsors for the current scholarship program, namely
Bombardier, Canada Maritime Agencies Ltd., CN, Canadian Pacific Railway,
Canadian Transportation Education Foundation, Government of Quebec, and
many other personal donations.
BOMBARDIER SCHOLARSHIP ($4000)
Isabelle Beaulac, Dept of Civil Engineering, Laval University, Quebec
Current Program : M.Sc. Road Geotechnical Engineering,
Dept. of Civil Engineering, Université Laval
Supervisor : Guy Doré, Professor, Dept. of Civil
Engineering, Université Laval
Previous Degree : B. Eng. Geological Engineering,
Université Laval, May 2003
Pendant mes études de premier
cycle en génie géologique, j'ai remporté le deuxiéme prix au niveau
canadien de la Société Canadienne de Géotechnique dans le cadre d'un
projet d'équipe intitulé évaluation du potentiel de liquéfaction
du Delta de Fraser. J'ai également participé en tant qu'assistante
de recherche é la rédaction d'un rapport technique présenté au Ministére
des Transports du Québec (MTQ) dans le cadre du projet de recherche
sur le Développement d'un essai simple et rapide pour l'estimation
du potentiel de ségrégation.
Mon sujet de maétrise, portant
sur la caractérisation et sur l'évaluation des impacts de la fonte
du pergélisol sur les infrastructures de transport aérien et routier
du MTQ au Nunavik, fait partie intégrante d'un projet de recherche é long terme qui vise
é la fois é la compréhension et é la quantification
des effets de tassement et de dégel sur la performance des chaussées
et des pistes dans les régions nordiques. J'ai entrepris mes études
de deuxiéme cycle en mai 2003. Je compte aller poursuivre une année
d'études é l'Université de l'Alaska é Fairbanks en 2003-2004 dans le
but d'améliorer mes connaissances sur le phénoméne de dégel du pergélisol
et dans le but d'étudier le type de solutions utilisées par le Department
of Transportations of Alaska qui a permis de prévenir et d'enrayer
les tassements occasionnés par l'augmentation de la température terrestre.
é la suite de mes études de
deuxiéme cycle, j'aimerais pouvoir travailler dans une firme de génie-conseil
sur des projets d'envergure nationale et internationale comme chargée
de projets.
During my undergraduate
studies in Geological Engineering, I have won the second price on the
Canadian level of the Canadian Geotechnical Society in a group project
called éEvaluation
of the Potential of Liquefaction of the Delta of Fraseré. I have
also taken part in the writing of a report presented at the Ministry
of Transportations of Quebec (MTQ) within the framework of the research
project on the Development of a Simple and Fast Test to Estimate the
Segregation Potential.
The subject of my master thesis,
dealing with the characterization and the evaluation of the permafrost
thaw impacts on the road and air transport infrastructures of the MTQ
in Nunavik, is an important part of a long-term research project which
aims both to the comprehension and the quantification of the settlement
and thaw effects on the performance of the roadways and the runways
in cold regions. I undertook my graduate studies in May 2003. I intend
to study one year at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 2003-2004
in order to improve my knowledge on the permafrost thaw and to study
the type of solutions used by Department of Transportations of Alaska
which has made it possible the prevention and the stopping of the settlements
caused by the increase of the earth temperature.
I intend to gain international
experience in the transportation engineering field in order to work
as a professional engineer on national and international projects in
the private sector.
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY SCHOLARSHIP
($4000)
Lina Kattan, University of Toronto, ITS Department, Ph.D.
Lina joined the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) group at the
Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto (UofT) in
September 2000 as a PhD student. Lina has received her Bachelor and Master
Degrees from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She has started
her career in transportation with a stronger inclination towards Transportation
Planning. She specialized in the analysis of Travel patterns and the
identification of War induced distortions to trip patterns in Beirut
using computer simulation. Before enrolling in the Ph.D. program at UofT,
Lina was working as a Transportation Engineer with Team-International.
She also served as a consultant to three companies, namely: IBI (Boston),
Solidere and Dar-Al-Handassah in Lebanon. Currently she is the Rapporteur
on the Atlantic research Project - Canadian Participation, conducting
research on Network Monitoring and Traffic Management and Control practices
in Canada as compared to US and Europe.
Since she started at the ITS Center at the University of Toronto, Lina's
interests broadened into the area of intelligent transportation systems
with emphasis on advanced traffic management and demand estimation which
are the focus of her dissertation research. Her career objective is to
foresee an academic position in transportation focusing on ITS.
CN SCHOLARSHIP ($4000)
Christine Wickens, York University, Department
of Psychology
Current Program: PhD, Dept. of Psychology,
York University
Area of Research:
Christine has spent the last three years studying
various psychological issues related to transportation. She has developed
a content analysis coding scheme that was used to analyze complaints
of aggressive driving behaviour received by the Ontario Provincial
Police. In June 2003, Christine presented the results of this analysis
at the thirteenth biennial Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference.
She has also conducted research focusing on the experience of state
driver stress as a function of occupational stress, trait driver stress,
and congestion level.
In addition to the Transportation Industry
Scholarship that she was awarded by the CTRF in 2001, Christine has
also been the recipient of several other past honours including the
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, the University of Toronto Book Award,
and both the Paskal and the Forrin Prizes from the University of Toronto
Psychology Department.
Continuing with her focus on psychological
issues of transportation, Christine's dissertation will examine the
role of individual difference variables in the impact of cellular telephone
use on driving performance. Are certain individuals more susceptible
to distraction while drivingé This research should expand our understanding
of how cellular telephones may impair driving performance and safety.
TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY SCHOLARSHIP
($4000)
Laurel Richl, Ph.D., Dept of Civil Engineering, University
of British Columbia
Current Program: PhD Department
of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia
Laurel has just started in
the PhD program in transportation engineering this fall after completing
a Masters degree in transportation engineering at the University of
British Columbia earlier this year. Her Bachelors degree is from the
University of Alberta. She wants to extend the research that she was
doing for her Masters thesis on the application of reliability theory
to geometric design of roads by developing a framework for the geometric
design process for roads and highways. The framework would include
tools that are currently used today such as the road safety audit,
design consistency evaluation and tools developed from the application
of reliability analysis to geometric design. It is hoped that the framework
would help guide transportation engineers to develop safer roads for
all road users.
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