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The Board of Directors of CTRF is pleased to announce the five scholarship winners that are being awarded scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year.
CTRF wishes to thank once again the sponsors for the current scholarship program, namely Transport Canada, CN, Canadian Pacific Railway, Government of Quebec, and many other personal donations.
Scholarship Competitions 2008 - 2009
- Award Winners -
Transport
Canada Scholarship in Sustainable Transportation ($4000)
Muhammad Ahsanul Habib, University of Toronto
Muhammad Ahsanul Habib is a PhD Candidate in the field of Transportation Engineering and Planning at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto. He received Bachelor and Master Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). His multidisciplinary academic background allows him to explore innovative methods to understand complex transportation-land use interactions. For his PhD research, he is investigating advanced disaggregate econometric modeling techniques to implement residential location choice module within microsimulation-based Integrated Land Use, Transportation and Environment (ILUTE) modeling system for the Greater Toronto Area. He has a wide research experience on residential mobility, location modeling, real estate market, application of discrete choice techniques, duration analysis, hedonic pricing etc. His areas of interest also include transportation planning and policy analysis, freight demand modeling, smart growth, urban redevelopment and microsimulation of urban systems. He regularly contributes to the state-of-art integrated urban modeling literature by publishing papers and presenting his research results at international conferences.
Muhammad is an elected member of the Faculty Council for the period 2007-2008 and serves as a GSI Ambassador and CUPE steward since 2006. He was a countrywide renowned debater and won various awards in national competitions during his undergraduate years. He has won four professional awards during his graduate studies including CTRF, TAC Foundation and CITE Dr. Michel Van Aerde Memorial Scholarship. He received Dr. Rashid Gold Medal for the best performance among all the Master Degree recipients at BUET in the year 2004. His career goal is to work either in academia or transportation consulting firm, and demonstrate leadership in advancing integrated transportation-land use models.
Transport Canada Scholarship in Sustainable Transportation ($4000)
Dominik Papinski, McMaster University
Dominik Papinski is currently studying at McMaster University in the field of transportation geography, focusing specifically on route choice analysis. He is working on data collection, route choice analysis and modeling. The research is based on data collected using GPS and traditional survey methods.
Dominik would like to address the critical issues dealing with transportation. This involves investigating issues on how people plan and select routes, as well as, how the underlying transportation network impacts route choice. After obtaining a PhD degree in geography Dominik plans to continue in academia. He plans to continue teaching and making valuable contributions through presentations and publishing peer-reviewed journals.
Transport
Canada Scholarship in Sustainable Transportation ($4000)
Matthew Lee, University of Waterloo
Matthew Lee is a Master’s candidate in the School of Planning at University of Waterloo. His research interests lie in the field of transportation planning, specifically in transit infrastructure financing. He completed his Bachelor of Environmental Studies degree in Planning at the University of Waterloo, with a specialization in Land Development Planning. During his undergraduate studies, his employment with the Ontario Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal and the Toronto Transit Commission sparked his interest to examine ways to accelerate transit infrastructure investment, given the cash-strapped nature of today’s public sector. Specifically, he explored a variety of alternative financing options used in other jurisdictions, namely in the United States, for the purpose of speeding the delivery of transit capital projects.
During Matthew’s first year of graduate school, he assessed the merits of Value Capture Financing in facilitating transit infrastructure investment within the Ontario context. Moving forward, he intends to refine his research by examining historic trends in residential land value as a result of transportation investment in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Through the use of GTA housing sales data, he will compare the changes in residential land values in areas surrounding key road and transit investment with the areas outside of these investment areas. Matthew will control for other variables affecting land values that are external to transportation. He hopes this study will provide planners and policy-makers greater knowledge related to the direct economic benefits of transportation investment.
Dr. Jeff Casello will continue to guide his scholarly efforts.
In the future, Matthew hopes to become a transportation planner, particularly focusing matters related to infrastructure financing, transit-oriented development, and transit service planning.
Canadian Pacific Railway Scholarship ($4000)
Stephanie Sodero, University of Oxford
Stephanie has five years of experience as a transportation project and policy coordinator at the Ecology Action Centre, an organization that aims to build a healthier, more sustainable Nova Scotia. Stephanie has a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from Dalhousie University. Her research focused on sustainable urban transportation with a focus on university transit pass programs. She is currently working on her doctorate in transportation planning at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include transit funding and carbon pricing.
CN Scholarship ($4000)
Marie-Lyne Dor?, ?cole de technologie sup?rieure
Biographie Marie-Lyne Dor? Bourse CTRF
Marie-Lyne Dor? a obtenu un baccalaur?at en ing?nierie de l’?cole
Polytechnique de
Montr?al en 2006 et a poursuivi ses ?tudes au deuxi?me cycle. Elle compl?te
actuellement
son programme de ma?trise en ing?nierie ? l’?cole de Technologie Sup?rieure
de Montr?al.
Elle a d?but? son projet de ma?trise qui consiste ? analyser la gestion du
risque dans un
projet autoroutier en partenariat public / priv? et de pr?senter la s?curit?
et la s?ret? des
transports lors de la conception d'un projet autoroutier ainsi que le
respect des normes de
conception du MTQ en ce qui attrait ? la g?om?trie et aux risques pr?sents
au niveau de la
s?curit? des transports. Le projet autoroutier ? analyser devait ?tre celui
de l’autoroute 30,
mais pour des questions de confidentialit?, le projet ne peut ?tre utilis?
comme fin de
r?f?rence. De ce fait, le projet choisi est alors celui du complexe Turcot,
un projet sur lequel
Madame Dor? travaille depuis quelques mois. Son directeur de projet est
Monsieur Edmond
Miresco, ing. M. ing., PhD. Elle pr?voit terminer sa ma?trise au trimestre
d’?t? 2009.
Madame Dor? envisage de poursuivre ses ?tudes au doctorat ?tant donn? le
fort int?r?t
qu’elle porte pour le domaine des transports et elle d?sirerait approfondir
ses connaissances
en ?tudiant davantage un sujet pr?cis tel que la gestion et l’entretien des
autoroutes.
Si elle ne poursuit pas au doctorat, Mme Dor? souhaite grandement faire une
ma?trise en
administration des affaires pour cadre. (MBA)
Mme Dor? a joint l’?quipe de CIMA+ ? titre d'ing?nieure junior en d?cembre
2006. Elle a
aussi agit ? titre de surveillante de chantier et stagiaire sur divers
projets durant les ?t?s
2003 ? 2006. ? ce jour, elle travaille pour le d?partement de g?nie routier
comme ing?nieure
de projets. Responsable de la conception et de la mise en plan des ouvrages
d’ing?nierie,
Mme Dor? ma?trise bien les logiciels Autocads et InRoads ainsi que plusieurs
autres dont
ceux de planification tels que Ms Project et Primavera ainsi que Chauss?e 2
pour la
conception routi?re et SWMM 5 pour le drainage. Elle a acquis une bonne
exp?rience dans
la planification des co?ts et des ?ch?anciers gr?ce aux diff?rents cours de
gestion de projet
suivis dans le cadre de sa ma?trise.
Elle poss?de ?galement une bonne exp?rience dans les domaines de gestion de
l’exploitation, de l’entretien et de la construction des autoroutes et dans
le domaine de
conception des diff?rents types de pavage selon les m?thodes de conception
appliqu?es en
Am?rique du Nord (chauss?es souples, chauss?es rigides, chauss?es en b?ton
compact?
au rouleau). Elle poss?de plusieurs qualit?s dont un bon leadership, un bon
esprit d’?quipe,
autonome, facilit? ? communiquer, capacit? d’adaptation et de travailler
sous pression. Son
engagement, sa d?termination, sa capacit? d’ex?cution, son organisation
ainsi que sa
capacit? ? prendre des d?cisions rapides et ?clair?es la qualifient comme
une excellente
ing?nieure.
Dans le cadre de son travail, elle a su d?montrer sa polyvalence en
r?alisant de la
surveillance des travaux en chantier, des ?tudes de g?om?trie routi?re, de
la conception de
services municipaux, la pr?paration d’estimation de co?ts, de plans et devis,
etc. Elle
poss?de une bonne expertise technique malgr? son jeune ?ge et r?ussit tout
aussi bien ?
faire de la gestion que de la technique. Elle est tr?s soucieuse des
contr?les et des r?sultats et comprend les enjeux des projets qui lui sont
confi?s.
Elle deviendra ?ventuellement charg?e de projet en g?nie routier. De ce
fait, elle dirigera
plusieurs personnes travaillant sur diff?rents projets autoroutiers de
grande envergure. Elle
aspire bien ?videmment devenir associ?e de la soci?t? d’ing?nierie CIMA+.
Elle a su bien
s’encadrer de gens comp?tents afin de parfaire ses connaissances.