Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Mazari Awarded Second Place in Paper Competition by the Transportation & Development Institute of the ASCE and the FHWA


Mehran Mazari, postdoctoral research and teaching associate at the University of Texas at El Paso, has been awarded second place in the graduate category by the Transportation & Development Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The paper, entitled “Novel Approaches in Visualization of Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Data. 
 
The award presentation will take place on the morning of Sunday, January 11, 2015, at the LTPP State Coordinators’ Meeting.

BIO:
Mehran earned his Bachelor’s and Master of Science degrees in Civil Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. In January 2011, he joined the Civil Engineering doctoral program at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Since then, he has been working as a graduate research assistant, under the direction of Prof. Soheil Nazarian, at the Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems (CTIS), a member of a national and a regional University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) consortium by the US Department of Transportation, working on several federal and state funded research projects. His work has so far been published in several high quality journals and peer-reviewed international conferences.

Throughout his academic career, Mehran has been honored with several fellowships and awards including the International Road Federation (IRF) Fellowship in 2014 and Dwight David Eisenhower Fellowship from the Federal Highway Administration of United States Department of Transportation in two consecutive years (2012 and 2013). He has received the Cotton Memorial Graduate Scholarship from The University of Texas at El Paso in 2012. Maintaining a GPA of 4.00, he has been privileged to become a member of Golden Key International Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society.

Mehran is currently a postdoctoral research and teaching associate at The University of Texas at El Paso. He is keenly interested to continue his academic career as an assistant professor of Civil Engineering focusing on both teaching and research activities.