“The consortium’s theme is comprehensive transportation safety,” said Richards. “This grant allows us to work proactively to improve the safety of all transportation modes in the Southeast through a program of research, education, and technology transfer. We have assembled an excellent team of experts that can cover a wide spectrum of safety issues and deliver implementable safety research.

The Wayne T. Davis Endowed Dean’s Chair in Engineering was named in recognition of Davis’ extraordinary service and leadership by John and Ann Tickle, and Tickle’s fellow UT industrial engineering alumni Chad Holliday, and his wife, Ann; Joe Cook, and his wife, Judy; and Eric Zeanah, and his wife, Elaine.

McCullock received a BS degree in accounting from North Carolina State University in Raleigh. She has fifteen years experience in accounting and finance. She has spent the past thirteen years serving in various financial management roles within the medical/hospital field.

The skills of chemical engineering students at UT will be put to the test in an international competition that challenges them to build a specific type of car in record time.

Traffic signal operations play an important safety role on our roadway systems; however, according to the 2012 National Traffic Signal Report Card, the overall quality of traffic signal operations in the US is poor and may soon fail to keep pace with changes in population growth and traffic patterns. Academy instructors apply innovative concepts resulting from academic research and established best practices to help agencies develop improved signal timing policies and procedures.

The $1.5 million commitment from Jim Gibson, a 1971 graduate in industrial engineering, has established the Gibson Endowed Chair in Engineering.

He will receive the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)-Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award on November 19 in Denver at SC13, the International Conference on High Performance Computing.