| （Report on Transportation Safety Improvement of High Speed Railway） 报告人（Reporter）：Research Assistant Professor M. Rapik Saat , Ph.D. （University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign） 报告时间（Time）：7月5日上午9:30 （周五）（A.M. 9:30 of July 5） 报告地点（Location）：安中大楼A326（An Zhong Building A326） 报告内容（Content）： Presentations: · Introduction to the University of Illinois Rail Transportation & Engineering Center (RailTEC) （上午（A.M.）9：30~10:00）
· High-Speed & Passenger Rail Research and Education at RailTEC （下午2：00~3:00 P.M.） Potential Meetings & Discussion（下午3:00~4:30 P.M.） · Education collaborations e.g. taking online courses at UIUC, training and transferring HSR curriculum from RailTEC · Research collaborations · Casual meeting with students, young researchers interested to pursue entry, collaborative visits to top engineering universities in USA 报告人简介（Introduction to the Speaker）： Education and Awards: M. Rapik Saat holds B.S. (2003), M.S. (2005), and Ph.D. (2009) degrees in civil engineering, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been on the faculty of CEE at Illinois since February 2011. He is supervising graduate and undergraduate students and collaborating with several faculties in systems-related railroad engineering research projects. His awards and honors include receiving the CN Graduate Research Fellowship in Railroad Engineering in 2008 and the Society of Risk Analysis Engineering and Infrastructure Specialty Group Student Merit Award in 2010. He has also received the Michael W. & Jean D. Franke Family Foundation Scholarship from the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA), and the Frank J. Richter Scholarship from the American Association of Railroad Superintendents (AARS). Research Overview: Dr. Saat has research interests in transportation safety and risk analysis, railroad civil engineering economics, high-speed rail, normative decision making, statistical analysis, data mining and operations research. 浙江大学交通工程研究所 （Institute of Transportation Engineering, Zhejiang University） |