SPTC News Archives
2024 Summer Bridge
OSU’s College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology hosted their annual Summer Bridge program this year during the end of July and early August. This program is designed for incoming freshmen, helping them to be well prepared for their transition from high school to college. Students in need of remedial coursework or those who are identified as at-risk for future success are invited, as are other students desiring to hit their degree programs with a “running start.” Read more at this link.
Featured Students
SPTC would like to highlight two students, Diana Carreno and Khondhakar Al Momin, who have received a scholarship from the Oklahoma Traffic Engineering Association. These students have worked hard and we are very proud of them. Congratulations to both of them!
Visit the Featured Students page to learn more.
US DOT OST-R Visit
Representatives from the U.S. Department of Transportation OST-R office as well as other members of the Southern Plains Transportation Center visited SPTC on May 1, 2024. Please follow this link to learn more about their visit and the insider’s view they were treated to.
Transportation Industry and Workforce Development Symposium
The inaugural Transportation Industry and Workforce Development Symposium was April 30 at The Forum on the University of Oklahoma campus. Check out the event page to learn more.
2023 Dine’ Maker Faire
On June 23, 2023, Navajo Technical University hosted its 6th Annual Dine’ Maker Faire. Participants were students who spent four weeks in NTU’s Summer STEM and Skills program, which allows high school students to explore potential career paths such as welding, construction, culinary arts, engineering, and marketing. The program focuses on practical skills and individualized attention from instructors, allowing students to take their academic and professional careers to new heights.
This year, fifty students from Wingate High School participated in the program, receiving certificates of achievement and up to 9 hours of college credit.
Students presented a wide variety of projects, from drones (electrical engineering) to welded metal flowers used as centerpieces (welding), birdhouses and picnic tables (carpentry), to French and Japanese cuisine (culinary arts).
AI in Motion
SPTC co-hosted the AI in Motion Symposium in Austin, Texas from May 15-May 17, 2024. Visit our event page to learn more.
ABC-UTC to Host 2024 World Bridge Conference
ABC-UTC at FIU will host the 2024 World Bridge Engineering Conference December 11-13, 2024, at the Hilton Miami Downtown Hotel in Miami, Florida. For more information or submit an abstract, visit their website.
Congratulations Dr. Puppala!
Dr. Anand Puppala, Texas A&M University, recently gave the keynote lecture "UAVs and Remote Sensing Technologies for Proactive Infrastructure Monitoring and Asset Management” at the International Symposium for Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC) held at IIT Madras, Chennai in India on July 3-9, 2023.
His most recent journal article, "Eye in the Sky: 360° Inspection of Bridge Infrastructure Using Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)" was published in August 2023, while his article "Evaluation of Geopolymer for Stabilization of Sulfate-Rich Expansive Soils for Supporting Pavement Infrastructure" was published in May 2022. In between, he presented a poster along with four other researchers entitled, "Monitoring Transportation Assets Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)" in January 2023.
Congratulations Dr. Puppala!
Cookout with UTEP and EPCC
As part of its workforce development initiatives, one of the primary missions of SPTC is facilitate a seamless transition for students from El Paso Community College to University of Texas El Paso. To that end, the Transportation Leadership Council at UTEP hosted a cookout to welcome over two dozen science and engineering students from EPCC.
You can read more about the event on UTEP’s Facebook post.