Our Faculty members had an outstanding year. Here are the highlights:
Dr. Michael Horst has became the 2019/20 ASCE NJ Section President. Congratulations!
On Tuesday, October 22nd, ASCE Central Jersey Branch held its annual award dinner. Chi Epsilon would like congratulate TCNJ XE Faculty Member Dr. Thomas Brennan on winning the award for researcher of the year. We appreciate all that Dr. Brennan does for the civil engineering department at TCNJ and Chi Epsilon.
On October 4th, Dr. Andrew Bechtel (center) and Dr. Thomas Brennan (right) traveled to London and received an award for the best research paper in ICE Journal of Transportation Asset Management for 2018. The paper outlined a project on how data taken from GPS signals in cell phones can be used to determine if bridges are functioning properly. Bridges that were causing congestion at their location across the State of New Jersey were first located. This was the same data used to make the roads on Google Maps turn yellow, orange, and red. This was then correlated to a database of bridge condition. When combining the data, bridges that were decaying and causing congestion were flagged. These bridges are easy candidates for replacement. The paper is about using available data to make better decisions about what infrastructure to repair and replace.
Congratulations!
