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News & Announcements
University of Saskatchewan Students and Faculty Participate in CTAA 2011 Conference
Rielle Haichert and Roanne Kelln attended the 2011 Canadian Technical Asphalt Association (CTAA) conference in Quebec City (Nov. 14th to 16th). Roanne presented the paper Mechanistic Evaluation of Warm Mix Asphalt Surfacing for C.S. 35-14 (Kelln, Haichert, Berthelot, and Anthony).
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University of Saskatchewan Students and Faculty Participate in TAC 2011 Conference
Students and faculty of the University of Saskatchewan attended the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) Annual Conference, held September 11 through 14 in Edmonton, Alberta.
Marlis Foth, Rielle Haichert, Duane Guenther, and Dr. Curtis Berthelot won the award for Best Technical Paper Poster Presentation for their paper, Sustainability Case Study Review of Using Recycled Aggregate in Road Structures.
Rajib Sahaji won first place in the student paper competition for his paper, Identifying High Collision Locations for Roadway Segments without Traffic Volume Information. Marlis Foth won second place in the student paper competition for her paper, Generating Carbon Offest Credits in Canada Using Weigh-in-Motion.
Three U of S students were also awarded TAC Foundation Scholarships for 2011. Marlis Foth won the EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd. Scholarship, Duane Guenther won the IBI Group Scholarship, and Roanne Kelln won the TAC Foundation Canadian Provinces and Territories Scholarship.
Please join us in congratulating the students on their successes at TAC 2011!
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World Road Congress 2011
Saskatchewan Centre of Excellence for Transportation and Infrastructure participated at World Road Congress 2011, Mexico City
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First Place in CSCE Student Undergraduate Poster Competition
Congratuations to Roanne Kelln and Chris Kathol for placing first in the 2011 Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Annual Conference in the student undergraduate poster competition! Roanne and Chris presented their work on the Mechanistic Evaluation of Warm Mix Asphalt Surfacing for C.S. 35-14.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Second Place in Stantec Civil and Environmental Engineering Capstone Design Competition
Congratulation to; Roanne Kelln, Eric Langevin, Logan Zapshalla, and Chris Kathol for winning second place for project “Mechanistic Evaluation of Warm Mix Asphalt Surfacing for C.S. 35-14”. The Civil and Environmental Engineering Capstone Design Competition for 2011, was sponsored and judged by Stantec Inc. Engineering Group. The students were also selected to represent the Civil Engineering program in the College of Engineering Student Papers Competition.
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U of S Students and Faculties Participate in TRB 2011
UofS students and faculties in the Saskatchewan Centre of Excellence for Transportation and Infrastructure presented Four papers in Poster Session and two papers presented in Committee Meeting during Transport Research Board Annual Technical Meeting in Washington D.C. 2011
Presented in poster Session:
- Development of a Proactive Hotspot Identification Method for Urban Arterials Using a Stochastic Catastrophe Model.
- Crushed Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) and Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) Aggregate Material Stabilization
- Case Study Evaluation of the Sustainability of Recycled Aggregate Road Structure
- Effect of Fines on the Structural Capacity of Urban Base Course Materials
Presented in committee meeting:
- Use of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) as a Base Layer in City of Edmonton Road Northwest Anthony Henday Extension
- Comparison of Field Performance of Conventional and Recycled Drainage Systems using Non Destructive Structural Asset Management
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Transportation Association of Canada Scholarships
The following UofS Engineering students won TAC Foundation Scholarships this year:
Roanne Kelln, Civil Engineering Undergrad, Fourth Year, was awarded the Dillon Consulting Limited scholarship in the amount of $5,000.
Duane Guenther, Civil Engineering M.Sc. Candidate, First Year, was awarded the Provinces/Territories scholarship in the amount of $4,500.
Colin Wandzura, Civil Engineering M.Sc. Candidate, Third Year, was awarded the Cement Association of Canada scholarship in the amount of $5,000.
Diana Podborochynski, Civil Engineering M.Sc. Candidate, Third Year, was awarded the Waterloo Alumni scholarship in the amount of $7,500.
Please join us in congratulating the students on their success!
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Pavement Design Course
The Saskatchewan Centre of Excellence for Transportation and Infrastructure hosted Pavement Design Course on May 18 - 20, 2010, some of the guests lecture were; Dr. Susan, Tighe University of Waterloo, Dr. Dallas Little, Texas A&M University.
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Geotechnical Course
The Saskatchewan Centre of Excellence for Transportation and Infrastructure hosted Geotechnical Course on March 17-19, 2010, some of the guests lecture were; Dr. Guy Doré P.Eng. (Professor of Civil Engineering, Laval University), Mr. Allen Kelly P.Eng. (Clifton Associates Ltd.), Mr. Brent Marjerison P.Eng.(SMHI), and Mr. Duane Guenther P.Eng. (City of Saskatoon)
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U of S Students Participate in TRB 2010
UofS students in the Saskatchewan Centre of Excellence for Transportation and Infrastructure present three papers at the 2010 Transport Research Board Annual Technical Meeting in Washington D.C. One of the papers on Green Street Recycling was accepted for publication in the Transportation Research Record and was identified as "Practitioner Ready".
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Rielle Haichert, John Coode and Atish Bajpai Win 3rd Prize for the TAC Student Paper Competition.
The Transportation Association of Canada and the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure awarded three UofS Saskatchewan Centre of Excellence for Transportation and Infrastructure Students an award for their paper entitled "Eco-Street: Quantifying Energy Efficiency of Roads over Their Lifespan" at the Transportation Association of Canada annual meeting in Vancouver British Columbia in October 2009.
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U of S Student Diana Podborochynski Wins TAC Graduate Student Scholarship.
UofS student Diana Podborochynski wins Transportation Association of Canada graduate student scholarship for her work on recycled road materials. The goal of Diana's research is to evaluate the technological uses for reclaimed and recycled asphalt pavement materials as a structural system for urban recycled asphalt pavement structures. Diana's research will evaluate the laboratory mechanistic constitutive relations of three types of asphalt recycled materials (recycled blended pile asphalt concrete, recycled asphalt concrete millings, and recycled clean asphalt concrete pavement slabs) including varying amounts of cementitious, emulsion, and rejuvenator stabilization systems. The second objective of this research is to determine the engineering and economic feasibility of using recycled pavement materials within typical urban street infrastructure rehabilitation and/or new construction application in the City of Saskatoon.