Citadel engineering school earns $1 million in grants for transportation research
December 16, 2016
The Citadel’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) will help lead collaborative research to identify innovations addressing the Southeast’s transportation challenges. Two grants equaling approximately $1 million over five years were recently awarded to the college by the Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Center (UTC).
The Citadel is the only South Carolina institution invited to partner with other universities for the Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education (STRIDE) Center consortium grant.
The STRIDE grant will provide up to $14 million over the next five years to 10 regional universities towards developing novel strategies for reducing congestion.
In addition to the STRIDE grant, The Citadel will be a part of a consortium of South Carolina institutions selected to receive the Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility grant. The federal grant will provide up to $7.8 million for the next five years to enable South Carolina to further transportation research, enhance undergraduate and graduate education, e-learning for professionals and engage K-12 students through outreach programs with South Carolina industries.
Leading The Citadel’s contributions for both projects will be professors William J. Davis, Ph.D., Dimitra Michalaka, Ph.D. and Kweku Brown, Ph.D. They will work collaboratively with the other institutions to achieve the goals of the consortia.
