{"id":7523,"date":"2022-12-06T15:58:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T23:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=7523"},"modified":"2022-12-06T15:58:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T23:58:58","slug":"professor-rhonda-young-receives-pactrans-outstanding-educator-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/professor-rhonda-young-receives-pactrans-outstanding-educator-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Rhonda Young Receives PacTrans Outstanding Educator Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/fd-rhonda-young.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7524\" width=\"311\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/fd-rhonda-young.jpg 415w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/fd-rhonda-young-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/fd-rhonda-young-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/fd-rhonda-young-97x97.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s PacTrans Outstanding Educator Award goes to Rhonda Young, Chair and a Professor in the Department Civil Engineering at Gonzaga University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PacTrans Outstanding Educator Award is presented to PacTrans faculty in recognition of sustained outstanding teaching including mentoring, advising, and innovative teaching techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Rhonda Young is Chair and a Professor in the Department Civil Engineering at Gonzaga University. She has been in academics since 2002 and at Gonzaga since 2015. Throughout her career she has taught various undergraduate and graduate classes in Transportation Engineering as well as freshman and sophomore engineering courses. Prior to joining the academic field, she worked as a consultant for 10 years in the transportation profession. Her research efforts include projects in the planning, safety, and intelligent transportation areas. Currently her research has focused on the use of Connected Vehicle Technology to operate roadways in adverse weather conditions. She is a registered professional engineer in the states of Washington and Wyoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s PacTrans Outstanding Educator Award goes to Rhonda Young, Chair and a Professor in the Department Civil Engineering at Gonzaga University. The PacTrans Outstanding Educator Award is presented to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}