• June 12, 2017

    UT Austin Civil Engineering Chair gives Talk at OSU

    On Thursday, May 11, 2017, Dr. C. Michael Walton, professor of Civil Engineering and Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering at The University of Texas Austin presented “Innovation in Delivery of Transportation Infrastructure,” as part of the Edwards Lecture Series on Oregon State University’s campus. The presentation concentrated on the issues of transport policy and the emerging models for delivering programs and services such as outsourcing/concessions, privatization, state owned enterprises, and financing of transport systems. Dr. C. Michael Walton researches intelligent transportation systems and intermodal freight logistics in addition to transportation systems engineering, planning, operations and policy analysis. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1993. In other professional society affairs he is a past Chair of the Board of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), past President of the Board of Governors of the Transportation and Development Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a founding member and past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Intelligent Transportation Society (ITS) of America and a past Chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Executive Committee.