Utah Transportation Research,
Education and Technology Transfer

Welcome to the Utah Transportation Center (UTC) web page. The Utah Transportation center is part of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, in the College of Engineering, at Utah State University. The Center is a Tier II University Transportation Center as designated in SAFETEA-LU.

The theme of the Utah Transportation Center is “Innovative Engineering Against Hazards”. The colleagues associated with the Center come from varied areas of civil engineering (see bios and research interests in this web page), but all have some background in hazards engineering: earthquakes, landslides, scour, flooding, etc. The work by the colleagues has generally been in the area of highways, but it is a goal of the Center to expand our education and research efforts into a multi-modal effort by looking at transit and rail (both transit and freight).

The Center is currently looking for an additional faculty member who can teach undergraduate courses in the classical areas of transportation, and pursue a research agenda in transit, along with teaching graduate courses in transit. If you are interested, or know someone who might be, go to www.usu.edu/hr and hit the Job Opportunities button. Look for a faculty position in the Civil Engineering Department (CEE) at the Assistant Professor level, and the open transportation position should pop up. If you have difficulty finding it and want more information, please contact me at the address below.

The intent of this web page is to keep colleagues around the country up to date on what is going on at the Utah Transportation Center, like the open position mentioned above. We will update the web page frequently as activities and interests change. With the initiation of the web page we are focusing on introductory elements to the Center. This page has access to the Center’s strategic plan, and information on the colleagues within the Center.

As the Center Director, I am excited about the national impact that our Center will have on transportation education and research. The educational and research expertise contained within the Center is great, and we look forward to expanding this collective expertise as we meet the educational needs of our undergraduates and working professionals within Utah and the nation, as well as pursue cooperative research with the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), FHWA, FTA, other modal agencies, and private industry.

Should you have questions about the Center, or are a student interested in attending Utah State University and becoming involved with the Center, please feel free to contact me.

Kevin C. Womack, Ph.D., P.E.
Director, Utah Transportation Center
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-4110
435-797-1144
kevin.womack@usu.edu