I teach transportation engineering and planning with a focus on helping students connect technical tools to real-world infrastructure challenges. Engineering decisions don’t happen in a vacuum — they’re shaped by human behavior, institutional constraints, environmental stressors, and uncertainty. In my courses, students build strong analytical foundations while also learning how those methods play out in practice.
Across undergraduate and graduate classes, I emphasize systems thinking, modeling, and applied problem-solving. Students work with real datasets, explore case studies drawn from current infrastructure challenges, and learn to think critically about assumptions and tradeoffs. My goal is to prepare students to be technically confident and thoughtful engineers who can navigate complexity rather than simplify it away.
Mentorship is also central to my teaching. I work closely with PhD students and undergraduate researchers, focusing on building both technical skill and professional confidence. Whether in the classroom or through research advising, I aim to create an environment that is rigorous, supportive, and grounded in real-world relevance.
Transportation Planning Spring 2026, Spring 2025
This course examines travel demand forecasting, data collection, and survey analysis techniques. It also studies trip generation, distribution, mode choice, and route assignment models, focusing on transportation-land use interactions and the societal impacts of planning and policies on travel demand. Additional coursework is required for those enrolled in the graduate-level course.
Travel Behavior Fall 2025
This course discusses multidisciplinary theories and perspectives on travel behaviors and decisions, including built environment, socio-demographic, and psychological factors and influences. This course also addresses evolving travel behavior data collection and analysis methods used in both research and practice. This is a graduate course aimed at preparing graduate students to conduct research in travel behavior and related areas within transportation studies. Undergraduates are welcome, and they can register for CEE 5240 Independent Study.
Traffic Engineering Fall 2024
Topics covered include characteristics, measurements, and analysis of volume, speed, density, and travel time; capacity and level of service analysis; signalization and traffic control devices. This course builds upon highway capacity analysis, traffic flow characteristics, traffic studies, and signal design from the course CEE 3210.
