ITS - Faculty and Student Accomplishments

ITS-DAVIS PEOPLE: Faculty and Student Accomplishments

David Lin accepts HYSYSDAYS award from
Alessandro Battaglino, CEO, Environment Park.

Cynthia Lin, an assistant professor in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department and the Environmental Science and Policy Department has been appointed to a new Controller’s Council of Economic Advisors. The seven-member panel will advise the state controller on emerging strengths and vulnerabilities in California’s economy, major issues and trends that may affect the state’s fiscal health, and how to make the best use of limited government revenues and resources.

Professor Joan Ogden and graduate researcher Nils Johnson were invited to present their research at the U.S. Department of Energy's 3rd Annual Carbon Capture and Transportation Working Group Workshop in North Dakota in June. Johnson's dissertation will examine strategies for developing a more "greenhouse-friendly" fossil energy system with capture and storage of carbon. Ogden and Johnson also toured the Dakota Gasification Plant, one of the few coal plants in the world where CO2 is captured rather than emitted to the atmosphere.

Zhenhong (David) Lin won an award from the Scientific Committee of the 2nd World Congress of Young Scientists on Hydrogen Energy Systems for a paper he co-authored with Chien-Wei Chen, Joan Ogden, and Yueyue Fan. Lin traveled to the “HYSYSDAYS - 2nd World Congress” in Turin, Italy, in June to accept the award. The paper, “Optimized Pathways for Regional H2 Infrastructure Transitions: A Case Study for Southern California” was deemed the best work in the strategic and socio-economic analysis session. Lin is a Ph.D. candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Tai Stillwater received the 2006-2007 CH2M Hill fellowship, and David McCollum received the 2006-2007 fellowship from Chevron. Corporate fellowships recognize outstanding ITS-Davis students and provide funding for their studies. Stillwater and McCollum also received an award from the 2007-2008 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation. Stillwater is a master’s student and McCollum is a Ph.D. student, both in Transportation Technology and Policy.

Pat Mokhtarian, Tai Stillwater, with Hans
Strandgaard and Elaine Jones of CH2M Hill.

Friends of ITS-Davis announces its 2006 Outstanding Dissertation and Thesis Awards. The awards are granted each year for one Ph.D. dissertation and one master’s thesis to recognize and promote the highest-quality research conducted by ITS-Davis graduate students in the previous calendar year:

Xinyu Cao was awarded the Friends Outstanding Dissertation Award for: “The Causal Relationship between the Built Environment and Personal Travel Choice: Evidence from Northern California.” His major professor is Pat Mokhtarian. Professor Susan Handy also lent considerable input.

David McCollum, second right, with Chevron’s
Jeffrey Jacobs, Jim Uihlein and Harry Sigworth