高端外专Sunanda Dissanyake短期课程
交通安全分析及如何写好专业论文系列讲座
一、时间：
6月08日 13:30-14:30
6月12日 13:30-14:30
6月13日 13:30-14:30
6月15日 13:30-14:30 二、地点
学院102会议室
三、报名联系方式
联系人 彭一川 联系电话 137-9531-6798
四、专家简介
Dr. Dissanayake is a Full Professor in Civil Engineering with specialization in Transportation Engineering attached to the Kansas State University in theUnited States. She is also the Graduate Program Director in Civil Engineering at KSU and has more than 24 years of experience in traffic engineering and transportation safety both in the Unites States and internationally. She obtained her Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from University of Moratuwa inSri Lanka, Masters in Transportation Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology inThailand, and PhD in Civil/Transportation Engineering from University of South Florida. She has successfully completed numerous externally research projects in the area of highway safety and teaches courses in the related topics. Some examples of her previous work include safety issues related to special population groups such as young drivers and older drivers, motorcycle safety, improving seatbelt usage rates and associated benefits, truck crashes and reducing severity, rural highway safety and crash analysis, children’s safety among many others. She has published more than 39 journal publications and has more than 133 presentations/conference proceedings in her credit. In addition to winning highly prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award for her sabbatical, she is currently a member of two journal editorial boards, a member of two TRB committees, and the chair of the Transportation Safety Committee of American Society of Civil Engineers.
五、讲座主题: (seminar topics)
1.Overview of Highway Safety Analysis – Importance of crash statistics, How to identify problem areas using trends and statistics, Concept of exposure, General crash rates for regions/cities, Crash rates for intersections an sections, Identifying critical locations.(two seminars)
2.How to Write a Technical Paper: Things to Do and not to Do– Presents tips on writing a good technical paper with some tips on things that need to be done and things that should not be done in technical writing.(one seminar)
3.和所有感兴趣的学生(本科生,研究生)一起探讨美国的学习生活(one seminar)