UTC-Funded Research Projects

FY12 UTC-FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

The following projects were initiated in 2011-2012 by NIATT researchers with
the fourteenth year of funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation's University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program. NIATT is lead on the TranLIVE Tier 1 UTC http://www.tranliveutc.org/engr/research/niatt/tranlive and a partner on the PacTrans Region X UTC http://depts.washington.edu/pactrans/. All active projects for UTC can be found on the respective websites.

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The National Transportation Curriculum Project: Developing Activity-Based Learning Modules for the Introductory Transportation Engineering Course	Michael Kyte, PI KLK724
A New Method to Estimate Average Annual Daily Traffic	Michael Lowry, PI KLK725
Development of a Clean, Quiet, and Efficient Two-Stroke Direct-Injection Snowmobile for Use in the Clean Snowmobile Challenge and National Parks	Karen Den Braven, PI KLK767
In situ Transesterification of Microalgal Oil to Produce Algal Biodiesel	Brian He, PI KLK768
Development of nanocatalysts for the synthesis of biofuels from biomass derived syngas	Armando McDonald, PI KLK769
Number of UTC-funded projects for FY12: 5	Search Database