Recent AUTC News stories are listed below. Older stories are rolled back on previous pages.
AUTC Project Updates are located on their own page.
‘Engineering Students Brave Rural Alaska’
A recent news story in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Anchorage Daily News tells the story of UAF engineering students in a Senior Design class heading out to remote Alaska villages to tackle difficult civil design challenges. To read more click here:
http://www.adn.com/2012/05/04/2452517/engineering-students-brave-rural.html
State Capital Budget Includes Funding for University of Alaska Engineering Buildings
On April 6th, Alaska’s Commissioner of Transportation and Public Facilities, Marc Luiken, gave an address to AUTC staff, students, and partners at UAF’s College of Engineering and Mines outlining the growing need for Alaska engineers. Updating these developments, the Alaska State Legislature issued the following announcement Friday: (more…)
AUTC Quarterly Newsletter
Highlighting recent projects on Geotechnical Asset Management (GAM), Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Pavement Preservation, and the Student of the Year, AUTC’s latest quarterly newsletter (Volume 5, Number 2) is now available on the publications page, here.
New Video Tells Alaska Aviation Lifeline Story
AUTC’s partners at the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Division of Statewide Aviation produced the first of a two-part series video illustrating how aviation serves as a lifeline for 82% of the communities in Alaska. (more…)
Alaska Transportation Commissioner Marc Luiken: We Need Alaska Engineers
On Friday, April 6, Marc Luiken, Alaska Commissioner of Transportation and Public Facilities, gave a lecture to engineering students, faculty, and researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. (more…)
The Wild Frontier in Intelligent Transportation: 2012 IEEE ITS Conference CALL FOR PAPERS – EXTENDED
The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Anchorage, Alaska, USA; September 16-19, 2012, has extended its call for papers. (more…)
Live Seismic Testing Friday, 30th
AUTC research partners will broadcast live seismic testing online Friday, April 30. (more…)
Pavement Preservation Presentation in Nanjing, China
AUTC partner Gary Hicks, program manager at the California Pavement Preservation Center(CP2C), will travel to Nanjing, China to present a paper on Alaska’s Pavement Preservation Program at the 2012 International Society for Asphalt Pavements summit. (more…)
AUTC Partner Discusses Value of Asphalt Recycling
A story in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner discusses the use of recycled asphalt to reduce repaving costs amid soaring energy prices and keep valuable materials from going to waste. (more…)
