Note: BC- Benedict College; TC- The Citadel; CU- Clemson University;
SCSU- South Carolina State University; and USC- University of South Carolina.
C²M² Affiliate | Activity | Date |
BC & USC | Two day workshop EFFECT (Environments for Fostering Critical Thinking) resulting in a course offered jointing at BC & USC | May 2017 |
BC | Dr. Comert and a student participated in the Summer Research Team for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne | May-Aug 2017 |
USC & BC | Dr. Huynh hosted Summer Transportation Institute (STI) students at USC and introduced them to local SCDOT professionals | May 2017 |
CU & BC | Dr. Chowdhury hosts students from STI giving a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (C/AV) demonstration | June 2017 |
TC | Drs. Michalaka & Brown gave engineering tours of the Citadel to 80 potential students, demonstrating highway engineering design projects | Fall 2017 |
CU | Dr. Chowdhury and sponsored students give C/AV demos to prospective students at the Glenn Dept of Civil Engineering Discovery Night | Sept 2017 |
CU | Dr. Chowdhury gave lab demonstrations as part of Engineering Week at Clemson | Feb 2018 |
TC | Dr. Michalaka partners with the Citadel student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina to plan and host a “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” for middle school girls | Feb 2018 |
TC | Drs. Michalaka & Brown gave engineering tours of the Citadel to potential students, demonstrating sponsored transportation projects | April 2018 |
SCSU |
Dr. Mwakalonge and sponsored students presented posters outlining their work on C²M² sponsored projects at SCSU’s STEM Expo |
April 2018 |
TC | Dr. Michalaka hosted a week long engineering summer program at the South Carolina Governor’s School for Mathematics and Science titled “Tour of Engineering” | June 2018 |
BC & CU | Drs. Comert and Geter of BC host STI students for the summer and take two trips to Clemson for C/AV demos with Dr. Chowdhury and a trip to USC to vist Dr. Huynh | June 2018 |
SCSU | Dr. Mwakalonge hosted STI students from Michigan, demonstrating her work on distracted walking | July 2018 |
CU | Dr. Chowdhury and students participated in the second Engineering Discovery Night at the Glenn Dept of Civil Engineering | Sept 2018 |
CU | C²M² hosted the 6th Annual UTC Conference for the Southeastern Region | Oct 2018 |
Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker | Topic of Discussion | Date |
Dr. Essam Radwan, Unv. of Central Florida | “Simulation of Vehicular Pedestrian Conflicts” | Sept 8, 2017 |
Dr. Chris Hendrickson, Carnegie Mellon Unv. | “Transformational Transportation Technologies” | Nov 3, 2017 |
Dr. Yan (Joann) Zhou, Argonne National Laboratory | “National Inter-City Freight Energy Analysis of Smart Technologies and Mode Shift” | Feb 23, 2018 |
Dr. Mohan Venigalla, George Mason Unv. | “Price Discovery in Shared Mobility: Lessons from Capital Bikeshare” | March 15, 2018 |
Dr. Chris Gerdes, Stanford Unv. | Research at the Center for Automotive Research (CARS) | March 28, 2018 |
Dr. GG. Md. Nawaz Ali, CU-ICAR | “Mobility for Tomorrow: A Large Scale Smart Mobility Test Bed | April 13, 2018 |
Dr. Patriciat Mokhtarian, Georgia Tech | “It’s Not All Fun and Games: An Investigation of the Reported Benefits and Disadvantages of Conducting Activities While Commuting | April 27, 2018 |
Dr. Ardalan Vahidi, Clemson Unv. | “Coordinating Connected Cars and Signals in Smart Cities” | March 28, 2019 |
Dr. Michael Hunter, Georgia Institute of Technology | “Smart City Real-Time Data-Driven Transportation Simulation” | April 5, 2019 |
Bryant Walker Smith, Unv. of South Carolina | “Discussing the Laws and Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles” | April 9, 2019 |
Mac Devine, IBM Cloud Division | “Perfect Storm” | July 23, 2019 |
Dr. Long Cheng, Clemson Unv. | ““Securing Automotive CyberPhysical Systems” | Oct. 10, 2019 |
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Unv. of Texas, Dallas | “SecAI: Integrating Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Applications in Internet of Transportation and Infrastructures” | Oct. 18, 2019 |
Dr. Bing Li, CU-ICAR | “Assistive Navigation for Disabled Travelers in the Transportation Chains” | March 5, 2020 |
Dr. Eric Morris, Clemson Unv. | “Good Trips: The Connection Between Travel and Quality of Life” | March 6, 2020 |
Ivan Lichtenstein, Georgia Department of Transportation | “Media and the Traffic Management Center” | April 2, 2020 |
Dr. Dimitra Michalaka, The Citadel | “Dr. Michalaka’s Path – What is Leadership in Today’s Society?” | April 3, 2020 |
Dr. Gurcan Comert, Benedict College | “Uncertain Quantification from Cyber Attacks and Detection Problems in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles” | April 3, 2020 |
Mac Devine, IBM Cloud Division | “Enabling the Age of Autonomy with the Internet of Moving Things” | April 10, 2020 |
Carla Bailo, Center for Automotive Research (CAR) | “Smart Cities, Mobility, and Human Behavior – Seamless Integration?” | April 17, 2020 |
Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, Unv. of Florida | “Optimizing Traffic Signal Control with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in Traffic Stream” | May 27, 2020 |
Dr. Mitch Shue, Clemson Unv. | “Cloud for Connected Mobility – Current State of Cloud Computing” | July 7, 2020 |
Dr. Kara Kockelman, Unv. of Texas, Austin | “Shifting toward Shared Fleets & Shared Rides, via Autonomous Vehicles & Congestion Pricing” | July 10, 2020 |
Dr. Mashrur “Ronnie” Chowdhury, Clemson Unv. | “Generating Personal Safety Messages (PSMs) for Pedestrian Safety in a Connected Vehicle Environment” | July 17, 2020 |
Dr. James H. Lambert, Unv. of Virginia | “Resilience of Advanced Logistics Systems with Emergent and Future Conditions” | Aug. 12, 2020 |
Dr. Mashrur “Ronnie” Chowdhury, Clemson Unv. | “Public Digital Infrastructure Deployment for Future Mobility” | Aug. 27, 2020 |
Dr. Richard R. Brooks, Clemson Unv. | “Autonomous Systems Need to be Designed using Game Theory” | Sept. 18, 2020 |
Dr. Judith Mwakalonge, South Carolina State Unv. | “Personal Electric Mobility Devices (PEMDs): Then, Now, and the Future” | Oct. 9, 2020 |
Dr. Brian D. Taylor, Unv. of California Los Angeles | “Congested Development: Rethinking the Consequences of Development and Traffic Congestion” | Oct. 16, 2020 |
Dr. Jennifer Ogle, Clemson Unv. | “Assessment of Safety Benefits of Technologies to Reduce Pedestrian Crossing Fatalities at Midblock Locations” | Oct. 29, 2020 |
Dr. Kaan Ozbay, New York Unv. Tandon School of Engineering | “Understanding Mobility and Policy Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City through the use of Big Data and Machine Learning” | Nov. 13, 2020 |
Dr. Anthony Patire, California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH), Unv. of California – Berkley | “A Peek Under the Hood” of the Connected Corridors ICM I-210 Pilot” | Dec. 15, 2020 |
Dr. Mashrur “Ronnie” Chowdhury, Clemson Unv. | “Roadway Safety Advancement through Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs)” | Jan. 4, 2021 |
Dr. Gurcan Comert, Benedict College | “Delivery of Contextual and Critical Skills Related to Connected and Autonomous Vehicles through Problem-based Learning in HBCU Classrooms and Research” | Jan. 21, 2021 |
Dr. Laurence R. Rilett, Unv. of Nebraska | “Estimating and Forecasting Transportation Metrics: Lessons Learned” | Feb. 12, 2021 |
Dr. Angshuman Guin, Georgia Institute of Technology | “Improving Incident Management and Traffic Operations with Machine Learning” | Feb. 19, 2021 |
Dr. Pamela Murray-Tuite, Clemson Unv. | “Sharing Self-Driving, Autonomous Vehicles for Evacuation” | March 5, 2021 |
Dr. Satish V. Ukkusuri, Purdue Unv. | “Does Mobility as a Service Systems Make Cities Smarter? – Evidence from Large Scale Trajectory Data” | March 12, 2021 |
Drs. William “Bill” Ferrell, Clemson Unv., and Nathan Huynh, Unv. of South Carolina | “Freight Logistics and Intermodal Network Design“ | April 2, 2021 |
Dr. Mizanur “Mizan” Rahman, the Unv. of Alabama – Birmingham | “A Physics-based Longitudinal Control Model for Automated Vehicles in a Mixed Traffic Environment“ | May 28, 2021 |
Dr. Bing Li, CU-ICAR | “Computer Vision and AI-Based Wayfinding for Blind or Visually Impaired Travelers“ | June 4, 2021 |
Dr. Kweku Brown, The Citadel | “Assessing Potential of Bike Share Networks and Active Transportation to Improve Urban Mobility, Physical Activity and Public Health Outcomes in South Carolina” | June 18, 2021 |