MTC News: 2001
Outstanding Student of the Year - 2000
Jerry K. Shadewald, an Iowa State University graduate, was named MTC Scholar of the Year for 2000.
Each year, the MTC selects one outstanding student from its member schools as the MTC Scholar of the Year. This student receives an award of $1,000 and an all expenses paid trip to attend the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. where he/she will be recognized along with scholars from other regions by the U.S. Department of Transportation for their outstanding contributions to the field of transportation.
The selection is made on several criteria:
- scholarship
- research
- activities
- academics
Shadewald earned a master's degree in civil engineering from Iowa
State University in December 2000. He has a bachelor's degree in
civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Platteville.
During the past year, Shadewald has worked on adding advanced analysis
and quality assurance modules to a GIS-transportation modeling interface
for the Iowa Department of Transportation. The tools also incorporate
a transportation economic analysis program. Other research that
he has worked on has included a preliminary exchange of data between
a GIS system and a traffic simulation program and an investigation
into the differences among traffic assignment algorithms used during
travel demand modeling.
Shadewald has made presentations of his research at the University
of California - Davis for the NSF Integrative Graduate Education
and Research Training Program and at the Mid-Continent Transportation
Symposium. He was also heavily involved in student-related transportation
activities at Iowa State University and served as president of the
Transportation Student Association.
Shadewald and his wife, Laura, recently moved to the Kansas City
area where Jerry has taken a position with HNTB Consulting Engineers.
