2006 CUTC Annual Reception and Banquet

The 2006 CUTC Annual Reception and Banquet was held on January 21 from 6:00 - 9:30 p.m. in the Palladian Room of the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Speakers

Thomas M. Downs, President,                          Dr. Ashok G. Kaveeshwar,

Eno Transportation Foundatation                    Administrator, RITA, US DOT

giving his keynote remarks                              giving his remarks

Officers

Melissa Tooley, CUTC President,                       Dan Turner, CUTC Vice-President,

University of Arkansas                                            University of Alabama

Sponsors

CUTC expresses its gratitude to the following firms and organizations for sponsoring this banquet and the CUTC Awards Program:

Alabama Road Builders Association

CH2M Hill

Hatch Mott MacDonald

HDR Engineering

HNTB Corporation

Mineta Transportation Institute

Parsons Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas

Rahall Transportation Institute

Systra Consulting

Vulcan Materials

CUTC would like to give special thanks to the US Department of Transportation for their continued support

                       Sponsors during dinner                                                                                                                                                                            

Distinguished Contribution Award

Melissa Tooley, CUTC President                   Kumares Sinha, Purdue University

presenting the award to                              introducing Dr. C. Michael Walton

C. Michael Walton, University of

Texas at Austin

Lifetime Achievement Award

Melissa Tooley, CUTC President                      Gene Griffin, UGPTI, North Dakota

presenting award to                                     State University introducing      

Mortimer L. Downey, PB Consult                   Mr. Mortimer L. Downey

Recognition of Past President

Andrew Farkas, CUTC Past                      Andrew Farkas-CUTC Past President,

President receives a memento                Morgan State University

from Melissa Tooley, CUTC President

Special Recognition to the partnership between CUTC and ARTBA

President Melissa Tooley, CUTC President presenting award to

William R. Buechner, Vice President, ARTBA

Winners

CUTC/ARTBA New Faculty Award

Randy Machemehl (right),                                        Chandra R. Bhat, University         

University of Texas at Austin                           of Texas at Austin introducing

presenting award to S. Travis                         S. Travis Waller

Waller, University of Texas

at Austin

Winners

Milton Pikarsky Award - Science and Technology

PhD and MS

Christine Johnson, FHWA,                                Christine Johnson, FHWA,

presenting award for the best                         presenting award for the best

PhD dissertation to Carol H. Tan,                     M.S. thesis to Pradeep Kumar

Pennsylvania State University                          Gulipalli, University of Texas

                                                                         at Austin

Winners

Charley V. Wootan Award - Policy and Planning

PhD and MS

Herbert Richardson (right), TTI,                      Herbert Richardson, TTI, Texas

Texas A&M University presenting                   A&M University presenting award

award for the best  PhD dissertation             for the best MS thesis to

to Sangho Choo, University of                        Brenda M. Cruz, Rensselaer

at Davis                                                          Polytechnic Institute

Winners

Neville A. Parker Award

Science and Technology                                  Policy and Planning

Jack Buffington, University of                           Jack Buffington, University of

Arkansas presenting award to                        Arkansas presenting award to

Dan Yu, University of Illinois at                        Paul Sorensen, University of

Chicago                                                           California at Los Angeles

Recipients

Reception and Dinner

For additional photos from January 21, 2006 CUTC banquet, please follow the directions below:

1. Go to www.LKPhotos.com

2. Click where it says "To view and purchase photos from your recent shoot".

3. The virtual storefront for LK Photos will appear. Go to the bottom of the page to the list of Galleries and click on CUTC.

4. Enter the password "transportation".

5. Click on Awards Banquet and the gallery will open.

For The Student of the Year (SOY) group picture, go to:

http://utc.dot.gov/utc_awards.html