Acronyms
ITE
What is The Institute of Transportation Engineers?
The movement of passengers and goods from one place to another.
What is Transportation?
This is what you get when you divide the load by area.
What is stress?
This faculty does research related to asphalt pavement.
Who is Dr. Souliman?
This person is the current UT Tyler ITE President.
Who is Jonathan Sandres?
FHWA
What is The Federal Highway Administration?
The ratio of tensile stress (σ) to tensile strain (ε) within proportional limit.
What is young modulus?
This is the inverse of traffic flow.
What is headway?
This is the only faculty born in Texas.
Who is Dr. Vechione?
This person is responsible for the social handles for UT Tyler ITE
Who is Victory Amos-Nwankwo?
WRE
What is Water Resource Engineering?
The moisture content at which the soil attains maximum dry density
What is optimum moisture content?
The process by which a soil mass decreases in volume in response to pressure/loading.
What is the soil consolidation?
This faculty has worked for the Texas Prison System.
Who is Dr. Nalbone?
This person is the TexITE Student Relations Chair and a good friend of UT Tyler ITE chapter.
Who is Christy Lambeth?
BOD
What is Biochemical Oxygen Demand?
The amount of oxygen required to chemically oxidize the organic material and inorganic nutrient.
What is the Heavy COD?
This is the area of flow divided by wetted perimeter.
What is hydraulic radius?
This faculty was a structural engineer for the U.S.S. Jimmy Carter Submarine.
Who is Dr. McGinnis?
This guest speaker discussed about Vision Zero at UT Tyler.
Who is Dr. Muhammad Musa?
MPO
What is a Metropolitan Planning Organization?
The empirical equation that applies to uniform flow in open channels and is a function of the channel velocity, flow area and channel slope.
What is Time Manning's equation?
This term refers to distance that a driver can see when dealing with vertical curves.
What is sight distance?
This faculty has a spouse who is also a faculty on campus.
Who is Dr. Saygili?
This person is the current UT Tyler ITE Secretary.
Who is Rami Khalifah?