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Dr. Eric Miller presents “Everything you wanted to know about report writing but were afraid to ask”
January 21, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
This presentation discusses various elements of report writing as a guide to graduate students preparing term project reports, journal articles, theses, etc. It is intended to address some typical issues that graduate students encounter in their writing.
Topics discussed include: report organization; report style; treatment of tables, figures, exhibits and appendices; grammar and syntax; spelling and word usage; referencing, footnotes and acknowledgements.
Dr. Eric J. Miller is Director of the Mobility Network at the School of Cities and UTTRI, and Research Director of the Data Management Group and the Travel Modelling Group.
He is Past Chair of the U.S. Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Travel Behavior and Values, Member Emeritus of the TRB Transportation Demand Forecasting Committee and Past Chair of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR). He served on the US National Academy of Sciences Committee for Determination of the State of the Practice in Metropolitan Area Travel Forecasting. He has chaired or been a member of numerous travel demand modelling peer review panels throughout North America. He is the recipient of the 2009 Wilbur S. Smith Distinguished Educator Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the inaugural winner of the University of British Columbia Margolese National Design for Living Award (2012), the 2018 IATBR Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2020 Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering Safwat Zaky Research Leader Award.
He is the developer of GTAModel, an advanced regional travel demand modeling system used by municipalities in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to forecast travel demand that is based on TASHA, a state-of-the-art agent-based microsimulation model of activity and travel, and ILUTE, an integrated land use-transportation model system for the GTA.
Presented by University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter, UT-ITE.
Free. All are welcome.
If any specific accommodations are needed, please contact ite@utoronto.ca. Requests should be made as early as possible.
Join link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/s/81320181425. Please note that the same Zoom link will be used for all UT-ITE seminars this term.