Miller shares best practices for technical report writing

UTTRI Director Professor Eric J. Miller presented “Everything you wanted to know about report writing but were afraid to ask” on December 4, 2020.

He discussed various elements of report writing as a guide to graduate students preparing term project reports, journal articles, theses, etc., and addressed 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.

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Professor Eric J. Miller

Eric J. Miller is Professor of Civil Engineering, Research Director of the Data Management and Travel Modelling Groups as well as Director of the University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute. 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) and recipient of the 2018 IATBR Lifetime Achievement 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. All welcome.