UTTRI associated faculty Professor Amer Shalaby received the 2019 Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Sandford Fleming Award in a ceremony on June 14, 2019.
The award was bestowed at the 2019 CSCE Annual Awards Gala held concurrent with the CSCE Annual Conference CSCE, June 12-15 in Laval, QC.
Professor Shalaby’s citation for the Sandford Fleming Award is quoted below.
Amer Shalaby is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto and Associate Director of the iCity Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation Systems (iCity-CATTS). He received a BASc degree (1988) in Civil Engineering from Ain Shams University in Egypt, and MASc (1991) and PhD (1996) degrees from the University of Toronto, specializing in Transportation Engineering. He was a postdoctoral fellow (1996-1997) at the University of Toronto, NSERC Industrial Research Fellow (1997-1998) at IBI Group and assistant professor (1998-2000) at Ryerson University.
Dr. Shalaby has made significant contributions in transit planning and operations, intelligent transportation systems, and transportation planning for large-scale events and mega cities. His research program has produced innovative analytical tools and studies which enriched the state of knowledge and practice in transit planning and management. Dr. Shalaby has delivered consulting services to many transportation organizations in Canada and internationally, and he has offered short courses on public transit planning and modelling to the professional community since 2008. He was awarded the TRB William Millar Award (2015) and ThinkTransit Award of Excellence in Innovation (2019).
Dr. Shalaby is an appointed member of two transit technical committees of the TRB, he serves as associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering and he sits on the editorial board of two international journals. Dr. Shalaby has also served on advisory panels of multiple transportation projects in Canada and internationally. Between 2008 and 2010, Professor Shalaby held an honorary appointment of a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.
About the Sandford Fleming Award
The Sanford Fleming Award was established in 1999 to recognize outstanding achievement in the transportation field. It is the pre-eminent award of the Transportation Division of CSCE.
The award criteria include:
- outstanding contributions of a professional nature and/or in the
area of education and research; - a demonstrated record of service to both the nominee’s organization
and to CSCE, and; - demonstrated innovation and an overall contribution to practice and/or
education and training and/or research of a lasting nature.
Financial Buzz posted an online article about this year’s CSCE Award on June 16, 2019, “Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 2019 ACE Awards Gala Winners.”