UA’s McFadden Receives National Transportation Research Award

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. John McFadden, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in The University of Alabama College of Engineering, recently received the Transportation Research Board’s Fred Burggraf Award.

This national award, which includes a cash prize, was established in 1966 to recognize excellence in transportation research by researchers 35 years of age or younger. The award program was designed to stimulate and encourage young researchers to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in this field.

McFadden received the award for a paper written with Dr. Lily Elefteriadou of Penn State, titled “Development of New Procedure for Evaluating Horizontal Alignment Design Consistency of Two-Lane Rural Highways.”

McFadden has been with UA since August of 1999, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in transportation engineering. He has also worked as a research associate at Bellomo, McGee, and Associates in Silver Spring, Md.; as a consultant to the Federal Highway Administration on the Interactive Highway Safety Design Model; and as a project engineer with the Highway Division of Remington and Vernick Engineers in Haddonfield, N.J.

Earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Villanova University, and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Penn State, McFadden was a Dwight D. Eisenhower Graduate Research Fellowship award winner. He has co-authored several Federal Highway Administration reports.

The Transportation Research Board was organized in 1920 and is a unit of the National Research Council, a private, nonprofit institution that is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.