Transportation
Traffic, roadway, and intersection work: a first-year team study, current coursework, and a day with practicing transportation engineers.
Status key: Completed = finished, with a deliverable · In Progress = current coursework or work underway · Planned = defined, not yet started
Intersection Signal Study
COMPLETED · CIVE 1101 Introduction to Civil Engineering · Fall 2023 · Five-person team
Problem: the intersection of Paredes Line Rd & FM 550 in Brownsville has a history of fatal collisions.
My role: co-managed the five-person student team.
Process: Problem → Investigation → Sensor / control concept → Recommendation → Cost estimate
Recommendation: sensor-based, semi-actuated signal control.
Team cost estimate: $67,000–$80,000 per intersection.
TEDSI Infrastructure Group Job Shadow
COMPLETED · UTRGV C.E.MENTor Program · August 5, 2026 · Mission, TX
About four hours shadowing transportation engineers at TEDSI Infrastructure Group, a consulting firm.
- Introduction to consulting engineering and the firm's work
- Roadway design and earthwork profiling, including how survey data feeds into roadway profiles
- The 30% design submittal process
- Drainage design on an active roadway project: contour maps, roadway elevations, runoff, and hydraulic modeling used to place storm drain inlets
- Engineers working in MicroStation and OpenRoads Designer to TxDOT standards
Takeaway: the engineers stressed professional licensure, communication and networking, familiarity with TxDOT standards, and preparing early for the FE exam.
Transportation Engineering
IN PROGRESS · CIVE 3345 · Fall 2026
Current coursework, including:
- Transportation system overview: transportation versus traffic engineering, and the role of transportation in economic development, safety, and energy use at the national and Texas levels
- Traffic flow theory: speed-density, speed-flow, and flow-density relationships, capacity, and free-flow speed
Results will be added once the course work is complete.