Civil engineering student receives fellowship from Federal Highway Administration
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
MANHATTAN — A Kansas State University civil engineering student received a $10,000 grant from the Federal Highway Administration as part of its Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program.
Hunter Meier, master's student in the department of civil engineering, Lincoln, received the fellowship, which is a merit-based award given annually to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines. In addition to the grant, Meier participated in a poster presentation at the Transportation Research Board's annual meeting in January as part of the fellowship.
Meier's current research focuses on establishing an evaluation process for determining the condition of prestressed and post-tensioned concrete railroad ties, some of which are 50 years old. His goal is to assess if these ties are nearing a failure limit state, identify potential failure modes and develop methods for predicting when they are likely to fail.
The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program has awarded more than $50 million in graduate research fellowships over the last four decades to the brightest minds in the transportation industry. From this investment, fellows have pushed for innovative change in multimodal areas from highway infrastructure to aviation to maritime, making the industry more effective and efficient.
