Affiliate Members

A growing demand for rail transportation education and research requires a growing academic capacity in the United States. NURail members are well positioned to facilitate this change. As part of our efforts to broaden the NURail Center’s impact, we have created a NURail Affiliates program involving faculty from other colleges and universities.

To see a listing of rail courses being offered by NURail Affiliates, click here. For research projects, click here.

Benefits of this program include:

Participation in NURail’s annual meeting, workshops, seminars and conferences
Visits to campuses
Regular in-person meetings, teleconferences and/or webinars
No artificial membership limits
Recognition as university with railway related activities
Resource sharing opportunities
Research and education collaborative opportunities

If you are interested in more information about our affiliate program, contact Dr. Pasi Lautala ptlautal@mtu.edu, Associate Director of Education for NURail, or Dr. Leslie McCarthy (leslie.mccarthy@villanova.edu), Chair of the Affiliate University Program.
Or, if you wish to apply to be an affiliate member, please complete this application form.

Current Affiliate Members are:

University of Nevada - Las Vegas Contact: Hualing (Harry) Teng, Associate Professor Director, Railroad, High Speed Rail and Transit Initiative Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 454015 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4015 Website: http://www.unlv.edu/engineering	Colorado State University - Pueblo Contact: Jane M. Fraser, Ph.D. Professor, Dept Chair Department of Engineering Colorado State University - Pueblo 2200 Bonforte Blvd T264 Pueblo, CO 81001 Website: http://ceeps.csupueblo.edu/Engineering/
University of Maryland Contact: Paul Schonfeld Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Website: http://www.tep.umd.edu/	University of Wisconsin - Madison Contact: Dave Peterson Program Director Engineering Professional Development University of Wisconsin-Madison 432 North Lake Street Madison, WI 53706 Website: http://epd.engr.wisc.edu/railroadeng
Oregon State University Contact: Kate Hunter-Zaworski, Ph.D. P.E. Associate Professor School of Civil and Construction Engineering Oregon State University Kearney Hall 101 Corvallis, OR, 97331 Website: http://groups.engr.oregonstate.edu/AREMA/	University of Kansas Contact: Robert Parsons, Ph.D., P.E. Professor Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering University of Kansas 2150 Learned Hall Lawrence, KS 66045 Website: http://ceae.ku.edu/rail-research
University of South Carolina Contact: Dimitris Rizos Associate Professor Structural Engineering University of South Carolina 300 Main Str. Columbia, SC 292088 Website: http://www.ce.sc.edu	University of British Columbia Contact: Dr Gord Lovegrove P.Eng., M.B.A., Ph.D., FITE Associate Professor, Principal Investigator Sustainable Transport Safety Research Laboratory The University of British Columbia - Okanagan 1137 Alumni Avenue Kelowna, BC Canada V1V 1V7 Website: gordonlovegrove.html
Penn State - Altoona Contact: Stephen L. Dillen Instructor in Electrical Engineering Division of Business and Engineering, Rail Transportation Penn State - Altoona 103F Sheetz Family Health Center Altoona, PA 16601 Website: http://www.altoona.psu.edu/rte/	Virginia Tech Contact: Mehdi Ahmadian, PhD Dan Pletta Professor and Director Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety, Railway Tech Laboratory Virginia Tech 3103 Commerce Street Blacksburg, VA 24061 Website: cvess.me.vt.edu/Labs/RTL/index.html
North Dakota State University Contact: Denver Tolliver Director - UGPTI, Program Director - MPC Upper Great Plains Trans. Ins. & Mountain-Plains Consortium North Dakota State University NDSU Dept 2880 P.O. Box 6050 Fargo, ND 58108 Website: http://www.ugpti.org/	Villanova University Contact: Leslie Myers McCarthy, Ph.D., P.E. Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Villanova University Tolentine Hall Rm 144, 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova, PA 19085 Website: Click here
University of Manitoba Contact: Jonathan Regehr, Ph.D., P.Eng. Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering University of Manitoba E1-310 EITC, 15 Gillson Street Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 5V6 Website: http://umanitoba.ca/civil/	University of Dayton Contact: Michael F. Gorman, Ph.D. Professor Department of MIS, Operations and Decision Sciences University of Dayton Anderson Center RM 120, 300 College Park Dayton, OH 45469 Website: udayton.edu/directory/business/
University of Massachusetts - Amherst Contact: Carlton L. Ho, P. E., PhD. Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Massachusetts - Amherst 28 Marston Hall, 130 Natural Resources Road Amherst, MA 01003-9293 Website: engineering.umass.edu/faculty/carlton-ho	University of New Mexico Contact: Fernando Moreu Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering Centennial Engineering Center 3056 MSC01 1070 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 Website: civil.unm.edu/index.html