Connected Vehicle Infrastructure University Transportation Center
AISIM10 Participants on the Virginia Tech Smart Road
Virginia Tech hosted the 10th Annual Inter-University Symposium on Infrastructure Management (AISIM10) and the 3rd Advanced Infrastructure Management Bootcamp.
AISIM10 is a student-run symposium to advance the infrastructure management body of knowledge and applications by providing a forum for information exchange and for professional conversations about ongoing research. In the years since its inception in 2005, the AISIM has carved out a critical role in graduate education pertaining to infrastructure management. Not only has it been an avenue for students to network with their peers (internationally), but it has provided an opportunity for students to interact with global leaders in infrastructure management.
The 3rd Advanced Infrastructure Management “Bootcamp” was held at Virginia Tech from June 16 to June 27, 2014. This course was offered to students for academic credit and to practitioners for continuing education. Dr. Gerardo Flintsch, Director of the Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure at VTTI, with assistance from James Bryce, a PhD student, organized and led the class. The two-week long intensive course brought together 14 students and 9 instructors, hailing from Georgia Tech, Purdue University, Texas A & M, Virginia Tech, University of Texas El Paso, University of Delaware, University of Iowa, and University of Waterloo as well as three international students from Chile, Japan and Portugal. The course covered performance and asset management, sensors and instrumentation, deterioration modeling, data management, sustainability, risk and reliability, asset valuation, public private partnership, optimization, and research methods. Students participated in lectures, completed homework and a final project.
The course has been offered previously at the University of Delaware in 2010, and at Georgia Tech in 2012.
Support for the 3rd Advanced Infrastructure Management Bootcamp came from the Connected Vehicle/Infrastructure University Transportation Center at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute.