ZIA WADUD

 

Associate Professor

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Academic and Professional Awards/Scholarships

Professional Affiliations

Reviewing Responsibilities

Invited Talks

Consulting Projects

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS

Our Common Futures Fellow, Volkswagen Foundation, 2010

INSPIRE travel grant for research collaboration with UK, by DFID/British Council, 2009

The Commonwealth Scholarship, Imperial College London, UK, 2004-2007

The Netherlands Fellowship Program, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Netherlands, 2004

Norwegian Agency for Development (NORAD) Fellowship, Centre for Environment and Development (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway, 2003

First prize for poster presentation, National Clean Air Conference, Australia, 2003

Asian Development Bank-Japan Scholarship Program, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2002-2003

MA Hossain Gold Medal, BUET, Bangladesh, 2001 (for securing first position among 200 graduating students in the Dept. of Civil Engg, awarded by the university)

CESA Academic Brilliance Award, BUET, Bangladesh, 2000 (for securing first position among the 200 graduating students in the Dept. of Civil Engg., awarded by the Civil Engg. Stud. Assoc.)

Deans Awards, BUET, Bangladesh, 1995-1999 (for remaining within the top 5% students every year, awarded by the university)

University Merit Scholarships, BUET, Bangladesh, 1995-1999 (awarded by the university)

FR Khan Scholarship, BUET, Bangladesh, 1998 (for securing first position in 3rd year, awarded by the university)

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, TRB Committees on Transportation Energy and Aviation Economics and Forecasting

Member, Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh

Member, Asiatic Society, Bangladesh

Member, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Affiliate, Transportation Research Board, USA

 

REVIEWING RESPONSIBILITIES

Energy Journal

Energy Policy

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Transport Policy

TRB Annual Meetings

Journal of Civil Engineering, IEB

European Council for Energy Efficient Economy

World Conferences on Transportation Research

 

INVITED TALKS

Department of Civil Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, 2007

Oxford University Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford, 2008

X3 Noise- UK National Focal Point Meeting, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2008

OMEGA Workshop on Aviation Sustainability, Cranfield University, 2008

John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California at Davis, 2008

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, 2008

Symposium on Aviation Environmental Trade-offs and Interdependencies in the framework of Aviation in the XXI century, National Aviation University (Kiev), 2008

Future Directions of Dhaka Urban Transport, joint workshop by BUET and JICA, 2009 (download presentation)

 

CONSULTING PROJECTS

Project management for tower construction for Bangladesh Police

Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway (ongoing)

Development of an Air Quality Strategy for Bangladesh (ongoing)

Dhaka South Central Expressway (ongoing)

Feasibility Study of Khan Jahan Ali Airport

Coxs Bazar-Teknaf marine drive project

Jhilmil land development project

Retrofitting of markets under Dhaka City Corporation

Technical and economic evaluation concrete block submersible roads in Bangladesh

 

OTHERS

Rapporteur, Fire safety in Highrise Buildings and Provision of BNBC, Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, 2009

 

PROFESSIONAL CV

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Sauvabelin Tower, Lausanne

(built from recycled material)

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Department of Civil Engineering

Design: Zia Wadud