Awarded 2nd Place
University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs (formerly the National FAA Airpot Design Competition for Universities) (2016), Airport Operation and Maintenance Interactions category, awarded by the Airport Cooperative Research Program;
design project: Drone-enabled Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Removal System in Ad hoc Situations
Students: Rana Abdel Sattar, Luis Mendez, Jessie Wang, and Hiromichi Yamamoto
Faculty advisor: Jasenka Rakas
Awarded 2nd Place
University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs (formerly the National FAA Airpot Design Competition for Universities) (2015), Airport Environmental Interactions category, awarded by the Airport Cooperative Research Program;
design project: Airport Smart Drainage System
Students: Jehan Anketell, Greg Hori, Jiayun Sun, Raymond Yeh
Faculty advisor: Jasenka Rakas
Awarded 2nd Place
National FAA Airport Design Competition for Universities (2014), Airport Management and Planning category, awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration;
design project: Mobile Gates for Congested Airports
Students: Steven Chen, Cheuk Kwan Chung, Gohki Kobayashi, Ken Jun Lim, Xiao Lin, Wai Kit Poon, Patrick Poon, Humza Shameem Rehmane, Graeme Scott, Steven van Leeuwen
Faculty advisor: Jasenka Rakas
Awarded 2nd Place
National FAA Airport Design Competition for Universities (2013), Airport Management and Planning category, awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration;
design project: Dynamic Collaborative Gate Allocation
Students: Alex Cuevas,Joanna Ji, Mattan Mansoor,Katharina McLaughlin,Hoang Nguyen, Joshua Sachse
Faculty advisor: Jasenka Rakas
Awarded Best Conference Session Paper Presentation
“Aviation Sustainability Feasibility: Framework for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation for U.S. Airports,” ASCE 2nd International Conference for Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction ICSDEC, Fort Worth, TX, Nov.7–9, 2012.
Selected for inclusion in a special issue of Sustainable Cities and Society Journal, Special Issue: Sustainable Engineering
Students: Denny Ho, Andrew Monsalud
Co-author and mentor: Jasenka Rakas
Awarded 1st Place
National FAA Airport Design Competition for Universities (2011), Airport Management and Planning category, awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration;
design project: Collaborative Gate Allocation
Students: Kevin Leung, Xia Xiao, Andy Chou, Edmund Tam
Primary faculty advisor: Jasenka Rakas
Secondary advisor: Lee Schruben
Awarded Best MS Thesis
Université Libre de Bruxelles (2009), Faculty of Applied Sciences
Thesis title: Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Enhancing the Sustainability of Airport Developments
Student: Jean-Christophe Fann
Faculty advisors: Jasenka Rakas (UCB) and Yves Rammer (ULB)