CE Faculty
 Dr. Siamak (Sia) A. Ardekani, P.E. |
Address:
Box 19308
Arlington, TX 76019-0308
Phone: (817) 272-3762
Email: ardekani@uta.edu
Education:
Ph.D., 1984, The University of Texas at Austin
M.S., 1981, The University of Texas at Austin
B.S., 1980, The University of Texas at Austin
Areas of Expertise:
Managed Lanes and Roadway Pricing, Road User Costs, Fuel Consumption and Emissions Modeling, Traffic Flow Theory, Public Transportation Design, and Emergency Transportation Management (e.g. detours, evacuations, and management of post-disaster operations).
Background:
Dr. Ardekani joined UTA in September 1989. Prior to that he was on the faculty at Virginia Tech for four years. He teaches undergraduate courses in transportation engineering, traffic engineering, and highway design as well as graduate courses in traffic characteristics and operations, traffic flow theory, transit planning, geometric design, and transportation planning. His areas of research have included Emergency transportation operations following the 1985 Mexico City and the 1989 San Francisco earthquakes, assessment of the quality of traffic service in urban networks, audible pedestrian signals for the blind, guidelines for left-turn traffic signals, economic evaluation of toll plaza operations, modeling vehicular fuel consumption, planning for intelligent transport systems in Texas, mitigation of roadway hazards for bicyclists, and decision tools for traffic diversion around major incidents. Dr. Ardekani has also been a consulting engineer for several field projects on traffic signal timing and hardware design, including the design of the signal system in Leon, Mexico. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas and Virginia.
Professional experience:
2005 - Present Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
1999 - 2005 Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
1997 - 1999 Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
1991 - 1997 Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
1989 - 1991 Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
1985 - 1989 Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
1980 - 1984 Graduate Research Engineer, Center for Transportation Research The University of Texas at Austin
<Awards
The 2005 College of Engineering Research Excellence Award
The 1996 Halliburton College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award, the University of Texas at Arlington
Nominated for the 1996 University Piper Award for Teaching Excellence, the University of Texas at Arlington
The 1991 Halliburton Young Faculty Researcher Award, the University of Texas at Arlington
The 1984 Engineering Foundation Fellowship, the University of Texas at Austin
The 1984 General Electric Foundation Grant, the University of Texas at Austin