Shashi Nambisan, UNLV professor of Civil Engineering, was recently awarded the 2003 Outstanding Educator Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) at the organization's annual meeting in Seattle.
The award is presented annually to recognize an individual's outstanding teaching abilities and excellent research and service to the transportation engineering profession. Nambisan was nominated for the award by his students and was selected as the sole recipient from District 6 of the ITE, which includes 13 Western states.
Since joining the UNLV faculty in 1989, Nambisan has received several awards for his accomplishments in teaching, research, and service, including the 2002 Outstanding Teacher of the Year award from the department of civil and environmental engineering, and the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering Distinguished Researcher of the Year award in 1998 and again in 2001.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Nambisan is the director of UNLV's Transportation Research Center, which was created in 1988 to promote and conduct transportation-related research and policy analysis. Along with his UNLV colleagues and students, Nambisan has been involved in research relating to new and emerging technologies designed to improve transportation safety and efficiency, as well as the transportation of radioactive and other hazardous materials. During his tenure at UNLV, he has involved more than 90 graduate and undergraduate students and 20 high school students in his research efforts.
Nambisan earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, his master's degree from Virginia Tech, and his bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India.
