New Staff at UGPTI
Jason Baker is an associate research fellow with ATAC. He began work with ATAC in 2002 as an undergraduate research assistant. Jason's main responsibilities will be in the areas of traffic operations and ITS. He has conducted research on advanced traffic data collection technologies including video, radar, tubes and others. Jason has been responsible for maintaining and operating ATAC's Traffic Data Collection System as well as providing training to local and state transportation agency staff on the use of the system. Jason received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from North Dakota State University in 2003 and is currently pursuing a master's degree in the area of transportation.
Gary Berreth is an associate research fellow with the UGPTI and is directing the new Rural Transportation Safety and Security Center. Gary has more than 37 years of experience in transportation engineering with most of that experience at the NDDOT. Gary retired from NDDOT in 2005 as an administrative transportation engineer in the Office of Operations. In addition to his work with the Center, he is involved in the associate's degree program offered at Bismarck State College and is developing programs to enhance the Transportation Learning Network's technical education offerings on a regional basis for state departments of transportation.
Jody Bohn is the academic program coordinator for the UGPTI educational programs, including the newly developed Masters of Military Logistics. She has more than 21 years of experience in the U.S. Army in financial and human resources management. With UGPTI she will help assure that the Masters of Military Logistics program meets the life-long learning objectives for career military officers and civilians while providing a foundation in transportation and logistics that incorporates emerging technology. She will also serve as a liaison to military personnel, university administration, students, faculty and staff for all educational programs within UGPTI. Additionally she will be involved in student recruitment, retention, and marketing of the Institute's educational programs.
Brian Kalk is program manager of the Masters of Military Logistics (MML) program. Brian has more than 20 years of experience in the U.S. Marine Corps. He served as a current operations officer in a transportation support group in Operation Iraqi Freedom and served as logistics officer for various units. He is assisting with the coordination and execution of the MML program. He will be involved in planning, program refinement, and marketing. Additionally, Brian will instruct a variety of courses within the program; coordinate with federal, state and local transportation agencies; and work with staff on funding, budgeting, administrative and organizational aspects of the program.
Alan Dybing is an associate research fellow with UGPTI. He is applying the Highway Economic Requirements System (HERS) to North Dakota highways. The FHWA developed the planning software more than a decade ago to help assess the nation's highway system. Alan is helping develop features that will allow NDDOT and other agencies to use it. The process involves substituting North Dakota highway design values for national values and adding classes of highway and additional information that may be unique to North Dakota. A native of Maddock, ND, Dybing came to NDSU 10 years ago to major in agricultural education and minor in agricultural economics. Once he earned his B.S. degree, he began work on his master's degree in agricultural economics with the transportation option. His thesis focused on estimating transportation demand generated by the production and marketing of agricultural commodities in North Dakota. He is continuing to work on his Ph.D.
Sue Hendrickson is a project coordinator working with SURTC and the Transportation Research Forum. Sue spent the past 27 years at NDSU working in secretarial, information processing and information technology positions. The past 12 years were spent with the Agriculture Communication department in the computer services unit.
Joan Lobato is a project coordinator with the Transportation Safety Systems Center. She has more than 20 years of experience in the research, analysis, system design and quality assurance areas of software development. Within TSSC, her primary focus will be on developing project plans, tracking project status and documenting new requirements. She is also responsible for providing quality assurance objectives and performing software testing for investigative software applications developed by TSSC.
Sue Roberts is a senior technical writer and test engineer with the Transportation Safety Systems Center. She is primarily responsible for the documentation of all the Center's applications. She is also responsible for internal requirements documentation and testing the Center's web-based applications.
