Fenton, Missouri has a population of about 4,000 people, but it’s a town that’s making a big difference when it comes to biodiesel research. This St. Louis suburb is home to Rockwood Summit High School (RSHS), and the Biodiesel Project. If you don’t know a lot about biodiesel, it’s basically fuel made from animal or vegetable fat, like cooking oil. [...]

Hosin “David” Lee, professor of civil engineering at the University of Iowa (UI), is a modern-day visionary when it comes to imagining new ways to improve old transportation systems. When Professor Lee looks at roads, he doesn’t just see pavements and cars; he sees inventive ways to store water and intelligent software systems that detect cracks before humans do. But [...]

Assistant Professor Ying Huang at North Dakota State University (NDSU) didn’t start out her academic career with the intent to work in transportation. The recent PhD graduate in Civil Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST) focused on building design and infrastructure throughout her undergraduate study in her home country China. It wasn’t until she began her [...]

If you like airplanes, history, and archeology, aircraft archeology, the discovery, excavation and preservation of historic aircraft, might be the career for you. There’s only one small problem, aircraft archeology isn’t really a lucrative business yet. Apart from a few volunteers and non-profit organizations putting together teams to uncover historic lost aircraft on the weekends, the industry is all but [...]

What do you think when you witness a heart-stopping collision at your intersection? What crosses your mind as you impatiently glance at your watch every few seconds in anticipation of the morning bus? Tomas Lindheimer, a PhD student at Kansas State University, sees these scenarios as challenges that need to be addressed and resolved. This international student strives to uncover the best [...]

If you enjoy playing Jeopardy on TV, you will love this! Students at the Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University (InTrans) have created a couple of online games like the Jeopardy game on TV for your enjoyment. Click below to select your game, create your teams, and start to play! Enjoy! This Ain’t Your Grandpa’s Driving Jeopardy! Hybrid Vehicle Trivia

More than half a year ago, Go! was introduced to Stefon Gonzalez, an 18-year old amazing young man. In our first interview, Stefon mentioned that he, “loved anything on wheels.” It all started when he was seven years old. Stefon’s older brother, Anton, “took me [Stefon] to the Pennsylvania Convention Center where they have the international auto show every year [...]

“We build stuff, break stuff, and eat free food” is Scott Sorensen’s 10-second sales pitch to encourage students to join the transportation-centered after school program run by the Nebraska Transportation Center (NTC).  Not surprisingly, this club called Roads, Rails, and Racecars (RRR) has enjoyed increasing support since it first began in Spring 2012. Sorensen helps run RRR at grade schools, [...]

A “pollutant-eating” concrete sounds like the product of a futuristic science fiction novel. However, research on this very subject is being conducted by engineers at the Institute for Transportation (InTrans) and Iowa State University (ISU). The star of this real-life science fiction is titanium dioxide (TiO2), a concrete additive that is no more unusual than white paint. Dr. Jim Alleman, [...]

Do you love anything on wheels like Stefon Gonzalez, or have the railroad in your DNA like Stewart Buck, or believe in the Flying Effect like Linda Castner? At Go!, we get the opportunity to talk to people who love transportation. An overwhelming number of the people we interview can tell us the first moment they knew they loved planes, [...]