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 [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]

“That goes back to maybe my DNA,” Stewart Buck said in response to the question, “How did you get interested in trains?” It might be easy to assume that all of the career opportunities in transportation are for work with the Department of Transportation, a railroad, a bus depot, the highway department, but Stewart Buck developed his love of trains [...]

Your heart beats too quickly, your palms sweat, you feel dizzy sometimes even sick. You’re about to make an important decision. Each time we make a decision to change or transition into a new stage of our life, there is an element of fear, whether it is about which college to attend, or how to respond to an unexpected life or [...]

My early life In 1915, I graduated from Ames High School in Ames, Iowa, and then attended Iowa State University where I studied mechanical drawing, combustion engines, and machine repair. What I really loved was flying. First licensed woman pilot I set out to become the first licensed woman pilot in Iowa. It took some time, but I finally got [...]