U of A Student Receives Transportation Award

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.- A graduate engineering student has been named Outstanding Student of the Year for 1999 by the Mack-Blackwell Transportation Center at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Mia Petre, a candidate for the Master of Science degree in the U of A’s department of industrial engineering, was presented a check for $1,000 by Dr. Melissa S. Tooley, MBTC director.

Petre was one of 33 transportation students honored recently during the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C.

Her research into integrated truck-rail transportation was funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the State of Arkansas, and J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. Petre received her bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Arkansas in May 1999.