ITS Canada Michel Van Aerde Memorial Scholarship for Graduate Study in ITS
2007 Recipient

The Education and Training Committee is pleased to announce the recipient of ITS Canada's Michel Van Aerde Memorial Scholarship for 2007. The award of $5,000 is made through a competitive process to a student registered full-time in a graduate studies program at a Canadian university related to intelligent transportation systems.

Mohamed Wahba of the University of Toronto is the successful winner of the award for 2007. The Review Committee made its selection based on his strong academic record, clearly stated goals, demonstrated understanding of ITS and strong letters of recommendation.

Mohamed is a graduate student for the Ph.D. degree in Transportation Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto. He demonstrated in his application an outstanding academic record, with degrees in Science (Cairo – B.Sc. in Operations Research), Management Sciences (Cambridge – M.Phil.) and Transportation Engineering (Toronto – M.Sc.) He has demonstrated innovative thinking in his research on transit system analysis, has gained research and field experience in ITS applications, and demonstrated in his written submission an understanding of the role of ITS in transportation. The Review Committee was impressed with his letters of recommendation and with the indications of his teaching and mentoring skills. His Masters thesis topic at Toronto was “A New Framework for the Transit Assignment Problem: A Multi-Agent Learning-Based Approach”, which formed the basis of several of his conference papers.

ITS Canada extends congratulations to Mohamed and wishes him every success in his graduate studies. 

We thank all the candidates who competed for the 2007 award, and invite potential applicants to watch the website for future scholarship opportunities.