Dr. Quang Tran, an assistant professor at Michigan Technological University (MTU) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni, visited with RailTEC students Neeraj Thakur, Coleman Froehlke and Alex Roskov and Assistant Professor J. Riley Edwards this week on UIUC’s campus. The group discussed shared research interests, and Tran also presented the research work his team at MTU is conducting. MTU is one of nine universities that comprise the National University Rail Center of Excellence led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the first academic research and education center to be supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration.
