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What inspires me about SMART:

I love how interdisciplinary SMART is! it’s encouraging to see how everybody involved brings to light a different perspective and has something unique to offer with respect to SMART’s goals.

Biography:

I’m an undergraduate student studying Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. I have always been intrigued by the way in which roads, highways, and the flow of transportation all works together. As I transitioned from my childhood home in a small farm town in western Michigan to bustling Ann Arbor for college, many things about public transit began to strike me and I started to become aware of just how multifaceted mobility and transportation is. I became a regular user of the public bus system myself, and also began biking more frequently. My freshman year engineering class team project involved designing a tracking system for a Segway sharing program proposed by the junior design team with whom we were partnered. During the research phase of this project, I learned about the “Velib” Bike sharing system in France and was very fascinated. Although transportation engineering is sometimes a discipline within Civil Engineering, it is not at the University of Michigan and my interest in it was put on the back burner. When I stumbled upon SMART and learned a little more about it and it’s initiative within Michigan, I was eager to become involved and learn more about it! I am still finding it a bit difficult to wrap my mind around just how multifaceted the initiative is.