victor muchuruza, .

　　352pennell cir apt5

　　tallahassee, ss

　　phone: (850)sss

　　e-mail: sss@

　　url: ssss

　　professional and research interests

　　roadway, site, and utilities design,

　　traffic engineering and transportation planning,

　　stormwater modeling and drainage design,

　　intelligent transportation systems,

　　optimization, simulation and modeling of traffic flow,

　　agent based and cellular automata simulations,

　　analysis of traffic operations and highway safety,

　　professional certification

　　engineer intern (eit).

　　education

　　., florida state university,2006

　　thesis: stochastic modelling of traffic crashes

　　cumulative gpa .

　　 in civil engineering, major transportation engineering

　　florida state university, december2003

　　cumulative gpa: .

　　 in civil engineering, major transportation and highway engineering

　　university of dar es salaam, tanzania, nov2001

　　cumulative gpa: ( scale).

　　relevant coursework:

　　traffic flow theory, traffic engineering and highway safety, traffic simulation and modeling, computer aided highway geometric design (ldd), statistical applications in transportation engineering, intelligent transportation systems, application of gis in transportation planning, transportation demand modeling, highway pavement design, engineering surveying, object oriented programming (c ), applied optimization, artificial intelligence, soil mechanics & foundation design, design of steel structures, design of reinforced concrete structures, environmental engineering, hydraulics, and project control in construction, construction management & site organization.

　　work experience

　　florida state university, traffic engineering lab, tallahassee, fl2004-2006

　　research assistant

　　works involved simulation and modeling of traffic flow and safety. design algorithm and implementing by writing computer programs in c . testing and verifying the simulation model results.

　　florida state university, traffic engineering lab, tallahassee, fl,2003-2006

　　traffic engineering lab webmaster.

　　designed and maintaining traffic engineering website.

　　florida state university, traffic engineering lab, tallahassee, fl, november2003

　　research assistant

　　works involved field data collection, mutcd warrant analysis, delay studies in the traffic signal warrant study at lipona road and belle vue way intersection in tallahassee, fl

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　　florida state university, traffic engineering lab, tallahassee, fl,2002-2003

　　research assistant

　　works involved statistical analysis of the effect of minimum speed limits on rural interstate freeways

　　florida state university, traffic engineering lab, tallahassee, fl,2002

　　research assistant

　　works involved evaluation of the accuracy of methods used to locate roadway crashes on florida state highways

　　florida state university, traffic engineering lab, tallahassee, fl2002-to2002

　　research assistant

　　works involved laboratory testing of adhesives used in installation of sensors used for traffic classification.

　　september2001- november2001national construction council, tanzania

　　assistant consultant

　　reviewed training needs assessment for district engineers. assisted in advisory services on tender evaluation and preparation of tender and contract documents. prepared training programmes for labour-based and machine-based road work contractors.

　　june1999-september1999ministry of works, tanzania

　　structural engineer trainee (internship)

　　assisted in the structural design of the four-storey unhcr building. prepared contract documents, bills of materials, and estimates for unhcr building.

　　june1998-september1998konoike construction company, tanzania

　　civil engineer trainee (internship)

　　assisted in the supervision of road work, which include material and work scheduling, setting out of roadway alignment, structural concrete and pavement works.

　　teaching experience

　　florida state university, traffic engineering lab, tallahassee, fl,2003- to date

　　teaching assistant to dr. renatus mussa.

　　assisted in preparation of the course notes, homework, term design projects, tutoring students

　　causes assisted: tte3004-transportation engineering, tte5305-traffic engineering, tte5805-highway geometric design, tte5256-traffic operations

　　relevant transportation projects:

　　• evaluation of the relevance of minimum speed limit on interstate highways in florida (2002-04)

　　• geometric design of orange avenue extension(2002)

　　• geometric design of blair stone ne extension. (2004)

　　• operational and safety evaluation of tennessee/capital circle intersection (2002)

　　• operational and safety evaluation of railroad/ gaines intersection(2003)

　　• corridor analysis of gaines street (2003)

　　• traffic warranty study at bellevue/lipona intersection(2003)

　　computer skills

　　statistical packages: sas, stata, s-plus

　　traffic simulation packages: synchro pro, corsim, hcs, vissim, transyt7f

　　gis packages: arcview, arcgis

　　cad packages: autocad, microstation

　　highway design packages: autodesk land desktop development, eagle point, inroads/geopak.

　　urban transportation modeling packages: cube voyager

　　data management packages: ms access, ms excel

　　programming languages: c , java, paschal, prolog, matlab, sql, html

　　other applications packages: ms office xp, macromedia, lindo, ms project, ms publisher, front page

　　publications and presentations

　　muchuruza, v., mussa, r., and thuo, g. estimating the likelihood of traffic conflicts and crashes using cellular-based micro-simulation, submitted for review at journal of transportation research board.

　　muchuruza, v., thuo,g., and mussa, r.. simulation and evaluation of cellular-based traffic model. submitted for review at the computer-aided civil and infrastructure engineering journal.

　　muchuruza, v and mussa, r. cellular based traffic micro-simulation: kinematical approach. submitted for review at asce journal of transportation.