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Dr. Md Tawfiq Sarwar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at East West University from May 2018. He received his PhD from University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA in 2016, MSc from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA in 2013 and BSc degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2009, all three in Civil Engineering with a major in Transportation Engineering. At East West University, he is a member of the Program Self-Assessment Committee (PSAC), Department Development Committee (DDC), and the Curriculum Development and Technical Evaluation Committee.
Prior to joining East West University, Dr. Sarwar served as a Research Associate for National Research Council (NRC, a sister concern of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, NASEM) at Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), McLean, VA, USA. His research interests are econometric and statistical analysis, traffic safety, planning, operation, naturalistic driving study, vulnerable road user, infrastructure and disaster management, public transportation etc. He has worked on several projects funded by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), National Science Foundation (NSF), Region II University Transportation Research Center (UTRC), New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) among other renowned institutes. Using the findings of these projects, Dr. Sarwar has published several journals and conference papers (published in top-tier Elsevier/Springer journals). Besides, he has served as a peer reviewer for several journals, such as, Accident Analysis & Prevention, Transportation Research Record, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering etc.
PhD Dissertation: The Effect of Pavement Deterioration on Rural and Urban Roadway Accident Injury-Severities. [PDF file]
M.Sc. Thesis: Modeling the Dynamics of Household-level Hurricane Evacuation Timing Decisions. [PDF file]
National Research Council (NRC) Research Fellowship, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Passed Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam in October 2012.
Who’s who among students in American Universities & Colleges, 2014.
Dean’s List Scholarship (all four years of undergraduate study), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
University Merit Scholarship, (all four years of undergraduate study), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
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