Dr. Ping Yi, P.E.

Title: Professor
Dept/Program: Civil Engineering
Office: ASEC 213
Phone: 330-972-7294
Email: pyi@uakron.edu

Biography

Dr. Yi is the President of the North America Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (NACOTA). He is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Along with working as a Professor here at UA, he also serves as the Director of the Ohio Transportation Consortium.

Research

Advanced Traffic Sensor Evaluation and Analysis, Data Mining and Data Fusion, Traffic Responsive and Adaptive Signal Control Systems, Location-Based Information Systems, Traffic Safety

Education

• Ph.D University of Minnesota, Traffic Engineering, 1992
• P.E.: Civil Engineering

Courses

Transportation Engineering, Transportation Planning, Highway Design, Traffic Engineering, Urban Traffic Operations, Traffic Detection Systems and Applications, Advanced Transportation Engineering, Adaptive Control and Signal Design, Data Processing and Communication, Traffic Flow Theory