victor muchuruza, e.i.t.
352 pennell cir apt 5
tallahassee, ss
phone: (850)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
ph.d., florida state university, 2006
thesis: stochastic modelling of traffic crashes
cumulative gpa 3.92.
m.s in civil engineering, major transportation engineering
florida state university, december 2003
cumulative gpa: 3.95.
b.s in civil engineering, major transportation and highway engineering
university of dar es salaam, tanzania, nov 2001
cumulative gpa: 4.3 (5.0 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, fl 2004-2006
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. //www.trafficlab.eng.fsu.edu/
florida state university, traffic engineering lab, tallahassee, fl, november 2003
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, fl 2002-to 2002