Dr. Samantha Islam

Dr. Samantha Islam

Associate Professor
Civil Engineering / Transportation Engineering

Education

  • Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Purdue University
  • M.S. Civil Engineering, Purdue University
  • B.S. Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Research

  • Transportation and Infrastructure Systems
  • Application of econometric and statistical methods to:highway/traffic
    • safety
    • traffic congestion
    • transportation economics
  • Design and Operations of Roundabouts
  • Roadway Departure Accidents
  • Application of ITS
  • Traffic Operations and Control
  • Transportation Planning
  • Hurricane evacuation

Publications

  • Islam, S., Hossain, A.B., T. Barnett. Comprehensive Injury Severity Analysis of Sport Utility Vehicle and Pickup Truck Rollover Crashes on Roadways in Alabama, to appear in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2016.
  • Islam, S. Comparative Analysis of Injury Severity Resulting from Pedestrian–Motor Vehicle and Bicycle–Motor Vehicle Crashes on Roadways in Alabama, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Vol. 2514, 2015, pp. 79-87, 2015.
  • For a complete list of publications, please see Dr. Islam's CV.
    Islam, S. and Jones, S., “Comprehensive Analyses of Single- and Multi-vehicle Large Truck At-fault Crashes on Rural and Urban Roadways in Alabama”, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 67, pp148- 158, 2014.
  • Islam, S. and Jones, S., “Pedestrian At-Fault Crashes on Rural and Urban Roadways in Alabama”, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 72C, pp 267-276, 2014.
  • Islam, S. and Brown, S., “Transportation-OPOLY: An Innovative Tool to Promote Transportation Engineering”, International Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Vol.2 No.3, 2013.

For a complete list of publications, please see Dr. Islam's CV.


Courses

  • EG 101 Intro to Engineering and Design
  • CE 102 Intro to Civil Engineering
  • CE 204 Surveying Fundamentals
  • CE 352 Transportation Engineering
  • CE 431 Civil Engineering Design I
  • CE 590 Transportation System Evaluation
  • CE 590 Highway Safety
  • CE 551 Traffic Engineering
  • CE 594 Projects in Engineering

 
Faculty Advisor: Gulf Region Intelligent Transportation Society (GRITS)