Daniel Ortiz Wins Student of the Year

C2SMART is delighted to congratulate Daniel Ortiz, a graduate research assistant with the Rutgers Infrastructure Monitoring Evaluation Group (RIME), on his selection as the 2021 C2SMART Student of the Year, which he received at the Council of University Transportation Center Student Winter Award Ceremony. 

Daniel is originally from Colombia, where he completed one year of Civil Engineering before coming to the U.S. He has a background in construction and is interested in how engineering planning and technology can help prevent or minimize flooding in flood-prone areas. With RIME, Daniel has worked with C2SMART Associate Director for Outreach and Technology Transfer, Hani Nassif, on quantifying the structural performance of concrete, as well as on C2SMART’s Urban Roadway Testbed, where his research integrated fiberoptic sensors to