Assistant Lecturer - Transport and Traffic Engineering and Planning
Ahmed Amer is an Assistant Lecturer in Public Works Department of Faculty of Engineering of Cairo University. Dr. Amer received his Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, USA in 2010. He received his B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. degrees in civil engineering from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. Since 2001, Mr. Amer was involved in many transportation-related projects in Egypt and United States. Dr. Amer has diverse transportation engineering experience that includes transportation research, transportation safety, transportation planning, and traffic design. His project experience has focused on roundabouts, traffic incident management, signal design, ITS design, traffic operations and simulation. He also has major expertise in data management, technical and statistical analysis of data, as well as data collection and surveys. Dr. Amer's software expertise includes Synchro, VISSIM, AutoCAD, MicroStation, GuidSIGN, ArcGIS, SPSS, SAS JMP, MATLAB, and Adobe Design.
Education
PhD, Civil Engineering (Transportation), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2010
MSc, Civil Engineering (Transportation), Cairo University, 2006
BSc, Civil Engineering (with Honors), Cairo University, 2001
Professional Memberships
Member, Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers
Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers
Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Reviewer, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems