UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering added a new faculty member this semester.
Ilgin Guler has joined the department as an assistant professor in civil engineering. She received bachelor’s degrees in civil engineering and industrial engineering from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2007 and a master’s degree and doctorate in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008 and 2012, respectively.
Prior to joining Penn State, Guler worked as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems at ETH Zurich.
She has more than seven years of research, teaching and industry experience and has worked on consulting projects for the Greater Amman Municipality in Jordan and Mongolia where she worked to improve their road transportation systems.
She has taught three different classes, advised more than 10 master’s theses and projects, and has been the primary author of multiple research proposals funded by institutions such as the Swiss National Science Foundation and Swiss Association of Road Transportation Experts.
In 2012, Guler won the Dwight D. Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship.
Guler’s research interests include multimodal urban transportation, public transportation, infrastructure management and statistical modeling.
As an assistant professor at Penn State, she will be teaching Infrastructure Systems Management (spring 2015) and Public Transportation Systems (fall 2015) at the graduate level.