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Utility Coordination Deliverables And How To Get There, Matthew Witt, Kenny Franklin

Purdue Road School

From certification letters to special provisions, expectations of the utility coordination process are ever evolving. We would like to focus on the timing of when those deliverables should be submitted to limit the risk of letting exceptions. In our interactive session, we will also touch on how utility coordination affects the delivery of right-of-way, environmental, and time-set.

Reducing Construction Change Orders With 3d Cim Technology, John Langmaid, Aaron Bubb, Sammy Van Pelt

Purdue Road School

As long as 2D paper plans are the construction contract document, 3D Civil Information Management (CIM) technology will improve bid-ability, constructability, and overall plan quality. The CIM process leverages modeling technology to reverse engineer 2D plans and build the project electronically prior to letting. Used with engineering best practices, CIM identifies plan errors, conflicts, and other challenges which ultimately reduce construction change orders. Featured projects will include I-69 in Bloomington and the Ohio River Bridges.

In-House Ccmg Program Management: A Porter County Case Study '18-'21, Michael M. Gavelek

Purdue Road School

This presentation will provide lessons learned and best practice recommendations for in-house management of Community Crossings Matching Grant projects from the perspective of the LPA, with a focus on Porter County’s program from 2019–2022. Topics will include grant application, internal decision-making, HMA inlay design, custom spec writing, alternative pavement treatments, and construction observation. Each topic will account for in-house staff manhours to help participants evaluate which items they can complete with in-house staff.

Indiana Statutes And Rules For Professional Engineering Licensure, Tim Jensen

Purdue Road School

This session will explain the Indiana Code versus the Indiana Administrative Code; selected statutes and rules applied to the practice of engineering; registration by comity; registrant’s seal; computer-based testing for FE and PE exams; rules for continuing education, audits, board structure; and threats to professional licensure.

Changes In Clinical Markers Observed From Pharmacist-Managed Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Clinics In Federally Qualified Health Centers: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Jasmine Gonzalvo, Ashley H. Meredith, Sonak Pastakia, Michael Peters, Madilyn Eberle, Andrew N. Schmelz, Lauren Pence, Jessica S. Triboletti, Todd A. Walroth

Department of Pharmacy Practice Faculty Publications

Background

Reductions in hemoglobin A1c (HbA1C) have been associated with improved cardiovascular outcomes and savings in medical expenditures. One public health approach has involved pharmacists within primary care settings. The objective was to assess change in HbA1C from baseline after 3–5 months of follow up in pharmacist-managed cardiovascular risk reduction (CVRR) clinics.

Methods

This retrospective cohort chart review occurred in eight pharmacist-managed CVRR federally qualified health clinics (FQHC) in Indiana, United States. Data were collected from patients seen by a CVRR pharmacist within the timeframe of January 1, 2015 through February 28, 2020. Data collected include: demographic characteristics and clinical …

Planning For Pedestrians And Bicyclists During Construction Projects, John Habermann, P.E.

Purdue Road School

This session will explore how the Texas Department of Transportation Waco District addressed pedestrian/bicyclist safety and mobility during a multi-year construction project along I-35. This presentation will demonstrate the value of online tools, field implementations, and data collection. Attendees will learn the value of assembling a stakeholder steering committee; counting pedestrian and bicyclists before, during, and after construction; effectively using pavement clings; and using a webpage dedicated to pedestrian/bicyclist updates.

Beauty And The Bridge, Andrew Borden, Brett Sauter

Purdue Road School

Over 65,000 vehicles per day use the US 20/US 31 interchange in South Bend. The bridge has suffered multiple truck hits due to low vertical clearance over US 31. Ciorba was tasked with designing options to improve the vertical clearance by over 1’. In conjunction with this objective, the city sought beautification enhancements to the structure. We will review the several renditions that were produced during the city’s search to fund the beautification.

Engaging Commercial Specialists Early To Avoid/Mitigate Disputes, Nathan Minear, Jesse Finke, Anden Lovig

Purdue Road School

This presentation discusses how the early engagement of commercial specialists can help avoid/mitigate disputes. Avoiding/mitigating disputes requires clear communication supported by clear documentation, both of which depend upon a proper understanding of the commercial issues at play. Through active and early engagement of commercial specialists, you can ensure the right resources are available at the right time to avoid/mitigate disputes. Learn what commercial specialists to involve, when to involve them, and the value they bring.

Stormwater Management From A Beginner’S Perspective, Jeffrey E. Kuhn

Purdue Road School

This presentation looks at some of the day-to-day activities and work needed for operating a stormwater management program for the West Lafayette area.

Federal Project Management: Competitive Grants/Local Federal Aid, Paul Reed, Michael Hopper, Jeremy Bartell

Purdue Road School

Managing more money means having more money to lose. This session will help you identify when a project might lose its eligibility for federal funds. We also explain managing capital projects, including discussions on the new federal act (BIL), competitive grants, federal performance end dates, inactive project funds, and other important factors for managing the federal resources of your projects.

Interstate Highway Congestion Policy Request: When And How, Douglas Homan, Alan Holderread, Michelle Witkowski

Purdue Road School

This session will highlight current IHCP tables, policy tables, request templates, analysis tools, INDOT queue analysis spreadsheet, INDOT detour route summary spreadsheet, hourly day-of-the-week con- version factors, additional modeling efforts, common and repeated mistakes, IHCP exception checklist, and example projects.

Creative Media Approaches For Cultural Mitigation, Gary Quigg, Hannah Blad

Purdue Road School

Transportation projects do more than connect people, they provide opportunities to connect cultures. Explore how media production was incorporated as unique mitigation in two projects to address the cultural history of two different geographic areas. Participants will learn of the successes and challenges in producing the Cultural Audio Tours for the INDOT-sponsored I-69 project and the video documentary for the historically African American “Foot” Neighborhood as part of the Missouri DOT-sponsored Rex Whitton Expressway.

Preparing Municipalities For Ev, Diane Newton, Kerri Garvin

Purdue Road School

This session will cover many common questions about electric vehicles (EVs) that many cities and towns ask. What are the different charger types? Where do EV charging stations fall in our zoning guidelines? Are there public safety considerations with charging stations? Should we electrify our fleets? Are there funding opportunities for any of this? What can we do to be prepared? Join us as we answer these questions and more.

Railroads And First Responders: A Gis Link, Jeremy Kramer

Purdue Road School

The Louisville & Indiana Railroad (L&I) was awarded a $300,000 Consolidated Rail and Safety Improvements Program (CRISI) Grant to develop a geographic information mobile application linking L&I dispatch and first responders to aid communication and response during railroad incidents. This is an important development in promoting safety at rail-highway intersections.

Piece Of Cake: It’S Just A Small Structure Replacement Right?, Nathan Frey, Greg Prince, Deborah Porter

Purdue Road School

Successfully delivering a project, task, or even a group decision requires effective collaboration skills, and the great thing about skills is that they can be learned. With collaboration, you can effectively lead a team toward decision making and deliver results. In this session, we will analyze different methods of collaboration to help you build this skill and make you a more persuasive and compelling project manager.

Indot @Home: A Case For Virtual Public Involvement, Jennifer Clark, Adam Parkhouse

Purdue Road School

Virtual became necessary during the pandemic. We saw parties, meetings, Thanksgiving, conferences, and everything else shift to virtual. We’ve been virtual-ed out, but the convenience remains. The challenge is meeting people where they are and keeping them informed and involved. INDOT has found the sweet spot of virtual through intentional usage. We’ll cover virtual involvement from a district level, how we use virtual town halls for important education, and how we’ve brought projects into living rooms with interactive websites.

Indot Prequalification & Compliance, Christopher Serak, Melissa Beaucaire,, Crystal Weaver

Purdue Road School

Doing business with INDOT on construction contracts involves complying with numerous state and federal laws and INDOT specifications and contract requirements. As part of the INDOT Legal Department’s 2023 strategic plan, the agency is reviewing all areas of compliance and working to produce administrative policy directives that explain the requirements of each rule and regulation. This presentation will provide an overview of INDOT construction compliance, including a review of the specific requirements of the most commonly used regulations. Discussion time will be available so that vendors and government stakeholders can ask questions and express their opinion on INDOT construction compliance.

Excise Fuel Tax Refunds: Program Overview, Charles Malinowski, Jim Polarek

Purdue Road School

Join us for a discussion about preparing claims with panel representatives from the Porter County Highway Department. This presentation will begin with an overview of the program administered by the Indiana Department of Revenue and then followed by “real-world” county, city, and town experiences. We will conclude with a big-picture view that de- scribes the effects of claiming on the annual MVH funds and refunds distributed between the general and highway funds.

Indiana’S New Strategic Highway Safety Plan, Michael A. Holowaty

Purdue Road School

Over the past 2 years, Indiana has been part of a nationwide surge in the number of motor vehicle fatalities and serious injuries. Even before that time, traffic deaths remained stubbornly high in comparison to other industrial peer nations. In 2022, INDOT engaged with stakeholders and partners inside and outside of state government to create a new Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). The new SHSP is aligned with the FHWA Safe Systems Approach and will help facilitate the changes brought by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation (BIL Act) to state and local safety programs. This presentation will introduce the structure of …

What Lies Underneath: The Base Of Your Street (Or Road), David P. Orr

Purdue Road School

If you have roads and streets that pothole or crack pre- maturely, it may be the gravel under the surface that is the culprit. Come learn what the sweet spot is for good gravel, how to test your own gravel, and how to make your poor materials better using full-depth reclamation (FDR).

Compelling Project Management, Jonathan Wallace, Jennifer Goins

Purdue Road School

Successfully delivering a project, task, or even a group decision requires effective collaboration skills, and the great thing about skills is that they can be learned. With collaboration, you can effectively lead a team toward decision making and deliver results. In this session, we will analyze different methods of collaboration to help you build this skill and make you a more persuasive and compelling project manager.

Economic Development And Infrastructure, Gary J. Pool

Purdue Road School

This presentation will cover how the developments on the Olio Road Corridor have affected Hancock County’s roadway deterioration and construction, revenue and funding, and public involvement.

Going The Extra Mile: Responding To Eastern Kentucky Flooding, Ed Green

Purdue Road School

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) responded to one its worst transportation challenges ever when historic flooding struck Appalachia and Eastern Kentucky counties in 2022. The transportation agency responded immediately to the disaster, and in the months following the event, KYTC was charged with assessing bridges for safety, clearing roads and streams, and restoring access to allow responders to reach those in need. New programs were quickly developed to address needs ranging from the installation of temporary bridges to the creation of temporary shelters for displaced residents. During this, C2 Strategic Communications partnered with KYTC to develop a communications campaign to …

Engineering And Communications: Where They Intersect, Natalie Garrett, Andy Dietrick, Mindy Peterson

Purdue Road School

Improving our transportation systems and building roads and bridges is a complex process full of technical information, detailed analysis, careful coordination, and lots of acronyms! That’s where engineering and communications intersect. Strategic messaging, targeted outreach, and engaging materials set the stage for project success. This session will focus on communication challenges and successes on major INDOT projects and practical tips to help engineers become communicators or at least feel more comfortable in this important role.

Experimenting With Orange Pavement Markings On Indiana Roadways, Michael R. Williamson, Joseph Bruno

Purdue Road School

This session presents the status of experimental orange pavement markings on Indiana roadways. The presentation includes a summary of the MUTCD experimentation request and an evaluation of orange pavement marking types— including tapes and paints with a focus on color and retroreflectivity retention. The effects of driving behavior on the safety of work zones, vehicle lane positioning, and public opinion are also discussed.

Pedestrian Maintenance Of Traffic For Designers, Katherine Smutzer

Purdue Road School

This presentation with summarize current guidance being developed for the maintenance of pedestrian traffic during construction. The presentation will provide designers with guidance on INDOT’s decision-making hierarchy and expectations related to the documentation and development of pedestrian maintenance of traffic plans.

See A Sign? Make A Call, John Habermann, P.E.

Purdue Road School

DOT staff and technology resources have the proven potential to help combat human trafficking if DOT employees know the indicators of human trafficking and how to cooperate with requests from agencies for information that can be derived from DOT assets. The Texas A&M Transportation Institute, NCHRP, and the Heart of Texas Human Trafficking Coalition will discuss the intersection of human trafficking with the transportation sector. Attendees will also learn the main components of human trafficking, the basic signs of human trafficking on DOT facilities, and resources to use in their own states.

Development And Validation Of An Integrated Stem Teacher Classroom Observation Protocol, Shuqi Zhou, Hillary E. Merzdorf, Kerrie A. Douglas, Tamara J. Moore

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

This study aimed to develop a K-12 classroom observation protocol to assess K-12 teachers’ implementation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) integration. The intended purpose of the observation protocol is for researchers to examine how K-12 teachers implement the STEM integrated curriculum. Based on research on STEM integration, the protocol covers eight categories: Define, Learn, Plan, Try, Test, Decide, Improve, and Instructional Strategies. The protocol was reviewed by a panel of integrated STEM education experts, engineering design experts, and educational assessment experts (n = 15) and revised accordingly. To test the reliability of using the protocol, two …

What’S Gender Got To Do With It? Beyond Binary Gender In Market Research Resources, Amanda Pirog

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

No abstract provided.

The Global Trade Analysis Project (Gtap) Data Base: Version 11, Angel Aguiar, Maksym Chepeliev, Erwin Corong, Dominique Van Der Mensbrugghe

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

This paper describes the construction of the GTAP Data Base, version 11. The database reconciles different data sources at a global scale for analytical use and provides time series data on value flows, volumes, and various tax instruments. GTAP version 11 has 5 reference years (2004, 2007, 2011, 2014, and 2017), distinguishes 65 sectors in each of 141 countries and 19 aggregate regions - with individual countries accounting for 99.1% of world GDP and 96.4% of world population. The exhaustive nature of GTAP in its country and sector coverage facilitates its use in economy-wide studies of global economic issues.