Research fellow (1986-1987),
Office of Safety and Traffic Operations, Research and Development, Federal
Highway Administration, McClean, Virginia, USA. Ph.D. : Transportation 1987, Civil Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. Durability of Retroreflective Materials of Traffic Signs.
M.Sc. : Transportation and Urban Planning, 1982, Civil Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
B.Sc. : Civil Engineering, 1987, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
Previous Professional and Academic Experience
Research fellow (1986-1987),
Office of Safety and Traffic Operations, Research and Development, Federal
Highway Administration, McClean, Virginia, USA.
Teaching Assistant (1985-1986),
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park,
Maryland, USA.
Transportation Engineer (1980-1982),
Counsel-Trans, Inc. Rockville, Maryland, USA.
Civil Engineer (1979-1980)
Morrison-knudsen Saudi Arabia Consortium, Boise Idaho, USA worked on the
construction of King Child Military City in Saudi Arabia.
Fields of Interest
Transportation, regional
and town planning
Highway geometric and pavement
design
Traffic operations, parking
studies, maintenance evaluation
Transportation facilities
planning and designs, airports, seaports and railroads
Publications:
Awadallah, F., 1994 A Proposal
Device for Railroad-Highway Grade Crossing, proceedings of the Third International
Symposium on Railroad-Highway, Grade Crossing Research and Safety, Knoxville,
Tennessee, USA.
Awadallah, F., 1994. The
Regional Roads in the Middle East and a Transportation Corridor between
the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, proceedings of the 34th Science Week
Supreme Council of Science, Damascus, Syria (in Arabic).
Awadallah, F., 1993. A study
of a Transportation Corridor Between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,
proceedings of the 1st Palestinian Civil Engineering Conference, Najah
University, Nablus, Palestine.
Awadallah, F. 1991, Guidelines
for the Adequacy of Traffic signs Retroreflectivity, Compendium of Technical
Papers for the 61st Annual Meeting of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
Awadallah, F., 1990. Intersection
Channelization Design/Autocad Application, Compendium of Technical Papers
for the 60th Annual Meeting of Institute of Transportation Engineers.
Awadallah, F., 1988. Prediction
of the Service life of Warning Signs, Public Roads, Vol. 51, No.4.
Awadallah, F., and Everret
Carter, 1988. Traffic Sign Maintenance and Management, Proceedings of the
3rd International Road Federation Middle East Regional Conference Vol.1.