CONTACT AND
OFFICE HOURS
Office: 1300 Engineering Building
Engineering Building
Fairfax Campus
Email: mvenigal@gmu.edu
Link to
Personal Website
Fall 2009 Office Hours
9-12p Wednesday or by appointment
EXPERTISE
- Transportation Engineering
- Environmental Analysis Engineering
- Geospatial Modeling
- Civil Engineering IT
COURSES
Dr. Mohan Venigalla, PE
Associate Department Chair,
Undergraduate Director,
Associate Professor, Transportation
Mohan Venigalla brings over 18 years of industry, research and teaching experience to Mason's programs. Prior to joining Mason, Dr. Venigalla most recently served as a Senior Transportation Systems Engineer in Wilbur Smith Associates Transportation Modeling Group, located in Columbia, SC. Dr. Venigalla earned his doctorate from the University of Tennessee in 1994. His research has been exceptional. Mohan was the 1991 Student of the Year, as awarded by the US Department of Transportation. In 1996, he received the Pyke Johnson Award from the National Research Council for the best research paper in transportation planning. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Venigalla served as a Transportation Systems Engineer at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, MA, working in both the ITS and Air Quality groups.
Dr. Venigalla is an expert in quantitative methods for transportation planning, air quality, traffic operations, and traffic simulation. His skills include transportation systems analysis encompassing travel demand modeling, traffic simulation, network analysis, and ITS related modeling. He has developed and applied numerous computer models for transportation planning and traffic engineering problems. His research work in transportation air quality has received national acclaim. The methods he has developed for determining start nodes and operating models are being widely used in the industry for air quality modeling. At Mason, Dr. Venigalla teaches course on:
- Introduction to transportation systems (engineering and planning)
- Transportation air quality
- Air quality
- Engineering and economics models
- Fundamentals and principle of practice of engineering
- Information management for civil engineering and
- Geographic information systems
Dr. Venigalla’s professional affiliations include the following:
- Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
- Editor, Journal of Transportation Research Board (TRB) issue on Transportation Air Quality
- Member, TRB committee on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium Communities (ADA30)
- Member, of TRB committee on Transportation Air Quality (ADC20)
- Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
- Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers