Critical Thinking in the Curriculum: Making Better Decisions

STEPHEN MATTINGLY is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. Previously, he worked at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Irvine and University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He has recently completed and is currently working on research projects that address a variety of topics including transportation public health performance measures, decision and risk analysis, airport operations, managed lane traveler behavior, high-speed rail compatibility with existing freeway right-of-way, improving critical thinking in the civil engineering curriculum, integrating sustainability into the engineering curriculum and creating a sustainability minor, transportation emissions and sustainability, and freeway and frontage road operational modeling and performance measures. He has published several articles in the Transportation Research Record, other journals and conferences on these and other related topics. He is currently serving on the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Traffic Flow and Characteristics and is a past member of the TRB Committee on Transportation Network Modeling. Stephen is also a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).