Download or read book NURail Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer Program in Multimodal Freight Transportation Risk written by Mohd Rapik Saat and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "National University Rail Center (NURail), will be hosting Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Multimodal Freight Transportation Risk at the Rail Transportation and Engineering Center (RailTEC) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The main objective of this project is to expose undergraduate students to academic research that could potentially encourage the students to pursue graduate studies. Selected undergraduate students will have opportunities to: Learn about transportation risk basic concepts and methodologies; Interface with faculty and graduate researchers involved in transportation safety and risk; Collaborate to work on a real-world transportation risk assessment project; Present research results and write a daily blog to record their experiences."--