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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Daniel S. Turner, professor of civil and environmental engineering at The University of Alabama and director of the University Transportation Center for Alabama, has been elected treasurer of the Council of University Transportation Centers.

This initiates a four-year commitment to the CUTC, during which Turner will serve in succession as treasurer, vice president, president, and then on the executive committee for one year each.

Active in professional organizations such as the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Turner served as chair of that organization's Transportation Educators Council and Legislative Committee and was president of the Southern District. He also served as a committee chair of the Transportation Research Board, and he was the national president of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Turner specializes in traffic safety, highway design and transportation management and policy. During the past 17 years, he has conducted 83 research projects, written 275 books, articles and technical reports, and written and conducted 60 short courses.

The CUTC, established in 1979, promotes interaction among its member institutions, government and industry. Its membership represents more than 60 of the nation's leading university-based transportation research and education programs.

In 1837, UA became the first university in the state to offer engineering classes and was one of the first five in the nation to do so. Today, the College of Engineering, with about 1,900 students and more than 90 faculty, is one of the three oldest continuously operating engineering programs in the country and has been fully accredited since accreditation standards were implemented in the 1930s.