Dr. Said Easa - Transportation Engineering
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Dr. Said Easa, Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Ryerson University in Toronto, obtained his M.Eng. from McMaster University and Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. He has been active in the field of transportation engineering for nearly 25 years. His research has covered various areas of transportation engineering, including road safety, emergency response, traffic operations and management, transportation planning, ports and railways, geometric design, and data modeling.

Dr. Easa currently serves as Vice-President (Administration) of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) and a member of its Board of Directors. He has served as Chair of the CSCE Transportation Division and its American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) counterpart. He was keynote speaker at several international conferences and a keynote speaker of a 2002 CSCE national lecture tour on road safety conducted in 12 cities across Canada. In 1996, Dr. Easa initiated and chaired the highly successful CSCE transportation conference series. In 1998, he led a CSCE delegation to China and Pakistan focusing on sustainable transportation. In 1998, he co-chaired a national ASCE conference, held in Portland, Oregon.

Dr. Easa has published 19 edited books and chapters, 24 professional magazine articles, and over 140 refereed journal articles, including an ASCE best-selling book on Urban Planning and Development Applications of GIS. He has served as expert witness in several court cases involving road and railway safety, and external referee for research projects overseas. Dr. Easa received many national and international best-paper and lifetime achievement awards, including the 2001 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for "outstanding contributions to ASCE and the transportation profession throughout his career" and the 2003 Sandford Fleming Award from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering for "outstanding contributions to the development and practice of transportation engineering in Canada."