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PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
  1. Member - Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
  2. Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  3. Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
  4. Board Member, Transportation Research Board (TRB)
  5. Member, International Chinese Transportation Professionals Association (ICTPA)
  6. Member, Intelligent Transportation Society (ITS) of America
  7. Member, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)
  8. Charter Member, Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  9. Member, International Road Federation (IRF)
  10. Board Member, Chinese American Academic & Professional Society (CAAPS)
HONORS, AWARD, AND LISTINGS
  1. Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Research Fellowship Award, US Department of Transportation, 1991
  2. The Most Supportive Professor, Meeting of the Institute for Transportation, sponsored by the Student Chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers at NJIT and the Alpha Student Chapter of ITS America at NJIT, May 1997
  3. The George Krambles Transit Foundation National Scholarship Award, Advised Shoaib Chowdhury's paper, titled "Intermodal Transit System Coordination," 1998
  4. The George Krambles Transit Foundation National Scholarship Award, Advised Yuqing Ding's paper, titled "A Dynamic Headway Control Strategy for Transit Operations," 1999
  5. Co-chair, the Annual Meeting of International Chinese Transportation Professional Association ? United States Northeastern Chapter, 2000
  6. ICTPA-NE Outstanding Service Award, 2002
  7. Chair, the seminar of International Chinese Transportation Professional Association ? United States Northeastern Chapter, May 15, 2001
  8. Grant Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, NJIT, June 15, 2001
  9. Co-chair, the Annual Meeting of International Chinese Transportation Professional Association ? United States Northeastern Chapter, September 22, 2001
  10. Co-chair, a technical seminar titled ?Maglev Technology and Its Potential Operating Locations,? Jointly sponsored by Sigma Xi - NJIT Chapter and ITE & ITS Student Chapters, September 28, 2001
  11. Chair, the seminar of International Chinese Transportation Professional Association ? United States Northeastern Chapter, April 27, 2002
  12. Chair, ?Transportation Management? session for the Annual Meeting of American Chinese Management and Educator (ACME) Association, August 3, 2002
  13. Chair, the Annual Meeting of International Chinese Transportation Professional Association ? United States Northeastern Chapter, October 5, 2002
  14. Outstanding Service Award, International Chinese Transportation Professional Association ? United States Northeastern Chapter, October 2002
  15. Certificate of Appreciation by NJDOT Bureau of Research ?In Recognition of Your Commitment and Dedication to the Advancement of Transportation Research in the State of New Jersey,? NJDOT Research Showcase, November 2002
  16. The George Krambles Transit Foundation National Scholarship Award, Advised Xiaobo Liu's paper, Titled "Application of APC and GIS Data in Bus Performance Analysis - Case Study NJ Transit Route #62," 2003
  17. Best Paper Award for Year 2002, "Optimization Work Zones for Two-Lane Highway Maintenance Projects," by Chien et.al, Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE, Vol.128,No.2, pp.145-155, March/April 2002
  18. Chair, the Annual Meeting of International Chinese Transportation Professional Association ? United States Northeastern Chapter, Flushing, NY, September 2003
  19. Co-Chair, Paper Review Committee, the Annual Meeting of International Chinese Transportation Professional Association, Taipei, Taiwan, 11~13 February, 2004
  20. Conference Chair, the Annual Meeting of Chinese American Academic & Professional Society (CAAPS), Flushing, New York, August 14, 2004
  21. Chair, the Annual Meeting of International Chinese Transportation Professional Association "United States Northeastern Chapter, September 25, 2004
  22. Most Outstanding Student Paper Award for Year 2003~2004, Xiaobo Liu Supervised by Steven Chien, "Applications of APC Data for Bus On-time Performance Analysis," ITE MET Section, 2004
  23. George Krambles Transit Foundation National Scholarship Award, Advised Jayakrishna Patnaik's paper, titled "Improving Accuracy with Kalman Filtering Algorithm (KFA) to Predict Bus Arrival Times," 2004
  24. Student Paper Award for Year 2004~2005 (First Place), Zhaoqiong Qin Supervised by Steven Chien, "Improve Transit Accessibility: Optimal Design of Bus Stop Number and Locations," ITE MET Section, 2005
  25. Section Student Paper Award for Year 2004~2005 (Third Place), Jayakrishna Patnaik Supervised by Steven Chien, "Development a Regression Model for Predicting Bus Arrival Times," ITE MET Section, 2005
  26. Candidate of NJIT Teaching Excellent Award, 2005
  27. Best Paper Award, J. Patraik, Steven Chien, and A.Bladikas, "Using Data Mining Techniques on APC Data to Develop Effective Bus Scheduling Plans," The 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, 2005
  28. Advised Kanchana Balakrishnan's paper titled "A Bi-Level Optimization Model for Transit Network Route Design Problem," The Most Outstanding Student Paper Award for Year 2005~2006, ITE MET Section
  29. Service Award, Annual Meeting of International Chinese Transportation Professional Association (ICTPA), Hongkong and Macau, 2006
  30. Promotion to the rank of Full Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2006
  31. Conference Section Chair, The 20th Annual Meeting of International Chinese Transportation Professional Association, Los Angeles, CA, May 2007
  32. Nominated by Marquis Who's Who, the 2009 Edition of Who's Who in America, November 2007
  33. The very first recipient of the New Jersey Department of Transportation Research Implementation Award, Award Project: "Computer Modeling and Simulation of NJ Signalized Highways (Volumes 1 and 2)", the 10th Annual NJDOT Research Showcase, Trenton, October 16, 2008
  34. Chair, Technical Program, The 22nd Annual Conference of ICTPA International, New Jersey, May 22~24, 2009
  35. Outstanding Service Award, The 22nd Annual Conference of ICTPA, East Rutherford, New Jersey, May 22~24, 2009
  36. Distinguished Scholar for NCKU Project of Promoting Academic Excellence & Developing World Class Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, July 2009
  37. Conference Section Chair, Urban Planning and Environmental Protection Workshop, The 34th Annual Convention Program, Chinese American Academic & Professional Society (CAAPS), Flushing, NY, September 2009
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