Transportation Engineering Personal Statement

It was in April 2008, the day before Eid festival. I was much thrilled to see two of my cousins after a long time as they were coming to our home for celebrating Eid with us. But bolt from the blue, I got news that my cousins had lost their lives in a tragic road accident. That day plenty of questions arose in my mind. Why do the drivers drive so recklessly? How can we prevent the deaths of our near and dear ones? How should we improve the current sub-par pavement conditions? I asked my father as usual and his answer to my questions was quite straightforward: “Be a civil engineer.” Keeping that in my mind, I got admitted into the civil engineering department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), the top most engineering school of our country and then completed my BSc in civil engineering in September 2015. The main motivation for me to choose Transportation Engineering for my higher studies was traffic congestion, the common phenomenon in the lives of the dwellers of Dhaka, the capital city. I was unaware of the severity of traffic jam in Dhaka because I hardly moved away from my campus. But I faced the real scenario when I started my job. I spent minimum four extra hours for commuting from my residence to my workplace since I had to face severe traffic jam almost every single day. Being stuck in

In my junior year, I took part in a traffic survey for the Nimtoli City Stopover Bus Terminal (CSBT) project under the supervision of Professor Dr. Md. Hadiuzzaman. As a surveyor and data analyst, I collected a total eight hours categorized traffic volume data to find out the intersection capacity and delay via simulation in VISSIM. In my final year, I along with my group mates completed a project in our traffic engineering laboratory where we proposed a complete roundabout design at Polashi five approach