Congratulations to Hesam Rashidi on receiving the Roschlau Graduate Fellowship in Sustainable Urban Mobility!
Hesam Rashidi is a second-year Ph.D. candidate in Transportation Engineering at the University of Toronto, supervised by Professor Matthew Roorda and Professor Mehdi Nourinejad.
The Roschlau Graduate Fellowship in Sustainable Urban Mobility was established earlier this year by Mobility Network through a donation from Michael W. Roschlau, U of T alumnus and former President & CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Association, to stimulate innovative applied research, to inform public policy and to assist a student in pursuing their field of study.
About Hesam Rashidi
Hesam Rashidi completed his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, where he served as the class valedictorian.
He has received several honours, including the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and the Richard Soberman Graduate Student Fellowship.
Hesam currently serves as the President of the University of Toronto – Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Chapter (UT-ITE).
About the Roschlau Graduate Fellowship in Sustainable Urban Mobility
The Roschlau Graduate Fellowship in Sustainable Urban Mobility is the first fellowship of its kind at the University of Toronto. It was established in 2023 thanks to a generous donation from Michael W. Roschlau, U of T alumnus and former President & CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Association.
The $5,000 scholarship is aimed at full-time graduate students in architecture, business, economics, engineering, geography, planning, political science, or related fields, who are pursuing research related to sustainable urban mobility. The fellowship will be offered annually for a period of five years.
Proposed research should incorporate innovative concepts and be relevant to current public policy or practice. Potential research themes could include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Public transit expansion and investment | Public transit operations | Active transportation | Integrated urban mobility | New technology for sustainable urban mobility | Urban development and land use-transport interaction.