Jonathan Aguero Valverde

Pennsylvania State University
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University Park
State College, PA 16802
jua130@psu.edu

Home Address
901 S. Allen St. Apt. B-1
State College, PA 16801
(814) 238-2297

EDUCATION
Doctorate of Philosophy, Civil Engineering, Expected May 2008
Major in Transportation Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
Faculty Advisor: Paul P. Jovanis, Ph.D.

Master of Science in Civil Engineering, May 2005
Major in Transportation Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA

Licentiate in Civil Engineering, March 2000
(Five year degree program with final graduation project)
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
Faculty Advisor: Rosendo Pujol Mesalles, Ph.D.
WORKING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Research Assistant, June 2005 – present
Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania Transportation Institute
  • Advanced Road Safety And Weather Warning System (ARSAWWS) Project for PennDOT District 2-0. Project tasks include: development of a database which integrates crash, roadway inventory, hourly traffic counts, and weather data, analysis of data, and development of models for selecting a list of routes and/or locations representing high weather-related crash risk, and determination of predictability of weather events at locations of high weather-crash risk.
Research Associate, March 2000 – July 2003
Sustainable Urban Development Research Program (ProDUS),
School of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Costa Rica.

Duties:
  • Responsible for the areas of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Image Processing, and Global Positional System (GPS).
  • GIS, Remote Sensing, and GPS instructor.
  • Responsible for database maintenance and updates.
  • Coordinator of the following projects:
    • GIS and Transportation Engineering Consultant in the project “Projection of the demand of telecommunications in the residential and commercial sector” for ICE Telecomunicaciones (National Telephone Company).
    • GIS and Transportation Engineering Consultant in the project “Urban Transportation for the Metropolitan Area of San Jose” for CONAVI- MOPT: Consejo Nacional de Vialidad, Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes (National Roads Construction and Maintain Bureau).
    • GIS Consultant in the Project “National Plan of Urban Development”for CNFL: Compañia Nacional de Fuerza y Luz, (National Power and Light Company).
    • GIS Consultant for “Chapter of the Chorotega Region”, part of Project “State of the Nation for the Sustainable Development.”
Research Assistant, July 1996 – February 2000
Sustainable Urban Development Research Program (ProDUS),
School of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Costa Rica.

Projects:
  • Projects in the areas of: GIS, Transportation Engineering, Global Positional Systems, water and ground water contamination.
  • Senior Graduation Project in "Analysis of Vulnerability and Hazard of pollution of Ground Water, in the zone of Sto. Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica
As a Research Assistant, prior to graduating, I worked at ProDUS on the following projects: “Contamination in the basin's rivers of the Rio Grande de San Ramon” in a “Regional Sustainable Development Model”, “Capacity and Land Use in the basin of the Reventado River”,“Analysis of Economic Impact of the construction of the Ciudad Colon - Orotina Highway on the region” and “Revision of the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Power Line: El Este - San Miguel”
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor, August 2002- June 2003
School of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Costa Rica.
Course "Transportation I' (Introductory Transportation Course)

Instructor, August 1999 – December 1999
Masters in Urban Management of FLACSO
GIS Course

Instructor, January 1999 – November 2000
Sustainable Urban Developing Research Program (ProDUS)
GIS course for the new research assistants
HONORS AND AWARDS
Fulbright Scholarship, August 2003- May 2005
Fulbright Faculty Development Program for Latin America and the Caribbean

Leo P. Russell Graduate Fellowship in Civil Engineering, September 2004 – April 2005
The Pennsylvania State University
PROFESSIONAL ASOCIATIONS
Member, May 2000 – Present
Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y Arquitectos de Costa Rica
(Engineers and Architects Professional Society of Costa Rica)

Member, December 2004 – Present
Tau Beta Pi Association
Beta Chapter, Pennsylvania State University

REFERRED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Aguero-Valverde, J. and Jovanis P. Spatial analysis of fatal and injury crashes in Pennsylvania.   Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2006 (Article in press)
PERSONAL REFERENCES
  • Eng. Paul P. Jovanis, Ph.D. Civil Engineering, majoring in Transportation Engineering. University of California at Berkeley
    Professor, Pennsylvania State University. ppj2@psu.edu
  • Eng. Rosendo Pujol Mesalles, Ph.D. City and Regional Planning. University of California at Berkeley
    Director, ProDUS - Universidad de Costa Rica. rpujol@cariari.ucr.ac.cr
  • Arch, Ernesto G. Arias, Ph.D. City and Regional Planning. University of Pennsylvania
    Professor, Department of Planning and Design, College of Architecture & Planning (CAP), University of Colorado-Denver. ariase@colorado.edu
  • Eng. Jorge Gutierrez Gutierrez, Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
    Director, Graduate Program in Civil Engineering, Universidad de Costa Rica. jorgeg@lanamme.ucr.ac.cr
  • Eng. Rafael Oreamuno Vega, M.Eng. University of New Brunswick, Canada
    Director, School of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Costa Rica roreamun@cariari.ucr.ac.cr