Sal Hernandez, PhD

Dr. Hernández is an assistant professor with the Department of Civil Engineering at UTEP. He teaches transportation and logistics related undergraduate and graduate courses and conducts transportation and logistics systems research at UTEP. He is also a faculty member of the BIG Transportation Laboratory. Dr. Hernández earned his Ph.D. degree in Transportation Infrastructure Systems Engineering at Purdue University, Indiana in 2010. Prior to joining UTEP in 2010, Dr. Hernández was a research assistant at Purdue University’s NEXTRAN center a USDOT Region V Regional University Transportation Center, where he conducted research on the viability of freight carrier collaboration through the use of demand modeling instruments (survey and econometric techniques) and network analysis and optimization tools. Dr. Hernández research interest and expertise include application of econometric and statistical methods to variety of engineering problems, supply chain and logistics modeling, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and public and intermodal transportation. In addition, Dr. Hernández has significant expertise in data multivariate techniques which were applied to an exploratory analysis for freight carrier collaboration project at NEXTRANS.