Management Team
Dr. Ivonne Audirac
Dr. Audirac is OERTransport Project PI and Associate Director for Education at the Center for Transportation Equity, Decisions and Dollars. In addition, she is an Associate Professor of Planning in the Department of Public Affairs and Planning at UTA’s College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA). Her research focuses on the social, ecological, economic, and policy dimensions of urbanization and urban development processes. She has also conducted research on environment-behavior responses to non-motorized mobility in automobile-dependent urban areas and on aspects of universal design and transit. Other foci of her research are related to information technology, urban form, smart growth, and sustainable rural development.
Dr. Jay Michael Rosenberger
Dr. Rosenberger is Professor and Director of Research Development in the Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering and Deputy Director for the Center for Transportation Equity, Decisions, & Dollars at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He joined UTA in 2003, and he is the former director of the Center on Stochastic Modeling, Optimization, & Statistics. He has a B.S. in Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include mathematical optimization and simulation in transportation, defense, and health care.
Amber Raley
Amber Raley is a Ph.D. student in Planning at UTA and conducting her dissertation research on OER-enabled classes. In addition, she teaches courses in the Environmental and Sustainability Studies and Urban and Public Affairs minors at UTA’s College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA). Her current research focuses on the Atlanta BeltLine as seen through the lens of sustainability and is informed by her background in consulting and industrial-organizational psychology (MA, Rice University) and Urban Planning and Public Policy (UTA).