Benjamin Reim, the 2007 Student of the Year from UTRC, lived and grew up in Palmer, Massachusetts. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to study engineering. From 2001 to 2003, he was unsure on the field of engineering he wished to pursue, however a meeting with his advisor sparked an interest in transportation engineering. In the remaining two years of his Bachelor’s program, he participated in two summer internships with Massachusetts Highway Department and Whiting Turner Contractors. He graduated with a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 2005, and continued immediately into a M.S program in transportation engineering.

When Ben started the M.S. program, Prof. Jose Holguin-Veras’ work with discrete choice modeling interested him the most, and as a result he became involved with modeling passenger car behavior to time of day pricing. Since graduating, he has been working for Kimley-Horn and Associates as a transportation analyst and also finishing up work with Prof. Holguin-Veras on an extension of his graduate research.

Ben Reim was chosen as UTRC’s Student of the Year because of his commitment to excellence and professionalism during his stay at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the high quality of his transportation research.