For the 2004 Student of the Year, UTRC has selected Mr. Joseph Davis, a doctoral student in the Rutgers Transportation Program. Mr. Davis was raised in Colonia, NJ. He graduated from the School of Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 2001 with a Bachelors Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Joseph opted to continue his education at Rutgers, receiving his Masters in Structural Engineering in May 2003. Presently Joseph is a Teaching Assistant for the Reinforced Concrete Lab in addition to being a PhD candidate. Joseph is currently working with Dr. Hani Nassif on the instrumentation of the newly constructed Doremus Avenue Bridge in Newark, NJ. This crossing located in the Port of Newark is a vital link for truck traffic between the Port and intermodal facilities. Additionally, this bridge was the first in NJ to be designed using the newly adopted LRFD design approach. Since June 2001, Joseph has been part of a team involved in the planning, installation, and testing of the bridge to verify the code limits, more specifically, fatigue modeling of the superstructure under truck loading. Weigh-in-motion bending plates in the approach slabs report truck weights and strain transducers placed on the girders show the bridge response concurrently. With these two vital pieces of information a fatigue load model for the bridge can be developed and applied to other LRFD bridges. Joseph is also involved with other research at the Doremus Avenue Bridge, including the approach slabs. Several new designs are being implemented to reduce cracking from settlement and early age overloading. Strain sensors are placed at key points in the slab and live load testing is conducted to verify finite element models of the new designs. During his research at Rutgers, Joseph has worked under the direction of the Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation on projects for the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Joseph was a CAIT fellow for the academic year 2002-2003 and a UTRC fellow for the 2001-2002.