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Roger Lindgren, who teaches engineering at the Oregon Institute of Technology, has been named the winner of the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ Outstanding Educator Award for the group’s western district.

Lindgren has been a professor at OIT for the past 15 years. In addition to teach transportation and general engineering courses, he serves as the program director of the school’s recently established civil engineering graduate program.

He is an executive member of the National Institute for Transportation Communities and serves as advisor to the school’s Institute of Transportation Engineers’ student chapter. He previously served as director of the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium.

The Institute of Transportation Engineers Outstanding Educator Award recognizes transportation professionals who exhibit outstanding creativity in teaching and are dedicated to helping students develop an interest in the transportation profession.  Lindgren is second recipient from Oregon to receive the award in the past 13 years.