Assistant Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Kari Watkins is an assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She returned to her undergraduate alma mater to become a faculty member in 2011 after completing her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington. Her teaching and research interests revolve around multi-modal transportation planning and the use of technology in transportation, especially as related to transit planning and operations and improved traveler information. While at Washington, she co-created the OneBusAway program to provide real-time next bus countdown information and other transit information tools for transit riders in greater Seattle-Tacoma.
