Thomas Harold Maze, Ph.D., P.E. (-2009)
MAZE, KRAUSE, CROTHERS, EUWEMA
Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 6/12/2009 at 09:25:20
THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Wednesday, June 10, 2009.
Thomas Harold Maze, Ph.D., P.E., 57, of White Bear Lake, Minn., died Monday, June 8, 2009, after a long struggle with heart disease. Friends are invited to join the family in remembering Tom from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 13, at the house on Bald Eagle Lake.
Tom was a professor of civil engineering at Iowa State University Institute for Transportation.
He is survived by his loving wife, Leslie Maze; two stepdaughters, Lauren Krause and Julie Crothers; and two sisters, Marilyn Maze and Marty Euwema and their families.
The Cremation Society of Minnesota is assisting the family, (612) 825-2435.
THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Friday, June 12, 2009.
With great sadness, friends and colleagues of Professor Tom Maze, Ph.D., P.E., mourn his passing on Monday, June 8, 2009, at University of Minnesota Hospitals of heart failure. His presence and contributions to the transportation and education communities in Iowa and around the nation will be greatly missed.
Friends are invited to join the family in remembering Tom from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 13, at the house on Bald Eagle Lake, Minn.
Dr. Maze began his engineering career at Iowa State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from ISU in 1975. He went on to receive a master’s degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1977 and a doctorate degree in civil engineering from Michigan State University in 1982. He joined the faculty in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where he was director of the Oklahoma Highway and Transportation Engineering Center. In 1988, he returned to Iowa State as an associate professor in the transportation division of the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering and as director of Iowa’s Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP).
In 1990, after also becoming co-director of Iowa State/University of Iowa’s Midwest Transportation Center (MTC) (the U.S. DOT’s university transportation research program for region 7), he initiated the Iowa Transportation Center as an umbrella organization for transportation-related research (MTC) and outreach (LTAP) at Iowa State. Through the ITC (later the Center for Transportation Research and Education and now the Institute for Transportation), he grew a robust program that has become one of the leading university transportation-related research programs in the United States with a solid reputation for research, academic excellence, and outreach.
His vision regarding advanced transportation technologies led to demonstrations and innovations in intelligent vehicle systems for commercial vehicles, transportation-related applications of geographic information systems, and traffic and safety engineering innovations. He also led significant efforts in transportation planning and in statewide management systems for transportation infrastructure that have been models for other states. In recent years, he had focused on weather-related issues through a final program he initiated in 2003, the Center for Weather Impacts on Mobility and Safety (C-WIMS).
He had taught more than 70 courses covering some 30 topics. As a demanding but generous academic mentor, he was the major advisor for 30 graduate students at ISU, nine of whom were doctoral students in civil engineering/transportation. He also took a keen interest in nurturing new faculty members and guided them in developing successful careers. He developed a graduate-level academic enrichment and learning community program at ISU called Transportation Scholars, the heart of which is a semester-long series of multidisciplinary seminars that ISU shares with other universities through distance technologies.
In addition to research, teaching, and mentoring, he was intensely involved in enhancing transportation technology transfer through professional training and outreach activities. One of his legacies is the Midwest Transportation Research Symposium, a conference he initiated in 1996 in partnership with the Iowa DOT. This biennial event provides a Midwest venue for disseminating national research in a format similar to the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting.
Through ongoing activities like the symposium, as well as the extensive body of work he leaves behind, his accomplishments will continue to have an impact across Iowa, the country, and beyond for a very long time.
A student scholarship is being established in his name. If you would like to contribute, send a check payable to Iowa State University Foundation (with the memo “Maze Scholarship Fund”) to Chris Knight, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, 394 Town Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011.
The Cremation Society of Minnesota is assisting the family, (612) 825-2435.
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