Dumbaugh named Montague scholar
by Center for Teaching Excellence

Texas A&M's Center for Teaching Excellence has named Eric Dumbaugh, assistant professor of urban planning at Texas A&M, as a Montague Scholar in recognition of his early-career excellence in undergraduate teaching.

A member of the Texas A&M faculty since 2006, Dumbaugh is coordinator of the College of Architecture's Graduate Certificate in Transportation Planning. With a background in planning and engineering, his scholarship is focused on how roadway and community design influence safety, mobility and community livability.

Established in 1991, the Montague Scholar award includes a $6,500 grant to encourage further development of undergraduate teaching excellence. It's named in honor of Kenneth Montague '37, a distinguished alumnus and outstanding trustee of the Texas A&M Foundation, who had a long and storied career in the Texas oil industry.

Dumbaugh and his eight fellow 2010-11 Montague Scholars will be honored at a luncheon Nov. 10 in Room 110/111 of the Koldus Building.

The urban planning professor received international acclaim in 2009, winning the Best Paper Award from the Journal of the American Planning Association for his article, "Safe Urban Form: Revisiting the Relationship Between Community Design and Traffic Safety." The paper, written with Robert Rae, who earned a Master of Urban Planning degree from Texas A&M in 2008, appeared in the quarterly journal’s 75th volume.

In the paper, the Dumbaugh and Rae demonstrated how many of safety assumptions embedded in contemporary community design practice are not substantiated by empirical evidence.

Also in 2009, Dumbaugh earned the Texas A&M University System's Student-Led Award for Teaching Excellence.

In 2007, Dumbaugh received the Transportation Research Board’s Award for Outstanding Paper in Geometric Design.

He earned a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005, a Master of City and Regional Planning degree and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering degree in 2002 from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Florida State University in 1996.

For more information about the Montague Scholar Program, visit http://cte.tamu.edu.

- Posted: Sept. 6, 2010 -

Contact:   Phillip Rollfing, prollfing@archone.tamu.edu or 979.458.0442.