R.J. Porter, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Utah and collaborator with researchers at NDSU’s Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, was selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers to receive the 2014 New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award. The award will be presented at the annual conference of the American Society of Engineering Education in Indianapolis June 15-18. Porter is the University of Utah’s program director for the Mountain-Plains Consortium. The consortium is led by NDSU.

The award recognizes faculty in higher education who have been teaching in civil engineering, civil engineering technology or a related field full-time for less than five years. Porter has been at the University of Utah since 2009.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.