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We Are UT El Paso

Dr. Kelvin Cheu

Published October 9, 2022 at 6:00 PM MDT

**Ruey (Kelvin) Cheu**, Ph.D., professor of civil engineering in the UTEP College of Engineering, hopes to improve Transportation Security Administration airport checkpoints as the lead investigator of an operations research and systems analysis project. Original video was published on May 8, 2019.

**Dr. Ruey L. Cheu**, Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso

In this episode of We are UT El Paso, Dr. Kelvin Cheu sits down with our host Keith Panell to talk about how his interest in playing with matchboxes painted as buses turned into a PhD career in Civil Engineering. Born in Malaysia, with an education in Singapore, Professor Chu shares the story of his life and academic findings.

Dr. Cheu is currently a Civil Engineering Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso.

This interview originally aired on October 9, 2022.