{"id":26281,"date":"2026-08-03T14:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=26281"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:57:36","slug":"spotlight-civil-engineering-student-presents-at-asce-specialty-conference-for-automated-people-movers-and-automated-transit-systems-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/08\/03\/spotlight-civil-engineering-student-presents-at-asce-specialty-conference-for-automated-people-movers-and-automated-transit-systems-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: Civil Engineering student presents on Detroit People Mover at ASCE specialty conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26282\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/GracieRickman.jpg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/GracieRickman.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/GracieRickman.jpg?resize=768%2C430&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/GracieRickman.jpg?w=825&amp;ssl=1 825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Gracie Rickman, a UDM Civil Engineering major, presented at the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Automated People Movers and Automated Transit Systems (APM-ATS) national conference on June 30. She spoke on the Detroit People Mover and it&#8217;s 38-year history.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UDM Civil Engineering student Gracie Rickman recently presented at the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) APM-ATS national conference. Her presentation centered on the Detroit People Mover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":26282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4083],"tags":[2723,972,2577,7474,4223],"class_list":["post-26281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-spotlight","tag-ces","tag-civil-engineering","tag-college-of-engineering-science","tag-gracie-rickman","tag-student-spotlight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/GracieRickman.jpg?fit=825%2C462&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6PT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26281"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26288,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26281\/revisions\/26288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}