2007/2008 Student Activities

Student Scholorships

The scholarships are awarded to students who are interested in pursuing a career in transportation engineering or planning. The scholarship winners will be announced at the ITE Student Night. The scholarships for 2008 were awarded in the following amounts:


Undergraduate: $1200.00

Graduate: $1500.00

 


Student Night Competition

Thank you to all who attended the ITE Student Night. The evening was a great success. There were a total of 13 students in attendance from three different universities:

• University of Washington
• Seattle University
• University of British Columbia

Four groups competed in the student competition, and each group did a great job putting together poster boards and PowerPoint presentations on their traffic calming plans for the Cherryhill neighborhood in the City of Bothell. The students all showed a lot of initiative making field visits to the site, researching the City of Bothell’s regulations, and the winning group even attending a neighborhood meeting about the traffic issues. The results from this year’s student competition are:

• 1st Place ($500) – Charles Wence and Huy Le (Seattle University)
• 2nd Place ($300) – Adam Parast and Yegor Malinovskiy (University of Washington)
• 3rd Place ($200) – Evan Siroky and Oran Viriyincy (University of Washington)
• 4th Place ($100) – Runze Yu and YenYu Lin (University of Washington)

A special thanks to All Traffic Data for sponsoring the cash prizes awarded for the student competition! And thanks also to the City of Bothell for letting us use a new neighborhood traffic-calming study for this year’s competition.

The scholarships for Outstanding Graduate and Undergraduate in Transportation Engineering were also awarded at the student night. The graduate scholarship ($1500) was awarded to Yao-Jan Wu from the University of Washington and the undergraduate scholarship ($1200) was awarded to Charles Wence from Seattle University. Congratulations to both winners!

Lastly, the Washington State Section sponsored four students from the University of Washington to attend the CITE meeting in Victoria in April. This event was another opportunity that allows students the chance to network with professionals, attend presentations on current transportation issues, and even manage to have a bit of fun.



Fundraising Information

The Student Activities Committee is working hard to collect enough funds to reduce costs to students at monthly meetings, provide scholarships, provide funding for awards to students at the Student Night Activities/Competition and to send as many students as possible to the Annual District Conferences. If you are interested in donating to the Washington ITE Student Fund, please contact one of the following Committee Chairs:

Scott Lee at 425-821-3665 or email: scottl@TheTranspoGroup.com
Megan Powers at 206-382-9800 or email: mcp@dksassociates.com

For information on the status of the Washington ITE Student Fund, please click on the link below.

2007/2008 Washington ITE Student Fund Poster Coming Soon


Additional Resources

For information on the ITE Student Chapter at the UW, please click on the link below:

UW Student Chapter of ITE at the University of Washington

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Last Updated: Sunday, April 6, 2008