This organization is a student chapter of the ITE Rocky Mountain Chapter. See more at http://www.itsrm.org/.

The student chapter is affiliated with the Colorado/Wyoming Section  and the Western District of ITE.

News

STUDENT OFFICERS

President: Burt  Andreen bandree1@uwyo.edu  (Until Sept. 2012)
Vice-President: Vijay Sabawat  vsabawat@uwyo.edu   (Until Jan. 2012)
Secretary: Eric Milliken emillike@uwyo.edu  (Until Sept. 2012)
Treasurer: Mallory Hunt mhunt5@uwyo.edu  (Until Jan. 2012)
Fundraising Chair:  Cassie Peterman cpeterm1@uwyo.edu  (Until Sept. 2012)

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Rhonda Young rkyoung@uwyo.edu 

The UW ITE Student Chapter is affiliated with the Colorado/Wyoming ITE Section who meets monthly for Friday afternoon lunch meetings.  The UW Student Chapter attends one section meeting per semester as an official chapter event (see right side bar for details) but students are welcome to attend other meetings if they would like. See www.cowyite.org for details

UWyo transportation students win national award two years in a row! The past two summers, undergraduate and graduate students were invited to submit an original written paper on rural intelligent transportation systems to the National Rural Intelligent Transportation System (NRITS) Conference.  Papers were reviewed and scored by transportation industry leaders active in the field of rural ITS.  Each winner received: a cash scholarship; a plaque; registration; per diem; and transportation to attend the conference held August 1-4^th in Huntington, West Virginia.  Winning papers were posted to the NRITS website and can be viewed here - http://www.nritsconference.org. 

Sponsored by the United States Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative, Technology Administration (RITA) through the ITS Joint Program Office, this award reflects RITA’s continued commitment to encouraging and facilitating student involvement in the transportation field.  Congratulations to the following Student Paper Winners:

2011

• Edward Offei, University of Wyoming (1st Place)

• Justin Effinger,University of Wisconsi (2nd Place)

• Ismail Zohd, Virgini Tech (3rd Place)

2010

• Vijay Sabawat, University of Wyoming (1st place)
• Joseph Staszcuk, Montana State University (2nd place)
• Jessica Mueller, Montana State University (3rd place)

Information about the 2011 award can be found at http://www.nritsconference.org. 

Tour of Yellowstone road construction project.  Shane Schieck (red, white, and blue hard hat) from

Western Federal Lands (UW Civil Engineering Alum) is explaining the project.

Best Student Chapter Award and Student Traffic Bowl Champions at 2009 Meeting

The University of Wyoming ITE Student Chapter received the Best Student Chapter Award for the Western District for 2008-2009 and marked the second year in a row the chapter has won this award.  The Chapter beat out 32 chapters in 13 states for the honor.  Six students accepted the award in Denver in July of 2009.

From left to right: Alyssa Reynolds (District 6 Student Activities Coordinator), Scott Koch, Jessica Troemner, Zeb Coulter, Jenna Buddemeyer, Brendan Dorsey-Spitz, Monica Suter (District 6 President), and Alan Moore.

At the District 6 Meeting in Denver  in 2009 the Wyoming Student Chapter won the first ever District 6 Student Traffic Bowl.

From left to right: Brendan Dorsey-Spitz, Jenna Buddemeyer, Scott Koch, Ken Voigt (ITE International President), Zeb Coulter, and Jessica Troemner.

MEMBERSHIP
ITE members often meet with practicing transportation engineers during section, district, and meetings. Members can also buy the latest edition of AASHTO's A Policy on the Geometric Design of Highways and Streets for a reduced student price.  Since this is a required textbook for some classes this is a great benefit to student members. 

Members are also eligible for scholarships at the section, district and national ITE levels.

UW Student Membership application forms can be  downloaded in pdf format. Annual local dues are $10 (or $5 for Spring semester only). National memberships are free for the first year.  Membership forms are online at http://www.ite.org/membership/index.asp 

ACTIVITIES

Chapter activities are focused in three main areas: professional development, service, and fundraising.  

Professional Development: For professional development we bring in speaker every other Wednesday to talk about different areas of the transportation profession.  The chapter also attends section meetings in the Front Range area as well as sponsoring field trips.  See the Upcoming Events sidebar for more details.  Every summer we send a group of students to the District 6 meeting.  Past meetings have been in Seattle, Kalispell, Honolulu, Portland, Anaheim.  This summer's meeting is in San Francisco.

Service:  As a member of the campus and Laramie communities the chapter takes on volunteer activities.  In past years we helped the City of Laramie with their Safe Routes to School Program by collecting traffic data to define routes for school children to use in an effort to promote more kids walking to school.  We are also working with Habitat for Humanity to arrange a volunteer day for chapter members to help with the construction of a new home.

Fundraising: To support field trips and travel activities the chapter engages in various fund raising activities.  These activities also provide an opportunity for members to interact with the professional community and collect real-work data for transportation project.  Students are often paid an hourly wage for their efforts as well as raising money for the chapter.