Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
ITE Western District (Western United States)
San Francisco Bay Area Section

	ITE 2011 Student Paper Competition
Update: Winners of the ITE 2011 Student Paper Competition have been announced! Congratulations to: Mark Young, Grand Prize Winner, San Jose State University Kimberly Leung, Graduate Paper Award, UC Berkeley Katie Leung, Undergraduate Paper Award, UC Berkeley on their papers on "Sustainable Communities: Intersecting Infill Development with Transportation"!
	ITE 2010 Student Paper Competition
Update: Winners of the ITE 2010 Student Paper Competition have been announced! Congratulations to: Thomas Wong - UC Berkeley - Paper Jennifer Wong - UC Berkeley - Paper Gabriel Ho - UC Berkeley - Paper on their papers on "Pedestrian Safety & Mobility"! Here's the announcement for the Call for Papers: Attention all students: SF Bay ITE is having a paper competition on the topic, "Pedestrian Safety & Mobility". The grand prize for the competition is a $600 scholarship award, with two additional scholarships being awarded for the Undergraduate Student Paper Award and the Graduate Student Paper Award for $300 each. The winning paper will be asked to present at the April Section Meeting, and entrants will be eligible to be reimbursed for the registration for the ITE 2010 Western District Annual Meeting. Papers will be due by March 26th, 2010. For more information, please click here(pdf).
	The 2009-2010 school year is in full swing. ITE is here for the students, with scholarships, the STEP mentoring program, discounted (or free) attendance at our regular meetings, free pizza/sandwiches with presentations on transportation topics at local universities, and financial assistance for students to the Annual ITE Western District Meeting. View history: 2008-09 2007-08

Every year students attending the District Meeting get the chance to network with transportation professionals and students from the Western portion of the United States (District 6). The 2010 Annual Meeting will be in San Francisco, CA.

If you are a student and would like ITE to make a visit to your school, please contact the ITE student liaison for your area. We also have a page to help students and employers find CAREER FAIRS coming to local universities.

STEP Mentoring for Students in Transportation Engineering and Planning. Got questions about careers in transportation? An ITE Mentor can get you on the right track. To find a mentor, contact Patty Camacho de Cano at mpc@dksassociates.com.