Winter Meeting – February 26th
Please mark your calendars now for the upcoming TSITE Winter Meeting to be held on Wednesday, February 26th at Tennessee State University.
Additional meeting details and online registration information can be found here.
2014 Meeting Schedule
Please mark your calendars for these important events in 2014!
TSITE Meeting Schedule:
- TSITE Winter meeting: Nashville (TSU Campus) on Wednesday, February 26th
- TSITE Spring meeting: Memphis (DoubleTree Hotel Memphis) on Wednesday, May 7th
- TSITE Summer meeting: Gatlinburg (Park Vista Hotel) on Wednesday thru Friday, July 30th – August 1st
- TSITE Fall meeting: Clarksville (Wilma Rudolph Event Center) on Tuesday, October 7th. This is a joint meeting with ITS-TN
- ITE Technical Conference and Exhibit: March 9–12, 2014
- ITE Annual Meeting and Exhibit: August 10-13, 2014
- ITS Tennessee Annual meeting: Chattanooga, Tennessee, April 23-25
Webinar – Dec 4th – Adaptive Signal Control
TSITE will be sponsoring the ITE webinar titled “Is Adaptive Signal Control Technology Cost Effective and Operationally Effective” at three locations. This webinar training opportunity will be held on Wednesday, December 4th, from 12:00pm-1:30pm EST (11:00am-12:30pm CST). Information on this web briefing can be found here.
The three TSITE host locations and contact information for this web briefing are:
- Knoxville – TDOT Region 1
RSVP Contact: Nathan Vatter via e-mail or telephone at 865-594-2456
The location for the webinar is: Knoxville TDOT Transportation Management Center, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 7345 Region Lane, Knoxville, TN 37901
- Chattanooga – TDOT Region 2
RSVP Contact: Landon Castleberry via e-mail or telephone at 423-510-1208
The location for the webinar is: TDOT Transportation Management Center, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 7500 Volkswagen Drive, Chattanooga, TN 37416
- Nashville – Stansell Electric Company
RSVP Contact: Jimmy Stansell via e-mail or telephone at 615-329-4944
The location for the webinar is: 860 Visco Drive, Nashville, TN 37210
If you wish to attend, please RSVP to the host contact listed above so that they can keep a head count for these locations since space may be limited!
For those TSITE members who need PDH’s, there are 1.5 PDH’s associated with this web seminar. Special thanks to all of our host sites! Contact Amy Burch here if you have any questions.
Fall Meeting- October 17th
Mark your calendars now for the joint TSITE/ALSITE Fall Meeting that will be held in Huntsville, AL on October 17th.
The meeting will include a professional development session on Ethics, two other technical sessions, lunch, section business meetings and access to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center following the meeting! Please click here for registration information.
Although this meeting will be in the 3rd week of October, contrary to some previous reports that were made this is not the week of the U.T. – Bama game which will instead be played on Oct. 26th in Tuscaloosa. Most U.T. fans were probably not planning to attend that likely mismatch anyway (you never know though!!!).
2013 Scholarship/Student Awards
William L. Moore Jr. Scholarship – Amber Woodburn, UTK
During the Summer Meeting Awards Banquet TSITE awarded a total of $10,000 in scholarships to five deserving university students from across the State. The ceremony began with the presentation of a check from Steve Allen to TSITE for $2,000 as a donation raised from the annual John R. Harper Memorial Golf Tournament – special thanks to Steve and all the participants in that event!
The five scholarship award winners of $2,000 each were:
William L. Moore Jr. Scholarship – Amber Woodburn, UTK (pictured top left)
T. Darcy Sullivan Scholarship – Stephanie Hargrove, UTK
TSITE Undergraduate Scholarship – Peter Kozey, VU
TSITE Section Scholarship – Virginia Wise, UM (pictured bottom left)
John R. Harper Memorial Scholarship – Taekwan Yoon, UTK
Other awards were presented for the 2013 Student Paper Competition and the Student Chapter Award:
1st Place Student Paper ($500) – Hongtai Yang, UTK
2nd Place Student Paper ($250) – Virginia Wise, UM
3rd Place Student Paper ($100) – Jun Liu, UTK
Robert Stammer Student Chapter Award – U.T. Knoxville
TSITE Section Scholarship – Virginia Wise, UM
2014 TSITE Officer Election Results
The following 2014 TSITE Officer Election winners were announced at the business meeting on Saturday, July 27th:
President
- John Hunter (CDM Smith)
Vice President
- Mike Conger (Knoxville Regional TPO)
Secretary/Treasurer
- Brandon Baxter (Ragan-Smith Associates)
Section Representatives
- Amy Burch (RPM Transportation Consultants)
- Brad Waldschmidt (Kimley-Horn & Associates)
Affiliate Director
- Greg Sheehan (Quality Traffic Systems)
U.T. 2nd Place at Bowl in Boston!
U.T. takes 2nd Place at Traffic Bowl Grand Championship in Boston!
TSITE is extremely proud of the University of Tennessee Traffic Bowl team for their 2nd Place finish at the Traffic Bowl Grand Championship at the recent International ITE Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. They missed first place by the narrowest of margins – losing to the University of Florida by only 1 point! The UT team first advanced in the preliminary round against competition from Wayne State University and University of Manitoba by coming from behind in the Final Jeopardy round as the only team to provide the correct “question” and then faced off against UF and Penn St. in the finals. The scores entering Final Jeopardy were: UF 3300, UT 1900 and Penn St. -100 and the final scores were: UF 3801 – UT 3800.
Congratulations to Bryan, Zane & Jianjiang and best of luck to them in their future endeavors! Bryan recently hired on with TDOT in their Region 1 Traffic Office, Zane expects to receive his MS Degree in December and Jianjiang is pursuing a PhD.
UT Students featured in ITE Connect!
University of Tennessee Students Stephanie Hargrove and Bryan Bartnik were recently featured in the ITE Connect. To see the article they wrote titled “Top Five Reasons ITE is Invaluable to Transportation Students” please click here.
SDITE Traffic Bowl Winners!
The 2013 SDITE Traffic Bowl Winners! From Left to Right: Zane Pannell, Bryan Bartnik, and Jianjiang Yang.
Congratulations to the University of Tennessee for winning the 2013 SDITE traffic bowl in Charlotte, North Carolina! After winning the traffic bowl at the TSITE section meeting in Knoxville, UT went on to represent TSITE at the district level and came back victorious!
Traffic Bowl Winners
The 2013 Traffic Bowl Winners! From Left to Right: TSITE President Jason Carder, Zane Pannell, Jianjiang Yang, Bryan Bartnik and Traffic Bowl Chair Greg Judy.
Congratulations to the University of Tennessee for winning this years traffic bowl at the winter meeting in Knoxville. They will represent TSITE at the District Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.
