TSITE will be sponsoring an ITE webinar entitled “Engineering Liability, Discretionary Immunity, and the Duties of Transportation Agencies” at five locations across the state. This webinar training opportunity will be held on Tuesday March 10th from 2-3 pm eastern (1-2 pm central).

For more information about this webinar, click here.

Chattanooga – City of Chattanooga

RSVP Contact: Cindy Shell, via cshell@chattanooga.gov or 423-643-5960
Location: 1250 Market Street, Room 3B, Chattanooga, TN 37402 (map)
(parking in rear of building; room on 3rd floor)

Knoxville – Cannon & Cannon
RSVP Contact: Brian Haas, via bhaas@cannon-cannon.com or 865-670-8555
Location: 8550 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919 (map)

Memphis – Barge Design Solutions
RSVP Contact: Peter Kauffmann, via peter.kauffmann@bargedesign.com or 901-244-5524
Location: 60 Germantown Ct, Suite 100, Cordova, TN 38108 (map)

Nashville – Kimley-Horn
RSVP Contact: Chris Rhodes, via chris.rhodes@kimley-horn.com or 615-564-2703
Location: 214 Oceanside Drive, Nashville, Tennessee 37204 (map)
(enter from courtyard, see office park diagram)

Tri-Cities – City of Johnson City
RSVP Contact: Tyler Morris, via tmorris@johnsoncitytn.org or 423-434-5813
Location: Johnson City Traffic Division, 209 Water Street, Johnson City, TN  37601 (map)

 Please reply back directly to the local RSVP 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 is 1.0 PDH associated with this webinar. Special thanks to all host sites!  Please contact Peter Kauffmann (email) if you have any questions, suggested topics, or if you are interested in hosting a future webinar.

The Tennessee Section of ITE is pleased to announce and offer Travel & Registration Cost Assistance for student ITE members in Tennessee to attend the 2020 SDITE Student Leadership Summit! The Event will be held February 28 – March 1, 2020 at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta, GA. TSITE encourages student participation to this excellent event! Professionals are also welcome to attend this event, so check it out!

This event promotes leadership and professional development for transportation engineering students through leadership and technical presentations from distinguished speakers, networking with students and industry professionals, and the Southern District ITE Traffic Bowl.

Program Information can be found here

Register Here and learn more about location and hotel arrangements.

TSITE’s student assistance for this year’s conference is as follows:

• TSITE will reimburse any TN Section ITE student member’s registration cost who attends the Student Leadership Summit. ($65 per student)
• TSITE offers two (2) travel assistance stipends per student chapter (University) at $250 each. The TSITE Board encourages student chapter officers/leadership to request and utilize the travel assistance stipends or select a representative in their absence.
• Students who attend are responsible for registering for the event and making their own lodging and travel arrangements. Students should request travel and/or registration assistance no later than February 21, 2020 using the attached FORM. Send request forms to Brandon Baxter at bbaxter@ragansmith.com.
• SLS registration reimbursement is available for the TSITE Traffic Bowl Team. The traffic bowl team’s lodging and travel is accommodated through other funds of SDITE. Therefore, the traffic bowl team members will not receive the travel assistance stipend.

Act Fast, Students!
This event is quickly approaching, and you don’t want to miss your opportunity to attend!

TSITE thanks our membership and annual sponsors for allowing the Section to support TSITE Student Members in this way! We encourage TSITE members to consider attending the event also to network and learn from students from across the Southern District! And of course, cheer on the TSITE Traffic Bowl Team (to be determined at the Winter Meeting in Memphis on Wednesday, February 12th)!

TSITE SLS Travel Assistance Application
Applications are due February 21, 2020

The 2019 TSITE Awards were presented to the following very deserving individuals at the Summer Meeting held in Gatlinburg: (President Amy Burch & Vice President Nathan Vatter presented the awards)

The Robert Stammer Student Chapter Award was presented to the University of Tennessee.

Ed Watt Volunteer Distinguished Service Award: Chris Kirby (CDM Smith)

Tennessee Section Outstanding Individual Award:
Brian Haas (Cannon & Cannon Inc)

Jack B. Humphreys Young Member Award:
Lauren Gaines (Barge Design)

Past award winners can be viewed here.

The results of the 2019 Officer Election were announced during the 2019 Summer Business Meeting. The following individuals were elected to serve TSITE next year:

President
Nathan Vatter, Tennessee Department of Transportation

Vice President
Stephen Edwards, City of Memphis

Secretary/Treasurer
Luke Dixon, Arcadis

Past President
Amy Burch, Burch Transportation, LLC

Section Representatives
Zane Pannell, Tennessee Department of Transportation (2020/2021)
Steve Bryan, Tennessee Department of Transportation (2019/2020)

As we move towards ONE ITE there were two changes to our election this year:

• This year’s ballot did not include an Affiliate Director position since ITE has eliminated Section Affiliate Membership. ITE and the TN Section invites all section affiliates to join ITE for full membership. TSITE thanks the current and all past Affiliate Directors for their service and contribution to the organization in that role.

• All Sections of ITE will include two (2) Section Representatives beginning in 2020. With Terrance Hill and Lauren Gaines completing their terms we only selected one candidate to replace them. Zane Pannell will serve with Steve Bryan as TSITE’s Section Representatives for 2020.