Institute of Transportation Engineers
at the University of Arizona
General Meetings
UAITE holds general body meetings once or twice a month. During these meetings, first, the president or VP greet the members and updates them about the past and/or upcoming events and activities. In the kick-off meetings at the beginning of each semester, the officers and chapter’s general plans are announced and a quick orientation is given on ITE and the benefits that the students will get by becoming a member. In the Fall kick-off meetings, a representative from SAITE will typically be present to briefly speak about the SAITE activities as well as scholarship opportunities. Free pizza and drinks will also be served at these events.
This year several of our UAITE meetings were joint meetings with the University of Arizona Transportation Research Institute (TRI) and National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC). In addition, UAITE sponsored the Pag-UA Transportation seminar series in November 2018.
Speakers are invited to give a presentation at the general body meetings, and the UAITE president will introduce the speaker and announce his or her topic. We try to invite speakers from different sectors and different areas of transportation to help students broaden their knowledge and learn about all aspects of the transportation profession. Below is a list of our invited speakers for the 2018-19 school year:
August 22th, 2018: Joint Meeting with TRI and NITC
Our first meeting in fall 2018, was a joint meeting with University of Arizona Transportation Research Institute and National Institute for Transportation and Communities. Dr. Larry Head (director of TRI), Dr. Arlie Adkins (associate director of NITC) and Dr. Yao-Jan Wu were our primary speakers. We had many guests from different disciplines in UofA. Dr. Head talked about the transportation research institute, its future path and its achievements. Dr. Adkins the main core of NITC on of the five U.S. Department of Transportation national university transportation center explained all about the various opportunities including scholarships, travel grants and club funding that students can take advantage of.
September 12th, 2018: UAITE official kick-off Meeting
Our first official UAITE kick-off meeting. In this meeting, the officers introduced themselves. Dr. Felipe Ladron our industry advisor talked about the future of transportation in the industry and Dr. Yao-Jan Wu explained all about the future of transportation engineering in academic environments.
September 26th, 2018: Fehr & Peers Associates, Inc.
Spencer Reed from Fehr and Peers talked about the successful path of being in the transportation engineering industry. In addition, he provided some insights into how to be an effective consultant.
Fehr and Peers association interviewed our UAITE student chapter members for full-time and internship positions. The interviews took place during two consecutive days.
October 10th, 2018: ADOT Engineering in Training Program
Candee V. Samora from the Arizona Department of Transportation spoke about the Engineer in Training Program and the Intern Program offered by ADOT. Four newly joined ADOT trainees also joined this meeting and talked about their great experience with ADOT.
Tyler Maynard: ASU graduate
Yudi Lei: ASU graduate
Matthew Munden: UofA graduate
Ivan Tullao: CSU Sacramento graduate
October 24th, 2018: Joint Meeting with SAITE
At the start of the meeting, SAITE had several appreciation awards to recognize transportation practitioners for their valuable contribution to the transportation field. Dr. James Witkowski was awarded due to his rigorous attention to details, integrity, and enthusiasm for moving traffic. Mr. Richard Corbette and Mr. Albert Letzkus were also acknowledged during this meeting for their invaluable contribution to transportation projects. Following the meeting, Dr. James Witkowski talked about his part on the design of Valencia and Kolb Intersection.
November 14th, 2018: Y2K Engineering
Yung Koprowski is the owner and entrepreneur of the Y2K Engineering firm. She provided great notes on how to be a successful entrepreneur. She explained about all the hard work and experience that she put for funding her own consultant firm.
February 13th, 2019: Moeurgineering
Our first spring conference started after the TRB 2019. UAITE was lucky to have Richard Moeur talking about the real-world application of transportation engineering. Mr. Moeur is a nationally recognized leader in the development of traffic engineering standards and guidelines. He talked about all stages of traffic design and his experience and contribution to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices published by FHWA.
March 13th, 2019: Town of Sahuarita
We were so lucky to host Paul Borton from Town of Sahuarita. Paul Burton has more than 14 years of transportation-related experiences in the city of Tucson as the Traffic Signal Operation Manager. Prior to that, he has been the Test Engineer in Innovative Test & Programming for more than 8 years.  Currently, he serves as the Traffic Signal Operation Manager in Town of Sahuarita.
March 27th, 2019: Kimley-Horn
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. is an American planning, engineering, and design consulting firm. The company was ranked #10 on Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list in 2017, its 11th year on the list. Engineering News-Record ranked Kimley-Horn as #21 in its "Top 500 Design Firms" list in 2017