WTS is hosting a seminar at Maggiano’s Little Italy on Friday, Sep 20th from 9:00am – 3:45pm. Register and see the schedule here! Registration closes on September 15th. If you are interested, please contact your advisor as faculty may be able to cover registration costs!
Event: CASITE Happy Hour
Capital Area Section of the Institute for Transportation Engineers is hosting a joint happy hour with UT ITE at Crown and Anchor pub September 19th at 5:30pm! The time is subject to change so stay tuned for more info. BYOB (buy your own beer). Crown and anchor is walking distance from campus and it will be fun & a great opportunity to meet some professionals in ITE, so please join us then!
Spring 2024: WTS Speakers
Spring 2024: ITE Traffic Bowl Win
The University of Texas at Austin’s Traffic Bowl team represented well at the Texas District Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Spring Meeting’s Traffic Bowl competition, which features teams of 3 students testing their knowledge of transportation planning and engineering topics. The team (Gracie Gumm, Spencer Michalke, Izzi Reynolds) won the Texas ITE district competition and will advance to compete in the Collegiate Traffic Bowl Grand Championship, conducted at ITE’s International Annual Meeting and Exhibit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The team will compete against the nine universities in July and are looking to bring home our third Traffic Bowl Grand Championship!
Spring 2024: ITE Traffic Bowl Team Practice
Spring 2024: Bowling Social
TRB 2024 Annual Meeting
Fall 2023: TE Job Panel Discussion
Join us TOMORROW for the TE Job Panel Discussion
- What? Panel session, where UT TE graduates share job search & work experiences, offering insights into your transitions from UT to different academic & industry positions. Hear & ask about the pros & cons of different job options, to help you CHART your own FUTURE.
- Where? ECJ 3.406
- When? Thursday December 14th, 2023 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
- More information is available on the event flyer.
Transportation Students Awarded CasITE Scholarships
Fall 2023: Guest Speakers
Seminar #1: Advancing Toward Smarter + More Sustainable Transport Systems
- What? Join us and our guest speaker Dr. Corey Harper, assistant professor at Carnegie Melon University, to discuss study designs relevant to analytic epidemiology, and the application of these study designs within the public health fields of physical activity and injury epidemiology.
- Where? ECJ 3.110
- When? Friday October 13th, 2023 from 2 to 3 PM
- More information is available on the event flyer
Seminar #2: Physical Activity & Injury Epidemiology: Study Design and Applications
- What? Join us and our guest speaker Dr. Katheryn Burford, post doctoral researcher at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center, to discuss how emerging transportation trends may change the way we envision our cities and communities and the importance of putting people’s needs at the forefront. Dr. Burford will inform the audience of novel public health research methods that may be of interest to the transportation engineering field and hopes to stimulate more conversation between public health, urban planning, and engineering researchers so we can work together towards addressing urban health problems.
- Where? ECJ 3.110
- When? Wednesday October 18th, 2023 from 12 to 1 PM
- More information is available on the event flyer