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In the January 16, 2012 Update....
The 2011-2012 Elections are in.
2012 Student Paper Award Opportunities.
A look ahead for 2012.
The 2011-2012 Elections are in....The 2011-2012 Elections for the ITS Rocky Mountain Chapter closed on January 13, 2012 (mail-in ballots had to be postmarked by this date). The Board of Directors would like to extend a thank you to all members who took the time to vote and return their ballots. The Officers and Board of Directors of the Chapter are as follows:
President
Mark Owens
Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc.
Mark currently serves as Senior Vice President, Operations for Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc. He has been instrumental in the coordination and implementation of eight statewide 511 deployments and as one of the original proof of concept researchers of Advanced Traveler Information Systems in the early to mid 90s by providing insight in standard policies and procedures of traveler operations that was later adopted for 511 National Guidelines. Mr. Owens is a member of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS), and has served as Vice President of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America Rocky Mountain State Chapter and as a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, representing District 18 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Social Science from Troy State University of Montgomery and his Master of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University.
Vice President
Jim Larsen
Ada County Highway District
Jim has been with the Ada County Highway District (ACHD) in Boise, ID for 13 years. He has held the title of Traffic Operations Engineer and is currently the Congestion Management Supervisor. Jim manages the ACHD Traffic Management Center, signal timing staff and servers as Project Manager on ACHD ITS projects.Prior to working at ACHD Jim worked for the City of Redmond, Washington as Traffic Operations Engineer for 7 ½ yrs and for the City of Auburn, Washington as Traffic Design Engineer.
Jim is a past ITE Idaho Chapter President and is currently on the University of Idaho’s NIATT Advisory Board. Jim graduated from Washington State University with a BS in Civil Engineering.
Colorado State Sentor(s) - Navin Negali, Navjoy Consulting Services, Inc. and Freddy He, URS Corporation
Idaho State Sentor(s) - Fred Kitchener, McFarland Management, LLC and Bob Koeberlein, Idaho Transportation Department
Montana State Sentor(s) - Steve Albert, Western Transportation Institute and Brandi Hamilton, Montana Department of Transportation
***Not up for election this voting cycle were Wyoming and Utah.
2012 Student Paper Award Opportunities.
3rd Annual National Rural ITS Student Paper Competition - Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit an original written paper on rural intelligent transportation systems to the 2012 NRITS Conference. Up to five student papers will be selected as winners. Cash scholarships will be given to the winning authors in the following amounts: 1st Place is $1000, 2nd Place is $500 and 3rd Place is $250. Each winner is required to present their paper at the 2012 NRITS Conference. Each winner will receive a plaque, registration, per diem and transportation to attend the conference. Winning papers will be posted on the National Rural ITS Website. Click here to download the 2012 Student Papaer Award Guidelines. The deadline for the 2nd Annual National Rural ITS Student Award is May 15, 2012.
ITS Rocky Mountain Annual Student paper Award and Scholarship- Studen Members of ITS Rocky Mountain are invited to submit an orginal written paper on Intelligent Transportation Systmes. The Awarded recipient will receive a $500 travel award to be used to the annual Chapter Meetings and a $500 scholarship. All winning essays will be published in the ITS Rocky Mountain Newsletter and on the Chapter Website. Click here to download the 2012 ITS Rocky Mountain Annual Student paper Award and Scholarship guide lines. The deadline for the ITS Rocky Mountain Annual Student paper Award and Scholarship is April 2, 2012.
January 22-26, 2102. TRB 91st Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.
May 21-23, 2012.ITS America's Annual Meeting & Exposition. National Harbor, Maryland.
September 16-19, 2012. 2012 National Rural ITS Conference. Biloxi, Mississippi.
October 22-26, 2012. 19th ITS World Congress. Vienna, Austria.
Press Releases and Regional Articles of Interest:
What do civil engineering students, electrical engineering students, and computer science students have in common? Potentially, future careers in the transportation field.
Seventeen students from Montana State University learned why during a recent field trip to Las Vegas, Nevada. The trip was the first official activity of the newly formed MSU Intelligent Transportation Society – Rocky Mountain Student Chapter (ITS-RM). The ITS-RM Chapter was formed as an interdisciplinary student organization with the goal of providing students with information about transportation career opportunities within the various engineering fields. The ITS-RM Chapter partners with existing student chapters such as the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). Las Vegas trip participants represented electrical engineering, civil engineering, and computer science majors.
More than ever before, the transportation industry relies on advanced technologies to manage infrastructure that is falling under increasing user demand. Students toured the Las Vegas monorail operations center and the Traffic Management Center and had the opportunity to see firsthand how the different disciplines are essential to creating an efficient transportation system in one of the fastest growing counties in the United States. “The technical tours on the ITS-RM trip gave me insight into how both Computer Science and Electrical Engineering can be directly applied to large-scale transportation systems. We also saw how these systems can have a positive impact on people’s everyday lives,” said trip participant Jeff Sharkey, a graduate student in Computer Science.
In addition to technical tours, students also visited four different engineering consulting firms that provided the students with overviews of their current projects as well as office and tours. Nicholas Trimble, a graduate student in Civil Engineering, felt the
