Increasing Diversity of Fields in Student Chapter Engagement

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Webinar Description:
This webinar is based on the LeadershipITE Beyond the “E”ngagement Plan Report, focusing on ideas for ITE Student Chapters, faculty advisors, and chapter leaders to aid them in the journey to increased diversity of thought through the recruitment and retention of planners, data scientists, and other majors that can contribute to the transportation industry.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the state of Student Chapters from survey results
Describe the specific steps that a Student Chapter can perform in the next 2 weeks, 6 months, and 1 year to help recruit other majors to ITE and transportation
Define key leadership roles within Student Chapters
Implement a proposed plan

Policies: This webinar recording is made available on-demand it will have a shelf life of 60 days to register before it is archived. Participants are able to purchase and retrieve their certificate until their access to the content expires. After the content expires and goes into archive, the certificate opportunity is forfeit.

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This webinar is led by ITE Education Council.

Webinar Description:
This webinar will be based on the LeadershipITE Beyond the “E”ngagement Plan Report, focusing on ideas for ITE Student Chapters, faculty advisors, and chapter leaders to aid them in the journey to increased diversity of thought through the recruitment and retention of planners, data scientists, and other majors that can contribute to the transportation industry.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the state of Student Chapters from survey results
Describe the specific steps that a Student Chapter can perform in the next 2 weeks, 6 months, and 1 year to help recruit other majors to ITE and transportation
Define key leadership roles within Student Chapters
Implement a proposed plan

Policies: Registration for this webinar closes 30 minutes prior to start. The webinar recording will be made available on-demand it will have a shelf life of 60 days to register before it is archived. Participants are able to purchase and retrieve their PDH credit certificate until their access to the content expires. After the content expires and goes into archive, the PDH credit certificate opportunity is forfeited.

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Contributors

Beth Ostrowski, P.E., PTOE, Regional Practice Leader | KCI Technologies, Inc | Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Beth A. Ostrowski, P.E., PTOE graduated from Marquette University and is currently a Practice Leader at KCI, where she leads the private development traffic analysis team for the KCI Nashville Office. Through management of her projects throughout her 14 years of experience in transportation, traffic and ITS engineering, Beth has become highly regarded as a traffic and transportation expert in Nashville. She regularly presents at public and community meetings, and represents projects at Planning Commission and Metro Council. Her career experience includes a diverse range of planning and design projects, and she is adept in traffic calming concepts and design, ITS design, coordinated signal system timing, and transportation planning. Her involvement on local agency deployments has included project management, operational analysis, systems engineering architectures, communications design, coordination with utility representatives, development of bid documents suitable for construction, and construction support services. Her well-rounded career experience allows Beth to view a project from all angles and find informed solutions that benefit both a development and road users.
Anmol Shrivastava, P.E., RSP, Engineer IV | Civiltech Engineering, Inc | Itasca, Illinois, United States

Anmol Shrivastava, P.E., PMP, PTOE, RSP1 graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s (2014) and Master’s (2015) in Civil Engineering with a focus in Transportation. He currently works in the Urban Design and Traffic group at Civiltech Engineering, Inc. helping with traffic modeling-simulation, traffic impact studies, capacity analysis, crash analysis, safety studies, traffic signal design, warrant analysis, and traffic signal timing analysis and optimization. Anmol has been actively involved in ITE since college. Anmol served as the Student Affairs Director for the ITE Illinois Section from 2019-2020, Great Lakes District Student Rep. for the Illinois Section from 2021-2022, and is currently the Treasurer of the ITE Illinois Section. Anmol has also represented the ITE Illinois Section as a Guest Speaker to high school students in the Chicago area sharing his knowledge of the industry and professional career. He is a recent graduate of the LeadershipITE Class of 2022.
Fabio Sasahara, PhD, PMP, Associate Director | McTrans Center -- University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida, United States

Fabio Sasahara, PhD, PMP is an Associate Director at McTrans Center at the University of Florida, with extensive experience in applying and developing Highway Capacity Manual methods. He is the current Faculty Advisor of the University of Florida Student Chapter. Fabio is actively involved with ITE at Section, District, and International levels, and is also a participant in the LeadershipITE class of 2022. He is also actively involved with the Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee at TRB, where he currently serves as the User Liaison Lead.
Dan Hennessey, P.E., PTOE, RSP1, Consulting Engineer, Project Development | City of Austin Transportation Department | Austin, Texas, United States

Dan Hennessey, P.E., PTOE, RSP1 has been working for more than 14 years in mobility planning and traffic engineering, with a focus in multimodal transportation planning, traffic operations analysis, and traffic engineering design. Dan's work focuses on building a safe, multimodal mobility network that serves our most vulnerable populations and roadway users. His professional experience includes detailed conceptual design of retrofitted streets in urban areas, traffic operations analysis, travel demand forecasting for urban multimodal networks, and design work involving traffic signals, lighting, and pedestrian/bicycle facilities and their interactions at intersections. Additionally, he is experienced in traffic signal timing and optimization, construction traffic control planning, and improvement phasing evaluation. He has also been increasingly involved in both technical and professional initiatives within the Austin region and has taken leadership positions in technical committees for nationally-recognized organizations. Dan currently is the Vice Chair of ITE's Transportation Planning Council, serves on the ITE Equity Committee, and is a graduate of the LeadershipITE 2022 class.
Rachel McGuire, Senior Transportation Planner/Project Manager | Jacobs Solutions | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Rachel McGuire is a dedicated transportation professional who brings integrity, connection, leadership and accountability to her work. She provides quality work delivered with understanding, open-mindedness and collaboration to her project, team and clients. Much of her industry experience over the last two decades has been on planning and corridor studies throughout Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey, where she has gained extensive experience over the years working with the public and private sector, focusing on project management and transportation planning, including traffic projects, transformative technologies and innovative project planning. Since joining Jacobs, she has entered the air quality world, where she helps to relate the reduction of pollutants (emissions) to transportation improvement projects. Rachel’s affiliation with ITE began when she was a student at University of Delaware, where she holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (B.C.E.) focused in Transportation. She currently serves on the Mid-Atlantic Section of ITE (MASITE) Board as the Eastern Area Coordinator.

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Contributors

Beth Ostrowski, P.E., PTOE, Regional Practice Leader | KCI Technologies, Inc | Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Anmol Shrivastava, P.E., RSP, Engineer IV | Civiltech Engineering, Inc | Itasca, Illinois, United States

Fabio Sasahara, PhD, PMP, Associate Director | McTrans Center -- University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida, United States

Dan Hennessey, P.E., PTOE, RSP1, Consulting Engineer, Project Development | City of Austin Transportation Department | Austin, Texas, United States

Rachel McGuire, Senior Transportation Planner/Project Manager | Jacobs Solutions | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States