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About the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

 

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Benefits of joining ITE include:

  • Recognition by transportation professionals

  • Opportunities to make professional contacts that may be useful in obtaining employment

  • Subscription to the "ITE Journal", the official monthly publication

  • Eligibility to purchase Institute textbooks and other publications at the membership discount

  • Eligibility to publish your resume in the Annual Student Resume Listing

  • A discounted registration fee for the Institute’s Annual Meeting (in Boston for 1997)

Paraphrased from the ITE web page and "ITE Student Chapter Manual":

The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) is an international educational and scientific association of transportation and traffic engineers, transportation planners and other professionals who are responsible for the safe and efficient movement of people and goods on streets, highways, and transit systems. The Institute facilitates the application of technology and scientific principles to research, planning, functional design, implementation, operation, policy development and management for any mode of transportation by promoting professional development of members, supporting and encouraging education, stimulating research, developing public awareness, and exchanging professional information; and by maintaining a central point of reference and action.

Founded in 1930, the Institute serves as a "gateway to knowledge and advancement" through meetings, seminars, and publications; and through a network of more than 13,000 members working in some 70 countries. The Institute also has more than 70 local and regional chapters and more than 90 student chapters (make that 91 -- ISU!) that provide additional opportunities for information exchange, participation, and networking.

The Institute has formed ten councils around each of the topics below. The members of each council work together to educate members, set standards, and discuss issues relevant to that discipline. This is done through seminars, technical sessions, and briefings held in conjunction with either ITE's Annual Meeting or International Conference and by publishing informational reports, equipment standards, and recommended practices.

1. Traffic Engineering
2. Transportation Planning
3. Transportation Safety
4. Intelligent Transportation Systems
5. Transportation Demand Management
6. Transit
7. Transportation Education
8. Transportation Expert Witness
9. Transportation Consultants
10. Transportation Industry

Among other activities, ITE does the following:

  • Maintains Districts, Sections, Councils, and other points of contact

  • Publishes technical information and other items of interest in the ITE Journal

  • Publishes annually a membership directory

  • Sets standards and recommended practices through its technical committees

  • Publishes valuable handbooks and manuals uses throughout the profession (one is used in CE 451)

  • Advocates improved laws and regulations

  • Conducts meeting and conferences, workshops and seminars

  • Provides training materials

  • Maintains a web site used for job and resume postings, and meeting information

The objectives of the ITE Student Chapter, as set forth in our ISU Student Chapter Charter is to:

  • Promote the advancement of transportation and traffic engineering by fostering the close association of students with the transportation and traffic engineering profession and the Institute;

  • Acquaint students with topics of interest in transportation and traffic engineering through the media of addresses by competent speakers, and of Chapter-sponsored trips;

  • Foster the development of professional spirit;

  • Promote common interests among students;

  • Encourage the expansion of facilities for transportation and traffic engineering study

Membership in this ITE Student Chapter provides you:

  • Opportunity to make professional contacts that may be useful in obtaining employment

  • Subscription to the "ITE Journal", the official monthly publication

  • Eligibility to purchase Institute textbooks and other publications at the membership discount

  • Eligibility to publish your resume in the Annual Student Resume Listing

  • A discounted registration fee for the Institute’s Annual Meeting (in Boston for 1997)

Annual Student Paper Award

For independent and original research and investigation of transportation subjects. Award presented each year at the Annual Meeting of ITE, with paper published in one or more appropriate publications of the Institute. Recipient receives a $1000 cash award, with all travel and expenses provided to the ITE Annual Meeting.

Student Chapter Award

Presented at the Section, District, and National levels. Award is based on activities and involvement of the student chapter, as detailed in the Chapter’s submission of the Student Chapter Annual Report. Award includes recognition by the Section, District, or National Chapters, as well as monetary amounts.

Bank of Resumes and Job Listings

The ITE National Chapter maintains a web site used for job and resume exchanges http://jobs.ite.org/. According to Laura Hazan, ITE’s Information Services Librarian, the Student Resume Service has attracted over 450 of your fellow students nationwide and 175 recruiters had registered for access to this service. Recruiters had been busy downloading these resumes, over 250 resumes in the first year.