Institute of Transportation Engineers - UCLA

This past weekend, ITE at UCLA had the pleasure of hosting the 2025 Student Leadership Summit on the beautiful UCLA campus. We welcomed over 300 transportation students and professionals from across the West Coast to Westwood for an unforgettable three-days of learning, mentorship, and connection. We kicked off the weekend with FIVE amazing field trips! Thank you to City of Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, City of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles Metro, LADOT, and our very own Jacob Lawson and Evan Cho for hosting and leading these amazing excursions. The following day, ITE at UCLA ensured that SLS 2025 attendees had their hunger for both knowledge AND food sufficed by offering attendees the chance to hear from myriad speakers, attend workshops and panels, and consume THREE delicious meals! Wow! That's a lot of nourishment—both physical and mental. The day was punctuated by a MASSIVE career fair that was swiftly followed by a lovely banquet catered by ASUCLA (a UCLA company). We'd like to give a HUGE shout out and thank you to the keynote speaker at our banquet, Tina Backstrom, for taking the time to share her story with us! The final day of the Summit was one of FIERCE competition as we RESURRECTED the concept of the IN PERSON ITE Western District Traffic Bowl! Congratulations to ITE at the University of Washington on your VICTORY at this historic Traffic Bowl! We'd like to thank all of the passionate students and professionals who were able to attend the 2025 Student Leadership Summit! You helped to make this event so memorable and successful! Special thank you to all of our speakers and panelists (in no particular order): Michael Torsiello, Codie Davis, PE, PMP, Mario Garcia-Gillespie, Adonia E. Lugo, Brandon Wilson, PE, MPA, Javier Hernandez, Cathy Leong, Mark Spencer, Julia Brown, James Shahamiri, Cristian Belmudez, Caila Camerino, EIT, Joey Watson, Matthews Cribioli, Winnie Fong, Riley O'Brien, Robert Campbell, Brandon Wong, TE, Matthew Crow, Vyki Englert, Kasey Shuda, Pat Gibson, and Joshua Dungca, EIT!

This past weekend, ITE at UCLA had the pleasure of hosting the 2025 Student Leadership Summit on the beautiful UCLA campus. We welcomed over 300 transportation students and professionals from across the West Coast to Westwood for an unforgettable three-days of learning, mentorship, and connection. We kicked off the weekend with FIVE amazing field trips! Thank you to City of Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, City of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles Metro, LADOT, and our very own Jacob Lawson and Evan Cho for hosting and leading these amazing excursions. The following day, ITE at UCLA ensured that SLS 2025 attendees had their hunger for both knowledge AND food sufficed by offering attendees the chance to hear from myriad speakers, attend workshops and panels, and consume THREE delicious meals! Wow! That's a lot of nourishment—both physical and mental. The day was punctuated by a MASSIVE career fair that was swiftly followed by a lovely banquet catered by ASUCLA (a UCLA company). We'd like to give a HUGE shout out and thank you to the keynote speaker at our banquet, Tina Backstrom, for taking the time to share her story with us! The final day of the Summit was one of FIERCE competition as we RESURRECTED the concept of the IN PERSON ITE Western District Traffic Bowl! Congratulations to ITE at the University of Washington on your VICTORY at this historic Traffic Bowl! We'd like to thank all of the passionate students and professionals who were able to attend the 2025 Student Leadership Summit! You helped to make this event so memorable and successful! Special thank you to all of our speakers and panelists (in no particular order): Michael Torsiello, Codie Davis, PE, PMP, Mario Garcia-Gillespie, Adonia E. Lugo, Brandon Wilson, PE, MPA, Javier Hernandez, Cathy Leong, Mark Spencer, Julia Brown, James Shahamiri, Cristian Belmudez, Caila Camerino, EIT, Joey Watson, Matthews Cribioli, Winnie Fong, Riley O'Brien, Robert Campbell, Brandon Wong, TE, Matthew Crow, Vyki Englert, Kasey Shuda, Pat Gibson, and Joshua Dungca, EIT!

The 2025 ITE Western District Student Leadership is being hosted by ITE at UCLA from January 31st to February 2nd! We invite you to join 300+ transportation students and professionals from across the West Coast for an unforgettable three-days of learning, mentorship, and connection! This extraordinary summit is organized entirely by students, designed with the goal of developing the next generation of leaders in transportation! It will include a transportation-focused career fair, field trips, panels, workshops, a gala dinner, and much more! Register now! (early bird pricing ENDS December 6th, 2024) https://lnkd.in/gJFWFH7t

This past Thursday, hordes of students, alumni, and QR codes descended upon Public Affairs 2355 to attend ITE at UCLA’s 2024 Fall general meeting! Following the meeting, ITE at UCLA hosted a bonus arts-and-crafts social activity in which attendees could assist with the decoration of our bulletin board. We experienced RECORD attendance–an indicator species of growing interest in transportation and a harbinger of another wonderful academic year of ITE at UCLA. We'd like to extend a sizable "thank you" to all of our presenters for brilliantly communicating pertinent information to our general members and members-to-be, including Alejandro Mauricio Murillo, Alexandra P., Kerry Sempelsz eit, Jacob Lawson, Kel Yu, Henry Tang, Owen Getz, Orisha Lamon, Nicolas Theodore, Evan Cho, William Yen, Rudie Paraiso, Justin Lue, Chris Orr, Edwin Bajet, Julianne Ysabella Viernes, Brennan Orman, Christian Jerel Sy, Emily Cadena, and Emma Santos!

We know everyone was on the edge of their seats after our earlier Fall Recap. . . you can rest easy because the Winter Quarter is out! Read all about what we did January-March. ITE at UCLA Winter 2024 Newsletter. Made by Kelly Chan, EIT, with the help of interns,?Erica H.?and?Alexandra P.. Cover: Students riding SLO Transit at ITE Western District Student Leadership Summit (SLS). Thanks for hosting us, Cal Poly SLO ITE. If not for the rain, we were going to have a completely car-free conference thanks to Amtrak and buses! What's inside: Letter from the President by?Elena Le Project Updates by?Benjamin Le, EIT?and?Justin Lue Field Trips by?Kerry Sempelsz Career Development by?Brennan Orman 9th Annual Mixer by Kelly Chan, EIT GIS Workshop by?Evan Cho Service Events by?Christian Jerel Sy?and Daniel O'Malley Social Events by?Rachel Simmons Rail 101 by?Joshua Tomoyasu Huge thanks to our sponsors:?UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies,?Gibson Transportation Consulting, Inc.,?HNTB,?California High-Speed Rail Authority,?Fehr & Peers,?Iteris, Inc.,?KOA Corporation,?W-Trans,?Kimley-Horn, AECOM,?STV,?DKS Associates,?Linscott, Law & Greenspan, Engineers Spring newsletter is just around the corner. . . stay tuned to see us wrap up the year!