Engineers Week 2011

ITE Members,

Engineers Week  2011  is on February 20-26. The Anchorage E-Week Steering Committee with the sponsorship of local engineering societies, promote engineering and recognizes our local engineers in the community. We organize numerous activities in Anchorage such as student competitions, displays, Engineer of the Year award, a banquet and fund various scholarships.

We hope that you will join us in supporting National Engineers Week by donating towards E-Week 2011. Please see attached PDF.

Thank you for your commitment to promote and advance Engineering.

Regards,

Karthik Murugesan, Vice President

SocialITE Adopt-a-Family

Hello all,

Since the holiday season is a time to give and be thankful, what could be better than giving to those who have a little less to be thankful for than you?  With that in mind the SocialITEs have decided to participate in the Adopt-a-Family program this year.  For those unfamiliar, the AAF program is run through the Salvation Army, who matches those willing and able to help out with families from around the Anchorage community who are in need.  We were matched with a 3-person family, a single mother and her two 10-year old daughters.  Their needs are very simple and really make you appreciate some things you may take for granted.

If you would like to donate or have any questions about the program please contact Karthik, Colleen, or myself (contact information below) by the end of this week.  Keep in mind our deadline for making the donation is next Tuesday so we would like to have things pretty well handled by this weekend.  Please come talk to one of us before buying a gift as we will be coordinating who gets what to avoid having doubles of some items.  Cash/check donations are encouraged, and we can provide you with a receipt upon request for those wanting to take advantage of the tax deductions.

Also, I would like to thank all of you who donated at the meeting today, we raised over $200!  A great start that we would like to keep rolling.  It really speaks to the generosity and caring of those in our Anchorage community that our ITE members have and will make a big difference in the lives of this family.  THANK YOU!

Collin Pennington, SocialITEs President (cpennington@crweng.com)

Karthik Murugesan, ITE Alaska Vice President (kmurugesan@uskh.com)

Colleen Wilt, SocialITEs Treasurer (cwilt@dowlhkm.com)

Parking Habits Research Survey

ITE Members,

Please see below for a brief survey on parking habits being conducted by Richard Harney, a Master’s student at the University of Alaska, Southeast

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/pparkingsurvey 

Parking is a topic that is generally reviewed for compliance, based on prescriptive codes or regulations.  Areas that develop heavy amounts of congestion begin to re-review parking supply and demand only after it becomes a problem.  The research that has been reviewed focuses around the amount of parking, location of parking, and how to increase/decrease the amount based on the level of multimodal transportation methods being advocated for. Research identifying if the quantity of available parking spaces influence the amount of customers has not been found.  This is the question that will be investigated.

This survey will only be available for a week. The findings from this study may be shared with the membership at a future date.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/pparkingsurvey 

December Monthly Luncheon

Modern Bus Rapid Transit

by Edgar Perez
ITE Western District President

Tuesday, December 7, Noon

Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, 4721 Aircraft Drive

RSVP by Friday, December 3, to Nicole Knox, ITE Alaska Treasurer, at nknox@rmconsult.com or 646-9647.

Cost is $15 for Alaska Section Members, $22 for unpaid Members & guests, and Free for students.

An RSVP is a monetary commitment on your behalf whether or not you attend. Substitutions welcome. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions with your RSVP.

November Monthly Luncheon

Context Sensitive Solutions

by Dwayne Adams 

USKH Inc.

Tuesday, November 2, Noon

Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, 4721 Aircraft Drive

RSVP by Friday, October 29, to Nicole Knox, ITE Alaska Treasurer, at nknox@rmconsult.com or 646-9647.

Cost is $15 for Alaska Section Members, $22 for unpaid Members & guests, and Free for students.

An RSVP is a monetary commitment on your behalf whether or not you attend. Substitutions welcome. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions with your RSVP.

UAF ITE Student Chapter

Congratulations to the new UAF ITE Student Chapter officially in place!  The first student chapter meeting was held last week with 25 students in attendance. Grace Amundsen was elected president of the student chapter. It has been pretty impressive with the pace that the UAF chapter fell into place. They have some good support from the faculty advisor and the department...

The UAA student chapter announced their first ITE chapter meeting as well, with the new officers. Good luck to all, and we hope to see some of those students attending our monthly meetings.

October Monthly Luncheon

Seward Highway Reconstruction: Dowling to 36th

by James Amundsen, P.E.

Alaska DOT&PF

Tuesday, October 5, Noon

Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, 4721 Aircraft Drive

RSVP by Friday, October 1, to Nicole Knox, ITE Alaska Treasurer, at nknox@rmconsult.com or 646-9647.

Cost is $15 for Alaska Section Members, $22 for unpaid Members & guests, and Free for students.

An RSVP is a monetary commitment on your behalf whether or not you attend. Substitutions welcome. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions with your RSVP.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The 2011 Alaska ITE LAC is seeking papers on the new and ongoing issues or technologies in the field of transportation engineering, planning and operations.  We hope that you will take this opportunity to share your research and case studies with your fellow professionals. 

Visit www.westernite.org/annualmeetings/papers for submittal form and instructions.

Abstracts are due October 1, 2010.

Young Engineers Roundtable Forum

Please join us for a lively day of information geared toward the young professional.  Presentations will be followed by roundtable sessions.

When: Friday, September 24, 2010  |  9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Where: BP Energy Center, 1014 Energy Ct, Anchorage, AK

RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY!  Please contact:

John Pekar, PE
Anchorage Chapter President, ASPE
JohnPekar@KinneyEng.com

RSVP by: September 21, 2010, 4:30 pm

Alaska Society of Professional Engineers

Engineers Needed to be Interviewed by Students

Hello everyone

Dimond High School has been working over the past several years to put together an Engineering Academy to cultivate interest in the engineering professions in high school (and younger) students.  As part of that, they are asking for engineers who have an interest in volunteering some time to be interviewed by students writing a research paper for their Principles of Engineering class.  If you are interested, please see the attached document and e-mail Jennifer with the information requested.  If you know of anyone else who may be interested, please pass this along as well. 

The strides that Dimond High has been taking to garner interest and provide an environment that allows students to obtain hands on experience with engineering is noteworthy and commendable.  I have been a participant in their program for the past couple of years and am impressed by their efforts as well as the creativity and excitements these students bring.  These are the future engineers we may hire.  If you are interested in learning more about the program, please contact Cheryl Guyett, Principal of Dimond High at 742-7021.

Thank you,

Calex Gonzalez, PE

September Monthly Luncheon - Agenda/Meeting Minutes

Traffic Congestion Relief

by Zaki Mustafa, P.E.

City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Tuesday, September 14, Noon

Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, 4721 Aircraft Drive

RSVP by Friday, September 10, to Nicole Knox, ITE Alaska Treasurer, at nknox@rmconsult.com or 646-9647.

Cost is $18 for Alaska Section Members, $20 for unpaid Members & guests, and Free for students.

An RSVP is a monetary commitment on your behalf whether or not you attend. Substitutions welcome. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions with your RSVP.

New Officers: 2010-2011 Alaska Section Board

President
Joshua Cross, P.E.
Lounsbury & Associates, Inc.

Vice-President
Karthik Murugesan, E.I.T.
USKH, Inc.

Treasurer
Nicole Knox, P.E.
R&M Consultants, Inc.

Secretary
Robert DeVassie, P.E.
Alaska DOT&PF

Past-President
Jennifer Satterfield, E.I.T.
AWWU

Welcome...

ITE Alaska is now planning on using a Blog format that will be linked to it's main website www.alaskaite.org to improve its services to the Section by offering more up to date information, current meeting minutes and events, and the option to leave comments.

We hope you enjoy this new service, and get the most out of Alaska ITE.