Don't forget to RSVP today for next weeks presentation on The Southwest Alaska Transportation Plan.

Looking forward to the next meeting. Presentation will be on The Southwest Alaska Transportation Plan. Don't forget to RSVP by Friday, Dec 31st.

The 2016 membership applications are available now. See the right pane for links to the forms.

Looking forward to December 10th's presentation by the Alaska Railroad!

November meeting

November's meeting will have a presentation on AMATS: Bike Plan Implementation.

We hope that everyone is having a wonderful fall. Another great summer has come to a close and construction projects are scurrying to finish up, but project development and planning never sleep. We are looking forward to October's presentation on "Tracking Progress and Charting the Future with the AMATS Interim 2035 Metropolitan Transportation Plan" on October 6th.

 ITE Beer & Wine Tasting. Don't forget to keep your evening open on November 14th. The ITE Beer & Wine Tasting Scholarship Fundraiser is shaping up and it is promising to be a spectacular event! Tickets are available for $50 from one of the event planners. We will also have tickets at the October meeting. We are also collecting silent auction items and would love any ideas and help with that. If you have questions or are interested in helping, please contact Erica Jensen EJensen@crweng.com.  

ITS Annual Meeting. The Intelligent Transportation Society of Alaska is holding their 7^th Annual Meeting on October 20th and 21st, 2015. This is a great opportunity for continuing education and to learn about other areas of Transportation Engineering. Please register before October 13th.

Our annual joint meeting with ITE/WTS/APWA/ASCE is upon us. The Keynote speaker this year is Port of Anchorage Deputy Director Sharen Walsh, PE. We are excited for the June 23rd meeting. RSVP by the 15th and join us!

ITE’s annual Member Appreciation BBQ will be held on June 2^nd. Details are in the flyer below! Please RSVP to Kurt Meehleis at kmeehleis@crweng.com if you plan to attend.
 

If you have not become a member yet, take advantage of our mid-year membership offer – only $20.00!

Thank you for your participation with ITE and we hope to see you at the BBQ!

Don't forget to RSVP to Danielle at daniellefay@kinneyeng.com for Mays meeting.

Please consider contributing to the Richard T. Romer Student Endowment Fund. The Endowment Fund reached the $400,000 milestone after the Annual Meeting last summer, and we are quickly progressing towards the $500,000 goal! At this point, every contribution matters!

 

The letter to our club members from the Western District’s Endowment Fund Committee Chair can be found here.

We would like to welcome the Fairbanks Chapter to the ITE Family. They have been accepted by the Western District.

All the credit goes out to the Fairbanks officers:
Royce Conlon, President
Pam Golden, Vice President
Ethan Graetz, Secretary-Treasurer

With a special thank you to Matt Stone for making this all happen.
Congratulations!!!!

Our next presentation will be:

County-Wide CCTV Interoperability Project

 

Presentation by: 

Carlos Ortiz, PE, TE, PTOE

ITE Western District President

 

Tuesday, March 3 @ 12:00pm 

Please RSVP by Friday, February 27 to Danielle Fay, ITE Alaska Treasurer, at daniellefay@kinneyeng.com

Scholarship Applications are available now.

The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Alaska Section is seeking candidates for the 2015 Scholarship Program. One (1) scholarship of $2,000 and two (2) scholarships of $1,500 will be awarded. It is desired that the recipients attend the September ITE luncheon meeting on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 where the scholarships will be presented.

 

Download the application by clicking here.

 

February Meeting

February Lunch Meeting

Municipality of Anchorage –

Eklutna River Bridge Replacement Project

 

Presentation by: 

Lance Debernardi, PE

Project Manager, R&M Consultants, Inc.

Rand Gaynor

Project Administrator, MOA PM&E

When: Tuesday, February 3, 2015, Noon
Where: Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, 4721 Aircraft Drive

Please RSVP by Friday, January 30 to Danielle Fay, ITE Alaska Treasurer, at daniellefay@kinneyeng.com.

Cost is $15 for Alaska Section Members, $22 for non-members & guests, and free for full-time undergraduate 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.

Individuals or companies can pay for ITE lunch meetings for their planned attendance for the rest of the year and not have to RSVP or write a check each month. This option is only available to members. Company attendance reservations at each lunch can be used by any member; individual yearly RSVPs are not transferable. Please contact the Alaska Section Treasurer if you are interested in this option.

Media Release: ITE Alaska reserves the right to use any audio, video, and/or photographs of me, or guest, or staff member, participating in any meeting(s) or event for promotional or marketing purposes.

UAA student Meet and Greet

Notice: there is an upcoming opportunity to do a Meet and Greet with UAA engineering students.

The UAA College of Engineering Alumni Chapter and Student Societies are hosting a Meet and Greet on Friday, January 30, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm.

The event will be held in the Consortium Library in Room 307.
 
Honeywell and Alumni Relations are generously sponsoring food for the event.

The goal is to socialize with the students, fellow alumni, faculty and staff. Working engineers and alumni are invited to share their experiences/benefit of being involved in student chapters or in professional ones. Why do you think membership – and more importantly, participation – is important?

You are also invited to share advice (solicited from the students).

Training opportunity

Notice: Upcoming training opportunity:

What: IMSA Signal Technician Level 1

When: March 11 & 12, 8:30 to 4:30, with one hour break for lunch. If you want to challenge the exam, it will be held on the 12th after lunch check for details.

Cost: For the training, including exam, $300 for IMSA members, $350 for non-members. Challenge exam $100. You will need to provide your own manual. If you want to borrow, the latest revision is 2011. If you want to buy a manual it is $60 for members, $70 for nonmembers plus shipping. Be sure to order your manual at least 4 weeks in advance of the class from www.imsasafety.org

Where: MOA Transit administration building , 3600 Martin Luther King Ave, 2nd floor conference room.

Registration and Information: Contact Daryl Barney MOA Traffic Signal Technician, barneydj@muni.org , or 343-8362

There will also be an IMSA Annual Meeting in the same location on March 10th.

January Lunch Meeting

Parks Highway MP 237 Riley Creek Bridge
Replacement – using the Construction Management General Contractor method
(a roundtable format presentation)

Presentation by:

Derek Christianson, Michael Baker; Anne Brooks, Brooks & Associates; Lauren Little & Mike Lund, DOT&PF Northern Region; Jesse Peterson & Jon Szymik, Hamilton Construction

When: Tuesday, January 6, 2014, Noon
Where: Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, 4721 Aircraft Drive

Please RSVP by Friday, December 5 to Danielle Fay, ITE Alaska Treasurer, at daniellefay@kinneyeng.com.

Cost is $15 for Alaska Section Members, $22 for non-members & guests, and free for full-time undergraduate 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.

Individuals or companies can pay for ITE lunch meetings for their planned attendance for the rest of the year and not have to RSVP or write a check each month. This option is only available to members. Company attendance reservations at each lunch can be used by any member; individual yearly RSVPs are not transferable. Please contact the Alaska Section Treasurer if you are interested in this option.

Media Release: ITE Alaska reserves the right to use any audio, video, and/or photographs of me, or guest, or staff member, participating in any meeting(s) or event for promotional or marketing purposes.