Future Transportation Engineers Receive Association’s
Highest Honor

The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) awarded FIU’s ITE student chapter its 2004 Best Chapter award in recognition of its outstanding program of activities. This is the second such award in four years for the FIU chapter.

“This is the highest recognition for a student group in the transportation profession,” says Albert Gan, assistant professor of Civil Engineering and chapter advisor. “I am extremely proud of this group and their achievement.”

ITE is an international educational and scientific association that includes more than 16,000 members in 90 countries. ITE members are traffic engineers, transportation planners and other professionals responsible for planning, designing, implementing, operating and maintaining “surface transportation systems” worldwide. The association has student chapters in the U.S., Canada, Argentina and Australia, among other locations.

FIU Chapter officers include President Rosa Hsu, Vice Presidents Xin Li and Ayman Elbermawy, Secretaries Vandana Nagole and Wendie James, Treasurers and Membership Chairpeople Xuemei Liu and Jie Bian, Social Coordinator Ashraf Iqbal and Student Council Representatives Yue Wang and Peng Zhu.