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Civil engineering students are Traffic Bowl Champs
Members of the Clemson University chapter of the Institute of
Transportation Engineers (ITE) are 2006 “Traffic Bowl”
winners. Students from the civil engineering department represented
South Carolina and competed with teams from nine states at the Southern
District ITE Conference in Jackson, Miss. The “Traffic Bowl,”
is the 2006 William H. Temple Scholarship Challenge, a Jeopardy-style
team competition.
Clemson also walked away with the Outstanding Student Chapter Award
for activities during the last year. The Clemson ITE chapter sent
more than a dozen students to Gulfport, Miss., during fall break
to assist its public works department in repairing and replacing
traffic control devices, such as signs and signals that were downed
in Hurricane Katrina.
Graduate Jae Mattox won the Outstanding Student Paper Award. Both
Mattox and the chapter will now go on to compete at the International
ITE Annual Meeting in Milwaukee this summer.
Associate professor of civil engineering and student chapter faculty
adviser, Wayne Sarasua says the group represented Clemson with professionalism
and great spirit.
“The Clemson performance shows how our transportation engineering
students stack up against undergrads from other universities throughout
the Southeast,” said Sarasua.
ITE is a professional society of transportation engineers, planners
and other professionals in more than 70 countries. The goal of the
Clemson student chapter is to introduce students to the transportation
profession and supplement their classroom and laboratory experiences.
Clemson ITE chapter members (from
left) Ryan Fries, Hiren Shah, and Carol Hamlin came home with first
prize and a $3,000 scholarship, in the 2006 William H. Temple Scholarship
Challenge. The students defeated teams from Tennessee, North Carolina
and Mississippi. The competition included an audience of more than
200 transportation professionals who attended the conference.
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