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All UCI faculty, staff, and students are invited to celebrate sustainability at uciRIDEtoberfest featuring ElectrifyUCI’s EV Showcase, a multi-day festival of bikes, zero emission vehicles, transit, food, and fun. Join us on Tuesday, October 9 and Wednesday, October 10, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the flagpoles near Aldrich Hall to:

• Explore zero-emission vehicles, including pre-owned options brought to you by Plug-In Auto
• Learn about Pump2Plug membership benefits
• Find a carpool match with Waze Carpool
• Receive hands-on guidance from certified League of American Bicyclists instructors
• Purchase a bike at the ReCycle Bike Fair
• Learn about transit programs from OC Bus and Metrolink team members
• Use your raffle tickets to win exciting prizes and eat delicious food
• Hablamos Espanol! Traductores de espanol estan disponibles para guiarle a traves del festival.

On Tuesday, join us for the launch of California Air Resources Board (CARB)’s zero-emission lawn and garden equipment roadshow and get a glimpse of ElectrifyUCI’s green fleet vehicles.

On Wednesday, compare side-by-side new and popular zero-emission vehicles, including all-electric motorcycles, on the market today.

For more information on this entertaining festival, please visit uciRIDEtoberfest’s webpage. We look forward to seeing you there!

Ron Fleming
Executive Director

ITE Southern California has elected Joshua McNeil as the president for the 2018/2019 year. As an ITS-Irvine Alumus, Joshua McNeil earned his bachelor and master degrees from UC Irvine in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Please see detail here.

During the recent Annual Western District ITE meeting in the week of July 25, 2018, ITS-Irvine alumna, Neelam Dorman, was elected into the Western District ITE president. She also served as the ITE SoCal President 2014-2015. Neelam Dorman received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UC Irvine in 2007 and 2009, respectively.

Please see details here.

The UCI Student Chapter of the Institution of Transportation Engineers (ITE) competed in the event of the year, the Annual ITE SoCal/OCTEC Student Presentation Night at the Knotts Berry Farm Hotel on May 16, 2018. Their presentation, entitled “Deployment Readiness of Current Connected Vehicle Technology,” was awarded 2nd place by the panel of judges, and the Chapter received $2200 in prize money for future Chapter activities. This year’s project was conducted in collaboration with the City of Anaheim, and in particular utilized the new UCI/Anaheim Connected Vehicle Testbed and 15 intersections instrumented with Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) for V2I communication.
The winners were:

1. Cal Poly Pomona
2. UC Irvine
3. UCLA

Honorable Mentions: Cal State Long Beach, USC, Cal State Fullerton.
Congratulations to the whole UCI ITE Student Chapter and especially to tonight’s undergraduate presenters: Enrique Ortiz, Yana Loginova, Julia Milano, and Mareeya Tongkul.

The EU-funded competition TRA VISIONS 2018 has just awarded prizes to its young researcher winners at the end of the Opening Ceremony on Monday 16th April (12-12:30pm) of the 2018 Transport Research Arena (TRA 2018). Young researchers from all over Europe submitted innovative concepts in order to enhance smart, sustainable and integrated transport and mobility of people and goods.

Overall, 169 young researchers from 56 different European universities participated in the TRA VISIONS 2018 Student Competition and submitted 122 ideas for the transport modes road, rail, waterborne and cross-modal.

The TRA VISIONS 2018 Young Researchers Competition awarded prizes sponsored by industry (ALICE, ERTRAC, Meyer Werft, SHIFT2RAIL and UITP). In the road sector, the winners were Mareike Hedderich from Munich University of the Federal Armed Forces (Park Spot Routing), Irene Martinez from Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya (Location of Variable Speed Limit application area to avoid capacity drop) and Federico Perrotta from University of Nottingham (Evaluation of road pavements fuel efficiency using truck sensors data).

E-Week at the Samueli School of Engineering kicked off with a splash on Monday, Feb. 12, when the Engineering Student Council (ESC) hosted a dunk tank. Presented by ESC, E-Week is an annual event aimed at increasing public awareness and appreciation for the engineering profession. This year’s theme was “Engineers: Inspiring Wonder.”

Festivities wrapped up with the Engineering Awards Banquet on Friday in the Student Center, recognizing outstanding students, faculty and engineering student organizations. UCI Engineering Student Council recognized ITS Ph.D. student Koti Reddy Allu “student of the year” reward for excellence in undergraduate teaching CEE121.

There was friendly but fierce competition between the six student chapters in attendance: USC, UCLA, UC Irvine, CSU Long Beach, Cal Poly Pomona and CSU Fullerton. The teams gave it their all but CSU Long Beach was the victor after a tense final jeopardy round against the host chapter UC Irvine. Thank you to all the students who participated and their enthusiastic cheering squads, to the host chapter UC Irvine for showing SoCal ITE that famous anteater hospitality, and to our judges Neelam Dorman, Josh McNeill, and Giancarlo Ganddini. We look forward to a rematch for the “traffic bowl” next year.

The UC Merced Miguel Velez (MV) Scholarship is a prestigious award that provides students with an academic year scholarship. It is intended for Latin American graduate students who exhibit excellence in character and ability, and who demonstrate financial need.