Come celebrate the end of Senior Design classes
Senior Design Showcase is where students, faculty, and industry members from the surrounding community and beyond come together to view and discuss the Civil Engineering Senior Design Project.
When: Thursday, May 25th from 6pm to 8pm
Where: On Cal Poly SLO Campus at the Advanced Technology Laboratories building
RSVP: No need to RSVP. Just show up!
Three engineering job opportunities to our Jobs Available page. Please take a look and see if you are interested!
Join us in-person or virtually for a joint meeting with Cal Poly ITE!
Jennifer Rice, PTP and Transportation Planner/Engineer from the City of San Luis Obispo, will provide an overview of the 2022 Paving Project. As part of the project, various traffic calming measures and multimodal features were implemented to promote non-vehicular mode choice and reduce speeds on residential streets. Jennifer will present how the City implemented several high-priority projects from the City’s Active Transportation Plan, Traffic Safety Report, Safe Routes to School Plan and Downtown Concept Plan during this routine maintenance project.
Lunch will be provided for all in-person attendees
Please register at the link below. We hope you’re able to attend!
Electrifying Alaska!
Participating Sections:
Moderated By: Marc Violett
Presented By: Josi Hartley, PM-Alaska Energy Authority
Josi Hartley is the EV Program Manager for the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA). Josi has been a member of the AEA team for three years as a program manager in the renewable energy group and has worked with a variety of technologies including Wind, Energy Efficiency, Rural Power Generation, and Nuclear Energy. Most recently, her focus within the agency has shifted to Electric Vehicles. She was a member of the team that developed the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Implementation Plan for the State of Alaska. Josi received her bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. After graduating from UAF she went to work for BP in Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope, and in Anchorage as a Drilling Engineer. After five years with BP, Josi decided to transition into the renewable energy industry and joined the AEA team as the Wind Program Manager. Josi currently resides in Anchorage and she enjoys spending time outdoors with her fiancé, their seven-month-old daughter, and their two dogs.
Hello ITE Central Coast Community,
Excited for 2023 and all the momentum thus far. I want to say a special thanks to Derrick Bailey of the City of Santa Barbara for presenting at the first virtual meeting in February, as well as Kimberly Leong, ITE Western District President, in swearing in the new officers.
The new board is working hard to get more meetings/events scheduled (virtual, hybrid, and in-person). Stayed tuned for more information about the joint meeting at Cal Poly on April 13th and other section meetings, hybrid vendor show, and our annual fundraising golf event. To receive timely notifications of website posts, meetings, and events; please “Follow” our website (lower right hand corner of website). In addition, we will continue to send emails to our members.
This year we are focused on communication/collaboration, networking, younger members engagement, and professional development; and want to provide the “value add” for your membership. I am grateful to have you as a member of the Central Coast Section and want to engage more professionals (planning and engineering) and grow our section.
Please let me know any suggestions or feedback, about how we could improve our Section. In addition, if you want to get involved, please reach out to me. We do have some Committee Chairs that are vacant (Membership Chair and Younger Member Group) and would appreciate the involvement.
Many thanks,
Kathy Kleinschmidt
ITE Central Coast Section President
We just added another job opportunity to our Jobs Available page. Please take a look and see if you are interested!
Join us virtually for our first meeting of the year! Derrick Bailey and Behdad Gharagozli from the City of Santa Barbara will present a recently completed HSIP funded safety improvement project on West Carrillo Street. City staff will present the collision analysis that identified the need, operations considerations, design and construction.
We hope you’re able to attend!
Two new Central Coast located Transportation Engineering jobs have been posted in the Jobs Available page.
GHD is looking to fill two positions; on Transportation Engineer and one Senior Transportation Engineer/Project Manager.
The election for 2023 officers is now closed and tabulated. We are pleased to announce the new elected officers as follows:
Kathy Kleinschmidt: President
Tom Mericle: Vice-President
Ryan Caldera: Secretary-Treasurer
Vidhi Sachdeva moves into the role of Past President/Section Representative
Congratulations and thank you for your willingness to serve our members!
September 20, 2022 Noon to 1:00 pm
Joint Meeting: Central Coast Section and San Francisco Bay Area Section
Topic:
Eric Ruehr, Director of Traffic Engineering at VRPA Technologies
Presentation on the new HCM 7th Edition
ITE Central Coast Section 