Fall Kickoff – Tuesday August 30th
Introduction to new TSA Officers and discussing the future schedule
Town Engineering Building, Room 270, 6:00pm
Ellen Nightingale (TSA President) on ITEMSLS Training – Tuesday, September 13th
Preparing members to volunteer for the upcoming ITE Midwest Student Leadership Summit
Town Engineering Building, Room 270, 6:00pm
Institute of Transportation Engineers Midwest Student Leadership Summit
September 16th -18th
A gathering of students from across the Midwestern and Great Lakes Districts for a weekend of professional development.
Dr. Peter Savolainen from Iowa State University – Tuesday, September 27th
Informal questions/answer session with someone in academia.
Town Engineering Building, Room 270, 6:00pm
Ben Bunge from Weitz – Tuesday, October 11th
Hilton Hotel Construction – Innovative ways to cut time and money off of the schedule
Town Engineering Building, Room 270, 6:00pm
Fall Road Clean Up – Saturday, October 15th
Come help us take care of our adopted road!
Social at Olde Main – Wednesday, October 26th
$2 beers and 1/2 appetizers!
Meet there at 7:00pm
Willy Sorenson from IowaDOT – Tuesday, November 8th
Wrong way driving, a research project investigating US-30
Town Engineering Building, Room 270, 6:00pm
Ready, Set, Build! – Friday, November 11th and Saturday, November 12th
Teach children and adults about roundabouts at the Des Moines Science Museum.
See schedule for volunteer shift and coordinated rides.
Robert Kline and Tawn Nugent from GBA – Tuesday November 29th
Designer diamonds: innovative interchange designs from GBA.
Town Engineering Building, Room 270, 6:00pm
Spring Semester Kick-off Meeting – Tuesday, January 17th
Information about the spring semester with icebreakers
Town Engineering Building, Room 250, 6:00pm
Duane Smith retired from Iowa State University – Tuesday, January 31st
Learn from a seasoned veteran who has worked in academic, consulting and government.
Town Engineering Building, Room 250, 6:00pm
Dr. Johanna Amaya from Iowa State University – Tuesday, February 14th
Switching operations from day to night for urban freight has huge impacts. Come learn about interesting research in the transportation logistics field.
Town Engineering Building, Room 250, 6:00pm
West Des Moines Traffic Operations Lab Tour – Thursday, February 16th
Tour the exciting place where 116 traffic signals are monitored and controlled. Using fiber optic cables, this center can operate full tilt/pan/zoom cameras on over half of their signals.
Meet at Town Engineering Building Lobby @ 4:20pm
Tyler Wiles and Andy Swisher from HRGreen – Wednesday March 1st
Listen to the exciting from our friends at HRGreen. Joint meeting with ASCE.
Town Engineering Building, Room 270, 6:00pm
Twin Cities Tour – March 14th – March 15th
In collaboration with the ISU Supply Chain Management Club and sponsored by the Transportation Club of Minnesota/St. Paul, TSA traveled to the Twin Cities in Minnesota for a networking trip. The trip’s itinerary covered transportation from a traffic engineering standpoint, as well as a supply chain management view. The trip began with the Transportation Club’s annual expo, and continued with company visits.
Transportation Club, Metropolitan Council, Spack Consulting, Burns and McDonnell, and SRF
TSA Students with ICITE – Tuesday, March 28th
TSA students will have a chance to share their research with our central Iowa professional ITE chapter. Following these presentations is a social at Welch Ave with pizza from Pizza Pit upstairs.
Presentations include:
Georges Bou-Saab on “Fueling Our Future Phase 1: Evaluating Consumer Acceptance of Biofuels in Iowa”
Folarin Abatan on “Crash Analysis Around Interchange Functional Areas”
Pranamesh Chakraborty on “Outlier Mining Based Traffic Incident Detection using Big Data Analytics”
Town Engineering Building, Room 250, 6:00pm
Election and Traffic Trivia – Tuesday, April 11th
Elect the new eboard and vote on Constitution changes. Have fun with an informal game of traffic trivia and food.
Town Engineering Building, Room 250, 6:00pm
Adam Denney and David Andersen from Felsburg Holt & Ullevig – Tuesday April 18th
Student learned about the Hoeven Valley Transportation Plan.
Town Engineering Building, Room 250, 6:00pm
MOVITE Annual Meeting – Wednesday, April 19th – Friday, April 21st
Marriott Downtown in Des Moines, IA
Spring Road Clean-Up – Saturday, April 29nd
Help us keep our road looking nice!
TBA