The Texas A&M University Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) student chapter (TAMU-ite) competed in the 2018 ITE International Collegiate Traffic Bowl that was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and took home second place.
The team competed in August after winning first place in the Texas District Traffic Bowl in June. The four-member TAMU-ite team is comprised of Jayson Stibbe, civil engineering graduate student and president of the TAMU-ite student chapter, Xiaoyu “Sky” Guo, civil engineering graduate student, Pappu Divya, civil engineering graduate student, and Kentaro Iio, civil engineering graduate student.
“As far as transportation competitions go, this one is the biggest for our chapter,” said Stibbe. “We (all received) plaques and the winner had their name put on a trophy, which goes in the international headquarters.”
The Collegiate Traffic Bowl program for the 2018 season saw 68 ITE chapters compete spanning across the U.S. and Canada, and over 240 ITE participants comprised these teams. The competition was held in a Jeopardy-style format and tested the student’s’ knowledge on transportation planning, engineering topics, and other traffic manual knowledge and miscellaneous trivia. Stibbe said that the team started prepping for the competition in March and felt well prepared by June.
“We had a coach who (already) competed in the competition before and (was) really passionate about it,” said Stibbe.
Since the establishment of the ITE Traffic Bowl in 2010, TAMU-ite has won six district awards and has been among the top chapters in the institute.