Workshops

A fun and engaging design charette that challenges students to consider competing interests and tradeoffs to deliver viable projects. Students will be grouped into small development teams that will collaborate and present a final solution for their respective projects. Come and experience what transportation professionals are faced with everyday.

You're now quite fluent speaking "engineering" with your classmates and co-workers. But your friends, family, and the public? They just hear gibberish. In this workship, we're going panning for gold! We'll take some dry, technical language from an Environmental Impact Review (like the one for California High-Speed Rail) and learn how to find the exciting nuggets on any page. When you speak your audience's language, you'll find there no boring engineering projects.

Exams don't end after school?? Join Kimley-Horn as industry professionals share tips/tricks, helpful strategies, and lessons learned on their personal path to obtaining their Professional Engineer (PE) and American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) licenses. The panel will outline the necessary steps to professional licensure, offer advice on passing the 8-hour PE, survey/seismic, and the AICP exams, and answer any student questions on the process!

To grow in your career and to lead, you'll need to understand yourself and the people you work with. A DiSC assessment is one of many widely used tools in our industry to get a professional understanding of someone and how they would best work with others. In this workshop, we'll talk through the importance of self-awareness and understanding the people you work with. We'll quickly discuss how tools like DiSC can help you and hear about how it was used by our speaker with her team. Then we'll go through a QuikDiSC exercise working in small groups where you'll learn about your working styles. It's an active and quick way to introduce the behavioral difference concepts and talk through what each of you find to be important in a leader and in a team.

Join ITE San Diego past president, Phuong Nguyen, and Joey Watson for this interactive workshop that engages in real-world emergency preparedness and evacuation planning. Participants will work in groups to develop rapid evacuation strategies and navigate simulated crowd scenarios. Using local fire response data and documentation, participants will explore how multiple agencies work together during crises and how technology, communication, and infrastructure play a crucial role. We will explore case studies of recent wildfires in southern California and discuss how to manage and improve response systems during an evacuation event. With an emphasis on continual learning and collaboration, this workshop encourages students to take pride in advancing safety and resilience in their communities.