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James H. Kell Award

February 1st, 2011 | Add a Comment

The James H. Kell Award was originally established by Western District in 1994 to honor active ITE Western District fellow and Honorary Member James H. Kell (who past away in July 1991). It was created as a competition for Western District student chapters to develop innovative solutions to a transportation problem, encourage participation in the profession among students. This format was changed in 2002 with the development of a student competition at the Western District Annual Meeting by then Career Guidance Chair Charlie Ebeling. The Western District Board officially approved dropping the original format of the Kell Award and naming the Student Competition after James H. Kell in February 2003 due to the level of participation. The purpose of the Student Competition is to encourage Student Members of ITE to attend and participate in Western District Annual Meetings. This competition is designed to promote the interaction of students and professionals (together) to provide an atmosphere in which students can seek mentoring, while rewarding students for participating in the competition. Any student currently attending a university or college in the Western District with an ITE Student Chapter and is currently a member of the Student Chapter and/or an ITE student member. The student(s) judged to be the most outstanding by a committee of judges receive $1000.

Year
Award Winners
2009 1st
Ryan Miller, Cal Poly Pomona
Ryan Conrad, Portland State University
Enrique Biche, Cal Poly Pomona

2nd
Jessica Troemner, University of Wyoming
Zebulun Coulter, University of Wyoming
Paolo Baltar, UCLA

3rd
Jenna Buddemeyer, University of Wyoming
Karthik Konduri, Arizona State
Andy Kosinski, UC Berkeley

4th
Brandon Lacap, San Diego State
Kristie Gladhill, Portland State University
Alan Moore, University of Wyoming
2007 Tied for 1st – Strength
Nathan Mustafa, Cal Poly Pomona
Tony Symanovich, University of Seattle
Matt Marineau, University of Seattle
Tao Zhong, UW

Tied for 1st – Strength
Audrey Naral, UCLA
Adam Parast, UW
Josh Crain, Portland State University
Yao-Jan Wu, UW

1st – Design
Sarah Karjala, Montana State
Julian Hernandez, Cal Poly Pomona
Monica Joyce, Portland State University
Isidro Abreo, Cal Poly Pomona

2nd – Design
Neelam Sharma, UC Irvine
Kelly Pitera, UW
Mahesh Paudey, Sacto State
Enrique Biche, Cal Poly Pomona
2006 Gotham City Transportation Authority – Steven Vander Giessen (UW), Jorge Cervantes (CPP), Omar Sanchez (CPP), Vamsi Surapaneni (UNLV)
2005 1st
Juan Avila, Cal Poly Pomona
Luke Seegmiller, BYU

2nd
Victor Ling, Cal Poly Pomona
Ryan Peterson, BYU

3rd
Lyndsay Essigman, University of Wyoming
Benjamin Weaver, University of Wyoming
2004 Julianna Gonzalez , Cal Poly Pomona
Leo Espelet, San Diego State University
Laura Stanley, Montana State University
Chris Cherry, U. of California, Berkeley
2003 Scott Lee, Montana State
Yu Zhang, UC Berkeley
Ryan Avery, UW
Fredy Monge, Cal Poly Pomona
Maria Miranda, Cal Poly Pomona
2002 Alvin Ly, Cal Poly Pomona
Fredy Monge, Cal Poly Pomona
Amaka Okoro, CSU Long Beach
Meagan Powers, Montana State
Vincent Ramos, Cal Poly Pomona

Historic winners of the James H. Kell Award prior to format change:

Year
University
2001 none
2000 none
1999 University of California, Irvine
1998 none
1997 none
1996 Chico State University
1995 Cal Poly Pomona
1994 Chico State University

The original format of the James H. Kell Award had student chapters conduct and report on original research and investigation of transportation engineering subjects. The investigation shall include, but is not limited to, the collection of original traffic and transportation field data using accepted standard methods. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishment in this area.

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