ITE Journal January 2018 - 14

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Erin Eurek, P.E. received both her bachelor of sci-

Daniel B. Helms, P.E., PTOE, is the traffic

ence and master of engineering degrees in civil
engineering from Texas A&M University. While attending
Texas A&M, Erin worked for the Mobility Analysis Group
at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. She is a
licensed Professional Engineer and has nearly 11 years of
practical traffic and transportation experience with Kimley-Horn in Fort
Worth, TX, USA. Erin has been actively involved in ITE since 2004 and has
held several leadership positions including two terms as Texas A&M Student Chapter President, Greater Fort Worth Section Website Committee
Chair, Secretary-Treasurer, Vice President, and current Section Representative. Erin was also the Texas District Fall 2016 Local Arrangements
Committee Co-Chair and 2016 Texas District Younger Member of the Year.

safety engineering manager with the Mississippi
Department of Transportation in Jackson, Mississippi.
Previously he was a traffic engineer for Sain Associates
in Birmingham, Alabama, a civil engineer for the Village of Carol Stream (Illinois), and an associate
transportation engineer for Parsons Transportation Group, in their Chicago office. He graduated from Louisiana State University with a
bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a masters of engineering
from Texas A&M University. He is the current Vice President/President-Elect of the Deep South Section of ITE, serving as Secretary/
Treasurer in 2016. Daniel lives with a rambunctious rescue dog, Brooks,
in Madison County, Mississippi, USA.

Jeremy Frisch grew up in Chicago, IL, USA where

Farukh Ijaz, P.E. has been an on-site traffic engi-

he first fell in love with transportation, spending hours
in the engine of an old steam train at the Museum of
Science and Industry. He attended Brandeis University
outside of Boston studying psychology, politics, and
computer science. He worked as a web designer then
Product Manager in Washington, DC before moving to San Francisco,
CA, USA. Now at Apple on the Maps team, Jeremy conducts extensive
research of transit networks, traveling to countries like Brazil, Japan,
and Taiwan to ensure the public transit feature in Maps matches the
real world when Apple launches a new transit market.

neer from Michael Baker International with the Port
Authority of NY & NJ since 2014. He is a member of ITE,
the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the
Project Management Institute (PMI). Farukh graduated
from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
with a bachelor of science (Dean's honor list for 5 consecutive semesters
with a GPA of 3.6/4.0) in civil engineering in August 2010 and University
of Illinois at Civil and Materials Engineering School with a master's degree
(GPA: 4/4) focusing on Transportation Engineering in December 2012. He
is a Professional Engineer in the state of New Jersey and Arizona.

ITE Awards Program
The ITE Awards Program will kick off on January 2 with an updated website, submission process, and brochure.
This year the award deadlines have changed. All district awards will need to be submitted to ITE by April 1,
which means submittals to the districts will need to be by March 1. This applies to the following awards:

Distict
submissions

March 1

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Section Activities Award
ITE Rising Stars Program

Student Chapter Award
Daniel B. Fambro Student Paper Award

ITE understands that ITE Districts and Sections have their own deadlines for submittals of this
information and we hope to work together moving forward to have consistent deadlines to make it easier for
submitters to apply for an award.
In addition to making the deadlines consistent, we have also streamlined the submittal requirements for most
awards. Again, this is in the interest of making the entire submittal process easier for award submitters. To help
further facilitate this new process, ITE is now using Open Water as a platform for award submittal and judging.
The system will work in concert with other aspects of the annual meeting to have one platform where users are
able to enter information. This is now the only way that ITE will be able to submit awards from this point forward.
The list of awards along with past recipients is located at www.ite.org/awards. An email blast will go out
to all ITE members once the website is live on January 2.

http://www.ite.org/awards

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of ITE Journal January 2018