It's time for the annual Transportation Education Symposium, hosted by the California Transportation Foundation.  This year, it's November 5 and 6 at the Chaminade Conference Center in Santa Cruz.  The symposium "bring[s] together the best and brightest transportation students with the highest level professionals in the field", in an atmosphere that is highly interactive and participative, but relaxed and fun.

Also this year, the 35 students chosen statewide to participate in this symposium will be eligible for $6000 in scholarship funds! Learn more about the California Transportation Foundation here.

We are being asked to nominate up to three "bright, articulate" junior or senior "civil engineering or planning" students (interpret that broadly as any upper division student with an expressed interest in transportation).   The third student is wait-listed, but "most years we are able to invite several students from the wait list to attend".

THE SYMPOSIUM IS FREE (REGISTRATION, ROOM, AND MEALS), AND ITS-DAVIS WILL PAY THE TRAVEL EXPENSES.  Students have gone every year for the past several years and they invariably come back excited about the experience.

They're asking you to help circulate notice of this opportunity to relevant undergrads -- even if you're not teaching a transportation class, some students in your undergrad classes might be interested in transportation...  Anyone who wants to be nominated should e-mail Patricia L. Mokhtarian at plmokhtarian@ucdavis.edu with the following information BY 5 p.m. OCTOBER 5 (please include it all the first time, as asked for below...):
 
Name
Expected Graduation Mo/Yr
Major
Probable Career Objective
Current Mailing Address
Phone
E-mail
Reason for wanting to go (i.e. statement of interest -- just a few sentences!).