2009/2010 WTS Central Florida Chapter Scholarships
From left to right:
Heather Hammontree, Barbara Martin, US Congressman John Mica, Amy Caveretta
The Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) strives to help "established and upcoming professionals" to develop their capabilities. The primary philanthropic effort of the WTS Central Florida Chapter is the award of two undergraduate scholarships and one graduate scholarship for women pursuing careers in transportation. For fiscal year 2009/2010, the WTS Central Florida Chapter has awarded the following three scholarships:
Barbara B. Martin - Frankee Hellinger Graduate Scholarship ($2,500)
Amy E. Caveretta - Frankee Hellinger Undergraduate Scholarship ($1,500)
Heather E. Hammontree - Frankee Hellinger Leadership Undergraduate Scholarship ($1,000)
Barbara B. Martin - Barbara, a transportation engineering student has worked diligently to maintain an impeccable cumulative GPA of 4.0. She is on track to conclude her masters level work and graduate in December 2010. Barbara aspires to make a difference in the field of transportation engineering through her transportation research work. “Barbara is a very capable, intelligent, and a hardworking student. I am convinced she will soon be one of the leaders in the transportation field…” said the Transportation Research Director at UF.
Amy E. Cavaretta - Amy is currently pursuing a Civil Engineering Bachelors degree which she expects to receive in 2011. An honors student who has been on the Dean’s list for 3 consecutive years, Amy is an academic high achiever. She credits her passion for engineering to her family saying “Growing up in a family of engineers and designers, my academic studies have been directed by my heart to explore, create, and build not only engineering structures and urban landscapes, but to improve people’s lives through design.”
Heather E. Hammontree - Heather is concluding her Civil Engineering Bachelors Degree this month while immediately engaging on a masters level program which she expects to complete by December 2010. Heather has maintained a consistent 3.7 GPA while holding several leadership positions with the ASCE student chapter. She has been on the Dean’s list for 4 consecutive years and credits this to the discipline she has learned while in school. Heather is passionate about the transportation issues facing society today. She says “while in graduate school, I will research ways to develop new technology and make new advances in the transportation field. Every year in the U.S., about 43,000 people die in car crashes and I want to do everything I can to make that number as low as possible.”
For more WTS scholarship information, please contact Hong-Ting Chen (hchen@pbsj.com) or Yvonne Lopez-Diaz (Ylopezdiaz@HNTB.com).
2010 Sharon D. Banks Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship
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The WTS Central Florida Chapter is pleased to announce that Amy Cavaretta, a WTS Central Florida Chapter Scholarship recipient, is the winner of the WTS National Sharon D. Banks Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship! This is a very competitive scholarship with applicants from all over the nation.
The WTS Central Florida Chapter will fund Amy's trip to Washington, D.C., where she will be awarded her scholarship during the 2010 WTS Annual Conference Banquet on May 20th.
The Sharon D. Banks Memorial Scholarship is awarded to women pursuing undergraduate studies in transportation or a related field.
This scholarship honors Sharon D. Banks, chief executive officer of AC Transit in Alameda-Contra Costa County, California. As CEO during most of the 1990s, Sharon led the agency in a pioneering effort to introduce cultural and organizational changes aimed at motivating the public transit work force. She was a member of the WTS Advisory Board and received the WTS San Francisco Chapter Woman and Employer of the Year awards.
The Sharon D. Banks Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship is in the amount of $3,000.
2008/2009 WTS Central Florida Chapter Scholarships
From left to right:
Yingyan Lou, Jasna Tomasevic, Hong-Ting Chen, Nadine Abu-Jubara
The Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) strives to create new opportunities and advance the careers of women in the transportation industry. The primary philanthropic effort of the Central Florida Chapter is the award of two undergraduate scholarships and one graduate scholarship for women pursuing careers in transportation. WTS appreciates the University of Central Florida’s Center for Advanced Transportation System Simulation (CATSS) and University of Florida Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion Mitigation in providing a portion of the 2008/2009 WTS Central Florida Chapter Scholarships. At the WTS annual banquet on January 29, 2009, the chapter was pleased to present scholarships to the following recipients (front row left to right):
Yingyan Lou (University of Florida) - Frankee Hellinger Graduate Scholarship ($2,500)
Jasna Tomasevic (University of Central Florida) - Frankee Hellinger Undergraduate Scholarship ($1,500)
Nadine Abu-Jubara (University of Central Florida) - Frankee Hellinger Leadership Undergraduate Scholarship ($1,000)
Yingyan Lou - Yingyan is a Ph.D student pursuing her doctorate in Transportation in the Civil and Coastal Engineering Department at the University of Florida. She will graduate in the summer of 2009, and plans to pursue an academic career path in the transportation industry. Yingyan is interested in working on problems in network modeling, highway traffic operations, transit planning and operations, incident management and ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems). Yingyan has already published six peer-reviewed papers in leading academic journals and has five other papers under review or in preparation. She is also active in both professional and civic organizations.
Jasna Tomasevic - Jasna is a senior Civil Engineering student from the University of Central Florida. She is planning to graduate in May of 2010 with a Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, with an emphasis in structural engineering. In addition, Jasna was recently selected to participate in the Progress Energy Leadership Institute for Engineers. This two-semester course focuses on advancing the leadership qualities in students. She is a member of the Burnett Honors College and is involved in both the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Society of Women Engineers.
Nadine Abu-Jubara - Nadine is a senior at the University of Central Florida, and she will graduate in May of 2009 with a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering. Her current plans include pursuing a master's degree in transportation engineering. Nadine has been heavily involved with many professional organizations. She has served as Social Chair, Community Service Chair, Conference Chair, and is the treasurer for 2009 at the American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter, since her first year at UCF. Nadine is also part of the American Society of Highway Engineers, Muslim Student Association and LEAD Scholars Program.
For more WTS scholarship information, please contact Hong-Ting Chen (hchen@pbsj.com) or Yvonne Lopez-Diaz (Ylopezdiaz@HNTB.com).