Dr. Louis J. Pignataro Memorial

Transportation Engineering Education

Award Fund

At its January 22, 2004 meeting, the ITE Met Section Executive Board approved the establishment of an annual award to honor the memory of Dr. Louis J. Pignataro, who passed away in July 2003.

 Dr. Pignataro was a giant in our Transportation Engineering profession, and many members of the Met Section, and of other sections in the US and around the world, were fortunate to have had him as their teacher, mentor, and friend.  He was an inspiration to all who knew him, and will be sorely missed.

To honor his memory, an award fund has been established through voluntary contributions from ITE members, to recognize a New York/New Jersey area  student or faculty member who has demonstrated outstanding performance in his studies or in his teaching. The awardee will have already contributed to, or shown the potential for contributing to, the Met Section and to the practice of the transportation profession (i.e., traffic engineering, transportation engineering, or transportation planning ). Award candidates should either be ITE members or have applied for ITE membership. In the fall of each year, faculty members and students of the Transportation graduate school programs in the Met Section* will be requested to submit the names of one or more deserving students or faculty members. An award committee of Met Section members will screen the candidates and select an award recipient.  The award, at the annual January awards dinner or at another early Spring meeting, will be a voucher towards one of the following options: registration fees at an ITE Annual District Meeting, one year’s attendance at ITE Met Section dinner meetings, or major ITE technical publications (Trip Generation, Traffic Engineering Handbook, MUTCD, AASHTO Geometric Design Policy, etc.)   This award, estimated at about $200 - $250 in value, will be an incentive towards participation in ITE Met Section and/or ITE District 1 activities.  

For more information or to volunteer as a fund contributor, please contact: 

Marvin C. Gersten

Parsons Brinckerhoff

(212) 465-5318

gerstenm@pbworld.com

* NY Poly, City College, NJIT, Rutgers or other school programs, as approved by the Awards Committee.