Institute of Transportation Engineers Western District Annual Meeting, Aubuquerque, New Mexico

It was a great pleasure to participate in the Institute of Transportation Engineers Western District Annual Meeting, Aubuquerque, New Mexico, July 10-13, 2016. I presented "Are We Ready? State and Local Agency Preparations for Connected and Automated Vehicles." The Cal Poly San Luis Obispo ITE chapter made a great showing at the District 6 Annual Meeting. Six students gave technical presentations, plus the team won the district traffic bowl (they will compete in the national traffic bowl in August in Anaheim), were designated as student chapter of the year, received the conference chapter award, Ryan Caldera was recognized for the Kell Competition RFP, Monica and Simon received a Mitey Race award, student awards were given to Ashley Kim and Kevin Carstens, and the student chapter received the website award! Wow what a great group - my congratulations to all!

First IEEE ITS Society Board of Governors Meeting, Gothenburg Sweden

I participated in my first Board of Governors (BOG) Meeting for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) in Gothenburg Sweden on June 19, 2016. Originally inspired to pursue greater activity in the IEEE ITSS by my friend Dan Dailey, it was particularly sad that he had passed away earlier this year. We tried to pay homage to him and I continue to be amazed at how much he contributed to the society. I learned a lot about the society and its operations during this meeting and look forward to participating in the BOG! I also attended the 2016 Intelligent Vehicles Symposium which was a great event, with a number of fascinating demos held at the Astazero test site in Boras, Sweden. There was also some time to explore Gothenburg by boat and bike, it's a beautiful and historic city.