Stevens student to receive transportation engineering award

HOBOKEN , N.J. — The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Met Section will present this year's Dr. Louis J. Pignataro Transportation Engineering Education Award to Andrew Kaplan, a junior at Stevens Institute of Technology. The award will be presented in recognition of his accomplishments as an undergraduate transportation engineering student, as well as the esteem held for him by his professors, peers, and co-op program engineering supervisors. The award has usually been presented to a graduate student.

Kaplan is working toward a major in civil engineering and a master’s degree in construction management. He currently serves as chairman of the Stevens Honor Board. He is also a member of several student organizations including the Student Government Association, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Highway Engineers, the Jacobus Advisory Board and Gear & Triangle.

The Institute of Transportation Engineers is a worldwide network of almost 15,000 transportation professionals with members in 80 countries.  The Met Section was formed in 1945 to provide members in the New York/New Jersey area with a network of local professionals and has over 800 members. This year’s award, named in memory of Dr. Louis J. Pignataro, who is recognized as one of the nation's leading educators and researchers in transportation, will be presented at the Princeton ITE meeting. It is scheduled for Thursday, April 17, 2008 and will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Hamilton, N.J. at 6:00 p.m.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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