Scholarships and Awards

Student Scholarships & Awards

Student Paper Competition Award

Each year, CITE offers a Student Paper Award to students in accredited Transportation programs at Canadian universities and colleges. The purpose of the Student Paper Award is to encourage students to develop their technical writing skills, and to provide a means for the Institute to recognize outstanding accomplishments in such activities. This award is based on the technical merit and writing ability demonstrated in the paper. Please note the following:

Papers must address a transportation engineering subject
Maximum length is 15 pages. The page limit also includes title page, table of contents and any attachments-these pages must be equal to or less than 15.
Title page must include the title of the paper, the author's name, the ITE District Number and the mailing address where the author can be contacted between June 1 and July 1, 2010.

Stantec provides an annual award of $1,500 (CDN) comprised of a $500 honorarium, plus up to an additional $1,000 (CDN) to reimburse expenses to attend the CITE Annual Conference where the winner will be invited to present their paper and will be recognized at the Annual Awards Luncheon. An abridged version of the paper will also be published in CITE's Transportation Talk newsletter.

The winning paper is also entered into the competition for the ITE International Daniel B. Fambro Student Paper Award where the winner receives up to $1,000 (U.S.) to reimburse expenses to attend the ITE International Conference where they will be presented the award.

Applicants for the Student Paper Award must be members of ITE, and have completed the work that provides the basis for the paper while a student member of ITE. The student must also be the sole author.

EVALUATION CRITERIA