{"id":3880,"date":"2016-09-12T12:57:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T20:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2016-09-12T12:57:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T20:57:01","slug":"pactrans-associate-director-dr-david-hurwitz-receives-national-recognition-for-ite-university-transportation-curriculum-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/pactrans-associate-director-dr-david-hurwitz-receives-national-recognition-for-ite-university-transportation-curriculum-project\/","title":{"rendered":"PacTrans Associate Director Dr. David Hurwitz Receives National Recognition for ITE University Transportation Curriculum Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DavidEducationAward.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3881\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DavidEducationAward.jpg\" alt=\"davideducationaward\" width=\"505\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DavidEducationAward.jpg 800w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DavidEducationAward-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DavidEducationAward-768x513.jpg 768w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DavidEducationAward-97x65.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the August 2016 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) international annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., PacTrans associate director and Oregon State University associate director, Dr. David Hurwitz, along with\u00a0three other\u00a0members of the ITE University Transportation Curriculum Project (UTCP), received the Transportation Education Council Innovation in Education award. <!--more-->Hurwitz, along with the other project members, Kristen Sanford Bernhardt, Rod Turochy, and Rhonda Young, received the national honor in recognition of their innovative work over the last seven years on challenges related to undergraduate transportation engineering education.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hurwitz reflected on the experience saying, \u201cIt has been a personally and professionally rewarding experience working with my colleagues, Drs. Young, Turochy, and Sanford Bernhardt, to produce an educational impact worthy of national recognition.\u201d University-based transportation engineering education plays an important role in the recruitment and development of transportation professionals. Through their efforts, the UTCP is working to attract and retain undergraduate transportation engineering students and better prepare them for practice or graduate school.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations David!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the August 2016 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) international annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., PacTrans associate director and Oregon State University associate director, Dr. David Hurwitz, along with\u00a0three other\u00a0members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3882,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions\/3882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}