Congratulations 2020 Graduates from ITS Berkeley

You made it to UC Berkeley, let the good times roll!

We met many of you at the Transportation Engineering and City and Regional Planning spring open houses.

We planned panels with our alumni and got a chance to meet with you.

And we're so glad you joined us! Everyone started off a little quiet, but the conversations quickly started and you were off.

TRANSOC President Hassan Obeid kicked off the Transportation Seminar seriesby introducing alum Feras El Zarwi who talked about data pricing at UberEATs.

Starting at 3:30 pm on Fridays, many of you sat in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building throughout the year to catch up with classmates during cookie hour before seminars.

And talk with professors.and speakers.

Some of you took advantage that ITS Berkeley co-hosted the Sustainable Aviation Symposium on campus in October 2019, where aviation innovators and leaders came to campus to speak and interact with our faculty and students.

We saw some of you presenting research at the Berkeley DeepDrive Fall workshop.

Many of you joined City and Regional Planning Professor Emerita Elizabeth Deakin at the Annual Martin Wachs Lecture this fall.

We celebrated the end of the year with the TRANSOC holiday party and the ITS Holiday Lunch and Award Ceremony.

Many of you travelled to Washington DC in January to attend and present at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. This year we had 11 Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellows!

In between presenting, posters, lectures, and awards, ITS Berkeley faculty, students, and alumni came together to chat over over plantain chips and drinks at Bar Cuba at the ITS Berkeley reception.

We hope you see you at the next TRB Annual Meeting!

For those who didn't go to TRB, ITS Berkeley co-hosted the Ambassador of France in the US, where he talked about Tech for Good: A French vision for the 4th industrial revolution.

Some of our students have been volunteering their time and expertise to mentor young girls of Oakland based Self-eSTEM.

In the Spring semester, students created a student seminar for doctoral students to present their research amongst their peers on Mondays in the library. Mustupha Harb kicked things off in February.

On March 10, in person classes were largely suspended on campus. ITS affiliate Karen Chapple teaches one of the last campus classes, with a majority of her class online. On March 17, the Bay Area Shelter in Place closed campus to all but essential personal.

We may have missed the last two months on campus, the in-person presentations, showcases, get togethers, lectures and seminars, but you did it! Congratulations graduates. We'll come together to celebrate when we can!