Younger Member Committee

Purpose:

The Transportation and Development (T&DI) Committee on Younger Members (CYM) focuses on matters of the professional development of transportation-focused civil engineers 35 years of age or younger and facilitate their engagement with, and participation in, the Society and T&DI. CYM supports all ASCE T&DI younger members, whether academic or industry focused. The committee plans and organizes younger member activities for the International Conference on Transportation and Development (ICTD), facilitates an annual student competition to foster student engagement in T&DI, advocates for more younger member resources, and works to advertise existing resources (e.g., publications, conferences, workshops, technical councils, etc.) to the younger member community.

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MEET THE CHAIR

Alyssa Ryan, Ph.D., EIT, A.M.ASCE

Dr. Alyssa Ryan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering & Mechanics and Assistant Director of the Center for Applied Transportation Sciences within the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona. Her research addresses the safety, economic, and equity challenges faced in transportation. She currently serves as the Communications Coordinator for the Women and Gender in Transportation TRB Standing Committee and the Chair of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Equity Case Studies Subcommittee. In 2022, Dr. Ryan was recognized as an ITE Young Leader to Follow. Her research on gender equity, safety, and human factors has been disseminated through 24 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings.

Working groups

Many first experiences with ASCE occur during undergrad through student competitions such as concrete canoe or steel bridge. The tragedy is that for many transportation engineers, this is all they ever come to know of the Society. At present, there is no annual competition specifically focusing on transportation-related topics. A competition would serve to raise more awareness of the Transportation and Development Institute and recruit students to get involved young, which would hopefully translate into more engaged lifetime members. This group is working to generate a proposal for such a competition that would then get sent to T&DI staff and the Board of Governors for comment before hopefully being submitted to the Society for approval.

For more information about this working group, please contact Nancy Beltran, Vice Chair.
The T&DI Board of Governors is very interested to see more active engagement in the institute and its councils and committees. They are particularly interested in increasing younger member participation and engagement. We see our annual flagship conference as a great stepping-off point to begin that process. This group explores a variety of creative options for how we can increase younger member attendance at the conference and works with T&DI staff to implement feasible opportunities during the conference planning process.

For more information about this working group, please contact Cole Kopca, Past Chair.
The T&DI Younger Member Committee has been hosting quarterly younger member activities since Summer 2023. The goals of these activities are to get together outside of annual conferences and to support younger member career development, build a stronger younger member community, and offer younger members more opportunities to get involved with the institute.

For more information about this working group, please contact Alyssa Ryan, Chair.

Membership

Hampton Worthey, P.E., M.ASCE
Chair
Myles Overall, S.M.ASCE
Vice-Chair

Muhammad Sultan Amer, ENV SP, M.ASCE
ASCE Staff Contact
Dahiru Adamu, Aff.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Dana Al-Qadi, D.Eng., P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Ruqaya Alfaris,
Member
Yusra Ibrahim Ali Alhadidi, S.M.ASCE
Member
Cesar Luis Andriola, S.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Taraneh Ardalan, A.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Rhett Beasley, EI, A.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Nancy Beltran, Ph.D., EIT, A.M.ASCE
Member
Megan Buchanan, P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Federico Camparada, Aff.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Madison Anna Carlson, A.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Christopher Casey, L.S.I.T, P.E., ENV SP, M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Anthony Chiodo,
Corresponding Member

Annahid Dastgheib-Beheshti, P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Mehrnaz Doustmohammadi, Ph.D.
Corresponding Member

Jessica Maria Garcia, P.E., M.ASCE
Member
Xiaoyu Sky Guo, Ph.D., Aff.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Xiaoyu Sky Guo, Ph.D., Aff.M.ASCE
Member

Thomas Halsey, P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Saquib Mohammed Haroon, S.M.ASCE
Member
Kazi Tahsin Huda, A.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Ajayshankar Jagadeesh, Ph.D., Aff.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Andrew Vasan Jayankura, EIT
Corresponding Member
Lura Johnson, A.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Cole Anthony Kopca, S.M.ASCE
Past-Chair
Marcella Kaplan, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Andrew Christopher Kline, EIT, A.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Vincent Kwabena Lumor,
Member
Wei Lin, Ph.D., Aff.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Diniece Danielle Mendes, EIT, A.M.ASCE
Member

Meiyu Pan, Ph.D.
Corresponding Member
Deep Patel, A.M.ASCE
Member

Alyssa Margaret Ryan, Ph.D., EIT, A.M.ASCE
Past-Chair
Santos Ramos, EI, P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Surya Narayanan S, Aff.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Karthik Subramanya, Ph.D.
Corresponding Member

Francis Tyler Tainter, EIT, A.M.ASCE
Member

Melissa Willis, A.M.ASCE
ASCE Staff Contact

Daniel Yang,
Corresponding Member

Fengjiao Zou, A.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Younger Member Committee

Purpose:

International Conference on Transportation and Development (ICTD) 2025

Alyssa Ryan, Ph.D., EIT, A.M.ASCE

Working groups

Working Group on Developing a Transportation-Related Annual Competition

Working Group on Increasing Younger Member Participation at ICTD

Working Group on Quarterly Virtual Activities

Membership

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