Virginia Tech civil and environmental engineering students are celebrating a standout performance in this year’s Traffic Bowl, which is a Jeopardy-style competition testing knowledge of traffic and transportation engineering. This win helped them claim the Southern District title for the first time in program history.
The team, made up of graduate students AJ Joseph and John Stern and senior Ashlyn O’Neill, began their journey in Charlottesville in February, where they competed as a student chapter in the Virginia section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). Virginia Tech soundly defeated the University of Virginia with a final score of 2,900 to 100, earning a spot at the Southern District ITE competition in Memphis, Tennessee.
Held earlier this month, the Southern District Traffic Bowl brought together student teams from nine states across the southeastern United States. Virginia Tech was one of nine schools competing in a series of fast-paced matches of three teams per round. The matches tested both knowledge and composure…