HOUGHTON, MI — The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Michigan Section honored Wade Trim's Aimee Giacherio, PE, with its President’s Award for 26 years of service dedicated to the traffic engineering industry. The award recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to traffic and/or transportation engineering.

As a Senior Project Manager, Giacherio focuses on transportation planning and traffic studies. Her projects include circulation and safety studies for pedestrians and vehicles, and developing intersection and roadway improvement strategies for meeting traffic demands. She has a modeling and data analysis background that includes traffic operational simulation and optimization, traffic crash safety studies, signal warrant studies, roadway geometrics, traffic impact site analyses, access management studies, parking studies, and sight distance reviews.

Giacherio has also worked extensively with public and charter schools on circulation and safety issues. She conducts studies to address pedestrian safety concerns and traffic operations on school campuses, and the impacts of school traffic on adjacent roadways. She has delivered traffic engineering and planning solutions for hundreds of schools across the country.

Giacherio has been actively involved in the ITE Michigan Section since joining the student chapter at Michigan Technological University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering. For the past 20 years, she has served as Chairperson of the Michigan Section Scholarship Golf Outing Committee. Under her leadership, the committee has raised more than $230,000 for the section’s scholarship fund.