Transportation Systems STEM Summer Academy for Teachers—a paper by Dr. Shashi Nambisan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Dr. Jennifer Richards, Department of Food Science and Technology—was selected as the best paper in the STEM and Community Engagement section at the Engineering Leaders for Grand Challenges conference held in November 2014 at Texas A&M University at Qatar. The paper summarized efforts related to and outcomes from the development and implementation of a three day, transportation-systems-based summer academy for teachers.