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A Transportation Engineering Curriculum for the Future

A Transportation Engineering Curriculum for the Future. Background. Basis for my remarks Over 20 years of involvement in engineering education as a short course developer and a university classroom instructor Over 10 years as a university faculty member/academic administrator

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A Transportation Engineering Curriculum for the Future

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  1. A Transportation Engineering Curriculum for the Future

  2. Background • Basis for my remarks • Over 20 years of involvement in engineering education as a short course developer and a university classroom instructor • Over 10 years as a university faculty member/academic administrator • Academic officer (undergraduate and graduate) • ABET review coordinator • Past chair of the ITE Education Council

  3. Traditional Civil Engineer • Construction • Environmental • Geotechnical • Hydrology/Hydraulics • Materials • Structures • Surveying and Mapping • Transportation

  4. Typical Transportation Engineer • Design (Highway) • Operations (Highway) • Planning (Car/Truck/Transit?) • Other Modes? (Peds? Bikes? Transit?) • Other Operating Schemes? (ITS? Supply Chain Management?)

  5. Engineering Knowledge Gaps • Users • Needs, Wants, and Desires • Capabilities and Limitations • Vehicles • Capabilities and Limitations • Operating Environment • Weather/Surface Conditions • Lighting

  6. Beyond Tradition • Mechanical Engineering • Electrical Engineering • Computer Engineering • Computer Science • Industrial Engineering • Supply Chain Management

  7. Business Requirements • Speaking • Writing • Working on a team • Resolving conflicts • Handling the media • Managing resources (e.g. budgets, personnel, facilities, equipment, etc.)

  8. Transportation Engineerof the Future 1 • Construction ---> Facilities Management • Environmental • Geotechnical • Hydrology/Hydraulics • Materials • Structures • Surveying and Mapping • Transportation

  9. Peds Bikes Cars Trucks Buses Rail Transit Streets/Highways Fixed Guideway Air Water Pipelines Telecommunications Transportation Engineerof the Future 2Planning, Design, and Operations

  10. Transportation Engineerof the Future 3 • Machine design • Tribology/meteorology • Command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) • Lighting • Operations research • Human factors/ergonomics • Supply chain management

  11. Transportation Engineer of the Future 4 • Speech communications • Technical writing • Human resource management • Media relations • Mediation • Marketing

  12. Transportation Engineer of the Future 5 • 5th Semester • Transportation Systems Engineering • Contemporary Skills for Business Professionals • Supply Chain Management • Human Factors Engineering • Mechanical Systems Design

  13. Transportation Engineer of the Future 6 • 6th Semester • Highway Engineering • Transportation Planning • Urban Transportation • Vehicle Road Dynamics • Automatic Control Systems

  14. Transportation Engineer of the Future 7 • 7th Semester • Traffic Operations • Introduction to Operations Research • Introduction to Embedded Microcontrollers • Non-Motorized Transportation • Introduction to Air, Rail, and Water Transport

  15. Transportation Engineer of the Future 8 • 8th Semester • Transportation Design • Fundamentals of Computer Vision • Fundamentals of Air Pollution • Computer Aided Lighting Design and Analysis • Management and Organization

  16. Transportation Engineer of the Future 9 • Can we train everyone in everything? • Role of the technical specialist • Role of the generalist/system integrator

  17. Summary • In the future, transportation engineers with a traditional civil engineering background won’t be able to “cut it” in the transportation profession. • We need to change how we educate, train, and maintain the competency of transportation engineers.

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