1. ENGINEERING USING THE DISTANCE FORMULA

2. What is an engineer? Engineer means to invent, create, or to regulate
Use math and science to create buildings, bridges and other structures
Create safe highways and roads
Many different types of engineers
Construction, structural, geotechnical, transportation, environmental, water resources

3. Transportation Engineering

4. Transportation Engineering
Definition:
Transportation engineers are responsible for planning, designing, and operating streets and highways, transit systems, airports, railroads, ports, and harbors to provide for the safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods.

5. Transportation Engineering
Examples of projects:
Implementing ways to relieve traffic congestion
Parking facilities
Planning, designing, and operating airports, railroads, ports, and harbors
Designing and controlling a computerized traffic signal system to allow for efficient movement of traffic

6. Transportation Engineering

7. Where’s My Bus?

8. Distance Formula
Example:
A ( 2 , 3 ) B ( -1 , 4 )

11. John Coburn
Undergraduate Student Intern
Mid-America Transportation Center
Nebraska Transportation Center
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

12. Activity
The bus is at Point A on the map and we are at Point G. We want to help the engineers figure out how long it will be until the next bus arrives.
Brainstorm missing factors needed to determine how long it will take for the next bus to arrive

13. Closure What is an engineer? What kinds of things do engineers do?
How can engineers determine when the next bus will arrive?

14. References http://www.ite.org/career/index.asp