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 Engineer of the Future 1 Construction ---> Facilities Management Environmental Geotechnical Hydrology/Hydraulics Materials Structures Surveying and Mapping Transportation

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

10. Transportation Engineer of 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.