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      <title>Improving Transportation Engineering Education by Applying he Inverted Classroom Concept</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Transportation Research Board (2009) identified the shortage of investment in human and intellectual capital as one of top nine critical issues in transportation. Women and minorities are underrepresented in the Transportation Engineering national workforce and Civil Engineering graduates are composed of less than 15 percent females and less than 10 percent minority students (Ivey et al., 2012). It has been suggested to promote careers in Transportation Engineering to students in K-12 grades to increase the attraction of future professionals (Martin, 2001). At the college level, it is necessary to attract Civil Engineering students to follow a potential career in the field of Transportation. One alternative is to improve the learning environment in order to address students' needs by modifying the transportation related courses in the Civil Engineering curriculum.  Students learn in different ways, just as instructors have different teaching techniques. A mismatch between students learning preferences (or styles) and instructors' teaching style may result in poor students performance, as indicated by low grades and lack of interest. The concept of the Inverted Classroom, as opposed to a traditional course, has already been implemented in courses in the General Engineering Department in order to improve the learning environment in the classroom. The proposed study, Improving Transportation Engineering Education by Applying the Inverted Classroom Concept, aims to gain knowledge on the influence of students' learning styles, instructors' teaching style, and learning environment on students' performance in three Transportation Engineering courses at the undergraduate level. The results of the study will be helpful in identifying the course modifications that are required to improve the learning process and therefore increases students' interest in Transportation Engineering.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 01:00:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Transportation Ed Pilot Program; Development, Deployment &amp; Assessment of a New Paradigm for Transportation Professionals and University Students: A collaboration of the Region X Transportation Consortium.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Alaska University Transportation Center (AUTC) will develop remote-based training modules for transportation professionals. The proposed curricula is problem-based focused on providing tools for the professional such as traffic simulation, structural analysis or planning modules. Learning in this new environment will build team building and communication skills. This is a new approach which encourages developing both technical and collaboration skills. AUTC will work with the Region X Transportation Consortium comprised of four university transportation centers from Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Idaho. Each center will develop and deliver training modules to the State departments of transportation (DOTs) and their partners. We are replicating the work environment of the 21st Century.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 01:01:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Introducing Transportation-Related Careers to Minority High School Students in Massachusetts Underserved Communities</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Robert R. Taylor Network (RRTN) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will pilot a program on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and transportation-related  careers  to minority high school students from underserved communities from the Brockton, MA area.  The program will be based at the MIT and executed during the Summer, Fall, and Winter of 2011.  The objective of the program is to develop the interests of the aforementioned students in STEM and to look at careers in transportation as economically viable.  RRTN proposes an introductory workshop and site visits for at least 15 students on "The Business of Transportation", culminating in attendance at the 26th Annual Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) Conference in Philadelphia, PA in February 2012.  Students will be recruited from Brockton High School and or the South East Vocational Technical High School as well as students in the New York City area by way of the Center for Quality Urban Education's (CQUE) High Performance Learning (HPL) Institute.  Over the course of the program the students will be introduced to the following 4 topics in transportation via site visits with practicing professionals: Land, Sea, Air, and Safety in association with MA Department of Transportation and BEYA corporate and government sponsors.  They will begin by discussing the business of transportation as it pertains to each area from professionals in the field.  There will be site visits to transportation workplaces where the students will be able to interact and observe real world transportation operations and professionals.  Where possible, there will be MIT faculty research presentations in transportation. The students will also conduct and present research on the history of minority contribution to the transportation industry, such as the work of Garrett Morgan, Wesley Harris, Meredith Gourdine and James H. Williams.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:31:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Graduate Research Training in Transportation Areas Year 2</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This project is aimed at graduate research training of students interested in pursuing careers in transportation areas. Financial support will be provided to recruit eight new graduate students interested in pursuing their doctoral degrees in transportation areas each year. These students can pursue their doctoral studies in any department at MST. In departments where a master's degree is the highest degree awarded, students pursuing their master's degree with thesis option will be considered. Areas as stated in the goals, interests and objectives of State Departments of Transportation and Missouri Department of Transportation in particular will be considered for support in this project.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:14:51 GMT</pubDate>
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