Development, Deployment, and Assessment of a New Educational Paradigm for Transportation Professionals and University Students

Ashley Haire, Portland State University

Summary:

This project summary report describes the execution of OTREC Project #298 (Development, Deployment and Assessment of a New Educational Paradigm for Transportation Professionals and University Students). The project is one facet of a multiyear collaboration of the Region X Transportation Consortium that was sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The regional collaboration aims to shift the traditional paradigm of engineering course delivery to foster a more hands-on approach. The University of Idaho, for example, has created activity-based modules for a traffic signals course, while the University of Washington developed similar modules for a freight systems course. The focus of the work undertaken at Portland State University (PSU) is aimed at introducing transportation engineering graduate students to methods for evaluating and analyzing transportation data.

Project Details

Project Type:
Education
Project Status:
Completed
End Date:
June 30,2011
UTC Grant Cycle:
OTREC 2010
UTC Funding:
$30,000