Transportation Career Handbook helps you plan future
Calling all current and prospective students interested in transportation! The Center for Transportation Studies has just published a brand new Transportation Career Handbook to help students connect their studies at the University of Minnesota to possible careers in transportation. The handbook shows that even though the University does not offer a formal degree in transportation, it does provide a number of opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, and working professionals to obtain a multidisciplinary education in transportation. In addition to a wide variety of traditional degrees that will allow students entry into the field, the University also provides a graduate certificate in transportation studies.
The Transportation Career Handbook describes these education opportunities by dividing featured University departments into six categories: traffic engineering and analysis, planning and policy, vehicle design and engineering, structural and pavement engineering, management and logistics, and human and environmental factors.
That way, students are able to skip straight to the area of transportation that interests them the most. Plus, to help those who haven't yet decided on a career, the handbook includes a fun "roadmap" that links basic academic interests to the types of transportation-related careers that are available today. Students can also view an interactive, Web-based version of this roadmap on the CTS Web site at www.cts.umn.edu/careers/roadmap/.
Other features the handbook includes are listings of helpful CTS programs for students and professionals, highlights of innovative transportation-related research programs at the University, and photographs of transportation from yesterday and today. Order a copy of the Transportation Career Handbook by calling 612-626-1077 or by e-mailing cts@umn.edu, or you can view it on the Web at www.cts.umn.edu/careers/.
—Kari Seppanen