Sponsor
ponsored by the California Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration. Grant No. DTRT07-G-0054
Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
6-1-2009
Subjects
Transportation -- Careers, Labor supply -- Case studies, Vocational guidance -- Evaluation, Urban planning -- Careers
Abstract
The transportation industry faces a growing shortage of professional engineers and planners. One key strategy in solving this problem will be to encourage more civil engineering and urban planning students to specialize in transportation while completing their degrees, so that employers have a larger pool of likely recruits. However, very little is known about how these students choose a specialization. To help fill that gap, this report examines the factors that lead civil engineering undergraduates and urban planning masters students to specialize in transportation, as opposed to other sub-disciplines within the two fields. The primary data collection methods were web-based surveys of 1,852 civil engineering undergraduates and 869 planning masters students. The study results suggest steps the transportation community can take to increase the number of civil engineering and planning students who choose to specialize in transportation.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/7955
Citation Details
Asha Weinstein Agrawal and Jennifer Dill, "Paving the way: Recruiting students into the transportation professions," Mineta Transportation Institute, San Jose University, June 2009.
Description
Copyright 2009 by the Mineta Transportation Institute. This document is available to the public through the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA 22161.