Education

MATC’s educational initiatives are quickly becoming a showpiece of the UTC program thanks to the high priority it receives in terms of faculty involvement and financial support. Our focus remains on a very select amount of critical elements such as stipend support for the undergraduate and graduate students, curriculum enhancement, faculty development, and educational outreach to K-12 students. With these, our goal is to continue to pursue new avenues and foundations in transportation education that will simultaneously recruit new students into the transportation field, as well as expose them to multi-disciplinary issues by the transportation professionals in academia and the public and private sectors.

Even though transportation systems and the industry have become ever-more technologically intertwined, the number of transportation research oriented students produced by national universities is declining. One of the hallmark strategies underpinning the design of the Region 7 UTC educational activities is that the greatest potential for reversing the paucity of domestic students pursing advanced transportation degrees is to offer timely, sophisticated education and research training experiences, especially to students from the underrepresented groups. With this in mind, MATC is always working to involve more students within a multitude of engineering disciplines – from intelligent transportation systems, roadway and bridge design, construction, and evaluation and maintenance.

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MATC Undergraduate Internship Program:

Our widely successful Internship Program provides students the opportunity to learn more about transportation engineering careers by working for a transportation engineering consulting firm or public transportation agency.

MATC Summer Institute:

A staple of our K-12 educational outreach program, the Summer Institute brings educators and transportation professionals together to develop materials for their students based on transportation research. The main focus of this institute is to encourage K-12 students to pursue careers in transportation-related fields.

MATC Scholars Program:

The Graduate Education Program provides the Scholars Program for Safety and Risk to students that will be designed to attract U.S. students to the transportation field. Comprised of summer research activities and fellowships, students will research and identify relevant transportation-related safety issues and their solutions, all while working with mentors who are practicing transportation professionals.