PANEL DISCUSSION: INTERNSHIP AND MENTORING PROGRAMS

A panel of five individuals from the public and private sectors and academia addressed internships and mentoring as means of transportation education and training. Shirley McCall, coordinator of the TransTech Academy Program at Cardozo Senior High School, served as panel moderator. She briefly described the program she coordinates, noting that the Transportation Research Board is among the organizations that provide TransTech students with internship opportunities. Evelyn Thomchick, Pennsylvania State University, described the Penn State Business Logistics Internship Program and commented on the increase in demand for business logistics majors in recent years. Stephen Blake, Center for Transportation Training, Education, and Research, Inc. (CTTER), described CTTER's Summer Transportation Intern Program for Diverse Groups (STIPDG) which took place from June 2 to August 8, 1997. This program, funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), provided an opportunity for students from diverse educational and social environments to spend 10 weeks at DOT working as interns with one of the modal administrations and performing research on selected transportation topics. Beatrice Lee, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), gave an overview of the different aspects of the MTA's mentor and internship program. Donna Sharp, Global Logic, describes a 3-year high school program called Logistics Program, which was initiated by the Council of Logistics Management New York City Roundtable and the Office of Occupational Education of the New York City Board of Education. The program is housed at the Norman Thomas High School for Commercial Education in Manhattan.

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• Authors:
  • McCall, S
  • Tomchick, E
  • Blake, S
  • Lee, B
  • Sharp, D
• Conference:
  • Intermodal Transportation Education and Training
  • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Date: 1997-11-2 to 1997-11-5
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: p. 79-82
• Monograph Title: INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION EDUCATION AND TRAINING. PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON, D.C., NOVEMBER 2-5, 1997
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings
  • Issue Number: 17
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 1073-1652

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Education; Governments; High schools; Intermodal transportation; Private enterprise; Training; Universities and colleges
• Uncontrolled Terms: Internships; Mentoring
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Education and Training; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration;

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• Accession Number: 00752179
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309064538
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 18 1998 12:00AM