TTI, TAMU TEACHING TOMORROW'S PROFESSIONALS TODAY

As transportation enters the 21st century, one of the industry's greatest needs is to employ well-trained and well-educated professionals capable of meeting the challenges of a new millennium. For more than 50 years, Texas A&M University (TAMU) and the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) have been meeting this need by educating the next generation of transportation professionals through quality research and project opportunities. The TTI-TAMU partnership exposes students to cutting-edge transportation technology and produces graduates who have a head start in the transportation field. By including intelligent transportation systems concepts and other specialized transportation applications in transportation courses, students are educated early in the technology they will use through their educational and professional careers. More than 4,000 individuals who have worked for TTI or have a degree from TAMU are practicing transportation professionals working in 47 states, the District of Columbia, and 18 foreign countries. Sidebars profile two current graduate students.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, 1600 E Lamar Boulevard
  Arlington, TX  United States  76011
• Authors:
  • Rilett, L
  • Perkinson, D
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 6-7
• Serial:
  • Texas Transportation Researcher
  • Volume: 35
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Texas Transportation Institute
  • ISSN: 0040-4748

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Civil engineering; Education; Graduate students; Graduate study; Intelligent transportation systems; Personnel development; Training; Transportation engineering; Transportation engineers; Universities and colleges
• Identifier Terms: Texas A&M University; Texas Transportation Institute
• Geographic Terms: Texas
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00792388
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 20 2000 12:00AM