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Paving the way : recruiting students into the transportation professions.
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2009-06-01
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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.
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