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Advanced Transportation Institute 2008.
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2009-02-01
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Alternative Title:Advanced Transportation Summer Institute 2008.;UTCA theme: management and safety of transportation systems;
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OCLC Number:455361794
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Edition:Final report; Jan. 1, 2008-Dec. 31, 2008
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NTL Classification:NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Education
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Abstract:The seventh version of the Advanced Transportation Institute (ATI-08) was conducted in 2008 to encourage high school students to pursue careers in the field of transportation engineering. The University Transportation Center for Alabama partnered with the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) to teach a one-week Institute in June at ALDOT’s central office headquarters in Montgomery, Alabama. The headquarters location provided access to practicing transportation professionals who served as lecturers, and it provided a real-life, transportation working environment. A second three-day Institute was taught at the ALDOT Fifth Division office and the UTCA offices at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in July (ATI-5th Div-08).
ATI-08 was open to rising high school juniors and seniors, with preference given to African Americans and females. Participants came from high schools in west central Alabama from which ALDOT typically recruits. ATI-5th Div-08 was taught to middle and high school members of the Junior chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers.
Institute presentations, lab experiences, and field trips were designed to give participants a general overview of ALDOT, an introduction to transportation engineering as a career, and hands-on examples and challenges. The comprehensive evaluations conducted at the ends of ATI-08 and ATI-5th Div-08 indicated that the students enjoyed their experiences, and that they were influenced to consider transportation careers.
The 55 student participants in the two ATI sessions indicated that they enjoyed the experience, that they learned about transportation careers and ALDOT, and that (as a group) they were favorably influenced to consider transportation careers.
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