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Partnering to promote workforce development for the transportation profession : final report, August 31, 2008.

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  • Creators:
    Kommalapati, Raghava ORCID ICON IMG ; Perkins, Judy ; Stockton, William ; Benz, Robert ; Jasek, Deborah
  • Corporate Creators:
    Texas Transportation Institute
  • Corporate Contributors:
    United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
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  • Publication/ Report Number:
    UTCM 07-05
  • Resource Type:
    Tech Report
  • Geographical Coverage:
    Texas
  • Edition:
    Final report; Sept. 1, 2007-June 30, 2008.
  • Corporate Publisher:
    Texas Transportation Institute
  • Abstract:
    The objective of this multi-university/agency partnership among Prairie View A&M University, (PVAMU), ; Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) and Texas A&M University (TAMU) is to produce high quality ; transportation professionals from underrepresented groups. This partnership strengthens the existing ; pipeline program (Federal Highway Administration sponsored Summer Transportation Institute (STI)) ; between local high schools and PVAMU by attracting bright young minds for summer experiences during ; their last two summers before graduation from high school. One program is the current STI and the second ; is a new program for returning STI participants called STI Scholars. The more challenging STI Scholars ; curriculum allows Scholars to mentor first-year STI participants, while gaining valuable real world ; experience by observing and participating in projects conducted by transportation professionals at TTI. ; Scholars are then encouraged to pursue an undergraduate degree in the existing four-year Civil ; Engineering program at PVAMU. As part of this project, an advisory board for STI consisting of school ; teachers and counselors was established to increase the outreach of our programs to schools. A database ; containing more than 1,000 school teachers and counselors at more than 150 schools across Texas was ; developed and used to communicate the news about the 2008 STI program. A database of past STI ; participants was updated and communication links were established. A MySpace web page was created ; for STI and current and past STI participants were invited to join and network with each other. The ; preparatory work to establish the STI Scholars program was completed as part of this grant and the first ; STI Scholars program was conducted in June, 2008 utilizing the funds from the continuing UTCM grant.
  • Format:
    PDF
  • Funding:
    DTRT06-G-0044
  • Download URL:
    https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17916/dot_17916_DS1.pdf
  • File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 2.73 MB]
  • Collection(s):
    University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:50f8765c0b55ce42f3efd4c33d1b615437172c2dcdba39433c8dceddcd36c68adbff33c60141f2fcb5e4b6bbfb1841cefb1c6f60b49925938ccd571b70c6d13d
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