Southeastern Transportation Center
Education

Our vision of the STC is that it will be a highly visible and focused academic entity whose primary mission is to educate the transportation professionals of the 21st Century. Our view of "education" is broad and includes graduate and undergraduate education across the many disciplines involved in transportation issues, as well as technology and information transfer to practitioners, researchers, and policy makers. In addition, a critical part of the education process is research. Our vision is to fully integrate a strong and coordinated research program with the educational and technology transfer components of the STC. In keeping with the most critical need of our region and consistent with the strengths and resources of our member universities, we have selected "transportation safety" as our guiding theme. All of our activities will relate to and advance this theme.

At the nucleus of the STC is a graduate Advanced Institute (AI) headquartered at the University of Tennessee. The focus of this graduate component is to educate transportation professionals with a special emphasis in transportation safety. These students will be attracted from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and will complete a core curriculum of safety-related courses which are multimodal and intermodal in content.

The STC AI also supports graduate students enrolled at the other member universities. In this way, students throughout the region can benefit from and contribute to the STC and they will have access to the unique resources and specialty areas available at the various STC member institutions. We believe that this approach will ensure a highly effective and efficient utilization of UTC resources, and will maximize benefits for the UTC investment throughout the region. Technical activities, fiscal arrangements, and management systems will be in place so that the graduate students at all of the STC campuses strongly identify and regularly interface with the STC and the regional AI. The students complete core instructional modules in transportation safety, which have been developed at the University of Tennessee. This common curriculum includes interactive and video sessions, visiting faculty and speakers, joint student projects, etc. The students all participate in the annual student and attend the annual meeting of the TRB.

In order to attract future leaders into careers in transportation, it is most important to recruit top individuals at the undergraduate and high school levels. This is especially true among traditionally underrepresented groups such as blacks, women, and native Americans. Our vision is to support an STC undergraduate transportation program at NCA&T, specifically for this purpose. The STC students complete a conventional undergraduate degree program related to transportation, and are required to work on a transportation research or internship project. The undergraduate students participate in the various STC activities along with the graduate students whenever appropriate. It is also envisioned that the brightest undergraduate students will go on to select one of the STC graduate institutions to receive specialized graduate education in their chosen transportation specialty areas. This "pipeline" concept in fact has been in place for four years under the existing STC funding, and there is great promise that some of the first group of entering students will continue on.

COURSES

Graduate Undergraduate
Special STC Graduate Courses: Intermodal Transportation & Safety Special Topics in Highway Safety

Graduate Courses

Legend:
DU = Duke University
GSU = Georgia State
NCA&T = North Carolina A&T
 NC = North Carolina State
UF = Univ of Florida
UK = Univ of Kentucky
 		UNC-CH = UNC - Chapel Hill
UNC-C = UNC - Charlotte
USF = Univ of Southern Florida
 UT = Univ of Tennessee
VU = Vanderbilt

Courses DU GSU NC
A&T		 NC UF UK UNC
CH		 UNC
C		 USF UT VU
  • Accident Reconstruction
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  • Advanced Information Systems in Transportation
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  • Advanced Topics in Transportation and Safety
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  • Advanced Traffic Control Systems
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  • Advanced Traffic Engr.
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  • Advanced Transportation Systems
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  • Air Quality Control
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  • Airport Planning & Operations
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  • Airport Planning of Design
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  • Aviation Safety
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  • Bridge Design
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  • Civil Engineering/ Transportation Systems
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  • Discrete Choice Models
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  • Directed Problems
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  • Environmental Risk Management - Intermodal Safety
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  • Evaluation of Transportation Impacts
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  • Freeway Design and Operations
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  • GIS Applications in Transportation
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  • Graduate Thesis
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  • Highway and Airport Pavements
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  • Highway Design
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  • Highway Safety
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  • Highway Safety
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  • Individual Research
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  • Individual Study
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  • Intermodal Safety
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  • Intermodal Transportation and Safety
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  • ITS
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  • Land Use and Transportation
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  • Logistics Management
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  • Micro-Computing in Transportation
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  • Multi-modal Materials Management
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  • Pavement Design
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  • Public Trans. Systems
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  • Special Topics (Air Pollution Dispersion)
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  • Special Topics in Transportation
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  • Survey Methods in Transportation
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  • Systems Analysis in Transportation
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  • Traffic Control & Operations
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  • Traffic Control Systems
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  • Traffic Engineering
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  • Traffic Flow Theory
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  • Traffic Operations
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  • Traffic Signal Systems
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  • Traffic Flow Theory
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  • Transportation Administration
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  • Transportation Analysis Methods
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  • Transportation Design & the Environment
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  • Transportation Geography - Mobility and Impact
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  • Transportation Management
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  • Transportation Planning
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  • Transportation Policy
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  • Transportation Policy Formulations
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  • Transportation Procurement and Purchasing
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  • Transportation Security
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  • Transportation Systems Analysis
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  • Transportation Topics
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  • Travel Demand Analysis
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  • Urban Public Transportation
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  • Urban Systems Engr.
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  • Urban Transportation Concepts - Transit Management
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  • Urban Transportation Economics and Finance
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  • Urban Transportation Models
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    Undergraduate Courses

    Legend:
    DU = Duke University
    GSU = Georgia State
    NCA&T = North Carolina A&T
    		 NC = North Carolina State
    UF = Univ of Florida
    UK = Univ of Kentucky
         		UNC-CH = UNC - Chapel Hill
    UNC-C = UNC - Charlotte
    USF = Univ of Southern Florida
    		 UT = Univ of Tennessee
    VU = Vanderbilt

    Courses DU GSU NC
    A&T    		 NC UF UK UNC
    CH    		 UNC
    C    		 USF UT VU
  • Computing in CE
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  • Economics of Transportation
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  • Introduction to Logistics
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  • Materials Management
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  • Motor Carrier Management
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  • National Transportation Policy
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  • Procurement and Purchasing
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  • Roadway Design
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  • Traffic Engineering
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  • Transportation Design
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  • Transportation Engineering
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  • Transportation Law
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  • Transportation Projects
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  • Urban Transportation Concepts
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