Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meg E. West, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. Undergraduate students can receive jobs in and around the same locationof their alma mater, which leads to the need to gain knowledge of the geography and populationto be a successful transportation engineer in that area. Turochy [22] gave the example of “aninstitution located in a large metropolitan area may place a higher value on a multimodalapproach (including coverage of mass transit systems) than an institution in a small collegetown” (p. 202).The increase of information technology applications, including simulations, in recent years hascreated the need to educate future engineers on the use of them and how to interpret theiroutputs. This adds another topic to the already expansive course syllabus. The fact thattransportation agencies are