Stepback, L., & Ohland, M. W., & Katz, A. (2025, June), From Railroads to Electrified Roadways: How Lessons from United States Engineering Education Can Power Tomorrow's Infrastructure  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada . https://peer.asee.org/56615

\bibitem{asee_peer_56615}
  Stepback, L., \& Ohland, M. W., \& Katz, A. (2025, June), \emph{From Railroads to Electrified Roadways: How Lessons from United States Engineering Education Can Power Tomorrow's Infrastructure}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada .
  https://peer.asee.org/56615

Lazlo Stepback, Matthew W. Ohland, and Amanda Katz.  "From Railroads to Electrified Roadways: How Lessons from United States Engineering Education Can Power Tomorrow's Infrastructure".  2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/56615 Internet.  20 Aug, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_56615}
  Lazlo Stepback, Matthew W. Ohland, and Amanda Katz.
  "From Railroads to Electrified Roadways: How Lessons from United States Engineering Education Can Power Tomorrow's Infrastructure".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/56615 Internet.  20 Aug, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Some of the largest engineering projects in the United States have been national infrastructure projects such as the creation transcontinental railroad and the interstate highway system. These large-scale infrastructure projects require a combination of training new workers, and helping the existing workforce to develop new skills, to bring those projects to reality in an effective and efficient manner. With the advent and popularization of modern electric vehicles, United States infrastructure is facing another potential change involving the electrification of roadways, mass installation of charging stations, and development of dynamic wireless power transfer systems. We, as engineering educators, need to prepare the current and future workforce to be able to meet the demands of electrifying infrastructure and to address the challenges associated with such a large change. In this paper, we investigate the history of how engineers and other workers were educated and trained for previous national infrastructure projects and highlight the educational and policy trends that helped these projects succeed.  Additionally, we show ways to leverage this history to improve the current education of engineers and other workers for the purpose of electrifying roadways.  
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