Education and Workforce Development

The TBD Center’s education and workforce development (EWD) mission is to build a workforce that is fully prepared to employ multidisciplinary approaches to “understand, apply, design, deploy, operate, and maintain the multidimensional complex transportation systems of the future”.

TBD Center’s Education and Workforce Development Initiatives:

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs: Launching two scalable, online, interdisciplinary graduate certificate programs.

Undergraduate Research Involvement: Engaging undergraduate students as research assistants in faculty-led projects, providing experiential learning and motivation for graduate transportation studies.

Industry-Education Connections: Enhancing student connections with transportation industry employers through targeted activities.

K-12 Outreach: Developing programs for elementary, middle, and high school students and teachers to deepen understanding of the transportation profession, accessibility/equity challenges, mitigation strategies, and career opportunities.

Equity and Opportunity: Identifying and addressing barriers to opportunity, leveraging existing programs, and targeted outreach to K-12 students and teachers.

Advanced Training Materials: Creating training resources at the intersection of transportation, advanced technology, data analytics, and modeling.

Annual Training Workshops: Hosting two significant annual training workshops in areas of advanced transportation technologies and data analytics.

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Explore a wide range of education and workforce development initiatives of the TBD Center.

Interdisciplinary Transportation Curriculum

K-12 Education Resources

K-12 Outreach

Training Materials

Workshops

Internship and Scholarship Opportunities

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TBD National Center 2024 Student of the Year Awardee

Amy Z. Fong

University of Michigan

TBD’s Impact in Numbers!

TBD involves nearly 100 graduate and undergraduate students in its research, organizes at least one K-12 outreach event per year, hosts biweekly seminars, and develops extracurricular activities.

100+

Undergraduate and graduate students

30+

Courses taught by core TBD faculty to date

10+

Webinars+ to date

3+

Outreach events organized to date

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