U.S. Critically Short of Civil Engineers

The Transportation and Civil Engineering (TRAC - http://www.trac.net) Program is the hands-on education program of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). TRAC is made available to secondary schools (high schools and Junior high schools) through regional centers where the Departments of Transportation (DOTs) work in partnership with other government organizations, universities, non-profit organizations, and private industry. At it's most basic level, TRAC is a program designed for integration into science, math, and social studies classes.

In actual practice, TRAC sends volunteer Transportation professionals into secondary schools with TRAC PAC. This consists of a computer, electronic data collection and analysis instruments, hands-on modeling materials, and more than three dozen activities based on real-world transportation problems.

By engaging students in solving real-world problems, TRAC connects kids to the work world of transportation. And TRAC's specific focus of improving work force diversity helps resolving one of the most pressing problems faced by this predominately white male profession: how to draw talented women and minorities into the field of transportation.

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Education

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• transportation
• engineering
• AASHTO
• students
• education
• bridges
• roads
• highways
• freeways

[pawpawnorth]

@FUSSYMUAYTHAI caps lock doesn't make you smart.

[FUSSYMUAYTHAI]

DO YOU HEAR THEM LIES ,

THE FILTHY RHETORIC IS SPEWING AS HIS MOUTH MOVES..

CONSTUCTION IS DOWN !!!!! LOOK AT THE DATE 2008 ..

EVERY CONTRACTOR ALWAYS COMPLAINS THEY NEED MORE GOOD WORKERS.. A CONSTANT LAMENT ..

THE VERY TOP ONE PERCENT MAY GET TEMP WORK . ALL OTHERS WILL STARVE .

ONLY THE SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS BENIFITE SINCE THEY GET PAID .

[TOBTransPlanInc]

Thanks for posting this video. It was really relevant to our Transportation Engineering and Traffic Planning blog.

If you'd like to see the entry connected to this video, go to the website link at our YouTube page. The entry is labeled "What Are Pass-by Trips?"

[vjpillay]

It is a great video to promote civil engineering to the students and i see the enthusiasm of girls and women in engineering.I of cause studied and worked with women engineers more than 3 decades ago but i can see a great future for civil engineeing particualarly in usa ,uk and worldwide to rebulit the infrsastructure and put worldwide recession to history .