Attracting Students to a Professional Career in Transportation Engineering

PREFACE The great difficulty that employers, including universities, have had recently in finding engineering graduates to fill vacancies is a frequent topic of discussion among civil engineering professionals. This is especially true when seeking high quality engineering graduates in transportation engineering. The condition was brought to the attention of the Technical Council of the Institute of Transporta­ tion Engineers, and following extensive discussion, it was determined to be a subject of great importance that should be a topic of study and investigation. Subsequently, a committee was appointed, and I accepted an invitation to chair the committee and conduct a study that would investigate the problem. The result of the study was basically this report. The committee began its study in early 1986 and submitted its report in 1988.