INTERDISCIPLINARY MASTER IN TRANSPORTATION DEGREE

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of a feasibility study for an interdisciplinary graduate program in Transportation at the Pennsylvania State University. The study was funded jointly by the College of Engineering and the Department of Civil Engineering at Penn State and was conducted during the summer of 1996. The Penn State Department of Civil and Environmental already has a comprehensive transportation engineering program in place, which could be expanded to draw on the resources of many other departments in various colleges. The objectives of this study were: to identify resources within the University that could be included in such a program; to determine the needs within an interdisciplinary transportation graduate program from the perspective of potential graduate students and potential employers of transportation students, and to benchmark other interdisciplinary transportation programs.