Transportation Engineering Schools

Southern Methodist University

• The Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University offers a master's degree in civil engineering with an emphasis on transportation systems. Courses include computer-aided design, construction methods and rehabilitation, linear programming and transportation planning and traffic engineering. Students who already hold a master's degree may obtain this degree in as few as 18 semester credit hours, or six classes in the department's fast track second master's program. The school offers some courses in the curriculum via on-line distance learning. Students have extracurricular learning opportunities through the Caruth Institute for Engineering Education and can study abroad with the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity.

  Southern Methodist University
  6425 Boaz Lane
  Dallas, TX 75205
  214-768-2000
  smu.edu

University of California at Berkeley

• The graduate transportation engineering program at University of California at Berkeley prepares students for engineering careers in the work force, teaching and research. Students learn techniques for cost-effectively creating, maintaining and re-developing transportation systems. Core courses in the program include transportation policy, planning and development, transportation facilities operation and transportation systems analysis. Other topics include air transportation, logistics and economics. Each week, students attend a student-faculty social hour and seminar for discussing current issues in transportation. Students may pursue a complementary focus in one of seven other areas: economic, energy and environmental, infrastructure engineering and management, intelligent transportation systems, logistics and supply chain management, planning and policy or traffic analysis and control.

  University of California at Berkeley
  Department of Civil-Transportation Engineering
  Berkeley, CA 94720
  510-643-1084
  berkeley.edu

University of Texas at Austin

• The master's in transportation engineering program at University of Texas at Austin trains students to plan, design, construct and manage integrated transportation systems. Courses include advanced geometric design, neighborhood transportation planning, preventative maintenance for asphalt and contemporary transportation issues. Program participants and undergraduate students with an interest in transportation engineering have extracurricular learning opportunities with the student chapters of the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the Intelligent Transportation Society through a distinguished lecture series and transportation facility tours. The school offers an 11-week summer internship in transportation for undergraduate students. The Center for Transportation Research, which opened in 1963, features an annual symposium that showcases student work.

  University of Texas at Austin
  Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
  1 University Station, C1761
  Austin, TX 78712
  512-232 6272
  utexas.edu