Earn a master's degree in transportation engineering through Iowa State University. Classes in the program include advanced highway design, traffic engineering, urban transportation planning and management, transportation systems analysis, transportation economics and transportation data analysis. Students may choose to conduct a thesis project. While on campus, students may get involved in the transportation student association, American society of civil engineers, geoengineering society, steel bridge competition and honor societies such as Sigma Lambda Chi, the national construction engineering society.
Applicants require a bachelor's degree in civil engineering; students with bachelor's degrees in other subjects may be accepted with provisional standing but may require extra coursework. Students who wish to take their education even further may explore Iowa's Ph.D. in transportation engineering program.
Iowa State University
Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering
394 Town Engineering
Ames, IA 50011
515-294-2140
www.iastate.edu
Housed in the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley, the master's in transportation engineering program may take between one or two years, culminating in a thesis project or oral examination. Classes include operation of transportation facilities, transportation systems engineering, intelligent systems engineering, air transportation, public transportation systems, transportation economics and transportation infrastructure management. While on campus, students may gain real-world experience working at Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies.
Research assistantships and fellowships are available to students in the program. Applicants must have a bachelor's degree in any field with at least one year of calculus, physical science, mechanics and waves, engineering, probability and statistics. A Ph.D. program is also available in the transportation engineering field.
University of California, Berkeley
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
750 Davis Hall, #1710
Berkeley, CA 94720-1710
510-642-6464
www.berkeley.edu
Students who prefer to learn from home may be interested in the online graduate certificate in transportation engineering from Kansas State University. The year-long program includes classes in pavement design, traffic engineering, traffic flow theory, transportation safety, travel demand modeling, civil engineering materials and economics of design and construction. Prior to receiving their certificates, all students will either complete a research paper with a grade of B or higher or present collected results of a transportation-related study to Kansas State faculty.
Program applicants must have a bachelor's degree in civil engineering (other majors may be accepted provisionally) with a minimum grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Students with a degree in civil engineering do not need to submit graduate record exam scores.
Kansas State University
2118 Fiedler Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6011
www.k-state.edu