Education
CFIRE’s educational goal is fostering a multidisciplinary program of course work and experiential learning that reinforces the transportation theme of the Center. CFIRE promotes greater understanding of freight and intermodal systems in its traditional transportation engineering curriculum. This is accomplished by using the Transportation Management and Policy Graduate Certificate Program Curriculum to highlight freight-related projects. The STAR Associate Directors and Consortium Partner representatives each weave freight-focused activities into their courses.
CFIRE also promotes student and faculty excellence through its programs. Each year, the Center nominates one Student of the Year to be honored at the Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting. CFIRE encourages students to compete in various fellowship programs including the FHWA’s Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship in Transportation and the Eno Transportation Fellowship. Faculty excel in research and have won many awards for their contribution to the transportation field.
Education is the core of academic institutions, and CFIRE continues to promote programs that foster transportation leaders for 21st Century transportation needs. Through course offerings, encouraging academic excellence in transportation, and promoting transportation curricula, CFIRE will continue to lead in fostering transportation professionals and scholars.
Recent Education News
- 2012 Wisconsin Regional Future City Competition
The 19th Annual Future City Competition was held at the Milwaukee School of Engineering's Kern Center on Saturday, January 21. Forty-two teams competed for the regional title and an all-expenses paid trip to the National Future City Competition Final...
- Talking Freight: FRATIS
Talking Freight Seminar January 18, 2012 The January edition of the FHWA Talking Freight seminar will focus on the Freight Advanced Traveler Information System (FRATIS). Improving the efficiency of goods movement in and through an urban core is a ...
- Freight Transportation Leadership Academy
The University of Memphis will be hosting the Freight Transportation Leadership Academy starting in February 2012. This 4-part certification program is targeted for mid-upper level executive positions. This program offers a unique collaboration b...
- Shifting Freight to Rail to Improve Air Quality
Erica Bickford's work on truck-rail modal shifts and air quality was recently featured by Science Daily: Shifting from road to rail 500 million tons of the freight passing through or to the Midwest would make a large dent in the carbon dioxide spilled...
- UW-Superior's Chong Named CFIRE Student of the Year
[caption id="attachment_2166" align="alignleft" width="139" caption="Kenneth Chong"][/caption] Kenneth Chong, an undergraduate majoring in transportation and logistics at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, has been named the 2011 CFIRE Student of...
