To be a Transportation Engineer or Not?
To be a Transportation Engineer or Not?
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是否成为一名交通工程师？
DOI：
10.3141/2046-10
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Jennifer Dill
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文献类型：
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作者：
A. W. Agrawal;Jennifer Dill
运输业面临着越来越缺乏专业工程师的问题。解决这一问题的一个关键策略将是鼓励更多的土木工程专业学生在完成本科学位的同时专攻交通运输，这样雇主就会有更多的潜在招聘人员。本文探讨了导致土木工程专业本科生选择交通运输专业的因素，并与其他土木工程分支学科进行了比较。使用的主要方法是对1,852名土木工程专业本科生进行的网络调查。研究结果建议，交通界可以采取措施，增加选择交通专业的土木工程本科生的数量。教育工作者需要在一年级和二年级的必修课程中引入材料，展示交通领域可供选择的一系列动态职业机会，雇主需要增加和更好地宣传交通实习。
The transportation industry faces a growing shortage of professional engineers. A key strategy in solving this problem will be to encourage more civil engineering students to specialize in transportation while completing their undergraduate degree so that employers have a larger pool of likely recruits. This paper examines the factors that lead civil engineering undergraduates to specialize in transportation, as opposed to other civil engineering subdisciplines. The primary method used was a web-based survey of 1,852 civil engineering undergraduates. The study results suggest steps the transportation community can take to increase the number of civil engineering undergraduates who choose to specialize in transportation. Educators need to introduce material into required freshman and sophomore courses that shows the range of dynamic career possibilities available in the transportation field, and employers need to increase and better publicize transportation internships.