Education
Northwestern University has a long history of supporting transportation related education through several academic departments and centers including the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Science, the Infrastructure Technology Institute and the Transportation Center in the McCormick School of Engineering. The two aforementioned engineering departments offer the primary courses in transportation and logistics at Northwestern.
In addition, the McCormick School has a strong focus on design engineering, entrepreneurship and innovation. These activities are driven by the Institute for Design Engineering and Applications and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The Center for the Commercialization of Innovative Transportation Technology engages these existing resources and opportunities to provide new opportunities for students to explore innovative transportation-related research and development. Our desired outcome is to increase the number of students participating in transportation design projects.
Each year CCITT will select one student of the year (SOY) from the group of students participating in research projects and classroom-based design projects, award the student a $1000 stipend and send the student to the winter meeting of the Transportation Research Board.
