Transcript Educational program overview by Prof. Sloan

IGERT: Computational
Transportation
Educational Program
August 22, 2007
Bob Sloan
Big Picture: Ph.D. PLUS
• Every IGERT Fellow will complete all
requirements for Ph.D. from “home”
department/school (currently Computer
Science, Grad School of Business, Urban
Planning and Policy, Civil Eng.)
• IGERT Fellows will additionally complete
IGERT course requirements
– Can use IGERT requirement for home Ph.D.
requirements
Nuts & Bolts: Required IGERT
Courses
1. Urban Planning and Policy 560, Urban
Transportation I. This fall for introduction to
Urban Transportation.
•
All IGERT Fellows expected to take this their first
fall unless already taken.
2. CME 508, Urban Travel Forecasting.
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Offered this fall; likely to be offered every fall.
3. IDS 594, IT & Economics of Urban
Transportation.
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Offered this fall; new course designed for IGERT;
next offering Spring 2009 (with new #).
IGERT Required Courses (cont)
4. CS/UPP 5??, Computational
Transportation Principles.
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Core of the subject; offered last spring; next
offered this spring (??). Take at first
opportunity.
5. GC 495 (last time)/CS ??: Privacy,
Security, Ethics, & Legal issues
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Offered last summer; possibly this spring as
cross list with Kent/IIT law school
Nuts & bolts: Bean counting
• You must both
– Take all 5 required courses
– Complete your home department’s PhD
requirements
• Example: Computer Science PhD course
requirements:
– We will count Comp. Trans. Principles &
Ethics as classes inside CS; we allow 2
outside CS; students may wind up taking one
“extra” course relative to other CS PhDs.
Fall 2007 for new students
• Required IGERT Course: UPP 560
• One course from home department
• Either zero or one more course,
depending on your advisor’s wishes,
(maybe 2 more if really concentrating on
courses vs. research this semester).
• Seminar series and other IGERT activities
Overall Program expectations
• 4 Years to Ph.D.
• Full-time, 12 months/year, especially while on
IGERT Fellow paycheck
• Summers=research time, & maybe
ethics/privacy course one summer
• Weekly seminar almost year round; attendance
expected
• Small research project this spring semester for
new students; minor submission from it
• Foreign experience for most or all, probably
typically summer after year 2.
Foreign experience
• Continuing students, start discussing our
foreign partners with your advisor now!
We’ve been generously funded for
Fellows’ foreign research visits.
• Have some funds for shorter exploratory
visits around winter or spring break
• Hope many of you will spend 1–3 months
abroad this summer.
Idea: New field and home base
• Each of you will help us build the new
discipline of computational transportation;
we’ll all need some common knowledge in
both transportation and
computer/information science
• Also, each of you will be legitimate
traditional Ph.D.