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IGERT: Computational Transportation

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.)

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IGERT: Computational Transportation

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  1. IGERT: Computational Transportation Educational Program August 22, 2007 Bob Sloan

  2. 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

  3. Nuts & Bolts: Required IGERT Courses • 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. • CME 508, Urban Travel Forecasting. • Offered this fall; likely to be offered every fall. • IDS 594, IT & Economics of Urban Transportation. • Offered this fall; new course designed for IGERT; next offering Spring 2009 (with new #).

  4. IGERT Required Courses (cont) • CS/UPP 5??, Computational Transportation Principles. • Core of the subject; offered last spring; next offered this spring (??). Take at first opportunity. • GC 495 (last time)/CS ??: Privacy, Security, Ethics, & Legal issues • Offered last summer; possibly this spring as cross list with Kent/IIT law school

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

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