Description

The College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology at the California State University, Los Angeles has expanded its National Summer Transportation Institute into a year-long program by creating the Infrastructure Academy Transportation Program (IATP). The goal of this program is to build a pipeline of diverse, well qualified young people for the transportation industry. The program works with high school students and teachers to offer academic courses, basic skills, workforce readiness training, internships, extracurricular activities, and career placements to prepare students and place them into the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) College track. The academy emphasizes on transportation as an industry sector and aims to increase the number of underrepresented minorities and women who directly enter the transportation workforce. It also aims at increasing the number of young people who enter college to study engineering or technology and subsequently pursue careers in transportation- and infrastructure-related careers. The IATP was conducted as a full-year program with 30 student participants from high schools.

Publication Date

1-2021

Publication Type

Report

Topic

Workforce and Labor

Digital Object Identifier

10.31979/mti.2021.1919

MTI Project

1919

Keywords

Workforce Development, STEM, Transportation Career, Transportation Outreach, Transportation Education

Disciplines

Infrastructure | Transportation

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1919-Hashemian-RB-Infrastructure-Academy-Program.pdf (1115 kB)
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