Career Guidance
MBTC provides students with access to transportation professionals in both formal and informal settings, such as its annual Distinguished Lecture Series. When public- and private-sector transportation professionals visit the Center, MBTC encourages them to share their professional experiences with students, discuss how Center programs can benefit industry, and suggest way students can improve their employment prospects.
The Center builds relationships with private industry and public agencies to develop internship opportunities for students in the areas of transportation management, leadership, and engineering.MBTC sends students to local, regional, and national transportationmeetings and conferences to familiarize students with real-life transportation issues and provide them with opportunities to learn from transportation experts. The Center also arranges for students to visit significant transportation projects and construction sites in the region. In addition, all MBTC-funded projects are required to provide for student participation in transportation research.
Through Center-sponsored activities and its Professional Advisory Board, MBTC works with transportation professionals to create summer job opportunities for students. MBTC also works with the U of A's Office of Cooperative Education to help students learn about internship programs and opportunities for permanent positions in transportation-related organizations.
Released Today May 7, 2008
MBTC 2077, Networked Sensor System for Automated Data Collecton and Analysis.
MBTC 2097, Automated Inventory and Aalysis of Highway Assets, Phase-II.
MBTC Announces Staff Changes
Heather Nachtmann has been appointed as the new director for the Mack-Blackwell Rural Transportation Center. More > >
