MDOT offers free engineering curriculum to U.P. schools
WHAT: The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is offering a new program, Transportation and Civil Engineering (TRAC), designed to interest middle and high school students in transportation and civil engineering careers. Teachers and school officials in Houghton, Baraga and Keweenaw counties will have a chance to receive free professional training, educational modules, and continuing education credits. The TRAC program has been aligned to the Michigan Education Standards for High School Curriculum. Lunch will be provided.
WHO: Teachers and interested U.P. school officials
Civil engineering professionals
WHEN: 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
Monday, Aug. 25, and Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008
WHERE: Copper Country Intermediate School District
809 Hecla St.
Hancock
Special accommodations: 906-786-1800
BACKGROUND: The TRAC program offers learning plans for eight topics: bridge building; city planning;, highway development and the environment; highway safety; magnetic levitation; motion and the transportation engineer; roadway design and construction; and traffic technology. In addition to instruction manuals, the modules include kits with materials and supplies for hands-on engineering experience. MDOT provides trainers to help teachers incorporate the curriculum, and local employees have volunteered to visit classrooms to support the TRAC lessons. For more information, contact Julie VanPortfliet, MDOT soils and bituminous engineer, at 906-786-1800, or visit www.michigan.gov/mdot-trac.
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