IGERT: Computational IGERT: Computational TransportationTransportation

Educational Program

August 22, 2007

Bob Sloan

Big Picture: Ph.D. PLUSBig 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 Nuts & Bolts: Required IGERT CoursesCourses

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. • Offered this fall; likely to be offered every fall.

3. IDS 594, IT & Economics of Urban Transportation.

• Offered this fall; new course designed for IGERT; next offering Spring 2009 (with new #).

IGERT Required Courses (cont)IGERT Required Courses (cont)

4. CS/UPP 5??, Computational Transportation Principles.

• 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

• Offered last summer; possibly this spring as cross list with Kent/IIT law school

Nuts & bolts: Bean countingNuts & 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 studentsFall 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 expectationsOverall 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 experienceForeign 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 baseIdea: 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.