MDOT presents free engineering curriculum to U.P. schools
Contact:James Lake, MDOT Office of Communications, 906-786-1830, ext. 321 Agency:Transportation
WHAT: The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is offering a new program designed to interest middle and high school students in transportation and civil engineering careers. Upper Peninsula (U.P.) school officials and teachers will have a chance to review and ask questions about the free Transportation and Civil Engineering (TRAC) program at an open house on Sept. 17.
WHO: MDOT Superior Region and Lansing employees
Interested U.P. school officials and teachers
WHEN: 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
Monday, Sept. 17
WHERE: MDOT Superior Region Office
1818 Third Ave. North
Escanaba
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, soils and bituminous engineer, at 906-786-1800.
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