CIAM-COR-R36
Research Team
PI: Mehdi Shokouhian, Morgan State University
Co-PI: Steve Efe, Morgan State University
Funding Sources
Morgan State University Core Funds — $75,190
Morgan State University Match — $75,518
Total Project Cost — $150,708
Agency ID or Contract Number
69A3551847103
Start and End Dates
10/01/2021 — 09/30/2023
Project Description
As part of CIAMTIS outreach activities, we will engage in educational outreach at the high school level with an emphasis on outreach to engage new innovative materials, process development, and broaden participation in transportation engineering. We will contribute to the number of participating high school students that will enroll in transportation-related undergraduate Civil Engineering degree programs which will be monitored as a metric to gauge the Center’s success in outreach activities. The motivation for this project combines two pressing concerns in engineering education: (1) a general need for early introduction to transportation engineering in an efficient learning environment (specific need to educate early exposure of students in advanced composite materials), and (2) engineering licensure of graduates in transportation engineering to mitigate leakage in the engineering pathway, especially during professional practice. Minority students are still behind in the skills crucial for sustainable scientific and technological developments. To produce large number of highly skilled transportation engineering graduates it is crucial to make the high school students interested and prepared in this discipline. Early exposure of provides unique opportunity for them to evaluate engineering profession as a future career while developing their problem-solving skills through extensive hands-on transportation engineering experiments. It is important to create desirable outcomes by increasing participation of students including underrepresented groups in transportation engineering through innovative activities and experiences. This project will involve high school students in a four-week long hybrid course to influence their sense of belonging in engineering and opportunity for research experience.