Minor in Transportation and Logistics
Interdisciplinary Cross-School accredited Minor available to all Northwestern Undergraduates
Passenger and freight transportation represents nearly a fifth of the United States' Gross Domestic Product, and influences every aspect of our lives: where we live, where we work and the goods we can purchase. The study of transportation and logistics is inherently interdisciplinary, reaching across disciplines, schools and departments.
For more than forty years, Northwestern has offering relevant courses through the Departments of Civil and Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Department of Economics and other social science departments in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
The Minor offers undergraduate students the opportunity to obtain a more rounded education in transportation and logistics compared with that offered within their selected major program of study. The curriculum will equip students with a broad understanding of the economics, engineering and operations of transportation and logistics systems and the role of public policy.
The Minor is administered by the Transportation Center, an interdisciplinary research center founded in 1954. The Center has been recognized for decades as a leader in graduate education, and now wishes to extend this expertise to undergraduates. The Center has jointly appointed faculty from many of the participating Departments.
Students pursuing the Transportation and Logistics Minor will have . . .
- access to numerous transportation and logistics-related courses available in a variety of schools and departments across campus taught by faculty who are recognized experts in their fields.
- personalized academic advising by senior faculty
- opportunities for involvement in exciting transportation research projects
- access to highly specialized career counseling and numerous job opportunities with top companies
- membership in the NU Transportation Club - and involvement in all of its activities including field trips, executive luncheons, speaker events and social activities
- opportunities to attend research seminars and presentations at the Transportation Center
- interaction with fellow undergraduates interested in transportation and logistics, and the Transportation Center’s faculty, graduate students and alumni/alumnae
For More Information
Check out the four-page flyer.
Read the Daily Northwestern article on the undergraduate minor, written when it was introduced in 2001.
For general information and to join the mailing list for activities of the Transportation Center and the Transportation Club:
Diana Marek
Assistant Director for Academic Affairs
The Transportation Center
600 Foster Street, Third Floor
847-491-2280
For academic advising, and to declare a Minor see the Co-Program Directors:
Professor John Panzar
Department of Economics
Andersen Hall, Room 3226
2001 Sheridan Road
847-491-8242
jpanzar@northwestern.edu
Professor Ian Savage
Department of Economics
Andersen Hall, Room 330
2001 Sheridan Road
847-491-8241
ipsavage@northwestern.edu
Contact a Transportation Center affiliated faculty member in your department. These include:
Civil & Environmental Engineering: Professor Joseph Schofer
Industrial Engineering and Management Science: Professor Mark Daskin
Sociology: Professor Albert Hunter
Go to Degree requirements and list of courses.