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Minor in Transportation and Logistics View .pdf file -Daily Northwestern article on new undergrad minor. The interschool Transportation and Logistics Program offers a minor that is available to all undergraduate students. 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. This Minor now 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. Additional information about the program is available from the Transportation Center.Students are required to complete seven courses, of which one is a required course, and at least three must be core courses. Students are not allowed to “double count” courses which are part of their major, but can count courses that form “related courses,” “distribution” or “social science/humanities” requirements. At least two courses must be outside the school in which the student is majoring. It is assumed that students will already have taken courses in calculus and in probability and statistics as part of their Major. In the listing of courses the following abbreviations identify the school and department. WCAS - Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences ECON Economics GEOG Geography HISTORY History POLI_SCI Political Science SOCIOL Sociology McC - McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science CIV_ENG Civil Engineering IEMS Industrial Engineering and Management Science Interschool Program TRANS Transportation Program REQUIRED COURSETRANS 310 Seminar in Transportation and Logistics. Course will meet weekly for a whole academic year. Enrolled students will obtain one credit based on formal enrollment in the Spring Quarter. Students should take this course during their senior year. You must taken at least five of the courses for the Minor by the time you formally enroll for the spring quarter. Syllabus: The seminar will consist of four parts. The first will be traditional lecture style formats by an NU faculty member concentrating on transportation policy. The second will be invited outside speakers from industry and government. The third will be field trips to transportation and logistics installations. The fourth will be student presentations of their own work completed as part of the two papers required for the course. It is anticipated that the first and fourth parts will comprise the bulk of the class time. Appropriate journal and newspaper articles dealing with policy and policy analysis will be used as readings. Evaluation: Evaluation will be based on two extended papers. The first will be a descriptive case study of a particular transportation or logistics firm or industry. The second will be a more analytical piece evaluating a specific public policy initiative. Students will also be graded on class participation. CORE COURSES Students must select at least three core courses, of which at least two are from Departments other than that in which they are majoring. No substitutions will be allowed for the core courses.
ELECTIVE COURSES The remainder of the program must be selected from additional core courses and the following list of approved elective courses. Courses offered by Northwestern University that are not listed here will be considered for credit towards the minor if the course is appropriate to the student's program of study. Approval for substitutions will be made by the Transportation Center's Program Committee based on a written submission made by the student.
• Graduate Level Courses Qualified advanced students may take the following courses upon petition to the instructor
• Independent Study Students may count up to one credit of approved independent study in transportation and logistics towards the minor. The student may register in either TRANS 399, or a 399 in the department appropriate for the supervising faculty member. |
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