Undergraduate Program

Undergraduate Coursework

The University of Delaware currently offers a variety of undergraduate courses in transportation, mainly through the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Undergraduates in CEE are required to take CIEG351 Transportation Engineering and CIEG451 Transportation Laboratory. The Transportation Engineering course is inherently interdisciplinary, as it covers traditional areas of transportation facility design and traffic engineering but presents them in the context of community values or context sensitive solutions, fiscal constraints, and national and local policy issues (for example, congestion, energy, and environment). CIEG451 is taught in the recently renovated ITS Laboratory, which includes state-of-the-art software and access to real-time video and sensor data from DelDOT.

Undergraduates are also exposed to transportation issues in EGGG167 Introduction to Engineering, and the capstone project in CIEG461 Senior Design includes transportation as one of four integral components, or disciplines. Furthermore, the seniors are required to design a bridge as the structural element of the capstone course. In addition, undergraduate students have access to a wide variety of electives.

Interested undergraduates should review the civil engineering curriculum requirements and apply through the UD Admissions Office.

Undergraduate Research Experiences

The UDUTC offers three different opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in research, as described below:

Intensive 10-week summer research program for undergraduates
In cooperation with the Disaster Research Center’s Research Experience for Undergraduates funded my NSF, a student interested in transportation corridors and disasters will participate in the REU program.  The program provides an opportunity for an undergraduate student to undertake a research project but also includes guest speakers, discussion of research tools and techniques, sessions on report and paper writing and oral presentations, and field trips to transportation facilities in and around the BOSWASH corridor. Students from other universities will be invited to participate in the summer program. This program will be initiated in Summer 2008. Students interested in this program should submit an application and references by March 1.  Applications may be submitted to: ud-utc@udel.edu

Science and Engineering Scholars Program
The UDUTC also supports undergraduate research through UD's Science and Engineering Scholars Program, which provides support for rising juniors to conduct research in the summer. Where appropriate, these activities will be shared with ongoing activities on the UD campus, including the annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, which will provide an opportunity for the students to present their work.

Winter Research
In addition, a mini research program for undergraduates will be offered beginning with the 2008 Winter Session. This month-long program will provide an opportunity for UD students to explore a transportation topic that may serve as the basis for an independent study, a proposal for the Engineering Scholars program, or an application to the UDUTC summer research program. The students will also participate in the TRB annual meeting in Washington DC. We anticipate funding two to three students each winter.
Students interested in this program should submit an application and reference by November 1. 
Applications may be submitted to: Ud-utc@udel.edu

Questions? Contact Sue McNeil, UD-UTC Director, 302 831 6578, email: smcneil@udel.edu

To apply for any of these programs, please download and complete a UD-UTC undergraduate research application form.

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