{"id":66736,"date":"2008-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-transportation-academies-aim-to-develop-future-workforce-for-transportation-industries\/"},"modified":"2008-07-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T00:00:00","slug":"uri-transportation-academies-aim-to-develop-future-workforce-for-transportation-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/07\/uri-transportation-academies-aim-to-develop-future-workforce-for-transportation-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 transportation ‘academies’ aim to develop future workforce for transportation industries"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 25, 2008 \u2013 Bridge design, supply chain planning, blueprint reading, and fields trips to the port of Davisville and a R.I. Department of Transportation construction site are just some of the activities taking place in the next three weeks as part of a unique new series of transportation \u201cacademies\u201d for high school and middle school students.<\/p>\n


\n\tSponsored by the RIDOT and the Federal Highway Administration and hosted by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Transportation Center, the events are designed to encourage students to pursue careers in transportation-related fields.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cMany companies in the transportation industry have a hard time finding enough trained workers to get the job done, and that\u2019s partly due to the fact that students often don\u2019t think of the transportation field as a career option,\u201d said Deborah Rosen, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Transportation Center and associate dean of the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Business. \u201cOur transportation camps and academies are designed to develop the transportation workforce of the future, and to do that we have to reach them when they\u2019re still young.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 20 students in the engineering academy, which runs July 28 to Aug. 1, will study highway and bridge design, traffic engineering, water resources, Geographic Information Systems, surveying and preparing an estimate. They will also visit the RIDOT Transportation Management Center and Banneker Industries.<\/p>\n


\n\tDuring the same week, the business academy will host 20 students who will learn how to manage a company\u2019s supply chain through a series of interactive classes, games and exercises. They will tour the CVS distribution center and the port of Davisville and participate in a transportation quiz competition.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe construction academy targets 11th and 12th grade students considering careers in the construction field. Running the week of July 21, the curriculum includes OSHA 10 and flagger certifications, work zone safety, and hands on activities at the Local 57 Operating Engineers Training Center.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cMost students lack the information necessary to help them choose a career, so these programs give them that information so they can make informed decisions,\u201d said Rosen. \u201cIt also provides them with role models, which is especially helpful for girls and minority students.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tMany students were recruited for the academies through 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Guaranteed Admissions\/Talent Development Program, which provides a special opportunity for high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds to gain entrance to 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\n\tAll of the students selected to participate in the academies receive a full scholarship to attend, which includes meals and transportation to 溏心vlog免费B站 from Providence.\tThe academies are modeled after the National Summer Transportation Institute, a two-week summer camp for middle school students that is conducted in more than 30 states and that 溏心vlog免费B站 has hosted for the last four years. The first session of the institute concluded on July 18, and a second session will begin Aug. 4.<\/p>\n


\n\tParticipants in the Transportation Institute work with 溏心vlog免费B站 students and faculty members on bridge building exercises, learn map reading, study transportation math, and tour the Kingston train station, T.F. Green Airport, the Boston Museum of Science and the RIDOT maintenance facility.<\/p>\n


\n\tThese summer events are an extension of the annual Engineering Career Day and Construction Career Day sponsored by 溏心vlog免费B站, RIDOT and Rhode Island Consulting Engineers. 溏心vlog免费B站 is home to the National Construction Career Day Center, which serves as a resource for agencies across the country that are interested in hosting a construction career day. More than 30 states and 250,000 students have participated in the last nine years.<\/p>\n

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KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 25, 2008 \u2013 Bridge design, supply chain planning, blueprint reading, and fields trips to the port of Davisville and a R.I. Department of Transportation construction site are just some of the activities taking place in the next three weeks as part of a unique new series of transportation \u201cacademies\u201d for high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}