Students and researchers with TTI’s Safety through Disruption (Safe-D) University Transportation Center (UTC) took part in the largest science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) event in the nation April 7–8. The USA Science and Engineering Festival Expo in Washington, D.C., was attended by about 350,000 students, science and technology educators, researchers and parents. Thousands of […]
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Unique Transportation-Related Curriculum Being Developed to Inspire Students
After years of inspiring students with their demonstrations of street sign and pavement marking retroreflectivity, researchers at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) have developed a no-cost curriculum that will soon be available to teachers across the country. The curriculum project was made possible with funding from the Safety Through Disruption (Safe-D) University Transportation Center […]
TTI, Tech Firms Encourage Young Women to Pursue STEM Careers
On Saturday, Feb. 25, more than 6,000 girls ranging from Kindergarten to 8th grade attended “Girl Day 2017” hosted by the Women in Engineering Program (WEP), part of The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering. Counting parents, Girl Scout troop leaders and teachers, more than 10,000 people attended the event, which was […]
High School Students Experience Life as Engineers during Tour of TTI, A&M
Cesar Martinez grew up near the Boeing and Lockheed Martin facilities in Houston. It gave him an appreciation for aircraft and inspired in him a dream for what he might one day become: an aeronautical engineer. Martinez and 50 other Houston-area high school students arrived on the Texas A&M University campus July 22 for a […]