Mid-Career Administrative Training for Engineers
Publication: Engineering Issues: Journal of Professional Activities
Volume 100, Issue 4
Abstract
Civil engineers in public works fields are trained as engineers, and all the professional rewards (e.g., committee assignments, publications, society posts, and national recognition) are aimed at making them technical elites. Yet the majority of such people move into jobs that are primarily administrative as they get more seniority—and nothing in their formal education or training prepares them for what they meet. The Graduate Center for Public Works Engineering and Administration at the University of Pittsburgh was sponsored by the American Public Works Association in 1965 to prepare mid-career professionals for their second careers. Thus far it has graduated six classes, awarding 85 graduate degrees. While the emphasis is on basic administrative, environmental, and politico-economic issues, students select areas of concentration such as urban planning and management, environmental management, systems analysis, transportation planning and management, water resources management, and regional economic development.
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Engineering Issues: Journal of Professional Activities
Volume 100 • Issue 4 • October 1974
Pages: 325 - 335
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© 1974 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Oct 1974
Published online: Feb 10, 2021
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Analysis (by type)
- Colleges and universities
- Education
- Engineering education
- Engineering fundamentals
- Freight transportation
- Graduate study
- Infrastructure
- Logistics
- Practice and Profession
- Resource management
- System analysis
- Systems engineering
- Systems management
- Training
- Transportation engineering
- Transportation management
- Urban and regional development
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