University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate Summer Interns with SWUTC Director – Dock Burke
The SWUTC sponsored 2012 Undergraduate Summer Internship in Transportation (USIT) program at the University of Texas in Austin concluded it’s 11-week summer program on August 9th with the student final presentations and farewell reception. This demanding and rewarding program conducted each summer, under the guidance of Dr. Chandra Bhat, provides students with a unique insight into transportation engineering education and a possible career in the field. During the summer, students gain firsthand experience in conducting transportation studies and actively participate in transportation research with graduate students under the supervision of Transportation faculty. The 10 students participating this year (and their university of origin) were: Aliz Logman – Washington State University, Kimberly Selph – Washington State University, Jared Fusilier – McNeese State University, Bailey Harden – University of Alabama, Jay Chmilewski – University of Maryland, Melissa Archer – Arizona State University, Garrett Fullerton – University of South Carolina, Megan Hoklas – University of Texas-Austin, Cody Stone – University of Florida, David Kan – University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
This program, and the similar program at Texas A&M University, has been highly successful for twenty-two years in cultivating a new generation of transportation professionals. Evidenced by the fact that about half of the summer interns apply back for transportation graduate studies to the UT and TAMU programs.