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GRADUATE
STUDIES PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:
(Click
the Section of Your Interest)
The
Master of Science in Transportation
Planning and Management degree
program is structured to provide a
common core of educational and
training experiences as well as to
provide the flexibility for
interfacing with a variety of
related disciplines. Efforts are
made to equip students with basic
analytical, managerial, and planning
competencies necessary to either
work in the transportation industry
immediately or advance to doctoral
study successfully.
Basic
requirements for Master of
Science in Transportation degree
include:
Completion
of a total of thirty-nine (39)
semester credit hours of
prescribed coursework.
A
minimum of 3.0 (A = 4.00) quality
point average for all graduate
work attempted.
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Demonstration
of acceptable grasp of the core
courses by successful completion
of the written comprehensive
examination.
Completion
of an internship/project report
for all non-thesis option
students.
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Completion
and successful defense of a
thesis with the quality of
scientific research for all
thesis option students.
All
other requirements of the
Graduate School in Texas
Southern University.
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Students
will be exposed to uses of
computers and computer
packages in transportation
as part of the curricula.
Emphasis is on personal and
micro-computers. Students
will use packages in highway
capacity, traffic signal
timing and coordination,
traffic simulation and
travel demand models in
required course work.
Students have access to
TSU’s personal computer
laboratories with access to
the Internet.
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The
culmination of the program
is the successful completion
and defense of a thesis
which involves independent
research. The thesis must be
prepared in a way that
demonstrates rigorous,
independent, empirical or
applied research. This
option will require that the
final product of independent
research is prepared in a
way that demonstrates that
the student has acquired a
high level analytical
ability. The research must
exhibit substantive depth,
logical organization, high
level of creativity, and
clarity of ideas. A faculty
committee guides the
student’s work and
evaluates the thesis.
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Students
electing the non-thesis
option are required to
submit a final report on an
investigation conducted
while completing the
internship or a project
report assigned by the
faculty advisor. Placements
of internships will be
sought with various
public/private
transportation agencies and
firms.
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For
additional information on Graduate
Studies in Transportation, either
check our Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQs) Section,
contact the Department Office at
(713) 313-7282, or email Dr. Lei Yu
at yu_lx@tsu.edu |
