News and Events
Center Developing Equipment Specific Escalator Inspection and Maintenance Course for BART
Posted November 2013
This week, Transportation Learning Center Instructional Designers are meeting with transit elevator subject matter experts at BART to develop an inspection and maintenance course for the escalators specific to their authority.
Read more...Join the Transportation Learning Center at the Good Jobs Green Jobs Conference -February 10-11, 2013
Posted November 2013
At this year’s Good Jobs Green Jobs Conference, The Center will be part of a panel entitled Getting on Track Together: Creating Pathways to Transit and Transportation Careers for Community Members. Transit agencies face a critical frontline technical workforce shortage in the coming decade, with transit services expanding rapidly and fifty percent of the frontline workforce retiring.
Read more...Weekly Update for November 7, 2013
Posted November 2013
Weekly Update for November 7, 2013
Read more...Center Instructional Designer Melissa Huber Recognized by UMBC Graduate Program
Posted November 2013
On Wednesday October 23, 2013 Melisa Huber was awarded the Dr. Cook award for best graduate student in the ISD program at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). This annual award is presented to an outstanding student who has demonstrated academic excellence, service and entrepreneurship.
Read more...Center works with Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen to Strengthen Signal Maintainer Training
Posted October 2013
Center staff met with the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen’s (BRS) training committee October 18, 2013 to discuss future collaboration on training programs. The BRS’s Vice President Floyd Mason invited the Center to the meeting to strategize plans to upgrade training at railroad properties where there is very little or no current training.
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