MTC Asset Newsletter Summer 2004

International Education Activities

The MTC is playing a role in Iowa State University’s long-running summer in Rome program this year. About 12 students from the Departments of Community and Regional Planning and Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering took a transportation planning course in Italy during June. MTC Director David Plazak taught the course as part of his Community and Regional Planning teaching duties. This is the first city planning course and the first transportation-related course that ISU has ever offered as a part of the Rome program (see related article).

The University of Northern Iowa has developed a relationship with Herzen University of St. Petersbug, Russia. This has culminated in the reworking of the Transportation Geography Course originally developed with the help of the University Transportation Center grant to include broader public policy considerations. This has allowed for the development of a second course on public policy issues in the United States and Russia that is being videoconferenced between Herzen University and Northern Iowa using the same technology that the MTC uses for its spring transportation seminar.