The University of Texas at Austin
College of Engineering

Typical Engineering Positions

  • Planning and preliminary design of proposed transportation facilities and services

  • Design of transportation system components, such as pavements, structures, airport terminals and runway configurations, roadways, rail lines, ports and shipping channels, and transit stations.

  • Construction supervision and quality control and quality assurance

  • Operation of transportation and traffic systems, including traffic signal control, signage, transit operations, sea vessel operations, and airline operations

  • Planning and management of transportation infrastructure maintenance

  • Modeling of traveler behavior and infrastructure performance in response to changes in transportation service

  • Designing logistics systems as part of a larger supply-chain framework to move raw products to production/manufacturing systems and move finished products from production/manufacturing systems to the end-customer.

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