Tertiary Education in Pavement Engineering Quo vadis

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Tertiary Education in Pavement EngineeringQuo
vadis?

• Kim Jenkins
• RPF 13 November 2001

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Are pavement enguneers well enuf edumacated??
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What are our objectives?

• What is the current status?
• Pavement Engineering courses
• Resources
• Research
• What are industrys needs
• Skills / knowledge
• Areas of vacuum
• Identify the way ahead

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Phased approach

• Background information
• Web questionnaire for tertiary institutions
• Scoping of industry (web site?)
• Client, consultant, contractor, research
• Update international status, if necessary

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What do we already know?

• Study on asphalt tertiary education (Emery and
  Hendricks)
• Need for
• Scholarships
• Materials awareness (asphalt)
• Visiting lecturer programme
• Reference libraries
• Study materials for courses technols

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Unified Approach

• Research
• Co-ordinate consolidate
• Share information (abstract list)
• Build capacity of institutions together
  (lecturers workshops)
• AsAc, CNCI, Sabita, SARF, etc
• Courses - populate needs matrix

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Needs Matrix
What courses do we have??
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Think or thwim !!!