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Rebuilding Rail Workforce. “Baby Steps” to Modern Rail Education and Training Pasi Lautala , PhD, P.E. Director, Rail Transportation Program [email protected] 906-487-3547. Outline. What does industry need and want? Initiatives to resource development - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Rebuilding Rail Workforce“Baby Steps” to Modern Rail Education and Training
Pasi Lautala, PhD, P.E.Director, Rail Transportation Program
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Outline
• What does industry need and want?• Initiatives to resource development• On-line tool for (High Speed) Rail Education
and Training
Presentation Title: Rebuilding Rail Workforce
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Workforce Demand
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Critical Skills
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Industry – University Collaboration
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Extensive Industry Training
• Class I railroads– Face-to-face and
online training– 80 courses by Union
Pacific only• Contractor
Orientation– Collaborative safety
training
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AREMA Initiatives
• Student Chapters– From one to ten over past three years
• Mentoring program taking first steps• Railroad Engineering and Education Symposium
(REES)– Biannual industry-university collaboration since 2008– For university professors– Basic educational material for rail
transportation/engineering
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• National Tier-1 University Transportation Center
• Central Theme: Shared Rail Corridors
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(High Speed) Rail Learning System• Expanding demand for
passenger rail– Limited domestic expertise
(especially for higher speeds)• Geographically dispersed
audience and stakeholders with limited size
• Partial solution – Taking advantage of on-line technologies?
• http://www.mtti.mtu.edu/highspeedrail/
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HSRLS Concept
Presentation Title: 10
Student, Employees, Public- Training- Marketing- Classwork- Research
Instructors/EDU- Instructional
materials- Demonstrations- Grading
Industry- Regulatory- Reporting- Workforce
development
WWW
Presentation Title: Rebuilding Rail Workforce