Why don't more schools offer general transportation engineering programs?

I appreciate learning transportation technology in general more so than the average person, particularly automotive technology...


But I want to consider instead a more generalized transportation technology course, what schools regardless of location or type, offer a more generalized transportation technology class? Hoping and assuming that this includes all transportation fields, including marine, aviation, lawn & garden, construction, locomotive, diesel, powersports and of course, automotive.

I just love and appreciate my enthusiasm for transportation machinery, our transportation supply is an important aspect of the modern world. Not just our cars and trucks, but every other vehicle out there serves its purpose to the world...

So if anyone knows where they would offer said course, thnx in advance.

 

I Googled, but most of the said transportation technology courses are limited in the amount of said transport fields...

 

AKA Mechanical Engineering

 

Nothing matching my niche kind though? I am aware of course that transportation technology would go under mechanical engineering.

 

Transportation is a branch of civil engineering that is not about machinery. What Luciano700 is asking for covers several engineering/technology fields or several trades.

 

Yeah I understand that there isn't really much classes that combine all the fields of said transportation machinery...

I don't know if I really want to go for a specific one, learning the differences between 2 cycle and 4 cycle engines is just something I appreciate the curb out of myself.

Marine, aviation, lawn, construction, agricultural, locomotive, automotive and of course powersports all interest me at an equal pace despite usually automotive being the most predominant one off the top of my head.

 

If you want to build a railway system then it would be Civil Engineering. If you want to build a locomotive it would be Mechanical Engineering. The op needs to clarify his interest.

 

Then not transport technology, how bout vehicular technology?

 

I will be starting my 24 year in the Automotive engineering field, and I have never heard of Vehicular Technology.

My colleagues, and I, have degrees in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering. My Product Design friends have Mechanical Engineering degrees and a few have Automotive Design degrees specializing in CAD and Class-A Surface design. These degrees apply to John Deere, GM, FORD, General Dynamics, Boeing, NASA, Medical Devices . . . .

You might find some degrees in Automotive Technology, but those focus on high end tech car Mechanics. I do not know of an engineer that has this type of degree.


Michael

 

When you broaden scope to cover so many areas, the field of knowledge is known as Physics.

 

Well here is a link that kind of has what I am looking for

https://www.statetechmo.edu/programs/transportationtech/

Not too bad, don't care if locomotive or marine left out honestly, you can't have a school work on all types of vehicles at the same time. Too much investment and then too much spacial problems.

 

Those are not a single program. The general program is 69 credits so the multiple programs would be some multiple of that.

 

While we're at it, why not discuss the change in fuels we should have in our vehicles the next 3 decades or so.

 

Because that has nothing to do with this topic?

 

It technically does

You probably wonder why I obsess over the importance of transport and vehicular technology, simply because I want to save the industry by knowing how I can help keep innovating fuel and safety standards.


All vehicular technology interests me and I would like to help find a way or more in which I can contribute into improving all our vehicular technology.

For example, the development of hybrids and EVs.

Example, the trucking industry probably causes more smog altogether than a car driving 3 countries, yet you don't the see semi trucks get the same backlash

 

Your mild interest does not even approach the "obsession" level. Many people have spent decades studying this and related issues. If you want to work in the area of alternative fuels then this might consider Chemical Engineering.

https://www.epa.gov/transportation-air-pollution-and-climate-change/smog-soot-and-local-air-pollution