Spring 2027

Transportation Engineering

Transportation Engineering covers supply/demand, system planning, modes, technology, economics, and public policy for transportation systems.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Sikai Chen3.7/5

Summary

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Past student reviews · Sue Ahn

The course was not difficult, with homework that was graded mercifully and provided very clear feedback.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify and describe the basic elements of the transportation delivery system

  • Use quantitative and computerized techniques for planning, designing, and operating transportation systems

  • Describe and critique theoretical design and operations issues

  • Explain the need for highway design standards and how the political process, economics, and new technologies affect transportation decision making

  • Explain how travel mode characteristics influence demand and mode choice; and how multiple modes of transportation interact

  • Use the principles of transportation engineering and highway design standards to solve a specific problem

  • Examine, design, optimize, simulate, and present, in both written and oral formats, a thorough description of their analysis procedure

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Prerequisites

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(STAT 311, 324,I SY E 210, MATH 409, 431, or concurrent enrollment), graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students

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Raw average: 4.00/5 from 1 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.61 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=36 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.41 GPA, 57.5% A/AB (n=40 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 60.0% A/AB (n=45 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

SIKAI CHEN is recorded teaching in Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 600
LAB 301Classroom Instruction0 / 290
LAB 302Classroom Instruction0 / 290

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Sue Ahn

Students found the class manageable but educational, noting that paying attention in lecture and completing homework made exams straightforward.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.41 GPA, 57.5% A/AB (n=40 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.45 GPA, 57.9% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 60.0% A/AB (n=45 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Sue Ahn

The course was not difficult, with homework that was graded mercifully and provided very clear feedback.

Past student reviews · Sue Ahn

While exams could be challenging, students reported they would hardly miss points if they stayed engaged in class and did the assignments.

Topics

  • Transportation supply and demand measurement and estimation.
  • Social, environmental impacts, and transportation system planning.
  • Transportation modes, interactions, interfaces, and technology.
  • Transportation economics, public policy, implementation, and management.

Skills

  • Measuring and estimating transportation demand and planning systems.
  • Using quantitative and computerized techniques for transportation systems.
  • Applying transportation engineering principles and highway design standards.
  • Examining, optimizing, simulating, and presenting transportation analyses.

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

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Where this course fits relative to

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Sources & history

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CIVENGR 370 · Spring 2027

Transportation Engineering

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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