Undergraduate Minor in
Transportation & Logistics

Interdisciplinary cross-school accredited minor available to all Northwestern Undergraduates

Passenger and freight transportation represents nearly a fifth of the United States' Gross Domestic Product, and influences every aspect of our lives: where we live, where we work and the goods we can purchase. The study of transportation and logistics is inherently interdisciplinary, reaching across disciplines, schools and departments.

For more than forty years, Northwestern has offering relevant courses through the Departments of Civil and Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Department of Economics and other social science departments in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

The Minor offers undergraduate students the opportunity to obtain a more rounded education in transportation and logistics compared with that offered within their selected major program of study.  The curriculum will equip students with a broad understanding of the economics, engineering and operations of transportation and logistics systems and the role of public policy.

The Minor is administered by the Transportation Center, an interdisciplinary research center founded in 1954. The Center has been recognized for decades as a leader in graduate education, and has recently extended this expertise to undergraduates.  The Center has jointly appointed faculty from many of the participating Departments.

Students pursuing the Transportation and Logistics Minor will have . . .

  • access to numerous transportation and logistics-related courses available in a variety of schools and departments across campus taught by faculty who are recognized experts in their fields.
  • personalized academic advising by senior faculty
  • opportunities for involvement in exciting transportation research projects
  • access to highly specialized career counseling and numerous job opportunities with top companies
  • membership in the NU Transportation Club - and involvement in all of its activities including field trips, executive luncheons, speaker events and social activities
  • opportunities to attend research seminars and presentations at the Transportation Center
  • interaction with fellow undergraduates interested in transportation and logistics, and the Transportation Center’s faculty, graduate students and alumni/alumnae
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    For More Information

    Check out the four-page flyer.

    Review the degree requirements and list of courses.

    Read the Daily Northwestern article on the undergraduate minor, written when it was introduced in 2001.

    For general information and to join the mailing list for activities of the Transportation Center and the Transportation Club:

     

    Diana Marek
    Assistant Director for Academic Affairs
    The Transportation Center
    600 Foster Street, Third Floor
    847-491-2280
    d-marek@northwestern.edu

     

    For academic advising, and to declare a Minor see the Co-Program Directors:

    Professor John Panzar
    Department of Economics
    Andersen Hall, Room 3226
    2001 Sheridan Road
    847-491-8242
    jpanzar@northwestern.edu

    Professor Ian Savage
    Department of Economics
    Andersen Hall, Room 330
    2001 Sheridan Road
    847-491-8241
    ipsavage@northwestern.edu

     

    Contact a Transportation Center affiliated faculty member in your department. These include:

    Civil & Environmental Engineering: Professor Joseph Schofer

    Industrial Engineering and Management Science:
    Professor Mark Daskin

    Sociology: Professor Albert Hunter