Professional Capactity Building (PCB) for Communication Systems
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The goals of this project are to develop a comprehensive curriculum and conduct training for Rural ITS communications. Rural ITS engineers may lack the critical skills for designing and maintaining reliable and robust communication networks for rural ITS field equipment. This project has an educational focus and its primary objective is to have leading subject matter experts provide a hands-on, “nuts and bolts” learning experience for rural ITS engineers and technicians. Learning outcomes are centered on understanding the various communication technologies available and how to best select and implement these technologies, particularly in a rural environment. California Department of Transportation engineers are participating in the development of this curriculum, were students in the initial pilot module, and will participate in subsequent course development and implementation. |
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| Monday 1/9/2012 Phase 2 – Plant Wired Technologies |
Thursday 11/4/2010 Pilot Course - RF System Design |
Thursday 10/21/2010 RF System Design Training |
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Check back soon for more PCB for Communications updates.
UPDATE: Monday, January 9th, 2012
Phase 2 of the Professional Capacity Building for Communications project is well underway. The content focus for this phase will be plant wired technologies, specifically plant wired core/plant wiring basics, serial connectivity, xDSL and optical fiber. The project team is currently working on identifying and securing an appropriate training contractor to deliver the first part of the training sometime this spring. Students will be Caltrans ITS engineers that deploy and maintain ITS systems in the rural areas of their districts.
Caltrans District 2 covers a large rural area in northern California and District 2’s engineers have been very progressive in establishing effective ITS systems in the region. Below, Ian Turnbull, Chief of the Office of ITS Engineering and Support for District 2, describes the ITS and TMC communications infrastructure at District 2 headquarters in Redding. Ian serves on the Curriculum Review Committee for the PCB project and District 2 engineers participated in the initial pilot course training.
Photo by Doug Galarus
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Caltrans Project Manager:
Sean Campbell |
Caltrans Project Champion:
Ian Turnbull |
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WTI Principal Investigator:
Douglas Galarus |
WTI Research Associate and Course Coordinator:
Leann Koon |
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