My extensive interest to teach arises from the desire to use my research experience and expertise in education, to endow students with a solid knowledge base and an understanding of transportation, and also to learn from the class and students.
 
I am interested in teaching transportation engineering and planning courses at both introductory and advanced levels. Based on my previous research experience in China, I can also teach courses on construction management. Given my specialties in transportation, the following list of subjects exemplifies my specific teaching interests:
 
  1.  Transportation Systems Analysis
  2.  Transportation Economics and Policy
  3.  Integrated Land Use-Transportation Planning
  4.  Application of ArcGIS in transportation planning
  5.  Introduction to Transportation Engineering
 
In addition to standard classroom lectures, I have considerable interest and experience in the use of computer simulations as a tool to enhance teaching. With my colleagues, I have also studied the effectiveness of on-line simulation as a curriculum tool in a classroom environment.
 
Teaching experience
Spring 2004, I developed online java applet “Simulator Of Network Growth” (SONG) for CE5214 “Transportation Systems Analysis” and provided technical support for the lab.
Spring 2006, I worked as a Teaching Assistant for CE3201 “Introduction to Transportation Engineering”, receiving an evaluation of 7.4 out of 10 from the class for office hours, lab instruction, and grading.
Spring 2006, I instructed an undergraduate student in his internship project working on digitizing the legacy road links in the Twin Cities and estimating the crash-rate model based on the historical crash records on roads.
January 2007, my colleagues and I presented our study of enhancing transportation education through on-line simulation at the 86th TRB based on the pre-class and after-class surveys we conducted in CE3201.
Fall 2007, I helped to organize “game night” in CE5212 “Transportation Policy, Planning, and Deployment”, an event in which interested students play transportation related board games such as Railroad Tycoon, Ticket to Ride: Europe, and China Rails, in order to enhance their understanding of transportation planning and deployment.
Currently, I am developing online java applet “Simulation and Analyst of Network Design” (SAND) for CE5212 “Transportation Policy, Planning, and Deployment” lab. I am also instructing a junior graduate student for his internship work to digitize the evolution of the Twin Cities Trolley network, and to map the abandoned proposals during the construction of London underground.
 
 
Feng Xie    
Researching networks & transport systems