Their knowledge, experience and varied backgrounds provide program participants with a comprehensive view of industry issues. Transportation Center Executive Programs are academic programs offered in a university setting. Programs are taught by academic faculty from Northwestern and other universities specializing in transportation and logistics education. Course faculty additionally includes carefully selected industry leaders, who address the practical marketplace problems and real-world business models that arise from academic theory and concept. The careful combination of academic and industry faculty uniquely distinguishes Transportation Center programs.
Class size is limited and faculty are responsive to individual interests of the participant group.
The seminar setting encourages interaction between and among faculty and participants. Location and Facilities Programs are held in an executive conference facility adjacent to the lakeside campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The Transportation Library, within walking distance of the conference center, contains one of the United States' largest transportation collections. Participants may use this and other university facilities, including the Crown Sports Pavilion and the Norris Aquatics Center. The program site is conveniently located within walking distance of the downtown Evanston shopping district and within easy reach of Chicago via mass transit.