Infrastructure and Transportation Career Community
Infrastructure and Transportation careers shape the world we live in and keep it running smoothly. These roles are focused on designing, building, and maintaining the systems that keep our society connected and functioning. From transportation networks that move goods and people to utilities that power our homes and businesses, these systems are crucial for our daily lives. With a blend of technical expertise and creative problem-solving, professionals in these fields work to build and sustain the infrastructure that supports both today’s needs and tomorrow’s growth.
Infrastructure plays an essential role in our day-to-day life because it includes facilities and structures such as roads and highways, bridges, airports, phone lines, water and sewage treatment facilities, and power generating facilities. Careers in this field are impactful and jobs are universally available.
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
"Most infrastructure-related occupations that require workers to have a bachelor’s degree are involved in planning and designing infrastructure projects. These include civil engineers and environmental engineers, along with surveyors, landscape architects, and architects, except landscape and naval, who also typically need to complete a paid internship, because an internship is generally required to obtain licensure. Two occupations that work to monitor and inspect infrastructure construction also typically require a bachelor’s degree for entry—construction managers and health and safety engineers.”
In this article, we discuss the importance of having an IT infrastructure certification and introduce 11 certifications you may wish to consider, with a comprehensive description of each.
Learn the basics of transportation management (TM) from a business perspective—while you explore the SAP Transportation Management module and its processes. This course provides a solid foundation of the TM architecture, the usable master data in SAP, and related processes, from order capture to freight settlement.
Follow along with instructor Curt Frye as he shows how to use the Excel Solver add-in to minimize transportation and transshipment costs within a supply chain. Curt covers a range of topics, including how to analyze fixed costs and facility opening decisions, enforce level of service constraints, and perform scenario analysis. He also provides problem scenarios for you to solve, then goes through the solutions for each.
In this course, Steven Brown covers the information that anyone who ships materials internationally needs to know. Steven covers topics like how logistics evolved globally, the special considerations unique to international logistics (including security and managing cultural differences), the different transportation modes available, and effective methods for controlling inventory. He also looks at the 11 international commercial terms, or “Incoterms,” that define the responsibilities of sellers and buyers in global trade.
In this course, instructor Steven Brown shows you why logistics is important, what it is, and how logistics supports your company and your customers. Steven discusses how logistics must be effective and efficient. He explains steps to improve how a customer’s order is filled. The course covers both outbound and inbound logistics and goes over reverse logistics. More money is spent on transportation than on all other logistics functions combined, so Steven specifically takes you through different modes of transportation and how they often work together.
What is supply chain management (SCM)? It is the system that connects and integrates the links of sourcing, procurement, conversion, and logistics management. In this course, Professor Eddie Davila provides a detailed overview of all the links in the typical supply chain.
In addition to Handshake, job boards for engineers and architects include:
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Engineering Jobs https://www.engineeringjobs.net/
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National Society for Professional Engineers: https://www.nspe.org/resources/career-center
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Boston Society for Architecture: https://www.architects.org/jobs
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Archinect: https://archinect.com/jobs
In addition to joining the Connect UMass Career Community for Infrastructure and Transportation, there are many other ways you can meet and collaborate with people in these industries.
UMass Registered Student Organizations of Interest
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American Institute Architecture Students
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American Student Society of Civil Engineers
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Institute of Engineering Graduate Students
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Women's Transportation Seminar WTS (Women in Transportation Seminar) UMASS Chapter