The Transportation Founders Fund (TFF) is a unique opportunity for transportation professionals to interact personally with top-level transportation executives and at the same time to support the transportation program at North Carolina State University (NCSU). The TFF is an outreach activity of the NCSU Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) and the Department of Civil Engineering.
Each spring, the TFF invites to campus a nationally renowned transportation executive for a two-day visit. Part of each visit will be a dinner and speech, which will be open exclusively to TFF members. Time will also be set aside for TFF members to interact one-to-one and in small group meetings with the visitor. The remaining part of each visit will be devoted to classroom lectures and meetings with NCSU students.
TFF awards graduate fellowships through the Department of Civil Engineering. The awards are given annually at the TFF dinner.
TFF began offering a named seminar series in 2002. These seminars bring in experts to the NC State campus to brief students and area transportation professionals on current transportation topics. |
