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For Thursday 02/06/25, the campus will be closed until 12 noon today due to the severe weather. All classes scheduled after 12 noon will take place as scheduled. Students should check Canvas for details on classes.

Lawrence Tech
Transportation Institute

As the mammoth job of replacing and upgrading the country’s long neglected transportation infrastructure begins,  the Lawrence Tech Transportation  Institute can provide construction companies and governments with:

  • Valuable training and required certification for their workers
  • Cutting edge practical and sustainable solutions for long term performance of transportation infrastructure
  • Policies for sustainable use of construction materials for transportation infrastructure projects

Our LTU faculty and students, who are accustomed to working with the federal government, the State of Michigan, local governments and corporations, stand ready to join your team. They have experience working seamlessly across engineering disciplines to find cost-effective and resource-efficient ways to build and better maintain the nation’s transportation infrastructure.

» Academic Team

» Advisory Board

Oladayo Akinyemi

Deputy Director, Department of Public Work at City of Detroit

Carol Aldrich

Engineer of Research, Michigan Department of Transportation

Tim Colling

Director, Michigan Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP)

Daniel DeGraaf

Michigan Concrete Association, Executive Director/CEO

Chuck Gemayel

COO and Senior Vice President, Soil and Materials Engineers

Mark Grazioli

Associate Region Engineer-Construction, Michigan Department of Transportation

Dave Langlois

Project Manager, HNTB Corporation

Bret Stanton, P.E.

Asphalt Pavement Association of Michigan, Executive Director

» Training and Education

For technicians and practicing professionals, the Lawrence Tech Transportation Institute offers professional development courses and certificate courses highly valued in the transportation infrastructure industry.

Professional development courses

LTU’s professional development courses are offered in the evenings and weekends for those who have fulltime jobs and are taught by faculty members and industry professionals who have experience in the field as well as outstanding academic credentials.

  • Flexible pavement design
  • Introduction to Asphalt Technology
  • Introduction to mechanistic pavement design
  • Roadway and parking lot pavement assessment
  • Airfield pavement assessment
  • Pavement management using GIS
  • Bases and subbases for flexible and rigid pavements
  • Soil stabilization for transportation applications
  • Highway Geometric Design using Microstation/Geopak
  • Rigid pavement design
  • ArcGIS for transportation engineering
  • Concrete mix design
  • Public works construction inspection skills

» Certificate Courses

Certification courses include instruction, hands-on training in LTU’s state-of-the-art Transportation Materials Lab, and testing.

» Collaborating Labs

Nabil Grace Center for Innovated Materials Research

The Center for Innovative Materials Research works to find new applications for advanced materials.
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Transportation Materials Lab

The LTU Transportation Materials Laboratory provides hands-on experience to students in civil engineering material testing, transportation engineering, and mechanics of materials.
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Water Quality Testing

The LTU Environmental Lab has state-of-the-art equipment for EPA approved water and wastewater quality testing procedures, normally done at a water and wastewater treatment plant.
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Geotechnical Laboratory

The soil testing equipment allows for investigation of index properties of soils, California Bearing Ratio (CBR), consolidation, direct shear, unconfined compression, compaction, and triaxial testing.
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Structural testing

LTU’s Structural Testing Center (STC) houses two large scale structural testing frames capable of static and dynamic loading capacities up to 200,000 lbs.
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» Document Viewer

Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.