Instructors

Professionalism

TSI's reputation for quality and excellence in training is a tribute to our dedicated professional staff. Instructional staff are assigned to specific programs according to their expertise and background experience. While staff members are highly experienced in transportation-related work, they are also skilled teachers and course developers, dedicated to meeting the challenge of providing competency-based, job-related training. They spend many hours preparing classroom and laboratory presentations and providing extra tutorial assistance to students.

Associate Staff are individuals from industry, Federal, state and local governments, including the sponsoring agency, who have technical expertise and the ability to communicate. They assist in the development and delivery of courses at no cost other than the travel and per diem expenses to and from the training site. TSI has "fine tuned" the Associate Staff concept to accomplish its goal to provide the finest quality training possible with minimal cost.

Benefits

The benefits of our Associate Staff participating in training:

• A functional, effective, and an economical means for the Institute to provide current state-of-the-art training while maintaining a small, full-time resident staff.

• Effectively extends the scope and capability of training.

• Exposure and contacts provide a great benefit to Associate Staff, their employers, and TSI. TSI staff and Associate Staff become nationally recognized leaders and experts in their field due to their own experience and the large number of students who recognize and esteem their capabilities.

• Students benefit from the diversity of knowledgeable professionals working on projects, topics, and problems of current significance -- often the very people who are responsible for national programs.

The Institute currently has over 400 Associate Staff in its teaching programs, many of whom have been participating for several years.