Learn the story behind designing & building a billion dollar luxury boat. [4:19]

Students think like transportation engineers as they improve the safety and efficiency of a model intersection. [10:01]

This model lesson shows students thinking like transportation engineers as they improve the safety and efficiency of a model intersection. [11:54]

Watch as students use their knowledge of the properties of magnets and the Engineering Design Process to design a maglev transportation system. [13:50]

Looks at the self-driving cars being developed by Google. [5:54]

Lisa Van Pay of the National Science Foundation meets with Will Larkin, an MIT graduate student working on the CityCar project. The project envisions their work helping to solve urban problems with pollution and congestion. The car can...

Lisa Van Pay of the National Science Foundation visits the scientists and engineers working to make the electric car of the future a reality today. They explain their work on the biggest problem, which is storing enough potential energy...

Watch as a teacher introduces an engineering challenge with the story, Hikaru, where a boy from Japan, learns about transportation engineering as he attempts to design a small Maglev transportation system for his parents' toy store. [14:21]

Spring is in the air, and thoughts turn to bicycles. How about an electric bike? Hear this lecture about the use of electric bikes in China, the current versions on the market, and how they will change the future of transportation. [21:42]

L.A. commuters spend 60 hours a year stuck in traffic. But is mass transit a viable alternative?