The UBM faculty found during the first year that it is very effective to have a mature (junior or senior) mathematically oriented person in the group who could grasp the mathematical problem faster and help the rest of the group to understand it.
Amanda Rhein, Marta's senior director of transit oriented development, said initial skepticism from within the organization was overcome after it saw how reinvented public space could work.
They were typical of government workers with respect to age (average in early 40s) and experience, but significantly more senior, educated, and technically oriented (60% vs. 25% in supervisory capacities; 47% vs. 15% with MA or more; 66% vs. 11% in information systems or engineering).
"Traffic has been relentlessly growing in part because land use has developed in a way that is totally automobile oriented," said Jeffrey M. Zupan, senior fellow for transportation at the Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit planning group based in New York City.
"The rabid Nascar fans are high-tech oriented," said Bill Morgan, senior vice president for corporate marketing at Sprint Nextel in Kansas City, Mo., quite unlike the stereotype of "the blue-collar, beer-drinking, pickup truck Nascar guy".
The course was oriented to junior, senior, and graduate students who had completed prior science coursework.
Both tests were based around case studies, to reflect the clinically oriented learning of senior medical students.
The 194 studio is oriented to juniors and seniors with design and systems experience.
"Montrose used to be really spiritually oriented," says Rob Gallalee, a senior who has been at Montrose for four years.
Although it is oriented toward those early in their career, senior faculty will also have a lot to learn from the case studies.
A senior Obama administration official cautioned that the sanctions were "future oriented".
