This week you will take time to reflect and discuss your thoughts on the course.
1. Describe how you feel you improved your knowledge, skills, abilities, and yourself in this class.
2. Assess the course objectives you still do not understand and suggest how to improve the course to meet those objectives.
3. List ways you might measure the future effects of what you have learned in this course or your future progress/improvement.
Samantha Adamczyk
I feel that I improved my knowledge of intermodal transportation greatly. Although I have a lot of experience moving goods, containers, vehicles, etc through the supply chain using intermodal transportation this course gave me a better look at the industry as a whole. When I was a unit movement officer for the Army, I was just focused on moving my equipment on time, to the right place, and under a certain budget. Being able to take a step back and look at the industry as a whole helped me develop a better understanding of the whole picture of intermodal freight movements.
I don’t believe there is a course objective that I still do not understand. I would say the only improvement I can think of is having the discussions tie more to the specific topics. They were very broad, which led to great discussions among the class. But at times we all had such varying topics of discussion it was hard to relate to each discussion.
I will definitely use some things I learned in this class in the future as a unit movement officer as well as potentially in the civilian sector. I don’t have a plan on how to specifically measure the effects of what I learned since this course was mostly an overview of intermodal transportation and how it can be used. But less of the specifics of how to move freight since that is more highly specialized from company to company. So I just hope to continue to learn and achieve a greater understanding of the supply chain, logistics, and transportation fields as a whole.
Luke Pond
I hope you are having an excellent last week of the course; we finally made it to the end!
Describe how you feel you improved your knowledge, skills, abilities, and yourself in this class.
This class improved my overall knowledge of not only the intermodal transportation aspect but of the logistics field as a whole. I feel as though, through personal and other classes, my knowledge on intermodal transportation was fairly high, but this class did well to really contextualize the information I knew and combined it with information I did not know.
Assess the course objectives you still do not understand and suggest how to improve the course to meet those objectives.
Going over the course objectives, I can not say that there’s one simply do not understand. I believe the class was set up well to go over these objectives. If I could choose to go over something once more it would be the impact of government regulation on the industry.
List ways you might measure the future effects of what you have learned in this course or your future progress/improvement.
I believe that although my career is not necessarily based around transportation, I tend to work more in a warehousing environment (for now anyway) this information about intermodal transportation and information on basic logistics movement in the freight industry still serves as a significant value.
