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Keynote on FHWA's National
Pavement and Materials Program
Mr. Stephanos is the Director of the Office of Pavement Technology for the Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA) where he is responsible for the advancement of
innovative pavement technologies, mechanistic design, high performance materials,
recycled materials, and material quality and performance analysis nationwide. |
Prior to joining FHWA he served
as the Director of Materials Technology for the Maryland State Highway Administration
where he was responsible for highway material design, testing and acceptance statewide.
He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Mississippi
State University.
He worked with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers at the Waterways Experiment Station
in Vicksburg, Mississippi and the University of Maryland. He is a registered professional
engineer and a member of several TRB and AASHTO technical committees.
Dr. Roger E. Smith, Professor, Texas A&M University
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Keynote on Approaches to Integrating Maintenance & Rehabilitation Design with Asset Management Activities
Dr. Smith is the Herbert D. Kelleher Professor in Transportation & Associate
Head for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M
University, and a Research Engineer in the Texas Transportation Institute. |
He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a registered professional engineer in Illinois
and Texas. He is the
primary author of AASHTO's "Pavement Management Guide." He has assisted many agencies
with adopting and implementing pavement management systems.
Dr. Ray Brown, Professor, Auburn University
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Keynote on Importance of Good Construction on Reducing
Maintenance Costs
Dr. Brown earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees
in Civil Engineering from
Mississippi
State
University
and his Ph.D. from
Texas A&M University
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He worked with the
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers at the Waterways Experiment Station in
Vicksburg, Mississippi
prior to joining NCAT in 1987.
He presently serves as Director of NCAT and Professor of Civil Engineering at
Auburn University
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Dr. Imad Al-Qadi, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Keynote on Reflective Cracking Initiation and Propagation Mechanisms
Dr. Al-Qadi is the Founder Professor
of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Director of the
Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory and the Founding Director
of the Illinois Center for Transportation. He was the Charles E. Via, Jr. Professor
of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. |
An ASCE Fellow, he is the Chair of the TRB Maintenance Section and the Chair of the ASCE Design, Construction,
and Maintenance Council.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International
Journal of Pavement Engineering.
Professor Al-Qadi is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator
Award. |