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Mr. Peter J. Stephanos, Director, Office of Pavement Technology, FHWA
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
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
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 .
     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 .

Dr. Imad Al-Qadi, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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.