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Eyad Masad, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies Direct of the Division of Texas Engineering Experiment Station in Qatar Professor, Zachry Department of Civil
Engineering, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Program, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar. |
Education
May, 1998 |
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, U.S.A |
May, 1995 |
M.S. Civil Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, U.S.A |
January, 1993 |
B.S. Civil Engineering, First Class Honors, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan |
Research Interest
Characterization and modeling of infrastructure materials, transport in porous media, granular mechanics, design and analysis of pavements, and microstructure analysis techniques. |
Biography
Dr. Masad has been with
Dr.
Masad’s research focuses on constitutive modeling of asphalt mixtures,
asphalt pavements performance,
transport in porous media, granular mechanics,
microstructure characterization of materials, and
image analysis techniques.
In the past
ten
years, Dr. Masad has been the PI and Co-PI on projects with total funds
that amount to approximately $10,000,000.
Sponsors of his research
include the National Science Foundation, National Cooperative Highway
Research Program, Federal Highway Administration, Texas Department of
Transportation, International Center for Aggregate Research,
Qatar National Research Fund, Qatar Science and Technology
Park,
the Asphalt Institute, Washington State Department of Transportation,
Idaho Transportation Department, as well as private industrial firms.
He has active research programs
in the United States and in the State of Qatar.
He has published more than 300 technical papers and reports on
performance testing of asphalt mixes, modeling, and equipment
development.
He
has recently co-authored a book on Pavement Design and Materials which
has been adopted for teaching pavement courses in
many universities around the world.
Dr. Masad is an active member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Association of Asphalt Paving
Technologists (AAPT), and Transportation Research Board.
He is also the former
chair of the pavement committee of the Geo-Institute, ASCE.
He is a member of the technical advisory
committee of the
He is the recipient of the
Eisenhower Graduate Research Fellowship at
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