University of Washington

Dr. Emad Kassem joined the University Of Idaho Department of Civil Engineering as an Assistant Professor. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the University of Idaho, Dr. Kassem was an Associate Research Scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Prairie View A&M University. His research focuses on characterization of infrastructure materials, tire- pavement interaction, microstructure analysis of asphalt mixes and granular materials, non-destructive evaluation of pavements, multifunctional materials, and analytical and computational modeling of infrastructure materials. The sponsors of his research projects include the Federal Highway Administration, Texas Department of Transportation, Idaho Transportation Department, Southwest Region University Transportation Center, and Qatar National Research Fund. Dr. Kassem has more than 60 technical publications, conference papers, and reports in the field of materials and pavements engineering. He serves as a reviewer of several technical journals and he actively participates in the activities of several committees of the Transportation Research Board. He received the Texas A&M Transportation Institute/Trinity New Researcher Award in 2011 for his research contributions. Dr. Judy Liu joined Oregon State University as a professor in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering in September 2015. Dr. Liu holds a MS and a PhD in civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. In her research, Dr. Liu explores resilient steel structures, with focus on seismic and disproportionate collapse resistance. She has interests in behavior and design of structural steel connections and innovative systems for lateral resistance. She was awarded an AISC Milek Fellowship for research on steel slit panels for lateral resistance. Dr. Liu is a member of a number of committees, including the ASCE/SEI Disproportionate Collapse Mitigation Standard Committee, NCSEA Basic Education Committee, and AISC Partners in Education Committee. She also serves as Research Editor for the AISC Engineering Journal. She has been honored with an AISC Special Achievement Award for her contributions to the Partners in Education Committee and other efforts to improve structural steel education. Dr. Chris Parrish joined Oregon State University in 2014 as an associate professor in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering. Dr. Parrish holds a PhD in civil and environmental engineering with an emphasis in geospatial information engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a MS in civil and coastal engineering with an emphasis in geomatics from the University of Florida. His research focuses on full-waveform LiDAR, topographic-bathymetric LiDAR, hyperspectral imagery, uncertainty modeling, and UAVs for coastal applications. Additionally, Dr. Parrish is the Director of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) LiDAR Division and associate editor of the journal Marine Geodesy. Prior to joining OSU, he served as lead physical scientist in the Remote Sensing Division of NOAA's National Geodetic Survey and affiliate professor in the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrographic Center at University of New Hampshire. Dr. Jason Weiss joined Oregon State University in July 2015 as a professor and the head of the School of Civil and Construction Engineering. He also holds the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering and is the Director of the Kiewit Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Research. Before joining OSU, he was a faculty member at Purdue University for 15 years where he held the position of the Jack and Kay Hockema Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Pankow Materials Laboratory. He earned a BAE from the Pennsylvania State University and a MS and PhD from Northwestern University. He is actively involved in research on cement and concrete materials specifically focused on early age property development, cracking, transport in concrete, and concrete durability. Specifically, he is known for research his group has performed in the areas of shrinkage and cracking reduction, the use of the ring and dual ring test, use of electrical resistivity and the formation factor, use of internally cured concrete, and concrete pavement durability. 7 2014-2015 Annual Report

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