Graduate Students
PhD Students—Chris Williams
Andrea Kvasnak
Dissertation: “Development and evaluation of test procedures to identify moisture damage prone hot mix asphalt pavements”
Graduation: Dec. 2006
Jason Bausano
Dissertation: “Development of a new test procedure to evaluate the moisture susceptibility of HMA”
Graduation: Dec. 2006
Tamer Breakah
Dissertation: “Stochastic finite elemental analysis of moisture damage in hot mix asphalt”
Graduation: Dec. 2009
Mohamed Metwally
Dissertation: “Development of non-petroleum binders derived from fast pyrolysis bio-oils for use in flexible pavement”
Graduation: May 2010
Mohamed Rashwan
Dissertation: “Warm Mix Asphalt”
Graduation: Dec. 2012
J. Peralta
Dissertation: “Asphalt-Rubber”
Graduation: Aug. 2013
Sheng Tang
Dissertation: “Recycled Asphalt Pavement”
Graduation: May 2014
Ashley Buss
Dissertation: “Warm Mix Asphalt”
Graduation: May 2014
Can Chen
Dissertation: “Joints & reflective cracking”
Graduation: Aug. 2014
M. Rahman
Dissertation: “M-EPDG & top down cracking”
Graduation:Dec. 2014
A. Cascione
Dissertation: “Biopolymers in Asphalt Binders”
Graduation:Dec. 2014
J. Podolsky
Dissertation: “Asphalt Materials/Pavements”
Graduation: May 2014
K. Ng Puga
Dissertation: “Asphalt Rubber/Bioasphalt”
Graduation: May 2015
J. Yu
Dissertation: “Pavement Holding Strategies”
Graduation: May 2015
M. Elkashef
Dissertation: “Asphalt Materials”
Graduation: Aug. 2017
C. Chen
Dissertation: “Asphalt Materials”
Graduation: Dec. 2018
Z. Nia
Dissertation: “Asphalt Materials”
Graduation: Dec. 2018
P. Ghasemi
Dissertation: “Pavements/Asphalt Materials”
Graduation: Dec. 2018
N. Manke
Dissertation: “Asphalt Materials”
Graduation: May 2019
B. Haack
Dissertation: “Asphalt Materials”
Graduation: Aug. 2020
M. Staver
Dissertation: “Asphalt Materials”
Graduation: May 2021
Masters Students—Chris Williams
Nick McCready
Research: “The Utilization of Agriculturally Derived Lignin as an Antioxidant in Asphalt Binder”
Graduation:Dec. 2007
Matt Mason
Graduation: May 2009
Sheng Tang
Research: “Asphalt modification by utilizing bio-oil ESP and tall oil additive”
Graduation:May 2010
Ashley Buss
Research: “Field investigation of warm mix asphalt”
Graduation: Aug. 2010
Blake Rubino
Research: “An investigative look at the effects of post-consumer recycled asphalt shingles on soils & flexible pavements”
Graduation:Aug. 2010
Mike Blahut
Research: “Propane Earth Materials Drying Techniques and Technologies”
Graduation:Aug. 2010
Andrew Cascione
Research: “Use of recycled post-consumer shingles in hot mix asphalt”
Graduation:Dec. 2010
Jianhua Yu
Research: “Use of recycled post-consumer shingles in hot mix asphalt”
Graduation:May 2012
Yu Kuang
Research: “Use of fractionated bio-oil in flexible pavements”
Graduation: May 2012
Ka Lai Ng
Research: “Pyrolysis of tires and constituent materials for use in asphalt”
Graduation:May 2013
G. Mercado
Research: “Asphalt mix design and performance”
Graduation:Dec. 2015
C. Chen
Research: “Biopolymers and asphalt modification”
Graduation: Dec. 2015
C. Mander
Research: “Pavement Design”
Graduation:Dec. 2015
Z. Nia
Research: “Biopolymers and asphalt modification”
Graduation:May 2016
Kayla Kimura
Research: “Design of Craneways”
Graduation: Dec. 2016
Yuderka Trinidad Gonzalez
Research: “Comparison of Design/Analysis Methods for Pile Reinforced Slopes”
Graduation:Aug. 2017
Paul Ledtje
Research: “Asphalt Materials”
Graduation: Dec. 2018
Graduate Students—Ashley Buss
Minas N. Guirguis
Ph.D. Student, August 2015-present, work in progress – degree expected Fall 2018.
Ben Claypool
MS Student (on PhD track), Summer 2016-present, MS conferred Fall 2017. Defense Date: 11-21-2017
Kailin Zhuang
MS, Graduated Summer 2016, “Aggregate Imaging System and Chip Seal Correlations”. Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Major Professor. Defense Date: 5-26-2016