AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Workshop
August 4-6, 2021
AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Workshop
Presented by: Nur Hossain, Matt Coen, and Syed Ashik Ali
Bios: Nur has been in the geotechnical engineering industry for over 14 years. He obtained his MS and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Currently, Nur is serving as the president and principal engineer of a 32-year-old Civil Engineering firm, ‘Geocal,’ and is managing a staff of over 60 personnel encompassing three offices in Colorado and one in the greater Oklahoma City area.
Nur has experience in providing geotechnical engineering services that include critical design, client service, and team leadership for geotechnical design. His technical experience includes design of pavements for both roadways and airport runways, earth retention systems of various types, foundations, walls of various types, settlement analyses, deep and shallow foundations, ground improvement, and slope stabilization. Nur has experience with FWD, dilatometer, refraction microtremor, cone penetration, and specialized instrumentation and analyses for rock and soil slope stability and retaining wall global stability. His PhD dissertation was on Mechanistic Empirical (ME) design of pavements. He has published many research papers and conference proceedings papers on the use of ME design and sensitivity of the design parameters.
Matt joined Geocal after earning a Master’s degree and a Bachelor’s degree in Geological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 2017 and 2016, respectively, with a Geotechnical Engineering focus. Prior to joining Geocal, Matt worked at Wyoming Analytical Laboratory, Inc. as a lab technician performing geochemical tests. During that time, Matt also worked as a geological/mining engineering intern for Westmoreland Coal Company for a summer doing mine slope stability analysis and exploration drilling projects. Matt is proficient in coordinating and logging investigative drilling, geological mapping, and reading construction plans and details. He has experience in numerical modeling software (e.g. ArcGIS, PHASE 2.0, GeoStudios, and Rocscience). He also has experience in caisson inspections. He is proficient in developing pavement designs in accordance with the current MGPEC, AASHTO, and CDOT standards.
Syed Ashik Ali is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Civil Engineering and a highly motivated and accomplished researcher. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from OU in 2016 and 2021, respectively. As a Postdoctoral Research Associate, he has been instrumental to identifying research questions, writing research proposals, and competitively winning external funding from state and federal sources. Currently, he is serving as a Co-PI of multiple Oklahoma Department of Transportation-funded projects. His uncompromising effort has been instrumental to enhancing the understanding of pavement performance and developing guidelines for improved designs, maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction. His research findings have appeared in a number of international journals and proceedings of national and international conferences.
