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Jorge A Prozzi. Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Fellow Clyde Lee Endowed Professorship in Transportation Engineering

The University of Texas

1 University Station

ECJ Hall 6.112, C1761

Austin, Texas 78712
Phone:  +1 (512) 471-4771
Phone:  +1 (512) 232-3488
Fax:      +1 (512) 475-7314
E-mail: prozzi@mail.utexas.edu

RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS

  • Pavement Materials and Testing.

  • Design and Rehabilitation of pavements. Mechanistic-empirical design.

  • Instrumentation, monitoring, and analysis of pavement response and performance.

  • Non-destructive testing (NDT) and backcalculation of material properties.

  • Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT).

  • Asphalt Technology: recycled materials, warm asphalt.

  • Applications of probability and statistics to transportation engineering problems. Design reliability. Nonlinear estimation. Duration models.

  • Integrated transportation infrastructure management and Pavement Management Systems (PMS).

  • Advanced Econometrics tools for modeling pavement performance. Unobserved heterogeneity, fixed-, random- and mixed-effects modeling.

  • Network and project level modeling using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation. 

VITA

Dr. Jorge A. Prozzi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his BSc. In Civil Engineering from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina in 1989. He obtained his BSc. (Hons.) in Civil Engineering from the University of Pretoria (South Africa) in 1996 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998 and 2001, respectively.  Dr. Prozzi and his research team have ongoing experimental research on testing and behavior of road building materials, design and rehabilitation of pavements; asphalt technology; mechanistic and empirical design; accelerated pavement testing; applications of probability and statistics to pavement engineering problems; reliability; and pavement management systems. 

He has also conducted analytical research on the application of quantitative methods by applying advanced econometrics for the development of performance models for the optimum management of the pavement infrastructure.  He teaches classes on the design of bituminous mixtures, asphalt technology, elementary statistics for civil engineers, and pavement design and performance. In addition, he has teaches a graduate class on modeling tools with engineering applications, which allows him to teach about some of his cutting-edge research work in the area of econometrics and modeling. 

He is serving as Chair for both the Transportation Research Board International Activities Committee and the Transportation Research Board Subcommittee for Latin American Transportation Research and Practice. He serves as a panel member for projects funded by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. In addition, he is a member of several Transportation Research Board committees.  Based on his active involvement with the Transportation Research Board, he was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of Special Contribution to the International Activities Committee in January, 2007. He has authored or co-authored 19 refereed archival journal publications, 46 refereed conference proceedings, and 39 technical reports.

SUPERVISED STUDENTS

 

Dissertations Completed

  • Feng Hong, “Modeling Heterogeneity in Transportation Infrastructure Deterioration: Application to Pavement,” PhD Dissertation, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2007.

  • Rong Luo, “Minimizing Longitudinal Pavement Cracking Due to Subgrade Shrinkage,” PhD Dissertation, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2007.

Theses Completed

  • Karan Kapoor, “Mechanistic-Empirical Design Approach for the Evaluation of Flexible Pavements,” MS Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2004.

  • Vishal Gossain, “Development of an Expert System Facilitating the Selection of a Mix for an Asphalt Pavement and Analysis of Fatigue Tests,” MS Thesis, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2005.

  • Samrat Chatterjee, “Development of Mix Design and Testing Procedures for Cold Patching Mixtures,” MS Thesis, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2006.

  • Vanessa Ivette Rosales-Herrera Mixture, “Design and Performance-Based Specification Recommendations for Cold Patching Mixtures,” MS Thesis, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2007.

  • Jose Pablo Aguiar-Moya, “Optimization of the Number of Design Gyrations Using the Superpave Gyratory Compactor,” MS Thesis, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2007.

Dissertations and Theses in Progress

  • Guo, Runhua, PhD (Expected December 2007)

  • Jose Pablo Aguiar-Moya, PhD (Expected December 2009)

RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • “Development of a Methodology for the Determination of the Damage Caused to the Transportation Infrastructure by Different Axle Configurations and Loads,” U.S. Department of Transportation 167827, FY 2003.

  • “Comparison of Hot-Poured Crack Sealant to Emulsified Asphalt Crack Sealant,” Texas Department of Transportation 0-4061, FY 2001-2004.

  • “Toner Modified Asphalt,” Texas Department of Transportation 5-3933-01, FY 2001-2004.

  • “Managing Rural Truck Traffic in Texas,” (PI: R. Harrison), Texas Department of Transportation 0-4169, FY 2003-2004.

  • “Evaluate Equipment, Methods and Pavement Design Implications for Texas Conditions of the AASHTO 2002 Axle-load Spectra Traffic Methodology,” Texas Department of Transportation 0-4510, FY 2003-2005.

  • “Determination of the Impact of HB 2060 Permits on Texas Load-Zoned Roads,” Texas Department of Transportation 0-4574, FY 2003-2004.

  • “Operation of the Texas Accelerated Pavement Test Center,” (PI: R. Hudson), Texas Department of Transportation 0-9900, FY 2004.

  • Evaluation of the Joint Effect of Wheel Load and Tire Pressure on Pavement Performance,” U.S. Department of Transportation 167245, FY 2004.

  • “Guidelines for Selecting Asphalt Mixtures and Evaluation of Polymer-Modified Mixes,” (PI: S. Nazarian, UT El Paso), Texas Department of Transportation 0-4824, FY 2004-2006.

  • “Testing of HB2060 Pads,” Texas Department of Transportation 0-5372, FY 2005.

  • “Characterizing Highway Traffic in the U.S.-Mexico Trade Corridors Based on the Damaging Effects on the Surface Transportation Infrastructure,” U.S. Department of Transportation 167555, FY 2005.

  • “Evaluation of Long Term Behaviour of Pavement Layered Materials by Means of Accelerated Pavement and Supplementation/Verification Testing,” World Bank 206/CON/ES/DEN/2003, FY 2005-2007.

  • “Analysis of Laboratory Compactive Effort to Optimize the Durability of Superpave Mixture Design,” Texas Department of Transportation 0-5132, FY 2005-2006.

  • “Effective Evaluation of Environmental Justice Aspects of the Tolling of Existing Non-toll and Toll Roads,” Texas Department of Transportation 0-5208, FY 2005-2006.

  • “Quantify the Benefits of Using Geosynthetics for Unbound Base Courses,” (PI: J. G. Zornberg), Texas Department of Transportation 0-4829, FY 2005-2007.

  • “Material Design and Testing Methods for Home Made and Containerized Cold Mix,” Texas Department of Transportation 0-4872, FY 2005-2007.

  • “Design-Build Agreements: How to Ensure Transportation agencies Receive an Asset,” U.S. Department of Transportation 167866, FY 2006.

  • “Integration and Consolidation of Border Freight Transportation Data for Planning Applications and Characterization of NAFTA Truck Loads for Aiding in Transportation Infrastructure Management,” (PI: J. Villa, Texas Transportation Institute) Texas Department of Transportation 0-5339, FY 2006-2007.

  • “Tracking the Performance of HMA Mixtures in Texas,” Texas Department of Transportation 0-5496, FY 2006-2007.

  • “Development of a Flexible Pavements Database,” Texas Department of Transportation 0-5513, FY 2006-2008.

  • “Calibration of Pavement Response Models for the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Method,” U.S. Department of Transportation 167264, FY 2007.

  • “Framing Caterpillar's Strategic Direction for Improving Productivity in the Road Renewal Industry” (PI: C. Menches), Caterpillar Inc., FY 2007.

  • “Estimated and Actual Usage of Toll Roads”, (PI: C. M. Walton), Texas Department of Transportation 0-6044, FY 2007-2009.

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