faculty

JOHN PAUL ZANIEWSKI

Asphalt Technology Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506

EXPERIENCE

Dr. Zaniewski has over 30 years experience in Civil Engineering research and education. He has been extremely active in pavement engineering, including design, construction, materials, maintenance and management systems. He manages a program for the evaluation and implementation of the Superpave mix design system for the West Virginia Division of Highways. Eleven research reports have been developed as a result of this project. In addition to teaching at West Virginia University, Dr. Zaniewski does extensive training for the West Virginia Department of Transportation. He annually teaches mix design classes for the certification of technicians in both the Marshall and Superpave mix design methods. In addition, he lectures in the annual asphalt-technician training school for the WVDOH.

Dr. Zaniewski is a Co-Author of the textbook Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers. This is an introductory text covering all of the materials commonly used in infrastructure projects.

Dr. Zaniewski Coauthored the textbook Modern Pavement Management. Dr. Zaniewski worked extensively with the Arizona Department of Transportation's pavement management system. This work included a revision to the network operating system and development of a project selection method.

Chapter on Asphalt Materials and Construction, Construction Planning, Equipment and Methods, Peurifoy Ledbetter and Schexnayder, Sixth Edition, McGraw Hill Book Co., 2001

Dr. Zaniewski was the chairman of the ASTM committee on pavement management technology. Dr. Zaniewski has been the principal investigator on 15 sponsored research projects for a wide variety of International, Federal, State and Local sponsors. He has performed research in the areas of pavement management and performance, materials for pavements, vehicle operating costs and other topics. Dr. Zaniewski teaches courses in the areas of engineering materials, infrastructure management, pavement management, and asphalt cement and mix design. Dr. Zaniewski has been active in the area of Technology Transfer having presented over 20 seminars in support of the Arizona T2 program and has presented the FHWA short courses on Techniques for Pavement Rehabilitation and Pavement Management Systems.

EDUCATION

• B.S.C.E. With Honors, University of Texas at Austin 1972
• M.S.C.E. University of Texas at Austin, 1974<
• Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1978

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• 1996 - Present, Asphalt Technology Professor, West Virginia University, Morgantown WV, 26506
• 1985 - 1996 -1985 Department of Civil Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona 85287-5306
• 1982-1985 - Vice President for Research, Austin Research Engineers Inc., 2600 Dellana Lane, Austin Texas 78746
• 1976-1982 - Vice President, Texas Research and Development Foundation, 2602 Dellana Lane, Austin Texas 78746

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Professional Engineer - West Virginia and Arizona
• Highway Operations Advisory Committee - Strategic Highway Research Program
• Past Chairman TRB Committee A2B06, Pavement Monitoring, Evaluation, and Data Storage
• Member TRB Committee A2B02, Rigid Pavement Design
• American Society of Civil Engineers,
• Chi Epsilon,
• American Society of Testing and Materials,
• Association of Asphalt Paving Technologist

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

1. Risk-Based Life Cycle Cost Analysis for Project Level Pavement Management, Accepted for presentation and publication, Transportation Research Board at the annual meeting, January 2002, (with Reigle)
2. Use of Probabilistic Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Model Output, Second International Symposium on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements and Technological Control, Auburn Alabama, July, 2001 (with Reigle)
3. Life Cycle Cost Components, Second International Symposium on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements and Technological Control, Auburn Alabama, July, 2001 (with Reigle)
4. Optimizing Pavement Preservation: An Urgent Demand for Every Highway Agency, International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Vl 2(2) pp. 135-148, 2001, (with Mamlouk)
5. Analysis and Design Optimization of Flexible Pavement, ASCE, Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol. 126, No. 2, March/April 2000, pp 161-167 (with Mamlouk and He)
6. Geographic Information Systems Based Pavement Management System - A Case Study," Journal of the Transport Research Board, Record No. 1652, National Research Council, Washington, DC., 1999, (with Flintsch, and Medina)

SELECTED RESEARCH REPORTS

1. WWW Broker for Specifications, Methods and Procedures for Hot Mix Asphalt Concrete Design, West Virginia Division of Highways, Charleston, WV, 2004 (with Slater)
2. Evaluation of Performance Grade Asphalt Binder Equipment and Testing Protocol, West Virginia Division of Highways, Charleston, WV, 2004 (with Pumphrey)
3. Evaluation of 4.75 mm Superpave Mix Criteria, West Virginia Division of Highways, Charleston, WV, 2004 (with Diazgranadas)
4. Evaluation of Indirect Tensile Strength to Identify Asphalt Concrete Rutting Potential, West Virginia Division of Highways, Charleston, WV, 2004 (with Srinivasan)
5. Evaluation of the Effects of Fines on Asphalt Concrete, West Virginia Division of Highways, Charleston, WV, 2004 (with Reyes)
6. Evaluation of Binder Grades on Rutting Performance, West Virginia Division of Highways, Charleston, WV, 2004 (with Nallamothu)
7. Comparison of 9.5 mm Superpave and Marshall Wearing I Mixes in West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Highways, Charleston, WV, 2004 (with Nelson)
8. Comparison of 19 mm Superpave and Marshall Base II Mixes in West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Highways, Charleston, WV, 2004 (with Kanneganti)
9. Automation of the Superpave Mix Design Process for the West Virginia Division of Highways, West Virginia Division of Highways, Charleston, WV, 2003 (with Padula)
10. Optical Evaluation of Aggregate Size Shape and Texture, West Virginia Division of Highways, Charleston, WV, Final Submission 2003 (with Banta and Cheng)
11. Inter Laboratory Variability of the Marshall Test Method for Asphalt Concrete, West Virginia Division of Highways, Charleston, WV, 1998 (with Hughes)

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS, SEMINARS, AND SHORT COURSES

1. Introduction to Asphalt Technology, One day workshop presented 5 times
2. Superpave Mix Design, Three day workshop presented 10 times
3. Marshall Mix Design, Three day workshop presented 8 times
4. Pavement Preventive Maintenance, One-day workshop presented 25 times.
5. Pavement Management Systems, International Road Federation Short Course on Road Management, Tempe Arizona, Seminar presented six times.
6. Pavement Management Systems, Short Course California Transportation Assistance Program, University of California, course taught seven times.
7. Asphalt in Pavement Maintenance, Technology Transfer Workshop, Arizona State University, presented several times.