Arizona Pavements and Materials Conference 2024: Full Schedule

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8:00am MST

Update on Pavement Innovations in Arizona

Thursday November 21, 2024 8:00am - 10:00am MST

Moderator: Nye McCarty
Impacts of a FHWA Mobile Asphalt Technology Center Visit:
Spotlight on Arizona DOT
Leslie Ann Myers, FHWA

Arizona’s Stone Matrix Asphalt (SMA)
Paul Sharma, ADOT

Friction Performance of ADOT Surface Mixtures
Kevin Robertson, ADOT

Highly Modified Asphalts / Emulsions
Mo Rahman, Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc.

Moderators

Nye McCarty

Speakers

Mo Rahman

Technical Marketing Manager, Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc.

Mo Rahman has 29 years of experience in asphalt materials industry since his undergraduate degree in 1995. He has specialized in asphalt construction materials, production / operations, evaluation / testing, quality control / quality assurance and managing QC lab. He is knowledgeable... Read More →

Kevin Robertson

Surface Treatment Engineer, Arizona Department of Transportation

evin has been a roadway engineer for more than 28 years in Arizona with the last 11 years being at the Arizona Department of Transportation. He is the Pavement Management Surface Treatment Engineer as part of Asset Management within the Multimodal Planning Division (MPD) at ADOT... Read More →

Leslie Ann Myers

Program Manager, Senior Engineer at Federal Highway Administration, Federal Highway Administration

Paul Sharma

Arizona Department of Transportation

Thursday November 21, 2024 8:00am - 10:00am MST
Ventana Ballroom 241

General Session

10:30am MST

SESSION 3: Every Day Counts (EDC) 7

Thursday November 21, 2024 10:30am - 12:00pm MST

Ventana Ballroom 241

10:30-10:50 am Arizona Council for Transportation Innovation Update, Paki Rico, FHWA
10:50-11:25 am Enhancing Performance with Internally Cured Concrete, Tim Barrett, FHWA"
11:25-12:00pm Green Public Procurement, Environment and product quality perspectives, LaToya Johnson, FHWA

Moderators

Tom Deitering

Speakers

Paki Rico

U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration

Tim Barrett

Research Civil Engineer at Federal Highway Administration, Federal Highway Administration

LaToya Johnson

Team Leader, Federal Highway Administration

Thursday November 21, 2024 10:30am - 12:00pm MST
Ventana Ballroom 241

Track 1

1:30pm MST

SESSION 5: Digital Data and Infrastructure

Thursday November 21, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm MST

Ventana Ballroom 241

Moderator: Parnian Ghasemi

Digital Project Delivery: Re-Imagining the Way We Do Business in a Digital World
Alexa Mitchell, HDR

Data Science for Pavements
Eshan Dave, University of New Hampshire

Moderators

Parnian Ghasemi

Materials Manager, City of Phoenix

Parnian earned her Ph.D. in Pavement Engineering from Iowa State University in 2019, concentrating on applying Machine Learning algorithms to predict Pavement Performance and enhance Pavement Design. She holds a Professional Engineer certification in the State of Arizona. Before joining... Read More →

Speakers

Alexa Mitchell

Enterprise Digital Delivery Services Director, HDR

Alexa is HDR’s Enterprise Digital Delivery Services Director, and is a professional engineer registered in Arizona and Missouri. Prior to joining the private sector, she spent over 16 years with the Missouri DOT where she led the agency in implementation of 3D technology to support... Read More →

Eshan Dave

Professor at University of New Hampshire, University of New Hampshire

Thursday November 21, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm MST
Ventana Ballroom 241

General Session

2:30pm MST

The History and Evolution of ADOT’s Pavement Performance Test Equipment

Thursday November 21, 2024 2:30pm - 3:30pm MST

Ventana Ballroom 241

Moderator: Larry Scofield

Speakers:
George Way, Jim Delton, Larry Scofield.

Moderators

Larry Scofield

Director of Engineering, IGGA/ACPA

Larry is a graduate from Arizona State University where he received both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in civil engineering. Larry retired from the Arizona Department of Transportation where he worked for 29 years. While with ADOT, he worked in construction, materials... Read More →

Speakers

George Way

Arizona Department of Transportation

Jim Delton

Arizona Department of Transportation

Thursday November 21, 2024 2:30pm - 3:30pm MST
Ventana Ballroom 241

General Session

3:30pm MST

END OF CONFERENCE - Grand Prize Drawing

Thursday November 21, 2024 3:30pm - 3:40pm MST

Ventana Ballroom 241

Thursday November 21, 2024 3:30pm - 3:40pm MST
Ventana Ballroom 241

General Session