9:00-9:20am: ASU Welcome Address Ram Pendyala, Arizona State University 9:30-10:00am: Federal Highway Administration Hari Kalla (Associate Administrator for Infrastructure) 10:00-10:30am: ADOT Overview Steve Boschen, Infrastructure Delivery and Operations, Division Director, ADOT 10:30-11:00am: McDOT Overview Jesse Gutierrez, Director 11:00-11:30am: Arizona Transportation Institute (AzTI) Update Yao-Jan Wu, University of Arizona
Director and Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University
Professor Ram Pendyala is the director of ASU’s the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering . He teaches and conducts research in transportation systems engineering, design, modeling and simulation, travel behavior analysis, multimodal transport policy analysis, freight and passenger travel demand forecasting, travel survey methods and transportation economics and finan... Read More →
Steve BoschenInfrastructure Delivery and Operations, DirectorSteve Boschen currently serves as the division director for Infrastructure Delivery andOperations, which oversees all statewide project delivery including ADOT and Local PublicAgency projects, and statewide operations and... Read More →
Director of Transportation, Maricopa County Department of Transportation
Jesse Gutierrez serves as the Director of the Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) as well as the County Engineer and brings over 30 years of experience in transportation construction and roadway maintenance. Before joining MCDOT in July 2020, Jesse served as the Globe... Read More →
Professor of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics, University of Arizona
Dr. Yao-Jan Wu is a professor of transportation engineering in the Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics Department and the Executive (Founding) Director of the Center for Applied Transportation Sciences (CATS) at the University of Arizona (UA). He holds PE licenses in... Read More →
Associate Administrator for Infrastructure at Federal Highway Administration, Federal Highway Administration
In July 2019, Hari Kalla was selected for SES position of Associate Administrator for Infrastructure with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). As the Associate Administrator for Infrastructure, Hari serves as a member of FHWA's leadership team and participates in developing... Read More →
