Arizona Pavements and Materials Conference 2024: Full Schedule

9:00am MST

OPENING SESSION

Wednesday November 20, 2024 9:00am - 11:30am MST

9:00-9:20am: ASU Welcome Address
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

Speakers

Steve Boschen

Division Director - IDO, ADOT

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 →

Jesse Gutierrez

Director of Transportation, Maricopa County

Yao-Jan Wu

Professor of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics, University of Arizona

Hari Kalla

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 →

Wednesday November 20, 2024 9:00am - 11:30am MST
Ventana Ballroom 241

General Session

3:30pm MST

Panel Discussion

Wednesday November 20, 2024 3:30pm - 5:00pm MST

Ventana Ballroom 241

Moderator: Bob McGennis
Speakers:
Tom Bennert (Rutgers University)
Derek Nener-Plante (FHWA).
Amy Epps (Texas A&M)

Moderators

Robert McGennis

HF Sinclair

Bob McGennis is the Asphalt Technical Manager for the HF Sinclair Corporation, a position he has held since 1998. He has management authority over quality control, PG binder and asphalt emulsion formulations, raw materials, and technology for the HF Sinclair asphalt group. Bob has... Read More →

Speakers

Tom Bennert

Research Professor, Rutgers University Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT)

Dr. Thomas Bennert is a Research Professor at the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation at Rutgers University. Tom’s research focuses on asphalt mixture and binder performance, performance-based asphalt mixture design, pavement design/rehabilitation, asphalt pavement... Read More →

Derek Nener-Plante

Pavement and Materials Engineer, Federal Highway Administration

Derek Nener-Plante is a Pavement and Materials Engineer for the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Pavement and Materials (P&M) Team. He is responsible for leading implementation and deployment efforts in the areas of asphalt materials, asphalt pavement construction, materials... Read More →

Amy Epps-Martin

Professor, Texas A&M University

Dr. Amy Epps Martin has more than 27 years of experience teaching civil engineering materials courses and conducting research on safe, sustainable asphalt technologies at Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute where she is the A.P. & Florence Wiley Professor... Read More →

Wednesday November 20, 2024 3:30pm - 5:00pm MST
Ventana Ballroom 241

General Session

8:00am MST

Update on Pavement Innovations in Arizona

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

Ventana Ballroom 241

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

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