Board of Directors

The ISAP Board of Directors which governs the Society, appoints the Executive Committee with powers as it shall see fit, subject to regulation of the By-Laws. The committee members consist of six elected officials of the Board and nine Board Members At Large elected for a three-year term. The schedule of appointments as of January 2008 is listed below.

Executive Committee Members

Chairman:

Jia Yu
Vice Chief Engineer, Jiangsu Transportation Research Institute?China
Mr. Jia Yu graduated from Department of Highway and Bridge, Tongji University, Shanghai in 1964. He previously worked for Chongqing Highway Research Institute, Ministry of Communications, and China as a key researcher in national asphalt pavement research programs. He made contribution for current national specifications. He joined to Jiangsu Transportation Research Institute in 1995, plays a leader role of develop, research and applications in transferring US Sup.erpave technology and other innovations into Chinese practice. He dedicates in performance study of asphalt and asphalt pavements for more than 45 years. Since 1980s, he has been actively involved international academia and technology and information exchange activities, also as associate editor of several Chinese asphalt pavement magazines. He was a member of TRB A2D03 and DAWG committee, and is a current member of TRB AHD18 pavement preservation committee. AAPT, ISAP, ASTM and PIARC.

1st Vice Chairman:

Herve Di Benedetto
Professor  at ENTPE, University of Lyon, France
Herve Di Benedetto received his Diploma of Civil Engineer from the “Ecole Nationale des TPE” in 1979. He is Doctor of Engineering in Soil Mechanics (1981) and “Docteur ès-Sciences” (1987), both from the University of Grenoble, France.
He is Professor at the “Ecole Nationale des TPE”, Director, from 1992 to 2005, of the Department of Civil Engineering and Buildings (DGCB), which is a Research Unit associated to the French National Centre of Scientific Research (URA CNRS N°1652).
He teaches in the fields of soil mechanics, road structure behaviour and rheology of geomaterials.
His research focuses on the study of mechanical, thermo-mechanical and structural behaviour of geomaterials, including experimental and modelling aspects. He is working in the fields of soils mechanics and road engineering.
He has been the supervisor of more than 30 PhD students and of a large volume of research works in collaboration with various private and public partners. He is the author of more than 160 publications and is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal “Road Materials and Pavement Design”, which is a Science Citation Indexed publication (http://rmpd.revuesonline.com).

Past Chairman:

John D’Angelo
Chief Operating Officer, D’Angelo Consulting, LLC.
Dr. D’Angelo is the chief operating officer of a small consulting firm specializing in asphalt materials testing, pavement design and construction quality assurance. Previously he worked for Federal Highway Administration for over 32 years. He has worked in the areas of construction management, pavement design, materials testing, and quality control. He has been involved with the implementation of the Strategic Highway Research Program, Superpave Asphalt Design System, to the highway industry and further development of the system. He has also worked extensively in the asphalt binder area, mixture design, warm mix asphalt and recycling. He has published numerous papers on asphalt material testing and quality control. He is also a member of the Transportation Research Board, The Association of Asphalt Pavement Technologists, The Canadian Technical Asphalt Association and ASTM.

Secretary:

Gordon Airey
University of Nottingham
Gordon Airey is Professor of Pavement Engineering Materials at the University of Nottingham and Deputy Director of the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC). He obtained his PhD from the University of Nottingham in 1997 and is a registered Chartered Engineer. Prof Airey has been involved in pavement engineering research both in South Africa at the CSIR and the UK since 1990 and has authored and co-authored over 150 journal and conference publications.
Gordon is an active member of many national and international asphalt and pavement organisations and technical committees. He is secretary of the RILEM Technical Committee Nanotechnology-Based Bituminous Materials (TC NBM) and chairman of WG4 within the ISAP Technical Committee Asphalt Pavements and Environment (TC APE). He is also an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering and on the Editorial Boards of various other journals including Road Materials and Pavement Design and Construction and Building Materials.

Treasurer:

John T. Harvey
University of California, Berkeley
John Harvey is Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Berkeley, where he gained his PhD in 1992. Prof Harvey has also been active as a lecturer and researcher at San Jose State U., the Texas Research & Develpoment Foundation and Austin Research Engineers, Inc. John is an active member of many asphalt and pavement organizations and technical committees, and the recipient of several professional awards, including the Marlin J. Knutson Technical Achievement Award. 2001 for the California I-10 Reconstruction Team.

Executive Administrator:

Eugene Skok
ISAP Head Office
White Bear Lake, MN
Eugene Skok received a Bachelors, Masters and PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 1957, 1959 and 1969, respectively. He has worked and taught in the areas of Pavement Design, Evaluation and Engineering Materials and as a researcher. He worked at the AASHO Road Test during the construction and analysis periods in 1958-1960. He then worked for the Asphalt Institute in College Park, Maryland.
From 1963 through 1971, while at the University of Minnesota he worked on various research projects including the research used for the current Minnesota Highway Department pavement design procedure. He also did research for U.S. Forest Service, NCHRP and the Minnesota Local Road Research Board in pavement design, analysis and quality control.
In 1972 he started teaching at St. Paul Technical College where he was Head of the Civil Technology Department. He also helped start a pavement consulting firm (Midwest Pavement Management) in 1980 which was bought out by Braun Intertec in 1987.
In 1988 he became the Principle Investigator for the North Central Regional Coordination Office of the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP). The North Central Region covers 13 states and 2 provinces. The Office was responsible for the setting up, evaluation and analysis of over 300 test sections in the region.
Since 1998 he has been a Research Associate and Adjunct Professor in the Civil Engineering Department back at the University of Minnesota. He has taught pavement and materials courses and worked on research projects including the work described in this presentation.
Dr. Skok is a Life Member of ASCE (President of the MN Section 1978-79), Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (Secretary-Treasurer since 1969), International Society for Asphalt Pavements (Executive Administrator since 1996) MnAAPT, ASTM, TRB, MSES, Chi Epsilon. Tau Beta Pi and Plumb Bob. He was elected to the Asphalt Institute Roll of Honor in 1995.

Association Members

NAPA — National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA website)
Kent Hansen joined NAPA in July 1995 as Director of Engineering.  Prior to joining NAPA Kent worked for International Surfacing and asphalt-rubber contractor in Arizona (1990-1994), Austin Research Engineers and Nichols Consulting on the SHRP LTPP contract for the western region (1988-1990),  Harding Lawson Associates (1980-1988) and Chilton Engineering (1978-1980).  He received his BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1977.  He is responsible for NAPA’s training program and has authored numerous technical publications and articles for NAPA.  He is a member of AAPT, ASCE, ASTM and TRB.

JRCA — Japan Road Contractors Association
Koji Yokota is Vice chairman/Executive Director of the Japan Road Contractors Association (JRCA) since December 2009. After his graduation from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1973 with a B.E. in Civil Engineering , he entered the former Ministry of Construction (MOC)(The present Ministry of Land,Infrastructure and Transport and Tourism(MLIT), Government of Japan. Then , he acted as Director general of Road Department,Kinki Regional Development Bureau from July 1997, Director General of Planning Department, Kinki Regional Development Bureau from July 1999, Director of highway Division of Road bureau, MLIT from July 2001, Director general of Shikoku Regional Development Bureau from July 2004. Before entering JRCA, he acted as Executive Director/ Director general of Highway Constriction Management Headquarter of?Central Nippon Expressway CO,.LTD from October 2005.

At-Large Members

Y. Richard Kim
Professor at North Carolina State University
Dr. Y. Richard Kim is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. Professor Kim’s specialty areas include: characterization and performance modeling of asphaltic materials and asphalt pavement systems; condition assessment of asphalt pavements; pavement evaluation by accelerated pavement testing; and pavement preservation. Professor Kim is a Fellow member of the ASCE and a member of several other professional organizations, including the Transportation Research Board (TRB), AAPT, American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM), the Korean Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA), and the International Society of Asphalt Pavements (ISAP). He is the founder and first president of the Asian-American Pavement Engineers Association. He is also a member of the FHWA Asphalt Mixture and Construction Expert Task Group.

Dr. Kim has published approximately 190 papers in national and international technical journals and proceedings. He is the editor of the ASCE book entitled Modeling of Asphalt Concrete. Professor Kim is currently an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Pavement Engineering and a member of the editorial boards of three other international journals. He is also a member of the Federal Highway Administration Asphalt Mixture and Construction Expert Task Group and Pavement Preservation Expert Task Group. Among numerous awards, he is the recipient of The Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award in 1998 and a recipient of the Walter J. Emmons Best Paper Award by the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists in 1997, 2006, and 2009.

Dr. Manfred N. Partl
Carleton University / RILEM Fellow
Manfred Partl graduated as civil engineer and got his PhD in 1983 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, for his work on Isothermal Creep of a Bituminous Mortar under Multi-Step Loading. In 1990, after 7 years in the fiber cement industry, he joined the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Testing and Research in Dubendorf as Head of the Road Engineering/Sealing Components Center.
Dr, Partl teaches at the Technical College near Zurich and is lecturer at ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies. He is author or co-author of over 170 papers in journals and proceedings and is active in different national and international standardization and scientific committees. He is a Fellow of RILEM (International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures) where he is member of the Technical Advisory Committee TAC and chairman of the new Technical Committee TC ATB: “Advanced Testing and Characterization of Bituminous Materials.” He is on the Board of Directors of ISAP and international representative in the AAPT Board. He is also associate editor of the International Journal of Road Materials and Pavement Design and of the RILEM Journal of Materials and Structures. Since summer 2004 Dr. Partl is Adjunct Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Egbert Beuving
Technical Director
European Asphalt Pavement Association – EAPA
Egbert Beuving received his Master of Science degree in 1980 at the Technical University of Delft in Pavement engineering. He worked ten years with Netherlands Pavement Consultantst, as project manager and later as Technical Manager. In 1990 he joined CROW, the Dutch Information and Technology Centre for Transport and Infrastructure as a project manager. There he co-ordinated national research in road construction and asphalt pavements. A member of several European Committees, such as COST-Actions and a Technical RILEM Committee on Preventing Reflective Cracking in Pavements, he was chairman of COST Action 336 ‘Falling Weight Deflectometer’, and also founder and moderator of the FWD Users Mailing List.
In 2001, Mr Beuving became Technical Director of European Asphalt Pavement Association (EAPA). Here he is the focal point for EAPA on technical issues, and health, safety and environmental issues.
He is active on several European and TRB committees for standardization and technical issues.

Gerald (Gerry) Huber
Heritage Research Group, USA
Gerry Huber is originally from Saskatchewan. Mr Huber obtained a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering and worked at Saskatchewan Highways and Transportation for 10 years in construction supervision, project design and finally as bituminous engineer. He obtained a Master’s degree from the University of Texas specializing in asphalt mixture properties then joined the Asphalt Institute for five years where he helped advance mix design technology including changes to MS-2, the manual of “Mix Design Methods for Asphalt Concrete” and was involved in the Strategic Highway Research Program working on the technical coordination team responsible for developing Superpave.
Since 1992 he works for the Heritage Research Group, a private asphalt research office based in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has been actively involved in implementation activities of Superpave and other new asphalt technologies including Stone Matrix Asphalt, Porous Asphalt and hot mix asphalt warranties.

Shin-Che Huang
Western Research Institute
Shin-Che Huang … Dr. Huang has been a lead engineer with Western Research Institute since 1995, where he has been managing a wide range of research projects involving materials chemical and physical characterizations. Dr Huang received his doctoral degree from University of Florida in 1994.  He has been actively involving in the technical and scientific committee on the TRB committee, ASCE-Bituminous Committee, AAPT, ASTM, and numerous national and international conferences. He serves as an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering and a member of Editorial Board of numerous other journals including the ASTM-Journal of Testing and Evaluation, the International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology (IJPRT), and the International Journal of Road Materials and Pavement Design (RMPD).  He has received several awards over the years, including a presidential recognition award in 1993. He has published numerous technical papers and has given multiple presentations at national and international conferences.

Shigeru Shimeno – Nippon Expressway Research Institute Company Limited
Shigeru Shimeno received a Bachelor in1978 and Doctor degree in1997 at Nihon University in Japan, and Master degree in1991 at Georgia Institute of Technology in USA. He began his carrier at Japan Highway Public Corporation in 1978. He has worked at Expressway Research Institute as a manager of pavement division since 1993 and been in current position since 2005. His research interests are surface characteristics, pavement materials, and pavement management system. He has authored or co-authored many published papers and research reports, and is active in many scientific committees. He is a member of Pavement Engineering Committee at Japan Society of Civil Engineers,  Pavement Committee at Japan Road Association, Technical Committee D1 (Management of Road Infrastructure Assets) at PIARC (World Road Association) and so on.