Industry & Faculty Partners
The Transportation Infrastructure Precast Innovation Center (TRANS-IPIC) has many exciting external advisors, as well as industry and faculty partners:
External Advisory Board
- Rex Donahey - American Concrete Institute (ACI)
- Gregg Freeby - American Segmental Bridge Institute (ASBI)
- Enad Mahmoud - Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)- Materials and Tests Division
- Tommy Nantung - Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT)
- William Nickas - Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI)
- Jayme Schiff - Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT)
- Tyson Rupnow - Louisiana Transportation Research Center (LTRC)
Industry Partnership Committee
- Matt Austin - Utility Concrete Products (UCP)
- Jared Brewe - Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI)
- Thomas Frankie - Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates (WJE)
- Robert Hong - Lochner
- Pat Larson - Utility Concrete Products (UCP)
- Joe Lombard - PCI of Illinois & Wisconsin
- Tony Shkurti - HNTB
- Daniel Tobias - Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT)
- Todd Ude - Parsons Corporation
- Maria White - Tindall
- Tevfik Terzioglu - Parsons Corporation
- Gregg Blaszak - Coastline Composites
- Jeff Rogozinski - The Sherman-Williams Company
- Mark Chase - RPX Technologies - InSite
- Sravan Puttagunta - Hyperspec AI
- Isaac Perkins - Tindall
- Elias Ajami - Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
Faculty Partners
- Dr. Wael Zatar - Marshall University
- Dr. Andrzej Nowak - Aubrun University
- Dr. David Lange - University of Illinois
- Dr. Saiid Saiidi - University of Nevada, Reno
- Dr. Sameh Badie - George Washington University
- Dr. George Morcous - University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Dr. Adel El-safty - University of North Florida
- Dr. Mehmet Ozbek - Colorado State University
- Dr. Salvatore Salamone - University of Texas at Austin
- Dr. Mohsen Issa - University of Illinois Chicago
- Dr. Halil Sezen - The Ohio State University
- Dr. Nur Yazdani - University of Texas at Arlington