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
  • Brian Umbright - EXP
  • Mark Shaffer - Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT)
  • Jiayi Ding - AtkinsRéalis

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