Fund raising and organizational service:
1. Initiated and led the establishment of W. Ronald Hudson Professorial Excellence Fund at The University of Texas at Austin, 2003
2. Established constitution and bylaws of iSMARTi working as Society President with the assistance of the Executive VP at University of Minho, Portugal, 2005
3. U.S. DOT Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Value Engineering (VE) Expert Task Group Member, appointed by the FHWA as university representative, 2004-present
4. Chief Editor of IJP – International Journal of Pavements; published in Brazil since 2002
5. Cooperative agreement with PROGRESSTECH: Airport Magazine of Moscow, Russia, 2002
6. Established the international CRASH-L listserv for transportation safety community, 1994-1998
7. Launched the international LTPP-L listserv for pavement research community, 98-2001
8. Participant, beta testing and evaluation group for HDM-4 Road Investment Analysis
software of the World Bank, 1999
9. Participant, DataPave Evaluation Group, selected by the LTPP Task Force of the Federal
Highway Administration to evaluate the beta version 2 of the DataPave CD, 1999
10. Invited Member of Project Review Committee (PRC) for Louisiana Transportation Research Center project: LA DOTD Pavement Management System: Development of Uniform Sections for PMS Inventory and Applications, July 2005
Membership and offices held in professional organizations:
* iSMARTi – international Society for Maintenance And Rehabilitation of Transport infrastructures, established in Portugal, President (2004-2007), Board of Governor and founder member, since 2004
* Chair, iSMARTi Committee on Environment and Sustainability, 2004-present
* Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), Member, 2005
* Transportation and Development Institute, ASCE, Charter Member, 2003
* American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), member since 1975
* ASCE Committee member: Airfield Pavement, Highway Pavement, Structural Components and Plastics, G-I Pavements Committee
* National Task Group Member: National Pavement Data Collection Analysis
Contest, ASCE Highway Division Pavement Committee and Federal Highway Administration, 1997-2007
* Transportation Research Board (TRB), National Academies, Washington, DC, Member, 1993-2004
* TRB Committee AFB80 on Geospatial Data Acquisition Technologies in Design and Construction; formerly called Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Surveying, and Related Automated Systems, Member, 2002-2005, 2005-2009
* TRB Committee AV070 -TRB Committee on Aircraft/Airport Compatibility, Member, 1999–2008
* TRB Committee DAWG – Data Analysis Working Group, Member, 1999-present
* TRB Committee AF000(2) on Pavement Materials and the Urban Climate , Member, 2008-present
* TRB University Representative for the University of Mississippi, 2004-present
* American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), Member, 1994-2004
* ASTM Committee Member: E-17 on Pavement Management, 1995-2004; E-49 on Computerized Material Property Data, 1995
* International Society of Asphalt Pavements (ISAP), Founder Member, 1987-2003
* TexasEx (the Alumni Association of the University of Texas at Austin), Life member
Proposal review:
National Science Foundation, 1998
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2001
Louisiana Transportation Research Center (LTRC) & Department of Transporttaion and Development (DOTD), 2005
US Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), for congressionally funded grant program for scientists of former Soviet Republics, 2007
Paper review for journals and conferences:
1-5. American Society of Civil Engineers' Journal of Infrastructure Engineering, Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Journal of Transportation Engineering, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
6. Institute for Operations Research, Journal of Transportation Science
7. Composites Engineering Journal, Pergamon Press
8. Kuwait Journal of Science and Engineering; Iranian Journal of Science and Technology
9. Institute for Operations Research, Journal of Transportation Science
10. ASPRS Journal of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
11. Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual meeting and TRB Journals
12. International Journal of Pavements, Chief Editor (reviewed over 200 manuscripts), 2002-present
13. ASCE/FHWA International LTPP Data Analysis Contest student papers, 1997-2005
14. ASCE Conference on Infrastructure Condition Assessment, 1997
15. Second International Symposium Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements and Technological Control, Auburn, Alabama, July 29-August 1, 2001 (conference chair)
16. mairpave3, Third International Conference, Guimarães, Portugal, July 2003
17. International Conference on Airports, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 8-11, 2003
18. Second International Airports Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 2-4, 2006
19. ISAP International Symposium on Design and Construction of Long Lasting Asphalt Pavements, Auburn University, Alabama, 7-9 June 2004
20. International Symposium on Pavements Recycling, São Paulo, Brazil, 14-16 March 2005
21. 3rd International Conference Bituminous Mixtures and Pavement, Thessaloniki, Greece, 21-22 November 2002
22. 4th International Conference Bituminous Mixtures and Pavement, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 2007
23. BCRA International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2002
24. BCRA02 International Conference, Illinois, July 2009
25. mairpave6, Sixth International Conference, Torino, Italy, July 7-10, 2009
Book review:
“Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers,” by Mamlouk and Zaniewski; reviewed full book (final review) for Addison Wesley Longman Publishers, 1998
“Technical Graphics Communication,” by Gary Bertoline and Eric Wiebe; reviewed chapter 4 of the 2002 edition of the text book and provided overall evaluation for Burrston House, Ltd Publishing Services, March 2002