Dr. Eyad Masad
Dr. Eyad Masad is the assistant dean for research and graduate studies, and director of the Texas A&M at Qatar division of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. He holds the rank of a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Program at Texas A&M at Qatar and the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M. His administrative responsibilities include the development of strategic research initiatives, support of graduate programs, and development of outreach programs that address the needs of industry.
Dr. Masad’s research focuses on microstructure characterization and constitutive modeling of materials; transport in porous media; granular mechanics; and image analysis techniques. Sponsors of his research include the National Science Foundation, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Federal Highway Administration, Qatar National Research Fund, Qatar Science and Technology Park, the Asphalt Institute, International Center for Aggregate Research, several state highway agencies, as well as private industrial companies. He has active research groups and programs in the United States and in the State of Qatar. He has published more than 300 technical papers and reports. He has recently co-authored a book on Pavement Design and Materials which has been adopted for teaching pavement courses in many universities around the world. He is the inventor of the Aggregate Imaging System that is being adopted widely for the characterization of the physical characteristics of aggregates used in pavements construction.
Dr. Masad is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is also a member of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT), and Transportation Research Board. He is the former chair of the pavement committee of the Geo-Institute, ASCE. He currently serves as associate editor of two major journals: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE and International Journal of Pavement Engineering. He is the recipient of the Eisenhower Graduate Research Fellowship (1997) and the Eisenhower Faculty Fellowship in Transportation Engineering (1998) from the Federal Highway Administration.
He is also the recipient of the W. J. Emmons Award for the best paper published in the Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT) (2001), and the Best Paper Award from the International Journal of Road Materials and Pavement Design (2004). He received several university awards including the Zachry Award for Excellence in Teaching (2004), the ConocoPhillips Faculty Fellow Award for outstanding performance (2005), the Texas Transportation Institute/Trinity New Researcher Award (2006), the Halliburton Professorship Award for Scholarly Excellence in Engineering (2009), and the Dean’s Meritorious Service Award (2010).
