Civil and Environmental Engineering
Zhanping You, P.E.


Donald and Rose Ann Tomasini Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering

Assistant Professor, Transportation and Materials
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003

301A Dillman Hall
(906) 487-1059
email: zyou@mtu.edu

Dr. You's Webpage

Biographical Information

Zhanping You received his Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in civil engineering. Dr. You is the honored Donald and Rose Ann Tomasini Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Michigan Technological University, and serves as the Associate Director of the Transportation Materials Research Center.

Dr. You taught graduate and undergraduate courses in construction materials, pavement engineering, numerical modeling, transportation engineering, and bituminous materials and mix design at Texas A&M University -Kingsville. He teaches Civil Engineering Materials and Advanced Bituminous Materials at Michigan Tech.

Dr. You’s research interests include asphalt materials characterization and mix design, performance evaluation and rehabilitation, with an emphasis on micromechanical modeling of asphalt mixture and numerical analysis of pavement structures. Dr. You’s research work has been funded by the EPA, TxDOT, and MDOT.

Dr. You is a member of a number of technical committees in ASCE and other organizations. He has organized a number of national and international technical conferences. He has received the Dwight David Eisenhower Faculty Fellowship and Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowships from the Federal Highway Administration.

Dr. You has published in the Journal of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Journal of Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT), ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics, and International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics.

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Educating graduates of choice

Michigan Technological University
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
870 Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building
Houghton, Michigan 49931 USA


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