Biographical Information
Dr. Zhanping You received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently entitled the Donald and Rose Ann Tomasini Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering. Prior to his appointment at Michigan Tech, he served as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University – Kingsville.
Professor You has an active research program in the areas of transportation materials. He has published over 60 papers. Professor You has published papers in journals such as the Journal of the Transportation Research Board published by the National Academy of Sciences; the ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering; ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics; Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists; International Journal of Geomechanics; Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering; International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Materials and Structures; International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics; and the International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology.
Sponsors of his research program include: National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), Federal Highway Administration, Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), and Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). He is also a principal investigator and director of the Center of Excellence for Transportation Materials, which is a partnership between MDOT and Michigan Technological University. Professor You is currently directing five Ph.D. students and has successfully directed one Ph.D. at Michigan Tech. He has directed four master’s degree students in Texas.
His teaching interests include: transportation materials, pavement design, asphalt pavement engineering, and transportation engineering. Professor You has taught over 10 different courses in Texas and Michigan, including a short course on roadway design for TxDOT. At Michigan Tech, he has developed and improved asphalt pavement courses for graduate students and senior undergraduate students.
Professor You has serves as an associate editor for the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology. He has been involved in professional services for many professional organizations including: ASCE, the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT), International Society of Asphalt Pavements (ISAP), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM). He is a member of ASCE and AAPT and has served in over 10 technical committees in various organizations. He also provided professional services to the Federal Aviation Administration, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, U.S. EPA, and NSF as a grant reviewer. Professor You has reviewed technical papers for over 15 journals. He was a lead editor of two ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication books published in 2008 and 2009, respectively. He is a lead guest editor for a special issue of Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. In 2004 and 2005 he was also a recipient of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Faculty Fellowship.
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