Dr.\u00a0 Papagiannakis is a Professor of Civil Engineering with an academic career spanning over 30 years at Washington State University and at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he served as the Dept. Chair between 2006 and 2015. \u00a0During his tenure as Chair, the CEE Dept. built new office and laboratory facilities, increased undergraduate enrollment by 22% and graduate enrollment by almost 400%.\u00a0 He was instrumental in establishing a joint PhD program in Environmental Sciences and Engineering and served as its Director from 2007 to 2013. During this period, the program produced 42 PhD graduates.<\/p>\n
His area of expertise is pavement engineering, specializing in structural pavement analysis, asphaltic material characterization and energy harvesting.\u00a0 He has contributed over 200 journal and conference publications in this area.\u00a0 In addition, he has co-authored the textbook Pavement Design and Materials <\/em>published by Wiley and Sons in 2008, which is in its fourth printing. He has served as the lead investigator in many national studies funded by NCHRP, FHWA and ASCE, as well as a multitude of studies funded by the Washington State DOT and the Texas DOT with a total budget of over $8m.\u00a0 He recently concluded a Texas DOT funded study dealing with the calibration of the Texas M-E and the AASHTOWare\u00ae M-E pavement design for Texas.\u00a0 Currently, he is the PI of a City of San Antonio funded study on the water quality benefits of permeable pavements.<\/p>\n He has won several research awards, including ASCE\u2019s Most Innovative Green Engineering Award (2016),\u00a0\u00a0 and ASCE’ Next Generation Transportation Award (2017) for his work on mechanical energy harvesting from roadways. He was awarded the Geo-Institute’s Monismith Award (2019) for his contributions to the pavement engineering area .\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Papagiannakis is the founder and the past chair of the Pavements Committee of the Geo-Institute \u00a0that focusses on pavement geotechnics. This committee has evolved into the premium venue for pavement mechanics and has a very keen international membership. Since its inception in 1996, it has sponsored numerous sessions in National and International conferences and has generated a multitude of journal publications and conference proceedings. Dr. Papagiannakis has co-chaired several international conferences, including 3DFEM 2005 (Delft, NLD), ICTI 2014 (Pisa, IT), ICONFBPM 2019 (Thessaloniki, GR), and AM3P 2020 (San Antonio, TX).<\/p>\n Dr. Papagiannakis is an active member of the GI, T&DI, ISSMGE, ISAP, TRB and serves as an Associate Editor for ASCE’s Transportation Engineering\/Pavements Journal.\u00a0\u00a0 He co-chairs the joint GI-T&DI pavement awards sub-committee, which has been very successful in promoting pavement engineering research. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Waterloo, he is a Fellow of the ASCE and a registered Professional Engineer in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr.\u00a0 Papagiannakis is a Professor of Civil Engineering with an academic career spanning over 30 years at Washington State University and at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he served as the Dept. Chair between 2006 and 2015. \u00a0During his tenure as Chair, the CEE Dept. built new office and laboratory facilities, increased … <\/p>\n