Program: Materials – 2019 Transportation Short Course

Sessions: Previous Session – Maintenance and Pavement Management | Next Session – Traffic Operations I

Tuesday, October 15
1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Room: Century Ballroom III & IV, Texas A&M Conference Hotel

Program and Session Co-Chairs:
Jere A. “Buddy” Williams, P.E., TxDOT
David Newcomb, P.E., Ph.D., TTI
Fujie Zhou, P.E., Ph.D., TTI

	Moderator: Travis Patton, P.E., MTD, TxDOT
1:30 – 2:00 p.m.	Balanced Mix Design Ryan Barborak, P.E., MTD, Flexible Pavements Section, TxDOT (Barborak presentation video)
2:00 – 2:15 p.m.	Binder Testing — New Parameters Amy Epps-Martin, P.E., Ph.D., TTI (Epps-Martin presentation video)
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.	Binder Testing — MSCR and ER Enad Mahmoud, P.E., Ph.D., MTD, Flexible Pavements Section, Asphalt Binder Branch, TxDOT (Mahmoud presentation video)
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.	Alternative Inspection Methods — Design-Build QC and Statistics David Newcomb, P.E., Ph.D., TTI (Newcomb presentation video)
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.	Alternative Inspection Methods — QC/QA of Prefabricated Structural Materials Christina Gutierrez, P.E., MTD, Prefabricated Structural Materials Section, TxDOT (Gutierrez presentation video)
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.	BREAK
	Moderator: Arash Motamed, P.E. ,Ph.D., MTD, TxDOT
3:30 – 4:00 p.m.	Aggregate — Quarry Balancing Harry Bush, Jr., P.E., Vulcan Materials (Bush presentation video)
4:00 – 4:30 p.m.	Concrete Basics Rachel Cano, P.E., MTD, Rigid Pavements and Concrete Materials Section, TxDOT (Cano presentation video)
4:30 – 5:00 p.m.	Update on Soils and Aggregates Test Procedures Richard Izzo, P.E., MTD, Soils and Aggregates, TxDOT Section (Izzo presentation video)