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Instructor: Robert Parsons
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Biography: Dr. Bob Parsons is a Professor in the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Department at the University of Kansas and serves as the KU Asphalt Paving Conference Chair. Dr. Parsons came to KU in 1998 after finishing his PhD in Civil Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition to teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level, Dr. Parsons has an active research program with emphases on soil stabilization, aggregate testing, deep foundations, mechanically stabilized earth, and railroad ballast characterization and improvement. He is an author or co-author of more than one hundred publications. He is the current Chair of the Committee on Cementitious Stabilization for the Transportation Research Board (a part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine). Dr. Parsons has also served as Director of Construction for the School of Engineering at KU since 2014, where he represented the School on 80 million dollars of new construction that included two new buildings and renovation of the Engineering Library, in addition to ongoing renovation activities. |
