Engineering Civil

Xingwei Chen, Ph.D.

**** ********* **., ***. #**** Phone: 865-***-****

Baton Rouge, LA, 70802 Email: *******@***.***

U.S. Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder)

OBJECTIVE: To be employed as the Civil/Facilities Engineer with the SiliconCantera, Inc utilizing my education background and

extensive experience in Civil Engineering.

QUALIFICATION

Ph.D. degree in Civil engineering with five years’ full time experience in transportation structures and geotechnical engineering.

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Experience in concrete design, roads design, pavement testing, pavement repair and rehabilitation, and non-destructive

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testing.

Experience in design and analysis of retaining walls/slope stability, soil-pile and soil-structure interaction analysis, and

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foundation-soil mixed analysis.

Proficient in AutoCAD, ABAQUS (finite element software), Microsoft Office, FORTRAN, and MEPDG; familiar in C/C++ and SAS.

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Good leadership skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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E.I. Certification.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Research Associate, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Apr., 2007 – present

Develop proposals, lead technicians, conduct projects on transportation structures and Geotechnical engineering.

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Conduct the analysis and evaluation of pavement performances by Mechanistic-Empirical pavement design method, and

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MEPDG local calibration using PMS data to improve pavement design.

Propose a mechanistic flexible pavement overlay design method for LADOTD to improve pavement overlay design.

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Develop a finite element model by ABAQUS and FORTRAN to simulate the structural performance of flexible pavements under

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an accelerated loading to save money and time running full-scale tests.

Work in a team containing researchers, technicians and students; collaborate with internal and external partners; and

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exchange ideas and research results in group meeting or staff meeting.

Write technical reports; prepare publication in journals; and present results in international/national conferences.

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The University of Tennessee, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Knoxville, TN, USA Jun., 2005 – Apr., 2007

Conducted projects on transportation structures and Geotechnical engineering.

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Conducted concrete design and testing, pavement repair and rehabilitation, and non-destructive testing.

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Managed four student workers, scheduled test plans, assigned tasks, maintained material laboratory, collected data, and

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discussed results in group meeting.

Presented project progress quarterly to project funded agency, and wrote project interim and final reports.

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Tongji University, Graduate Assistant, Shanghai, P. R. China Sep., 2000 – May, 2005

Conducted the projects on the bridge and concrete design, pavement evaluation, and rehabilitation; asphalt cement; HMA

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mixture; and stabilized base materials.

Analyzed the retaining walls/slope stability, soil-pile and soil-structure interaction, and foundation-soil.

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Assisted supervising undergraduate student’s project design and maintaining material laboratory.

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EDUCATION

Tongji University Shanghai, P. R. China Sep., 2002 – May, 2005

Ph.D., Civil Engineering

Tongji University Shanghai, P. R. China Sep., 2000 – Aug., 2002

M.S., Civil Engineering

Tongji University Shanghai, P. R. China Sep., 1996 – Jul., 2000

B.S., Civil Engineering

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, Pavements Committee, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)/ Geo-Institute (GI), USA

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Young Member, Committee on Pavement Preservation (AHD18), Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National

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Academies, USA

Young Member, Committee on Modeling Techniques in Geomechanics (AFS 50), TRB of the National Academies, USA

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Active Member, Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT), USA

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Member, Bituminous Materials Committee (BMC), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)/ Construction Institute (CI),

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USA

LICENCES

FE/E.I.T: State of Ohio Engineers and Surveyors Board, USA, 2006.

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National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) “Professor Training Course in Asphalt Technology,” USA, 2006.

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National Highway Institute training of “Introduction to Mechanistic Design for New & Rehabilitated Pavements,” USA, 2007.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Technical Organizing Committee Member, GeoHunan International Conference on Challenges and Recent Advances in

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Pavement Technologies and Transportation Geotechnics, 2009

Reviewer, ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Journal of Transportation Research Record, Journal of Testing and

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Evaluating, Journal of Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT), International Journal of Construction & Building

Materials, Journal of ASTM International, Geocongress 2008, and Geohunan 2009

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

C hen, X., a nd Huang, B. “Evaluation of Moisture Damage in Hot Mix Asphalt using Simple Performance and

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Superpave Indirect Tension Tests,” J ournal of Construction and Building Materials, Vol. 22, Issue 9, 2008, pp.

1950-1962.

C hen, X. ; Huang, B.; and Xu, Z. “Comparison between Flat Rubber Wheeled Loaded Wheel Tester and Asphalt

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Pavement Analyzer,” I nternational Journal on Road Materials and Pavement Design, Vol. 8 No 3, 2007, pp.595-

604.

C hen, X.; H uang, B.; and Xu, Z. “Uniaxial Penetration Testing for Shear Resistance of Hot-Mix Asphalt

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Mixtures,” J ournal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1970, pp. 116-125.

H uang, B.; C hen, X. ; Shu, X.; Masad, E.; and Mahmoud, E. “Effects of Coarse Aggregate Angularity and Asphalt

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Binder on Laboratory-Measured Permanent Deformation Properties of HMA,” I nternational Journal of Pavement

Engineering, v 10, n 1, February, 2009, pp. 19-28.

H uang, B.; C hen, X. ; and Shu, X. “Effects of Electrically Conductive Additives on Laboratory-Measured

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Properties of Asphalt Mixtures,” A SCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, in press.

C hen, X., and Xu, Z. “Effects of Load and Temperature on Permanent Deformation Properties of HMA,” A SCE,

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Geotechnical Special Publication N o. 189, 2009, pp. 49-55.

C hen, X. ; Huang, B.; and Xu, Z. “Correlating Loaded Wheel Testing Dynamic Stability with Asphalt Pavement

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Analyzer Rut Depth,” A irfield & Highway Pavement Specialty Conference, the Transportation & Development

Institute (T&DI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers, April 30-May 3, 2006, Atlanta, GA.pp.479-485.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

W u, Z.; C hen, X. ; Garspard, K.; and Zhang, Z. “Structural Overlay Design of Flexible Pavement by Non-

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Destructive Test Methods in Louisiana.” T ransportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.,

January 13–17, 2008.

H uang, B.; C hen, X. ; Shu, X.; Masad, E.; and Mahmoud, E. “Effects of Coarse Aggregate Angularity and Asphalt

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Binder on Laboratory-Measured Permanent Deformation Properties of HMA,” T ransportation Research Record

87th Annual Meeting, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 13–17, 2008.

C hen, X. ; and Huang, B. “Evaluation of Moisture Damage in Hot Mix Asphalt using Simple Performance and

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Superpave Indirect Tension Tests”, T ransportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.,

January 21–25, 2007.

SELECTED COURSES

P lasticity and Viscoelasticity, Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering in Soft Soil, Numerical Analysis, Subgrade

Design, Hydrodynamics, Hydrology for Bridge Foundations, Steel Structure and Steel Bridge, Structural

Mechanics, Surveying, Fundamentals of Geology, Advanced Mechanics of Material, Road and Airport

Engineering, Pavement Design, Planning and Design of Road, Road Engineering Materials, and Modern Test

Technique of Road.

REFERENCES

A vailable on request.

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