State University Engineering
Resume:
Xianglei Zheng, Ph.D., P.E.
**** * ***** *** ***** Drive, Apt 2069
Tempe, AZ 85281
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Summary of Qualifications:
Multi-talented, cross-functional professional with 13 years’ progressive experience in Civil Engineering. 6 years’ research on fluid flow in porous media, 5 years' consulting experience on highway engineering design and played critical roles in winning multiple highway projects.
Skills include: highway geometric and pavement design, soil and rock mechanics, foundations and retaining walls, slope stability analysis, thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled simulations, surface and subsurface flow, drainage, traffic and transportation engineering.
Proven ability to effectively assist managing projects, across a broad spectrum of teams and services. Strong interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to work in a collaborative environment.
Professional Experience:
China Highway Engineering Consultant Group Co. Ltd, Beijing, China 2006 – 2011
Highway Engineer/Certified Safety Engineer
Manage projects, design roadways (alignments, safety facilities, drainage, slope stability, foundations, steel structures), write and review consultant documents, on-site survey, communicate with owners and contractors, lead technical files of bidding documents.
Accomplished site survey before and after the earthquake (2008 Sichuan earthquake), slope stability analyses, and safety facility design for Wenchuan-Markang Roadway (198.834km, Sichuan Province).
Managed and Completed road rebuilding project for Gaoantun Waste Treatment Plant (3km, Beijing) including designs for roadway alignment, foundations, intersections, pavement, and drainage.
Accomplished traffic safety evaluation and facilities design for highway projects from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (1421km), Guangdong Province (392km), Sichuan Province (278km), and Jiangsu Province (41.2km). Coauthored the local standard of the Design of Arterial Road Safety Facilities in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Improved the controlling system of design quality that increased efficiency and accuracy; developed programs for structure safety checking, traffic safety facilities design, foundation and retaining wall design.
Won bids from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Guangdong Province, Chongqing, and Sichuan Province.
Academic Experience:
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 2014 – 2016
Research Assistant
Proposal writing, lab experiments and numerical simulation, paper writing, lab materials management, training researchers.
Wrote codes (spreadsheet, Matlab) for bearing capacity calculation, settlement calculation, foundation design, and slope stability design, studied the thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of soil under temperature change.
Mentored junior research assistants on the study of mechanical and hydraulic characteristics of coal ash
Improved the state-of-the-art techniques in Civil and Environmental Engineering with nanotechnology that can prospectively benefit the economy: sweep efficiency increased by 20~50%, fines adsorption increased by 30%, and hydraulic properties modified in groundwater/soil remediation and filtration system.
Provided insights into hydrates forming and the unsaturated soil mechanics of the hydrate-bearing sediment.
Studied differential settlement control with sheet piles and cement fly-ash gravel (CFG) piles in highway extension projects, and the effect of fiber type and content on the stability of stone matrix asphalt (SMA).
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 2011 – 2014
Research Assistant/Teaching Assistant
Proposal writing, lab experiments and numerical simulation, paper writing, lab materials management, lab teaching for undergraduate students and graduate students in Civil Engineering.
Studied the fatigue impact on reliability of soldering joint of PCB-Battery in hybrid vehicle battery package.
Discovered the foundation settlement and ground temperature variation affected by geothermal recovery; statistically studied the linear regression of CBM gas content with the effect factors in the Powder River Basin, WY; studied water flow in sinusoidal channels.
Taught undergraduate and graduate students in lab including fundamental knowledge and experiments for soil characterization, hydraulic and mechanical properties and advanced knowledge for bearing capacity, settlement, and stability; triaxial tests, in-situ tests, SPT, CPT, DMT.
Chang’an University, Xi’an, Shaanxi China 2003 – 2006
Research Assistant
Conducted study through lab experiments and numerical simulation, paper writing, single material properties test and composite material properties test.
Presented optimum index ranges for road constructions under the research on the accuracy and efficiency of indexes for properties and performances of aggregates and asphalt.
Studied the effect of polymers on the modification asphalt.
Provided solutions for the improvement of swelling soils.
Education:
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 2016
PhD – Geotechnical Engineering (GPA 4.0)
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 2014
Master of Science – Geotechnical Engineering (GPA 3.8)
Chang’an University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
Master of Science – Pavement Engineering (top 5%) 2006
Bachelor of Science – Highway and Urban Road Engineering (top 5%) 2003
Technical Skills:
Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acess), ArcGIS, AutoCAD, HintCAD, Inroads, MicroStation, COMSOL Multiphysics, Matlab, Abaqus, C++, Flac, Lpile, Modflow.
Licenses:
PE, Arizona, 2017
FE/EIT, Michigan, 2012
Certified Safety Engineer (China), 2009
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