Dr. Dan Zollinger

Brief Bio

Dr. Dan Zollinger is a Research Engineer at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and a Professor at Texas A&M University in the Department of Civil Engineering. He is the manager for the rigid pavements program at TTI and is a former President of the International Society for Concrete Pavements (ISCP – 2006-10. His major areas of research include concrete pavement performance, rehabilitation, behavior, and design. He is actively engaged in pavement evaluation, pavement design, and pavement performance. His has worked for several years on the development of performance models for mechanistic pavement design procedures; this effort has involved the collection of performance data from a variety of concrete pavement sections to validate an array of distress mechanisms for concrete pavement ranging from pavement blow-ups to faulting. He has also researched for several years the monitoring of curing quality under field conditions and the evaluation of slab behavior related to that in terms of erosion resistance and joint sealant performance. He retired from the USAR at the rank of Lt Colonel with 39 years’ service in 2009.

 

Education

B.S., Civil Engineering, Utah State University, 1977

M.S., Civil Engineering, Utah State University, 1981

Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, 1989

 

Professional Experience

Academic

• Professor, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, September 1, 2006 to Present.
• Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, September 1, 1994 to September 1, 2006.
• Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, November 1, 1988 to August 31, 1994.
• Research Assistant, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, ChampaignUrbana, Illinois, August 1984 October 1988.
• Research Assistant, Civil Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, March 1978 August 1979.

Industrial

• Research Engineer, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, College Station, Texas, September 1, 2006 to Present.
• Associate Research Engineer, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, College Station, Texas, September 1, 1994 to September 1, 2006.
• Assistant Research Engineer, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, College Station, Texas, November 1, 1988 to August 31, 1994.
• Consulting Airport Engineer, Reinard W. Brandley, Sacramento, California, July 1981 to August 1984.
• Airport Design Engineer, Salt Lake City International Airport, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1980 to June 1981.
• Geotechnical Engineer, Dames & Moore, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 1979 to April 1980.

Military