CAREER VITA OF YING-HAUR LEE

CAREER VITA OF YING-HAUR LEE

SUMMARY

He earned his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois. His major areas of graduate study have been in the design, maintenance, and management of transportation facilities.
He had a broad range of graduate courses in transportation engineering (highways and airports) and related areas including pavement structural analysis (i.e., finite element method), structural design, construction, materials, soils, rehabilitation, maintenance and management, and also geometric design, traffic operations, planning, operations research, expert systems, and theoretical and applied statistics.
His doctoral thesis was especially focused on incorporating mechanistic concepts and statistical regression techniques into pavement prediction modeling. As a result, he has successfully introduced and implemented several new concepts and modern regression techniques in developing pavement prediction models. He has established a systematic statistical and engineering approach, reliable exploratory data analysis procedures, and detailed step-by-step guidelines suitable for analyzing field-collected pavement performance data and theoretical pavement structural responses, which may or may not contain data contamination.
He has been employed as a research assistant at the University of Illinois since 1988. He worked closely with Dr. Michael I. Darter and has acquired over five years of research experience in pavement structural analysis, prediction modeling, expert systems, network management systems, and working with large computerized databases as well as considerable practical pavement engineering experience.
He has also developed many pavement performance and distress prediction models and assisted in various phases of several FHWA and Illinois DOT research projects including:
"Implementation of Illinois Pavement Feedback System," for Illinois DOT;
"Pavement Model Enhancements for the Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS)," for Illinois DOT and FHWA;
"Illinois Pavement Feedback System," for Illinois DOT;
"Performance and Rehabilitation of Rigid Pavements," for FHWA; and
"Field Evaluation of Newly Developed Rigid Pavement Design Features," for FHWA.
Specifically, he has successfully developed five pavement deterioration relationships for flexible, composite, JPC, JRC, and CRC pavements as well as procedures and adjustment factors to more accurately simulate pavement improvement strategies for the nationwide HPMS network. This was the first effort ever done to analyze such a huge network using the actual multi-year HPMS performance records. The research findings are very crucial for FHWA's biennial report to congress entitled" The Status of the Nation's Highway and Bridges: Conditions and Performance."
His recent research in stress analysis of concrete pavements under wheel loading and thermal curling has also greatly advanced the state-of-the-art of theoretical pavement structural analysis. With his discovery of two additional dimensionless mechanistic variables, three unique closed-form relationships of the structural responses due to the individual and combination effects of loading and curling have been developed. These relationships turned out to be very accurate representation of the finite element model and will certainly have a great impact on anynewly- developed mechanistic-based pavement design procedure.
He is a member of the TRB, ITE, and ASCE. He has been invited as a member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi since 1991. He also received a Meritorious Performance Award from the Chinese Army General Headquarters in 1986 and Graduating Honors from the National Chung-Hsing University in 1984.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, May 1993
Major: Transportation Facilities
Thesis Topic: Development of Pavement Prediction Models
M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, 1989
Major: Transportation Facilities
B.S. Civil Engineering, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, R.O.C., 1984
Major: Structural Engineering and Geotechnical Engineering

EXPERIENCE

1993-Present Tamkang University, Associate Professor

Theoretical Investigation of Corner Stress in Concrete Pavements Using Dimensional Analysis, Principal Investigator;
Development of New Stress Analysis and Thickness Design Procedures for Jointed Concrete Pavements, Phase I, Principal Investigator;
Development of New Stress Analysis and Thickness Design Procedures for Jointed Concrete Pavements, Phase II, Principal Investigator;
Development of a Backcalculation Program for Jointed Concrete Pavements, Principal Investigator;
Development of a Thickness Design Program for Rigid Airfield Pavements, Principal Investigator; and
Intelligent Consultant System for Concrete Pavement Evaluation and Rehabilitation, Phase I, Principal Investigator; and

1993 University of Illinois, Post-Doc Research Associate

Illinois Highway Research ProjectIHR-529 - Implementation of the Illinois Pavement Feedback System
1. Evaluation of the accuracy of CRS prediction;
2. Analysis of the remaining lives for Illinois Interstate highway corridors; and
3. Analysis of future needs of the Illinois Interstate Highways and comparisons to the IDOT programming for fiscal year 1993-1997.
SHRP/LTPP P020A Project (Data Analysis on Concrete Pavements)

1991-1993 University of Illinois, Research Assistant, Illinois Pavement Management Team

On-going development of improved pavement performance/distress deterioration models and analysis of remaining life and future needs for the Illinois Interstate highway corridors.
On-going improvement of the ILLINET program to accommodate the Illinois primary and secondary highway systems.
1990-1991 University of Illinois, Research Assistant, HPMS Research Team
Introduced and implemented several new concepts and modern regression techniques in pavement prediction modeling. Developed a systematic modeling approach and detailed step-by-step guidelines.
Created five performance models for flexible, composite, JPC, JRC, and CRC pavements, as well as developed procedures and adjustment factors using the actual nationwide HPMS field performance data.
Implemented research findings into a user-friendly PC computer program to more accurately simulate the HPMS analytical process.

1989-1990 University of Illinois, Research Assistant, Illinois Pavement Feedback System (IPFS) Team

Expanded the faulting models based on the NCHRP Project 1-19 (COPES), and the FHWA/ERES RPPR databases.
Developed empirical relationships between PSR and other major distresses and also created predictive cracking and faulting models for thin bonded PCC overlays to be implemented in the EXPEAR program (an expert system for pavement evaluation and rehabilitation).
Constructed the Illinois Interstate network summary databases and assisted in graphic interfaces programming for the ILLINET program (an Illinois Interstate network-level pavement management system).
Contributed to the implementation of IPFS NOMAD2 databases. Constructed several databases for analyses in network rehabilitation optimization, survival analysis of AC overlays, etc.

1988 University of Illinois, Research Assistant, Federal Highway Administration Research Team

Reviewed and summarized the state-of-the-art design of JRCP from U.S.A., Great Britain, and Japan.
Developed mechanistic-empirical predictive models for jointed faulting of concrete pavements.

1984-1986 Chinese Army, Corps of Engineers, Second Lieutenant

Military service, in charge of the construction of a public health center and a shopping center.

1980-1984 National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Part-Time Research Assistant (1983-1984), material properties testing in soil mechanics laboratory.
Summer jobs: Visiting investigation project on housing and traffic in a suburban area in 1982. Leader of the practicing engineers for the construction of mountain paths in 1983.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Membership, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (1991)
Meritorious Performance Award, Chinese Army General Headquarters (1986)
Graduating Honors, National Chung-Hsing University (1984)
Scholarship, Chinese Institute of Engineers in New York (1984)