Highway & Pavement Engineering

Background

The D.C. Campbell Chair in Highway Construction and Pavement Research was formed more than a decade ago to address the challenges of making the UNB engineering program more responsive to the problems facing the highway construction and pavement research industry.  The primary mission of the Chair is to develop and sustain a long-term link between the highway construction industry and the academia. The Chair actively seeks to forge closer links and collaboration with research community and Canadian pavement industry.

Objectives of the Program

The graduate program in highway and pavement engineering is intended to develop, beyond the undergraduate level, specialized pavement engineering and research skills that are required to function in mid-cadre and senior managerial capacity in highway departments, consulting and contracting industry. The general objective of the graduate program is to strengthen a graduate engineer with an advanced exposure to research, design and management of highway, transportation and pavement facilities, with a particular emphasis on:
  • Pavement design and construction technologies.
  • Infrastructure/asset management systems
  • Transportation and Highway economics.
  • Construction / Engineering materials.
  • The entrepreneurship and management challenges in the new public-private partnership environment.
  • Engineering research design and management.
  • Environmental aspects of highway construction
  • Construction and project management
  • Transport system planning and management 

Areas of Research

Currently, the D.C. Campbell Chair has research interest in the general area of pavements, roads, highways and airports.  Example topics include, but not limited to:
  • Standardization of pavement evaluation techniques.
  • Use of Roadway Weather Information System in optimization of winter maintenance operations.
  • End-Results Specification and quality and long-term performance of pavements.
  • Development of Pavement Management Systems re: research needs, modeling, and data quality.
  • Use of geosynthetics in pavements.
  • Modeling skid resistance and pavement rutting in terms of mix design and/or material attributes.
  • Optimization of Maintenance and Rehabilitation treatments for high stress pavement areas.
  • Impact of quality of data and models on the reliability of the PMS decision-making criteria.
The Chair is fairly open to be involved in other areas of pavement engineering research as well.

Courses Offered in Pavement Engineering

A sample of courses available is listed below. With approval, appropriate courses may be selected from other departments as well. In some cases, senior undergraduate courses may be taken for reduced graduate credit.

Note: Not all courses are offered in any one year

CE 6103      (3 ch) Soil Mechanics III
CE 6133      (3 ch) Soil Dynamics
CE 6143      (3 ch) Pavement Design II
CE 6206      (3 ch) Pavement Management Systems
CE 6503      (3 ch) Concrete Materials 
CE 6543      (3 ch) Deterioration of Materials
CE 6603      (3 ch) Construction: Work Improvement
CE 6623      (3 ch) Construction: Organization
CE 6633      (3 ch) Construction: Scheduling

Complete List of Civil Engineering Graduate Courses

Faculty

Eldo E. Hildebrand, BASc, PhD (Waterloo), PEng
Associate Professor