M. Rashad Islam, Ph.D., P.E., is an assistant professor of civil engineering at Colorado State University, Pueblo. He also serves as an ABET evaluator and a journal reviewer for ASCE, TRB, ASTM, and Elsevier. Dr. Islam has over 100 publications in pavement engineering.
Rafiqul A. Tarefder, Ph.D., P.E., is a professor of civil engineering at the University of New Mexico, where he developed the pavement engineering graduate program. He also serves as associate director of the Southern Plains Transportation Center, and associate editor of the Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. Dr. Tarefder has about 500 publications in pavement engineering.